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Intra-Logistics with Integrated Automatic Deployment: safe and scalable fleets in shared spaces (ILIAD)

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

Today, intralogistic services have to respond quickly to changing market needs, unforeseeable trends and shorter product life cycles. These drivers pose new demands on intralogistic systems to be highly flexible, rock-solid reliable, self-optimising, quickly deployable and safe yet efficient in environments shared with humans. ILIAD will enable the transition to automation of intralogistic service ...
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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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Personal Technologies for Affective Health (AffecTech)

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

Personalized health is a European priority and one of the strategic research areas for Horizon 2020. This project advances the state-of-the-art of personal health technologies for affective disorders, estimated to be the highest ranking cause of disease by 2020. It marks a significant shift from the current wearable technologies capturing emotional responses whose understanding usually requires ph ...
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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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Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food security (SALSA)

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

SALSA will assess the role of small farms and small food businesses in delivering a sustainable and secure supply of affordable, nutritious and culturally adequate food. SALSA will identify the mechanisms which, at different scales, can strengthen the role of small farms in food systems and thereby support sustainable food and nutrition security (FNS). By considering a gradient of 30 reference reg ...
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NEurobehavioural predictiVE and peRsonalised Modelling of depressIve symptoms duriNg primary somatic Diseases with ICT-enabled self-management procedures (NEVERMIND)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Personal health systems for the management of chronic diseases have seen giant leaps in development over recent years. These systems offer vital sign monitoring and therapy delivery at home, focusing on the primary physical disease conditions. However, they do not provide support for early mood assessment or psychological treatment and lack a real-time comprehensive assessment of the patient’s men ...
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Development of a systems biomedicine approach for risk identification, prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2DSystems)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a major public health problem, affecting 55 million European citizens. T2D ensues in individuals who develop a progressive pancreatic beta cell failure. T2D probably comprises a heterogeneous group of diseases. A new molecular taxonomy of T2D is essential for the development of medical care that is predictive, preventive and personalized. Currently available T2D therapies ...
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INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF SCIENCE IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Start date: Sep 21, 2015, End date: Sep 20, 2019,

Objective The main objective of the International Master of Science in Rural Development is to train European and non-European students, from developed, developing and transition countries to become specialists in Integrated Rural Development with a focus on socioeconomic and institutional aspects. It offers the opportunity to study international visions on Rural Development in their diversity of ...
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European framework for ‘Knowledge Triangle’ in the logistics sector

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

... of all business sectors and are equally critical for not-for-business organizations in order for theiractivities to be efficient and effective.However, as indicated also in the report of the Sixth University- Business Forum 2015, there are still barriers to university-business cooperation that need to be addressed if Europe is to remain a knowledge intensive globally competitive economy. Universi ...
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SoBigData Research Infrastructure (SoBigData)

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

One of the most pressing and fascinating challenges scientists face today, is understanding the complexity of our globally interconnected society. The big data arising from the digital breadcrumbs of human activities promise to let us scrutinize the ground truth of individual and collective behaviour at an unprecedented detail and scale. There is an urgent need to harness these opportunities for s ...
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Euro-African Open Biomedical Engineering e-Platform for Innovation through Education (UBORA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

The project aims at creating an EU-Africa e-Infrastructure, UBORA, for open source co-design of new solutions to face the current and future healthcare challenges of both continents, by exploiting networking, knowledge on rapid prototyping of new ideas and sharing of safety criteria and performance data. The e-infrastructure will foster advances in education and the development of innovative solut ...
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Archaeological Automatic Interpretation and Documentation of cEramics (ArchAIDE)

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

The objectives of ArchAIDE are to support the classification and interpretation work of archaeologists with innovative computer-based tools, able to provide the user with features for the semi-automatic description and matching of potsherds over the huge existing ceramic catalogues. Pottery classification is of fundamental importance for the comprehension and dating of the archaeological contexts, ...
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Sustainable finance for sustainable agriculture and fisheries (SUFISA)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

A good functioning of the European food system is key to deliver food and nutrition security for all Europeans. However, that system faces many economic, environmental and social challenges as well as opportunities following socio-economic and technological developments, that are not equally distributed throughout the EU. Future policymaking aiming at healthy and resilient systems needs to take in ...
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Smart Integration of Genetics with Sciences of the Past in Croatia: Minding and Mending the Gap (MendTheGap)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

...esearch capacity in Croatia in Archaeology, Genetics, and other ‘Sciences of the Past’ by twinning a consortium of Croatian researchers (CrEAMA Initiative) with archaeological scientists from the University of Cambridge (UCAM) and the University of Pisa (UP). The project exploits location-specific advantages that arise from two crucial facts. Firstly, there is large number of archaeological sites ...
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Flexible Fossil Power Plants for the Future Energy Market through new and advanced Turbine Technologies (FLEXTURBINE)

