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3-O-sulfated heparan sulfate translocation in altered membrane biology: A newstrategy for early population screening and halting Alzheimer’s neurodegeneration (ArrestAD)
Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,
ArrestAD proposes a novel and visionary thinking resulting from the demonstration of the central role of a particular heparan sulfate species at the intracellular level in neurons and in circulating cells in the molecular pathology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). AD is a societal challenge for which there is neither prevention nor possible cure. Research in the field has long been refining classic co ...
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Liaison in Scientific Training for European auditory Neuroscience (LISTEN)
Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,
This ITN will train 10 ESRs to meet the urgent need for translation of Auditory Neuroscience into commercial and pharmaceutical products to treat hearing disorders including tinnitus. Tinnitus is the debilitating perception of imaginary sound that is often associated with hearing loss. This Liaison in Scientific Training for European auditory Neuroscience (LISTEN) is a consortium of top hearing sc ...
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Metal oxide Aided Subsurface Remediation: From Invention to Injection (METAL-AID)
Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2020,
Thousands of sites across Europe are polluted with toxic metals and organic solvents; many more exist worldwide. As EU population grows, clean water will determine the quality of life and economic stability. Most sites remain contaminated because existing technology is costly and disruptive. Society needs an innovative way to decontaminate soil and groundwater directly underground. In METAL-AID, w ...
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netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital society (WYRED)
Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,
The emergence of the young as a distinct social group, and their slowly increasing empowerment through the availability of digital technology, has brought with it an understanding that they have a key role to play in the digital society, as drivers of new behaviours and understandings. However, their active participation in society is not reflected sufficiently in policy and decision-making, espec ...
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Developing new therapies for Batten disease (BATCure)
Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,
The goal of BATCure is to advance the development of new therapeutic options for a group of rare lysosomal diseases - neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) or Batten disease. There are > thousand affected across Europe, with a combined incidence of c.1:100 000. The NCLs are devastating and debilitating genetic disorders that mainly affect children, who suffer progressive dementia and motor decline, ...
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Landowners Club for the conservation of Western Spain (LIFE "Oeste Ibérico")
Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Oct 30, 2018,
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This LIFE project could be considered as a continuation of the LIFE project, âCampanarios de Azabaâ (LIFE07 NAT/E/000762), which carried out a series of actions aimed at improving the populations of the black vulture and black stork, and their habitats â temporary ponds, the dehesas with evergreen Quercus spp., gallery forests, etc. This ...
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Evaluation environment for fostering intercultural mentoring tools and practices at school
Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,
Early school leaving (ESL) is an obstacle to the socio-economic growth of the European countries. One of the targets for the EU in 2020, related to education, is to reduce the rates of ESL below 10%. Tackling early school leaving is a stepping stone towards improving the opportunities of young people and for supporting smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Young people with a migration backgrou ...
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E-Learning Novelties towards the Goal of a Universal Acquisition of Foreign and Second Languages
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
...ent ages, from diverse social origins: users may pertain to the academic world, the world of work, or they may represent the social facet of life-long education.
The Participating institutions (one university for each of the languages dealt with in the project) are:
- University of Salamanca (Spanish, 51 million of native speakers in EU): co-ordinating institution.
- University of Bologna (Italia ...
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Quality of Jobs and Innovation Generated Employment Outcomes (QuInnE)
Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,
The EU is facing long-term structural challenges compounded by the recent economic crisis. More and better jobs are needed to lower unemployment, raise the employment participation rates of female, older, migrant, low-skilled and young workers and thus tackle social exclusion and inequality. The EU’s growth strategy, Europe 2020, wants smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, with innovation and j ...
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"Training in neurodegeneration, therapeutics intervention and neurorepair" (TINTIN)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
"Dopamine neurons play a central role in major illnesses, such as anxiety and mood disorders, schizophrenia, autism-spectrum disorders, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and dementia. A multidisciplinary approach must be taken by European researchers to discover the molecular basis of dopamine neurodegeneration and how new technologies will lead to repair and regeneration of neuronal systems in the b ...
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TACCLE3 - Coding
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
The project aims are:
• To encourage and support teachers to introduce coding, programming and / or computational thinking as part of the curriculum in the 4 – 14 classroom to better equip pupils to develop the skills needed by the European labour market.
• To broaden teachers’ digital skills base and enhance their professional competence
• To show how entrepreneurial skills can be developed and ...
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Controlling domain wall dynamics for functional devices (WALL)
Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
"WALL is a training network on the topic of domain walls in nanoscale magnetic structures, which will provide the next generation of researchers in this area of advanced technology. Domain walls (DWs) are the interfaces separating magnetic domains, their high speed manipulation in nanostructures will lead to the next generation of new and low power functional devices for computation and communicat ...
