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Quantum Information Access and Retrieval Theory (QUARTZ)

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

Quantum Information Access and Retrieval TheoryWe aim to establish an European Training Network (ETN) on QUantum information Access and Retrieval Theory (QUARTZ). Towards a new approach to Information Access and Retrieval (IAR) addressing the challenges of the dynamic and multimodal nature of the data and user interaction context, QUARTZ aims to educate its Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to adopt ...
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Culture Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor Systems for Elderly Support (CARESSES)

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

The groundbreaking objective of CARESSES is to build culturally competent care robots, able to autonomously re-configure their way of acting and speaking, when offering a service, to match the culture, customs and etiquette of the person they are assisting. By designing robots that are more sensitive to the user’s needs, CARESSES’ innovative solution will offer elderly clients a safe, reliable and ...
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InEdu – Innovate, Educate, Awake

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

...ing world in which we live, and in a Europe that needs to create jobs, innovate, and become more socially and commercially entrepreneurial.The origins of the project are based on current Children’s University (FUD) practice which requires children to attend Universities or other venues to come face-to-face with the scientists and academics who provide lessons dealing with complex subjects in a sim ...
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Teachers’ Assessment Literacy Enhancement

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

There is evidence that Language Testing and Assessment (LTA) can have a strong impact on the quality of the learning outcomes. Yet, English Language Teachers (ELTs) cannot deliver professional results if they are not sufficiently trained in the area of LTA. Unfortunately, research has shown that in many educational systems across Europe, ELTs are unable to create good quality assessment materials ...
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Talented Europe

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

The ‘Talented Europe’ project addresses two flagship initiatives of the ‘Europe 2020’ Strategy, namely Youth on the Move and the Agenda for New Skills and Jobs. The overarching objective that the project addresses is that of facilitating transnational movements of young people in the context of more successful labour market integration and more mobility to reach EU employment headline targets. To ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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iManageCancer - Empowering patients and strengthening self-management in cancer diseases (iManageCancer)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

Chronic cancer treatment places new demands on patients and families to manage their own care. The iManageCancer project will support this challenge and provide a cancer disease self-management platform designed according to the specific needs of patient groups and focusing on the wellbeing of the cancer patient with special emphasis on psycho-emotional evaluation and self-motivated goals. The pla ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

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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Changing the game by changing its players

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

...actical tools and techniques) about the instrumental role sport can play within their communities. The strategic partnership is formed by a variety of experts ISA, Oikos, Unify Solutions, University of Bedfordshire. Through different workshop and training settings the strategic partnership develops a curriculum for community sport coaches focusing on three themes: a) Sport & Life skills, b) Sport ...
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Biomedical Robotics and Applications (BioRA)

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

The project “Biomedical Robotics and Applications (BioRA)” focuses on the staff exchange between the partners of EU and China, and on the development of new technologies and applications in the field of biomedical robotics on the macro, micro and nano scales for biological cell detection, manipulation, test and injection. It meets the objectives and requirements of the Marie Curie Action: Internat ...
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Utility of omic-based biomarkers in characterizing older individuals at risk for frailty, its progression to disability and general consequences to health and well-being - The FRAILOMIC Initiative (FRAILOMIC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The forecasted increase in the number of older people for this century will be accompanied by an increase of those with disabilities. Disability is usually preceded by a condition named frailty that encompasses changes associated with ageing, life styles and chronic diseases. To detect and intervene on it is of outstanding importance to prevent disability, as recovery from disability is unlikely. ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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A RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A MULTI-MODAL INTERVENTION IN OLDER PEOPLE WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES ON FRAILTY AND QUALITY OF LIFE: THE MID-FRAIL STUDY (MID-FRAIL-STUDY)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The prevalence of diabetes in people ≥ 65 years approaches 25% (40% of all patients with diabetes are > 65 years). This number will increase 4-fold in people > 70 years in 2050. Diabetes results in a high personal and social health burden, and a significant public health burden in terms of rising healthcare costs. Diabetes is associated with increased functional decline in older people and may exp ...
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Computational Horizons In Cancer (CHIC): Developing Meta- and Hyper-Multiscale Models and Repositories for In Silico Oncology (CHIC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Developing robust, reproducible, interoperable and collaborative hyper-models of diseases and normal physiology is a sine qua non necessity if rational, coherent and comprehensive exploitation of the invaluable information hidden within human multiscale biological data is envisaged. Responding to this imperative in the context of both the broad Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) initiative and the ...
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Promoting Scientific Creativity by Utilising Web-based Research Objects (Dr Inventor)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Scientific creativity and innovation represent the beating heart of European growth at a time of rapid technological change. Dr Inventor is built on the vision that technologies have great potential to supplement human ingenuity in science by overcoming the limitations that people suffer in pursuing scientific discovery. It presents an original system that will provide inspiration for scientific c ...
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Personalized patient empowerment and shared decision support for cardiorenal disease and comorbidities (CARRE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

