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Training Network to Understand and Exploit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception in Bacteria (PATHSENSE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2017, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

The PATHSENSE (Pathogen Sensing) ETN will bring together an interdisciplinary team of world-leading researchers from Europe to tackle a highly ambitious scientific project, focusing on the molecular mechanisms of sensory perception in bacterial pathogens. PATHSENSE will establish an innovative doctoral training programme that will deliver 13 PhD graduates and high-impact scientific outputs. The re ...
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Directed Protein Evolution for Synthetic Biology and Biocatalysis (ES-Cat)

Start date: Mar 1, 2017, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

ES-Cat will use directed evolution as a tool to reproduce Nature's remarkable ability to generate molecular machines - in particular enzymes – that perform at levels near perfection. Instead of seeing rational and combinatorial approaches as alternatives, we combine them in this network to achieve a ‘smarter’ and more efficient exploration of protein sequence space. By harnessing the forces of Dar ...
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High Efficiency Multistage Plasma Thruster – Next Generation (HEMPT-NG)

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

...nd integrated EPS. European industrial partners are: Thales, OHB, Airbus and Aerospazio, who bring their expertise in spacecraft mission studies, equipment development and testing capacities. The University of Greifswald will provide plasma simulation to support the thrusters developed. These eight partners in five European member-states (Germany, France, UK, Belgium, Italy) will develop an econom ...
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Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI (CENTER-TBI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability, leading to great personal suffering to victim and relatives, as well as huge direct and indirect costs to society. Strong ethical, medical, social and health economic reasons therefore exist for improving treatment. The CENTER-TBI project will collect a prospective, contemporary, highly granular, observational dataset of 5400 p ...
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Joint capacity building in biomedical higher education through adopting international academic standards and transferring technology between European and Vietnam universities

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

The lack of qualified Human Resources is one of the biggest weaknesses of Vietnamese’s Health Care system: there are only 1,2 medical doctors per 1000 inhabitants, while EU average indicator is 3.3 per 1000 inhabitants. The low number of doctors comes from limited capacity of universities to prepare and train medical professionals, the available staff resources are distributed unequally among spec ...
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Camelina & crambe Oil crops as Sources for Medium-chain Oils for Specialty oleochemicals (COSMOS)

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

The COSMOS proposal aims to reduce Europe’s dependence on imported coconut and palm kernel oils and fatty acids and castor oil as sources for medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA, C10–C14) and medium-chain polymer building blocks. These are needed by the oleochemical industry for the production of plastics, surfactants, detergents, lubricants, plasticisers and other products. In COSMOS, camelina and cra ...
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A drug strategy targeting stabilised mutant p53 to fight metastatic platinum-resistant ovarian cancer (GANNET53)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

...s multicentre clinical trial and assess our innovative therapeutic concept in this deadly disease. Our consortium consists of national clinical trial groups in gynaecological oncology and high-volume University centres as well as noted p53 scientists and 3 innovative SMEs. Since ovarian cancer is defined as a rare cancer a scale at the European level is crucial for the planned clinical trial."
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Engineering of new-generation protein secretion systems (ProteinFactory)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The market for recombinant proteins, including biopharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes and membrane proteins, is estimated to be about 78 billion Euro and rising. A high proportion of the target proteins are produced in bacteria, where secretion out of the cytoplasm is a favoured strategy. However, current production platforms have severe limitations and cannot handle many secreted enzymes and memb ...
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Towards the elimination of iodine deficiency and preventable thyroid-related diseases in Europe (EUthyroid)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

Despite the fact that iodine deficiency (ID) can easily be prevented by iodine fortification of table salt, industrial salt and cattle food, Europe belongs to the worst regions in terms of access to iodized salt and is seriously ID, resulting in the perpetuation of the single most important, preventable cause of brain damage. European ID is due to significant heterogeneity in prevention and monito ...
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Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation (CRESSI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

