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Martí i Franquès COFUND (MFP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2017, End date: Jan 31, 2022,

The Martí Franquès Programme (MFP) was born in 2012 as a natural evolution of the doctoral fellowships programme offered for the last decade by the Departments of the University Rovira i Virgili (URV). It was designed to attract the most talented doctoral candidates to work on ground-breaking research projects, in any of the 5 knowledge disciplines (Arts and Humanities, Legal and Social Sciences, ...
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Synergising International Research Studies into the Environmental Fate and Behaviour of Toxic Organic Chemicals in the Waste Stream (INTERWASTE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The overall vision of INTERWASTE is to develop scientific understanding of issues related to environmental contamination with toxic organic chemicals (specifically flame retardants (FRs) and pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs)) arising from their presence in the waste stream. Specific research objectives include: (a) exchange of knowledge of and best practice in methods for rapid and ...
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European Research Area for Climate Services (ERA4CS)

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

Within the European Research Area (ERA), the ERA4CS Consortium is aiming to boost, research for Climate Services (CS), including climate adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management, allowing regions, cities and key economic sectors to develop opportunities and strengthen Europe’s leadership. CS are seen by this consortium as driven by user demands to provide knowledge to face impacts of cl ...
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Photonic Electrodes for Enhanced Light Management in Optoelectronic Devices (ENLIGHTMENT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

Nanostructured dielectric and metallic photonic architectures can concentrate the electric field through resonances, increase the light optical path by strong diffraction and exhibit many other interesting optical phenomena that cannot be achieved with traditional lenses and mirrors. The use of these structures within actual devices will be most beneficial for enhanced light absorption in thin sol ...
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EMJMD on Wine Tourism Innovation

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

REFERENCE: 564513-EPP-1-2015-1-ES-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB_WINTOURTITLE: Innovation in Wine Tourism, WINTOURObjectiveThe EMJMD Innovation in Wine Tourism (WINTOUR) offers a truly integrated study program that combines the expertise in Tourism and Oenology of three universities located in highly attractive touristic areas recognised with the label of human heritage by UNESCO. These areas also have a long tra ...
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Stimuli-responsive Membranes for consumer goods sustainability (SMARTMEM)

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

SMARTMEM is a multidisciplinary project leveraging the emerging technology platforms around so-called smart membranes and evolving this platform to commercial use in consumer good products. The objective of this project is the training of 5 PhD students in various scientific fields around membrane technology, involving disciplines from advanced materials synthesis, to membrane production, linking ...
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Chromatin and MetabolismChromatin-metabolism interactions as targets for healthy living (ChroMe)

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

Metabolic disorders are at pandemic levels. Based on recent estimates, ~50% of Europeans are overweight, 20% are obese and 10% have type II diabetes. Obesity and insulin resistance impact European health to the tune of €110 billion per year. These disorders have genetic, nutritional and lifestyle causes. However, the molecular mechanisms that link nutrients and lifestyle to gene activity and chrom ...
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GAmification for a BEtter Life (GABLE)

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

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a frequent neurological disorder in childhood (2 per 1,000 births). The EU has 1.3m of the 15m persons with CP globally. Participation in daily activities with other individuals and inclusion in cooperative learning paths by playing digital games can promote health & well-being with such disabilities as is identified in Europe 2020. GABLE is a highly innovative online servic ...
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International Master in Quaternary and Prehistory Master International en Quaternaire et Préhistoire

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Objective The main objective of the International Master in Quaternary and Prehistory is to train young researchers in the fields of prehistory, paleo-anthropology, palaeontology, methods and techniques for prehistoric and archaeological research, quaternary’s geology and heritage preservation.Course duration Two years (120 ECTS)Brief DescriptionThe International Master in Quaternary and Prehistor ...
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Systemic University Change Towards Internationalization

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

SUCTI (Systemic University Change Towards Internationalization) is the internationalisation at home response for administrative staff. While most internationalisation efforts have targeted students and professors, the SUCTI project aims at empowering the backbone of universities: its administrative staff. This sector of our institutions, if convinced of the importance and added value of internatio ...
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Constructing an Alliance for Value-driven Cybersecurity (CANVAS)

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

The growing complexity of the digital ecosystem in combination with increasing global risks entail the danger that enforcing cybersecurity may bypass other fundamental values like equality, fairness or privacy, whereas downplaying cybersecurity would undermine citizens’ trust and confidence in the digital infrastructure. Technology developers as well as legal and philosophical scholars and empiric ...
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Demonstration of a Decision Support System for a Novel Integrated Solution aimed at Water Reuse in the Oil & Gas Industry (INTEGROIL)

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

The Oil&Gas (O&G) industry is one of the 8 most water-intensive industries; indeed, it could be conceived as a water industry which delivers oil as a by-product. Specifically, by 2020 it is expected that over 500 million barrels/day of produced water (PW) and about 15 million m³/day of refinery wastewater (RW) are generated. Despite the necessity and potential beneficial impacts of reusing the wat ...
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EuroMix