CARRE addresses comorbidity management via an approach that first fosters understanding of the complex interdependent nature of comorbidities in general and as specialized for the specific patient, then calculates informed estimations for disease progression and comorbidity trajectories, and finally compiles a variety of personalized alerting, planning and educational services so that patients (an ...
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A Demonstration of 4D Digital Avatar Infrastructure for Access of Complete Patient Information (MyHealthAvatar)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Owing to the highly fragmented health systems in European countries, gaining access to a consistent record of individual citizens that involves cross-border activities is very difficult. MyHealthAvatar is an attempt at a proof of concept for the digital representation of patient health status. It is designed as a lifetime companion for individual citizens that will facilitate the collection of, an ...
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European and Chinese Platform for Robotics and Applications (ECROBOT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The project “European and Chinese Platform for Robotics and Applications (ECROBOT)” focuses on the staff exchange between the partners of EU and China, and on the development of new technologies and applications in the field of robotics on the macro, micro and nano scales. It meets the objectives and requirements of the Marie Curie Action: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES), by s ...
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Real Time Simulation for Safer vascular Stenting (RT3S)

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

Vascular stenting is an invasive procedure for the treatment of occlusive vascular diseases; a small wire mesh tube called a stent is permanently placed in the artery or vein to help it remain open. The procedure is called angioplasty. Originally developed to treat sever occlusions of coronary arteries, thanks to its good results, stenting found an expanding indication also for the treatment of o ...
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A General Toolkit for “GPUtilisation” in SME Applications (GPSME)

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

The recent explosion of GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) power has not been fully utilised by many SMEs, possibly because GPU programming requires specialist skills different from those of conventional programming. GPSME will provide the SME participants with a simple route to accessing GPU power.Each of the SME participants is facing increasing competition in the market and GPSME will allow them ...
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Laser Nanoscale Manufacturing (LaserNaMi)

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

The project “Laser Nanoscale Manufacturing (LaserNaMi)” focuses on staff exchanging between the partners, especially between the partners of EU and China, on researching and developing new maskless laser nanoscale manufacturing technologies for low cost, simple and high speed manufacturing of nano structured surfaces and components including periodic structures (nano gratings, anti-counterfeiting ...
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VPHOP-SIMBIOS cooperation: Tools to develop the NeuroMusculoSkeletal Physiome (NMS Physiome)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

The musculoskeletal apparatus is probably the organ system where the need for the integrative approach advocated by the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) initiative is most pronounced. The neuromotor control involves the entire body, whereas the processes involved in muscle twitching, bones and muscle adaptation, musculoskeletal aging, and in most musculoskeletal diseases take place at the molecul ...
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Indoor radio network PLANning and optimisation (iPLAN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

It is estimated that 2/3 of the calls (voice services) and 90% of data services (e.g., Internet access) using wireless technologies take place indoors. How to plan and design good indoor radio networks has become a paramount issue. However, the vast majority of the work on Radio Access Network (RAN) Planning and Optimisation (P&O) has been done for outdoor rather than indoor. As a result, there la ...
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Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living (SRS)

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

The project focuses on the development and prototyping of remotely-controlled, semi-autonomous robotic solutions in domestic environments to support elderly people. In particular, the SRS project will demonstrate an innovative, practical and efficient system called "shadow robot" for personalised home care.Most elderly people want to live in the familiar environment of their own residence for as l ...
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Multiscale Spatiotemporal Visualisation: development of an open-source software library for the interactive visualisation of multiscale biomedical data (MSV)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

In recent years, various terms – the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH), Integrative Biology, Physiome Research – have been used to describe the trend in biomedical research towards the consideration of systemic processes. These phenomena are commonly observed in living organisms but cannot be explained within a single sub-system but reflect, rather, systemic outcomes that result from the interacti ...
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Osteoporotic Virtual Physiological Human (VPHOP)

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

Nearly four million osteoporotic bone fractures cost the European health system more than 30 billion Euro per year. This figure could double by 2050. After the first fracture, the chances of having another one increase by 86%. We need to prevent osteoporotic fractures. The first step is an accurate prediction of the patient-specific risk of fracture that considers not only the skeletal determin ...
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IAPP for @utomatic Radio Access Network PLANning and optimisation (IAPP@RANPLAN) (IAPP@RANPLAN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"The aim of this project is to establish lasting relationships between Ranplan, and two academic partners to research and develop automatic planniong and optimisation (P&O) tools for emerging broadband radio access networks such as HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) and WiMAX and the hybrids of such networks with UMTS and Wi-Fi, i.e., Heteregeneous Radio Access Network (HRANs). The research topics a ...
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Mesh WiMAX Management and Operatin, and Performance Analysis and Optimization (MeshWiMAX)

