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European Modular Education and Training Programme in Safety Sciences for Medicines (SAFESCIMET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Background:In current drug safety education and training in Europe, an integrative and translational approach is lacking. This shortfall has been identified by EUFEPS. The IMI (‘Strategic Research Agenda’), the FDA and the EMEA have also characterised this fact as a crucial gap in the education and training of scientists evaluating the safety of drug candidates and new medicines. Scope and objecti ...
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HOMES

Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The main objective of the project HOMES is to develop a wireless communication technology that is reliable,cheap and energy-efficient, in order to increase the data transmission capacity, and the engineers training in this field.
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Morphological Complexity: Typology as a Tool for Delineating Cognitive Organization (MORPHOLOGY)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

"Charting the limits of linguistic complexity will open up new perspectives for researching both language and the human mind. We focus on inflectional morphology, which is the systematic manipulation of word forms to express grammatical meaning. As a uniquely linguistic and uniquely human component of communication, morphology stands to reveal otherwise inaccessible aspects of cognition. Morpholo ...
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Silicon integrated lasers and optical amplifiers (SILAMPS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"This project is a six year programme of work to develop fully integrated optical emitters, lasers and optical amplifiers in silicon. Recent years have seen tremendous advances in the development of silicon photonic devices. However, the last hurdle to full silicon photonic systems and optical data transfer on and between integrated circuits are electrically pumped optical amplifiers and lasers ...
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Understanding Transport for Concrete which is Eco friendly iNnovative and Durable (TRANSCEND)

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

Cement is the primary binding phase of concrete. It is millennia old and ubiquitous worldwide. As a building material, it is unrivalled in terms of tonnage used, price per tonne, and CO2 production per tonne. Yet its very success means that cement production account for about 5% of global man-made CO2 emissions.The cement industry urgently requires more sustainable cement based products with equal ...
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DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH ENERGY/HIGH POWER DENSITY SUPERCAPACITORS FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS (AUTOSUPERCAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

... during acceleration and recovering braking energy. High power and sufficient energy density (per kilo) are required for both an effective power system but also to reduce weight. There are several issues to achieve a high performance/low weight power system that need to be addressed by various groups of scientists and engineers in an integrated framework. In this proposal, we have assembled a mu ...
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BIsmide And Nitride Components for High temperature Operation (BIANCHO)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

Description BIANCHO will develop photonic components designed to significantly reduce power consumption at the component and system level in advanced communication systems, thereby saving significant electricity, and enabling unlimited bandwidth through integration, more optical processing and very high spectral-density photonic transmission ...
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linking RESearch and POlicy making for managing the contradictions of sustaiNable consumption anD Economic gRowth (RESPONDER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"RESPONDER aims to develop, implement and evaluate a knowledge brokerage system on managing the contradictions of sustainable consumption and economic growth. Therefore the project will not just bridge the gap between science and policy, but will also improve the mutual understanding between what could be called the “pro-growth community” (i.e. economists and policy makers oriented towards the EU ...
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PLANT food supplements: Levels of Intake, Benefit and Risk Assessment (PlantLIBRA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

Plant food supplements, or botanicals, have high acceptance by European consumers. Potentially, they can deliver significant health benefits, safely, and at relatively low costs. New regulations and EFSA guidance are also now in. However, concerns about safety, quality and efficacy of these products remain, and bottle-necks in risk and benefit assessments need to be solved. PlantLIBRA (PLANT food ...
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FLEXIBLE MICROSYSTEM TECHNOLOGY FOR MICRO- AND MILLIMETRE-WAVE ANTENNA ARRAYS WITH INTELLIGENT PIXELS (FLEXWIN)

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

FLEXWIN proposes a significant advance towards smart RF microsystems by combining 1.) an RFMEMS switch process monolithically integrated with a Si/SiGe BiCMOS process, 2.) highly reconfigurable mm-wave building blocks, able to be used over a broad frequency range and for different applications, 3.) a new RF-system design paradigm built around the concepts of reusability, multifunctionality and re ...
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Low Carbon at Work: Modelling agents and organisations to achieve transition to a low carbon Europe (LOCAW)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"The project will provide a theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of everyday practices in the workplace, of the macro and micro-level processes which act as drivers for and constraints upon sustainable practices in different types of workplaces across different European countries, and the relationship between work and outside work practices.These analyses will constitute the empirical b ...
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Advanced coexistence technologies for radio optimisation in licensed and unlicensed spectrum (ACROPOLIS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Wireless communications, perpetually a source of innovation, is entering new and uncharted territory. In order to enhance system performance and cater for the services and applications of the future, there is the need for cooperative and cognitive communications paradigms that support advanced coexistence technologies for radio optimization. In short, wireless communications is moving towards a di ...
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Internet of Things Architecture (IoT-A)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

Description The Lighthouse Project IoT-A proposes the creation of an architectural reference model for the IoT as well as the definition of a set of key building blocks to lay the foundation for a ubiquitous IoT.There has been much hype about the “Internet of Things”. The idea of a globally interconnected continuum of devices, objects and ...
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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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Food Risk Communication. Perceptions and communication of food risks/benefits across Europe: development of effective communication strategies (FoodRisC)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

