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Highly accurate Isogeometric Method (HIGEOM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2019,

"Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are widely used in science and engineering simulations, often in tight connection with Computer Aided Design (CAD). The Finite Element Method (FEM) is one of the most popular technique for the discretization of PDEs. The IsoGeometric Method (IGM), proposed in 2005 by T.J.R. Hughes et al., aims at improving the interoperability between CAD and FEMs. This i ...
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G-quadruplexes in the HIV-1 genome: novel targets for the development of selective antiviral drugs (HIV LTR G-4)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

G-quadruplexes (G-4) are polymorphic nucleic acid structures identified in gene promoters where they act as transcription regulators. G-4s have been found in eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms, while very little information is available on viruses. The applicant research group has recently shown that HIV-1, which integrates into the human chromosomes and exploits cellular factors to activate tra ...
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Rediscovering the hidden structure. A new appreciation of Juristic texts and Patterns of thought in Late Antiquity (REDHIS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"The aim of REDHIS is to write a new history of the Roman legal culture in Late Antiquity. The project will focus on the elements which display the persistence of a legal culture of high level. Two are the main aspects that will be researched. First, a comprehensive understanding of legal culture has to include the study of the legal texts’ manuscript transmission. Although in Late Antiquity few ...
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Systems biology for the functional validation of genetic determinants of skeletal diseases (SYBIL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

"The aim of SYBIL is to carry out extensive functional validation of the genetic determinants of rare and common skeletal diseases and the age related factors contributing to these painful conditions. To achieve this goal SYBIL will gather complementary translational and transnational scientists, systems biologists, disease modellers, leading SMEs and industrialists that will perform in-depth char ...
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Human cystic Echinococcosis ReseArch in CentraL and Eastern Societies (HERACLES)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Human cystic echinococcosis (CE), one of the most widespread helminthic zoonoses, is a chronic disease caused by infection with the larval stage of the tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. This disease is highly endemic in some southern (Spain and Italy), eastern (Bulgaria and Romania) European countries and associated (Turkey) countries, where it still represents a major health and economic problem. ...
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"The NAtive Seed Science, TEchnology and Conservation Initial Training Network" (NASSTEC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

"NASSTEC will train 11 Early Stage Researchers and 1 Experienced Researcher in native seed science, conservation and use, so that environmental mitigation and adaptation projects can have increased impact. Without immediate enhancement of capacity and capability in this specific area of biodiversity science, the native seed industry in Europe will fail to develop towards the multi-million dollar m ...
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Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation (CRESSI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

"The CRESSI project will explore the economic underpinnings of social innovation with a particular focus on how policy and practice can enhance the lives of the most marginalized and disempowered citizens in society. Overall, the bid will take an institutionalist view of the key issues exploring the drivers and structures that lead to marginalization and disempowerment and then setting out how int ...
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Stability and wall-crossing in algebraic and differential geometry (STABAGDG)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"This proposal centers on the special interaction of algebraic and differential geometry which arises from the notion of stability, going back to the celebrated correspondence between polystable vector bundles and Hermite-Einstein connections.A conjecture of Yau, Tian and Donaldson seeks to extend this correspondence to projective manifolds, formulating an algebro-geometric notion of stability (K- ...
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Integrated Macro-Financial Modelling for Robust Policy Design (MACFINROBODS)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"During the global financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession, economists at policy-making institutions had little choice but to augment macroeconomic models with ad-hoc assumptions and adjustments in order to provide analysis and advice for policy makers. Our consortium’s proposal aims to move policy-focused macroeconomic modelling beyond this approach to the endogenous modelling of the dynamic ...
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Entropy formulation of evolutionary phase transitions (ENTROPHASE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The ground-breaking nature of the project relies on the possibility of opening new horizonswith a novel mathematical formulation of physical problems.The project aim is indeed to obtain relevant mathematical results in order toget further insight into new models for phase transitions and thecorresponding evolution PDE systems. The new approach presented here turnsout to be particularly helpful wi ...
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Satellite Based Asset Tracking for Supporting Emergency Management in Crisis Operations (SPARTACUS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

