Search for European Projects

Over 40 European Projects Found

Searched on 125080 European Projects

 FINISHED 

Emerging electronic states and devices based on Mott insulator interfaces (MINT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

"Transition metal oxides possess a broad range of functionalities (superconductivity, magnetism, ferroelectricity, multiferroicity) stemming from the interplay between structural effects and electronic correlations. Recent work has revealed exciting physics at their interfaces, including two-dimensional (2D) conductivity and superconductivity in the electron gas that forms at the interface between ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Fifth Generation of Ultra Bright X Ray Beam (X-Five)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The recently built X-ray Free Electron Lasers (FEL), the so-called fourth generation light sources, provide extremely intense coherent femtosecond pulses of energetic radiation. These FELs based on Linear Accelerator (Linac) technology require radio-protected facilities which are several kilometres in length and also require significant investment (more than a hundred million euros). They have alr ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Elucidating the Causes and Effects of Atlantic Circulation Changes through Model-Data Integration (ACCLIMATE)

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

Rapid changes in ocean circulation and climate have been observed in marine sediment and ice cores, notably over the last 60 thousand years (ky), highlighting the non-linear character of the climate system and underlining the possibility of rapid climate shifts in response to anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing.To date, these rapid changes in climate and ocean circulation are still not fully expl ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Novel phases in quantum gases: from few-body to many-body physics (NOMBQUANT)

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

"The project is aimed at developing new methods to create ultracold gases with unexplored many-body properties, and we construct the theory to realize the proposed opportunities. We intend to develop new ideas to induce resonant, long-range, and many-body interaction between particles. This includes novel near-zero-field Feshbach resonances in gases tightly confined to 1 or 2 dimensions that will ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Dynamics and Homeostasis of Germinal Zones in the Adult Vertebrate Brain (SyStematics)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Neural stem cells (NSCs) are self-renewing and multipotent progenitors generating neurons and glia in the adult vertebrate brain. The success of NSC maintenance and mobilization varies widely among species, brain territories, pathological conditions and individual environment, with important physiological impacts. On these grounds, our proposal aims to define the cellular, molecular and systems co ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Protist evolution in suboxic worlds (ProtistWorld)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

How and when eukaryotes evolved remain major open questions. Also the phylogenetic relationships and the emergence order of major eukaryotic lineages remain unresolved, despite progress in phylogenomic analyses based on genome and transcriptome data across the eukaryotic tree. However, this information is biased towards multicellular taxa. Yet, environmental molecular analyses have uncovered a vas ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Search and study of the Higgs bosons at the LHC (Higgs@LHC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The major issue and the forefront research activity in particle physics todayis the exploration of the mechanism that generates the elementary particlemasses. In the Standard Model that describes three of the four basic forces innature - the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions - this fundamentalmechanism leads to the existence of a new type of particle, the Higgs boson,which has esca ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Understanding elementary excitations in correlated materials: pushing the frontiers of the first-principles Bethe-Salpeter equation (ULTRA BSE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The goal of the ULTRA BSE project is to obtain a deep understanding of the low-energy elementary electronic excitations that can be measured by inelastic scattering experiments in correlated materials.It will push forward the ability of first-principles many-body methods to deal with correlated materials and will foster their integration with experiments.The outcome of ULTRA BSE will be a set of n ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

NANOCARRIERS FOR THE DELIVERY OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS TO FIGHT RESISTANCE MECHANISMS (CycloN Hit)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The worldwide spread of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms can be viewed as an ecological consequence of the systematic use of antimicrobial agents. Resistant bacteria prevail in healthcare environments where antibiotic selective pressure is intensive. Novel therapeutic approaches are urgently required to deliver the well-documented existing drugs in an optimized fashion to: i) protect them towar ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

Biomarkers of renal graft injuries in kidney allograft recipients (BIOMARGIN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

In renal allograft recipients, 10-year graft survival has not improved over the past decades. Histological examination of graft biopsies has long been the gold standard to confirm graft injuries, but biopsies are invasive and histological grading is not very robust. There is thus a need for robust, non-invasive methods to predict and diagnose acute and chronic graft lesions, to improve patient tre ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 

Genomics of adaptive divergence in Fungi (GenomeFun)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Understanding the genetic and genomic processes behind adaptive phenotypes remains a holy grail in biology. Fungi are poorly studied regarding these processes, despite their great tractability as model eukaryote organisms and their medical, industrial, and ecological importance. This project therefore aims to investigate the major evolutionary forces in the adaptive divergence of fungi —as model e ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Advanced Radiotherapy, Generated by Exploiting Nanoprocesses and Technologies (ARGENT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Cancer, the second most common form of death after cardiovascular disease, is a major European health concern. In 2006, 3.1 million new cases were diagnosed and 1.7 million deaths were attributed to cancer within Europe. The European Commission has a “European Partnership for Action against Cancer” (IP/09/1380) with the aim of reducing the number of cancer cases by 15% by 2020. A key challenge is ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

Disordered assemblies of biofilaments: from aggregation to contractility (BioFib)

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

Protein filaments and their geometrical organization are crucial for cell mechanics, and their failure is related to diseases ranging from sickle cell anemia to Alzheimer’s to cancer. While such stakes would suggest a well-defined design to the engineer, sub-cellular filamentous structures are often surprisingly disordered, and very variable from one cell to the next. Physically, this disorder can ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Seizing Electron Energies and Dynamics: a seed for the future (SEED)

