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Enabling seamless electromobility through smart vehicle-grid integration (ELECTRIFIC)

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

ELECTRIFIC will revolutionise how electric vehicles are integrated into power grid and users’ life. The fundamental premise on which the project will work that significant improvements to electromoblity can be unlocked by increasing coordination of all the actors in the electromobility ecosystem. To this end, the project will deliver novel techniques and ICT tools for enabling such coordination at ...
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Repression and the Escalation of Conflict (RATE)

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

"The objective of this project is to uncover and explain the escalation and non-escalation of repression and intra-state armed conflict by analyzing how characteristics of the government and its formal and informal security apparatus shape the dynamics of such violence, paying particular attention to the role of monitoring and accountability. RATE analyzes when and under what conditions what types ...
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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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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

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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The Impact of Cohesion Policy on EU Identification (COHESIFY)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

COHESIFY will assess the contribution of Cohesion policy to citizens’ identification with the EU and produce a new strategy to communicate EU Cohesion policy to citizens. It will assess how and to what extent EU Cohesion policy affects citizens’ perceptions of and identification with the European Union. The project will focus on three inter-related issues: (1)the identity(ies)of people in EU regio ...
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Bridging the gap between public opinion and European leadership: Engaging a dialogue on the future path of Europe. (EUENGAGE)

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

The goal of the EUENGAGE Project is twofold: first, to inquire into the current tensions between supranational EU governance and popular mobilisation at the national level, critically questioning EU-driven policies and EU legitimacy; and second, to propose remedial actions based on sound empirical research on the relationship between public opinion, national and supranational political elites. The ...
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Gender Differences: A Macroeconomic Perspective (GENDERMACRO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Throughout history and in most societies, women and men have been specializing in different parts of the economy. Empirical evidence shows that women and men differ in a number of dimensions. However, gender differences are largely ignored in macroeconomic models. The starting point for my research is the hypothesis that gender roles and the interaction between men and women have an important im ...
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Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship: Family Values and Youth Unemployment in Europe (CUPESSE)

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

The multi-disciplinary CUPESSE project carries out a comparative analysis of both the demand and supply side of youth unemployment in eleven Member States of the EU and Associated Countries (i.e. Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom). These ten countries represent the main empirical scope of the project, but whenever ...
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Closed-loop Molecular Environment for Minimally Invasive Treatment of Patients with metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours (MITIGATE)

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

Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) are a rare disease that metastasises in up to 85% of patients with subsequent median progression-free survival (PFS) of only around 30 months. Tumours are characterised by activating mutations in the KIT or the PDGFRA gene and therefore treatment is mainly based on tyrosine kinase inhibitors designed to block these mutated receptors. However, drug resistance ...
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Dynamic Approaches to Mergers and Industry Structure (INDUSTRY DYNAMICS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

I seek to increase our understanding of mergers, merger control and industry structure and propose to construct and analyse models that explicitly take into account the dynamic nature of the competitive process. In addition to making advances in modelling dynamic competition in oligopolistic markets and shedding light on policy-relevant questions in antitrust and industrial policy, I plan to make ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 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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Boom and Bust Cycles in Asset Prices: Real Implications and Monetary Policy Options (Boom & Bust Cycles)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

I seek increasing our understanding of the origin of asset price booms and bust cycles and propose constructing structural dynamic equilibrium models that allow formalizing their interaction with the dynamics of consumption, hours worked, the current account, stock market trading activity, and monetary policy. For this purpose I propose developing macroeconomic models that relax the assumption of ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

The University of Mannheim’s goal is to shape future executives in business, society and science. Knowing about the growing challenges of an international science and job market and the high value of international competetiveness the University of Mannheim aims to provide each member within his field of activity (sudies, teaching, research, administration) with an international perspective. During ...
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Environmentally sustainable data centres for Smart Cities (DC4Cities)

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

Data centres are involved play two different and complementary roles in Smart Cities' energy policies with two roles: as ICT infrastructures supporting Smart City resource optimization systems - and more in general, delivering for ICT services to the citizens - and as large energy consumers. Therefore there are huge expectations on data centres being able to run at the highest levels of renewable ...
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Redefining the transatlantic relationship and its role in shaping global governance (TRANSWORLD)

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

In an era of global flux, emerging powers and growing interconnectedness, transatlantic relations appear to have lost their bearings. As the international system fragments into different constellations of state and non-state powers across different policy domains, the US and the EU can no longer claim exclusive leadership in global governance. Not only the ability, but also the willingness of the ...
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Consortium on Health and Ageing: Network of Cohorts in Europe and the United States (CHANCES)

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

CHANCES aims at combining and integrating on-going cohort studies in order to produce evidence on ageing-related health characteristics and determinants in Europe, and their socio-economic implications. 15 cohorts participate, covering populations from 18 EU Member States, 4 associate countries, and 3 additional countries. The combination of these different studies would lead to an integrated appr ...
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Employment 2025: How will multiple transitions affect the European labour market (NEUJOBS)

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

The objective of NEUJOBS is to imagine future, or rather various possible futures, under the conditions of the socioecological transition (and incorporating other key influences), map the implications for employment overall, but also in key sectors and relevant groups and integrate all of this together under a single intellectual framework. It will do so by combining EU-wide studies based on exist ...
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Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E)

