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Hybrid Aircraft; academic reSearch on Thermal and Electrical Components and Systems (HASTECS)

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

The HASTECS project aims at supporting the demonstration of radical aircraft configurations (CS-2/WP1.6) by means of models and tools development that can help the designers in assessing main benefits of architectures and power management of hybrid electric propulsion. The proposed consortium involves all competences to face the huge complexity of this process. All academic researchers will gather ...
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Erasmus Mundus Master in Membrane Engineering for a Sustainable World

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 30, 2021,

The Master in Membrane Engineering for a Sustainable World offers an advanced education programme related to membrane science and engineering at the interface between material science and chemical engineering and focused on specific applicative fields. It involves 6 HEI of 5 European countries: University of Twente (The Netherlands), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), Universidad de Zaragoza ...
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Science and Innovation with thunderstorms (SAINT)

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

Lightning is an extremely energetic electric discharge process in our atmosphere. It significantly affects the concentration of greenhouse gases and it threatens electrical and electronic devices, in particular, when placed on elevated structures like wind turbines or aircraft, and when these structures are built with modern composite materials with inherently low electric conductivity. In additio ...
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Ubiquitous Pharmacogenomics (U-PGx): Making actionable pharmacogenomic data and effective treatment optimization accessible to every European citizen (U-PGx)

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

Pharmacogenomics is the study of genetic variability affecting an individual’s response to a drug. Its use allows personalized medicine and reduction in ‘trial and error’ prescribing leading to more efficacious, safer and cost-effective drug therapy. The U-PGx consortium will investigate a pre-emptive genotyping approach (that is: multiple pharmacogenomic variants are collected prospectively and ...
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OBSERVATORY OF THE DYNAMICS OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SOCIETIES AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE AMAZON (ODYSSEA)

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

Achieving a sustainable development trajectory in Amazonia is one of the key challenges facing Brazil, and is also an important international concern. ODYSSEA assembles an internationally renowned European and Brazilian multidisciplinary and intersectoral team. We aim to produce fundamental science and tools in order to build an innovative multi-and interdisciplinary observatory to monitor and ass ...
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Sentinels Synergy for Agriculture (SENSAGRI)

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

In the emerging Copernicus Earth monitoring era, Europe provides Earth Observation (EO) data from Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) on a free and open data policy basis. In response of the EO Work programme ‘EO-3-2016: Evaluation of Copernicus Services’, Sentinels Synergy for Agriculture (SENSAGRI) aims to exploit the unprecedented capacity of S1 and S2 to develop an innovative portfolio of prot ...
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Developping curricula for Environmental safety and Conservation of the Biodiversity in SEA

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

The Wider objective of CONSEA is to ensure Biodiversity Conservation & Environmental sustainability around the Mekong River Basin. CONSEA consortium aims to develop a strong education program on biodiversity conservation in SEA. In spite of socio-economic difficulties of Cambodia and Vietnam, these countries are located in biodiversity hotspots. These territories endowed of added value are under c ...
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REE4EU: integrated high temperature electrolysis (HTE) and Ion Liquid Extraction (ILE) for a strong and independent European Rare Earth Elements Supply Chain (REE4EU)

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

The REE4EU project will develop, validate and demonstrate in 2 industrially relevant Pilots an innovative Rare Earth Alloys (REA) production route from Permanent Magnets (PM) and Secondary Batteries (SB) waste. Currently only 1% of RE waste is being recovered as no adequate process is available, so proof-of-concept in REE4EU will open-up a fully new route bringing recovery of 90% of in-process was ...
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Euromaster on Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling

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

Objective The International Master in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling aims to provide students with a sound background in this area and to promote student mobility within a large network of research laboratories.Course duration Two years (120 ECTS)Brief DescriptionTheoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling is nowadays a powerful and almost mandatory tool in modern science. ...
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Brain Microcirculation : Numerical simulation for inter-species translation with applications in human health (BrainMicroFlow)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2019,

