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Organic Semiconductors Interfaced with Biological Environments (OSIRIS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2017, End date: Feb 28, 2022,

Transducing information to and from biological environments is essential for bioresearch, neuroscience and healthcare. There has been recent focus on using organic semiconductors to interface the living world, since their structural similarity to bio-macromolecules strongly favours their biological integration. Either water-soluble conjugated polyelectrolytes are dissolved in the biological medium ...
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Longing for a good night's sleep: A memory-based mechanism to improve sleep and cognitive functioning. (MemoSleep)

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

Sleep is critical for optimal cognitive functioning and health. Sleep disturbances are highly frequent in our society and strongly influenced by cognitive factors, e.g. rumination, expectations and thoughts. However, the mechanism of how cognition influences sleep architecture is not yet understood. To explain how cognition influences sleep, I propose the “Memories-of-Sleep” (MemoSleep)-Hypothesis ...
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Principles of Graph Data Integration (GraphInt)

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

The present proposal tackles fundamental problems in data management, leveraging expressive, large-scale and heterogeneous graph structures in order to integrate both unstructured (e.g., text) and structured (e.g., relational) content. Integrating heterogeneous content has become a key hurdle in the deployment of Big Data applications, due to the meteoric rise of both machine and user-generated da ...
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Plant-inspired materials and surfaces (PlaMatSu)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Modern polymeric materials and surfaces are a corner-stone of Europe’s economy and research activities. Materials with novel properties are therefore of great interest. Nature provides us with a rich pool of multifunctional materials that can act as concept generators for synthetic materials. The uppermost layer of plant leaves and flower petals, the cuticle, is a smart polymer composite which a v ...
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Understanding Europe’s Fashion Data Universe (FashionBrain)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The primary goal of each retailer is to “understand your customers”. Our interviews with retailers show a primary demand from the retail industry for predicting a customer's next demand. Surprisingly , even a complete record of past purchases (and returns) is not sufficient to understand how items in a company's catalog do or do not connect with the customer's general tastes, lifestyle and aspirat ...
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Interfaces in opto-electronic thin film multilayer devices (INFORM)

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

Development of new materials over the past decade paved the way for organic/hybrid electronics into commercial applications. Now, perfection of material interfaces in organic/hybrid thin-film devices is key to drive the technology further and enable new, more advanced applications. INFORM offers a paradigm shift from focusing on materials to focusing on devices by probing, modelling and controllin ...
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Interactive Music Science Collaborative Activities (iMuSciCA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

iMuSciCA will – through engagement in music activities – support mastery of core academic content on STEM subjects (Physics, Geometry, Mathematics, and Technology) for secondary school students (aged 12-16) alongside with the development of their creativity and deeper learning skills. To reach this goal, iMuSciCA introduces new methodologies and innovative technologies supporting active, discovery ...
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Design and synthesis of supramolecular copolymers for responsive self-assembled photonic structures. (SUPRACOPHS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Based on the reversible bonds that hold the structural units together, supramolecular polymers gain technological relevance from the simplicity of their synthesis, while a constantly increasing amount of research is dedicated to the study of the unique solution, electronic, mechanical and rheological properties of these materials. An interesting aspect of these properties may arise when the use of ...
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Optical Metamaterials by Polymer Self-assembly (cOMPoSe)

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

Metamaterials are artificially structured materials whose interaction with electromagnetic waves is determined by their structure rather than by their chemical composition. The resulting material properties are not found in nature. Metamaterials that operate at optical frequencies, known as optical metamaterials, have attracted special attention due to their potentially ground-breaking technical a ...
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Photoreception in Drosophila larvae: Information coding in a simple neuronal circuit (PhotoNaviNet)