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Impacts of Environmental Conditions on Seed Quality (EcoSeed)
Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,
"Seed quality is of paramount importance to agriculture, food security and the conservation of wild species. Considerable economic losses result from sub-optimal seed performance, undermining food security and livelihoods. Seed quality is strongly influenced by the environmental stresses experienced by the mother plant. Climate change will further exacerbate economic losses and decrease the predic ...
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European Clinical trials in Rare Sarcomas within an integrated translational trial network (EUROSARC)
Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2016,
Sarcomas are rare malignant tumors, with an overall incidence of 6/105/year. Bone and soft tissue connective tissue tumours encompass more than 50 different rare histotypes and more than 150 different molecular subtypes. The incidence of individual rare sarcomas subtypes is often less than 0.5/105/year. Given sarcoma rarity as a group, but even more as individual entities, few prospective clinical ...
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Individual CAReer Development
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
...e. Career centres at the higher education institutions provide support and guidance to this respect, both as educational guidance and career guidance: transition periods, particularly between university and the labour market, should be supported, and the effectiveness of this support would be enhanced if the students have already acquired career development skills.
ICARD aims therefore at developi ...
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Reconstructing Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange during the Miocene (MEDGATE)
Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,
"MEDGATE combines the expertise of 29 geoscientists from both the oil industry and academia in the training of 10 researchers. It aims to equip these researchers for successful careers in either sector through interdisciplinary projects focussing on an intriguing problem which has implications for both environmental change and hydrocarbon exploration. The research aim of MEDGATE is to reconstruc ...
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Mobilité européenne pour tous
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2015,
Jean MOULIN Vocationnal School offers a large selection of courses in the fields of Business, Sale (Prospection, Negociating), Arcu (Services and Customer Advice), GA (Secretarial Practice) and Logistics. Our school has always been turned towards Europe, by giving its students the opportunity to study three different foreign languages (English, Spanish and German) even before the diploma programm ...
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New European Crimes and Trust-based Policy (FIDUCIA)
Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,
"The FIDUCIA project will shed light on a number of distinctively ""new European” criminal acts that have emerged in the last decade as a consequence of technological developments and the increased mobility of populations across Europe.The objective of the project is to develop policy responses to “new” forms of deviant behaviours that are also highly relevant to responding to “conventional” forms ...
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Multiscale Modelling of Hydrogen Embrittlement (MultiHy)
Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,
The proposed project aims to advance the state-of-the-art of numerical modelling of hydrogen embrittlement (HE). The primary focus and novelty of the project is the description of H transport in modern advanced materials with complex microstructures. This goal will be achieved through development of a multiscale modelling framework, which will enable the extraction and propagation of information p ...
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An Adaptive Learning System for Reasoning about Stories with Poor Comprehenders and their Educators (TERENCE)
Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,
... are lagging behind. A few adaptive learning systems consider specific inference-making interventions that are pivotal in text comprehension, but such systems are designed for high-school children or university-level students, and with textbooks as reading material. The use of more intelligent adaptive learning systems to custom-tailor such interventions in an adaptive fashion to (hearing and deaf ...
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Proteomics Standards International Molecular Exchange - Systematic Capture of Published Molecular Interaction Data (PSIMEx)
Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,
The aim of the PSIMEx proposal is to systematically make published molecular interaction data computationally accessible. We plan to further develop the existing standard for molecular interactions developed by the HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative, and to promote its implementation in the entire chain from experiment planning via data formatting and analysis to data representation in journal p ...
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Advanced Magnetic nanoparticles deliver smart Processes and Products for Life (MagPro²Life)
Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,
Biotechnologically derived substances for large scale feed, food and pharma applications represent one of the most important sources of new products due to their precisely controlled structural and functional properties, potential for economic and responsible production and overall broad benefits to society through biocompatibility and sustainability. The costs of producing biomaterials are in man ...
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Semiconductor Nanodevices for Room temperature THz Emission and Detection (ROOTHz)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,
ROOTHz project addresses the bottleneck of Terahertz Science and Technology, where the fabrica-tion of room temperature, continuous wave, compact, tunable and powerful sources (at low cost, if possible) is the prime challenge.THz radiation (also called T-rays), whose frequency range lies between microwaves and infrared light in the electromagnetic spectrum, opens the possibility for a new imaging ...
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Biodiversity conservation in western Iberia (Campanarios de Azaba)
Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Oct 1, 2012,
...mination of results were targeted in particular at the local population. An environmental awareness programme was organised around three groups: schools, adult locals and university students. A guided visit programme began in spring 2011 and was used by around 2 000 visitors. All of the schools situated in the area around the estate participated in the environmental activities. For the local adul ...
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Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI)
Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,
The Preparatory Phase for a pan-European Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) will focus on technical, legal, governance, and financial issues to • prepare to construct BBMRI, building on existing biobanks, resources and technologies, specifically complemented with innovative components and properly embedded into European scientific, ethical, legal and societal fra ...