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

The share of renewable energy is growing rapidly driven by the objective to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The amount of electric power which can be supplied to the grid depends on the time of the day and weather conditions. A conventional fleet of thermal power plants is required to compensate for these fluctuations before large scale energy storage technologies will be mature and economically ...
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SupramolecularlY eNgineered arCHitectures for optoelectRonics and photONICS: a multi-site initial training action (SYNCHRONICS)

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

Photonics will play a major, enabling role in the future of ICT and healthcare. However, to fulfill its potential and deliver on its promises, photonics will heavily rely on novel and more performing materials, that can be manufactured cheaply for the specific requirements of photonic applications. To lead this “photonics revolution” and rip the societal benefits of being at the leading-edge of no ...
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Universities as key partners for the new challenges regarding food safety & quality in ASEAN

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

...ack at the level of human resources is strongly related to the lacks in the higher education system, the improvement of which is object of our proposal by: a. increasing the capacity of Asian partner'university's staff in the area of food safety and quality, by sharing experiences and organising training courses.b. training them in "training engineering" (TE) methodology, encompassing 2 wide surve ...
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A Digital Journey in Europe

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

...oject offers an opportunity for organisations who normally operate outside the realm of schools to collaborate with and support schools’ use of modern technology. The involvement of UNIPI, Maynooth University and UCL Lillebaelt - institutions committed to generating and disseminating knowledge, and to training a new generation of EU citizens equipped with the technical and critical skills needed t ...
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Improving Hydrogen Safety for Energy Applications (HySEA) through pre-normative research on vented deflagrations (HySEA)

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

The aim of the HySEA project is to conduct pre-normative research on vented deflagrations in enclosures and containers for hydrogen energy applications. The ambition is to facilitate the safe and successful introduction of hydrogen energy systems by introducing harmonized standard vent sizing requirements. The partners in the HySEA consortium have extensive experience from experimental and numeric ...
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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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New cooperative business models and guidance for sustainable city logistics (NOVELOG)

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

Urban areas represent the greatest challenges for freight transport and service trips, both in terms of goods distribution and service allocation performance, and environmental impacts (air emission, traffic congestion, road safety, accidents and noise). The salient scope of the proposal is the enabling of knowledge and understanding of freight distribution and service trips by providing guidance ...
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Range of Electric SOlutions for L-category VEhicles (RESOLVE)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

RESOLVE proposal aims at enabling the development of a range of cost-effective, energy efficient and comfortable ELVs (Electric L-category Vehicles) that will primarily attract ICE car drivers to switch to ELVs for daily urban commutes.EU cities are increasingly congested due to the demand and usage of motor vehicles that results in emissions and noise levels increase and scarcer parking, affectin ...
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Graphene-based disruptive technologies (GrapheneCore1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CS ...
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Sound-Light Manipulation in the Terahertz (SouLMan)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The interaction of electromagnetic radiation with the mechanical vibrations of solids affects and determines many different physical phenomena. At the microscopic level, scattering of light with phonon excitations is a well known process exploited in semiconductor devices like Raman amplifiers and acousto-optic modulators. At the macroscopic scale, the interaction is mediated by the radiation pres ...
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REfactoring Parallel Heterogeneous Resource-Aware Applications - a Software Engineering Approach (RePhrase)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

"The RePhrase project directly meets the challenge of ICT-09-2014, by studying the critically important issue of improving software development practice for parallel data-intensive applications. Data-intensive applications are among the most important and commonly encountered kinds of industrial application, and are increasingly important withthe emergence of ""big data"" problems. Emerging hetero ...
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High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

HiPEAC is a support action that aims to structure and strengthen the European academic and industrial communities in computing systems: (i) by increasing innovation awareness and by encouraging researchers to engage in innovation activities; (ii) by professionally disseminating program achievements beyond the traditional scientific venues; (iii) by producing a vision document including recommendat ...
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Scalable and Secure Infrastructures for Cloud Operations (SSICLOPS)

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

The SSICLOPS project will focus on techniques for the management of federated private cloud infrastructures, in particular cloud networking techniques (within software-defined data centres and across wide-area networks). Key deliverables from the project will include a meta data description language for workloads, resources and policies, a flexible scheduling system using meta data, workload-speci ...
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Gravitational Wave Initial Training Network (GRAWITON)

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

The GraWIToN project aims to train 13 ESRs in the gravitational wave search field. This research field is in an impressive expansion period, thank to a new generation of detector under installation in these years, to the promise of the exciting discovery in 5 years from now of this kind of signal, predicted in the General Relativity of Einstein, to the enlarging of the world wide scientific comm ...
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Assessment of the impact of drivers of change on Europe's food and nutrition security (TRANSMANGO)

