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Federation for FIRE Plus (Fed4FIREplus)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The Fed4FIRE+ project has the objective to run and further improve Fed4FIRE’s “best-in-town” federation of experimentation facilities for the Future Internet Research and Experimentation initiative. Federating a heterogeneous set of facilities covering technologies ranging from wireless, wired, cloud services and open flow, and making them accessible through common frameworks and tools suddenly op ...
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Strengthening management at district level to support the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (PERFORM2scale) (Perform 2 scale)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The new challenge in global health is to achieve Universal Health Care (UHC) by 2030. Having an adequate workforce is critical to achieving UHC. Efforts are in place to scale up the numbers of health workers. Improving health workforce performance is equally important as the quantity of health workers, but more challenging. Workforce performance improvement can be achieved better at management ...
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Western banks in Eastern Europe: New geographies of financialisation (GEOFIN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

Financialisation, or the growing power of finance over societies and economies, is increasingly recognised as the key feature of contemporary capitalism. However, significant gaps in our understanding of this process remain. Indeed, despite growing recognition that financialisation is an inherently spatial process, a geographically-informed view of financialisation remains underdeveloped. In addit ...
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Tuneable 2D Nanosheet Networks for Printed Electronics (FUTURE-PRINT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

In the future, even the most mundane objects will contain electronic circuitry allowing them to gather, process, display and transmit information. The resulting vast network, often called the Internet of Things, will revolutionise society. To realise this will require the ability to produce electronic circuitry extremely cheaply, often on unconventional substrates. This will be achieved through pr ...
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Brain network based stratification of mental illness (STRATIFY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

To reduce the burden of mental disorders it is a formidable aim to identify widely applicable disease markers based on neural processes, which predict psychopathology and allow for targeted interventions. We will generate a neurobehavioural framework for stratification of psychopathology by characterising links between network properties of brain function and structure and reinforcement–related be ...
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3D Printing of Novel 2D Nanomaterials: Adding Advanced 2D Functionalities to Revolutionary Tailored 3D Manufacturing (3D2DPrint)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

My vision is to establish, within the framework of an ERC CoG, a multidisciplinary group which will work in concert towards pioneering the integration of novel 2-Dimensional nanomaterials with novel additive fabrication techniques to develop a unique class of energy storage devices.Batteries and supercapacitors are two very complementary types of energy storage devices. Batteries store much higher ...
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Targeting iNKT cell and adipocyte crosstalk for control of metabolism and body weight (FAT NKT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally. At least 2.8 million people die each year as a result of being overweight or obese, the biggest burden being obesity-related diseases. It is now clear that inflammation is an underlying cause or contributor to many of these diseases, including type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, and cancer. Recognition that the immune system can regulate metabolic p ...
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Cutting Edge Training - Cutting Edge Technology (EDGE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2021,

EDGE is a training and development programme of scientific excellence for postdoctoral researchers that offers a unique combination of disciplines and industry engagement to the 71 fellows it will recruit. Leveraging the strengths and assets of three Irish National Research Centres, AMBER, CONNECT and ADAPT, headquartered in TCD, EDGE will form the next generation of thought leaders in ICT. AMBER ...
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Prisons: the Rule of Law, Accountability and Rights (PRILA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

PRILA will create the first account of how mechanisms for securing rights, ensuring accountability and achieving adherence to the rule of law are experienced in European prisons. Prisons are places where considerable power differentials exist, and are unique sites for the expression of the values which underpin public and prison law. Systems to ensure that prisoners are treated fairly and that rig ...
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Nanomedicine upscaling for early clinical phases of multimodal cancer therapy (NoCanTher)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

During the last four years the Multifun Consortium (FP7 project Nº. 262943) has developed and validated distinct nanoformulations as therapeutic approach against pancreatic and breast cancer. These nanoformulations are based on magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (MNP) multifuntionalised with a target peptide and an anticancer chemical drug, allowing for a synergistic therapeutic effect produced by ...
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Late First-Row Transition Metal-Oxo Complexes for C–H Bond Activation (HurdlingOxoWall)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