FoodRisC will characterise key configurations of food risk/benefit relationships and the consequent implications for risk communicators, make recommendations about the unique potential of new social media (e.g. social networks and blogging) and provide a systematic understanding of how consumers deal with food risk/benefit information. The FoodRisC consortium is comprised of experts in key fields ...
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Wireless Hybrid Enhanced Mobile Radio Estimators - Phase 2 (WHERE2)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The availability of position information plays an increasing role in wireless communications networks already today and will be an integral part of future systems. They inherently can offer the ability for stand-alone positioning especially in situations where conventional satellite based positioning systems such as GPS fail (e.g., indoor). In this framework, positioning information is an importan ...
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PARticle Systems: Training on DEM simulation for industrial and scientific applications (PARDEM)

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

"The overarching aim of the PARDEM project is to provide high quality training to a group of young researchers to work within and to further develop the multidisciplinary field of DEM computational simulation of granular processes. Granular materials are estimated to constitute over 75% of all raw material feedstock to industry. They also present many challenges for innovation and fundamental scie ...
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Support of Public and Industrial Research using Ion Beam Technology (SPIRIT)

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

"SPIRIT is an Integrating Activities project integrating 7 leading ion beam facilities and 4 research providers from 7 Member States and 1 Associated State. The 7 partners providing TransNational Access supply ions in an energy range from ~10 keV to 100 MeV for modification and analysis of solid surfaces, interfaces, thin films and nanostructured systems. The techniques cover materials, biomedical ...
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"Scoping China’s Environmental Research Excellence and major Infrastructure: Foresight, Potentials, and Roadmaps" (SPRING)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"SPRING is a supporting action under EU FP7 Environment theme, with the main objective of creating and providing a solid basis for future EU-China collaboration in environmental research. SPRING will identify common needs and opportunities, analyse potential topics of research cooperation and initiatives, map competences and potentials of Chinese research organisations and major infrastructure, in ...
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COMPOSITE PATCH REPAIR FOR MARINE AND CIVIL ENGINEERING INFRASTRUCTURE APPLICATIONS (CO-PATCH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"The basic concept of the present work is the definition of an effective repair method for large steel structures with defects. Two basic steel structural types will be dealt with in this work, namely marine structures and steel civil engineering structures. The objective of this project is to demonstrate that composite patch repairs can be environmentally stable and therefore, that they can be us ...
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Quality of Service and MObility driven cognitive radio Systems (QoSMOS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

QoSMOS is a 3-year Integrated Project that aims at researching, developing and integrating a Cognitive Radio (CR) framework to enable mobile broadband systems to improve utilisation of licensed and/or unlicensed bands, by adding dynamic exploitation of under-utilised spectrum. The technical focus is on opportunistic use of spectrum combined with managed Quality of Service (QoS) and seamless mobili ...
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COntent Mediator architecture for content-aware nETworks (COMET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

In recent years there has been a growing proliferation of user-generated Internet content. This increasing trend has led to an abundance of intermediaries (e.g. YouTube, Flickr, BitTorrent, etc.) which is expected to grow in the future with massive live content generation (e.g. TV channels, SopCast, etc.) The problem is that, currently users need to know the content location a priori and content h ...
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Mathematical Modelling of Ensemble Classifier Systems via Optimization of Diversity- Accuracy Trade off (OPT-DIVA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"Learning by kernels has interested researchers for many years and various types of kernel learning algorithms have been developed under different kinds of numerical optimization methods. Because of the heterogeneity of the real world data, combination of different kernels has been studied for binary class problems over the last decade. However, in reality, not every case is binary. Indeed, there ...
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EXpAnding LTE for Devices (EXALTED)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

The number of networked humans will reach saturation by the middle of the next decade, while the number of networked devices will continue to increase dramatically for some time to come. The Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) has set out a vision of the future where 7 trillion wireless devices will be serving 7 billion people by 2017. The vast majority of wireless traffic will be between machine ...
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Cognitive radio and Cooperative strategies for POWER saving in multi-standard wireless devices (C2POWER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The promise of a truly mobile experience is to have the freedom to roam around anywhere and not be bound to a single location. However, the energy required to keep mobile devices connected to the network over extended periods of time quickly dissipates. In fact, the operational time, has been identified as the number one criteria by the majority of the consumers purchasing a mobile device. Moreove ...
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Opportunistic networks and Cognitive Management Systems for Efficient Application Provision in the Future InterneT (ONEFIT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Due to the need of supporting diversified services with vastly expanded use of wireless access, the Future Internet will set the networks under stress for resources. This motivates the quest for efficiency, through technologies that achieve: (i) higher utilization of resources; (ii) lower transmission powers and energy consumption (decisions with "green" footprint); (iii) reductions in the total c ...
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pHotonics ELectronics functional Integration on CMOS (HELIOS)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

