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Teaching Emerging Methods in Palaeoproteomics for the European Research Area (TEMPERA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2017, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

TEMPERA will provide international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary state-of-the-art doctoral training to prepare the next generation of specialists in mass spectrometry-based ancient protein residues analysis for biomolecular diagnostics and conservation of cultural heritage material.Due to their chemical and mechanical properties, proteins have always represented the category of biomolecules ...
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MULTI-CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF FIRE BARRIER: A SYSTEMIC APPROACH (FireBar-Concept)

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

The development of science and technology provides the availability of sophisticated products but concurrently, increases the use of combustible materials, in particular organic materials. Those materials are easily flammable and must be flame retarded to make them safer. In case of fire, people must be protected by materials confining and stopping fire. It is one of the goals of the FireBar-Conce ...
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Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry Master's Course

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

REFERENCE: 564486-EPP-1-2015-1-FR-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB_ASCTITLE: Master's course in Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry, ASCObjectiveThe Master's Course in Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry (ASC) aims at preparing students to become experts and develop international skills towards doctoral studies and professional industrial careers in chemical analysis and characterization of the structure of materials ...
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Laser-induced vapour nanobubbles for intracellular delivery of nanomaterials and treatment of biofilm infections (NANOBUBBLE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Lasers have found widespread application in medicine, such as for photothermal therapy. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), are often used as enhancers of the photothermal effect since they can efficiently absorb laser light and convert it into thermal energy. When absorbing intense nano- or picosecond laser pulses, AuNPs can become extremely hot and water vapor nanobubbles (VNBs) can emerge around these ...
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Advanced Biodiesel in circular economy for low carbon public transports. (BIOHEC-LIFE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background Petroleum products still account for 95% of fuel consumption by European road transport and represent 21% of European greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The European Union has set a target for every Member State that at least 10% of its transport fuel comes from renewable sources by 2020. First generation biofuels - such as agricultural bioetha ...
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Pathogen and Graphene (PANG)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Complications related to infectious diseases have significantly reduced, particularly in the developed countries, due to the availability and use of broad-range antibiotics and wide variety of antimicrobial agents. Excessive use of antibiotics and antimicrobial agents increased significantly the number of multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria. This has resulted in a serious threat to public health. ...
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Portable Nano-Particle Emission Measurement System (PEMs4Nano)

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

The PEMs4Nano project (P4N) addresses the development (based on current direct injection gasoline engines) of measurement procedures down to 10nm, providing a contribution to future regulation on particle emissions, in particular in real driving conditions. The activities planned in the project will also support the understanding, measurement and regulation of particle emissions below 23 nm (with ...
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Development of novel, high Performance hybrid TWV/GPF Automotive afteR treatment systems by raTIonAL design: substitution of PGMs and Rare earth materials (PARTIAL-PGMs)

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

To date, three way catalytic converters (TWCs) have been established as the most effective engine exhaust after-treatment system. However, TWCs not only fail to address the issue of particulate matter (PM) emissions but are also the main industrial consumer of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) mainly Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) and Rare Earth elements (REEs), with the automotive industry accounting f ...
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Digital community and Innovation in aduLt educAtion and Basic Skills

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

Our project DILABS aims at supporting trainers/teachers, staff and organizations involved in adult education in the field of key competences, including literacy and digital skills, in an active process of developing European cooperation.The consortium is made of 8 partners:- Université de Lille 1 (HEI), Collegium Balticum (HEI), Oslo and Akershus University College (HEI), Futuro Digitale (Associat ...
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All-Phononic circuits Enabled by Opto-mechanics (PHENOMEN)

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

This project is at the intersection of photonics, RF signal processing and phononics, aiming to achieve an all-optical phononic circuit using coherent phonons as the state variable. The concept is based on cavity optomechanics (OM) to develop GHz- frequency in-chip phononic circuits for room temperature operation. The circuits will integrate OM-pumped phonon sources and detectors as well as phonon ...
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Cement-based materials, properties, evolution, barrier functions (Cebama)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

The HORIZON 2020 EURATOM Collaborative Project “Cement-based materials, properties, evolution, barrier functions (Cebama)” is developed with the overall objective to support implementation of geological disposal of nuclear waste by improving the knowledge base for the Safety Case. Cement-based materials are highly relevant in this context, being used as waste forms, liners and structural component ...
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Synergy for Smart Multi-Objective Optimisation (SYNERGY)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

