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Virus-X: Viral Metagenomics for Innovation Value (Virus-X)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Biological sequence diversity in nowhere as apparent as in the vast sequence space of viral genomes. The Virus-X project will specifically explore the outer realms of this diversity by targeting the virosphere of selected microbial ecosystems and investigate the encoded functional variety of viral gene products. The project is driven by the expected large innovation value and unique properties of ...
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Adaptation to a New Economic Reality (AdaptEconII)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

The present economic model of permanent growth is unstable and leads to cycles of growth, peaks and crashes. We propose to contribute to developing new economic thinking based on knowledge of global resources availability. The Adaptation to a New Economic Reality (AdaptEconII) project is divided into three parts: 1. Sustainable resource management; 2. Integrated economic systems assessment; and ...
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Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis for New Physics Searches at the LHC (AMVA4NewPhysics)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

With the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider, LHC, the Standard Model of particle physics has been completed, emerging as a most successful description of matter at the smallest distance scales. But as is always the case, the observation of this particle has also heralded the dawn of a new era in the field: particle physics is now turning to the mysteries posed by the pr ...
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Collective Awareness Platform for Tropospheric Ozone Pollution (CAPTOR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Air pollution is the environmental topic that European citizens worry about most (Eurobarometer 2013). It puts considerable damage to health, agriculture and our natural environment. Despite these facts, the readiness and power of European citizens to take actions themselves is limited. The drivers of the CAPTOR project are three large civil society organizations. Being the interface between minis ...
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Dynamics-aerosol-chemistry-cloud interactions in West Africa (DACCIWA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

"Massive economic and population growth and urbanisation are expected to lead to a tripling of anthropogenic emissions in southern West Africa (SWA) between 2000 and 2030, the impacts of which on human health, ecosystems, food security and the regional climate are largely unknown. An assessment of these impacts is complicated by (a) a superposition with effects of global climate change, (b) the st ...
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Union Européenne et développement durable

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The aim of the Jean Monnet Module entitled « European Union and Sustainable Development » is to assess the achievements of the European Union in this particular field. It will give the opportunity to students, researchers and policymakers to come to grips with the challenges of sustainable development for the EU by drawing a parallel between their respective background histories. An interdisciplin ...
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Mind and Time: Investigation of the Temporal Traits of Human-Machine Convergence (TIMESTORM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Contemporary research endeavours aim at equipping artificial systems with human-like cognitive skills, in an attempt to promote their intelligence beyond repetitive task accomplishment. However, despite the crucial role that the sense of time has in human cognition, both in perception and action, the capacity of artificial agents to experience the flow of time remains largely unexplored. The inabi ...
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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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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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Amphiphilic Peptoids as General Tool for Membrane Proteins Stabilization and Crystallization (Pro-Membrane)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

“Pro-Membrane” is an extensive project which has been structured to face multiple tasks of different levels of innovation and risk. In its longest-term and most ambitious goal, Pro-Membrane, aims to face the still not solved challenge of stabilize and crystallize Membrane-Proteins (MPs). This study will use, as innovative tool, well-ordered and disordered functionalizable amphiphilic peptoids for ...
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Transnationality at Large: The Transnational Dimension of Hispanic Culture in the 20th and 21st Centuries (TRANSIT)

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

"Transnationality is a paradigm that currently impacts heavily on the Humanities. Surprisingly, Hispanic culture has not yet been of primary concern to transnational studies, even though, covering a very wide geo-cultural area , the case for its inclusion as a case study is undeniable. The research centres collaborating in this application share a clear interest in transnationality, and specialize ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

Blaise Pascal university has built its political international strategy on the support of mobility for students and professors, insisting on the reciprocity and the mutual quality of its scientific and teaching exchanges and using to do so the dynamics brought about by the Erasmus + programme ( with a pool of 231 collaborations). The aim is now to strengthen our partnerships through the constructi ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

The consortium ES gathers the two Clermont universities (University Blaise Pascal and University of Auvergne) and three engineering schools : SIGMA, the Institute of Higher Education and Research VetAgro Sup and the National School of Architecture of Clermont-Ferrand. Its aim is to promote and coordinate the European Erasmus programme dedicated to the support of students’ mobility in Europe throug ...
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MEDiterranean SUpersite Volcanoes (MED-SUV)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

