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FOIE GRAS provides innovative training for 13 early stage researchers (ESRs) to answer two critical and unanswered questions: a) Is hepatic bioenergetic remodelling involved in NAFLD pathogenesis, and target for stratification or therapeutic/lifestyle interventions? and b) Is the disruption of the gut-liver axis involved in NAFLD progression? In Western Societies, there has been a recent surge of ...
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XF-ACTORS aims to establish a multidisciplinary research program to answer the urgent need to improve prevention, early detection and control of Xylella fastidiosa (Xf). Recently, Xf was introduced into Italy, where it is causing severe damage to olive crops, and in France, where so far it is limited to ornamental plants and some landscape trees. The overall goal of the research program is to asse ...
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Semantic EO Data Web Alert and Retrieval Framework (SEO-DWARF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Technological advances in remote sensing have increased the availability of satellite images with different spatiotemporal and spectral characteristics.There is difficulty for retrieving the most appropriate data for each user's needs.One key challenge is to connect the quantitative information of the EO images with the qualitative (high-level user queries) and be able to mine these connections in ...
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Pest Organisms Threatening Europe (POnTE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

This proposal SFS-03a-2014-aligned focuses to minimize the risk of introduction/impact of emerging pests threatening EU agriculture and forestry. The targets are: 1) Xylella fastidiosa and its vectors in olive, grapevine, citrus, stone fruit, ornamentals and landscape trees of high socio-economic importance; 2) ‘Ca. Liberibacter solanacearum’ and its vectors affecting a number of strategic crops s ...
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The GEMex project is a complementary effort of a European consortium with a corresponding consortium from Mexico, who submitted an equivalent proposal for cooperation. The joint effort is based on three pillars: 1 – Resource assessment at two unconventional geothermal sites, for EGS development at Acoculco and for a super-hot resource near Los Humeros. This part will focus on understanding the tec ...
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Renal Molecular Pathologist network

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

Rationale and background The prevention and care of chronic diseases are among the priorities of the EU's current health strategy. Chronic kidney disease (CKD), one of the most common chronic degenerative diseases, is often accompanied by a high mortality and morbidity, and has a high socio-economic impact. Objectives•Strengthen the cooperation among Universities in order to boost innovation and e ...
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The IF4TM project has an overarching aim to contribute to the establishment of institutional framework for the third mission of the universities in Serbia, encompassing three dimensions: technology transfer and innovation, continuing education and social engagement. Six specific objectives are:1. To define legal and policy framework supporting the development of universities’ third mission in Serb ...
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Developing and Communicating the Impact of Youth Work across Europe

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

This is a unique project which simultaneously both develops and communicates the impact of youth work across 5 European countries (United Kingdom [lead partner], France, Italy, Finland, Estonia). It is the first project of its type to do this. It utilizes a recently devised method for this process - Transformative Evaluation (TE) - which in the UK context has been shown to both significantly deve ...
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Ultra-fast Laser Surfacing of Teeth for Resistance to Erosion (LUSTRE)

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

"The “LUSTRE-IAPP” has emerged from a background of successful bilateral academic and industrial collaborations within the UK and Italian partners, in which the knowledge transfer and training of ERs and ESRs are centred on four key aspects of academic research leading to KT and commercialisation activities. These are in the areas of: a) in the engineering and fabrication of laser glass hosts for ...
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Integrated Methods for Advanced Geothermal Exploration (IMAGE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"The IMAGE project will develop a reliable science based exploration and assessment method to ""IMAGE"" geothermal reservoirs using an interdisciplinary approach based on three general pillars:1 Understanding the processes and properties that control the spatial distribution of critical exploration parameters at European to local scales. The focus will be on prediction of temperatures, in-situ str ...
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"GREEN SURGE will identify, develop and test ways of connecting green spaces, biodiversity, people and the green economy, in order to meet the major urban challenges related to land use conflicts, climate change adaptation, demographic changes, and human health and wellbeing. It will provide a sound evidence base for green infrastructure planning and implementation, exploring the innovation potent ...
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Open up entrepreneurship

