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The analysis of geometric non-linear wave and kinetic equations (GEOWAKI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2017, End date: Jan 31, 2022,

The present proposal is concerned with the analysis of geometric non-linear wave equations, such as the Einstein equations, as well as coupled systems of wave and kinetic equations such as the Vlasov-Maxwell and Einstein-Vlasov equations. We intend to pursue three main lines of research, each of them concerning major open problems in the field.I) The dynamics in a neighbourhood of the Anti-de-Sitt ...
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Federation for FIRE Plus (Fed4FIREplus)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The Fed4FIRE+ project has the objective to run and further improve Fed4FIRE’s “best-in-town” federation of experimentation facilities for the Future Internet Research and Experimentation initiative. Federating a heterogeneous set of facilities covering technologies ranging from wireless, wired, cloud services and open flow, and making them accessible through common frameworks and tools suddenly op ...
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Optimizing a deployable high efficacy malaria vaccine (OptiMalVax)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

A highly effective malaria vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum should help prevent half a million deaths from malaria each year. New vaccine technologies and antigen discovery approaches now make accelerated design and development of a highly effective multi-antigen multi-stage subunit vaccine feasible. Leading malariologists, vaccine researchers and product developers will here collaborate in ...
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European Sudden Cardiac Arrest network: towards Prevention, Education and NEw Treatment (ESCAPE-NET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) causes ~20% of all deaths in Europe. SCA is lethal within minutes if left untreated and survival rates are presently only 5-20%. Therefore, there is a large medical need to improve SCA prevention and treatment. Designing effective individualized prevention and treatment strategies requires knowledge on genetic and environmental risk factors. So far, these efforts have b ...
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Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe - Molecules against Gram Negative Infections (COMBACTE-MAGNET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health threat, and most troublesome is the rapid emergence and dissemination of multidrug resistant (MDR) Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter species and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. There is an unmet medical need to prevent P. aeruginosa infection in critically ill patients and to develop new antibiotics for infections caused by Gram-negative bacte ...
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Constructing line bundles on algebraic varieties --around conjectures of Tate and Grothendieck (AlgTateGro)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

The goal of this project is to investigate two conjectures in arithmetic geometry pertaining to the geometry of projective varieties over finite and number fields. These two conjectures, formulated by Tate and Grothendieck in the 1960s, predict which cohomology classes are chern classes of line bundles. They both form an arithmetic counterpart of a theorem of Lefschetz, proved in the 1940s, which ...
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Restoration of connections between the Alpine and Pyrenean populations of bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) (LIFE GYPCONNECT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

Background The conservation status of the bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is listed as vulnerable on the European IUCN Red List and endangered in France. Before vulture reintroductions started, the Alps represented a huge barrier separating the Pyreneo-Iberian populations and those of the Balkans. To bridge the distance between the populations of the ...
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Optomechanics for Virology (VIRUSCAN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

Viral infections diagnosis demands novel, cheaper and rapid technologies to overcome present constraints. Current gold standard for diagnosis of viral infections is based on pathogen-targeted nucleic acid identification; thus, it cannot discern infectious stages from latent ones and it demands time consuming adjustments when mutations occur or new emerging viruses are to be included in the diagnos ...
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Nanomedicine for Drug Delivery

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Oct 30, 2021,

NANOMEDNanomedicine for Drug DeliveryCourses Description: This 24 months, 120 ECTS Master’s Course in English offers a high quality and multidisciplinary education in the emerging field of NANOMEDICINE. The consortium is composed of four Universities: Paris-Descartes (Fr, coordinator), Patras (Gr), Pavia (It) and Angers (Fr).Nanomedicine is a revolutionary interdisciplinary science, combining know ...
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Statistical modelling across price and time scales: a quantitative approach to modern financial regulation (STAQAMOF)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

This project aims at providing a new quantitative approach to financial regulation, notably in the context of high frequency trading. The key idea of our method is to build relevant statistical models through price and time scales, connecting the microstructure of financial markets to the long term behavior of prices. Doing so, we will be able to understand and quantify the macroscopic consequenc ...
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Unified Principles of Interaction (ONE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

