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Towards enduring mouse resources and services advancing research into human health and disease (INFRAFRONTIER2020)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The INFRAFRONTIER RI integrates European Mouse Clinics and the European Mouse Mutant Archive with the common goal to ensure access to mouse models for basic research of human health and disease, and to translate this knowledge into therapeutic approaches for the benefit of the European society. The expanded INFRAFRONTIER2020 network, coordinated by the INFRAFRONTIER GmbH, includes 3 SMEs and is st ...
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Unrestricted Leveraging of Targets for Research Advancement and Drug Discovery (ULTRA-DD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

...o scientific Cores and formalize a collaborative network of SMEs, academic scientists and clinicians. The Protein Characterization and Tool-Generation Core will comprise four integrated laboratories: University of Oxford’s Structural Genomics Consortium laboratory, led by Chas Bountra (OXF-SGC), ETH in Zurich (ETHZ), led by Ruedi Aebersold, Karolinska Institutet (KI-MBB), led by Susanne Gräslund, ...
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The European Union and the Politics and Policies of Migration

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

... and the EU’s initiatives and legislation and the members’ policies, on the other hand, will be given particular consideration. The course fills an important gap in European Union studies at the University of Toronto by providing fourth-year undergraduate European Studies majors and first-year Master of Arts students with a capstone course in which they will have the opportunity to broaden and de ...
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Industrial Applications of Marine Enzymes: Innovative screening and expression platforms to discover and use the functional protein diversity from the sea (INMARE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

INMARE stands for “Industrial Applications of Marine Enzymes: Innovative screening and expression platforms to discover and use the functional protein diversity from the sea”. It is a collaborative Innovation Action to streamline the pathways of discovery and industrial applications of new marine enzymes and bioactives for targeted production of fine chemicals, drugs and in environmental clean-up ...
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European Union Policy on Asylum and Refugees

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

...king on these issues, as well as in special issues in either the Journal of Common Market Studies or the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Both conferences will be attended by journalists, university faculty, graduate students, academics, and policy-makers. We therefore envisage multiple outcomes: (1) Improved understanding of EU policy among the target audiences; (2) Increased reference in ...
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Dialogues on ICT to Support COoperation Ventures and Europe-North AmeRica (Canada and USA) sYnergies (DISCOVERY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"DISCOVERY aims at supporting dialogues between Europe and North America (US and Canada); and fostering cooperation in collaborative ICT R&I, both under Horizon 2020 and under US and Canada funding programmes. With this purpose, DISCOVERY proposes a radically new approach to engage more actively and strategically in supporting dialogues and partnership building for ICT R&I cooperation. At the core ...
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"Information-processing by individual political actors. The determinants of exposure, attention and action in a comparative perspective" (INFOPOL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"A well-functioning democracy implies that political actors are aware of the real problems in society, their potential solutions, and the associated preferences of citizens. This requires information about the real world. This project examines how individual political actors process information coming out of society. Its goal is to lay bare the patterns whereby exposure to certain types of informa ...
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Development of mouse mutant resources for functional analyses of human diseases - Enhancing the translation of research into innovation (INFRAFRONTIER-I3)

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

The mouse shows great similarities in development, physiology and biochemistry to humans, which makes it a key model for research into human disease. The major challenges for mouse functional genomics in the 21st century are to:• Develop a series of mutant alleles for every gene in the mouse genome• Determine the phenotypic consequences of each mutation• Identify mouse models for the complete dise ...
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PRIMES: Protein interaction machines in oncogenic EGF receptor signalling (PRIMES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"PRIMES focuses on the role of protein interactions to assemble dynamic molecular machines that receive and process information to coordinate cellular responses. PRIMES investigates the following: (i) How do protein interactions contribute to the generation of biological specificity in signalling? (ii) How do pathogenetic perturbations affect protein interaction networks? (iii) How can we exploit ...
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Graphene-enabled on-chip supercontinuum light sources (GRAPHENICS)

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

To pave the way towards the widespread application of on-chip mid-infrared(MIR)-pumped nonlinear supercontinuum light sources, we want to introduce a paradigm shift in integrated nonlinear optics. Rather than relying on non-standard waveguide designs, large waveguide footprints, bulky MIR pump lasers and/or limited spectral coverage in strategies that could never comply with the requirements for w ...
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Application of new technologies and methods in nutrition research – the example of phenotypic flexibility (NutriTech)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

