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Constrained Low-Rank Matrix Approximations: Theoretical and Algorithmic Developments for Practitioners (COLORAMAP)

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

Low-rank matrix approximation (LRA) techniques such as principal component analysis (PCA) are powerful tools for the representation and analysis of high dimensional data, and are used in a wide variety of areas such as machine learning, signal and image processing, data mining, and optimization. Without any constraints and using the least squares error, LRA can be solved via the singular value dec ...
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Spins for Efficient Photovoltaic Devices based on Organic Molecules (SEPOMO)

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

Organic solar cells (OSCs) have the potential to become an environmental friendly, inexpensive, large area and flexible photovoltaics technology. Their main advantages are low process temperatures, the potential for very low cost due to abundant materials and scalable processing, and the possibility of producing flexible devices on plastic substrates. To improve their commercialization capacity, t ...
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New process for efficient CO2 capture by innovative adsorbents based on modified graphene aerogels and MOF materials (GRAMOFON)

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

Global warming resulting from the emission of greenhouse gases has received widespread attention with international action from governments and industries, including a number of collaborative programs, such as SET-Plan, and very recently the International Climate Change hold 2015 in Paris. Key European Commission roadmaps towards 2030 and 2050 have identified Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as a ...
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Research Excellence for Solutions and Implementation of net Zero Energy city Districts (RE-SIZED)

Start date: Jul 14, 2014, End date: Jul 13, 2019,

"The University of Mons (UMONS) located in the Walloon Region of Belgium, by the intermediate of its Research Institute for Energy, proposes to build an ERA-Chair Team headed by an ERA-Chair Holder (Established or Leader Researcher) for building a strong, sustainable and highly-performing Research, Development and Innovation (R&D&I) platform in the field of Energy Efficiency in city Districts acco ...
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EXTended Model of Organic Semiconductors (EXTMOS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

EXTMOS’ main objective is to create a materials model and the related user friendly code that will focus on charge transport in doped organic semiconductors. Its aims are (i) to reduce the time to market of(a) multilayer organic light emitting devices, OLEDs, with predictable efficiencies and long lifetimes (b) organic thin film transistors and circuits with fast operation.(ii) to reduce productio ...
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Development and Demonstration of monitoring strategies and technologies for geological disposal (Modern2020)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

The Modern2020 project aims at providing the means for developing and implementing an effective and efficient repository operational monitoring programme, taking into account the requirements of specific national programmes. The work allows advanced national radioactive waste disposal programmes to design monitoring systems suitable for deployment when repositories start operating in the next deca ...
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Multimodal imaging of the in vivo fate of bone transplants (VIVOIMAG)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

The main objective of VIVOIMAG is to develop bone implants including a new contrast agent sensitive to enzymatic activity of metaloproteases, which will permit for the first time to follow the integration and cell differentiation activity in bone tissue bioreactors in vitro and in grafts in vivo using existing non invasive magnetic resonance imaging techniques. The proposal aims at integrating a m ...
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Integrated self-assembled SWITCHable systems and materials: towards responsive organic electronics – a multi-site innovative training action (iSwitch)

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

iSwitch will offer top-level multi-disciplinary and supra-sectorial training to a pool of talented young researchers, involving contributions from different scientific and technological fields such as, supramolecular chemistry, materials, nanoscience, physics and engineering. iSwitch’s appointees will be trained through lecture courses, dedicated international schools and workshops, topical confer ...
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European Joint Doctorate in Organocatalysis and Sustainable Polymers (SUSPOL)

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

SUSPOL-EJD is an European Joint Doctorate in “Organocatalysis and Sustainable Polymers”. SUSPOL-EJD is set up by a consortium formed by four Academic beneficiaries: University of Bordeaux (FR), University of the Basque Country (SP), University of Mons (B) and University of Warwick (UK). Furthermore, six industrial organizations: BASF (D), Purac Corbion (NL), Critical Pharma (UK), Synthomer (UK), I ...
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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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New Energy Efficient Demonstration for Buildings (NEED4B)

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

NEED4B aims to develop an open and easily replicable methodology for designing, constructing, and operating new low energy buildings, aiming to a large market uptake. The NEED4B methodology will be validated and refined by a strong demonstration programme, envisaging the construction of 27.000 square meters, spread among five different climatic zones, buildings types and uses.The weighted average ...
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Euro-BioImaging Preparatory Phase II - Project (EuBI PPII)

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

Euro-BioImaging (EuBI) is the pan-European research infrastructure project for imaging technologies in biological and medical sciences and has been on the ESFRI Roadmap since 2008. In close match with the scope and objectives of the INFRADEV2 call, Preparatory Phase II (PPII) funding will enable EuBI:• to finalize the submission and approval procedure of its ERIC statutes with the EC and bring the ...
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DEsign of Multifunctional 2D-OrgaNic Hybrids (DEMONH)

