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Mechanisms of Developmental and Injury-related Axon Branch Loss (DIABLo)

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

My aim is to explore the subcellular (i.e. cell biological and molecular) mechanisms of axon loss in the developing and diseased mammalian nervous system. Axon loss not only sculpts neuronal networks in development, but also occurs early in numerous neurological diseases. Indeed, the life-time risk for diseases with an “axonopathic” component approaches 50%. Pathological axon loss likely involves ...
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Nanostructured Surfaces: Molecular Functionality on advanced sp2-bonded substrates (NanoSurfs)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Inspired by the diverse functionalities of complex molecular building blocks evidenced in manifold life processes as transport of respiratory gases, metabolism or light harvesting, we aim for a comprehensive characterization and control of molecular properties in surface-based model systems. To fully exploit and tune molecular functionality on substrates, a paradigm shift away from conventional me ...
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In vitro reconstitution and mechanistic dissection of Intraflagellar Transport in C.elegans sensory cilia (DissectIFT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Cilia are microtubule-based protrusions of the plasma membrane found on many eukaryotic cells, including most cell types of the human body. Whereas the functions of motile cilia were immediately obvious, the role of the immotile or so-called primary cilia remained largely unrecognized for many decades. Once referred to as aberrant solitary cilia with no obvious function, these ancient structures n ...
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Control based on Human Models (CON-HUMO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"CON-HUMO focuses on novel concepts for automatic control based on data-driven human models and machine learning. This enables innovative control applications that are difficult if not impossible to realize using traditional control and identification methods, in particular in the challenging area of smart human-machine interaction. In order to achieve intuitive and efficient goal-oriented interac ...
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Intelligent systems' Holistic Evolving Analysis of Real-life Universal speaker characteristics (IHEARU)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

"Recently, automatic speech and speaker recognition has matured to the degree that it entered the daily lives of thousands of Europe's citizens, e.g., on their smart phones or in call services. During the next years, speech processing technology will move to a new level of social awareness to make interaction more intuitive, speech retrieval more efficient, and lend additional competence to comput ...
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Cellular determinants of neuronal plasticity on the level of single synapses in vivo (InVivoSynapse)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

The search for the fundamental mechanisms of learning and experience-dependent memory formation in the brain has long been a central quest in neuroscience. The neocortex is a particularly relevant region for plasticity because it is involved in sensory, motor, and cognitive tasks with strong learning components. However, despite many years of intensive research our knowledge of the neuronal mechan ...
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Delegation of Power to International Organizations and Institutional Empowerment over Time (DELPOWIO)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

In recent decades, there has been a steady increase in the number of international Organizations (IOs). At varying levels states have surrendered some authority to IOs, giving them different levels of institutional empowerment. While in the EU, IMF and World Bank there has been a steadily extension of their competences, in the GATT/WTO-Secretariat, NATO and WHO the degree of delegated authority ha ...
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High-Dimensional Sparse Optimal Control (HDSPCONTR)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

