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Cosmological Tests of Gravity (CosTesGrav)

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

...ng our theoretical knowledge of the models and our state-of-the-art simulations.This grant will exploit and develop the world-leading position of the group initiated by Kazuya Koyama at the University of Portsmouth funded by the ERC starting grant (2008-2013).
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Students, social change and the construction of the post-independence Algerian state, 1962-1978 (STUSOCSTA)

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

This project seeks to bring a new perspective to understanding state construction in Algeria after independence. Through a history of the first generations of Algerians who went to university in the 1960s and 1970s, it explores the intersections between political and institutional transformations and social, cultural and economic processes. These processes include increasing literacy, rural to urb ...
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Perception and Evaluation of Regional and Cohesion policies by Europeans and Identification with the Values of Europe (PERCEIVE)

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

The PERCEIVE (Perception and Evaluation of Regional and Cohesion policies by Europeans and Identification with the Values of Europe) project aims at both mapping and explaining inter- and intra-regional variations in: a) the experiences and results of cohesion policy implementation, b) citizens’ awareness and appreciation of EU efforts for delivering cohesion and c) European identities and citizen ...
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Using Galaxy Surveys to Understand the Dark Universe (Darksurvey)

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

...o perform additional tests, and to break degeneracies present when cosmological models are tested.This grant will consolidate the world-leading position of the group initiated by Will Percival at the University of Portsmouth, and developed over the last 4 years. Furthermore, it will train and develop a group of scientists within Europe with the key experimental skills required for the ESA Euclid m ...
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Development of Robot-Enhanced therapy for children with AutisM spectrum disorders (DREAM)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

In clinical interventions, skill transfer from therapist to children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) benefits from the inclusion of expressive artefacts such as puppets and animated characters. Well-designed robotic agents have proven to be particularly effective and are becoming an increasingly important tool for mediating between therapists and ASD children in robot-assisted therapy (RAT). ...
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Logistic Efficiencies And Naval architecture for Wind Installations with Novel Developments (LEANWIND)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

A new EU 7th Framework Programme project, “LEANWIND” (Logistic Efficiencies And Naval architecture for Wind Installations with Novel Developments) seeks to apply lean principles to the offshore wind farm project lifecycle. The primary LEANWIND objective is to provide cost reductions across the offshore wind farm lifecycle and supply chain through the application of lean principles and the developm ...
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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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Cosmology with voids and superclusters: combining theory, simulation and observation (COSMOVOID)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The aim of this cosmology proposal is to study the contents, history and evolution of our Universe, using the distribution of matter on large scales. I propose to study new methods to identify and catalogue rare voids and superclusters in the large-scale structure of the Universe and to study their statistical, morphological and dynamical properties. I will use these studies to propose new observa ...
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Hydro-fracture in the laboratory: matching diagnostic seismic signals to fracture networks via new rock physics experiments (FRACSEIS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"Fluids are a ubiquitous element of the Earth system, whether shallow aquifers, deeper crustal fluids (meteoric water, hydrothermal fluid and hydrocarbons), or deep fluids implicated in subduction zones via dehydration reactions. However, our understanding of the stresses imparted by fluids in the shallow crust (2 km) and how these over-pressurize the surrounding rock via the process of hydrofract ...
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European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation (E-ARK)

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

The goal of the E-ARK Project is to pilot archival services to keep records authentic and usable based on current best-practices. These will address the three main endeavours of an archive – acquiring, preserving and enabling re-use of information. E-ARK will demonstrate the potential benefits for public administrations, public agencies, public services, citizens and business by providing easy and ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

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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Evolution of cognition and primate social style (Macacognitum)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

In his book “The Descent of Man” (1871), Darwin suggested that differences between human and animal intelligence is a matter of degree, not of kind. Since then, it has been empirically proven that Humans share common cognitive attributes but also exhibit complex cognitive skills not demonstrated by other primates. A crucial question in comparative cognitive research is whether these species differ ...
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Networks and Narratives: The Transnational Community of European Studies 1957-2004 (ESNETNARR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...ent and research. New SNA and research interviewing skills will be vital for his innovative interdisciplinary combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. He will be based at Portsmouth University’s Centre for European and International Studies Research, which has excellent training facilities for early career researchers. He will work with Professor Wolfram Kaiser, a leading contemporary ...
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Evolution of Tolerance to an Anti-Androgen (ETAA)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

"The research outlined in this proposal investigates the potential for exposure to endocrine active chemicals (EACs) to influence evolutionary processes within fish populations. The EACs are globally recognised as a prevalent group of environmental contaminants that are known to induce reproductive abnormalities in a range of vertebrates. Although the impact of exposure to these chemicals is well ...
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Novel Delivery Platform for Hydrophobic Drugs ("""RTILS-GELS""")