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

How does the neuronal network of the brain mediate its function? This fundamental question in biology is still a puzzle, despite decades of intensive work. A seemingly unsolvable obstacle when studying the brain is its enormous complexity.A powerful approach to understand our brain uses “simple” brains of animal models, in which one can genetically identify and manipulate neurons. The brain of the ...
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Small Artery Remodelling (SmArteR)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Cardiovascular disease remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Europe. Small arteries form a key element in the pathogenesis. Thus, these vessels dictate local perfusion and blood pressure by adaptation of their caliber. Structural changes towards smaller caliber, small artery remodelling, cause hypertension and decreased organ perfusion, leading to acute events and chronic end organ d ...
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Hierarchical Self Assembly of Polymeric Soft Systems (SASSYPOL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"The production of the next generation of functional soft systems and materials capable of meeting the current and future demands of society in a sustainable manner will require both new technologies and highly trained scientists. Supramolecular chemistry provides a powerful approach to develop new self-assembled materials with emerging properties, such as healability, recyclability and facile pro ...
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Light-Responsive Adhesives for Debond-on-Demand Solutions (DEGLUMINATE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017,

Adhesives that debond-on-demand through application of an external stimulus are highly relevant for manufacturing (semiconductor, automotive, aerospace, construction, packaging, sportswear), healthcare applications (wound dressing, transdermal patches), and numerous other domains, and they can significantly contribute to the sustainable use of materials (repairing, reworking, recycling). In all ca ...
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Imagining Development: A multidisciplinary and multilevel analysis of development policies and their effect in the post-socialist world (PSDEV)

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

The main aim of this project is to establish, maintain and make sustainable a world class research group with a focus on (foreign and domestic) development policies in post-socialist spaces. Thanks to its wide geographical and disciplinary focus, this IRSES will provide an international and intercultural environment for a team of researchers to connect, reflect, come up with new findings and estab ...
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Mechanically Responsive Polymers (MERESPO)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"“Intelligent” polymers which change their properties “on command”, that is upon exposure to a pre-defined stimulus in a highly selective and reversible manner, are of considerable academic interest and attractive for countless technologically relevant applications. Many examples of chemically, thermally, electrically, optically, or electrically responsive materials are known, but only few polymer ...
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Resistance in Gram-Negative Organisms: Studying Intervention Strategies (R-GNOSIS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Antibiotics are a mainstay of public health, but their use has increased exponentially leading to the emergence of antibiotic resistance. The R-GNOSIS (Resistance in Gram-Negative Organisms: Studying Intervention Strategies) project combines 5 international clinical studies, all supported by highly innovative microbiology, mathematical modelling and data-management, to determine - in the most rele ...
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Real-time dynamics of correlated many-body systems (DYNCORSYS)

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

"Strongly correlated materials exhibit some of the most remarkable phenonomena found in condensed matter systems. They typically involve many active degrees of freedom (spin, charge, orbital), which leads to numerous competing states and complicated phase diagrams. A new perspective on correlated many-body systems is provided by the nonequilibrium dynamics, which is being explored in transport stu ...
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Intra-and Inter-Societal Sources of Instability in the Caucasus and EU Opportunities to Respond (ISSICEU)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

ISSICEU analyses sources of stability and instability in the Caucasus regarding political regimes, civic participation, economic interdependencies and neighbourhood influences. We evaluate the implications for military, political, economic and societal security.We deliver three relevant products for EU policy formulation: We analyse and map emerging conflicts of local, regional and international d ...
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GROWTH AND INNOVATION POLICY-MODELLING: APPLYING NEXT GENERATION TOOLS, DATA, AND ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY IDEAS (GROWTHCOM)

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

In the wake of the financial crisis one of the major challenges faced by policymakers in Europe and around the world is re-kindling economic growth and innovation. Recent research portrays economic growth as a process of evolution of ecosystems of technologies and industrial capabilities. This research has also shown a strong relationship between the development of the complexity of economies in ...
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United by diversity - Management policies of cultural and linguistic diversity in Switzerland and Canada : Two reference laboratories for European Union? (UNITED BY DIVER-FRI)

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

"This project is a continuation of my previous doctoral research into multiculturalism and national identity in Canada, Quebec and France using a comparative perspective. The project goal will be the acquisition of additional skills in the field of political anthropology, and the continuation of my research in order to prepare an Accreditation to supervise research. The implementation of this proj ...
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Systems neuroscience of Drosophila: from genes to circuits to behaviour (FLIACT)

