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European Intellectual Property Institutes Network - Innovation Society (EIPIN IS)

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

EIPIN IS is a comprehensive project at the forefront of multidisciplinary research, examining the role of intellectual property (IP) as a complex adaptive system in innovation. The focus will be on the European regulatory framework for fostering innovation with the aim of enhancing Europe’s capacity for innovation-based sustainable economic growth. The longstanding European Intellectual Property I ...
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Dynamic electromechanical control of semiconductor nanostructures by acoustic fields (SAWTrain)

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

The dynamic modulation of semiconductor structures using vibrations provides a powerful tool for the control of the materials properties required for novel functionalities. Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) with GHz-frequencies and micrometre-size wavelength can be generated using piezoelectric transducers fabricated with standard integrated circuit technology. Their small propagation velocity and hig ...
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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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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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Artificial Retrieval of Information Assistants - Virtual Agents with Linguistic Understanding, Social skills, and Personalised Aspects (ARIA-VALUSPA)

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

The ARIA-VALUSPA project will create a ground-breaking new framework that will allow easy creation of Artificial Retrieval of Information Assistants (ARIAs) that are capable of holding multi-modal social interactions in challenging and unexpected situations. The system can generate search queries and return the information requested by interacting with humans through virtual characters. These virt ...
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SEN Employment links: Working with Employers and Trainers to support Young People with Special Educational Needs/Disability into Employment

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

In the context of a rapidly changing economic situation in the EU, reflected in a changing labour market, the international project Special Education Needs Employment Links (SENEL) focuses on supporting transition into the labour market from vocational education and training (VET) and further education (FE) for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The strategic proj ...
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Children's Identities and Citizenship - Best Practice Guides

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

This proposal has focus on European Integration promoting active citizenship in young people through guidance for the training of education professionals and young researchers. It links 25 institutions from 17 states that are involved in training education professionals and concerned with citizenship education (CE) and the development of identities in young people. We emphasise that our concern is ...
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EuroLab-4-HPC: Foundations of a European Research Center of Excellence in High Performance Computing Systems (EuroLab-4-HPC)

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

Europe has built momentum in becoming a leader in large parts of the HPC ecosystem. It has brought together technical and business stakeholders from application developers via system software to exascale systems. Despite such gains, excellence in high performance computing systems is often fragmented and opportunities for synergy missed.To compete internationally, Europe must bring together the be ...
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Brazilian-European partnership in Dynamical Systems (BREUDS)

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

"This is a project for a partnership between leading Brazilian and European research groups in dynamical systems, a prominent subject in mathematics. An extensive consortium of European and Brazilian institutions will collaborate to provide world leading critical mass and support for research on the very forefront of the field. Work Packages reflect parallel priorities in the research. Transfer o ...
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GRAPHENE ON SILICON FREE ELECTRON LASER (GOSFEL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The aim of this project is to demonstrate an entirely new type of compact laser source by exploiting the unique properties of graphene to realise a solid-state free electron laser. Free electron lasers (FELs) represent a radical alternative to con-ventional lasers as they do not have the restrictions of conventional lasers on op-erating wavelengths, and they are potentially the most flexible, high ...
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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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The Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems (CEEDs)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems (CEEDS) project will develop novel, integrated technologies to support human experience, analysis and understanding of very large datasets.Making use of humans' implicit processing abilitiesCEEDS will develop innovative tools to exploit theories showing that discovery is the identification of patterns in complex data sets by the implicit informati ...
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Training young Adult's Regulation of emotions and Development of social Interaction Skills (TARDIS)

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

The number of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) is increasing across Europe. Current research reveals that NEETs often lack self-confidence and the essential social skills needed to seek and secure employment. Youth inclusion associations across Europe provide social coaching programmes, in order to help young people acquire and improve their social competencies. Howeve ...
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Study of Strongly Interacting Matter (HADRONPHYSICS3)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The Project promotes the access to five European Research Infrastructures, and it is structured into nine Networking Activities, plus the Management of the Consortium, and fourteen Joint Research Activities.The Project will profit of the success of the previous HadronPhysics project in FP6 and the current HadronPhysics2 in FP7, and originates from the initiative of more than 2.500 European scienti ...
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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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Exploiting dataflow parallelism in Teradevice Computing (TERAFLUX)

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

Dataflow parallelism is key to reach power efficiency, reliability, efficient parallel programmability, scalability, data bandwidth. In this project we propose dataflow both at task level and inside thethreads, to offload and manage accelerated codes, to localize the computation, for managing the fault information with appropriate protocols, to easily migrate code to the available/working componen ...
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Education in Cultural Understanding, Technologically-Enhanced (eCUTE)