"The CRESSI project will explore the economic underpinnings of social innovation with a particular focus on how policy and practice can enhance the lives of the most marginalized and disempowered citizens in society. Overall, the bid will take an institutionalist view of the key issues exploring the drivers and structures that lead to marginalization and disempowerment and then setting out how int ...
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Oral biopharmaceutics tools (ORBITO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The OrBiTo project will deliver novel methods and a framework for rational application of predictive biopharmaceutics tools for oral drug delivery. This will be achieved through novel propsective studies to define new methodlogies which will be validated using historical datasets from EFPIA partners. A combination of high quality in vitro or in silico characterizations of API and formulations will ...
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Rational molecular Assessments and Innovative Drug Selection (RAIDS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Cervical cancer (CC) is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide. The main objective of the RAIDs project is to use this model system which is accessible to repeat biopsies to learn how to stratify patients into targeted therapies. The patients’ tumors will be classified into molecular subtypes based on their molecular profile by use of high-throughput technologies (sequen ...
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Online and Mobile Communications for Emergencies (SOTERIA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The SOTERIA Project aims to research and develop recommendations and an associated toolbox that leverage the positive impact of social media in emergencies, enabling public safety organisations (PSOs) and citizens using new mobile and online social media technologies to communicate before, during and after an emergency event, and exchange critical information for the PSOs' intervention in emergenc ...
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Lower the impact of aggravating factors in crisis situations thanks to adaptative foresight and decision-support tools (SNOWBALL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

SnowBall is a €5M STREP R&D proposal of 36 months. Its overall objective is to increase preparedness and response capacities of decision-makers, emergency planners and first responders in respect to amplifying hazards in large disasters.SnowBall consists in a deep analysis of cascading effects and development of methods to anticipate them; and in a Decision Support System able to display current c ...
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Advanced Multidisciplinary Training in Molecular Bacteriology (AMBER)

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

"The advancement in life sciences has created a growing number of disciplines that are required to elucidate the increasingly complicated biological questions. This has led to an unsurpassed level of knowledge, but it has also resulted in a continuous specialization in PhD trainings, which makes the students less prepared for complex present day biological questions. To provide a better comprehens ...
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A Gateway to European Kidney Research Resources - KidneyConnect (KidneyConnect)

Start date: Aug 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Diabetes, Cardiovascular and Chronic kidney (DCC) -diseases are relentlessly increasing globally, causing enormous human suffering, premature deaths and unsustainable costs. Leading European research has indisputably pointed that the kidney filtration barrier and its epithelial cell, the podocyte, is a common denominator for the DCC-diseases. However, European excellence and expertise have remaine ...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis and Periodontal Inflammatory Disease (RAPID) (RAPID)

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

"The most prevalent chronic inflammatory diseases of humans are complex disorders of multifactorial aetiology influenced by genes, the environment and their interactions. Periodontitis (PD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are two such chronic inflammatory diseases associated withsignificant morbidity and mortality, and have recently shown to have a bi-directional association. Moreover, the prevalenc ...
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Biomarker for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Europe (BiomarCaRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Biomarkers are considered as tools to enhance cardiovascular risk estimation. However, the value of biomarkers on risk estimation beyond European risk scores, their comparative impact among different European regions and their role in the drive towards personalised medicine remains uncertain.Based on harmonised and standardised European population cohorts we have built significant research collabo ...
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Bioinorganic Chemistry for the Design of New Medicines (BIOINCMED)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Bioinorganic chemistry is a rapidly expanding area of research, but the potential for the therapeutic application of metal complexes is highly underdeveloped. The basic principles required to guide the development of metal-containing therapeutic agents are lacking, despite the unique therapeutic opportunities which they offer. It is the goal of the proposed research to establish basic principles o ...
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The European Network for Translational Research in Atrial Fibrillation (EUTRAF)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

"The initiation and perpetuation of atrial fibrillation (AF) can be regarded as a complication of a progressive transformation of the structure and functional properties of the atria. This transformation is the result of complex and multiple changes at the molecular, cellular and organ levels which interact to form the basis for proarrhythmic mechanisms in AF. Numerous individual and environmental ...
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MOTivational strength of ecosystem services and alternative ways to express the value of BIOdiversity (BIOMOT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

