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EUROlinkCAT: Establishing a linked European Cohort of Children with Congenital Anomalies (EUROlinkCAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Over 130,000 children born in Europe every year will have a congenital anomaly (CA; birth defect). These CAs, which are often rare diseases, are a major cause of infant mortality, childhood morbidity and long-term disability. EUROCAT is an established European network of population-based registries for the epidemiologic surveillance of CAs. EUROlinkCAT will use the EUROCAT infrastructure to suppor ...
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Erasmus Mundus Masters in Journalism, Media and Globalisation

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

...a industry as well as the global network of over 400 alumni. We aim to further embed research and industry links and exchanges into the delivery of our Mundus Master programme. Consortium: Aarhus University/Danish School of Media and Journalism (Denmark) (coordinator), University of Hamburg (Germany), University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), City University London and Swansea University (UK), ...
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Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sports Ethics and Integrity

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

...s required to develop sports integrity. Semester 1 comprises advanced study of sports ethics, ethical theory, and sports policy, including anti doping, illegal gambling and match fixing at Swansea University. Semester 2 focuses on the experience of sport as a social practice in relation to athlete welfare, child protection and safegaurding, equality, integrity and fair play across able bodied an ...
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SustainAble Farming for Effective Aquaculture (SAFE-Aqua)

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

Aquaculture is an important food source for the world’s growing population. The increasing demand and productivity of aquaculture leads to global trade in breeding stock, genetic material and aquaculture products for human consumption, but also exacerbates the globalization of pathogens.SAFE-Aqua, an international inter- and multidisciplinary consortium, aims to provide scientific solutions to sol ...
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Blood Biomarker-based Diagnostic Tools for Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease (BBDiag)

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

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects more than 7 million people in Europe and this figure is expected to double every 20 years. Despite intensive efforts, no disease-modifying treatments or preventive strategies are available. The lack of specific, sensitive and minimally invasive diagnostics to identify people with early-stage AD to be included in clinical drug intervention trials is among the main r ...
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Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers (AMBER)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

Rivers rank among some of the most threatened ecosystems in the world, and are the focus of costly restoration programmes that cost billions to taxpayers. Much of Europe depends on water from rivers for drinking, food production, and the generation of hydropower, which is essential for meeting the EU renewable energy target. Yet only half the EU surface waters have met the WFD’s 2015 target of goo ...
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Development of Experimental Techniques and Predictive Tools to Characterise Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue Behaviour and Damage Mechanisms (DevTMF)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

DevTMF takes the collective technical expertise and experience of working on thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) problems related to large aero-engines from three major centres of TMF research, namely Linköping, Swansea and Nottingham Universities in order to perform the activities of this topic. Together, the team will deliver significant technical innovations in following major topics to ensure worl ...
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Empowered decision-making in simulation-based engineering: Advanced Model Reduction for real-time, inverse and optimization in industrial problems (AdMoRe)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

“AdMoRe: Empowered decision-making in simulation-based engineering: Advanced Model Reduction for real-time, inverse and optimization in industrial problems” aims at providing in-depth training of Early Stage Researches (ESRs) in the development and application of state-of-the-art computational models and numerical methods to solve cutting-edge engineering problems. The main driving factors of all ...
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AQUAtic INVAders: Early Detection, Control and Management (AQUAINVAD-ED)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) are on the rise due to the synergistic effects of climate change and habitat destruction. The impacts of AIS on Biodiversity, human health, and loss of ecosystem services are well known, but their control and management has now become a worldwide priority. Successful management of AIS is challenging because it requires several steps in succession: (1) early detectio ...
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PREVention of diabetes through lifestyle Intervention and population studies in Europe and around the World (PREVIEW)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

"The primary goal of PREVIEW is to identify the most efficient lifestyle pattern for the prevention of type-2 diabetes in a population of pre-diabetic overweight or obese individuals. The project comprises two distinct lines of evidence, both embracing European and overseas countries:1) A multicentre, clinical randomized intervention trial with a total of 2,500 pre-diabetic participants, including ...
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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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Correctness by Construction (CORCON)

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

"As software becomes ever more ubiquitous in our lives, the need to ensure it runs without error becomes ever more important. Restarting a phone is a simple, if inconvenient task; restarting an aeroplane in mid-flight is not an option!Correct by construction programming offers a revolutionary approach to program verification where programs can contain not just computations as is normal, but also ...
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Tri Continental Alliance in Numerical Methods applied to Natural Disasters (TCAiNMaND)