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

In 21stC Europe, many cultural, ethnic and religious groups must live and work together. This is not always a smooth process; cultural differences can lead to social stresses and sometimes outright conflict. Thus education in cultural awareness and understanding has a very significant role. This is an educational domain in which attitudes and behaviours count much more than knowledge alone, and wh ...
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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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The FIBONACCI Project - Large scale dissemination of inquiry based science and mathematics education (FIBONACCI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

...ology, valid for further Reference centre building in Europe. The project will be coordinated for 36 months by the Superior Normal School (France), with a shared scientific coordination with Bayreuth University. The Consortium will include 24 members over 21 countries, with endorsement from major institutions."
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Controlling Chronic Diseases related to Metabolic Disorders (METABO)

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

The aim of METABO is to set up a comprehensive platform, running both in clinical settings and in every-day life environments, for continuous and multi-parametric monitoring of the metabolic status in patients with, or at risk of, diabetes and associated metabolic disorders.The type of parameters that will be monitored, in addition to traditional clinical and biomedical parameters, will also inc ...
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DynaLearn - Engaging and informed tools for learning conceptual system knowledge (DynaLearn)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

Description Despite this importance, there is an alarming decline in the number of students choosing science subjects. Reasons for this include the perceived complexity, the idea that these subjects are uninteresting and tedious, and the lack of effective cognitive tools that enable learners to acquire the expertise in a way that fits its qu ...
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Integrating Research in Interactive Storytelling (IRIS)

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

Description Virtual Centre of ExcellenceInteractive Storytelling is a major endeavour to develop new media which could offer a radically new user experience, with a potential to revolutionise digital entertainment. European research in Interactive Storytelling has played a leading role in the development of the field, and this creates a u ...
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Study of Strongly Interacting Matter (HadronPhysics2)

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

The Project promotes the access to five European Research Infrastructures, and it is structured intop eight Networking Activities, plus the Management of the Consortium, and fourteen Joint Research Activities. The Project represents the continuation of the successful HadronPhysics project in FP6 and originates from the initiative of more than 2.500 European scientists working in the field of hadro ...
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Innovation in Mathematics Education on European Level

Start date: Dec 1, 2008,

InnoMathEd aims at substantial innovations in mathematics education on Europeanlevel. Pupils should be given the chance to develop deep mathematical understanding,to acquire key competences that are essential for lifelong learning and to use ICT,especially dynamic mathematics, for individual and cooperative learning processes. Forthat purpose didactic concepts, pedagogical methodologies and innova ...
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Intercultural Education through Religious Studies

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

Religious and cultural diversity are today more than ever a critical and political challenge as the recent emergencies related to geo-political and economical global transformations clearly show. European countries are concerned by a big immigration flow that demands an educational effort in order to foster the mutual understanding and integration.According to Toledo guiding principles, IERS proje ...
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Colonisation and Decolonisation in National History Cultures and Memory Politics in European Perspective

Start date: Oct 1, 2013,

The project CoDec (Colonisation and Decolonisation in National History Cultures and Memory Politics in European Perspective) deals with several important research issues and approaches towards history cultures and memory politics in Europe: - studying the reappraisal of the colonial past and processes of decolonisation in different European states in a comparative perspective and in cooperation wi ...
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European history crossroads as pathways to intercultural and media education

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

The project reacts to the growing importance of mass-media commercial ways of dealing with history in public space that in many respects does not comply with the EU standards for history teaching. However, mass media verifiably influence the historical perception of pupils, and therefore they constitute an important factor in history teaching. Thus, an irrefutable demand in history and civic educa ...
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Multicultural Interdisciplinary Handbook: tools for learning history and geography in a multicultural perspective.

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

Despite official educational guidelines, improved linguistic skills have been limited in all partner countries due to cuts in their national budgets. As a consequence CLIL experiences have been lessened, to the sole benefit of those involving English. Another reason for this project resides in the difficulty in modifying the guidelines of national programmes, that are often short-sighted as far a ...
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Grooming : Adult Education and Training as a Vehicle of Social Integration

The project rationale refers mainly (but not exclusively) to disadvantaged groups andimmigrants and to the necessity to respond to their personal aspirations to get a jobwhich will enhance their full citizenship. The system of skills and practices related tohorse care could be one vehicle to help achieve this. It is a very old profession, andwidespread in most European countries. It is common in r ...
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EuroVision - Museums Exhibiting Europe

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

The “Eurovision - Museums exhibit Europe“ (EMEE) project explores an innovative interdisciplinary approach for national and regional museums to re-interpret their objects in a broader context of European history. The instrumentarium necessary for this is developed by an international, trans-sectoral culture network and presented to the visitor in the "Eurovision Lab." “One Object – Many Visions – ...
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