Photonics on CMOS is a candidate technology for applications where functional integration is needed for improving system performance while reducing size and cost.Functional demonstration of basic building blocks such as a µlaser, a detector, coupling, and link has been realized in previous research projects. As a next step the HELIOS project proposes to integrate photonics components with integrat ...
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"Wood Bark and Peat Based Bioactive Compounds, Speciality Chemicals, and Remediation Materials: from Innovations to Applications" (FORESTSPECS)

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

"The production of fine and industrial chemicals and bioactive compounds based on renewable, naturally occurring raw materials has become an exciting research topic, but so far only few studies concern side products of the forest industry. We will focus on bark and on peat. Bark is a high-volume waste product, currently largely unutilised as a raw material. Northern Europe and Russia have abundant ...
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Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy (PARTNER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"A Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy (PARTNER) will be established in response to the critical need for reinforcing research in ion therapy and the training of professionals in the rapidly emerging field of hadron therapy. This is an interdisciplinary, multinational initiative, which has the primary goal of training researchers who will help to improve the overall efficiency of i ...
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Mechanisms for Optimization of hybrid ad-hoc networks and satellite NETworks (MONET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

...h particular focus on the following:•\tOptimising network resources and link availability;•\tProviding Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE);•\tAnd minimizing costs and energy.Issues such as the re-organisation of MANET to connect to satellite access points, re-organisation of the satellite access points, selection of which satellite access points to use, the use of satellite as ...
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Broadband Evolved FEMTO Networks (BeFEMTO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

...) validation of developed technologies using testbeds and simulation tools.BeFEMTO is a strong consortium of key industrial and leading-edge academics, supported by an Advisory Board for regulatory issues and standardisation. BeFEMTO will develop technologies that will have a major impact on LTE-A, ease potential EMC problems, and open up new services at home and in public places, thus achieving a ...
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eMobility NetWorld

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

... Challenges of the 21st century: It can address global warming by taking decisive action, can invent and deploy innovative transport systems to reduce traffic problems and will be able to solve the issues associated with the ageing population. Smart applications enabled by advanced communication networks will be a centrepiece of many solutions offering the hope of a better world. Communication n ...
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Energy Aware Radio and neTwork tecHnologies (EARTH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Telecommunication networks and in particular mobile communications are increasingly contributing to global energy consumption. The EARTH proposal tackles the important issue of energy saving by enhancing the energy efficiency of mobile broadband systems thereby reducing CO2 emissions. It is a highly ambitious and unique proposal, applying an integrated approach to investigate the energy efficiency ...
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Combating incontinence, from basic science to clinical practice (INComb)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

...ms of bladder over activity. A strong emphasis is put on interaction between basic science and clinical applications, using a translational approach involving both specific animal models and human tissue from patients with defined urodynamic information. Several ethical and logistic issues with the use of human tissue are specifically addressed. An important further aspect of the experiments on hu ...
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Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation (PIDOP)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

...evant phenomena at regional, national and EU levels. Appropriate stakeholders at regional, national and EU levels will be involved in all stages of the work, to ensure that the research addresses issues of direct concern to these stakeholders, and to ensure that the policy implications and recommendations which emerge from the research meet the needs of these stakeholders and are disseminated appr ...
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SPIRAL2 PREPARATORY PHASE (SPIRAL2PP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2007, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

... the construction budget both of the baseline project and of the new instrumentation necessary for experiments. The Preparatory Phase will deal with the critical financial, legal and organisational issues related to the international character of the SPIRAL 2 facility during its construction and operation phases. Searching for new funding partners will be achieved by direct contacts and negotiatio ...
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Identity and Conflict. Cultural Heritage and the re-construction of identities after conflict (CRIC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

This proposal aims to investigate the ways the destruction and subsequent selective reconstruction of the cultural heritage impact identity formation. Recent conflicts in Europe, as well as abroad, has brought the deliberate destruction of the heritage of others, as a means of inflicting pain, to the foreground. With this has come the realisation that the processes involved and thus the long-term ...
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Sign Language Recognition, Generation and Modelling \n with application in Deaf Communication (Dicta-Sign)

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

Dicta-Sign addresses the need for communication between deaf individuals and communication via natural language by deaf users with various HCI environments. It will research and develop recognition and synthesis engines for sign languages (SLs) at a level of detail necessary for recognising and generating authentic signing. Research outcomes will be integrated in three laboratory prototypes (a Sea ...
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Enabling protection for older children (EPOCH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

Across most of Europe, children under 3 years must use an appropriate child restraint in any vehicle. If seat belts are fitted, the law now also requires children up to the age of 12 years or up to 150 cm in height to use an appropriate child restraint. Child restraints sold in the EU must conform to UNECE Regulation 44. To date, the regulations in this field have relied on the P series child dum ...
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Modeling and Implementation of Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy Algorithms in Multi-Country Econometric Models (MONFISPOL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"This project contributes to the evaluation of macroeconomic policy by advancing the analysis of optimal fiscal and monetary policy in monetary union such as the European one. This work will result in the addition of new numerical tools, specially designed for the computation of optimal policy in large macro-econometric models. Such multi-country models are necessary to take into account the diver ...
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