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

The projects aims to technically enable as many content providers as possible to integrate their content into Europeana. Since different providers make their data available in different formats, a tool has to be developed that converts metadata from a diverse range of source formats into the EDM (Europeana Data Model). During the project, this will exemplarily be done for the autograph database Ka ...
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Multinational Advancement of Research Infrastructures on Ageing (SHARE_M4)

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

This proposal includes all tasks that are essential to maintain the European added value of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and to keep the 16 national surveys well integrated. It complements the national financing mode of data collection as result of the ESFRI process by keeping its centrifugal forces in bounds. It will keep up our excellence in service provision as ...
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PlanetData

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Description The PlanetData project aims to establish an interdisciplinary, sustainable European community of researchers, helping organizations to expose their data on the Web PlanetData will push forward the state-of-the-art in large-scale data management and its application to the creation of us ...
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LOD2 - Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data (LOD2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Description Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data - Research and development of novel, innovative Sematic Data Web technologies. - Expansion and integration of openly accessible and interlinked data on the web. - Adoption and implementation of Linked Data for media, enterprise and government.LOD2 will integrate and syndicate linked d ...
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DYNAMICS OF INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (INCOOP)

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

This ITN brings together Universities, think-tanks and high-level officials that all share a long-term interest in a better understanding of the functioning of institutions in the European system of Multi-level governance (MLG) and who have extensive academic and practical expertise in this field. Their interdisciplinary knowledge and experience is pooled with the main objective of improving the E ...
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Active collaboration in data centre ecosystem to reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions (All4Green)

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

Instead of focusing on the energy optimization of single ICT elements, or subsets of the ICT elements making up a data centre, All4Green broadens the scope of energy savings to the full ecosystem in which data centres operate. The novel approach proposed by All4Green specifically fosters collaboration between all entities in this ecosystem with the common goal of saving energy and emissions (hence ...
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Training Network in Electoral Democracy (ELECDEM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"This Initial Training Network in electoral democracy will bring together 11 expert teams from 9 European countries, including 1 from an associated country and 2 new Member States and 2 full industry partners. The goals of the ELECDEM network are encapsulated in three linked, inter-dependent themes which evaluate the effects of globalisation, communication and institutions on the quality of electo ...
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Federated IT for a sustainable environmental impact (FIT4Green)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

FIT4green aims at contributing to ICT energy reducing efforts by creating a energy-aware layer of plug-ins for data centre automation frameworks. The plug-ins enhance existing IT solutions deployment strategies by moving computation and services around a federation of IT data centres sites, with the final goal to minimize the overall power consumption figure. Without giving up on compliance to Se ...
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Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale (SEALS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

The goal of the SEALS project is to provide an independent and extensible infrastructure that allows the remote evaluation of semantic technologies and, therefore, the objective comparison of the different existing semantic technologies. This will allow researchers and users to effectively compare the available technologies, helping them to select appropriate technologies and advancing the state o ...
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The Institutional Foundations of Legislative Speech (LEGISLATIVE SPEECH)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

"This project will examine how partisan and electoral institutions influence parliamentary debates. Despite its importance in the democratic process, parliamentary debate has received less attention than voting, the other primary form of legislative activity. While elections in the EU and in member states increasingly demonstrate voters' disenchantment with politics, it is unknown how various comm ...
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Fostering Regional Innovation and Development through Anchors and Networks: A Cross Regional Comparison in an Evolving International Context (FRIDA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

"The FRIDA (‘Fostering Regional Innovation and Development through Anchors and Networks’) project aims to improve regional policy making within the EU, by advancing state of the art understanding of the importance of anchor firms to regional development and cohesion. Anchor firms are known to be increasingly important to regional development as highly entrepreneurial, multi-national firms restruct ...
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Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union (PIREDEU)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

"This three-year design study will assess the feasibility of providing an infrastructure for research into citizenship, political participation, and electoral democracy in the European Union (EU). Such an infrastructure would endow the social science community with the most essential information required for a recurrent audit of the most important aspects of the electoral process in the European U ...
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Secure Supply Chain Management (SecureSCM)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

It is a well-known fact that collaborative supply chain management and planning reduces overall costs. Nevertheless it is not being exploited due the fact that partners are reluctant to share the necessary, but sensitive data. This is due to inherent risks associated with exposing this private data. This project proposes to use secure computation to overcome this data sharing problem in supply cha ...
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Longitudinal Enhancement and Access imProvement of the SHARE infrastructure (SHARE_LEAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

Population ageing is among the most pressing challenges of the 21st century in Europe. Addressing this challenge scientifically demands an infrastructure of micro data of the changing health, economic and social living conditions of individuals as they go through the ageing process. SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, is an infrastructure of multidisciplinary, longitudina ...
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EuroPolis: A deliberative polity-making project (EuroPolis)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

EuroPolis explores the forms of democratic deficit that directly affecting EU citizens. We test the hypothesis that citizen involvement in inclusive, informed, and thoughtful deliberation about the EU increases access to politically relevant information, citizens’ political engagement in EU public affairs, perceptions of the legitimacy of EU institutions, a sense of belonging to the EU, and voter ...
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Upgrading the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe – preparatory phase (SHARE-PREP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) has been selected by the ESFRI roadmap process as one of the 35 crucial pillars of the European Research Area. This project will prepare a major upgrade of SHARE for all 27 EU members plus associated Switzerland and Israel during the decade 2010-2020. SHARE builds an infrastructure of micro data necessary to understand individual and so ...
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