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

Because of their reduced dimensionality and symmetry, two-dimensional (2D) materials withstand physical phenomena that are very different from their 3D bulk counterparts. Beside graphene, other members of the same family of materials include metal dichalcogenides (MX2) and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). Remarkably, while single-layer graphene is a semimetal, 2D h-BN is an insulator and 2D MoS2 is ...
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Energy efficient MOF-based Mixed Matrix Membranes for CO2 Capture (M4CO2)

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

"The key objective of the M4CO2 project is to develop and prototype Mixed Matrix Membranes based on highly engineered Metal organic frameworks and polymers (M4) that outperform current technology for CO2 Capture (CO2) in pre- and post-combustion, meeting the energy and cost reduction targets of the European SET plan.By applying the innovative concept of M4 by a consortium of world key players, con ...
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Low-toxic cost-efficient environment-friendly antifouling materials (BYEFOULING)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

The BYEFOULING project will address high volume production of low toxic and environmentally friendly antifouling coatings for mobile and stationary maritime applications. The technology will fulfil the coating requirements as a result of the incorporation of novel antifouling agents and a new set of binders into coating formulations for maritime transportation and fishing vessels, floating devices ...
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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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Tuning the properties of NanoCarbon with Fluorination (NANOCF)

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

Low-dimensional carbon structures such as graphene and carbon nanotubes have raised tremendous interest in recent years both from fundamental and technological perspectives. However, the tunability of the density of electronic states of graphene and carbon nanotubes remains a limiting factor for their implementation in modern nanotechnology. It has been recently shown that the energy bandgap of gr ...
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Intangible Treasures - Capturing the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Learning the Rare Know-How of Living Human Treasures (i-Treasures)

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

Cultural expression is not limited to architecture, monuments or collections of artifacts. It also includes fragile intangible live expressions, which involve knowledge and skills. Such expressions include music, dance, singing, theatre, human skills and craftsmanship.These manifestations of human intelligence and creativeness constitute our Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). ICH is at the same t ...
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Bridging length and timescales of Electronic processes in organic SemiconducTor devices (BEST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"The development of the next generation of efficient opto-electronic devices based on organic semiconductors relies on the capability of theoretical modelling to shed light onto microscopic mechanisms underneath and provide a rational approach to materials and devices design. To answer this need, we propose the realization of a general multiscale modelling platform, capable to cover and bridge key ...
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Solar Thermochemical Compact Storage System (SOTHERCO)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

SoTherCo’s major objective is to install, monitor and assess an innovative modular, compact and seasonal thermo-chemical solar heat-storage system, namely the SoTherCo HSS (Heat-Storage System). The modular design, based on the proper arrangement of ~1000L heat-storage modules, is intended to offer the needed flexibility and adaptation to answer the space-heating demand of low-energy buildings, fr ...
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Design of polymer optical fibre gratings for endoscopic biosensing purposes (PROSPER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"PROSPER is a multidisciplinary project covering the emerging fields of photonics, bio-chemistry and endoscopy, targeting to contribute to the development of a new class of biochemical optical sensors that would significantly improve the healthcare of the future.PROSPER will address this objective through the demonstration of biosensors based on a functionalized polymer optical fibre (POF) in whic ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

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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Continuous, highly precise, metal-free polymerisation of PLA using alternative energies for reactive extrusion (InnoREX)

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

The demand for biobased polymers is growing fast. According to the current state of the art, metal-containing catalysts are needed to improve the polymerisation rate of lactones, posing a hazard to health and the environment. InnoREX will develop a novel reactor concept using alternative energies for the continuous, highly precise, metal-free polymerisation of PLA.In InnoREX, metal-containing cata ...
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Collective Adaptive System SynThesIs with Non-zero-sum Games (CASSTING)

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

CASSTING will develop a novel approach for analysing and designing collective adaptive systems in their totality, by setting up a game theoretic framework. Here components are viewed as players, their behaviour is captured by strategies, system runs are plays, and specifications are winning conditions.The design of collective adaptive systems, as they occur, for example, in home automation, health ...
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BIOCERAMICS FOR BONE REPAIR (BIOBONE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"There is a general consensus that ceramic based materials should play a very important role in the development of new therapies to treat and substitute damaged or diseased bone. Due to their resistance to wear and corrosion, bioinert technical ceramics are the ideal candidates to replace metallic alloys in a new generation of small, durable and safe orthopaedic implants. On the other hand, osteoc ...
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bottom-UP blueprinting GRAphene baseD Electronics (UPGRADE)

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

UPGRADE targets a fundamental breakthrough by achieving the first proof-of-concept of chemically controlled engineering of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), through a novel and fast bottom-up patterning technique, which will enable the atomically-controlled fabrication of patterned GNRs over large areas. GNRs combine the advantages of graphene with the semiconducting properties required for the design ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The Mobility Project of the University of Mons (UMONS) in 2014-2015 has been realized in a very satisfactory way, in a national context of revision of the architecture of higher education in the Federation Wallonia-Brussels (new applicable rules in the framework of the "Paysage Decree"). It was also the first year of implementation of the new 2014-2021 Erasmus+ Charter. Besides, UMONS also gathere ...
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Efficient Carbon-reduction and Optimisation of Logistic Operations Generated via Innovative Services. Training and ICT using Cooperative Standards (ECOLOGISTICS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2015,

