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From longitudinal proteomics to dynamic individualized diagnostics (DynaOmics)

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

Longitudinal omics data hold great promise to improve biomarker detection and enable dynamic individualized predictions. Recent technological advances have made proteomics an increasingly attractive option but clinical longitudinal proteomic datasets are still rare and computational tools for their analysis underdeveloped. The objective of this proposal is to create a roadmap to detect clinically ...
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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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Molecular Tools for Nucleic Acid Manipulation for Biological Intervention (MMBio)

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

MMbio will bridge the classically separate disciplines of Chemistry and Biology by assembling leading experts from academia and non-academic partners (industry, technology transfer & science communication) to bring about systems designed to interfere therapeutically with gene expression in living cells. Expertise in nucleic acid synthesis, its molecular recognition and chemical reactivity is combi ...
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Comprehensive characterization and effective combinatorial targeting of high-grade serous ovarian cancer via single-cell analysis (HERCULES)

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

The goal of this multidisciplinary project is to comprehensively characterise high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGS-OvCa) at single-cell level, identify the best combination of drug combination to kill HGS-OvCa populations and commercialise a predictive biomarker kit for finding the right therapeutic regimen to the right patient.This project takes an advantage on prospectively and longitudinally ...
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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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How elephants grow old (Elephant Project)

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

The ageing population structure of most European countries has major health, economic and social consequences that lead to a need to better understand both the evolutionary limitations of deferring ageing, as well as the mechanisms involved in growing old. Ageing involves reduced fertility, mobility and ability to combat disease, but some individuals cope with growing old better than others. Impro ...
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Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

This Project aims to address an increasingly pressing global challenge: How to achieve the EU’s development goals and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, while meeting the global target of staying within two degrees global warming and avoid transgressing other planetary boundaries.EU policies must align with sustainable development goals (Article 11 TFEU). The impacts of climate change and glo ...
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Solar Energy to Biomass - Optimisation of light energy conversion in plants and microalgae (SE2B)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

In the face of the increasing global consumption of fossil resources, photosynthetic organisms offer an attractive alternative that could meet our rising future needs as clean, renewable, sources of energy and for the production of fine chemicals. Key to the efficient exploitation of these organisms is to optimise the conversion of Solar Energy into Biomass (SE2B). The SE2B network deals with this ...
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Next Generation Stakeholders and Next Level Ecosystem for ColLaborative Science Education with Online Labs (Next-Lab)

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

Next-Lab intends to change the educational landscape of science and technology education in Europe on a very large scale. The project offers a unique and extensive collection of interactive online (virtual and remote) laboratories that, through a process of mixing and re-use, can be straightforwardly and efficiently combined with dedicated support tools (learning apps) and multimedia material to t ...
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European Research Infrastructures in the International Landscape (RISCAPE)

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

RISCAPE will provide systematic, focused, high quality, comprehensive, consistent and peer-reviewed international landscape analysis report on the position and complementarities of the major European research infrastructures in the international research infrastructure landscape. To achieve this, RISCAPE will establish a close links with a stakeholder panel representing the main user groups of the ...
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Blended Vocational-Engineering-Industry Shared Learning Environment for Stream of Socially- and Technically-Competent Technicians and Engineers

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

A shared learning environment for vocational and engineering students is developed, in which project-based learning methodology is implemented targeting both students’ groups in final two years of their academic track. The developed education methodology is expected to yield a new line of industry human capital (engineers and technicians), who are technically and socially competent for professiona ...
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European Network linking informatics and genomics of helper T cells (ENLIGHT-TEN)

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

ENLIGHT-TEN is a European Network Linking Informatics and Genomics of Helper T cells: our mission is to provide cross-disciplinary training in cellular immunology and big data analysis such that we train a new generation of researchers to fully exploit the power of emerging technological platforms. Our network of TEN beneficiaries combines T cell expertise with state-of-the-art technologies such a ...
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Simulation Modeling of coronary ARTery disease: a tool for clinical decision support (SMARTool)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

SMARTool aims at developing a platform based on cloud technology, for the management of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) by standardizing and integrating heterogeneous health data, including those from key enabling technologies. The platform includes existing multiscale and multilevel ARTreat (FP7-224297) models of coronary plaque progression based on non-invasive coronary CT angiograph ...
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Gender Equality Plans for Information Sciences and Technology Research Institutions (EQUAL-IST)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

EQUAL-IST aims at introducing structural changes to enhance gender equality within Information Systems and Technology Research institutions, which have been demonstrated to be among the research sectors most affected by gender inequalities at all levels. The project aims at supporting seven RPOs from Northern, Southern and Central European countries plus a CSI country, in developing and implementi ...
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Adhesion switches in cancer and development: from in vivo to synthetic biology (ADHESWITCHES)