Most of today’s computer interfaces are based on principles and conceptual models created in the late seventies. They are designed for a single user interacting with a closed application on a single device with a predefined set of tools to manipulate a single type of content. But one is not enough! We need flexible and extensible environments where multiple users can truly share content and manipu ...
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Joint European Master in Surface, Electro, Radiation and Photo-chemistry +

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

..., green chemistry, radiation effects, nanomaterials for the industry and nanomedicine. This content is based on the expertise of four academic institutions: Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy), Université Paris-Sud (France), Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu (Poland) and Universidade do Porto (Portugal). A strong partnership with SMEs, academic institutions and research and innovation ...
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International Master in Marine Biological Resources

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

The International Master in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea), is a joint Master programme organized by eight leading European universities in the field of marine sciences; Ghent University (BE), University of Pierre and Marie Curie (FR), University of the Algarve (PT), University of Oviedo (ES), Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (IE), University of the Basque Country (ES), Polytechnic Unive ...
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Modular Open Platform for Static Analysis (MOPSA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2021,

The Mopsa project aims at creating methods and tools to make computer software more reliable.Programming errors are pervasive with results ranging from user frustration to huge economical or human losses. Traditional test-based methods are insufficient to eliminate all errors. The project will develop static analyses able to detect at compile-time whole classes of program defects, leveraging the t ...
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Formal specification and verification of distributed data structures (FOVEDIS)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

The future of the computing technology relies on fast access, transformation, and exchange of data across large-scale networks such as the Internet. The design of software systems that support high-frequency parallel accesses to high-quantity data is a fundamental challenge. As more scalable alternatives to traditional relational databases, distributed data structures (DDSs) are at the basis of a ...
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Nanomedicine upscaling for early clinical phases of multimodal cancer therapy (NoCanTher)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

During the last four years the Multifun Consortium (FP7 project Nº. 262943) has developed and validated distinct nanoformulations as therapeutic approach against pancreatic and breast cancer. These nanoformulations are based on magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (MNP) multifuntionalised with a target peptide and an anticancer chemical drug, allowing for a synergistic therapeutic effect produced by ...
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Podocyte Adaptation Proliferation and Ageing (PAPAstudy)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

My research project is focused on the biology of the podocyte during chronic kidney disease progression, one of the major public health challenges of the 21st Century. The podocyte is a highly specialized cell with foot processes expansion that function as vasculature-supporting cells, producing basement membrane components and a number of vascular growth factors. These cells play an essential rol ...
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Innovative Nanowire DEvicE Design (INDEED)

Start date: Feb 1, 2017, End date: Jan 31, 2021,

Nanowires (NWs) exhibit unique properties that make them potential building blocks for a variety of next generation NanoElectronics devices. Recent advances have shown that NWs with predefined properties can be grown, offering a new paradigm enabling functional device prototypes including: biosensors, solar cells, transistors, quantum light sources and lasers. The critical mass of scientific knowl ...
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PCP for Water Smart Metering (SMART.MET)

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

European Water utilities environment is embedded in a context dealing with global issues such as water scarcity and technical-economic issues such as infrastructure aging. Management of drinking water supply is facing key challenges partly related to traditional water meter, such as managing capital and operational costs; water loss (also known as non-revenue water) due to leaks and other system f ...
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REgenerative therapy of intervertebral disc: a double blind phase 2b trial of intradiscal injection of mesenchymal stromal cells in degenerative disc disease of the lomber SPINE unresponsive to conventional therapy (RESPINE)

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

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has included low back pain in its list of twelve priority diseases. Notably, Degenerative disc disease (DDD) presents a large, unmet medical need which results in a disabling loss of mechanical function. Today, no efficient therapy is available. Chronic cases often receive surgery, which may lead to biomechanical problems and accelerated degeneration of adjacent ...
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Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe (RadioNet)