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

This project addresses some research challenges arising from the rapid development of WiMAX. The main aims of this proposal are to advance the understanding key techniques of WiMAX, and to develop novel network management and operation (M&O), and performance analysis and optimization (A&O) approaches for mesh WiMAX, by introducing novel concepts (e.g., game theory) and techniques (e.g., cross-laye ...
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Virtual Pathological Heart of the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH2)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

Heart failure accounts for almost a quarter of all admissions to hospital for cardiovascular events, has a high mortality (median survival around 18 months), and places a great burden on all healthcare systems, with estimated direct costs of £905m (?1350m) in the United Kingdom in 2000, 2% of total NHS expenditure.VPH2 aims to develop a patient-specific computational modelling and simulation of th ...
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Future and Emerging Technologies for the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH-FET)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) is an initiative, supported by the European Commission, to create a computational framework to facilitate the understanding of the integrative function of molecules, cells, tissues, and organisms and, by this, to construct a multiscale in silico model of the human physiology.Specific Calls within Framework 7 have addressed the VPH, and the first set of VPH pro ...
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GPU-Assisted Massive Volume Data Visualisation (GAMVolVis)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

High-resolution medical volume data (containing billions of voxels) is used in many clinical applications. However, interactive visualisation of gigabyte-sized volumes on a desktop PC is challenging, due to the heavy computation and the memory consumption. In recent years, the graphics processing unit (GPU) has evolved at an increasing pace, and tremendous improvements have been achieved in its ca ...
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Clinically Oriented Translational Cancer Multilevel Modelling (CONTRA CANCRUM)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

The ContraCancrum i.e. the Clinically Oriented Translational Cancer Multilevel Modelling project aims at developing a composite multilevel platform for simulating malignant tumour development and tumour and normal tissue response to therapeutic modalities and treatment schedules. The project aims at having an impact primarily in (a) the better understanding of the natural phenomenon of cancer at d ...
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Combined indoor/oudoor Wireless Network Planning (CWNetPlan)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2011,

Wireless communications technologies have experienced some of the fastest technological innovations in the last few decades. In the near future, a large portion of the access network will go wireless. It is estimated that 2/3 of voice and over 90% of data services using wireless communications take place indoors. Hence, indoor solutions like picocells (indoor base stations) deployed by the operato ...
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MAC and Network Layers Optimization (METOP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

"The High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) has been introduced in order to improve the downlink capability by the third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in the Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) standard. Due to the increasing demands for uplink intensive data services such as ftp and multimedia uploads etc., the concept of the High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) was subs ...
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Support of dissemination and exploitation of results obtained in research projects realized with the participation of the SME sector (USEandDIFFUSE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

The Strategic Objective of the USEandDIFFUSE project is to enhance dissemination and exploitation of research results and facilitate the exchange of good practices. The project will focus mostly on RTD projects involving SMEs implemented under the Framework Programmes, and within key industrial sectors (ICT, Energy, Health, Environment and Agro-Food). Based on past experiences and reviews of best ...
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Modernizing Teacher Education at University of Prishtina

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

The main feature of the project is to modernize teacher education at the University of Prishtina in line with the legislation demands and good EU practices in the frame of Bologna process actions of developing curricula (programs) in three cycles. The main outcomes of the project include the development of 5 new teacher education programs at Master level as well as revision of two existing Master ...
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Promoting Sustainable Excellence in Testing and Assessment of English

Start date: Oct 15, 2011,

...d in accordance with the European tuning processThe project will, with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education:Transfer expertise in assessment literacy training, promoting sustainable inter-university co-operation in this field and establishing regional centres for professional development.Develop sustainable inter-university co-operation on assessment literacy training.Develop and intro ...
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B-Innovative - Entrepreneurship for Better Business in Europe

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

...ch as poor access to comprehensive support packages* . The project is based around the background IPR of the ‘‘Basics of Building a Business Lectures’ series developed and delivered at the University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. The lectures have been running since 2005 with over a thousand participants from student groups and the local community. The original content and format of the B3 L ...
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English Profile Network

Start date: Nov 1, 2009,

The English Profile Network (EPN) is a pan-European network which encompasses different types of educational establishments (schools, universities, private language schools), an internationally renowned publisher and assessment body, plus several research centres and key education professionals. These various organisations hold a wealth of experience and knowledge of all aspects of language teac ...
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Youth work for Disavantaged

The aim of project is to develop a joint MA programme between HUMAK University of Applied Sciences, University of Bedfordshire and Tallinn Pedagogical College in Youth work. The main idea of the curriculum development is to combine the traditional academic approach of research universities with the practical traditions of universities of applied sciences in order to produce a youth worker who is c ...
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