NutriTech will build on the foundations of traditional human nutrition research using cutting-edge analytical technologies and methods to comprehensively evaluate the diet-health relationship and critically assess their usefulness for the future of nutrition research and human well-being. Technologies include genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, laser scanning cytometry, NMR based ...
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Formulating new Goals for global health, and proposing new Governance for global health that will allow the achievement of these goals (GO4HEALTH)

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

The MDGs succeeded in generating consensus on and mobilising resources towards agreed goals. They were less successful at clarifying responsibilities for achieving them. The MDG target on sharing global health innovation is particularly ambiguous about the allocation of responsibilities.The members of the consortium behind this proposal assume that the new goals for global health will need to be b ...
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Molecular Approaches and MetaGenomic Investigations for optimizing Clean-up of PAH contaminated sites (MAGICPAH)

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

"MAGICPAH aims to explore, understand and exploit the catalytic activities of microbial communities involved in the degradation of persistent PAHs. It will integrate (meta-) genomic studies with in-situ activity assessment based on stable isotope probing particularly in complex matrices of different terrestrial and marine environments. PAH degradation under various conditions of bioavailability wi ...
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Climate change, Environmental contaminants and Reproductive health (CLEAR)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The research project investigates the possible impact of global climate change on reproductive health in one Arctic and two European populations. The key questions to be addressed are, firstly, how may climate change influence human exposure to widespread environmental contaminants and, secondly, how may contaminants impact occurrence of reproductive disorders as sensitive indicators of health? To ...
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Marine Metagenomics for New Biotechnological Applications (MAMBA)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"The Project aims at the mining of individual enzymes and metabolic pathways from extremophilic marine organisms and the metagenomes from microbial communities from peculiar marine environments and consequent funnelling the new enzymatic reactions and processes towards the new biotechnological applications. Project builds up on the scientific and technological excellence of individual academic and ...
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Silicon-based Ultra-Compact Cost-Efficient System Design for mm-Wave Sensors (SUCCESS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

SUCCESS targets to develop a technology platform and best-practice design methods to enable the breakthrough of silicon mm-Wave SoCs for high-volume applications. Silicon technology (CMOS, SiGe) has made tremendous progress towards ever higher device cut-off frequencies. Nowadays all RF components for mm-Wave sensing applications up to 120 GHz can be realized in silicon. Silicon technology hence ...
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Alternative Fuels and Biofuels for Aircraft Development (ALFA-BIRD)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"ALFA-BIRD aims at developing the use of alternative fuels in aeronautics. In a context where the price of oil is increasing and with impact of fossil fuels on climate change, the sustainable growth of the civil aviation is conditioned by the respect of the environment. In this context, using biofuels and alternative fuels in aeronautics is a great challenge, since the operational constraints (e.g ...
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Science Created by You (SCY) (SCY)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

Description The SCY system for constructive and productive learning of science and technology will be based on a flexible and adaptive pedagogical approach to learning and on learning objects created by learners.SCY's basic philosophy is that the learning of science is a process of creating knowledge by learners. The overall objective of ...
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Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

This is a proposal to establish a multilateral network under the Leonardo da Vinci programme to support and extend vocational training for digital curators in the library, archives, museums and cultural activities sector. It addresses the availability of training for staff to develop new skills needed for long-term management of digital collections being built up by cultural institutions as a res ...
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Transatlantic Business Process Management Education Network

Start date: Sep 16, 2010,

In response to the overwhelming and constantly ever-increasing demands being plaecd by the industry on trained specialists in modern BPM and IT service technologies this project is to develop a Canadian-European BPM Education Network. The transatlantic education network addresses students in computer science, IT and information systems in Graduate level in order to overcome the shortage of highly ...
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PERFORMIGRATIONS - PEOPLE ARE THE TERRITORY

Start date: Apr 1, 2014,

Each immigrant is a performer: no matter the reason for the move, relocation forces one to adjust to a new territory and to play a new role. Therefore, the visible map is not the real territory; people are the territory, and they are mobile. They are an intricate territory made of stories and experiences. For this reason, EU is more than a geographical space: it is a space of storytelling transcen ...
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