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

Understanding how the brain works represents one of the greatest challenges in modern science. This question embraces mechanisms spanning multiple levels of description, from genes to biochemical pathways, from neurons to circuits, from circuit activities to adaptive behaviours. The goal of the FLiACT programme is to train young researchers in the concepts and techniques necessary to study integra ...
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Bottom-up fabrication of nano carbon-inorganic hybrid materials for photocatalytic hydrogen production (CARINHYPH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

CARINHYPH projects deals with the hierarchical assembly of functional nanomaterials into novel nanocarbon-inorganic hybrid structures for energy generation by photocatalyic hydrogen production, with Carbon NanoTubes (CNTs) and graphene the choice of nanocarbons. The scientific activities include the development of new functionalisation strategies targeted at improving charge transfer in hybrids an ...
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Non-Equilibrium Social Science in ICT and Economics (NESS)

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

Traditional economics uses models that assume limited interaction between agents, simplistic behavioural assumptions and equilibrium analysis. Yet economies and social systems are often strongly correlated, heterogeneous and far from equilibrium hence traditional approaches do not provide the tools to understand, model or design systems in rapid change. The current financial and world order consti ...
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Spatially explicit mechanisms of Recent EVOLution in an African biodiversity hotspot (REVOL)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"Biodiversity hotspots are regions where exceptional concentrations of endemic species face extraordinary levels of habitat loss. The evolutionary processes determining the genesis and maintenance of such high biodiversity are poorly understood. REVOL uses population genomics in a multi-disciplinary context to uncover the neutral and adaptive evolutionary processes responsible for recent and ongoi ...
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Functional characterization of neuroactive toxins using an engineered bacterial type-III secretion system (ConoTox)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Toxins occur in a broad diversity in nature and are produced by a wide array of organisms, including spiders, snails, or plants. Conotoxins are a class of toxins that are synthesized in the venom duct of the marine cone snail, genus Conus. The venom of each Conus species is composed of 100 different toxins that rapidly affect the prey organism at multiple targets. The majority of toxins target lig ...
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Genetic Analysis of Temperature Sensation and Nociception in Caenorhabditis elegans (GATSNCe)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

Pain is a major medical concern and there is an undeniable need to improve the therapeutic options in pain management. In this project, a simple model organism is used to identify and characterize new potential drug targets.Nociception is defined as the neural processes of encoding and processing noxious stimuli triggering pain. Nociception and temperature sensation are related processes. The gene ...
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Development of novel nanotechnology based diagnostic systems for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis (NanoDiaRA)

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

Based on the clinical unmet needs and recent research in biomarkers on Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Osteoarthritis (OA) the main objective of the project is to develop a nanotechnology based novel diagnostic tool for easy and early detection of biomarkers in inflammatory diseases especially RA and OA by using modified superparamagnetic nanoparticles (SPION) for (A) bioassay (ex-vivo application) ...
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Language, Cognition, and Gender (ITN-LCG)

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

The Initial Training Network - Language, Cognition, and Gender (ITN LCG) investigates European languages from an interdisciplinary perspective to expand current knowledge of how language influences and forms the cognitive representations of women and men. The diversity of Europe offers a unique opportunity to investigate the impact of language and culture in establishing and maintaining gender ine ...
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Quality Collectives: Socially Intelligent Systems for Quality (QLectives)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Using a complexity perspective, QLectives will understand, experiment with, design and build cooperative socially intelligent ICT systems composed of self-organising peers, that will enable and support emergent 'quality collectives' to enhance, for instance, scientific innovation and decentralized media distribution.We shall bring together complex system scientists, social scientists and distribut ...
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Probing the relevance of carbene binding motifs in enzyme reactivity (carbenzymes)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Histidine (His) is an ubiquitous ligand in the active site of metalloenzymes that is assumed by default to bind the metal center through one of its nitrogen atoms. However, protonation of His, which is likely to occur in locally slightly acidic environment, gives imidazolium sites that can bind a metal in a carbene-type structure as found in N-heterocyclic carbene complexes. Such carbene bonding h ...
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Dynamic Near Field Imaging (DyNeFI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

