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Translational Research Network in Prostate Cancer (TransPot)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The Translational Research Network for Prostate Cancer (TransPot) program adopts an innovative, multidisciplinary approach, providing highly sought-after, effective solutions for incurable prostate cancer (PC).The TransPot scientific objective is to obtain an unmatched depth of molecular, mechanistic and informatics systems-level disease understanding in order to improve the prognosis and treatmen ...
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REgenerative Stem cell therapy for STroke in Europe (RESSTORE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Stroke is the second leading cause of death in the world population. When not fatal, stroke often results in disability, due to motor and cognitive impairments, and secondary health problems affecting not only patients but also their families. Building on emerging preclinical and pilot clinical evidences, RESSTORE will focus on the clinical assessment of regenerative cell therapy to improve stroke ...
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Global trends in social inequalities in Europe and Latin America and exploring innovative ways to reduce them through life, occupational and educational trajectories research to face uncertainty (INCASI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The overall aim of this project is to create an International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities (INCASI) with 19 universities, 10 from Europe and 9 from Latin America. The purpose is to conduct comparative research in the area of social inequalities. Through this network we hope to foster a space for collective reflection and the development of synergies between network partn ...
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Developing and implementing European Public Sector Accounting modules

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The European Commission, authorizing Eurostat, aims to hamonize public sector accounting in Europe. Thereby, European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS) are to be developed that use the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) as a basis of reference. As public sector accounting in Europe is currently very heterogenous, professionals and academics in Europe face tremendous ...
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Adult Education as a Means for Active Participatory Citizenship (EduMAP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The existing research and policy reports show that adult education policies and practices are designed and carried out in ways and using means which are not always appropriate to vulnerable minority groups. In the EduMAP Project the diversity of societal participation and the wide range of cultural contexts and communicative practices among learners will be acknowledged. In particular, the educati ...
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Comparing health services interventions for the prevention of HPV-related cancer (COHEAHR)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Important progress has been made in the field of HPV-disease prevention with the development and implementation of HPV vaccines and HPV DNA screening. In the CoheaHr project, the (cost-) effectiveness of different European preventive strategies will be compared. The goal is to build a reliable and comparable evidence base on the (cost-) effectiveness of these policies implemented under country-spe ...
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Governance and Academic Leadership of Chinese and European Universities in the Context of Innovation and Internationalization

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The LEAD project is a capacity building joint project focusing on the strengthening and improvement of governance and academic leadership of universities in the context of innovation, modernization and internationalization of higher education institutions in China. The project aims to enhance capacities of academic leaders of HEIs on university governance and leadership, develop and implement trai ...
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Enhancing the effectiveness of programs and strategies to prevent youth smoking: a comparative realist evaluation of 7 European cities (SILNE-R)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Cigarette smoking is a main risk factor for premature disease, disability and death in Europe, especially in disadvantaged groups. Prevention of youth smoking is crucial to any strategy aimed at reducing this disease burden in the future. Several potentially effective strategies and programs are available to address youth smoking. However, in practice their impact often appears to be limited, espe ...
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Accelerated Development of Vaccine benefit-risk Collaboration in Europe (ADVANCE)

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

Aim: The ADVANCE vision is focused on Timely and Best Evidence on Vaccine Effects. Our mission is to establish a best practice framework to rapidly provide robust data on vaccine benefits and risks to support accelerated decision-making.Approach: To achieve this vision through a public-private partnership, ADVANCE partners 1. establish common grounds and rules for collaboration between public and ...
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Modernisation of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) through enhancement of Human Resources Management (HRM) function

Start date: Sep 15, 2016, End date: Sep 14, 2018,

Analysis of existing policy documents in all three project partner countries, other European Area of Higher Education (EHEA) countries and at the European level shows that there is a strong need to encourage and support Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in developing more significantly their Human resources management (HRM) systems, in order to both improve their organizational efficiency and c ...
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"Transnational Migration, Citizenship and the Circulation of Rights and Responsibilities" (TRANSMIC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

"This ITN TRANSMIC project brings together a group of universities, think-tanks, institutes, practitioners and high-level officials that all share a long-term interest in migration policies and citizenship issues and who have extensive academic and/or practical expertise in this field. Their inter- and multi-disciplinary knowledge and experience is pooled with the main objective of improving the E ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Assessment of Transversal Skills 2020

