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Pathway in Forensic Computing

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

The FORC project seeks to build capacities to develop an integrated curricula in forensic computing as pathways within the undergraduate degrees of the faculties of Information Technology and Law, using a student-centred adaptive learning approach based on the bologna processes. It aims to develop a pathways, integrated within the current curricula, to bring continuity and achieve harmony across ...
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LE PAYSAGE SONORE DANS LEQUEL NOUS VIVONS

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

Soundscapes European research projectThe project is part of the continuation and extension of the discussions held within the Grundtvig program 2011/13 and already followed by 3 partners sought in this case.The project is organized on three years (2016/2019) and is about "Soundscape Attentive Listening."The aim is to address specific problematics that are not answered in traditional education or t ...
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de-FLuoridation technologies for imprOving quality of WatEr and agRo-animal products along the East African Rift Valley in the context of aDaptation to climate change. (FLOWERED)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

FLOWERED objective is to contribute to the development of a sustainable water management system in areas affected by fluoride (F) contamination in water, soils and food in the African Rift Valley countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania), thus to improve living standards (environmental, health and food security) of its population. FLOWERED aims to study, test and implement innovative defluoridation te ...
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Aggression in Children: Unraveling gene-environment interplay to inform Treatment and InterventiON strateg (ACTION)

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

Aggression inflicts a huge personal, psychological and financial burden on affected individuals, their relatives, and society at large. Despite large scientific, preventive, and treatment investments, no decrease in aggressive behavior is seen. This calls for a shift to new approaches. By capitalising on comprehensive longitudinal cohorts, recent advances in genetic, biological, epidemiological, a ...
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Climate Security with Local Authorities (CLISEL) From insecurity takers to security makers: mobilizing local authorities to secure the EU against the impacts of climate change in Third Countries (CLISEL)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

CLISEL proposes an innovative approach to the question of how Europe can be secured from the impacts of climate change in Third Countries. Most academic and policy initiatives to date have focused on the direct security impacts of climate change in Third Countries and/or on the indirect impacts on international security (e.g. concerning regional economic or political stability). While those initia ...
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Multidisciplinary Approaches to Translational Research In Conduct Syndromes (MATRICS)

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

Conduct Disorder (CD) is the key paediatric disorder characterized by severe aggression. It is heterogeneous, and our understanding of the neurobiology to subtype aggression is limited. MATRICS is a multidisciplinary consortium of academic partners and SMEs that focuses on the subtyping of aggression both within CD and of the broader cross-disorder trait of aggression. MATRICS will test the hypoth ...
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Diagnostic Imaging Strategies for Patients with Stable Chest Pain and Intermediate Risk of Coronary Artery Disease: Comparative Effectiveness Research of Existing Technologies (DISCHARGE)

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

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in high-income countries. Invasive coronary angiography (ICA) is the reference standard for the diagnosis of CAD and allows immediate therapy. However, only 40% of patients undergoing ICA actually have obstructive CAD and ICA has relatively rare but considerable risks. Coronary computed tomography (CT) is the most accurate diagnostic test ...
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'Mediterranean Imaginaries: Literature, Arts, Culture'

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

...ns the horizons of the students and academics taking part and makes them more aware of the wealth of knowledge on Mediterranean affairs harboured in 6 European and 1 North African university. This will enhance the international competitiveness of the participating universities. Students will also become more conscious of the practical ways in which literature can influence society, for example, ...
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Molecular basis of the outer membrane permeability (TRANSLOCATION)

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

Overcoming the barriers that the cell envelope and efflux pumps provide to Gram-negative bacteria is a major bottleneck in the discovery and development of new antibiotics. To respond to this Call we are extending our current network on antibiotic translocation and propose an ambitious project ranging from identification of novel resistance mechanisms in clinical bacterial isolates to crystallizat ...
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Phylogenetic exploration of medicinal plant diversity (MedPlant)

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

The MedPlant network will train young researchers in career enhancing approaches and techniques in biodiversity driven drug lead discovery, complimentary and entrepreneurial skills relevant for work in the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory bodies, NGOs and academia. The aim is to improve the students’ chances of employment and to strengthen Europe's research base through a collaborative training ...
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MOLECULAR BASIS OF ANTIBIOTIC TRANSLOCATION (Translocation)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Multidrug resistant bacteria are now ubiquitous in both hospitals and the larger community. Drug-resistant pathogens are becoming increasingly pervasive, for example, the resurrection of tuberculosis provides one ominous example highlighting the risk associated with evolved drug resistance. Moreover, many pharmaceutical companies abandoned this field and no truly novel active antibacterial compoun ...
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THALAssaemia MOdular Stratification System for personalized therapy of beta-thalassemia (THALAMOSS)