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

Integrins are transmembrane cell adhesion receptors controlling cell proliferation and migration. Our objective is to gain fundamentally novel mechanistic insight into the emerging new roles of integrins in cancer and to generate a road map of integrin dependent pathways critical in mammary gland development and integrin signalling thus opening new targets for therapeutic interventions. We will co ...
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Intergenerational Cumulative Disadvantage and Resource Compensation (INDIRECT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

"The previous literature has not been able to successfully explain why the loss of the certain family resources does not show as a weaker attainment. Neither the country differences in socioeconomic inheritance seem to reflect the institutional differences between them. We argue that these problems have followed from ignoring resource compensation. The lost capital (economic, human/cultural or soc ...
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Policies Supporting Young People in their Life Course. A Comparative Perspective of Lifelong Learning and Inclusion in Education and Work in Europe (YOUNG_ADULLLT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Most European Lifelong Learning (LLL) policies have been designed to create economic growth and, at the same time, guarantee social inclusion (EC 2010). First, we will study how different LLL policies are compatible with each other in terms of their orientations and objectives and how each policy considers the needs of ‘young adults’. Second, we will research the intended and unintended effects of ...
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AN INNOVATIVE CAUSAL THERAPY FOR ALLERGY: SAFE AND RAPID INDUCTION OF AN ANTI-INFLAMMATORY IMMUNE RESPONSE USING A MUTANT HYPOALLERGEN AND VITAMIN D3 (BM4SIT)

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

Allergy is the most prevalent chronic inflammatory disease, having great socio-economic impact. Chronic lifelong dependency on symptomatic drugs is an expensive reality for the vast majority of allergy sufferers. Allergen-specific immunotherapy is the only causal and effective treatment targeting the underlying immune mechanism in a more cost-effective way. Yet, long treatment duration and risk of ...
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Integrating Cultural Diversity in Higher Education

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

HE4u2 will contribute to the reform of teaching and learning in higher education and the improvement of the retention and attainment of migrants and ethnic minority students.There is a clear need and demand for training of teachers in relation to migrant students, for reform in the delivery of support for these learners, and in the intercultural dimension for all learners. HE4u2 will develop an in ...
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BIG4 - Biosystematics, Informatics and Genetics of the big 4 insect groups: training tomorrow's researchers and entrepreneurs (BIG4)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

BIG4 is a global network to amalgamate the cutting edge methods of genomics, phylogenetics, informatics, taxonomy, semantic biodiversity publishing and citizen science, into highly competitive cross-disciplinary training programme for 15 ESRs with a stronghold in biosystematics. These 15 future leaders will extend the exploration of the four biggest groups of living organisms in a more forward loo ...
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European Futures for Energy Efficiency (EUFORIE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

The EUFORIE project studies energy efficiency at macro level (EU as a whole and comprison to China), national level (EU-28 Member States), sectoral/company level (selected energy-intensive sectors and companies) and household level, taking into account the perspectives of energy production and consumption. The project uses also participatory foresight workshops to provide new information for energ ...
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Supporting Entrepreneurial Development in the Field of IT in Vietnamese HEIs

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

The objective of the project is to support the Vietnamese students in the field of ICT to transfer their knowledge to the businesses and community by providing them with - directly and through teachers - new skills and activities to adapt them effectively to the IT-market as entrepreneurs or employees. The partner universities will also be supported to enhance their collaboration with the industry ...
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Integrating Blended Entrepreneurial and Manufacturing Technology Competency into Socioeconomic Development in Egypt

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

An interdisciplinary manufacturing/business entrepreneurship continuous learning system is introduced aiming at developing a new line of small-business owners with engineering background grasping in-depth expertise in manufacturing technology with adequate entrepreneurship skills capable of establishing a sustainable small manufacturing business within micro economy spectrum. Although, manufacturi ...
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Personalised Prognostic Tools for Early Psychosis Management (PRONIA)

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

Affective and non-affective psychoses have a major negative impact on human society. They account for 6.3% of the global burden of disease and cost €207 billion per year in Europe alone, making them the most expensive brain-related disorders and even more expensive than cardiovascular diseases. This socioeconomic burden is largely caused by two core disease features: onset in adolescence and early ...
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Integrating Finno-Ugric Studies in Europe: Innovative resource pooling for a low-volume discipline

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The project “Integrating Finno-Ugric Studies in Europe: Innovative resource pooling for a low-volume discipline“ (InFUSE) has established a strategic partnership between eight European universities (Munich, Hamburg, Vienna, Szeged, Helsinki, Turku, Tartu and Uppsala) focusing on a specific discipline, ostensibly minor, but important in the wider European context: the Finno-Ugric languages are the ...
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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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Origination of novel gene regulatory networks in the evolution of mammalian pregnancy (EVOLPREG)