Start date: Jan 15, 2014, End date: Jan 14, 2016,

Underpinned by pharmaceutical-industry estimates that approximately 40% of lipophilic therapeutic molecules are rejected because of their poor aqueous solubility and formulation-stability issues, one of the main challenges facing modern pharmaceutical science is the development of carrier vehicles for the extended delivery of such drug candidates. Additional impetus for such research activities is ...
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Low Emission AntiFouling coatings based on the novel discovered post settlement penetration triggered antifouling (LEAF)

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

"Marine biofouling can be defined as the colonization of man-made surfaces in seawater by microscopic and macroscopic organisms. This phenomenon can result in great loss of function and effectiveness both for cruising ships and for static constructions. Of special concern is the negative effects of hard foulers such as barnacles, which cause [1]: (i) increased drag resistance resulting in up to 40 ...
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Resource Efficient Maritime Capacity (REMCAP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The global maritime market is on a strong growth trajectory, and this project aims to harness that growth to create economic and employment benefits for Europe. On the one hand, growth is driven by commercial megatrends such as demand for marine/offshore renewable energy, fish products and emerging potential for ‘blue biotech’ products; on the other hand, there is high demand for efficient use an ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The University of Portsmouth has an established history of accessing the Erasmus programme (Socrates, LLP) for the benefit of its staff and students, and is currently placed within the top 25 UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) with regard to number of Erasmus+ student participants, and in the top 5 UK HEIs for number of Erasmus+ staff participants. The project this year was a continuation of ...
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Mutualisation des opérations de maintenance offshore (2OM)

Start date: Oct 2, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

2OM project mainly aims to design decision making helping tools, dedicated to support public policy launched regardind offshore wind farms, including their life cycles. This project aims to provide a common strategic frame to decision-makers in terms of offshore investments. Achieveme ...
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ptide Research Network of Excellence (PeReNe)

Start date: Jan 31, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

PERENE aims to create an R&D Peptide Research Network of Excellence to serve institutional laboratories and companies.
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Strenghtening the development of sustainable connectivity in NWE for freight and logistics with the support of ICT innovative solutions (WEASTFLOWS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The project aims to increase sustainable freight transport. relieve congestion at key bottlenecks. remove technical barriers to modal shift and using ICT to make better use of existing infrastructure capacity in NWE. including by changing private sector behaviour. NWE manufacturing is increasingly outsourced and far eastern markets for NWE products are growing rapidly. The project treats log ...
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Supporting Pioneers in Urban-Rural Entrepreneurship to create vital new hubs (PURE HUBS)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Apr 29, 2015,

We aim to ENHANCE THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PERFORMANCE OF CITIES AND THEIR RURAL HINTERLANDS and to establish better functional links between urban communities and rural production in the NWE area. We translate this general aim into 3 objectives: Objective 1: To enhance the SOCIAL relationships between urban communities and adjacent rural areas. enabling cross-sector cooperation and ultimately ...
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Socio economic effects of management measures of the future CFP (SOCIOEC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

SOCIOEC is an interdisciplinary, European wide project bringing together scientists from several fisheries sciences with industry partners and other key stakeholders to work in an integrated manner on solutions for future fisheries management, that can be implemented at a regional level. The central concept is to provide a mechanism for developing measures that are consistent with the overarching ...
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Metagenomic Analysis of Microbial Communities Involved in Wood Degradation in a Xylophagic Catfish (METAXYLO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"Microbes play an essential role in the global cycling of carbon and nitrogen, but, many of the microorganisms involved in these biogeochemical cycles are, as yet, unculturable using traditional microbiological methods. Thus, essential microbial interactions and biochemical processes contributing to these cycles await discovery. Application of molecular tools can overcome limitations of non-cult ...
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Towards an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity (TESIS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

TESIS, “Towards an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity”, is an integrated ITN programme to investigate the foundations of human sociality. It brings together the complementary expertise of 13 European research institutes, clinical centres and private enterprises that span the biomedical sciences and the humanities. Thus, TESIS provides critical mass in the fields of philosophy, cognitive neurosc ...
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mouvoir une gouvernance efficace de la Manche (Pegaseas)

Start date: Mar 31, 2013, End date: Feb 27, 2015,

the PEGASEAS cluster aims at supporting improved governance of the Channel marine ecosystem by capitalising on the results of the projects financed by the Interreg IV A France(Channel)-England Programme on this topic.
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CHANNEL MOR

Start date: May 13, 2013, End date: Jan 30, 2015,

The Channel-MOR cluster aims at fostering marine renewable energy economic development and facilitating the integration of businesses, including SMEs in this sector. Several projects of the INTERREG IV A France (Channel) - England programme are involved in this cluster (BEEMS, CAMIS, DEEDS, MERiFIC, 2OM, Channel Marine Academy and Mer-Innovate) but also the Atlantic Power Cluster project which has ...
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Channel Catchments Cluster (3C)

