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A Centre of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine (CompBioMed)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

This Centre of Excellence will advance the role of computationally based modelling and simulation within biomedicine. Three related user communities lie at the heart of the CoE: academic, industrial and clinical researchers who all wish to build, develop and extend such capabilities in line with the increasing power of high performance computers. Three distinct exemplar research areas will be purs ...
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ELIXIR-EXCELERATE: Fast-track ELIXIR implementation and drive early user exploitation across the life-sciences. (ELIXIR-EXCELERATE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The life sciences are undergoing a transformation. Modern experimental tools study the molecules, reactions, and organisation of life in unprecedented detail. The precipitous drop in costs for high-throughput biology has enabled European research laboratories to produce an ever-increasing amount of data. Life scientists are rapidly generating the most complex and heterogeneous datasets that scienc ...
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History of Nuclear Energy and Society (HoNESt)

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

HoNESt (History of Nuclear Energy and Society) involves an interdisciplinary team with many experienced researchers and 24 high profile research institutions.HoNESt’s goal is to conduct a three-year interdisciplinary analysis of the experience of nuclear developments and its relationship to contemporary society with the aim of improving the understanding of the dynamics over the last 60 years. HoN ...
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HEIRRI (Higher Education Institutions and Responsible Research and Innovation) (HEIRRI)

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

...n will guarantee their spreading awareness and future use by HEI from Europe and beyond. A global scope and expertise on RRI will be provided by HEIRRI consortium that consists of 5 European HEI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Universitetet I Bergen (UiB), Aarhus Universitet (AU), Institut Fuer Hoehere Studien und Wissenschaftliche Forschung (IHS), Sveuciliste u Splitu (University of Split, UNIST ...
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Creating medically-driven integrative bioinformatics applications focused on oncology, CNS disorders and their comorbidities (MedBioinformatics) (MedBioinformatics)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Progress in biomedical research and healthcare requires profiting from the huge amount of data and knowledge that are generated. However, most of the potential users have no means to efficiently exploit this wealth of information. Up to now, many of the efforts done for developing bioinformatics methods and applications have not produced the expected societal impact for different reasons, includin ...
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Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 (HBP SGA1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an understanding can provide profound insights into our humanity, leading to fundamentally new computing technologies, and transforming the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders. Modern ICT brings this prospect within reach. The HBP Flagship Initiative (HBP) thus proposes a unique strategy that uses I ...
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All Rights Reserved? Barriers towards EUropean CITIZENship (BEUCITIZEN)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The European Court of Justice expects European citizenship to become the fundamental status of nationals of the Member States. It ‘lies at the heart of the European integration process’. The treaties, legislation, and case law have given Europeans an increasing number of rights. Yet the European Commission complains that these remain underused. Therefore, it has included in FP7 a call for a large- ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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Commons for Europe (Commons4EU)

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

Cities face a scenario characterized by shrinking budgets, increasing demands of services from their citizens and the need to reinvent themselves in their quest to become Smart Cities.Simultaneously, the Internet brought new opportunities to orchestrate collaboration, fostering the creation of a large base of commons in code, user generated contents and even telecom infrastructures with the emerge ...
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Automated analysis of opinions in a multilingual context (CrossLingMind)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

In the recent years, massive amounts of personal opinions have been posted on the Internet. This allows the companies and institutions to get feedback about their services, provided that they are able to analyse this mass of information.Given that most people prefer to write and read information in their own language, it is clearly relevant to be able to analyse in one language opinions expressed ...
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Pharmaceutical Medicine Training Programme (PHARMATRAIN)

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

"The proposed Pharmaceutical Medicine Training Programme provides a comprehensive solution for the complex needs of integrated drug development for all professionals involved, incl. physicians, pharmaceutical scientists,biologists, biometricians, health economists, and safety and regulatory scientists from universities, regulatory agencies, large, middle-sized and small pharmaceutical enterprises, ...
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OPEN INNOVATION Mechanisms in Smart Cities (Open Cities)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The success of cities is linked to their efficiency, in reducing transaction costs and providing services. However, in order to maintain this success, cities have reinvented themselves many times through history.Today, Information Technologies are doomed to be the key driver of a new wave of innovation in cities that will lead, one more time, to their reinvention.However, public procurement and ma ...
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Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2013,