Start date: May 15, 2015, End date: May 14, 2019,

Euromix aim to develop an experimentally verified, tiered strategy for the risk assessment of mixtures of multiple chemicals derived from multiple sources across different life stages. The project takes account of the gender dimension and balances the risk of chemicals present in foods against the benefits of those foods.Important concepts for this new strategy are prioritisation criteria for chem ...
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Development of a non-invassive breath test for early diagnosis of tropical diseases (TROPSENSE)

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

This project aims at demonstrating the feasibility of a non-invasive, safe and patient-friendly methodology for on-site rapid diagnosis of tropical diseases. The proposed approach is based on breath samples analyses, which are easy to obtain and present no discomfort or risk for patients health. In this study will be enrolled patients with three different types of neglected tropical diseases (Hyda ...
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Robust and affordable process control technologies for improving standards and optimising industrial operations (ProPAT)

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

The Process Industries require a high degree of automation, monitoring, and advanced simulation and control for their often complex manufacturing processes and operations. Emphasis is on continuous or batch production, mixing, reaction and separation of materials of higher value. Indeed, increased globalisation and competition are drivers for process analytical technologies (PAT) that enable seaml ...
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Design Oriented ModellINg for flexible electrOnics (DOMINO)

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

Our project aims to fill the gap between flexible electronic technology and design by developing highly predictive, generic, open-source, design-oriented organic and oxide based TFT compact model libraries, to be integrated in commercial Electron Design Automation (EDA) environments for full large area low cost circuit design for novel applications. These model libraries will be released together ...
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Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys (HEALS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Assessing individual exposure to environmental stressors and predicting health outcomes implies that both environmental exposures and epi/genetic variations are reliably measured simultaneously. HEALS (Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys) brings together in an innovative approach a comprehensive array of novel technologies, data analysis and modeling tools th ...
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MIME - MOBILITY AND INCLUSION IN MULTILINGUAL EUROPE (MIME)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Using an innovative interdisciplinary approach, MIME will generate an organised body of policy-relevant propositions addressing the full range of questions raised in the call. Our aim is to identify the language policies and strategies that best combine “mobility” and “inclusion”.MIME emphasises complementarity between disciplines, and brings together researchers from sociolinguistics, political s ...
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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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Smart Nano-objects for Alteration of Lipid-bilayers (SNAL)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

"SNAL is a multidisciplinary programme specially designed to provide scientific and transferable skill training and career development for early stage researchers and experienced researchers in membrane research. Working in a multidisciplinary network will give the researchers a broad perspective on their research field as well as the basic ability of pursuing a research project from basic science ...
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Protecting the health of Europeans by improving methods for the detection of pathogens in drinking water and water used in food preparation (Aquavalens)

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

The AQUAVALENS consortium has brought together SMEs, Industries, Universities and Research Institutes with the mission of protecting the health of European Citizens from contaminated drinking water and water used in food processing. We will achieve this by developing sustainable technologies to enable water system managers whether in large or small water systems or within food growers or manufactu ...
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Uncertainties in Ensembles of Regional Reanalyses (UERRA)

Start date: Nov 11, 2013, End date: Jan 1, 2018,

An ensemble system of regional reanalyses will be developed and run for the climatological time scale. Theinformation content of the datasets and their uncertainties will be assessed in several ways and statisticsanalysed.The project will provide long-term datasets of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) on the European regionalscale in order to support adaptation action and policy development. The ...
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SPIN - SPort for INclusion

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

The main objectives of the project SPIN -SPort for Inclusion- are the promotion of social inclusion of immigrant populations through grassroots sports and sport for all in the regions participating in the project - Catalonia (ES), Balearic Islands (ES), Languedoc Roussillon Midi Pyrénées (FR), Piemonte (IT), as well as to support the mobility of volunteers, coaches, managers, and staff of regional ...
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A FRAMEWORK FOR USER CENTRED PRIVACY AND SECURITY IN THE CLOUD (CLARUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Although cloud computing offers many benefits, security issues such as confidentiality and privacy are still major concerns to those intending to migrate to the cloud. Traditional cloud security has been based on assurance to customers that cloud providers follow sound security practices. As a result, current security mechanisms are commonly located within the cloud platform, hence compelling cust ...
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Software Defined Storage for Big Data (IOSTACK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The main objective is to create IOStack: a Software Defined Storage toolkit for Big Data on top of the OpenStack platform. IOStack will enable efficient execution of virtualized analytics applications over virtualized storage resources thanks to flexible, automated, and low cost data management models based on software defined storage (SDS). Major challenges are:1) Storage and compute disaggregati ...
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ChiplEss MultisEnsor Rfid for GrEen NeTworks (EMERGENT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