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The aim of the project is to develop students’, in upper primary and secondary compulsory education, transversal competences and appropriate assessment methods which will inform and support the implementation of transversal skills among education systems in EU Member States. The project will focus on three main areas of the transversal skills digital competences, entrepreneurship and language. Our ...
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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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Measuring and Comparing Achievements of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education in Europe

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

CALOHEE addresses the next necessary steps for implementing student-centred competence-based higher education. It will provide the tools European Higher Education Institutions need to design and deliver degree programmes that actually prepare learners for their future professions and citizenship, while enhancing their personal culture.CALOHEE builds on what has been accomplished over the past fift ...
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Researchers Changing Society (CHANGE)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The CHANGE project aims to foster collaboration between the public and researchers in Finland in order to improve our everyday life in a rapidly changing world. This project brings together 9 universities, 1 research institute and two expert organisations for science communication. It spans many facets of research in Finland and covers numerous individual researchers with diverse backgrounds and r ...
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Network of multidisciplinary ideation and business model generation

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2017,

In order for the European Union to be successful in implementing and expanding open innovation as one of the main driver of its socio-economic growth higher education institutions (HEI) must be able to produce independent, creative, entrepreneurial individuals, who understand inter- and multidisciplinary challenges of the socio-economic environment and as a result can contribute to open innovation ...
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Personalized diagnostics and treatment of high risk coronary artery disease patients (RISKYCAD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Although the accurate diagnosis and prevention of coronary artery disease (CAD), acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and death is a major public health issue, risk stratification for CAD with current diagnostic tools is not properly supporting clinical decision making. RiskyCAD’s overall goal is to identify novel biomarkers for asymptomatic patients in high risk of major coronary events, and develop ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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OnCreate

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Study programmes following blended-learning or even pure online approaches are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. Two main drivers for this development are increasing international cooperations among universities and with industry partners and the special requirements of students in continuing education programmes. But even regular courses use online platforms to establish a perman ...
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e-Media Education Lab : un laboratoire en ligne sur le développement des compétences en éducation aux médias pour les enseignants en formation initiale et continue

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

eMEL (e-Media Education Lab) is a project which aims to support the development of media education in Europe by strengthening the skills of teaching professionals. Indeed, media education, which has become a key competency in nowadays society, takes place in a highly variable way from one country to another, from one school to another, from one classroom to another, and teachers lack resources and ...
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Stepping Stones to Working Life in the Field of EU–Russia Relations

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Stepping Stones to Working Life in the Field of EU–Russia Relations will be an annual one-week intensive course on practical skills and an introduction to professional life in the academia, research institutes, policy-making and the private sector. It is aimed at Master’s level students in International Relations, Russian Studies and Sociology at Finnish and Russian universities. The course focuse ...
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Addressing the Needs of Teaching Education and Research on European Foreign Policy

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The goal of the ANTERO Jean Monnet Network is to strengthen the interaction between cutting edge research in the field of EU foreign policy and the translation of that research through innovative, research-led teaching. This will include the production of open access research and teaching material which can be easily integrated to the teaching of undergraduate and graduate students world-wide and ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Kohti yhtenäistä tulevaisuuden koulu / jatkoprojekti

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

Tampere University Teacher Training Schools consist of three levels: primary, junior secondary and upper secondary. The core challenges of these schools are: teaching, teacher training, research and in-service training. The vision of Tampere TTS is to become an internationally known school that meets the challenges of the future. It is attractive and co-operative, the staff is service-orientatied ...
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A harmonized, modular reference system for all European automated border crossing points (FASTPASS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

