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Evaluating a Combination of Immune-based Therapies to Achieve a Functional Cure of HIV Infection (HIVACAR)

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

The main goal of HIVACAR proposal is to change the current paradigm of HIV treatment by obtaining a functional cure for HIV (i.e., control of viral load to levels below the threshold of 50 copies/ml and maintenance of high CD4+ T-cell count after discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy) thanks to effectively targeting residual virus replication and viral reservoirs. In order to do so, the planne ...
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ERASMUS MUNDUS MASTER JOINT DEGREE NUCLEAR PHYSICS

Start date: Oct 31, 2016, End date: Oct 30, 2021,

Nuclear Physics and technology has multiple applications of strategic economical relevance at the EU and worldwide. These include energy resources, medical diagnosis and therapeutic practices, new material characterization, or environmental studies, among others. The Horizon 2020, and the Euratom R&T Programme that complements it in the field of nuclear research and training, put a strong emphasis ...
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polyValent mEsopoRous nanosystem for bone DIseases (VERDI)

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

Finding simple solutions to complex problems has been a challenge for humankind for decades. VERDI aims at designing a multifunctional nanosystem to heal complex bone diseases. This is an engineering challenge that will be tackled through the use of building blocks designed on the basis of cutting-edge technology. These building blocks will be assembled into a versatile multifunctional nanosystem ...
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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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RISE Women with disabilities In Social Engagement (RISEWISE)

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

Women with disabilities have more difficulties to find an employment and to integrate in social day life activities than men with disabilities.This project focuses on the collective of women with disabilities from different perspectives, trying to identify needs and best practices in several EU countries, representing different cultural and socio-economic environments, for the integration and impr ...
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Spectral gaps in interacting quantum systems (GAPS)

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

Interactions in a many body quantum system are encoded in a Hamiltonian, where the physical intuition that particles can only interact with those which are closeby is formally imposed as a local structure in the Hamiltonian, and homogeneity in space is imposed by a translational invariant structure on a given regular lattice in one, two or three dimensions. The first main aim of this proposal is t ...
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Raising the Lifetime of Functional Materials for Concentrated Solar Power Technology (RAISELIFE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

RAISELIFE focuses on extending the in-service lifetime of five key materials for concentrated solar power technologies: 1) protective and anti-soiling coatings of primary reflectors, 2) high-reflective surfaces for heliostats, 3) high-temperature secondary reflectors, 4) receiver coatings for solar towers and line-focus collectors, 5) corrosion resistant high-temperature metals and coatings for st ...
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Innovative Management of Genetic Resources (IMAGE)

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

This aim of IMAGE is to enhance the use of genetic collections and to upgrade animal gene bank management. IMAGE will better exploit DNA information and develop methodologies, biotechnologies, and bioinformatics for rationalising animal genetic resources. It will demonstrate the benefits brought by gene banks to the development of sustainable livestock systems by: enhancing the usefulness of genet ...
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Geospatial based Environment for Optimisation Systems Addressing Fire Emergencies (GEO-SAFE)

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

In EU and Australia, every year thousands of square miles of forests and other lands burn due to wildfires. These fires cause important economic and ecological losses, and often, human casualties. Both EU and Australian governments are aware of how crucial it is to improve wildfires’ management and containment. Scientists from different specialties, both in EU and Australia, have already developed ...
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MASTER IN PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES AND LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

REFERENCE: 564476-EPP-1-2015-1-IT-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB_EUPADRATITLE: Master in Parliamentary Procedure and Legislative Drafting, EUPADRAObjectiveThe Master in Parliamentary Procedure and Legislative Drafting (EUPADRA) represents the first learning mobility project that allows the study of parliamentary procedures and legislative drafting in three different European capitals, seats of national parliament ...
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Anisometric permanent hybrid magnets based on inexpensive and non-critical materials (AMPHIBIAN)

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

Permanent magnets are crucial in modern technology as they allow storing, delivering and converting energy. They are able to transform electrical energy into mechanical and vice versa, which means that improving their performance entails transforming energy in a more efficient and sustainable way.The best magnets are based on rare-earths (RE), however, their status as a Critical Raw Material (CRM) ...
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MesopOrous matrices for localiZed pH-triggered releAse of theRapeuTic ions and drugs (MOZART)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

The concept behind MOZART is to develop a library of inorganic nanomatrices to be used as smart platforms for effective, non-invasive and highly targeted therapies. MOZART will address, as proof of concept, nanomatrices to treat delayed bone healing and non-healing chronic skin wounds, which are both characterised by an inflammation and often infection. Mesoporous therapeutic glasses (MTGs), doped ...
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Educational Quality at Universities for Inclusive International Programmes

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

Globalization is impacting our economies and societies locally, nationally, regionally and worldwide. This changing environment and context places new demands in terms of education and sets new requirements for university graduates. They need to be able to understand “the nature, scope and consequences of global transformations” (Rivzi 2009: 263) and how to relate to these in geographically, econo ...
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Advanced Use of Learning Technologies in Higher Education

