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Nanostructuring graphene and graphitic substrates for controlled and reproducible functionalization (NANOGRAPH@LSI)

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

"Graphene is a new class of promising material with exceptional properties and thus warrants a plethora of potential applications in various domains of science and technology. However, due to intrinsic zero bandgap and inherently low solubility, a prerequisite for the use of graphene in several applications is its controlled and reproducible functionalization in a nanostructured fashion. Being a ‘ ...
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In silico and in vitro Models of Angiogenesis: unravelling the role of the extracellular matrix (MAtrix)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels from the existing vasculature, is a process that is fundamental to normal tissue growth, wound repair and disease. The control of angiogenesis is of utmost importance for tissue regenerative therapies as well as cancer treatment, however this remains a challenge. The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a one of the key controlling factors of angiogenesis. ...
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Novel nanotechnology-enabled system for endovascular in vivo near-infrared fluorescence molecular imaging and endovascular near-infrared targeted photodynamic therapy of atherosclerotic heart disease (CosmoPHOS-nano)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

CosmoPHOS-nano is a multidisciplinary, translational and business-oriented project, aiming to accomplish the following objectives:1) develop the CosmoPHOS system, which is a novel theranostic (diagnostic & therapeutic) nanotechnology-enabled portable combination system enabling endovascular in vivo near-infrared fluorescence molecular imaging, endovascular near-infrared targeted photodynamic thera ...
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Assessment of the impact of drivers of change on Europe's food and nutrition security (TRANSMANGO)

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

TRANSMANGO aims to obtain a comprehensive picture of the effects of the global drivers of change (climate, economic concentration and market structure, financial power, resource competition, marginalization, property rules, geo-political shifts, consumer preferences, consumption patterns and nutritional transition) on European and global food demand and on raw material production (and, consequent ...
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Single Heart beat MApping of myocardial Performance, Activation, and Scar by ultrasound (HEARTMAPAS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Heart failure affects about 2% of the European population with an annual mortality rate of 10%. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) has been proven to reduce morbidity and mortality and has become a recommended treatment. Optimal lead placement for CRT not only requires exact anatomically mapped information on the mechanical activation sequence to be corrected but also tissue viability and per ...
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Development of a sustainable exploitation scheme for Europe’s Rare Earth ore deposits (EURARE)

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

With numerous European industries heavily depended on imported REE raw materials, there is a need for EU to secure a viable supply of REE minerals as well as develop from the ground up the currently non-existent European REE extraction and processing industry. The goal of the EURARE project will be (i) to characterize the potential REE resources in Europe; and (ii) to research, develop, optimize a ...
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The effect of intracoronary reinfusion of bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells (BM-MNC) on all-cause mortality in acute myocardial infarction (BAMI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Although the long term prognosis of patients suffering acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has improved since the introduction of reperfusion therapies and primary angioplasty, the 1 year mortality of patients with AMI and resultant left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) is still as high as 13%. A major reason for the high morbidity and mortality is that the heart has an inadequate regenerativ ...
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Open Project for the European Radiation Research Area (OPERRA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2017,

"Within the OPERRA project, it is proposed that the MELODI Association, as a well-advanced network, takes the lead in establishing the necessary structures able to manage the long-term European research programmes in radiation protection, also taking advantage of the valuable experience gathered through the DoReMi network of excellence. Whilst in fields adjacent to low-dose risk research (radioeco ...
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Increasing Value and Flow in the Marine Biodiscovery Pipeline (PHARMASEA)

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

The PharmaSea project focuses on obstacles in marine biodiscovery research, development and commercialization and brings together a broad interdisciplinary team of academic and industry researchers and specialists to address and overcome these. The partners are ideally placed to demonstrate how to widen the bottlenecks and increase the flow of ideas and products derived from the marine microbiome ...
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Multipurpose hemp for industrial bioproducts and biomass (MULTIHEMP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Hemp is a sustainable high yielding crop well adapted to most European conditions, with advantageous environmental and agronomical characteristics. Traditionally cultivated for the fibres, seeds and psychoactive substances, it is now considered an ideal crop to produce innovative biomaterials. Once a key industrial crop for fibre, hemp production declined in the last century and was displaced by c ...
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GENOMIC TOOLS FOR BREEDING AGAINST HERITABLE DISEASES IN HORSES (HORSEGENE)