EMERGENT takes up the broader scope of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Scheme of promoting knowledge-sharing-based cooperation and moves its steps forward to actually support and facilitate the movement of skilled people between academia and industry committed to work on a research topic dealing with green chipless RFID tags and sensors.EMERGENT will move towards stre ...
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Overcoming Inequalities in Schools and Learning Communities: Innovative Education for a New Century (SALEACOM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Overcoming Inequalities in Schools and Learning Communities: Innovative Education for a New Century (SALEACOM here after) proposes the collaboration between 7 research groups (Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Hungary, South Africa, Spain, USA) and 1 non academic institution (Drom Kotar Mestipen) with a global scope to address educational and social exclusion in schools and learning communities. SAL ...
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Long-term effects of early nutrition on later health (EARLYNUTRITION)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Nutrition during early development has an important impact on later health, particularly through greater obesity risk, as demonstrated by FP6 EARNEST. EarlyNutrition explores the current key hypotheses on likely causes and pathways to prevention of early life origins of obesity (specifically adiposity) and associated disorders. We bring extraordinary expertise and study populations of 470,000 indi ...
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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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L’ENCYCLOPEDIE DES MIGRANTS - Une grande entreprise pédagogique collective de partage d’expériences et de savoirs sur le thème des migrations en Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

« THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MIGRANTS - A great collective and educational enterprise of experiences and knowledge sharing on the theme of migrations in Europe » (EMEU) is a European transnational cooperation project between Portugal, Spain, France and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar (United Kingdom) which aims at gathering and confronting the intertwined expertise and experiences of citizens ...
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Equality training network: EU contributions to gender mainstreaming and citizenship

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The proposal aims to create a network of European and Latin American universities in order to develop teaching on European Integration and Gender, specially addressing the principle of equality and the gender policies as a cross-cutting concept of the whole integration process. In fact, G-NET will provide expertise to the HEI professors about the gender dimension in the European Integration proces ...
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International Social Innovation Competition for Students and Adult Learners

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

According to the EU’s definition “Social enterprises seek to serve the community’s interest (social, societal, environmental objectives) rather than profit maximisation. They often have an innovative nature, through the goods or services they offer, and through the organisation or production methods they resort to. They often employ society’s most fragile members (socially excluded persons). They ...
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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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Open Project for the European Radiation Research Area (OPERRA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2017,

"Within the OPERRA project, it is proposed that the MELODI Association, as a well-advanced network, takes the lead in establishing the necessary structures able to manage the long-term European research programmes in radiation protection, also taking advantage of the valuable experience gathered through the DoReMi network of excellence. Whilst in fields adjacent to low-dose risk research (radioeco ...
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Priority environmental contaminants in seafood: safety assessment, impact and public perception (ECSAFESEAFOOD)

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

Seafood has been recognized as a high quality, healthy and safe food item. Yet, some seafood can accumulate environmental contaminants with potential impact on human health. Limited information is available for those without maximum limits set by authorities for seafood, like priority contaminants, biotoxins from harmful algal blooms and marine litter. In order to increase seafood safety to consum ...
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Micro/nanosensors for early cancer warning system - diagnostic and prognostic information (SMARTCANCERSENS)

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

"Oncologists still rely heavily on biological characterisation of tumours and a limited number of biomarkers which have demonstrated clinical utility. Routine cancer diagnostic tools may not be always sensitive enough and may only detect proteins at levels corresponding to an advanced stage of the disease. Recently, new genomic and proteomic molecular tools (molecular signatures) are being employe ...
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The Location of Economic Activity in Space: An Intra-city Approach (LOCATE)

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

"This 24-month project aims at providing a comprehensive picture of the location determinants of different activities that make part of the productive system of modern metropolises, and advancing the current knowledge on how agglomeration effects operate in large cities in developing countries. It involves the mobility of the main researcher, who has been based at the University of Groningen in Th ...
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Satiety Innovation (SATIN)

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

The SATIN project has been devised to develop food products produced by novel food processing that control satiety through modification of food structure. To achieve this the SATIN project will:1. Integrate advanced technologies to screen novel food structures through in vitro models toisolate and refine products according to their satiating potential.2. Develop novel food processing technologies ...
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Active Balancing Power Converters for Photovoltaic Energy Systems (ACTIVRENERGY)

Start date: Nov 6, 2014, End date: Nov 5, 2016,

The project is within the framework of power electronics applications for photovoltaic (PV) energy systems, which play a key role in the generation and storage of carbon-free energy.The main objective of the project is the development of new, smart PV modules, enhanced thanks to the intelligent useof power electronics devices. These power electronics devices replace bypass diodes and allow differe ...
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Foundational Research on MULTIlevel comPLEX networks and systems (MULTIPLEX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Future advancements in ICT domain are closely linked to the understanding about how multi-level complex systems function. Indeed, multi-level dependencies may amplify cascade failures or make more sudden the collapse of the entire system. Recent large-scale blackouts resulting from cascades in the power-grid coupled to the control communication system witness this point very clearly. A better unde ...
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