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

Internet and the WWW is changing our lives: the way we communicate, work, shop, socialise, play and educate. Digital technologies also reshape traditional industries and totally transform the business environment. They speed up and improve the way new innovative products and services are produced and accessed. ICT is also changing the very nature of consumption, competition and how markets operat ...
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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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Organic Bioelectronics (ORGBIO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Organic Bioelectonics is a new discipline which holds promise to shape, direct, and change future medical treatments in a revolutionary manner over the next decades. At the moment Europe has a unique leading position in this area, being almost all the world-leading groups in this field located in Europe and constituting the core of this international training network. However, realizing the promis ...
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IMAging GEnetics for MENtal Disorders (IMAGEMEND)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"Mental disorders are leading causes of disability, absence from work and premature retirement in Europe. While magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilities are broadly available and a vast research literature exists, few neuroimaging applications have reached clinical practice in psychiatry. A major problem is that mental illnesses are currently diagnosed as discrete entities defined clinically. I ...
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CREATive Urban Sharing in Europe

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

BACKGROUND The crisis has highlighted the major role which Adult Learning (AL) can play in achieving the Europe 2020 goals, by enabling adults — in particular the low-skilled and older workers — to improve their ability to adapt to changes in the labor market and society. AL provides a means of up-skilling or reskilling those affected by unemployment, restructuring and career transitions, as well ...
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NR-NET is a multidisciplinary consortium, whose activities are directed towards the understanding of the role of Nuclear Receptors (NRs) and coregulators in metaflammatory disease. Metaflammation - metabolic disorders linked to chronic inflammation – is an emerging concept explaining the pathogenesis of a wide-spectrum of diseases. Since several nuclear receptors can directly sense metabolic alter ...
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European Multicentre Tics in Children Studies (EMTICS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2017,

This project will undertake pre-clinical and cohort studies that address susceptibility factors for paediatric and adolescent tic disorders, with a particular focus on comorbid obsessive-compulsive symptomatology, from clinical, epidemiological, genetic, microbiological and immunological angles. EMTICS aims to elucidate the complex aetiology of the onset and clinical course of chronic tic disorder ...
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The need for machine learning (ML) and data mining (DM) is ever growing due to the increased pervasiveness of data analysis tasks in almost every area of life, including business, science and technology. Not only is the pervasiveness of data analysis tasks increasing, but so is their complexity. We are increasingly often facing predictive modelling tasks involving one or several of the following c ...
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OFET biosensors for point-of-care applications (sense-of-care)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Electronic, label-free biosensors characterized by rapidity and detection proved to be very promising being able to directly detect biological recognition events without the need of markers. In this respect, organic bioelectronics has gained a huge interest among scientists coming from different disciplines and sectors due to its high impact on medical, clinical, food and environmental fields. Pre ...
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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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STRATEGY TO INHIBIT TGF-Beta IN LIVER DISEASE (IT-LIVER)

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

Chronic liver diseases (CLD) and their end-stages, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), are leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide with enormous socio-economic costs. Patients with liver cirrhosis are at high risk of deadly hepatic failure and over 80% of HCC develop on a cirrhotic background. HCC ranks as the 5th most common cancer and with >600,000 deaths per annum it const ...
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Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

EAGLE is a Best Practice Network that brings together the most prominent European institutions and archives in the field of Classical Latin and Greek epigraphy, to provide Europeana with a comprehensive collection of unique historical sources which constitute a veritable pillar of European culture. In particular, it will supply inscriptions coming from 25 EU countries, providing more than 1.5 M of ...
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Background Textile industries commonly create wastewater containing potentially hazardous contaminants for the environment. Dye compounds are one of the wastewater contaminants that often need special treatment. T he percentages of unfixed dyes remaining in wastewater can range from approximately 1% in pigments to as much as 50% for reactives. The reacti ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

The international mobility is nearly a necessary requirement and in this frame all the members of the “Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro” are involved. Students are stimulated to spend abroad Erasmus study periods for many reasons, especially they need to complete their own academic career with an european experience, they wish to be more open-minded, to grow, living and studying in a new c ...
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Ion Transport Proteins in Control of Cancer Cell Behaviour (IonTraC)