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

...o patient subgroups and (b) guide conventional and novel therapeutical approaches for β-thalassaemia, including personalised medical treatments.Key researchers of THALAMOSS are R.Gambari (Ferrara University, Italy), M. Kleanthous (The Cyprus Foundation for Muscular Dystrophy Research, Cyprus), S.Philipsen (Erasmus Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam, The Netherlands), E.Katsantoni (Biomedical R ...
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Drugs Use Chronic Effects (ADDUCE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in children, affecting approximately 5% children in Europe. Methylphenidate (MPH) is the most-commonly prescribed medication for ADHD children; it is also increasingly used in ADHD adults. In 2007, the European Commission requested a referral to the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use ...
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LANDCARE MEDiterranean cross-border network for local rural governance improvement to enhance rural waste management (LANDCARE MED)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

Project in brief The prevention of rural waste production and the recycling of material deriving from human activities in rural communities are currently not well developed in the Mediterranean area. Residuals from breeding and agriculture are often treated all together, even though differentiating waste would prove much easier than in the case of industrial or urban waste for instance. Due to the ...
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ECOlogical use of native PLANTs for environmental restoration and sustainable development in the MEDiterranean region (ECOPLANTMED)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

Project in brief Besides being one of the world’s most biodiverse regions, the Mediterranean Basin is also considered amongst the four most significantly altered biodiversity hotspots of the planet. Many valuable native plants are threatened with extinction due to the degradation of their habitats and related environmental risks, which mainly originate from human activities. This inestimable natur ...
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Rationalising Mediterranean Sea Ways: from Southern-Eastern to Northern-Western ports (OPTIMED)

Start date: Dec 30, 2013, End date: Dec 29, 2015,

Project in brief The development of maritime transport and logistics sector in the Mediterranean still needs to be improved in order to ensure more efficient and sustainable trade relations between the northern and south-eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. In this context and by means of a virtual logistics platform structured around the ports of Porto Torres (Italy) and Beirut (Lebanon), OPT ...
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FOstering Solar TEchnology in the MEDiterranean area (FOSTEr in MED)

Start date: Nov 30, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2015,

The project in briefThe Mediterranean region is characterized by the significant potential of solar energy. The sunlight time ranges from 2650 to 3400 hours per year with average radiation going up to 3200 kWh/m2 per year. Despite these favorable weather conditions, the development of solar energy in the Mediterranean area is still limited by technical, institutional, financial and market barriers ...
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Suicidality: Treatment Occurring in Paediatrics (STOP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

The emergence of suicidality in patients receiving drug treatment is of concern because of the overall burden and the possible link with completed suicide. The lack of uniform requirements for defining, detecting and recording suicidality and the presence of disease related confounders create major problems. It is possible that Medication-Related Suicidality (MRS) differs from Psychopathology-Rela ...
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Paediatric European Risperidone Studies (PERS)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"Second-generation antipsychotics are increasingly being prescribed to children and adolescents. Their use, however, is mostly off-label, and adequate and sufficient data about efficacy and particular safety are lacking. This proposal focuses on two indications, the use of risperidone in children and adolescents with conduct disorder who are not mentally retarded, and the use of risperidone in ado ...
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Conservation and recovery of dune priority habitats among the sites of Cagliari, Caserta, Matera provinces (PROVIDUNE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Background The Mediterranean dune habitats located along the coasts are characterised by the EU priority habitat coastal dunes with Juniperus spp. (2250*); embryonic shifting dunes (2110); shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (2120 `white dunes`); wooded dunes with forests of Pinus pinea and/or P. pinaster (2270). These habitats face ...
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Management of Port areas in the MEDiterranean Sea Basin (MAPMED)

Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The Mediterranean Sea Basin has become one of the most popular destinations for ship and sailing cruises. Within this context, the MAPMED project addresses the issue of marine pollution in tourist port areas with a view to ensuring both tourism development and protection of natural resources. ...
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Sharing KnowledgE Assets: InteRegionally Cohesive NeigHborhoods (SEARCH)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

"The EU has experienced successive enlargements in recent years with the incorporation of new countries. These have changed the EU map, broadening frontiers and thus appearing new neighbouring countries. The integration of them offers new opportunities but also implies some risks. Even though the ENP has demonstrated to be an integration tool, which has provided an effective and clear framework to ...
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Trusted Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks (TABULA RASA)

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

The TABULA RASA project will address some of the issues of direct (spoofing) attacks to trusted biometric systems. This is an issue that needs to be addressed urgently because it has recently been shown that conventional biometric techniques, such as fingerprints and face, are vulnerable to direct (spoof) attacks.Direct attacks are performed by falsifying the biometric trait and then presenting th ...
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Training future mechanical, civil, electrionic engineers and computer scientists in SYStem Identification, Condition & Health Monitoring for a New Generation of WIND Turbines (SYSWIND)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

Growth in the European wind energy market has led to the manufacture of larger turbines (~ 7.5 MW). There are several challenges associated with these turbines, particularly offshore, e.g., vibrations/ damage of the flexible blades, mechanical drives/electric converters. These raise maintenance concerns and result in operational downtime, impacting on power systems and supply reliability. For thes ...
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Multiwavelength Studies of Galactic Black Holes (Black Hole Universe)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

Black holes are some of the most exotic astronomical objects in the universe, and are accordingly the focus of much speculation and study. By definition invisible, they are only detectable when interacting with their environment, either by bending surrounding light or gravitationally capturing enough matter to power other processes whose radiation we can detect. Depending on the spin of the black ...
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Knowledge, Innovation, Territory (KIT)