The cerebral microvascular system is essential to a large variety of physiological processes in the brain, including blood delivery and blood flow regulation as a function of neuronal activity (neuro-vascular coupling). It plays a major role in the associated mechanisms leading to disease (stroke, neurodegenerative diseases, …). In the last decade, cutting edge technologies, including two-photon s ...
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ECOPOTENTIAL: IMPROVING FUTURE ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS THROUGH EARTH OBSERVATIONS (ECOPOTENTIAL)

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

Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential services to human societies. Anthropogenic pressures, however, cause serious threat to ecosystems, leading to habitat degradation, increased risk of collapse and loss of ecosystem services. Knowledge-based conservation, management and restoration policies are needed to improve ecosystem benefits in face of increasing pressures. ECOPOTENTIAL makes ...
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Lifecourse biological pathways underlying social differences in healthy ageing (LIFEPATH)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

"The dramatic differentials in healthy ageing, quality of life and life expectancy between individuals of different socioeconomic groups, is a major societal challenge facing Europe. The overarching aim of the LIFEPATH project is to understand the determinants of diverging ageing pathways among individuals belonging to different socio-economic groups. This will be achieved via an original study de ...
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Root zone soil moisture Estimates at the daily and agricultural parcel scales for Crop irrigation management and water use impact – a multi-sensor remote sensing approach (REC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Sustainable water use is a growing concern in Europe. Nowadays, agriculture is an important pressure on water resources especially in Mediterranean countries where irrigation can represent up to 80% of the consumptive uses of water. Increasing water use efficiency in agriculture has been thus identified as one of the key themes relating to water scarcity and drought (EEA Report No 1/2012). It now ...
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The Fablab for geodata-driven innovation - by leveraging Space data in particular, in Universities 2.0 (FabSpace 2.0)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

FabSpace 2.0 aims at making universities open innovation centres for their region and improving their contribution to the performance of societies. It will concentrate on one innovation area with high expected socio-economic and environmental impact: geodata-driven innovation, by leveraging space data in particular.When Universities must endorse a new role as co-creators of innovations in the cont ...
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Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling (TCCM)

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

Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling (TCCM) is emerging as a powerful tool to help in the rational design of new products and materials for pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, computer, and new-materials industries. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to go beyond the traditional electronic structure studies, and merge complementary techniques that are normally not available at a sing ...
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Dynamics-aerosol-chemistry-cloud interactions in West Africa (DACCIWA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

"Massive economic and population growth and urbanisation are expected to lead to a tripling of anthropogenic emissions in southern West Africa (SWA) between 2000 and 2030, the impacts of which on human health, ecosystems, food security and the regional climate are largely unknown. An assessment of these impacts is complicated by (a) a superposition with effects of global climate change, (b) the st ...
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Implementing quality of education & training of the young Universities in rural area of Cambodia

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The UNICAM project has been designed to enhance overall human health and ecosystem security posture of Cambodia (ME) by accelerating the availability of educational and training resources designed to improve the behavior, skills, and knowledge of every segment of the population. The main project objective is to enhance education quality and develop human resources through implementing comprehensiv ...
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MAGHREB-EU RESEARCH STAFF EXCHANGE ON GEODYNAMICS, GEOHZARDS, AND APPLIED GEOLOGY IN NORTH-WEST AFRICA (MEDYNA)

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

At the doorstep of Europe, the NW African plate boundary system is paradoxically the least understood segment of the Earth global plate system. This largely reflects the intrinsic complexity of the present-day plate boundary, characterized by a diffuse geometry and several lithospheric domains accommodating the relative motion between Eurasia and Africa. Despite long stand collaborations, research ...
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High-Resolution Solar Physics Network (SOLARNET)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

This project aims at integrating the major European infrastructures in the field of high-resolution solar physics. The following actions will be taken: (i) realise Trans-national Access to external European users; (ii) enhance and spread data acquisition and processing expertise to the Europe-wide community; (iii) increase the impact of high-resolution data by offering science-ready data and facil ...
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Exploitation of Space Data for Innovative Helio- and Asteroseismology (SPACEINN)