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

Until now established LMS are rather a database for files like Power Point, PDF or Word than used in a sophisticated way. The consortium reviewed multiple studies which are dealing with this issue and the reasons why lecturer at the Universities use Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) only very basically. The main barriers the consortium could identify in these surveys are the following: (1) time, ...
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Internet Forensic platform for tracking the money flow of financially-motivated malware (RAMSES)

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

The Internet has become a key piece of any business activity. Criminal activity is not an exception. Some crimes previous to the Internet, such as thefts and scams, have found in the Internet the perfect tool for developing their activities. The Internet allows criminals hiding their real identity and the possibility to purchase specific tools for stealing sensitive data with a very low investment ...
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Microfluidic-assisted fabrication of artifical microniches for bone marrow stem cells (MicroNICHE)

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

There is a growing interest in adult stem cells, especially from bone marrow, for regenerative medicine. Hematopoietic stem cells, a type of bone marrow stem cells, alone cannot be expanded in vitro; in vivo, they reside in a microenvironment known as a niche that maintains them in a quiescent state until prompted to differentiate. The stem cell niche provides structural and trophic support and th ...
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A new generation of AptaSensors (APTASENS)

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

The aim of this project is to design different next generation libraries of biosensors that will yield ready-to-go analytical tools against any target in unprecedented speed and high affinity. The project intends to focus on aptamers, a new generation of recognition elements that will be integrated into bioelectronics devices. The huge number of candidates to be tested using a combinatorial trial ...
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Molten Salt Loop 2.0: key element for the new solar thermal energy plants. (MSLOOP 2.0)

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

Despite the encouraging scenario of Wide Solar Thermal Electricity market - it is a reality today with 4.9 GW in operation worldwide in 2015, forecasting 260 GW in 2030, 664GW in 2040 and finally to reach a 12% of total electricity generation by 2050 (982 GW) - CSP growth has been slower than expected because several issues have not been overcome yet. It is not as cost-efficient as other technolog ...
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Astronomy ESFRI and Research Infrastructure Cluster (ASTERICS)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

ASTERICS (Astronomy ESFRI & Research Infrastructure Cluster) aims to address the cross-cutting synergies and common challenges shared by the various Astronomy ESFRI facilities (SKA, CTA, KM3Net & E-ELT). It brings together for the first time, the astronomy, astrophysics and particle astrophysics communities, in addition to other related research infrastructures. The major objectives of ASTERICS ar ...
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European Dry Eye Network (EDEN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

EDEN is a platform for the training and career development of 10 early-stage researchers (ESRs) in Vision Sciences. It coordinates research and training collaboration among 4 leading academic institutions in Europe, providing for a new combination of in-depth expertise from different countries. Furthermore, to strengthen the contact with the industrial world, the network has the following partners ...
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Realising an Applied Gaming Eco-system (RAGE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The EU based industry for non-leisure games (applied games) is an emerging business. As such, it´s still fragmented and needs critical mass to compete globally. Nevertheless its growth potential is widely recognised and even suggested to exceed the growth potential of the leisure games market.RAGE will help to seize these opportunities by making available 1) an interoperable set of advanced techno ...
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Breaking Educational Barriers with Contextualised, Pervasive and Gameful Learning (BEACONING) (BEACONING)

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

BEACONING sets a forefront in multifaceted education technologies through large-scale piloting of a digital learning platform that blend physical and digital spaces. As innovation action strategies, pilots combine opportunities for new ICTs in multiple ways that merge learning acquired in formal, non-formal and informal means, developing the skills for today’s abled and disabled learners and workf ...
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A Collective Awareness Platform for Promoting Dark Skies in Europe (STARS4ALL)

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

WHY: 2015 has been named by the United Nations as the International Year of Light (light2015.org). Light has had many obvious benefits for human mankind, but it also poses some relevant threats: the everyday-increasing excess of light thrown by humans to the sky seriously threatens to remove forever one of humanity’s natural wonders, the view of our universe. More importantly, it has also an adver ...
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Community as Opportunity - Creative archives' and users' network

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

All activities and undertakings within this project are tailored to specifically meet the Programmes’ targets of audience development and professionalization of players in the cultural sector. The core purpose of given project is to facilitate the mutual relationship between archives and archivists and the general public across the population stratum. This connecting and equating of archival insti ...
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Ecology from Farm to Fork Of microbial drug Resistance and Transmission (EFFORT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

EFFORT studies the complex epidemiology and ecology of antimicrobial resistance and the interactions between bacterial communities, commensals and pathogens in animals, the food chain and the environment.This will be conducted by a combination of epidemiological and ecological studies using newly developed molecular and bio-informatics technologies. EFFORT will include an exposure assessment of hu ...
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Stratospheric and upper tropospheric processes for better climate predictions (StratoClim)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