The chemical, pharmaceutical, and materials industries rely heavily upon chemicals from oil and natural gas feed-stocks (saturated hydrocarbons) that require considerable functionalisation prior to use. Catalytic oxidative functionalisation (e.g. CH4 + [O] + cat. → CH3OH), using first row transition metal catalysts, is potentially a sustainable, cheap, and green route to these high-commodity chemi ...
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Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe (RadioNet)

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

RadioNet is a consortium of 28 institutions in Europe, Republic of Korea and South Africa, integrating at European level world-class infrastructures for research in radio astronomy. These include radio telescopes, telescope arrays, data archives and the globally operating European Network for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (EVN). RadioNet is de facto widely regarded to represent the interests o ...
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Terahertz RAdio communication using high ANistropy SPIn torque REsonators (TRANSPIRE)

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

Current and future technological and societal demands require the transfer of vast amounts of data at speeds currently not available due to a lack of technology operating in the terahertz (THz) gap. TRANSPIRE will develop nano-scale THz-oscillators based on a new class of magnetic materials, which will function in this exact range and meet these demands. This will enable new functionalities with ...
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Personal Technologies for Affective Health (AffecTech)

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

Personalized health is a European priority and one of the strategic research areas for Horizon 2020. This project advances the state-of-the-art of personal health technologies for affective disorders, estimated to be the highest ranking cause of disease by 2020. It marks a significant shift from the current wearable technologies capturing emotional responses whose understanding usually requires ph ...
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Drug Discovery and Delivery NEtwork for ONcology and Eye Therapeutics (3D NEONET)

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

Severe ocular disorders are affecting the lives of more than 100Mill people world-wide and at least 25% of the population above 70 years of age, a growing demographic group in EU. More than 8 million people lose their lives to cancer every year, making cancer a leading cause of pre-mature mortality in the world. The main hallmarks of severe eye conditions (i.e angiogenesis, inflammation and vascul ...
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Controlling Cartilage to Bone Transitions for Improved Treatment of Bone Defects and Osteoarthritis (CarBon)

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

A well-functioning locomotor system is essential for human well-being. This is an important consideration in our aging population with the increased associated costs of ensuring high quality of life. Many people suffer from diseases of the locomotor system, such as bone defects or osteoarthritis, for which current treatments are insufficient. To develop new treatments, CarBon includes 6 academic p ...
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North Atlantic Fisheries: An Environmental History, 1400-1700 (NorFish)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

NorFish aims to understand the restructuring of the North Atlantic fisheries, fish markets and fishery-dependent communities in the late medieval and early modern world. The project exploits a multi-disciplinary, humanities-led approach to marine environmental history, assessing and synthesizing the dynamics and significance of the North Atlantic fish revolution, equipped by methodological advance ...
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Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellows COFUND programme (TLRH-VRF COFUND)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

The Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellows Programme will offer opportunities to nine Experienced Researchers from across the spectrum of the Arts and Humanities to spend a fellowship of 12 months duration at Trinity Colleges’ Arts and Humanities Research Institute. This fellowship programme represents a significant enhancement of the offering of the existing fellowship programme operatin ...
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Loop amplitudes in quantum field theory (CutLoops)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

The traditional formulation of relativistic quantum theory is ill-equipped to handle the range of difficult computations needed to describe particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) within a suitable time frame. Yet, recent work shows that probability amplitudes in quantum gauge field theories, such as those describing the Standard Model and its extensions, take surprisingly simple fo ...
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Training in Cancer Mechanisms and Therapeutics (TRACT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

The European community requires early stage researchers (ESRs) trained in next-generation technologies for improved detection and treatment of oral and oesophageal cancers. The number of oral cancers diagnosed in the EU has increased by over 75% in the last 30 years, with long-term survival rates of only 50%. This is typically due to the late diagnosis of the disease and resistance to current ther ...
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SHARECITY: Assessing the practice and sustainability potential of city-based food sharing economies (SHARECITY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