People in Europe acknowledge that nature is important to them and to society at large. Economists have shown that indeed, biodiversity has total economic values running into the trillions of euros worldwide and hundreds of millions even for ‘minor’ ecosystem services on local scales. In spite of these immense values, politicians and the general public in Europe do not appear to really act for natu ...
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Online and Mobile Communications for Crisis Response and Search and Rescue (ISAR+)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

The iSAR+ Project aims to research and develop guidelines and an associated platform that, in emergencies or crises, enables citizens using new mobile and online technologies to actively participate in the response effort, through the bi-directional provision, dissemination, sharing and retrieval of information essential for critical PPDR intervention, in search and rescue, law enforcement and med ...
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Live Video-to-Video Supporting Interactive City Infrastructure (LiveCity)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The aim of LiveCity is to empower the citizens of a city to interact with each other in a more productive, efficient and socially useful way by using high quality video-to-video (v2v) over the Internet. Video-to-video can be used to save patients' lives, improve city administration, reduce fuel costs, reduce carbon footprint, enhance education and improve city experiences for tourists and cultural ...
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Symbiomics: Molecular Ecology and Evolution of Bacterial Symbionts (Symbiomics)

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

Symbiosis research is currently in the midst of a revolution as molecular techniques are leading to major breakthroughs in our understanding of interactions between animals and microbes. There is an emerging recognition that all animals are intimately associated with a complex community of beneficial microbes that are essential for their development, nutrition, and health. Thus, modern symbiosis r ...
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Household Participation in Waste Management (HPWM)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

... a web based newsletter has been designed. Two editions have been produced and distributed, each in four language versions. The web-page and Facebook page has been continuously updated. The university studies has focused on continued literature search and compilation of international experience and regional studies on source separation systems for food waste and recyclable material, as well as imp ...
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Re-vitalisation of the European Culture Route in the South Baltic Area – Pomeranian Way of St. James (RECReate)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The project aims at reinforcing the existing cultural heritage to use it for regional development as a new tourist product in the SB Region - Tourist Route of St. James and at mobilisation of local societies (in particular young people) around join initiative. The Routs of St James have recently gained importance (added to the UNESCO list of cultural heritage in 1987) due to the desire of the Euro ...
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Baltic amateur championship in team games (Baltic rally)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

“Baltic rally” aims at integrating and strengthening relations between community amateur athletes from the SB region. The main vehicle to that end is organization of SB sport events in team games. The project participants have chosen volleyball. The reason is that this game is less commercialised than the others e.g. football. It is also typical adult amateur game and the project partners hav ...
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Targeting the tumour microenvironment to improve pancreatic cancer prognosis (EPC-TM-Net)

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

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal human cancers with a five-year survival rate of less than 5%. Late presentation and a high level of resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs are among the major reasons for this dismal prognosis. The presence of the highest degree of desmoplasia among all solid tumours and the fact that chronic inflammatory pancreatic disease is associated with an increased ...
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Model region "POMERANIA" for a cross-border newborn screening (INT-10-0008)

Start date: Dec 8, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

The aim of the project is a joint cross-border newborn screening between the regional screening centres in Greifswald and Szczecin and its institutionalisation. By joint planning, financing, organisation and execution of the screening its quality is to be increased, the spectrum of the registered illnesses is to be expanded and the care for affected children is to be improved. That way a Europe-wi ...
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Bacterial Synthetic Minimal Genomes for Biotechnology (BASYNTHEC)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

"BaSynthec will combine computational and experimental biology approaches with novel high-throughput methodologies to reduce and modify à la carte the chromosome of Bacillus subtilis, a genetically tractable bacterium and one of the key microbes used as a Cell Factory in biotechnology. Simpler B. subtilis strains with reduced energy consumption for self maintenance will be designed and constructed ...
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Extension of the cross-border cooperation through exchange of knowledge and experience in the area of modern methods of experimental haematology (INT-09-0029)