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

RadioNet is a consortium of 28 institutions in Europe, Republic of Korea and South Africa, integrating at European level world-class infrastructures for research in radio astronomy. These include radio telescopes, telescope arrays, data archives and the globally operating European Network for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (EVN). RadioNet is de facto widely regarded to represent the interests o ...
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Mid- and far-IR optoelectronic devices based on Bose-Einstein condensation (MIR-BOSE)

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

Optoelectronic devices typically operate in the weak coupling regime between light and matter, for example in conventional lasers relying on population inversion to achieve optical gain. Recently there has been a surge of interest in quantum systems operating instead in the strong coupling regime, when the coupling strength of the light-matter interaction is so strong that new states – cavity pola ...
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3-O-sulfated heparan sulfate translocation in altered membrane biology: A newstrategy for early population screening and halting Alzheimer’s neurodegeneration (ArrestAD)

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

ArrestAD proposes a novel and visionary thinking resulting from the demonstration of the central role of a particular heparan sulfate species at the intracellular level in neurons and in circulating cells in the molecular pathology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). AD is a societal challenge for which there is neither prevention nor possible cure. Research in the field has long been refining classic co ...
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Planetary Terrestrial Analogues Library (PTAL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

A new and exciting era of planetary space exploration started in 2000 with a plethora of in-situ and orbital missions in operation at terrestrial planets and small Solar System bodies. The characterisation of the surface of these planetary objects is one of the major goals of space exploration. In order to support these operations, reduction and analyses of the space mission data, the PTAL (Planet ...
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Opinion Dynamics and Cultural Conflict in European Spaces (ODYCCEUS)

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

Social media and the digitization of news and discussion fora are having far-reaching effects on the way individuals and communities communicate, organize, and express themselves. Can the information circulating on these platforms be tapped to better understand and analyze the enormous problems facing our contemporary society? Could this help us to better monitor the growing number of social crise ...
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Social Dynamics of Civil Wars (CIVILWARS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Each year, civil wars cause hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, ecological disruptions, regional instability. These conflicts encompass many players and their effects are felt not only at the regional level but also within Western societies (refugees, terrorism, sectarian tensions).Despite this, no systematic comparison of civil wars have been conducted using a qualitative metho ...
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Expectations and Social Influence Dynamics in Economics (ExSIDE)

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

Expectations play a crucial role in determining the behaviour of many economic decision makers. The recent financial and economic crisis has highlighted the importance of expectation dynamics for economic development, the success of firm strategies and public policies. The Innovative Training Network ExSIDE aims at improving our understanding of the role of expectation formation and social influen ...
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Algorithmic and Mathematical Cryptology (AlmaCrypt)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Cryptology is a foundation of information security in the digital world. Today's internet is protected by a form of cryptography based on complexity theoretic hardness assumptions. Ideally, they should be strong to ensure security and versatile to offer a wide range of functionalities and allow efficient implementations. However, these assumptions are largely untested and internet security could ...
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Ultra-Low Power Event-Based Camera (ULPEC)

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

The long term goal of ULPEC is to develop advanced vision applications with ultra-low power requirements and ultra-low latency. The output of the ULPEC project is a demonstrator connecting a neuromorphic event-based camera to a high speed ultra-low power consumption asynchronous visual data processing system (Spiking Neural Network with memristive synapses). Although ULPEC device aims to reach TRL ...
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A Phase Ib/II study of MEK1/2 inhibitor PD-0325901 or MEK-162 with cMET inhibitor PF-02341066 in RASMT and RASWT (with aberrant c-MET) Colorectal Cancer Patients (MERCURIC)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the 3rd most common cancer in Europe, and with approximately 200,000 deaths per year, it remains the 2nd most common cause of cancer death. More than half of all CRC patients develop distant metastases and have 5-year overall survival (OS) of less than 5% because of ineffective treatments. Increased understanding of cancer biology, coupled with the implementation of “omi ...
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Goal-based Open-ended Autonomous Learning Robots (GOAL-Robots)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