Start date: Jan 31, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

New scientific and technological powers outside the European territory are attracting considerable and increasing amounts of R&D investments. Against this background new opportunities arise but also the question of Europes ability to sustain a competitive edge in knowledge and innovation. The EC recognises the territorial dimension of the innovation and knowledge economy and its role in potential ...
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Using MicroBes for the REgulation of heavy metaL mobiLity at ecosystem and landscape scAle: an integrative approach for soil remediation by geobiological processes (UMBRELLA)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The overall goal of UMBRELLA is to use microorganisms to develop cost-efficient and sustainable measures for soil remediation at heavy metal contaminated sites throughout Europe. This will be facilitated by research in microbiology, plant uptake and (hydro)geochemistry centers on the study of microbial influence on metal biogeochemical cycles and their impact for use in soil and water protection. ...
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Skin-Based Technologies and Capabilities for \nSafe, Autonomous and Interactive Robots (ROBOSKIN)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

Description Development of a skin for robot The ROBOSKIN project has the goal to develop and demonstrate a range of new robot capabilities based on the tactile feedback provided by a robotic skin from large areas of the robot body. The new capabilities will improve the ability of robots to operate ...
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Intangible Assets and Regional Economic Growth (IAREG)

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

"The objective of IAREG is to analyse the role played by intangible assets (IA) in the generation of innovation, competitiveness and consequently economic growth and increases in productivity at regional level with a special emphasis on the geographical space in which such processes occur. The specific objectives of the project will be: To develop new indicators for improving the measuring of som ...
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SCIENCES EN MEDITERRANEE (ARISTHOT)

Start date: Mar 31, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

L’objectif du projet ARISTHOT - Sciences en Méditerranée est de développer des solidarités culturelles dans le bassin méditerranéen en facilitant l’accès pour tous à un héritage commun. Les Sciences ont toujours été source d’échanges dans le bassin Méditerranéen, c’est pourquoi il semble nécessaire de médiatiser ces relations de toujours en constituant un corpus textuel et iconographique sur les S ...
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GRINMED

Start date: Jun 30, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

Le projet entend à travers une analyse de la problématique nitrates en agriculture, et suite à une comparaison entre les différentes approches méthodologiques mises en œuvre selon les espaces, définir les territoires vulnérables à ce risque et développer à partir d’études des actions qui permettent de promouvoir les adaptations nécessaires auprès des agriculteurs et des techniciens agricoles. ...
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ELLEIEC - Enhancing Lifelong Learning for the Electrical and Information Engineering Community

At the European level the Electrical and Information Engineering (EIE) field is structurally morphing from one with a predominance of large industries to one dominated by Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME). The EIE field will be at the heart of many of the major challenges facing the EU in the near future, renewable energy, improved personal and organisational communications, new advanced m ...
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Substitute Care - The Quality of Substitute Care - a Challenge for Vocational Education and Child Welfare Services

The present European child welfare services cannot adequately respond to growing needs because of their outdated knowledge; the skills of the professionals need to be updated and this project has been launched to design the needed supplementary training. It will consist of the following phases: a partners’ common view on children’s substitute care services and their quality will be defined; a comp ...
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EUROBIOTECH -European Biotechnology

The project intends to pursue the objective of Lisbon declaration by developing Biotechnology sector at European level. Its aims are to develop a formation more pertinent to the modern needs of enterprises, to avoid academic constrains by favouring international courses which are capable to attract students from outside Europe. On the other hand we are expecting an increase on employability of you ...
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Geographic Information science for Environmental and Spatial Planning

Start date: Sep 16, 2010,

This proposal outlines the activities of the transatlantic consortium (GISESP) comprised of the University of Cagliari, Italy (UniCA), the University of London, UK (UL), and the George Mason University, USA (GMU). This consortium will develop an integrated programme of curriculum in GIS and environmental planning science that will lead to the award of two masters degrees, one from UniCA and the ot ...
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S1-L13 LET’S MOVE TOGETHER (MOVER)

Start date: Jul 15, 2011,

Project objective: The project objective is to contribute to the TC’s challenges, as posed in their national plans of development, by upgrading the students and the staff academic level (particularly at postgraduate level) and to promote the design of joint degrees between the EU and the TC partners while encouraging the emergence of new ones in the TC institutions. Brief description To achieve th ...
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Latin American Engineering and Information Technologies Network (Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Argentine, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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DREAM - Dynamizing Research and Education for All through Mobility in ACP

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

...ludes 29 associates: 6 in Central Africa; 6 in Eastern & Southern Africa; 6 in Southern Africa; 5 in Western Africa; 2 in Caribbean; 1 in Pacific and 3 in Europe. From these we count with 3 important university associations (SG, AULP, AUF), 2 regional networks (RUFORUM, ANIE), 5 ONGS (ADRA, AFVMC, CEAUP, KULIMA, MULEIDE), 1 institute (IBE), and 18 ACP HEIs.Our partnership is fully committed to cre ...
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