Start date: May 10, 2010, End date: Mar 30, 2013,

In the framework of the project the cooperation of the general pathology department, the pathophysiology department of the Pomeranian Medical University in Stettin and the department of molecular haematology of the University of Greifswald will be deepened through accomplishment of joint training of new methods in haematology and by organisation of Polish-German Science Conferences. ...
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Heritage Tourism for increased BSR Identity (AGORA 2.0)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

...bearers of a common identity:- Castles,- Red-brick gothic,- Forests,- Shifting sand dunes,- Stones / rocks (as geological potentials).Guided by experienced experts from Copenhagen Business School and University of Greifswald, these partner organisations had the outstanding possibility to systematically develop new tourism offers: after analysing the initial situation, conducting visitor surveys an ...
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European Network on Directed Evolution of Functional Proteins (ENEFP)

Start date: Oct 15, 2008, End date: Oct 14, 2012,

"This project intends to use directed evolution as tool to reproduce Nature's remarkable ability to generate molecular machines - in particular enzymes – that perform at levels near perfection. By harnessing the forces of Darwinian evolution in the laboratory we want to (i) screen large and diverse genome libraries for protein with new and useful functions, (ii) optimize existing proteins for appl ...
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Personalized health monitoring (PHM)- Interdisciplinary research to analyse the relationship between ethics, law and psychosocial as well as medical sciences (PHM-Ethics)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

The aim of PHM-Ethics is to scientifically analyse the dependencies between ethics, law and psychosocial sciences in a dynamic part of IT development, i.e. personalized health monitoring (PHM), from a European perspective. First, the development of PHM will be reviewed to identify core steps that delineate major changes from an ethical, legal and psychosocial point of view. A taxonomy will be elab ...
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Cross-border network in the area of prevention of addiction for the Euroregion POMERANIA (INT-08-0008)

Start date: Feb 17, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

Comparison of two difficult social areas in Greifswald (Germany) and Kolobrzeg (Poland) – joint development and implementation of the project – work with problem families in both countries – transition from play schools to elementary schools and from elementary schools to secondary schools. ...
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Combating Antibiotics Resistant Pneumococci by Novel Strategies Based on in vivo and in vitro Host – Pathogen Interactions (CAREPNEUMO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

"The diseases caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae are a major public health problem all over the world. Children, elderly people and immuno-compromised individuals are the high-risk targets for pneumococcal diseases. In spite of the availability of a large number of antibiotics the mortality and morbidity due to S. pneumoniae infections remain very high. There are two reasons for this: Firstly, the ...
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arks & Benefits - Generating socio-economic effects by a sustainable management (Parks & Benefits)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

Parks & Benefits results from an initiative of protected areas in BSR who share the conviction that the protection of the natural heritage must involve a sustainable management of the natural resources. Mobilizing economic instruments for protection purposes shall benefit both the protected area and the surrounding region contributing to their socio-economic development. But up to now the economic ...
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The Baltic 21 Eco Region Project (Eco-Region)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

The EcoRegion project was developed in the years 2007/2008 and finally implemented between 2009- 2011 in order to contribute to the aim of Baltic 21 to turn the Baltic Sea Region into the world’s first EcoRegion, where economic growth goes hand in hand with environmental integrity and social justice.The transnational project – co-financed by the ERDF BSR Programme 2007-2013 - was based on the uniq ...
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Human behaviour in crisis situations: A cross cultural investigation to tailor security-related communication (BeSeCu)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

The aim of the proposed project is to investigate cross-cultural and ethnic differences of human behaviour in crisis situations in order to better tailor security related communication, instructions and procedures with a view to improving evacuation and protection. The project will provide evidence that will be useful to first responders, building designers and those involved in the development of ...
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AGORA -Network Sustainable Tourism Development in the Baltic Sea Region (AGORA)

Start date: Jun 30, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The BSR is characterised by large areas of unspoilt countryside. Because of strong economic problems just in these rural areas tourism seems to be a promising opportunity to support regional development. Sustainability considered as a guiding principle can ensure that such a development will lead to economical benefits without threaten the nature and the social structure. Consequently a lot of sus ...
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