Start date: Apr 22, 2013, End date: Jan 29, 2015,

The aim of the 3C “Channel Catchments Cluster” is to gather, share and disseminate best practices and tools developed in the context of various Interreg IV A France (Channel) - England projects to make scientific recommendations for better water quality.
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"Aquaculture for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Nutrition" (AFSPAN)

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

"Aquaculture is widely considered as important for enhancing food security, alleviating poverty and improving nutrition. However, little information is available concerning the direct and indirect impacts of aquaculture on food security and poverty alleviation in most developing countries and LIFDCs. Strengthening the knowledge base surrounding aquaculture and food and nutrition security through t ...
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Studies on the effects of CHRONic EXPOsure of marine organisms to contaminants from industry in the English Channel (CHRONEXPO)

Start date: May 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Objectif général :Espace maritime partagé par le Royaume-Uni et la France, la Manche est le lieu d'un trafic maritime intense avec un risque potentiel réel de pollution accidentelle. Les répercussions d'un tel accident maritime sont graves en raison des multiples usages du milieu marin, en particulier pour la pêche, l'aquaculture, les loisirs et le tourisme. Le projet CHRONEXPO a pour but de contr ...
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Universal microarrays for the evaluation of fresh-water quality based on detection of pathogens and their toxins (ΜΑQUΑ)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

Monitoring the quality of drinking water is of paramount importance for public health. “Water is not a commercial product but a heritage that must be protected, defended and treated as such” (Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC). The threat of waterborne diseases in Europe will predictably increase in the future as the human population increases and as a result of globalization and migration from ...
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Développement de compétences européennes environnementales et maritimes (Beems)

Start date: Sep 29, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The aim of the Building European Environmental & Maritime Skills (BEEMS) project is to stimulate the growth and development of environmental and maritime skills within the offshore wind energy industry. In order to improve the economic viability of the renewable marine energies sector, and more particularly the offshore wind energy sector, the BEEMS project seeks to adapt those skills that are alr ...
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Mining for Metals in a Massive Spectroscopic Survey of the Intergalactic Medium (MINE BOSS)

Start date: Sep 19, 2012, End date: Sep 18, 2014,

"The researcher has demonstrated excellence in developing new techniques for detecting, measuring and modelling the intergalactic medium (IGM) and its relation to galaxy formation. He has been particularly focussed on recent incarnations of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II & -III) and is a key member of the team using observations of the IGM in a massive spectroscopic survey of the distant un ...
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"Farmers in Brussels: Agricultural Interest Groups and the Common Agricultural Policy, 1967-1992" (AGRIREFORM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"The proposed research project explores the lack of reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the oldest common policy of the present day European Union, prior to 1992. It does so by analysing the role and influence of organised farm interests as one of the main driving forces behind agricultural policy inertia.The project has two main aims. Firstly, it investigates how and to what extent fa ...
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INNOVATIVE REARING AND STUNNING OF FARMED TURBOT AND SOLE TO MEET FUTURE CHALLENGES REGARDING QUALITY OF PRODUCTION AND ANIMAL WELFARE (MAXIMUS)

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

Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) is identified as one of the most promising candidates for marine aquaculture in Europe, with several characteristics that make it an interesting species for commercial growers and European consumers. The species has tremendous potential as an aquaculture species but many of its attributes are currently unexploited utilize. European production of turbot has been increa ...
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Trans Channel Neuroscience Network (TC2N)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

The TC2N project is managed by a federation of 40 laboratories from Nijmegen to Brest, via Portsmouth called the LARC-Neuroscience Network. The project will focus on 5 main research topics: cerebrovascular accident (CVA), eating disorders, tumors, neurodevelopmental diseases and (neuro)endocrine disruptives.The main objectives of the project are: - to boost, widen and develop the LARC-Neuroscience ...
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Measuring Dark Energy Properties Using Galaxy Surveys (MDEPUGS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

"Observations have shown that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. At present, there is no physically motivated model to explain this, directly demonstrating that current theories of fundamental particles and gravity are either incorrect or incomplete. Understanding this phenomenon is consequently one of the most important outstanding problems in the whole of science. Perhaps the simples ...
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Sea Border Surveillance (SeaBILLA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

The SeaBILLA proposal aims to 1) define the architecture for cost-effective European Sea Border Surveillance systems, integrating space, land, sea and air assets, including legacy systems; 2) apply advanced technological solutions to increase performances of surveillance functions; 3) develop and demonstrate significant improvements in detection, tracking, identification and automated behaviour an ...
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Modified Gravity as an Alternative to Dark Energy (MGATDE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Modified Gravity as an Alternative to Dark Energy
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GIMs

Start date: Sep 30, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2013,

Objectif général :Le projet GIMs vise à développer de nouveaux biocides naturels (qui détruisent les micro-organismes), provenant d’algues et du milieu marin, afin de développer des matériaux barrières contre les biofilms. Un biofilm se forme quand des bactéries adhèrent à une surface en milieu aqueux. Ce projet de recherche met en relation des laboratoires français et britanniques, ainsi qu’une e ...
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