Many real-world application areas, such as advanced manufacturing, involve optimisation of several, often time-consuming and conflicting objectives. For example, they require the maximisation of the product quality while minimising the production cost, and rely on demanding numerical simulations in order to assess the objectives. These, so-called multi-objective optimisation problems can be solved ...
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Child-Robot Communication and Collaboration: Edutainment, Behavioural Modelling and Cognitive Development in Typically Developing and Autistic Spectrum Children (BabyRobot)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The crowning achievement of human communication is our unique ability to share intentionality, create and execute on joint plans. Using this paradigm we model human-robot communication as a three step process: sharing attention, establishing common ground and forming shared goals. Prerequisites for successful communication are being able to decode the cognitive state of people around us (mindrea ...
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Quantum Controlled Ultrafast Multimode Entanglement and Measurement (QCUMbER)

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

Ultrafast light pulses offer the fascinating opportunity to study system dynamics at ultrashort time scales. Trains of ultrafast light pulses also feature a broad frequency comb structure that has been exploited e.g. in high precision metrology. These characteristics have made ultrafast optics with coherent control techniques a flourishing field in recent years. A rich toolbox has been developed t ...
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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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MULTISCALE MODELLING OF THE RHEOLOGY OF MANTLE MINERALS (RheoMan)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Understanding mantle convection is essential to understand the thermal and chemical evolution of the Earth and to constrain the forces driving plate tectonics. The rheological properties of the mantle are traditionally inverted from surface geophysical data. Radial profiles of the viscosity are thus available but a lot of uncertainties remain.A more detailed model of mantle rheology could be obtai ...
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Graphene-based disruptive technologies (GrapheneCore1)

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

This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CS ...
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Gap Analysis for Integrated Atmospheric ECV CLImate Monitoring (GAIA-CLIM)

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

There is a recognised need for establishing sound methods for the characterisation of satellite-based Earth Observation (EO) data by surface-based and sub-orbital measurement platforms - spanning Atmosphere, Ocean and Land observations and the entire radiance spectrum. Robust EO instrument characterisation is about significantly more than simply where and when a given set of EO and ground-based / ...
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Demonstration of integrated smart water supply solutions at 4 sites across Europe (SmartWater4Europe)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

European water utilities face many problems related to their 3,5 million km’s of distribution networks. Large parts of water distribution networks have to be rehabilitated requiring investments of € 20 billion/year. Prioritization and optimization of investments is needed urgently. In many countries, water quality needs improvement in order to reduce health risks and resources for water production ...
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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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Régions et régionalismes dans l'Union européenne

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

The project EUREGIO deals with regions and regionalism in the European Union (EU). Lille 1 University, one of the most internationalised universities in France, and the political and professional stakeholders of the region, are particularly concerned by this topic: since January 1st 2015 Lille legally became the Métropole européenne de Lille (Lille European Metropolis), Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais w ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

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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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

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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Virtual Prototyping of Tactile Displays (PROTOTOUCH)

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

"It is estimated that touch screen module revenues will reach $23.9 billion by 2017. These user interfaces have become one of the most common input devices for digital media, e.g. in mobile phones and computers. Current devices incorporate relatively primitive vibrotactile haptic-feedback. The aim of PROTOTOUCH is to develop tactile displays with high fidelity haptic recognition, so that buttons w ...
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Advanced Multidisciplinary Training in Molecular Bacteriology (AMBER)

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

"The advancement in life sciences has created a growing number of disciplines that are required to elucidate the increasingly complicated biological questions. This has led to an unsurpassed level of knowledge, but it has also resulted in a continuous specialization in PhD trainings, which makes the students less prepared for complex present day biological questions. To provide a better comprehens ...
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Asymptotics of Operator Semigroups (AOS)

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

"The theory of asymptotic behaviour of operator semigroups is a comparatively new field serving as a common denominator for many other areasof mathematics, such as for instance the theory of partial differential equations, complex analysis, harmonic analysis and topology.The primary interest in the study of asymptotic properties of strongly continuous operator semi-groups comes from the fact that ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The mobility project of 2015/2016 is the reflection of the strategic plan set up since 2012 at the University of Lille - Science and Technology. This strategy, which was once again validated after the elections that took place in the University last march 2 aims at several objectives: an intensification of the outgoing mobilities of our students (both studies and internships) with a financial supp ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

The mobility project proposed for the academic year 2014/2015 is the reflection of the strategic plan set up since 2012 at the University of Lille - Science and Technology. This strategy aims at several objectives: an intensification of the outgoing mobilities of our students (both studies and internships), a strengthening of strategic cooperations and privileged partnerships (in particular in Nor ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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Graphene-based Devices and Circuits for RF Applications (GRADE)