With planetary urbanization fast approaching there is growing clarity regarding the unsustainability of cities, not least with respect to food consumption. Sharing, including food sharing, is increasingly being identified as one transformative mechanism for sustainable cities: reducing consumption; conserving resources, preventing waste and providing new forms of socio-economic relations. However, ...
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European Industrial Doctorate in future efficient minerals analysis, processing and training (MetalIntelligence)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

MetalIntelligence proposes an EID in future efficient minerals analysis, processing and training. Transformational change caused by the third industrial revolution, which itself relies on extraction of raw materials, provides the impetus. A resource-efficient EU is recognised as a societal challenge. However, the pathway from searching for mineral deposits to metal production is complex and involv ...
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Frontier research in arterial fibre remodelling for vascular disease diagnosis and tissue engineering (FibreRemodel)

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

Each year cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis and aneurysms cause 48% of all deaths in Europe. Arteries may be regarded as fibre-reinforced materials, with the stiffer collagen fibres present in the arterial wall bearing most of the load during pressurisation. Degenerative vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis and aneurysms alter the macroscopic mechanical properties of arterial ti ...
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3D Printing of Cell Laden Biomimetic Materials and Biomolecules for Joint Regeneration (JointPrinting)

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

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a serious disease of the joints affecting nearly 10% of the population worldwide. Realising an efficacious therapeutic solution for treating OA remains one of the greatest challenges in the field of orthopaedic medicine. This proposal envisions a future where 3D bioprinting systems located in hospitals will provide ‘off-the-shelf’, patient-specific biological implants to tre ...
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Towards Artificial Enzymes: Bio-inspired Oxidations in Photoactive Metal-Organic Frameworks (Supramol)

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

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are key compounds related to energy storage and conversion, as their unprecedented surface areas make them promising materials for gas storage and catalysis purposes. We believe that their modular construction principles allow the replication of key features of natural enzymes thus demonstrating how cavity size, shape, charge and functional group availability influe ...
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COllaborative Network for Training and EXpertise in psychoTraumatology (CONTEXT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Mental health disorders afflict more than one-third of the EU’s population each year with an annual economic cost to the EU of €432 billion. The ‘COllaborative Network for Training and EXcellence in psychoTraumatology’ (CONTEXT) is an international, interdisciplinary European Industrial Doctorate (EID) designed to address deficiencies in psychotraumatology training and innovation. A key feature of ...
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Engineering a scaffold based therapy for corneal regeneration (EyeRegen)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

Corneal blindness resulting from disease, physical injury or chemical burns affects millions worldwide and has a considerable economic and social impact on the lives of people across Europe. In many cases corneal transplants can restore vision however the shortage of donor corneas suitable for transplantation has necessitated the development of alternative treatments. The aim of this project is to ...
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NEXT GENERATION CERAMIC COMPOSITES FOR COMBUSTION HARSH ENVIRONMENTS AND SPACE (C3HARME)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

There is an increasing demand for advanced materials with temperature capability in highly corrosive environments for aerospace. Rocket nozzles of solid/hybrid rocket motors must survive harsh thermochemical and mechanical environments produced by high performance solid propellants (2700-3500°C). Thermal protection systems (TPS) for space vehicles flying at Mach 7 must withstand projected service ...
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The Neural Determinants of Perceptual Decision Making in the Human Brain (Human Decisions)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

How do we make reliable decisions given sensory information that is often weak or ambiguous? Current theories center on a brain mechanism whereby sensory evidence is integrated over time into a “decision variable” which triggers the appropriate action upon reaching a criterion. Neural signals fitting this role have been identified in monkey electrophysiology but efforts to study the neural dynamic ...
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Plasmonic Enhancement and Directionality of Emission for Advanced Luminescent Solar Devices (PEDAL)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Applying photovoltaic (PV) panels to buildings is an important application for wider PV deployment and to achieving our 20% Renewable Energy EU targets by 2020. PEDAL will develop a disruptive PV technology where record increases in efficiency are achieved and costs dramatically reduced; (1) Diffuse solar radiation will be captured to produce higher efficiencies with concentration ratios over 3 i ...
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Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Society (ISOTIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