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

TRANSMANGO aims to obtain a comprehensive picture of the effects of the global drivers of change (climate, economic concentration and market structure, financial power, resource competition, marginalization, property rules, geo-political shifts, consumer preferences, consumption patterns and nutritional transition) on European and global food demand and on raw material production (and, consequent ...
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Measuring and Comparing Achievements of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education in Europe

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

... Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Health Care and Engineering). The Advisory Board comprises EUA, EURASHE, ESU, ENQA, ECA and ENAEE, as well as the Santander, Coimbra, Compostela, Utrecht and Unica University Networks, thus ensuring maximum relevance, participation and impact.The five Groups will perfect or create Reference Frameworks for their disciplines and domains; they will produce Assessme ...
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European Medical Information Framework (EMIF)

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

In response to the need to tackle increasingly complex medical research questions, a growing amount of human health data is being collected, either in routine Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) databases, through research-driven cohort studies, in biobanks or related efforts. However, data sources are typically fragmented and contain information gaps which prevent their full exploitation. EMIF aim ...
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Early Prevention of Diabetes Complications in people with Hyperglycaemia in Europe (E-PREDICE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"Background: A significant proportion of pre-diabetics, show macro and micro vascular complications associated with hyperglycaemia. Although many trials have demonstrated the efficacy of lifestyle and pharmaceutical interventions in diabetes prevention, no trial has evaluated the extent to which mid- and long-term complications can be prevented by early interventions on hyperglycaemia.Aims: To ass ...
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European Curation of Astromaterials Returned from the Exploration of Space (EURO-CARES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Sample return missions (SRMs) are a critical next step in our exploration of the Solar System and are identified as strategic missions by international space agencies. Europe has a very strong legacy in the curation and research of precious extraterrestrial materials. To maintain European leadership and ensure high-level involvement in future SRMs, a dedicated European Sample Curation Facility (ES ...
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TRansforming Institutions by Gendering contents and Gaining Equality in Research (TRIGGER)

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

...ves as co-funders five universities from different EU countries (Czech Republic, France, Italy, UK, Spain). Building on the results of earlier projects, integrated actions will be implemented at each university addressing different sides of gender inequality in science, i.e.:1) Working environment, formal/informal culture and explicit/tacit rules (awareness-raising; collection of gender-sensitive ...
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Sediment ElectroKinetic REmediation Technology for heavy metal pollution removal (SEKRET Life)

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

Background Ports host companies that deal with transport, manufacturing, chemicals and oil refining, and the storage of chemicals, solvents, mineral oils, pulp and paper and food. Port areas also manage toxic waste and non-ferrous material. Consequently, harbours and coastal areas throughout Europe have deposits of sediment that are contaminated with heav ...
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A Traceability and Early warning system for supply chain of Agricultural Products: Complementarities between EU and China” (TEAP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"The main objective of the TEAP project (A Traceability and Early warning system for supply chain of Agricultural Products: Complementarities between EU and China”) is obtaining a better mutual understanding of the agricultural product quality and safety in both the European Union and China, and deep in the knowledge of the technologies that assure these final objectives. The program centers in f ...
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Aerobiological Information Systems and allergic respiratory disease management (AIS LIFE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2017,

Background The most important biological component of ambient air is pollen, and its allergen is the main cause of airborne allergic respiratory diseases. Reasons for the increase in allergic responses to pollen allergen exposure are elusive, but environmental and lifestyle factors appear to drive the trend. In Europe, emissions of many air pollutants hav ...
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European Network of Design for Resilient Entrepreneurship

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

Entrepreneurship has been highlighted as a key action by the European Commission as a powerful driver of economic growth, job creation and innovation. Recent communications from European Union are clear: Europe needs more entrepreneurs. However, entrepreneurs still lack the basic cultural and educational conditions to compete on a worldwide market, and more investment in entrepreneurship education ...
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Stardust-The Asteroid and Space Debris Network (Stardust)

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

Asteroids and space debris represent a significant hazard for space and terrestrial assets; at the same time asteroids represent also an opportunity. In recent years it has become clear that the increasing population of space debris could lead to catastrophic consequences in the near term. The Kessler syndrome (where the density of objects in orbit is high enough that collisions could set off a ca ...
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Inclusive Growth Research Infrastructure Diffusion (INGRID)

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

Referring to the increasingly challenging EU2020-ambition of Inclusive Growth, the objectives of the InGRID project are to integrate and to innovate existing, but distributed European social sciences research infrastructures on ‘poverty and living conditions’ and ‘working conditions and vulnerability’ by improving the transnational data access, organising mutual knowledge exchange and improving me ...
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