This project will improve the consortium capacity of assessment of volcanic hazards in Supersites of Southern Italy by optimising and integrating existing and new observation/monitoring systems, by a breakthrough in understanding of volcanic processes and by increasing the effectiveness of the coordination between the scientific and end-user communities. More than 3 million of people are exposed t ...
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A European volcanological supersite in Iceland: a monitoring system and network for the future (FUTUREVOLC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The main objectives of FUTUREVOLC are to establish an integrated volcanological monitoring procedure through European collaboration, develop new methods to evaluate volcanic crises, increase scientific understanding of magmatic processes and improve delivery of relevant information to civil protection and authorities. To reach these objectives the project combines broad European expertise in seism ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

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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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

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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Functional semiconductor nanowire probes (FUNPROB)

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

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is an established technique for the characterisation of materials and structures at the nanoscale and is increasingly bridging traditional disciplines including the biosciences. As such, it is of fundamental and practical interest across the sciences and industry. The geometry of the tip is the critical factor which determines the resolution of an SPM sensor. In an ...
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Polarization Phenomena in Quantum Microcavities (POLAPHEN)

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

"The investigation of light-matter interactions nano- scale objects attracts the growing interest of researchers. This interest is largely motivated by the possibility of reaching the strong light-matter coupling regime, where the elementary excitations – polaritons – have a hybrid, half-light half-matter nature. The unusual properties of the polaritons make them a unique laboratory for study of f ...
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European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (EGI-InSPIRE)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Scientific research is no longer conducted within national boundaries and is becoming increasing dependent on the large-scale analysis of data, generated from instruments or computer simulations housed in trans-national facilities, by using e Infrastructure (distributed computing and storage resources linked by high-performance networks).The 48 month EGI-InSPIRE project will continue the transitio ...
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Spin effects for quantum optoelectronics (SPIN-OPTRONICS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"We propose to join the forces of ten leading European teams in order to achieve a critical mass in the new research field of Spin-Optronics, a vast novel research area at the crossroads of fundamental physics of quantum-mechanical spin, optoelectronics and nanotechnology, and establish the European leadership in this area on a world-wide scale. All three main directions of the Network research ac ...
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MODELLING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSIENTS AND PLC ENERGY SERVICES (EM TRANS PLC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"Power Line Communication (PLC) technology enables broadband data transfer through power lines. Although promising it is still not fully developed and standardized. One major concern is the EMC radiation problem that is still controversial. However, it seems that experimental or commercial deployments are working practically without complaints. PLC channel is a power transmission line (TL) itself. ...
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Enhancing Literacy Development in European Languages (ELDEL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"The scientific aims of the ELDEL project are: 1) to produce a model elucidating the relationships among psychological (psycholinguistic, cognitive) and environmental (orthographic, linguistic, educational/instructional, cultural) factors determining the development of literacy skills in European languages, and 2) to uncover the key components of an effective, culture-appropriate intervention prog ...
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III (EGEE-III)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

A globally distributed computing Grid now plays an essential role for large-scale, data intensive science in many fields of research. The concept has been proven viable through the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project (EGEE and EGEE-II, 2004-2008) and its related projects. EGEE-II is consolidating the operations and middleware of this Grid for use by a wide range of scientific communities, such as ...
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Architectural and Design based Education and Practice through Content & Language Integrated Learning using Immersive Virtual Environments for 21st Century Skills

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

The mobility, cooperation and employability within Europe of architectural and design learners, educators and practitioners can be restrained by the emerging diversity and inequality of language learning opportunities in Higher Education and adult learning organisations. A contributing factor may be the little evidence of language teacher training professional development and commercially availab ...
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International GEOLOGICAL MASTER in VOLCANOLOGY and GEOTECHNIQUES

Start date: Sep 1, 2009,

INVOGE: International Geological Masters in Volcanology and Geotechniques is proposed by Blaise Pascal (France),Milan-Bicocca (Italy), Michigan Technological and Buffalo Universities (US). INVOGE provides 24 EU and 24 USstudents with an excellent broad-based international training in volcanology and geotechniques, and a rich cultural /linguistic foundation. The staff and student program answers a ...
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ON-LANG.NET – On-line Languages Acquisition Network Grouping Contents in Education and Training

The ON-LANG.NET project aims at developing an on-line evaluation model relating to language competence, in particular to modern foreign languages. The main aim of the project is the development of an innovative, foreign language, e-learning approach able to support evaluation by means of technological resources (TELL – Technology-Enhanced Language Learning) and the related testing of accreditable ...
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