Dynamic Light Scattering is a widespread technique for measuring fluid properties in soft matter. It is used to investigate complex fluids, colloids, proteins, nano-particles, but also samples of bio-physical and medical interest. The advent of pixilated sensors like CCD cameras and fast computers allowed the design of different imaging techniques aimed at providing the same quantitative informati ...
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Connections between algorithmic and geometric properties of groups (LCFRI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"The topic of this project is the study of groups from a variety of perspectives: algorithmic, combinatorial, geometric and algebraic. The common thread of this work will be solving equations in groups, and understanding what kind of role the nature of the solutions obtained plays in determining the properties of the groups. We will solve problems in areas that range from fixed point theory in fre ...
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European Network on the Health and Environmental Impact of Nanomaterials (NanoImpactNet)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Recent technological advances allow the targeted production of objects and materials in the nanoscale (smaller than 100 nm). Nanomaterials have chemical, physical and bioactive characteristics, which are different from those of larger entities of the same materials. Nanoparticles can pass through body barriers. This is interesting for medical applications, but it raises concerns about their health ...
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Action for the Science of complex SYtems for Socially intelligent icT (ASSYST)

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

Description ASSYST will coordinate research around the call Science of complex systems for socially intelligent ICT (COSI-ICT) in the context of the wider science of complex systems (CS).ASSYST will make Complex Systems science and the potential of COSI-ICT better understood by scientific policy makers and funders at national and internation ...
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An integrated concept of tumor metastasis: implications for therapy (TuMIC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

From many perspectives our concept of the process of metastasis is inadequate and needs to be revised. In particular, the potential impact of recent ideas about the cellular basis of tumor growth (cancer stem cells) and the establishment by remote tumors of special permissive microenvironments in target organs prior to metastasis (metastatic niches) remains to be explored. In the TuMIC project we ...
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Multi-Scale Modeling of Nano-Structured Polymeric Materials: From Chemistry to Materials Performance (NanoModel)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

The practice of adding micron sized inorganic filler particles to reinforce polymeric materials can be traced back to the early years of the composite industry. With synthetic methods that can produce nanometer sized fillers, resulting in an enormous increase of surface area, polymers reinforced with nanoscale particles should show vastly improved properties. Yet, experimental evidence suggests th ...
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Enhancements of Pest Risk Analysis Techniques (PRATIQUE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2011,

"PRATIQUE (Enhancements of Pest Risk Analysis Techniques) will carry out all the key work listed in the call and address the major challenges for pest risk analysis (PRA) in Europe. This will be achieved through three principal objectives: to assemble the datasets required to construct effective PRAs valid for the whole of the EU, to conduct multi-disciplinary research that enhances the techniques ...
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LiquidPublication:\nInnovating the Scientific Knowledge Object Lifecycle (LiquidPublication)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

This project explores how ICT and the lessons learned from the social Web can be applied to provide a radical paradigm shift in the way scientific knowledge is created, evaluated, and maintained. We argue that the novel technologies can enable a transition of the "scientific paper" form its traditional "solid" form, (i.e. a crystallization in space and time of a scientific knowledge artifact) to a ...
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Cluster, glass, and crystal formation in concentrated protein mixtures of opposite charge sign (PROmix)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

Protein mixtures are essential ingredients in a multitude of natural and synthetic complex systems, such as the eye lens, the blood stream, the cytoplasm of living cells, yoghurt, and so forth. Research on protein interactions is thus pivotal to gain insight in the stability of such soft matter systems, in their structural and dynamical properties, and in their (biological) function. As nearly all ...
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metal-carbene complexes for the synthesis of molecular switches and devices (OrganometallicSwitch)

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

Considerable effort is currently being devoted to the miniaturization of electronic devices to the nanometer scale, ideally affording systems that operate on a molecular level. Chemist’s contribution to this research area has thus far concentrated on the preparation of organic OR inorganic materials. For example, purely metallic GaAs and GaP nanowires have been constructed for semiconductor appli ...
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