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

...rtners are reputed research centers in numerical methods applied to civil engineering with significant previous collaborations between them: two European centers: CIMNE in Spain and C2EC at Swansea University in UK; an American one, CIMAT in Mexico and a fourth and last partner in Asia, Tsinghua University (THU), what is widely regarded as the best university in China.
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

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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POLICY INNOVATION AND LEGITIMACY IN REGIONAL MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE (MLGPIL)

Start date: Sep 7, 2015, End date: Sep 6, 2017,

Multi-level policy-making between EU, national and sub-national levels has become increasingly complex. This has created the need for innovative governance solutions to address this complexity, which in turn has had an effect on political legitimacy. This project aims to address this topic by developing the linkages between procedural innovation in governance and the legitimacy of these processes ...
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Cascading impacts of predator biodiversity loss: development of a predictive framework (EcoPred)

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

Predator species are disproportionately vulnerable to human-caused extinction and their loss can trigger ecosystem altering trophic cascades. Elucidation of the consequences of predator biodiversity loss is therefore central to forecasting how ecosystems will respond to real-world losses of biodiversity. Experiments to date reveal a high degree of variability around effects of predator species los ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Jul 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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When the smoke clears: predicting and preventing catastrophic erosion and flooding after wildfires in volcanic terrains (FireAndRiskPrevention)

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

Wildfires remove protective vegetation, leaving the landscapes vulnerable to catastrophic erosion, landslides and floods. The resulting losses and mitigation costs following wildfires have increased dramatically in the last 30 years due to (i) the population increase, (ii) the rise in fire severity and torrential rains associated with climatic change, and (iii) critical gaps in and limited transfe ...
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Additive Manufacturing Aiming Towards Zero Waste & Efficient Production of High-Tech Metal Products (AMAZE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The overarching goal of AMAZE is to rapidly produce large defect-free additively-manufactured (AM) metallic components up to 2 metres in size, ideally with close to zero waste, for use in the following high-tech sectors namely: aeronautics, space, automotive, nuclear fusion and tooling.Four pilot-scale industrial AM factories will be established and enhanced, thereby giving EU manufacturers and en ...
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Virtual Prototyping of Tactile Displays (PROTOTOUCH)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"It is estimated that touch screen module revenues will reach $23.9 billion by 2017. These user interfaces have become one of the most common input devices for digital media, e.g. in mobile phones and computers. Current devices incorporate relatively primitive vibrotactile haptic-feedback. The aim of PROTOTOUCH is to develop tactile displays with high fidelity haptic recognition, so that buttons w ...
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Tephra constraints on rapid climatic events (TRACE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Little has challenged our understanding of climate change more so than the abruptness with which large-scale shifts intemperatureoccurred during the last glacial period. Atmospheric temperature jumps of 8-16°C, occurring within decades over Greenland,were closelymatched by rapid changes in North Atlantic sea surface temperatures. Though these climatic instabilities arewell-documented in variouspro ...
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Optimising translator training through collaborative technical translation

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

... industry employers’ competence requirements showed that awareness of and the ability to implement professional procedures throughout the translation process are key factors in the employability of university translation graduates. This led to the definition of good practice in specific areas of translator training, in particular in the integration of professionally-oriented practices in the curri ...
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FluorFLIGHT: A new integrated canopy fluorescence model based for remote sensing of forest health and productivity (FluorFLIGHT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Forests are one of Europe’s most important renewable resources and a key repository of biological biodiversity. Also, the forest sector is one of Europe’s most important economic sectors. In recent years, widespread forest mortality related to drought or temperature stress has been described in drought-prone forests throughout the world. Such mortality events can radically transform biodiversity, ...
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Services to enhance innovation management capacities of SMEs in England, Northern Ireland and Wales 2015 -2016 (ENIW)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

A national service in support of recipients of the H2020 sme instrument and for the enhancement of innovation management in SMEsInnovation is a vital ingredient of growth and an important element of the future success of the UK. With some 95% of R&D and innovation conducted outside of the UK and many major and lead market shaping companies being of non-UK origin, access to knowledge, markets, ski ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

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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Marine Investment for the Blue Economy (MARIBE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

MARIBE is a Horizon 2020 project that aims to unlock the potential of multi-use of space in the offshore economy (also referred to as Blue Economy). This forms part of the long-term Blue Growth (BG) strategy to support sustainable growth in the marine and maritime sectors as a whole; something which is at the heart of the Integrated Maritime Policy, the EU Innovation Union, and the Europe 2020 str ...
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Open the Access to photonics life Science Infrastructure for SMEs (OASIS)

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

The large scale research facilities and technology platforms are usually defined as a set of experimental instruments and components that are available mainly to academics and to a certain extent to industrials. The management of open access for researchers and world-class research programmes between these facilities is under consolidation through existing programmes like Instruct, EuroBioimaging. ...
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Greater Operating Temperature Alloy (GOTA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