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

"With over 3 million new cases and 1.5 million arising deaths each year in Europe, cancer is a major public health problem with an urgent need for new therapies. This proposal builds upon mounting evidence that ion channels and transporters underlie many of the hallmarks of cancer. Thus, proteins involved in membrane transport, long known as important drug targets in other pathologies (channelopat ...
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Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a currently incurable rare malignant plasma cell disease, which invariably relapses despite therapy. The objective of OVER-MYR is to understand the causes of drug resistance and relapse, develop novel strategies to overcome these, provide proof of principal for phase I/II trial, and thus impact on MM-patient’s survival.Currently-used drugs target both MM cells (MMC) and c ...
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Multiple Myeloma (MM) is an incurable disease with rapidly growing prevalence and poor prognosis. Consequently, it is the goal of the OPTATIO consortium to seek out novel strategies for the development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic options. The MM pathogenesis involves not only genetic changes within the tumour cells but also the emergence of supportive conditions by the bone marrow microenv ...
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Planetary Entry Integrated Models (Phys4Entry)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

One of the major technological challenges associated with the access to planetary surfaces is the entry of the space vehicle in the planetary atmospheres at superorbital speeds. The problem is the very large heat released to the vehicle surface by the surrounding gas either as convective heating or as radiation. Optimization of the thermal shield design can have a profound impact on the overall mi ...
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The FlexSMELL concept is to realize a hybrid (organic-inorganic) very low-cost, ultra low-power olfaction system based on bio-receptor and implemented on a flexible substrate. Such a system is to be compatible with wireless read-out, setting the ground for the future development of smart sensing RFID tags. The FlexSMELL technology platform will be in principle suitable for different applications w ...
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"BIO_SOS (BIOdiversity multi-SOurce monitoring System: from Space TO Species is a response to the Call for proposals FP7- SPACE-2010-1, addressing topic SPACE.2010.1.1-04 “Stimulating the development of GMES services in specific areas"" with application to (B) BIODIVERSITY.BIO_SOS is a pilot project for effective and timely multi-annual monitoring of NATURA 2000 sites and their surrounding in supp ...
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Electrolyte-Gated Organic Field-Effect BIOsensors (BioEGOFET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2012,

Electronic transduction can open new perspectives for point-of-care diagnosis and treatment monitoring. In this respect, label free, organic field-effect transistor (OFET) sensors have recently raised the interest of the organic-electronic community. The EGOFET biosensor aims at an electronic transduction of a bio-recognition event, eventually leading to an amplified response. The sensor combines ...
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A breakthrough of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) requires a radical performances improvement of the key fuel cell material components (catalysts and protonic membrane) as well as highly innovative solutions to overcome the membrane assembly and integration limitations. Actual PEM fuel cells presents Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) architecture corresponding to a proton conductive me ...
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"UniFederLab will be animated by several different actions all focused on “Innovation and well-being” in important cities of the south part of Italy such as Bari, Foggia, Lecce, Brindisi, Barletta, Campobasso, Potenza and Matera. Events can be of different types: demonstrations, quizzes, games, exhibitions, shows, concerts, talk shows, competitions with prizes. A EU corner will be present in each ...
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Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age (VisMaster CA)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

One of the most important challenges of the emerging Information Age is to effectively utilise the immense wealth of information and data acquired, computed and stored by modern information systems. On the one hand, the appropriate use of available information volumes offers large potential to realize technological progress and business success. On the other hand, there exists the severe danger th ...
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The evaluation is a critical issue for the adult education policies; in fact, important investments have been done at an European level in order to ensure the high quality of the adult education system. At the same time, the evaluation is strictly connected with the professional development of the professionals involved in the adult education staff (e.g. trainers, educators, social workers). In th ...
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ELISAA is based on a multilateral partnership between Institutions, Albanian and European Universities (AEUs), Umbrella organizations for creating wider links between Albanian SMEs and the academic institutions. The aim is to build up a higher and vocational training in the agricultural sector through an e-learning course. In this way, new strategies for developing the agro-industry and to overcom ...
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Addressed as a national structural measure within higher education and society and aligned with the Tempus priority of “developing partnerships with enterprises,” the IDEAL project seeks to augment inputs and outputs for research, development and innovation (RD&I) in Lebanon to improve the country's economic strength and global competitiveness. The inputs of concern to the project are summarized i ...
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This Project aims to enhance the capacity of the six consortium universities in JL, LB and PS by enabling them to develop sustainable programmes in entrepreneurship in their countries. The specific objectives of the Project are: (i) To develop and implement a 3-module Enterprise Pathway in each university, using VLE delivery. (ii) To develop and implement a Masters Programme in Entrepreneurship i ...
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