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Variability in the mutation rate of RNA viruses (VIRMUT)

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

"RNA viruses are the fastest evolving entities in nature. Such rapid evolution is explained by their mutation rates, which are orders of magnitude higher than those of DNA organisms. The error-prone replication of RNA viruses also has public-health implications related to pathogenesis, antiviral research, or viral emergence. However, current mutation rate estimates vary by more than 100-fold acros ...
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Magnetic Molecules and Hybrid Materials for Molecular Spintronics (SPINMOL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

In this project we intend to design new magnetic molecules and new classes of magnetic molecular materials which, conveniently nanostructured, can be of interest in molecular spintronics, quantum computing and, in general, in nanomagnetism. The project pretends to cover either the development of molecule-based materials with interesting spintronic properties (molecule-based spintronics), as well a ...
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Microbiota of Andean Food: tradition for healthy products (µ-Andes)

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

Synergies between European countries and Andean regions will deal for the revalorization of indigenous resources represented by Andean traditional foods. The aim of this project will be the construction of a network based on complementary competences between partners; fruitful exchange between researchers will be aimed by a common scientific project that will be the opportunity to an effective int ...
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Semiconductor nanowires: from fundamental physics to device applications (NANOWIRING)

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

The interest in bottom-up fabricated semiconductor nanowires (NWs) has been growing steadily in the last years due to their potential as basic building blocks of nanoscale devices and circuits. Investigations performed so far try to exploit three unique properties of NWs: First, they are the smallest dimension structures that allow optical guiding and electrical contacting simultaneously. Second, ...
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Promoting Adolescent health through an intervention aimed at improving the quality of their participation in Physical Activity (PAPA)

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

The background of this project is related to the role of sport in two recent White Papers from the Commission on an integrated EU approach to reducing ill health and enhancing public health, the White Paper on A Strategy for Europe on Nutrition, Overweight and Obesity related health issues and the White Paper on Sport. The project centres on the development and validation of a new method in healt ...
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ORDERED INORGANIC-ORGANIC HYBRIDS USING IONIC LIQUIDS FOR EMERGING APPLICATIONS (ORION)

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

ORION puts together a multidisciplinary consortium of leading European universities, research institutes and industries with the overall goal of advancing the fabrication of inorganic-organic hybrid materials using ionic liquids. Maximum research efforts within ORION will be addressed to achieve inorganic-organic hybrids with an ordered nanostructure and to understand and characterize the new gene ...
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Physics of the tau lepton: from chiral dynamics to lepton flavour violation phenomena (tau decay)

Start date: Nov 18, 2010, End date: Nov 17, 2012,

The goal of the project is to study hadronic decay modes of the tau lepton in the Resonance Chiral Perturbation Theory, use these results to improve their description in the Monte Carlo generator TAUOLA and make thereby possible an adequate analysis of the large data samples of tau lepton decays collected at the B factories. Results of such analysis will allow one to perform sensitive tests of the ...
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Assessing BRDF effects of sun-induced fluorescence for quantifying canopy-level photosynthetic efficiency (FluorBRDF)

Start date: Jul 7, 2010, End date: Jul 6, 2012,

Over the past few decades, Earth-observation systems for land applications focused on deriving the type and/or status of green vegetation. Despite the fact that several missions are already dedicated to global vegetation monitoring, the derived information is mostly related to the amount of vegetation and not to the actual photosynthetic activity. There is, however, one additional source of inform ...
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Preparatory Phase for a Deep Sea Facility in the Mediterranean for Neutrino Astronomy and Associated Sciences (KM3NET-PP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

In the framework of the KM3NeT Preparatory Phase project the strategic, legal and financial issues are addressed related to the construction of an European deep-sea infrastructure housing a cubic kilometre size Cherenkov neutrino telescope and providing access for deep-sea research. Many technical issues are already addressed in the KM3NeT Design Study, started in 2006, that at the end of its work ...
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"Armed Conflicts, Peacekeeping, Transitional Justice: Law as Solution" (ATLAS)

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

"The cooperative project ATLAS responds to this call by examining the role and impact of the rule of law and international humanitarian law applicable during armed conflict with regard to effectively promoting and protecting human rights. From a prospective standpoint, normative weaknesses and gaps must first be pinpointed. The operational dichotomy between proclaiming a right and assuring its eff ...
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Study of Strongly Interacting Matter (HadronPhysics2)