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

Observations of oscillations on the solar and stellar surfaces have emerged as a unique and extremely powerful tool to gain information on, and understanding of, the processes in the Sun and stars, and the origin of the variability in the solar and stellar output.Through helio- and asteroseismology detailed inferences of the internal structure and rotation of the Sun, and extensive information on ...
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TWO!EARS

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

TWO!EARS replaces current thinking about auditory modelling by a systemic approach in which human listeners are regarded as multi-modal agents that develop their concept of the world by exploratory interaction. The goal of the project is to develop an intelligent, active computational model of auditory perception and experience in a multi-modal context. Our novel approach is based on a structural ...
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Training network for developing innovative (bio)artificial devices for treatment of kidney and liver disease (BIOART)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Renal and liver diseases are global public health problems, with the incidences of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and end-stage liver disease (ESLD) rising annually. Due to the lack of donor kidneys, most of ESRD patients depend on dialysis treatment using either an artificial kidney or the peritoneal membrane. Both modes are inefficient in removing uremic waste molecules and inadequately remove e ...
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CARBON BASED SMART SYSTEMS FOR WIRELESS APPLICATIONS (NANO RF)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

Description New technologies and new wireless architectures identified as Beyond CMOS and More than Moore From the strategic agendas of ENIAC,EPoSS and ITRS it is evident that wireless applications are gaining more and more importance that results to new requirements in terms of miniaturization an ...
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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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Spatial Cognition (SpaceCog)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Humanoid robots will become important machines to support mankind if they develop similar capabilities as humans have. One of those capabilities is to orient in space and to extract the relevant information from its environment. A common approach has been to build a spatiotopic map of the external world, so called an internal world model. However, since the sensors, such as the eyes (cameras) are ...
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Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern EUropean Seas (PERSEUS)

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

The overall scientific objectives of PERSEUS are to identify the interacting patterns of natural and human-derived pressures on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, assess their impact on marine ecosystems and, using the objectives and principles of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive as a vehicle, to design an effective and innovative research governance framework based on sound scientific knowl ...
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A European Initial Training Network on the History, Archaeology, and New Genetics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (EUROTAST)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The principal aim of this ITN is to examine the history of the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies from a variety of different angles. The idea is to hire thirteen Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and two Experienced Researchers (ERs) across Europe and a wide range of disciplines, including history, archaeology, sociology, heritage studies and genetics, to investigate various aspects of the s ...
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Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction (SAPHARI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Description Recent progress in physical Human-Robot Interaction showed that active and safe workspace sharing becomes possible in principle. SAPHARI will perform a fundamental paradigm shift in robot development in the sense that the human will be the centre of the entire design. The project will enable robots to track, understand and predic ...
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Open Discovery Space: A socially-powered and multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adoption of eLearning resources (Open Discovery Space)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Open Discovery Space aims to serve as an accelerator of the sharing, adoption, usage, and re-purposing of the already rich existing educational content base. First of all, it will demonstrate ways to involve school communities in innovative teaching and learning practices through the effective use of eLearning resources. It will promote community building between numerous schools of Europe and emp ...
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Pragmatic solution for parasitic-immune design of electronics ICs for automotive (AUTOMICS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Smart Power ICs are extensively used in automotive embedded systems due to their unique capabilities to merge low power and high voltage devices on the same chip, at competitive cost. In such devices, induced electrical coupling noise due to switching of the power stages, when integrating such high voltage (HV) devices with low voltage (LV) functions, is a big issue. During switching, parasitic vo ...
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Correlated Multielectron Dynamics in Intense Light Fields (CORINF)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Application of intense light fields opens the opportunity to image structures and dynamics of individual molecules with the combination of sub-Angstrom spatial and attosecond temporal resolution. However, intense light fields inevitably excite complex dynamics. The success of imaging techniques depends on our understanding of these largely unknown dynamics, creating demand for the theory of comple ...
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European Network for Social Intelligence (SINTELNET)