"We are addressing the analysis and numerical methods for the tractable simulation and the optimal control of dynamical systems which are modeling the behavior of a large number N of complex interacting agents described by a large amount of parameters (high-dimension). We are facing fundamental challenges:- Random projections and recovery for high-dimensional dynamical systems: we shall explore ho ...
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Automatic Synthesis of Software Verification Tools from Proof Rules (VERISYNTH)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Software complexity is growing, so is the demand for software verification. Soon, perhaps within a decade, wide deployment of software verification tools will be indispensable or even mandatory to ensure software reliability in a large number of application domains, including but not restricted to safety and security critical systems. To adequately respond to the demand we need to eliminate tedi ...
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Real-time nanoscale optoelectronics (NanoREAL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Is it possible to really ‘see’ how fast electrons flow in nanoscale optoelectronic circuits? Can we, in this way, get a complete understanding of the real-time dynamics of electrons in nanoscale circuits?The vision of this ERC proposal is to establish a research area at the interface of condensed matter physics, ultrafast optics, and electrical engineering which has so far been nearly completely u ...
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Optimal Imaging with Present and Future Coherent X-ray Sources (OPTIMAX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The rapid development of high-brilliance X-ray sources in the last decade has opened the way to extremely powerful imaging modalities. Third generation synchrotron sources and newly built X-ray free-electron lasers offer a very high flux and can produce X-ray beams with excellent coherence properties. Imaging techniques that rely on the coherence of the incoming field can give access to phase cont ...
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Self Organization in Cytoskeletal Systems (SELFORG)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The requirements on the eukaryotic cytoskeleton are not only of high complexity, but include demands that are actually contradictory in the first place: While the dynamic character of cytoskeletal structures is essential for the motility of cells, their ability for morphological reorganisations and cell division, the structural integrity of cells relies on the stability of cytoskeletal structures. ...
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Uncertainty Visualization for Reliable Data Discovery (SaferVis)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Visualization has significantly changed the way humans analyze large amounts of multi-dimensional data. However, current visualization techniques can give only little or no guarantees regarding the confidence in the displayed information. Since this information is always affected by uncertainties in the data generation and visualization processes, the user can be lead to misclassifications, misint ...
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Moduli spaces of local G-shtukas (G-SHTUKAS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

This project provides a novel approach to the local Langlands programme via a comprehensive investigation of local G-shtukas and their moduli spaces and the exploitation of their relations to Shimura varieties.Local G-shtukas are generalisations to arbitrary reductive groups of the local analogue of Drinfeld shtukas. They also are the function field counterpart of p-divisible groups. Hence moduli ...
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Topological Spin Solitons for Information Technology (TOPFIT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"Present day limitations of information technology based on magnetic materials may be traced to the notion, that all magnetic materials known until recently exhibit conventional, i.e., topologically trivial, forms of magnetic order. Only two years ago the first example of an entirely new form of magnetic order has been discovered, which is composed of topologically stable spin solitons (so called ...
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E3 - Extreme Event Ecology (E3)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"With anthropogenic warming, extreme events have already increased in magnitude and frequency and are likely to continue to do so in the near future. These extreme events play decisive roles in climate change impacts. Natural and managed systems, such as agriculture and forestry, are more strongly affected by extremes than by a change in average conditions. Classical parameters considered have inc ...
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Efficient Systems and Propulsion for Small Aircraft (ESPOSA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The ESPOSA project will develop and integrate novel design and manufacture technologies for a range of small gas turbine engines up to approx. 1000 kW to provide aircraft manufacturers with better choice of modern propulsion units. It will also deal with engine related systems which contribute to the overall propulsion unit efficiency, safety and pilot workload reduction. Through the newly develop ...
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Seamless Human Robot Interaction in Dynamic Environments (SHRINE)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

A major barrier exists preventing today's and future interactive robots from smoothly acting in joint workspaces in real-world and in an efficient and socially compatible manner on human terms. Robots lack the ability to plan actions in a timely manner in order to match dynamics of environment and humans. Environment and human motion dynamics have to be known and represented in a way that sufficie ...
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ACTUATION 2015: Modular Electro Mechanical Actuators for ACARE 2020 Aircraft and Helicopters (ACTUATION2015)

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

The All-Electric Aircraft is a major target for the next generation of aircraft to lower consumption of non-propulsive power and thus fuel burn. To eliminate hydraulic circuits, pumps and reservoirs, Electro Mechanical Actuators (EMA) are mandatory but now need to meet cost, reliability and weight requirements from the airframers.ACTUATION2015 aims to develop and validate a common set of standard ...
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Towards the Construction of the Fundamental Theory of Flavour (FLAVOUR)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Six quarks and six leptons of different kinds, referred to as flavours, form the modern periodic table of the fundamental building blocks of matter. The Standard Model of particle physics successfully describes these elementary particles and the forces between them. A deeper understanding of the flavour structure of quarks and leptons, of their masses and couplings, is however still missing.Decisi ...
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Surface-Confined Metallosupramolecular Architecture: Towards a Novel Coordination Chemistry for the Design of Functional Nanosystems (MolArt)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The fascinating properties of transition metal complexes intrigued generations of scientists and spurred major technological developments. They are decisive for life processes and catalysis. More recently the pertaining coordination interactions were used to assemble discrete nanostructures and supramolecular networks. Here we aim at a rationale for the design of metallosupramolecular architecture ...
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Neutron Scattering and Muon Spectroscopy Integrated Initiative (NMI3-II)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