Ecologistics aims at raising awareness and opportunities for companies to optimize their freight operations by using standardized collaborative ICT tools. The tools developed by Ecologistics will enable an improved data exchange between the actors from different levels of Supply Chain. Currently. large companies and SMEs are not operating at the same information level: SMEs have little time an ...
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RENEWABLE ECO-FRIENDLY POLY(LACTIC ACID) NANOCOMPOSITES FROM WASTE SOURCES (ECLIPSE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is a compostable polymer derived from renewable food-derived sources (mainly starch and sugar beet) and possesses the highest potential for a commercial major scale production of renewable packaging materials. Since PLA is compostable and derived from sustainable sources, it can be envisaged as a promising material for the reduction of the enormous societal problems associa ...
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Television Linked To The Web (LinkedTV)

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

Description Web and TV seamlessly interlinked = LinkedTVOur vision of future Television Linked To The Web (LinkedTV) is of a ubiquitously online cloud of video content decoupled from place, device or source.Television existing in the same ecosystem as the Web means that TV and Web content should and can be seamlessly connected, and browsi ...
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Random fibre lasers for telecommunications and distributed sensing (RANDFIELDS)

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

"The proposed 4-year program of knowledge transfer and networking between 3 EU and 3 Russian partners with the world leading expertise targets an emerging area of ultra-long fibre lasers and random fibre lasers and their telecommunication and sensing applications. The goal of the proposed research is to establish an efficient and stable knowledge transfer mechanisms to improve project partners pos ...
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Status and Trends of European Pollinators (STEP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

Pollinators form a key component of European biodiversity, and provide vital ecosystem services to crops and wild plants. There is growing evidence of declines in both wild and domesticated pollinators, and parallel declines in plants relying upon them. STEP will document the nature and extent of these declines, examine functional traits associated with particular risk, develop a Red List of some ...
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GraphenE-orgaNIc hybrid architectures for organic electronics: a mUltiSite training action (GENIUS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

"GENIUS aims at offering highest-quality supra-sectoral and cross-disciplinary training to a pool of promising young researchers, in an area at the interface between Supramolecular Chemistry, Materials- and Nano-Science, Physics and Electrical Engineering. GENIUS appointees will be trained in lecture courses, dedicated schools and workshops, and through an ambitious and carefully planned research ...
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Incorporating Laughter into Human-Avatar Interactions: Research and Evaluation (ILHAIRE)

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

Laughter is a significant feature of human communication, and machines acting in roles like companions or tutors should not be blind to it. So far very limited progress has been made towards allowing computer-based applications to deal with laughter.ILHAIRE will lay the foundations of truly multimodal, multicultural laughter-enabled man-machine interaction, by associating experts of the different ...
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Une coopération innovante entre les universités de lEurométropole (The Metropolitan University)

Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Aug 30, 2014,

To promote university exchanges, the project partners included a joint degree in the undergraduate programmes and launched a series of short-term initiatives for undergraduate students (student and academic exchanges, training courses and/or shared courses). The cooperation is complete thanks to common research projects performed by researches of the three universities.
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Glycomics by High-throughput Integrated Technologies (GlycoHIT)

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

Protein glycosylation is a post-translational phenomenon that is involved in most physiological and disease processes including cancer. Most of the known cancer-associated glycobiomarkers were discovered individually using liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy. Though valuable, there is room for improvement in these approaches for the discovery phase. There is also a critical need for innova ...
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Centre des Ecritures Contemporaines et Novatrices, Technologies digitales, Biotechnologies, Technologies développement durable (CATARR)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

Material surfaces offer quite some opportunities for technological innovations because they are at the heart of many physical-chemical processes (catalytic surfaces), make materials smart (function, modification) and protect them. Interfaces also play an important role and affect the macroscopic behaviour of the material.The overall goal of the project is to control the synthesis of thin oxide fil ...
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REDUGAZ

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

To deal with the alarming rise in CO2 emissions (greenhouse gases) and the publics concern about the toxicity of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) emitted every day by some industries, the project wants to develop adsorption and catalytic treatment processes for companies in the cross-border area. In addition, the partners want to study to what extent VOCs are toxic.The objective is to destroy VOC ...
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Multiscale Materials Modelling on High Performance Computer Architectures (MMM@HPC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

With the accelerating materials development cycles, the development of simulation approaches for predictive, de-novo characterization and optimization of materials and device properties emerges as a grand challenge to European R&D. A unified multi-disciplinary approach towards the deployment of models, tools, algorithms and simulation and visualization techniques is required to transform isolated ...
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Research helps us to live longer and better (LONGBET)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"The Researchers Night 2013 in Belgium will be held at different locations across the country (Brussels, Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, Liège, Mons and Namur).All the events organized during this Researchers Night will have a common theme:"" how science and scientific research contribute to extend people's life and improve the quality of it"". All the activities have as common objective to enhance the ...
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