Description The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE), 2008-2013, served as a rallying point and source of best-practice information for the VPH community.  This role has now has been passed to the VPH Institute (http://www.vph-institute.org/).  The tools and educational/outreach materials developed by the VPH NoE – and ...
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Autonomy and social inclusion through mixed reality Brain-Computer Interfaces: Connecting the disabled to their physical and social world (BrainAble)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Description Motor disabilities of people arising from any origin have a dramatic effect on their quality of life. Some examples of neurologic nature include a person suffering from a severe brain injury resulting from a car collision or individuals who have suffered a brain stroke. For years, the severely disabled have learned to cope with t ...
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intelligent Metadata-driven Processing and distribution of audiovisual media (iMP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

Description 'Virtual Film Factory'iMP will create architecture, workflow and applications for intelligent metadata-driven processing and distribution of digital movies and entertainment. These will enable a ‘Virtual Film Factory’ in which creative professionals can work together to create and customise programmes from Petabyte-scale digit ...
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Biologically inspired computation for chemical sensing (NEUROCHEM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

Biological olfaction outperforms chemical instrumentation in specificity, response time, detection limit, coding capacity, time stability, robustness, size, power consumption, and portability. This biological function provides outstanding performance due, to a large extent, to the unique architecture of the olfactory pathway, which combines a high degree of redundancy, an efficient combinatorial c ...
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Autonomous Production of Images based on Distributed Sensing (APIDIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

Description APIDIS develops cost-effective solutions for autonomous and/or personalized production of video summaries for controlled scenarios (sports events or surveillance)Democratic and personalized production of multimedia content is one of the most exciting challenges that content providers will have to face in the near future.APIDIS ...
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ClipFlair Foreign Language Learning through Interactive Revoicing and Captioning of Clips

Start date: Dec 1, 2011,

Using audiovisual material in the foreign language classroom is a common resource for teachers since it introduces variety, provides exposure to non verbal cultural elements and, most importantly, presents linguistic and cultural aspects of communication in their context. However, teachers using this resource face the difficulty of finding active tasks that would engage learners and discourage pas ...
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Multiliteracy virtual

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

The two major changes in our society emphasized by the scholars-members of the New London Group (1996: 64), are the rapid change of new communications media and the steady growth of cultural and linguistc diversity. These changes force us, as educators, to rethink literacy learning and teaching in the sense of a pedagogy of multiliteracies. Against this background the work with multilingual talkin ...
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Integrating CALL in Early Education Environments

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

ICE3 aims at promoting computer assisted language learning (CALL) at school level, in a way that is based on a pedagogically sound orientation (based on the communicative teaching language principles) and that integrates advanced processing tools for the generation of immediate feedback.The consortium wishes to extend their previous work on the area to overcome clearly identified shortcomings of p ...
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European Pharmacoinformatics Initiative

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

EUROPIN brings together six institutions to develop a joint PhD program on Pharmacoinformatics in order to promote training and education of top level scientists in this field. It will provide a platform for training through research focusing on methods and applications used in computational drug design and development. Core objectives are to promote creativity, competitiveness, employability and ...
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European Pharmacoinformatics Initiative

In pharmaceutical research, advanced technologies have resulted in data generation on a previously unknown scale. Knowledge management has thus been identified as one of the top priorities in the Innovative Medicines Initiative. EUROPIN brings together six institutions from five European Countries to develop a joint PhD program on Pharmacoinformatics in order to promote training and education of t ...
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AUTOmatic tutor for lifelong language LEARNing

This project has been conceived to define, carry out and evaluate a set of exploitationand dissemination activities - in connection with previously existing techniques andmethodologies - that should help develop a new ICT-based paradigm for the field ofForeign Language Training targeted at different audiences. Through the projectactivities, the consortium will gain experience and knowledge regardi ...
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Electronic Music & use of ICT for young at risk of exclusion

The project aims to create an innovative learning approach based on informaleducation, specifically on the use of ITCs in music to encourage young to re-startlearning. The pedagogic pathway proposed combines creativity, fun and keycompetenceslearning, particularly mathematics, sciences and ICT and offers the youngat risk of exclusion or dropouts a concrete chance to reconnect to learning. E-Music ...
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