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Unification of Fundamental Forces and Applications (UNIFY)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

The UNIFY exchange programme has two main scientific objectives. One objective is to gain new insights on the quantum mechanical description of the gravitational interaction, an outstanding fundamental problem in theoretical physics, of crucial importance to our understanding of the Universe and of the forces between its basic constituents. The other main objective is to explore recent development ...
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Forced labour: an Afro-European heritage in sub-Saharan Africa (1930-1975)? (FORCEDLABOURAFRICA)

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

This project analyses the structures of colonial systems of forced labour, in an attempt to come to a comparison of thedifferent trajectories of African populations under distinct European administrations. Through the interpretation of case studiesfrom different West African and Central African territories, it will be possible to understand the techniques of organising aninvoluntary labour force, ...
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Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC)

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

Mass violent conflict affects millions of individuals and households in developing countries. The EU attempts to advance a coordinated approach to end these conflicts and to mitigate the negative effects for survivors. Nevertheless, a clear challenge is that 40% of violent conflicts reignite within 10 years of ending. As outlined in the Commission’s “Instrument for Stability Strategy Paper 2007-20 ...
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Starting Grants – Monitoring European Research Council’s Implementation of Excellence (MERCI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

This project aims to develop and implement instruments for a continuous assessment of the ERC Starting Grants impact on funded researchers. The main item will be a panel study (standardized online interviews) which includes two waves and which is complemented by qualitative interviews and bibliometric studies (triangulation of methods) applied to second stage applicants. The first wave will take p ...
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From Neuron to Behavior (Neuro-behavior)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

In the present proposal I will describe a novel research agenda for understanding the neural basis of mammalian behavior. Three central problems prevent current research from explaining mammalian behavior in terms of neural mechanisms. First, there is a preponderance of correlative evidence in systems neuroscience. Second there is generally insufficient information about the individual neuron(s) ...
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Fronts and Interfaces in Science and Technology (FIRST)

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

Space-time phenomena giving rise to fronts and interfaces are central issues in many contexts of Science and Technology. A selection of some of the most challenging ones, most often of multi-disciplinary character, will be pursued by a team of 10 Full Partner Members (8 universities of different countries and two industries, Guigues Environnement (France) and Siemens (Germany)) with the help of 4 ...
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"BIOactive highly porous and injectable Scaffolds controlling stem cell recruitment, proliferation and differentiation and enabling angiogenesis for Cardiovascular ENgineered Tissues" (BIOSCENT)

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

"Congenital and acquired diseases of the heart are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the world today; 7.2 million people die each year due to coronary heart disease, being the first cause of mortality in population above 60 years old, and the second cause after HIV in world wide young population. There is an urgent demand for new methods to repair and replace damaged cardiovascular ...
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Relevance of accounting information for corporate debt financing (CUBE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"From 2005 the EU requires publicly listed companies to prepare financial statements based on IFRS instead of national accounting rules (EC No. 1606/2002). Regulators have suggested that harmonisation of financial reporting should bring benefits to companies and their capital providers which would in turn improve the efficiency of the European financial markets significantly. However, it is possib ...
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Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation (PROMISE)

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

Description Advancing the Evolution and Benchmaking of Multimedia and Multilingual Information SystemMeasuring is a key to scientific progress. This is particularly true for research concerning complex systems, whether natural or human-built. Multilingual and multimedia information systems are increasingly complex: they need to satisfy di ...
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Religious Diversity and Secular Models in Europe – Innovative Approaches to Law and Policy (RELIGARE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

RELIGARE starts from the idea of equality and how it is challenged by the increasing diversity of religions and other convictions that are transforming Europe. The EU’s expansion, together with important migration fluxes, partly explains this increasing diversity. A growing number of citizens, many of whom are new EU citizens, now hold beliefs and values different from the majority. One observes t ...
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RNA-codified release of cytotoxic peptides from PNA prodrugs as a new therapeutic approach to cancer (MolecularDoctors)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

In this proposal we intend to develop a new medicinal chemistry concept base on cell-personalized delivery of tailored drugs. Relying on basic chemical tools such as proximity-induced acyl transfer reactions and catalytic turnover- we will use RNA biomarkers of cancer cells to trigger the specific expression of cytotoxic drugs. This approach, in addition to contribute to basic science in chemistry ...
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Gene- Environment Interactions in Heart Development (CHeartED)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Cardiovascular malformation (CVM) is the commonest cause of childhood death in developed countries. In the EU there are 51,000 new cases each year and two million affected individuals. Yet, despite intensive research, the cause of 80% of CVM remains elusive. The mission of CHeartED is to identify genetic and environmental pathways that can be modified with the goal of reducing preventable CVM inci ...
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European Network for Cell Imaging and Tracking Expertise (ENCITE)

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

"Cell therapy can be defined as the transplantation of living cells for the treatment of medical disorders. Three different principles underlie the increasing interest in cell therapy. 1. Transplanted cells used as an “active drug” 2. Transplanted cells used to replace damaged and degenerated tissue. 3. Cells used as a drug delivery vehicle. Promising results have been obtained in pre-clinical and ...
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Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European seas (HERMIONE)