ISOTIS addresses the nature, causes and impact of early emerging social and educational inequalities in the context of socioeconomic, cultural and institutional processes. The aim is to contribute to effective policy and practice development to combat inequalities. Quasi-panels and pooled longitudinal datasets will be used to examine the variation in early educational gaps and developmental trajec ...
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Orchestration and Reconfguration Control Architecture (ORCA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

ORCA offers experimentation facilities to promote wireless innovation in several market segments, including manufacturing, automotive industry, healthcare, ambient assistant living, public events, home automation, and utilities. Within the manufacturing market, for instance, application requirements vary from very low latency, up to real-time 3D video-driven interaction between collaborative robot ...
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Platform for Open Development of Systems of Artificial Intelligence (Bonseyes)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

The Bonseyes project aims to develop a platform consisting of a Data Marketplace, Deep Learning Toolbox, and Developer Reference Platforms for organizations wanting to adopt Artificial Intelligence in low power IoT devices (“edge computing”), embedded computing systems, or data center servers (“cloud computing”). It will bring about orders of magnitude improvements in efficiency, performance, reli ...
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CONSumer Energy Efficiency Decision Making (CONSEED)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Consumers do not minimize the total costs of their energy-consuming investments due to a range of market and non-market based failures. This is known as the ‘Energy Efficiency Gap’. To reduce the gap and provide customers with energy consumption information, the EU has mandated that electrical appliances, cars and buildings carry information to indicate their energy consumption.There is a large k ...
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Processes of indigenous community resistance to large extractive projects and their struggles for autonomy in Chile and Peru (LandGrab)

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

The aim of this Fellowship is for the researcher, Dr Rajiv Maher, to develop his professional capacity, advanced training, interdisciplinary skills, high-impact dissemination, and practical experience in line with the criteria for a leading independent researcher in the EU. This proposal aims to investigate the processes of indigenous community resistance to large natural resource extraction proje ...
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Segregated education in post-conflict Bosnia and the possibilities of future conflicts in Europe (GATED)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The aim of this Fellowship is to provide Dr Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic with advanced interdisciplinary training and new skills and experience in order to enhance her innovative and creative potential, increase her knowledge base, expand her career possibilities and enable her to reach professional maturity commensurate with a leading researcher in the EU. The remit of the Fellowship falls under the ...
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European Industrial DoCtorate on Offshore WiNd and Wave ENergy (ICONN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

ICONN is a unique European Industrial Doctorate initiative to meet the current and future demand for highly skilled offshore wind and wave energy engineers by developing and advancing European capacity in the design, development and performance optimisation for Offshore Wind and Wave Energy installations. The initiative is strongly shaped by active participation from industries, and will develop a ...
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Use of novel techniques to identify pathogenic versus non-pathogenic TH17 cells in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, a murine model of multiple sclerosis. (DANTE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The aim of this Fellowship is for the researcher, Dr Karen Dixon, to receive advanced training, develop interdisciplinary skills with high-impact dissemination, and practical experience in line with a leading independent researcher in the EU. The remit of the Fellowship proposal falls under the category of Immunology- autoimmunity and TH17 cell biology. The researcher will be based for two years i ...
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European Junior Leadership Academy for Student Nurses

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

RELATE is a three year project that aims to develop, implement and evaluate a pilot European Junior Leadership Academy (EJLA) for Student Nurses and a related Massive Online Open Course (MOOC). The project objectives align with the philosophy of the European Commission and Erasmus Plus. The objectives are1. to generate a contemporary, shared conception of nurse leadership that integrates a range ...
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Improving the Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe (iSCAPE)

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

The iSCAPE project aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives. It will tackle the problem of reducing air pollution at target receptors with an innovative SME-led appro ...
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