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Cooperation and Valorization of the Rural Patrimony (AGRO)
Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Aug 30, 2006,
This project is related to the rural sector and to exploiting the resources native to each region to create a level of economic growth that allows improvement of living conditions in rural areas and creation of new SME to avoid the rural exodus. Another objective is to produce the tools necessary for sustainable development of natural resources. In general terms, the project's strategic objectives ...
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Excellence Centers of Materials to the economic development of the Atlantic space (MNAA)
Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2006,
The ceramics and polymers (synthetic materials) industries are highly present in the Atlantic Area, but are suffering today from the migration of experienced professionals and from an insufficient capacity in materials. That is why the MNAA project proposes to develop a specialised inter-regional and international network in the domain of materials. Thanks to the development of new materials, it i ...
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The project has the main aim to improve the quality level of mathematics education and application of mathematics in practice in eight European countries. The target groups are university and school teachers of mathematics. To achieve the project aim, a European Virtual Laboratory of Mathematics EVLM is to be created, further developed in national sub-portals and supported by assembling a common e ...
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Intercultural Mentoring tools to support migrant integration at school
Start date: Nov 1, 2013,
Within the scope of European policies and to combat educational disadvantages for migrant children, numerous actions have been taken to improve the position of migrant children in education. In secondary education the emphasis lies on diversification of the offered teaching methods and extra guidance of the pupils. Some schools in Europe have set up measures to increase the continuity of the educa ...
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The e-MEDICINimage project enabled the creation of a remote continuing education scheme in the health sector (medical biology) related to parasitology and medical mycology. These two training schemes are built exclusively on e-Learning techniques and each of them offers a unique curriculum available in 5 languages (English, Spanish, French, Polish and Portuguese). This scheme, associated with the ...
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...(within and between the different families of languages, andbetween unrelated languages) to sustain linguistic diversity in Europe andmultiple learning of languages at different levels: school and universitystudents, lifelong learning programmes (in-house training, adult learning),initial and ongoing teacher training, bilingual teaching contexts, self-learning…;b. identifying and assessing all ini ...
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The target group will be trainers specialized in systems of company management. The potential users are: human resources managers, the professionals in charge of training, the directors of R&D departments and managers. The target sectors to which the CRISIS PROJECT is direct are education, management, human resources and research and development. As to the potential beneficiaries that will be thos ...
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The project PESCALEX aims at creating CLIL (content and language integrated learning) courses in fish health/disease. Target languages are EL, ES, EN, FR, PL, NO. The project targets areas where aquaculture is important (Greece, Ireland, Norway, Spain, Poland, France. Target groups are vocational and tertiary students and trainers, fish farm workers. Potential users are training institutions and S ...
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...e and ceramic materials) by means of teaching materials using e-learning and new technologies. Target groups are managers, technicians and engineers involved in production and maintenance, as well as university students and recent graduates, target sectors are the field of civil and mechanical engineering. Planned results are classical teaching materials but also distant learning courses to the su ...
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The project addresses the medical sector and intends to develop a multilingual e-learning tool for the medical staff in charge of doing laboratory blood examinations. Main target groups are the laboratory staff, biologists and technicians, and the training organisations. In three phases, a platform and content for the training of basic haematology in several languages (EN, NL, DE, PL, IT, ES, PT, ...
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In view of the more demanding requirements of European consumers, the partners involved in this project will disseminate already identified experiences and established needs in the field of Food Hygiene in European agro-food SMEs. The project will validate actual needs and skill requirements in terms of training, mostly in quality management, and provide an integrated approach through a transnat ...
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OPTIMISING PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR TRAINING IN A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
OPTIMALE addresses one of the key challenges of a multilingual and multicultural Europe: how to ensure that Its universities continue to produce the high-level professionals that the Community translation services and the translation Industry need, to adapt to rapidly changing societal and market conditions. As recent reports have highlighted, the rapid technological changes of the past decade, fa ...
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As is well-known mathematics is an abstract lecture. So it is hard to understand easily. The project aims to understand mathematics more easily using animations, interactive tests and ect.
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Multicultural Interdisciplinary Handbook: tools for learning history and geography in a multicultural perspective.
Start date: Oct 1, 2009,
Despite official educational guidelines, improved linguistic skills have been limited in all partner countries due to cuts in their national budgets. As a consequence CLIL experiences have been lessened, to the sole benefit of those involving English. Another reason for this project resides in the difficulty in modifying the guidelines of national programmes, that are often short-sighted as far a ...
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INTERACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA FOR INTEGRATION, SKILLS BARTERING, EMPOWERMENT, INFORMAL LEARNING
Start date: Dec 1, 2010,
...and so involve them in providing local UGC (User Generated Content) and networking activities with a wider audience. ISABEL will focus on different social domains such as disadvantaged communities or university students for example. Experimentation will concern 4 LLP domains and will be targeted at the specific needs of the respective communities. E-democracy might be seen as one of the EU common ...
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