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

Description Demonstration of the proof-of-concept of novel graphene-based electronic devices operating at terahertz (THz) frequencies GRADE is a project focusing on advanced RTD activities necessary to demonstrate the proof-of-concept of novel graphene-based electronic devices operating at teraher ...
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The SAfer FUEL system (SAFUEL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"Fuel Systems (FS) are critical for aircraft safety. Fire, ice and system failures are typical safety hazards associated to FS. FS accidents, though only representing 2% of accidents/incidents, continue to be a recurrent concern, especially as: the complexity of FS escalades to cope with increasing needs, including more stringent safety requirements ; flight conditions evolve with new routes at hi ...
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Value Analysis of Local Utilities of Enterprises from Social sector (VALUES)

Start date: Feb 22, 2012, End date: Feb 21, 2016,

The research program focuses on a central theme relating governance and regulation of the sector of the social economy in a territorial context. This project is based on Vaesken and Zafiropoulou model centered to social innovation resulting from the articulation between modes of governance and modes of regulation.The program treats three specific research orientations of social policies and local ...
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Ion Transport Proteins in Control of Cancer Cell Behaviour (IonTraC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"With over 3 million new cases and 1.5 million arising deaths each year in Europe, cancer is a major public health problem with an urgent need for new therapies. This proposal builds upon mounting evidence that ion channels and transporters underlie many of the hallmarks of cancer. Thus, proteins involved in membrane transport, long known as important drug targets in other pathologies (channelopat ...
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Solvent effects on physico-chemical properties of bioactive compounds: combination of theory with experiments (BIOSOL)

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

Recent developments in combinatorial chemistry, high throughput screening, and robotics led to a large number of compounds with potential biological activity. The vast and ever increasing number of possible lead molecules requires prioritizing the most promising compounds. Physicochemical properties of the drugs in solutions determine their pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetcs and, therefore, are ...
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Incorporating Laughter into Human-Avatar Interactions: Research and Evaluation (ILHAIRE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Laughter is a significant feature of human communication, and machines acting in roles like companions or tutors should not be blind to it. So far very limited progress has been made towards allowing computer-based applications to deal with laughter.ILHAIRE will lay the foundations of truly multimodal, multicultural laughter-enabled man-machine interaction, by associating experts of the different ...
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Fabrication of particles with photo receptors: bio-analytical application such as controlled drug delivery (Photorelease)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The importance of carbon-based materials in biological applications has been recognized. Especially, nanodiamond particles (referred to as nanodiamonds, NDs) have started to emerge as novel candidate for promising applications in the field of nano-biotechnology as imaging probes and drug carriers. NDs do not show the toxicity of other nanoparticles, notably gold, making them ideal nanoscale drug d ...
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Interregional MObility and Competence Centres in Automation (i-MOCCA)

Start date: Jun 30, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

The I-MOCCA project aims to strengthen the automation sector in the 2 Seas area. Industrial data communication and embedded control technologies are crucial for developing certain key industries and sectors (automotive and rail, maritime, energy efficiency in construction) located in this area of Europe. By establishing a cross-border network of centres of excellence and higher education institut ...
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Centre des Ecritures Contemporaines et Novatrices, Technologies digitales, Biotechnologies, Technologies développement durable (CATARR)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

Material surfaces offer quite some opportunities for technological innovations because they are at the heart of many physical-chemical processes (catalytic surfaces), make materials smart (function, modification) and protect them. Interfaces also play an important role and affect the macroscopic behaviour of the material.The overall goal of the project is to control the synthesis of thin oxide fil ...
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REDUGAZ

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

To deal with the alarming rise in CO2 emissions (greenhouse gases) and the publics concern about the toxicity of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) emitted every day by some industries, the project wants to develop adsorption and catalytic treatment processes for companies in the cross-border area. In addition, the partners want to study to what extent VOCs are toxic.The objective is to destroy VOC ...
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Materials and Interfaces for Energy Conversion and Storages (MATCON)

Start date: Dec 15, 2009, End date: Dec 14, 2013,

"There is a consensus today that supplying a growing world population with energy is one of the biggest – if not the biggest – challenge mankind is facing in the 21st century. The reasons for this are numerous and are among others related to the observation that energy is critical to human development, including economic growth, equity and employment, and that fossil fuels – our current energy bac ...
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