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

The project will use reliable state-of-the-art genomic technologies for the rapid identification of genetic markers for heritable diseases in horses, which will facilitate effective genomics based selection against disease susceptibility. The diseases of particular focus for this project are osteochondrosis (OC), insect bite hypersensitivity (IBH) and chronic progressive lymphedema (CPL). The occ ...
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European clinical study for the application of regenerative heart valves (ESPOIR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Acquired and congenital heart disease can necessitate heart valve replacement. However, current heart valve substitutes are not considered ideal as they need anticoagulation, bearing the risk of bleeding when manufactured from non-organic material, or they degenerate when they derive from animals or human tissue donators (homografts) thereby leading to frequent reoperation especially in the young ...
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NOROSENSOR - A real-time monitoring system for airborne norovirus (NOROSENSOR)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Gastroenteritis, caused by the airborne Norovirus, is the third most deadly infectious disease worldwide, infecting ~4% of the population annually, worldwide, and has related costs measured in billions € annually in the EU alone. Today, detection of airborne viruses can only be done in retrospect in the laboratory, which severely limits the ability to rapidly react and limit the spread of an outbr ...
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Silicon CMOS compatible transition metal oxide technology for boosting highly integrated photonic devices with disruptive performance (SITOGA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The SITOGA project will address for the first time the integration of transition metal oxides (TMO) materials in silicon photonics and CMOS electronics. TMOs have unique electro-optical properties that will offer unprecedented and novel capabilities to the silicon platform. SITOGA will focus on two disruptive TMO materials, barium titanate (BaTiO3) and vanadium oxide (VO2), for developing advanced ...
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The European Location Framework (E.L.F.)

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

E.L.F. project will foster the wider use of geo-information and enable the creation of innovative value-added services. The purpose of this project is to deliver the European Location Framework (E.L.F.) required to provide up-to-date, authoritative, interoperable, cross-border, reference geo-information for use by the European public and private sectors. Our versatile cloud and cascade supporting ...
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Self-Assembly in Confined Space (SACS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Supramolecular chemistry studies chemistry beyond individual molecules, where molecules or macromolecules form larger entities by spontaneous self-assembly or by self-organisation. The resulting supramolecular architectures are held together by covalent bonds and a variety of non-covalent intermolecular interactions (hydrogen bonding, metal coordination, hydrophobic interactions etc). Spatially, t ...
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FORest management strategies to enhance the MITigation potential of European forests (FORMIT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"Forest management can lead to continuous carbon sequestration, while timber as a renewable energy source can used as a substitute for fossil fuel, thus multiplying this mitigation effect. FORMIT aims to develop forest management scenarios for carbon sequestration in Europe, including mitigation measures and management strategies for different regions, and accounting for trade-offs with other fore ...
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Socio-economic implications for individual responses to Air Pollution Policies in EU +27 (SEFIRA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

SEFIRA has the objective of creating a European coordination of transdisciplinary scientific and socio-economic resources in order to support the review and implementation of air quality legislation by the European Commission (EC) led by DG Environment. The EC has now given increased attention to the socio-economic dimension of air quality policies in order to improve their effectiveness and accep ...
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Enabling the exploitation of Insects as a Sustainable Source of Protein for Animal Feed and Human Nutrition (PROTEINSECT)

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

Food security is a global challenge. Within the overall increased demand for food, and particularly meat production, there is also an urgent need to increase supply of protein from sustainable sources. The principle objective of the international and multidisciplinary PROteINSECT consortium is to facilitate the exploitation of insects as an alternative protein source for animal and human nutrition ...
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STrengthening And Redesigning European FLOOD risk practices Towards appropriate and resilient flood risk governance arrangements (STAR-FLOOD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Urban regions in the EU face increasing but uncertain flood risks due to urbanization and the effects of climate change. In European (a.o. the Flood Risk Directive) and in national and regional policies, attempts are made to diversify and align different Flood Risk Strategies (FRSs). In our proposal, five such strategies are distinguished: risk prevention; flood defense; mitigation; preparation; a ...
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PrivAcy pReserving Infrastructure for Surveillance (PARIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