"Advanced solutions to the challenges that confront our technology-based society – from energy and environment to health – are crucially dependent on advanced knowledge of material properties down to the atomic scale. Neutron and Muon spectroscopy offer unique analytical tools for material investigation. They are thus an indispensible building block of the European Research Area and directly addre ...
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Haptic Signal Processing and Communications (ProHaptics)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

During the last decade, audio-visual communication has shaped the way humans interact with technical systems or other humans. During the next decade, haptic communication has the potential to further augment human-to-human and human-to-machine interaction. With recent advances in Virtual Reality, Man-Machine Interaction, Telerobotics, Telepresence, and Telemanipulation, the processing and communic ...
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Few Spin Solid-State Nano-systems (S^3NANO)

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

"This network brings together an exceptionally strong group of world leading experts in nano-science and technology in order to achieve breakthroughs in understanding and successful utilisation of nanoscale systems in future devices. The focus of the consortium is on few spin nano-systems in solid-state materials including III-V semiconductors and Carbon-based structures: carbon nano-tubes, graphe ...
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Silent Air Flows in transport, buildings and power generation (FLOWAIRS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The FlowAirS proposal is collaborative training research network. It will be focused on the generation, propagation and reduction of sound in flow ducts for transport, buildings and power generation. There is a real need for a European-wide training in this field: the FlowAirS general objective is to train by research a new generation of young researchers with multi-disciplinary skills and able to ...
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Reliable and Efficient Combustion of Oxygen/Coal/Recycled Flue Gas Mixtures (RELCOM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Most coal-fired utility boilers are fired with pulverised coal and the use of this technology for power generation far outweighs that of alternatives. The consortium have identified key issues that need to be addressed to pave the way for full-scale deployment of oxy-coal firing. As most previous work has been undertaken at pilot-scale so that, in addition to medium scale demonstration activities, ...
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EUROpean consortium for antiCALINs as next generation high-affinity protein therapeutics (EUROCALIN)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The consortium aims to develop and produce an Anticalin, a member of a novel high-affinity scaffold derived from the lipocalin protein family. The Anticalin is specific for hepcidin which is a central regulator of iron homeostasis, and will be used to antagonize hepcidin for the treatment of “anemia of chronic disease” (ACD). Anticalins are genetically modified lipocalins that can target almost an ...
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Pico-second Silicon photomultiplier-Electronics- & Crystal research-Marie-Curie-Network (PicoSEC-MCNet)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

We propose to establish a special detector-training network aiming to extend the application of cutting-edge technologies developed in High Energy Physics (HEP) to other domains, such as medical imaging. A large number of detector techniques, developed for and used in particle physics experiments, has been transferred successfully to other fields. Most prominent are their applications in medicine, ...
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Natural products and their cellular targets: A multidisciplinary strategy for antibacterial drug discovery (ANTIBACTERIALS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