"Motivated by the opportunity to develop industry pull applications and services for the European EGNOS and GALILEO satellite systems, SPARTACUS will design, realise, test and validate in simulated and real world scenarios GALILEO-ready tracking/positioning solutions for critical asset tracking and crisis management. Integrating, adapting, and improving hardware, software, communication, and trac ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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Drug Disease Model Resources (DDMORE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Model based-drug development (MBDD) is accepted as a vital approach in understanding patient risk/benefit and attrition. At the core of MBDD lies Modelling and Simulation (M&S), a technology providing the basis for informed, quantitative decision-making.M&S facilitates the continuous integration of available information related to a drug or disease into constantly-evolving mathematical models capa ...
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More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

The More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB) consortium evolved from the highly successful FP6 project, New Medicines for TB (NM4TB), that delivered a candidate drug for clinical development two years ahead of schedule. Building on these firm foundations and exploiting its proprietary pharmacophores, MM4TB will continue to develop new drugs for TB treatment. An integrated approach will be impleme ...
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MOSAIC - MOdels and Simulation techniques for discovering diAbetes Influence faCtors (MOSAIC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

MOSAIC will address two very specific aspects linked to the prediction of risk of developing diabetes (type 2 and gestational) and complications associated to diabetes. These objectives respond to a widely recognized problem related to diabetes management and have the potential to have a major impact in the way diabetes is currently diagnosed and followed in Europe.\nThe MOSAIC consortium counts w ...
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Non-invasive screening of the status of the vascular system (NISTAS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

NISTAS aims at developing a novel medical instrument - VascuLight (VL) - for fast and contactless screening of the status of the vascular system of human patients.NISTAS responds to the need for fast, reproducible, and widely available measurement of the arterial stiffness that is a recognised predictor of cardiovascular risk and mortality, and a potential marker for monitoring the beneficial effe ...
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Guiding Patients Anytime Everywhere (MobiGuide)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Description The MobiGuide project has developed an intelligent decision-support system for patients with chronic illnesses, such as cardiac arrhythmias, diabetes and high blood pressure. The patient wears sensors that can monitor biosignals (e.g. heart rate, blood pressure); these signals are transmitted to their smartphone and from there to ...
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Isogeometric Methods for Biomechanics (ISOBIO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Computational Mechanics and the numerical analysis of the structural behavior are becoming a more and more fundamental tool for the engineering design process in many different fields. This is particularly true in Biomechanics, nowadays widely recognized as a fundamental research field, where reliable analyses of structures and fluids (and of their interactions) are often needed on complex geometr ...
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SUrrogate markers for vascular Micro- and Macrovascular hard endpoints for Innovative diabetes Tools (SUMMIT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Diabetes mellitus is a lifelong, incapacitating disease affecting multiple organs. Worldwide prevalence figures estimate that there will be 246 million diabetic patients in 2007 and 380 million in 2025. Presently, diabetes can neither be prevented nor cured and the disease is associated with devastating chronic complications including coronary heart disease and stroke (macrovascular disease) as we ...
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Vectors of Change in Oceans and Seas Marine Life, Impact on Economic Sectors (VECTORS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

Marine life makes a substantial contribution to the economy and society of Europe. VECTORS will elucidate the drivers, pressures and vectors that cause change in marine life, the mechanisms by which they do so, the impacts that they have on ecosystem structures and functioning, and on the economics of associated marine sectors and society. VECTORS will particularly focus on causes and consequences ...
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Wooden Architecture: traditional Karelian Timber Architecture and Landscape (WoodenArchitecture)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The Karelian wooden architecture is recognized as an object of treat peculiarity and interest on an international scale. The study days are addressed to the universities and the institutions involved into the project and they set the promotion of research activities launched in this country as a target. The aim of the operation is to encourage the relations, not only the cultural ones, between Ita ...
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Highly-complex and networked control systems (HYCON2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