StratoClim will produce more reliable projections of climate change and stratospheric ozone by a better understanding and improved representation of key processes in the Upper Troposphere and Stratosphere (UTS). This will be achieved by an integrated approach bridging observations from dedicated field activities, process modelling on all scales, and global modelling with a suite of chemistry clima ...
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Artificial Mitochondria for Health (mitochon)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Mitochondria are cell organelles that provide the energetic requirements of the body. The majority of cellular ATP is produced by the membrane protein ATP synthase through a proton gradient across the mitochondrial inner membrane. Alterations in ATP synthase biogenesis can result in severe mitochondrial diseases affecting tissues with high energy requirements as brain and muscles. Mitochondrial di ...
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Transforming higher education to strengthen links between universities and the livestock sector in Argentina and Peru

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

In Argentina and Peru the livestock sector is important for the national economies as job provider in rural areas and major contributor to the GDP. Currently the sector is facing many challenges and limitations, but also big opportunities as the demand for products of animal origin is growing. These dynamics make the need for better trained livestock professionals, able to respond to needs and dem ...
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Holistic Ecological Restoration of a mining area in Tarragona (Spain) with seven clay Quarries (LIFE-ECORESTCLAY)

Start date: Sep 15, 2013, End date: Sep 15, 2018,

Background According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (an international study on the state of the Earth’s ecosystems, published in 2005), European ecosystems have been fragmented by human activities at a greater rate than those of any other continent. Ecosystems can play a vital role in mitigating climate change, but the capacity of ecosystems and ...
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EU Tax Governance and Fiscal Transparency

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

.... the EU Commission is agreed with a Tax Transparency Package, including automatic exchange of information on tax rulings and fair and efficient corporate taxation. Equally, it is recommended for the Universidad Complutense to conduct, monitor and supervise research on EU subjects which are not duly covered in the official curriculum of a Law or Economics degree; and, to provide in-depth teaching ...
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Developing a learning line on GIScience in education

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

There is a strong need to implement spatial thinking using GIScience tools in education, for the following reasons: 1) Spatial thinking is integral to everyday life and many of the daily decisions we make. It is the concept of space that makes spatial thinking a distinct form of thinking. It is a basic and essential skill that can and should be learned, alongside other skills like language, mathem ...
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Tools for Teaching Quantitative Thinking

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

Quantitative thinking is at the heart of modern societies. Skills and programming competences related to quantitative thinking increase a student's employability and allow an enlightened citizen to make informed decisions. Every day we are bombarded and challenged by quantitative information: How long will a journey be delayed due to traffic? What are the chances of a change in weather conditio ...
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CReativity E-MOdules in Education

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

The project aims at making creativity training accessible for all educational institutions across Europe through a new E-Module that can be integrated into existing curriculum in courses. In the European modern society and throughout the world individuals are expected to be creative. Creativity has become the engine that drives forward innovative and entrepreneurial activity in educational, privat ...
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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: Jul 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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SELFNET - FRAMEWORK FOR SELF-ORGANIZED NETWORK MANAGEMENT IN VIRTUALIZED AND SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS (SELFNET)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

The proposed SELFNET project will design and implement an autonomic network management framework to achieve self-organizing capabilities in managing network infrastructures by automatically detecting and mitigating a range of common network problems that are currently still being manually addressed by network operators, thereby significantly reducing operational costs and improving user experience ...
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Chiral Allotropes of Carbon (CHIRALLCARBON)

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

The aim of the present project is to answer fundamental questions about how to introduce chirality into a variety of carbon nanostructures and how it modifies the properties in the search for new applications in materials science and nanotecnology. Thus, it describes a fundamental and technological research program designed to gain new knowledge for the development of novel covalent and supramolec ...
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Understanding Planet Mars With Advanced Remote-sensing Datasets and Synergistic Studies (UPWARDS)

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

The goals of the UPWARDS project match the topics, challenges and scope of the Compet-8-2014 call. UPWARDS has as its overarching objective the revision and exploitation of data from the European Mars Express (MEx) mission as well as other Martian missions using a synergistic combination of state-of-the-art atmospheric/subsurface models and novel retrieval tools. UPWARDS will 1) address major open ...
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TEMPORARY VERSUS PERMANENT MIGRATION (TEMPER)

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

"The overall objective of the TEMPER project consists of providing a comprehensive assessment of the pros and cons of recent initiatives to promote circular migration as an alternative to more traditional forms of temporary and permanent migration, not only among prospective migrants but also among current residents in the EU. These initiatives usually rely on a poor understanding of the ultimate ...
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How is the external climatic forcing affected by the Earth’s magnetic field? (CLIMAGNET)

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

The rate of production of cosmogenic isotopes plays an important role in our understanding of past climate variability since they provide information about the solar irradiance related to the Sun’s magnetic field. Having reliable information about past changes in solar irradiance is important for the development of climate model simulations driven by reconstructions of past natural and anthropogen ...
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Fostering a Transition towards Responsible Research and Innovation Systems (FoTRRIS)

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

Fostering a Transition towards Responsible Research and Innovation SystemsThe main objective of FoTRRIS is to develop and introduce new governance practices to foster Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) policies and methods in research and innovation systems. Since research and innovation systems and practices in different European MS and within different research performing organisations va ...
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