After decades of successful treatment of bacterial infections with antibiotics, formerly treatable bacteria have developed drug resistance and consequently pose a major threat to public health. To address the urgent need for effective antibacterial drugs we will develop a streamlined chemical-biology platform that facilitates the consolidated identification and structural elucidation of natural pr ...
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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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Single-molecule studies of protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions, enabled by DNA origami (DNA ORIGAMI DEVICES)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Adhesive interactions between macromolecules are ubiquitously found in biology. Regulatory processes in biology depend on temporary physical inter-biomolecular interactions whose strengths are regulated by the internal state of the cell. Obtaining quantitative insight the dynamic strength of interactions between biomolecules has remained a difficult task. Single-molecule approaches can provide det ...
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Recruitment and activation of brown adipocytes as preventive and curative therapy for type 2 diabetes (DIABAT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"The DIABAT project will employ knowledge of the function, dysfunction and physiological regulation of brown adipocytes to develop innovative therapeutic and preventive strategies for type 2 diabetes. Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is currently a worldwide recognized target to combat obesity and diabetes due to last years re-discovery of functional BAT in adult humans by several of the members of the ...
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The European Research Infrastructure for Thermochemical Biomass Conversion (BRISK)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Enhancing biomass utilization without risking its sustainability is a European energy priority, and can be linked to targets for curbing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 and 50% by 2050: enhanced energy security and integration with other industrial sectors, such as agriculture, also play a role. Improved use of biofuels and products in advanced biomass conversion units and biorefineries ar ...
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CopyMe3D: High-Resolution 3D Copying and Printing of Objects (COPYME3D)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

With recent advances in 3D scanning and 3D printing we are at the advent of low-cost and easy-to-use 3D copying machines. While scanning objects is feasible today, existing commercial systems are either slow or rely on expensive equipment, require skilled users, and will often generate incomplete 3D geometry. The algorithms developed in the ERC project ConvexVision provide the foundations for easi ...
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Convex Optimization Methods for Computer Vision and Image Analysis (CONVEXVISION)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Optimization methods have become an established paradigm to address most Computer Vision challenges including thereconstruction of three-dimensional objects from multiple images, or the tracking of a deformable shape over time. Yet, it hasbeen largely overlooked that optimization approaches are practically useless if they do not come with efficient algorithms tocompute minimizers of respective ene ...
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Novel multimodal endoscopic probes for simultaneous PET/ultrasound imaging for image-guided interventions (ENDOTOFPET-US)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

In the frame of this project it is proposed to define and build a bi-modal PET-US (Positron Emission Tomography and Ultrasound) endoscopic probe combining in a miniaturized system a fully digital, 200ps time resolution Time of Flight PET detector head (TOF-PET) coupled to a commercial ultrasound (US) assisted biopsy endoscope and to launch the first steps of clinical validation.The project address ...
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Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS)

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

The goal of EINS is coordinating and integrating European research aimed at achieving a deeper multidisciplinary understanding of the development of the Internet as a societal and technological artefact, whose evolution is increasingly interwined with that of human societies. Its main objective is to allow an open and productive dialogue between all the disciplines which study Internet systems und ...
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Distributed Infrastructure for EXPErimentation in Ecosystem Research (EXPEER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2015,

EXPEER will bring together, major observational, experimental, analytical and modelling facilities in ecosystem science in Europe. By uniting these highly instrumented ecosystem research facilities under the same umbrella and with a common vision, EXPEER will form a key contribution to structuring and improving the European Research Area (ERA) within terrestrial ecosystem research.EXPEER builds ...
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SOFC CCHP WITH POLY-FUEL: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE (SOFCOM)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"If we consider a new energy framework, based on the concepts of sustainability, energy security using local resources, maximization of the exergy efficiency of the whole system, a possible solution could be based on the following criteria:• Combined cooling, heat and power (CCHP) plants;• Small-medium size plants locally distributed;• Plants with maximization of the energy recovery from the prima ...
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Dynamics and Cooperative Phenomena in Complex Physical and Biological Media (DCP-PhysBio)

Start date: Apr 25, 2011, End date: Apr 24, 2015,

The goal of the DCP-PhysBio exchange program is to bring together several European teams (France, Germany, UK), Israel, as well as partners from Russia and Ukraine. We want to use our combined expertise to study various challenging dynamical and cooperative phenomena taking place in complex physical and biological systems. All the teams have a track record of research in these areas concentrating ...
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