FastPass will establish and demonstrate a harmonized, modular approach for Automated Border Control (ABC) gates. FastPass brings together key players of the entire ABC value chain - system and component producers, research institutions, governmental authorities and end-users.The development of a harmonized ABC gate will be accomplished with continuous end-user involvement. The entire innovation pr ...
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Brain networks for processing social signals of emotions: early development and the emergence of individual differences (EarlyDev)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Recent research has shown that genetic variations in central serotonin function are associated with biases in emotional information processing (heightened attention to signals of negative emotion) and that these biases contribute significantly to vulnerability to affective disorders. Here, we propose to examine a novel hypothesis that the biases in attention to emotional cues are ontogenetically p ...
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Transnational Migration in Transition: Transformative Characteristics of Temporary Mobility of People (EURA-NET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The phenomena surrounding temporary transnational mobility of people are giving rise to an increasing political and academic debate throughout the world. This multidisciplinary EURA-NET project produces scientifically sound and innovative framings for investigating transformative characteristics and development impacts of temporary transnational migration and mobility in highly industrialised soci ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Modulation of mitochondrial complex I as a strategy to increase lifespan and prevent age-related diseases (ComplexI&Aging)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Nowadays, ageing is one of the main problems in Western society. The increase in the percentage of elderly people serves to strain the Social Security to the point of bankruptcy. The only way to alleviate the suffering caused by age-related degenerative disease is to fully understand the underlying forces which drive ageing and design strategies to delay it. Mitochondria are considered as central ...
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Research on youth and social circus pedagogy

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Youth and social circus organisations do not regard circus solely as an art form, but also as a medium for the education of people and the social integration of people with fewer opportunities, with special needs or marginalised (prisoners, old people, immigrants, minority groups,...). It is a universal tool presenting many pedagogical assets. The development of this rapidly growing sector as led ...
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Kohti yhtenäistä tulevaisuuden koulua

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Tampere University Teacher Training Schools were integrated in 2012. It means that today the school consists of three levels: primary, junior secondary and upper secondary. The core challenges of the school are: teaching, teacher training, research and in-service training. The vision of the school is to become an internationally known school that meets the challenges of the future. It is attrac ...
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Novel solutions for assessing child cognitive function (ChildCogn)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

An important responsibility of primary health care in most societies is to conduct regular check-ups of children’s physical, cognitive, and social development, and to identify problems at an early stage to arrange for appropriate support and special care. Whereas well-validated methods exist for monitoring physical growth (e.g., WHO growth standards), there is a lack of standardized methods for mo ...
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Persistent virus infection as a cause of pathogenic inflammation in type 1 diabetes - an innovative research program of biobanks and expertise (PEVNET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

"Type 1 diabetes is caused by an inflammatory process which damage insulin-producing beta-cells in the pancreas. It is one of the most common chronic diseases and its incidence is rapidly increasing. Due to its complications it causes a significant medical and economic burden to European society. A causal association between enterovirus and type 1 diabetes has become more and more likely. The aim ...
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Investigating the roles of the mitochondrial alternative oxidase of Ciona intestinalis (Alternative Oxidase)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Feb 11, 2016,

The respiratory chain alternative enzymes constitute additional pathways to the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) system, in which oxygen consumption is uncoupled from ATP production. In contrast to the majority of eukaryotic organisms, including other invertebrate animals, vertebrates and arthropods lack any such alternative pathway. However, the expression of alternative oxidases ...
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Asian Regional Capacity Development for Research on Social Determinants of Health (ARCADE RSDH)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

"This project will add new research training capacity at low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, for promoting research on social determinants of health (RSDH). The focus is doctoral and post doctoral training, institutional strengthening for education, financial and administrative research management, and LMICs-based network building. Novel capacity building approaches will reduce brain ...
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CAncer Risk and INsulin analoGues (CARING)

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

"Several studies have linked the use of insulins to the risk of cancer, and it is certainly plausible that as a growth factor, exposure to administered insulin could stimulate neoplastic growth. However, the meta-analyses of randomized clinical trials comparing different insulin analogues were too small to quantify the risks, especially the proportion of patients that were followed for more than ...
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Development of reference methods for hazard identification, risk assessment and LCA of engineered nanomaterials (NANOVALID)

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

The growing development, production and use of engineered nanomaterials and associated products will increase exposure of both humans and ecosystems to these new materials. However, current knowledge is still incomplete and established test methods are as yet inappropriate to reliably assess the extent of exposure and risk of materials at the nano-scale. There is an urgent need to develop methods ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Mobility project for higher education students and staff with programme countries.
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Nanotechnology based cochlear implant with gapless interface to auditory neurons (NANOCI)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Over 60 million of citizens in the EU suffer from hearing loss with its associated restrictions. In severe cases, hearing can only be restored by surgically implanting a neuroprosthesis called cochlear implant, which directly stimulates the auditory nerve.The bottleneck for optimal stimulation is caused by the anatomical gap between the electrode array and the auditory neurons in the inner ear. As ...
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