ICT developments both enable and also enforce large-scale, highly-connected systems in society and industry. Knowledge to cope with these emerging systems is lacking. HYCON2 will stimulate and establish the long-term integration of the European research community, leading institutions and industry in the strategic field of control of complex, large-scale, and networked dynamical systems. It will i ...
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Bringing the artificial pancreas home (AP@home)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

Description In order to improve treatment of diabetes patients at home, the main goal of AP@Home is to build and evaluate an artificial pancreas (AP). The AP will allow automated glucose control: It monitors your blood glucose (sugar) levels and a software algorithm calculates how much insulin to deliver at any time via a built-in insulin in ...
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Adaptive Transceivers for Wireless Communications (ATWC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The project aims at using adaptive optimization to reduce energy consumption in a multimode wireless communication terminal. This is becoming increasingly important to reduce carbon emission and pollution associated with battery disposal especially considering the projected growth of wireless networks. The idea is to use hardware reconfigurability not only for multi mode/multi standard operation, ...
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Towards Enhanced Integration of Design and Production in the Factory of the Future through Isogeometric Technologies (TERRIFIC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The project aims at significant improvement of the interoperability of computational tools for the design, analysis and optimization of functional products. An isogeometric approach is applied for selected manufacturing application areas (cars, trains, aircraft) and for computer-aided machining. Computer Aided Design and numerical simulation algorithms are vital technologies in modern product deve ...
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Research capacity for the implementation of genetic control of mosquitoes (INFRAVEC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

Mosquitoes transmit a variety of infectious diseases that cause a tremendous burden to public health. Due to climate changes and to the increase in international trade and tourism the threats posed by mosquitoes are increasingly affecting large parts of Europe, causing understandable concerns among the populations of many Member States. Control methods, mainly based on insecticide usage, are strug ...
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Smart Management for Sustainable Human Environment (SmartEN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

There are increasing concerns regarding the environmental impact of human actions, the use of the environment and climate changes. These are coupled with ageing infrastructure systems, continuously growing and changing demands on the built and natural environments as well as limited financial and depleting natural resources. Until now, research has been focused on the development of proactive risk ...
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Systemic Seismic Vulnerability and Risk Analysis for Buildings, Lifeline Networks and Infrastructures Safety Gain (SYNER-G)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

SYNER-G is research project which has the following main goals: (1) To elaborate appropriate, in the European context, fragility relationships for the vulnerability analysis and loss estimation of all elements at risk, for buildings, building aggregates, utility networks (water, waste water, energy, gas), transportation systems (road, railways, harbors) as well as complex medical care facilities ( ...
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Making Capabilities Work (WorkAble)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

“Making Capabilities Work” (WorkAble) will scrutinise strategies to enhance the social sustainability and economic competitiveness of Europe by strengthening the capabilities of young people to actively shape their personal and work lives in knowledge societies and cope with today's economic, cultural, demographic and technological challenges. Bridging quantitative and qualitative methods ...
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LivingKnowledge – Facts, Opinions and Bias in Time (LivingKnowledge)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

Knowledge and its articulations are strongly influenced by diversity in, e.g., cultural backgrounds, schools of thought, geographical contexts. Judgements, assessments and opinions, which play a crucial role in many areas of democratic societies, including politics and economics, reflect this diversity in perspective and goals. For the information on the Web (including, e.g., news and blogs) diver ...
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Developing New Approaches to the Preservation and Sharing of Africa’s Printed Heritage: the Eritrean Case (Printed Heritage)

Start date: Oct 7, 2009, End date: Oct 6, 2011,

The research project aim at developing a new methodological and procedural approach to the preservation and dissemination of Africa’s printed heritage through the use of digital technologies. Since independence many African countries have attempted to recover their historical sources. Initially parchments, manuscripts, archival and oral source were able to get the lion share of the attention but i ...
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