Start date: Apr 12, 2016, End date: Apr 11, 2018,

One of the deepest unanswered biological questions is how new phenotypes arise in evolution. To address this question, I propose to investigate a major mammalian innovation: pregnancy. Phenotypic novelties of pregnancy include efficient placental delivery of nutrients and internal fetal development. When being established, these novelties were associated with major gene regulatory changes in the e ...
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Personalized diagnosis and treatment of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycaemia caused by beta-cell pathology (BETACURE)

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

Background:Hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia (HH) is a potentially lethal disease caused by over functioning beta cells derived from the pancreatic islets of Langerhans. Lethal HH and brain damage is a problem especially in infants with congenital HH. Current therapeutic approaches are associated with severe side effects/morbidity (diabetes, exocrine pancreas insufficiency etc.) considered acceptabl ...
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Quantum Probes for Complex Systems (QuProCS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

We are on the verge of a new scientific and technological era as the first quantum simulators able to investigate physical systems that cannot be studied classically are about to be built in the laboratories. Controlling and probing complex quantum systems is of paramount importance for the implementation of these devices.Quantum simulators are controllable complex quantum systems that emulate the ...
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Ark of Inquiry: Inquiry Awards for Youth over Europe (Ark of Inquiry)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The Ark of Inquiry project aims to raise youth awareness to Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) by providing young European citizens (7 to 18-year-olds) with a pool of engaging inquiry activities to improve their inquiry skills, increase their awareness and understanding of conducting ‘real’ science, and prepare them to participate in different roles in the European research and innovation p ...
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EmpoweriNg (European) SME business model InnovatiON (ENviSION)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Reaching the ambitions of the Europe 2020 and the Innovation Union requires much more than just technological innovations. In the academic community, Business Model Innovation (BMI) has for a long time been recognized as the key to improved competitiveness and innovativeness. However, BMI does not reach SMEs yet nor is there knowledge on how SMEs conduct BMI in practice.Empowering SMEs to conduct ...
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Academia-Industry Research and Development Opportunities for Picornaviruses (AIROPico)

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

Viruses belonging to the large family of Picornaviridae such as enteroviruses, rhinoviruses and parechoviruses represent the most commonly encountered infectious agents in mankind. Several research groups in Europe are active on different aspects of picornavirus research. Nevertheless, prevalence, transmission, and pathogenesis are still largely unknown and no therapy is available for picorna infe ...
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The ‘other’ Europe: the formation and development of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), 1958–92 (EFTA DEVELOPMENT)

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

Debates over the type and degree of integration pursued by European states currently dominate the European Union (EU). As the gulf between proponents and critics of the ‘Community method’ grows more acute, as the EU environment increasingly revolves around interstate relations, and as scenarios of EU ‘disintegration’ are entertained at various levels, attention has focused on historical precedents ...
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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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Towards a plurilingual whole school policy in European schools

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a follow-on project from the ECML project PlurCur (2012-2015, www.ecml.at/plurcur). The project’s aims are to develop further the plurilingual, inclusive and intercultural whole school policy by means of both new and existing partner schools in secondary education in an international context. The innovation of this project will be that it is based on version 2 of the plurilingual whole sch ...
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Key Competence Laboratory on Primary School Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The European Union stresses the need of promoting key competences for lifelong learning on its Europe 2020 Strategy and on the Recommendations of the European Parliament and the European Council of 2006 (2006/962/EC). However, as the Euridyce´s 2012 report “Developing Key Competences at School in Europe” reveals, there is a lack of more strategic approach in supporting the key competences integrat ...
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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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Calcium- and light signals in photosynthetic organisms (CALIPSO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"CALIPSO is a genuine interdisciplinary and intersectorial research network composed of nine academic research institutions and three industrial partners, thus presenting an example of true translational research and training of young researchers in communicating and transferring achievements from different model organisms directly to industrial partners. CALIPSO aims at identifying environmentall ...
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Maximising wellbeing and minimising emissions: backcasting social visions for a low-carbon Europe. (MAXWELL)

Start date: Sep 14, 2015, End date: Sep 13, 2017,

The science of climate change demands radical long-term reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In supporting this, EU policy is committed to develop a low-carbon future by 2050 . Key to meeting this target is the contribution of energy and both analysis and policy development have been prioritised. The central planks of mitigation practices globally include technological change and efficienc ...
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AVOMERI -– Turun yliopiston aikuiskoulutus merta edemmäs

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...in ja kestäviin ratkaisuihin toimintaympäristöjen kehittämisessä. Onnistuneen aikuiskoulutuksen takaa osaava ja verkottunut henkilöstö ja tätä tavoitellaan Turun yliopiston Brahea-keskuksen AVOMERI-hankkeella. Aikuiskouluttajat edistävät elinikäisen oppimisen toteutumista, mutta tarvitsevat uudistumista myös itse ja hyötyvät keskinäisestä verkostoitumisesta kansainvälisesti. Liikkuvuushanke on suu ...
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