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Peroxisomes: key to cell performance and health (PERFUME)

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

The PERFUME (PERoxisome Formation, Function, MEtabolism) program is an interdisciplinary and intersectoral ITN providing state-of-the-art research training at the interface of medicine, plant and fungal biology. The PERFUME S&T specifically aims at unraveling the principles of peroxisome biology.Peroxisomes have been discovered relatively recently (in 1954). Consequently, the level of understandin ...
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Addictions and Lifestyles In Contemporary Europe – Reframing Addictions Project (ALICE RAP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

ALICE RAP is a Europe wide project of 43 partner research institutions involving 107 researchers from 25 European countries providing 1000 months of a plurality of scientific endeavour to analyse the place and challenges of addictions and lifestyles to the cohesion, organization and functioning of contemporary European society. Through integrated multidisciplinary research, a wide range of factors ...
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Accountability For Cloud and Other Future Internet Services (A4CLOUD)

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

Cloud and IT service providers should act as responsible stewards for the data of their customers and users. However the current absence of accountability frameworks for distributed IT services makes it difficult for users to understand, influence and determine how their service providers honour their obligations.A4Cloud will create solutions to support users in deciding and tracking how their dat ...
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European North Sea Energy Alliance (ENSEA)

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

The European North Sea Energy Alliance (ENSEA) aims to increase the competitiveness of research-driven energy clusters through better coordination and exploitation of research. A key driver for cluster policy definition in ENSEA will be the adoption of an energy system approach by all four partner regions, focusing on how to handle the rising share of renewable energy production in the existing en ...
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Self learning Energy Efficient builDings and open Spaces (SEEDS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

This project develops a novel Self Learning Energy Efficient builDings and open Spaces (SEEDS) Facility Management system. The system will allow buildings to maintain user comfort whilst minimising energy consumption and CO2 emissions.SEEDS will develop an open architecture suitable both for retrofitting existing buildings and open spaces and for new building design.SEEDS will be based on research ...
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"Aquaculture for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Nutrition" (AFSPAN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"Aquaculture is widely considered as important for enhancing food security, alleviating poverty and improving nutrition. However, little information is available concerning the direct and indirect impacts of aquaculture on food security and poverty alleviation in most developing countries and LIFDCs. Strengthening the knowledge base surrounding aquaculture and food and nutrition security through t ...
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Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society (PERARES)

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

PERARES strengthens public engagement in research (PER) by developing multi-annual action plans, involving researchers and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the formulation of research agendas and the research process. It uses debates on science to actively articulate research requests of civil society. These are forwarded to research institutes, and results are used in a next phase of the deb ...
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Secured Urban Transportation - European Demonstration (SECUR-ED)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"SECUR-ED Project federates, with a delegated management and in a balanced manner, major operators and top industrial integrators to enhance the security of urban public transportation in medium and large cities, through live demonstrations.Based on the best practices, in a very diverse societal and legacy environment, SECUR-ED will aggregate a consistent and interoperable mix of technologies and ...
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Elucidating mechanisms of dopaminergic neuronal degeneration using C. elegans and high-throughput genetic approaches (NEURODOPA DEGEN)

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

"BACKGROUND:Parkinson’s Disease, characterized by the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons, afflicts millions of people. Yet, no effective therapeutic strategies are available.This work uses Caenorhabditis elegans to study dopaminergic degeneration. C. elegans is a small nematode, highly amenable to genetics and high-throughput approaches, with a simple nervous system that is highly co ...
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Low Emission Gas Turbine Technology for Hydrogen-rich Syngas (H2-IGCC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The overall objective of this project is to provide and demonstrate technical solutions which will allow the use of state-of-the-art highly efficient, reliable gas turbines in the next generation of IGCC plants, suitable for combusting undiluted hydrogen-rich syngas derived from a pre-combustion CO2 capture process, with high fuel flexibility. The recognised challenge is to operate a stable and co ...
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Sustainable value creation in manufacturing networks (SustainValue)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

The increasing demands for sustainability have created new challenges and emerging opportunities for society and for business. To be successful manufacturers must be pro-active and creative in thinking about the opportunities that the sustainable economy will present to develop new products and markets and optimize their value networks according to the new sustainability criteria.The overall goal ...
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Mastering the Value Function of Security Measures (VALUESEC)

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

"The Task of VALUESEC is defining, context modeling, weighting and quantifying attributes of costs and benefits, advantages and disadvantages of security measures, and demonstration of an application tool evaluating the different effects and the aggregated value of security measures.It will generate a knowledge base of the status and trends in theory and in practical applications of methods of eco ...
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Strategic collaboration with China on super-computing based on Tianhe-1A (SCC-Computing)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

In 2010, the TOP500 project, which ranks and details the 500 (most powerful known computer systems in the world since the year of 1993, announced that the world's most powerful computer system is Tianhe 1A in China (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500). This project aims at establishing a strategic collaboration with the host and developer of this computer system in China to explore a range of res ...
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Quality and safety in European Union hospitals: A research-based guide for implmeenting best practice and a framework for assessing performance (QUASER)

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

"This translational study aims to design and disseminate an evidence based guide for hospitals to implement quality and safety improvement programmes, and an evidence based framework for payers to assess and monitor the quality and safety of hospitals across the EU. These outputs will be based on empirical findings from research in five partner countries. However, in addition, the development of t ...
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