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

The HERMIONE project is designed to make a major advance in our knowledge of the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems and their contribution to the production of goods and services. This will be achieved through a highly interdisciplinary approach (including biologists, ecologists, microbiologists, biogeochemists, sedimentologists, physical oceanographers, modelers and socio-economists) that will in ...
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Fundamentals of Molecular Electronic Assemblies (FUNMOLS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"The FUNMOLS network will tackle major challenges in the field of molecular electronics. Ten internationally-leading European research groups from five different countries [including one of Europe’s leading industrial electronics-research groups (IBM Zurich)] have joined forces as full participants, combining expertise in synthetic chemistry, nanoscale physics and device engineering, surface elect ...
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SPIRAL2 PREPARATORY PHASE (SPIRAL2PP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2007, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The SPIRAL 2 Preparatory Phase project aims to achieve the development and signing of the consortium agreement allowing for the construction of the facility. The SPIRAL 2 project located at the GANIL facility (Caen, France) will deliver energetic rare (radioactive) isotope beams with intensities not yet available with presently running machines. The studies of the properties of nuclei forming thes ...
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Visual Impairment and Degeneration: A Road-map for Vision Research within Europe (EuroVisionNet)

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

The coordination project EuroVisionNet aims to link the research activities and policies of the European vision research community and to overcome the national fragmentation, therewith intends to become an essential “instrument” for vision research in the 21st century. To reach this goal the following 4 objectives will be addressed: (1) scientific integration of European vision research; (2) colla ...
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Preparatory Phase for a Deep Sea Facility in the Mediterranean for Neutrino Astronomy and Associated Sciences (KM3NET-PP)

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

In the framework of the KM3NeT Preparatory Phase project the strategic, legal and financial issues are addressed related to the construction of an European deep-sea infrastructure housing a cubic kilometre size Cherenkov neutrino telescope and providing access for deep-sea research. Many technical issues are already addressed in the KM3NeT Design Study, started in 2006, that at the end of its work ...
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Correlated Noise Errors in Quantum Information Processing (CORNER)

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

Any form of manipulation of quantum information (QI), be it storage or transfer, may be represented as a quantum channel, i.e. a map transforming the input state of the sender into the receiver's output state. Given the extreme sensitivity of QI to noise, it is crucial to study the impact of incoherent effects on QI processing and communication if technological applications are to become a reality ...
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All-inorganic nano-rod based thin-film solarcells on glass (ROD-SOL)

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

"Thin film solar cells, based on non-toxic, abundant and air-stable silicon (Si) will probably, based on forecasts, dominate the photovoltaic market in the future and thus replace bulk Si from its leading position. This prognosis is fostered by the strong cost reduction potential due to highly effective materials utilization at low energy consumption. However, thin film Si suffers from inherently ...
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Self-Configuring ENvironment-aware Intelligent aCoustic sensing (SCENIC)

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

Advanced sound processing applications, particularly those based on array processing, are critically sensitive to the environment's acoustic response because their design does not account for the complex propagation phenomena that cause it. Reverberations are usually seen as a liability to take countermeasures against, while nature teaches us that the information provided by the acoustic interacti ...
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Macroscopic Interference Devices for Atomic and Solid-State Systems: Quantum Control of Supercurrents (MIDAS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

The quantum technologies that are coming to fruition are narrow, isolated niches separated by vast domains of technologies still ruled by classical physics. The formidable challenge of creating a broad quantum-technological base calls for bridging and integrating these niches. In this spirit, we wish to capitalize on the remarkable analogies that have recently emerged between two previously unrela ...
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A new 2D-LC approach for quantitative proteomics using MeCAT labeling and multidimensional chromatography coupled to ultra-high-resolution FT-MS-MS and ICP-MS (MeTag)

Start date: May 4, 2009, End date: May 3, 2011,

The quantitative analysis of protein mixtures is pivotal for the understanding of variations in the proteome of living systems. Therefore, several approaches have been devised in recent years, which generally allow only the relative quantitative analysis of peptides and proteins. We have presented proof of concept of a new MeCAT technique, which offers a quantitative determination of proteins and ...
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Understanding of Degradation Mechanisms to Improve Components and Design of PEFC (DECODE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

"The main objective of the planned project DECODE is to increase the life-time of fuel cells for automotive applications. It is well-known that liquid water plays a crucial role in the degradation processes of fuel cells. However, this specific degradation influence is not addressed sufficiently in the present research and development efforts. Therefore, DECODE aims at identifying characteristic b ...
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COmputing with Mesoscopic Photonic and Atomic States (COMPAS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

In the recent years, continuous variables (CV) have emerged as a viable and very promising alternative to the traditional quantum bit-based approaches to quantum information processing. Encoding CV information onto mesoscopic carriers such as the quadratures of light modes or the collective spin of atoms offers several distinct advantages, such as the deterministic generation and manipulation of e ...
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Artificial Language Evolution on Autonomous Robots (ALEAR)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

This tightly integrated focused project aims at fundamental breakthroughs in understanding and synthesising the mechanisms achieving cognition and language. It engages in carefully controlled experiments in which autonomous humanoid robots self-organise rich conceptual frameworks and communication systems with similar features as those found in human languages. Language and cognition are seen as c ...
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Dedicated CT of the Female Breast: Feasibility, optimization and comparison to standard x-ray procedures (digital mammography and tomosynthesis) (Breast CT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

Early and accurate diagnosis of breast cancer in women is a pending challenge. Digital x-ray mammography is considered today’s state of the art in diagnosis although severe insufficiencies are acknowledged. Conventional film-screen mammography, digital tomosynthesis, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance imaging are also in use or under investigation. There is a general consensus tha ...
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