PARIS will define and demonstrate a methodological approach for the development of surveillance infrastructure which enforces the right of citizens for privacy, justice and freedom and takes into account the evolving nature of such rights, e.g. aspects that are acceptable today might not be acceptable in the future, and the social and anthropological nature of such rights, e.g. perception of such ...
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Global and Local food chain Assessment: a MUltidimensional performance-based approach (GLAMUR)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

General objective of the project is to integrate advancement in scientific knowledge about the impact of food chains with application of knowledge to practice to increase food chains sustainability through public policies and private strategies. This general objective will be pursued through the following specific objectives:• To develop and validate a ‘performance criteria matrix’ for assessment ...
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Developing alternative understandings of security and justice through restorative justice approaches in intercultural settings within democratic societies (ALTERNATIVE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

"The overarching objective and expected impact of this project is to provide alternative and deepened understanding based on empirical evidence of how to handle conflicts in intercultural contexts within democratic societies in order to set up security solutions for communities, which are carried by the active participation of the citizens. ALTERNATIVE has at its core 4 intensive case studies (whi ...
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Large-Scale Demonstration of Advanced Smart GRID Solutions with wide Replication and Scalability Potential for EUROPE (GRID4EU)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Grid4EU project is an innovative SmartGrid project proposed by a group of Distribution System Operators (from Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden), in close partnership with a set of electricity retailers, manufacturers and research organizations.Adopting a systemic approach and organized around large-scale demonstrations networks located in six different countries, its struct ...
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"Modeling Assays Platform ""MAP"" for hazard ranking of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs)" (MOD-ENP-TOX)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

MOD-ENP-TOX project is a multidisciplinary project aiming to accomplish the following objectives: (i) to develop a novel and rational “Modelling Assay Platform (MAP)” which can be used as a « Risk Indicator » tool to predict the toxicity of metal-based NPs (MeNPs), and (ii) to demonstrate the feasibility of a MAP prototype – on a shortlist of MeNPs - which can be further developed to screen the to ...
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European Soft Matter Infrastructure (ESMI)

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

The central objective of this ESMI proposal is to create a top-level interdisciplinary research infrastructure available to a broad European materials research community. This is of crucial importance to the EU in view of the European strategy for nanosciences and nanotechnology and its implementation report that identifies “a lack of leading interdisciplinary infrastructures”.ESMI offers the mos ...
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Ovarian Cancer Therapy – Innovative Models Prolong Survival (OCTIPS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"About 75% of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) patients respond to first-line surgery and chemotherapy but most relapse and ultimately acquire platinum resistance which soon leads to death. Relapsed high grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is the single main cause of EOC-related morbidity and mortality (despite the fact that HGSOC is highly chemosensitive). We hypothesize that the primary ...
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HYbrid sintering and advanced Machining of technical CERamics (HYMaCER)

Start date: Dec 4, 2013, End date: Dec 3, 2015,

The development of new production processes and innovative sintering technologies, i.e. firing processes during which the conversion of a powder compact into a fully dense bulk compound is realized, as well as the improvement of the current processes and technologies, would permit to enhance the use of ceramics in industrial applications by increased product development and high added value produc ...
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Silent Air Flows in transport, buildings and power generation (FLOWAIRS)

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

The FlowAirS proposal is collaborative training research network. It will be focused on the generation, propagation and reduction of sound in flow ducts for transport, buildings and power generation. There is a real need for a European-wide training in this field: the FlowAirS general objective is to train by research a new generation of young researchers with multi-disciplinary skills and able to ...
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Best Training for Green and Silent Mobility (GRESIMO) (GRESIMO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"Engineering for future mobility must be inspired by ecology and economy to enable green and silent vehicles. Current university based education is focusing on classical fields like mechanical engineering on one side with some aspects of Noise, Vibration & Harshness (NVH) and Light Weight Design (LWD) or like electrical engineering covering aspects of “Electrification” & “Hybridisation” on the oth ...
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Integrated approach for increasing breeding efficiency in fruit tree crops (FRUIT BREEDOMICS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Fruit Breedomics has as its strategic goal to improve the efficiency of fruit breeding by bridging the gap between scientific genetics research and application in breeding. Fruit Breedomics takes a multidisciplinary approach, including genetics, genomics, ecophysiology and bioinformatics, to improve the efficiency apple and peach breeding programmes by: i) developing new and adapted tools, ii) stu ...
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Integrated Real-Time Measurement Platforms for Nanoparticles and Nanoparticle Thin Films (SNOW CONTROL)