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

SINTELNET is a Coordination Action whose aim is to explore the interplay of future and emerging information technologies and the development of Philosophy, Humanities and the Social Sciences. Advances in science and IT are rapidly creating and sustaining new forms of perception, communication and social interaction. The traditional distinctions between the natural, the social and the artificial ar ...
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Réseau SUDOE de Médecine Régénérative (BIOREG)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

BIOREG vise à promouvoir le développement socio-économique de l'espace SUDOE par la spécialisation technologique et le développement de nouvelles activités économiques à forte valeur ajoutée comme la médecine régénérative. Cela est considéré comme une nouvelle révolution industrielle dans le domaine de la santé, en répondant aux changements sociaux, humains et économiques à venir. La médecine régé ...
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Biocluster Transnational du Sud-ouest européen (TRANSBIO SUDOE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

La spécialisation du territoire SUDOE dans le secteur de la bioéconomie peut améliorer la conjoncture actuelle de l'espace. C'est une activité qui favorise la compétitivité et la création d'emplois qualifiés liée à de multiples secteurs.À cet effet, le projet TRANSBIO SUDOE vise à répondre à cet objectif en transformant les résultats de la recherche en réalités économiques dans le cadre du domaine ...
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Led-based intelligent street lighting for energy saving (LITES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The main objective of the LITES project is to demonstrate in real life experimentation that intelligent street lighting using solid-state lights LED drastically reduces energy consumption. The lighting service delivered is compliant with road classes CE2-CE5, S- and A- according to the standard of EN13201. That means that our device can be installed in secondary street, commercial access, allotmen ...
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Red Transfronteriza de Investigación Biomédica de los Pirineos- Establecimiento de una Red de colaboración estable entre Centros de Investigación Biomédica en el espacio Pirineos (BIOMED-PIRINEOS)

Start date: May 31, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

La cooperación en el ámbito de la investigación Biomédica es fundamental para la consecución de objetivos de gran envergadura e impacto debido a necesidad de inversiones elevadas en equipamiento, así como el alto nivel de especialización y la diversidad de perfiles de los recursos humanos implicados. BIOMED Pirineos está por tanto alineado con las prioridades regionales en materia de Salud, por lo ...
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Multi-Core Execution of Parallelised Hard Real-Time Applications Supporting Analysability (parMERASA)

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

Engineers who design hard real-time embedded systems express a need for several times the performance available today while keeping safety as major criterion. A breakthrough in performance is expected by parallelising hard real-time applications. parMERASA targets a timing analysable system of parallel hard real-time applications running on a scalable multi-core processor. Several new scientific a ...
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Integrated System for Interoperable sensors & Information sources for Common abnormal vessel behaviour detection & Collaborative identification of threat (I2C)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The I2C integration project proposes for 2015 a new generation of innovative sea border surveillance system implementing key existing and in development capacities to track all vessel movements to early identify and report on threats associated to detected suspicious events. These key capacities are: *Shore based sensors platform grouping new sensor technologies; long range HFSW radar, FMCW radar ...
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Game and Learning Alliance (GaLA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The GaLA motivation stems from the acknowledgment of the potentiality of Serious Games (SGs) for education and training and the need to address the challenges of the main stakeholders of the SGs European landscape (users, researchers, developers/industry, educators). A foundational fault issue in this context is the fragmentation that affects the SG landscape.GALA aims to shape the scientific comm ...
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FLY HIGHER - Shaping the new evolving generation of aeronautic professionals (FLY HIGHER)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2014,

"The aeronautic industry is the key driver of European competitiveness, playing a fundamental role in facilitating economic growth and social inclusion, providing revenues to otherwise isolated regions and helping people to enlarge their horizons. However, the unprecedented economic crisis has posed several relevant challenges that affect European competitiveness, performance and sustainability. E ...
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