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

The Project promotes the access to five European Research Infrastructures, and it is structured intop eight Networking Activities, plus the Management of the Consortium, and fourteen Joint Research Activities. The Project represents the continuation of the successful HadronPhysics project in FP6 and originates from the initiative of more than 2.500 European scientists working in the field of hadro ...
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Decoherence in magnetic molecules as qubits (DECMMQUBIT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

"The electronic structure of several magnetic molecules (polyoxometalates) deposited onto surfaces will be studied with tools of theoretical chemistry. Following this parametrization, the utilitity of these systems as spin qubits will be evaluated, including a detailed consideration of decoherence processes."
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Promoting real life Observations for Gaining Understanding of road behaviour in Europe (PROLOGUE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

"The number of road fatalities in Member States is decreasing too slowly to meet the EU-targets. A new generation of measures is needed, underpinned by a new generation of research methods. Recent technology developments allow for this: naturalistic observations. This means that road user behaviour is observed unobtrusively in a natural setting for a longer period of time. This technique allows fo ...
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Genomics and metagenomics of bacterial endosymbionts of pest insect (genoESYMBpestINSECTS)

Start date: May 15, 2008, End date: May 14, 2011,

"General objective of the research project is the genomic and where applicable metagenomic analysis of novel, recently emerged or in the coming years emerging data on genome sequences of diverse bacterial insect endosymbionts. These organisms include especially the endosymbiont Blattabacterium sp. of the cockroach Blattella germanica, primary and secondary endosymbionts of the silver leaf whitefly ...
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Mode of action of Bacillus thuringiensis VIP proteins in Helicoverpa armigera and Spodoptera exigua (VIPHaSe)

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

VIP (Vegetative Insecticidal Protein) proteins are a recently discovered family of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) insecticidal proteins, which are secreted by the bacteria during the vegetative growth, with no structural relationship to the best known family of Bt toxins, the Cry proteins, although it has been shown that, similarly to them, the target of VIP proteins is the insect midgut. Despite the ...
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Environmental integration for ports and cities (SIMPYC)

Start date: Aug 1, 2004, End date: Jan 31, 2008,

Background The frontier between port and city has become a focal point for a wide range of tensions of an urban, environmental and social nature. Sustainable solutions to these problems are needed, contributing to a more harmonious coexistence between port and city. One approach to this is to build a cooperative network for sharing of experience relating ...
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Making European Policy Popular through Challenge, Learning, Innovation, Cooperation: An experiment on the Landscape Convention

Start date: Jan 1, 2013,

E-CLIC aims to bring European policy making closer to European citizens by helping schools, universities and communities to engage in a dialogue about these policies and how they influence people’s lives. The European Landscape Convention is taken as an example, linked directly to local development issues while affecting the environment and quality of life of all Europeans. A CLIC competition will ...
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European-South African programme in tuning for regional needs in higher education

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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Implementing a Scientific International master for biotechnology and neuroscience in the South mediterranean area.

Start date: Oct 15, 2010,

The main objective of the project is to create a new Master program specialized in Neuroscience and Biotechnology adapted to international standards. This two-year Master will raise, by on-site and distance teaching, well-trained scientists, covering all aspects of collaborative scientific projects in bioscience, from techniques to management. Neuroscience is a field of growing importance in biome ...
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S1-L13B-MoE-A Move on Education (ARGENTINA)

Start date: Jul 15, 2010,

Seven universities from Argentina and six from Europe have committed to this project with the principal objective of hosting graduate students from the third country universities in order to train new Doctors in the area of Education Sciences as well as offer post-Doctoral studies and research to Doctors. Argentina, as well as mot of Latin American countries, has been suffering a shortage of Unive ...
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Highly EducAted Retirees Mentoring Early school leavers

Start date: Jan 1, 2010,

Rationale:• The ageing population in Europe is drastically growing. This is a socio-economic problem for European societies. • Many retirees are resourceful and wish to make a social contribution to society but do not have the knowledge or the skills to do so• One in six young adults in Europe has not completed upper secondary education and does not have the needed qualifications to obtain a good ...
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European Masters Programme for Rural Animators

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

The aim of the project is to create a new interdisciplinary European Masters programme, intending to make a direct contribution to sustainable rural development, by establishing explicitly the profession of rural animator and by offering the necessary education and competence building as well as the appropriate qualification to consolidate this profession. The end product will be a complete progr ...
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