Start date: Jun 14, 2011, End date: Jun 13, 2015,

One of the major barriers towards the successful introduction of nanoparticles (NP) into many applications is the lack of a tight control on their properties ((size, shape, crystallinity, composition, core-shell, functionalization, etc). This can only be resolved by the simultaneous use of several metrology methods, to extract the relevant information in real-time and to establish of a feedback co ...
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Functional significance of forest biodiversity in Europe (FunDivEUROPE)

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

FunDivEUROPE (FUNctional significance of forest bioDIVersity in EUROPE) proposes to quantify the effects of forest biodiversity on ecosystem function and services in major European forest types in the main bioclimatic regions of Europe. FunDivEUROPE will be based on four scientific platforms and seven cross-cutting Work Packages.The project will combine a global network of tree diversity experimen ...
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SMArt systems Co-design (SMAC)

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

Smart systems consist of heterogeneous subsystems and components providing different functionalities; they are normally implemented as "Multi-Package on a Board". To fully exploit the potential of current nanoelectronics technologies, as well as to enable the integration of existing/new IPs and "More than Moore" devices, smart system miniaturization and "Multi-Chip in a Package" implementation are ...
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AXES - Access to Audiovisual Archives (AXES)

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

The goal of AXES is to develop tools that provide various types of users with new engaging ways to interact with audiovisual libraries, helping them discover, browse, navigate, search and enrich archives. In particular, apart from a search-oriented scheme, we will explore how suggestions for audiovisual content exploration can be generated via a myriad of information trails crossing the archive. T ...
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Modelling of the reliability and degradation of next generation nanoelectronic devices (MORDRED)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

"In this project we will develop multiscale modelling technology supported by comprehensive experimental characterization techniques to study the degradation and reliability of next generation Complimentary-Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) devices. Building upon fundamental analysis of the structure and electronic properties of relevant materials and interfaces at the quantum mechanical level, we ...
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Novel diagnostic bio-assays based on magnetic particles (BIOMAX)

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

Nanotechnology-based in-vitro diagnostics is set to solve several important problems in global healthcare. R&D in this field requires collaborations between experts from different scientific disciplines with a strong focus on the integration of bio-, nano- and microtechnologies. However, such personnel is still scarce. This BioMaX training-through-research network responds to the need for skilled ...
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European Doctoral Training Support in Micro/Nano-electronics (EURO-DOTS-2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

This proposal is submitted to support and ensure continuation of the EURO-DOTS initiative, that was launched as a Support Action in response to the FP7-Call 5 and that has successfully realized all the objectives resulting in the installation of a virtual platform to serve the Doctoral Schools in Europe in micro/nano-electronics. When the present 2-year EURO-DOTS project ends on 30 April 2012, it ...
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Rent-a-Spatialist (RENT-A-SPATIALIST)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Through their bodily interaction with the built environment, disabled people are able to detect obstacles and appreciate spatial qualities architects are not attuned to. In architectural practice, however, accessibility of buildings often is considered as a matter of fact, as something people are detached from, taken care of by professionals, instead of something people are exposed or attached to. ...
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Detection of kissing bonds in friction stir welds in aero structures (StirScan)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The proposed StirScan project will develop a NDT system in order to address the challenging problem of detecting kissing bonds in Friction Stir Welds (FSW). FSW is a relatively new joining technique for aluminium alloys which offers good joint performance and excellent reproducibility – this is of significant interest to the aerospace sector, where fatigue performance is particular crucial. Howeve ...
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