...ity cast and centrifugally cast samples; sheets, welding wire, and welded samples.• TIMET UK Ltd., [TIMET] will be the Principal Participant, and will lead the Management of the project.• Swansea University will lead the review of literature and prior industrial work. A candidate alloy (Ti+) will be selected based on this review, and on commercial and industrial factors.• TIMET will supply Ti+ bil ...
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COHERENT OPTICS SENSORS FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS (COSMA)

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

"The main objective of the project is to focus theoretical, experimental and clinical research of the participating groups on biomagnetism phenomena, with the specific aim to develop all-optical sensors dedicated to their detection and suitable for applications in clinical diagnostics.A central role in the project is played by Optical Atomic Magnetometers (OAMs) that have the potential, in terms o ...
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Computable Analysis (COMPUTAL)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

The proposed programme focusses on logical and algorithmic aspects of processing infinite data. Through a network of institutes from three European and three Third countries, all of them among the leading groups in the relevant research, we aim at facilitating the interplay between the underlying branches of computable mathematics, i.e. computable analysis and topology, as well as exact real numbe ...
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Innovative biological products for soil pest control (INBIOSOIL)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"INBIOSOIL is a timely project that proposes novel eco-efficient environmentally friendly technologies substantially contributing to the reduced input of conventional chemical pesticides for the control of subterranean crop pests of global economic importance. This would be accomplished through the generation of new formulations of biological control agents (BCAs) based on entomopathogenic fungi ...
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Combined morphing assessment software using flight envelope data and mission based morphing prototype wing development (CHANGE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"Morphing in aircrafts has been studied and used throughout recent time in order to increase their flight envelope. This characteristic is of the upmost importance in order to offer a greater efficiency, versatility and performance during the assigned mission. Moreover an aircraft with the capability to adapt itself to each given situation is prone to achieve positive results to a range of differe ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The project funded staff and student mobility in Europe, and through it a total of 127 beneficiaries were supported (107 students and 20 staff). The funding allocated to Swansea University was for a total of 117 students and 23 staff. The difference between these numbers is down to unavoidable drop out of participants previously recruited (for example students who failed exams at Swansea were unab ...
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Optimal Control Technologies in Quantum Information Processing (QUAINT)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

We seek to bring together all major European and Israeli research centres in Optimal Control of Quantum Information Processing. This project will coordinate ongoing research activities, best practice dissemination, personnel training and public engagement as well as interaction with public stakeholders and policymakers for 17 established research groups from 15 universities in 6 countries – a tota ...
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Energetic Algae (EnAlgae)

Start date: Oct 31, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Aim Energetic Algae aims to reduce CO2 emissions and dependency on unsustainable energy sources in NWE. by accelerating the development of sustainable technologies for algal biomass production. bioenergy and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation from pilot phase to application and marketable products. processes and services. This is achieved by bundling know-how. finance and political support. The plan ...
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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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Optimisation of Multiscale Structures with Applications to Morphing Aircraft (OMSAMA)

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

The performance of engineering structures is continuously increasing, enabled by the accurate simulation and subsequent optimization of these systems. The ACARE Vision 2020 document set the ambitious goal of a 50% reduction in aircraft emissions that can only be achieved through a step change in aircraft technology. Adaptive structures and morphing aircraft are novel technologies that can provide ...
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Creative Enterprises Network European Window (CINEW)

Start date: Sep 30, 2013, End date: Mar 30, 2015,

... with regard to access to technology and market places. Achievements: University of Swansea have proposals for development in the film and related industries sector, covering TV and film production, skills development, studio space, graphic design etc. They are incorpor ...
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EUROmediCAT: Safety of Medication use in Pregnancy in Relation to Risk of Congenital Malformations (EUROMEDICAT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

A variety of complementary approaches are needed to evaluate safety of medicine use in pregnancy. To evaluate safety in relation to teratogenicity (capacity to cause malformations), population-based congenital anomaly registers, which are already networked across Europe (EUROCAT) with a common database, can provide a cost-effective mechanism which is as yet underexploited. The enormous population ...
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"Development of new techniques in hatchery rearing, fishery enhancement and aquaculture for Nephrops" (NEPHROPS)

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

"Fisheries landings of Nephrops novegicus (also known as Dublin Bay Prawn, Norway Lobster and Langoustine, among other names) are around 59,000 tons a year with a first sale value of close to €200 million.The NEPHROPS project is intended to bring together complementary information from survey, experimental and laboratory work. This combination of approaches is intended to create synergies and tran ...
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