This project aims to develop a new paradigm to build open-ended learning robots called `Goal-based Open-ended Autonomous Learning' (GOAL). GOAL rests upon two key insights. First, to exhibit an autonomous open-ended learning process, robots should be able to self-generate goals, and hence tasks to practice. Second, new learning algorithms can leverage self-generated goals to dramatically accelerat ...
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Exploring the outer solar system beyond Neptune using stellar occultations (LUCKY STAR)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

The solar system beyond Neptune’s contains largely unaltered material from the primordial circum-solar disk. It also kept the memory of the early planetary migrations, and thus contains essential information on the origin and evolution of our planetary system.Here I propose to study the Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) using the stellar occultation technique. It consists in observing the passage of ...
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High Performance Soft-tissue Navigation (HiPerNav)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

Primary liver cancer, which consists predominantly of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and the third most common cause of cancer mortality. A successful surgical resection of HCC requires complete removal of the tumour while sparing as much healthy tissue as possible. Due to technical and clinical difficulties relatively low percentage of patients are eligi ...
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Entanglement and Quantum Engineering with optical Microcavities (EQUEMI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

I propose to leverage the unique properties of optical fiber Fabry-Perot (FFP) microcavities pioneered by my group to advance the field of quantum engineering. We will take quantum-enhanced measurement from its current proof-of-principle state to a true metrological level by applying cavity-based spin squeezing to a compact atomic clock, aiming to improve the clock stability beyond one part in 10^ ...
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INterdiSciPlinarity and excellence for doctoral training of International REsearchers in Paris (INSPIRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

United in a Community of Universities and Institutions, called “Université Sorbonne Paris Cité” (USPC), eight research universities and five research organisations located in Paris and its surroundings have decided to join their forces to build a world-class new type of university.Together they form a research-intensive university, with over 12000 professors and researchers including more than 6 ...
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OMT - Optomechanical Technologies (OMT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

The proposed project is built on the successful training and research experience of the leading European research groups working in the field of cavity optomechanics. Our ENT unites a total of 14 leading groups in the field, of which two are major industrial players that utilize MEMS and NEMS - Bosch and IBM. The main goal of the project is to exploit optomechanical interactions in views of novel ...
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Zero Waste Ligno-Cellulosic Biorefineries by Integrated Lignin Valorisation (Zelcor)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Zelcor project aims at demonstrating the feasibility of transforming lignocellulose biorefinery recalcitrant side streams into high added-value biobased products, including fine chemicals. Its concept is to combine chemical and enzymatic catalysis with insects-based biological conversion, within a biorefinery integrated approach. The project is conceived to avoid waste production by recycling wast ...
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Mathematical study of Boundary Layers in Oceanic Motions (BLOC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Boundary layer theory is a large component of fluid dynamics. It is ubiquitous in Oceanography, where boundary layer currents, such as the Gulf Stream, play an important role in the global circulation. Comprehending the underlying mechanisms in the formation of boundary layers is therefore crucial for applications. However, the treatment of boundary layers in ocean dynamics remains poorly unders ...
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REgenerative Stem cell therapy for STroke in Europe (RESSTORE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Stroke is the second leading cause of death in the world population. When not fatal, stroke often results in disability, due to motor and cognitive impairments, and secondary health problems affecting not only patients but also their families. Building on emerging preclinical and pilot clinical evidences, RESSTORE will focus on the clinical assessment of regenerative cell therapy to improve stroke ...
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HARMONIzation and integrative analysis of regional, national and international Cohorts on primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (pSS) towards improved stratification, treatment and health policy making (HarmonicSS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

HarmonicSS vision is to create an International Network and Alliance of partners and cohorts, entrusted with the mission of addressing the unmet needs in primary Sjogren Syndrome; working together to create and maintain a platform with open standards and tools, designed to enable secure storage, governance, analytics, access control and controlled sharing of information at multiple levels along wi ...
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