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

Electronic correlation causes a wide range of interesting phenomena, such as superconductivity or the fractional quantum hall effect. It strongly impacts our surroundings – think about defect creation through a self-trapped exciton, or, in the animal world, the adhesion of a gecko on a surface (through the van der Waals attraction). Although the underlying Coulomb interaction is « simple » and w ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Dynamics of and in Complex Systems (DIONICOS)

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

With the statics of a wealth of model systems in statistical and condensed-matter systems being relatively well understood, an increased effort in research in these fields is channelled towards the understanding of dynamical phenomena. This agenda is even more pressing as dynamic effects are of crucial importance for many experimentally observed and technologically important phenomena.In the first ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

"Quantitative picture of interactions between climate, hydrological cycle and stratospheric inputs in Antarctica over the last 100 years via the combined use of all water isotopes" (COMBINISO)

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

"Climate change and associated water cycle modifications have a strong impact on polar ice sheets through their influence on the global sea-level. The most promising tool for reconstructing temperature and water cycle evolution in Antarctica is to use water isotopic records in ice cores. Still, interpreting these records is nowadays limited by known biases linked to a too simple description of iso ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Innovative Femtosecond laser-plasma based electron source for studying ultrafast structural dynamics (FEMTOELEC)

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

How do atoms move in a solid? How long does it take for a phase transition to occur or for a molecule to change its configuration? These are some of the fundamental questions that the field of ultrafast science asks and attempts to answer. Understanding these ultrafast processes in complex matter at the atomic scale requires advanced sources of radiation: X-rays or electrons with sub-angstrom wave ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Self-organisation at two length-scales: generation and characterisation of porous materials with chemically and physically modified surfaces (POMCAPS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

"Surfaces play a crucial role in the interaction of a material with its environment. Recent advances in Soft Matter physics reveal the extraordinary properties of surfaces with complex physico-chemical modifications. Of particular interest is the influence of such modifications on the wetting and flow of simple or complex fluids. Despite growing research efforts, a sound understanding and large-sc ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Exploitation of microbial biodiversity for the discovery and development of novel cosmeceutical agents (MICROSMETICS)

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

"MICROSMETICS aims to discover and carry to the stage of development innovative products in the area of cosmeceuticals originating from global biodiversity using emerging and state of the art technologies in the field of biotechnology, natural products chemistry and applied microbiology. These objectives will be implemented through an extended and balanced scheme of researcher’s exchanges and recr ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

Cold Molecular Ions at the Quantum Limit (COMIQ)

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

"COMIQ (COld Molecular Ions at the Quantum limit)will investigate how cooling, trapping, and control techniques applied molecular ion can expand the realm of quantum technology, enhance precision meaurements on molecular systems and lead to chemistry at the ultracold quantum limit."
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

Gain-endowed metallic meta-structures and devices: towards a unification of photonics and electronics (GEM)

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

"This research project aims at building a common framework for photonic and meta-material /electronic devices. As specific examples, we will focus on making key advances for THz and mid-infrared emitters and detectors. Our goal is to demonstrate device functionalities which cannot be achieved within the current scientific/technological framework.We will implement these concepts on quantum cascade ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

From complex to non-archimedean geometry (nonarcomp)

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

"Complex geometry is the study of manifolds that are defined over the complex numbers. Non-archimedean geometry is concerned with analytic spaces overfields endowed with a norm that satisfies the strong triangular inequality.The aim of this proposal is to explore the interactions between these seemingly different geometrieswith special emphasis on analytic and dynamical problems.We specifically p ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Spintronics in Graphene (SPINOGRAPH)

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

"The “Spintronics in Graphene” Training project (SPINOGRAPH) will create a European network of experts providing state-of-the-art training for early stage researchers (ESR) and Experienced Researchers (ER) in the blooming field of Spintronics in Graphene. The huge success of spintronics in metals which, starting from the pioneering discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR), has revolutionized t ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

ADvanced OPtical SYStem Design (ADOPSYS)

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

"There is a severe shortage in the European photonics industry of graduates and PhDs with broad expertise in modelling and design of industrially relevant optical systems and components. This shortage is aggravated because most applied design methodologies are strongly based on previous experience of the designer. In general, these methods also have a limited efficiency because they heavily rely o ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

DIAmond Devices Enabled Metrology and Sensing (DIADEMS)

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

The DIADEMS project aims at exploiting the unique physical properties of NV color centres in ultrapure single-crystal CVD-grown diamond to develop innovative devices with unprecedented performances for ICT applications. By exploiting the atom-like structure of the NV that exhibits spin dependent optical transitions, DIADEMS will make optics-based magnetometry possible.The objectives of DIADEMS are ...
Read Project

 17

 FINISHED 

Non-Classical Correlations and Entanglement in Twin-Atom Beams (CORENT)

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

"Quantum atom optics aims at performing with atoms similar experiments to that performed in quantum optics with photons. The motivation for doing so is twofold. From a fundamental point of view, we wish to demonstrate that non-classical correlations and entanglement exist also for massive particles and behave as predicted by quantum theory. From a more practical point of view, such properties also ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Photonic Libraries And Technology for Manufacturing (PLAT4M)

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

Description "PLAT4M will make silicon photonics ready for transition to industry"Silicon is now a mature integration platform that has brought CMOS microelectronics to mass-market application. The PLAT4M vision is that silicon photonics will lead to a similar revolution in the photonics sector.Over the past years silicon photonics has see ...
Read Project

 18

 FINISHED 

Insect Timing (INsecTIME)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

INsecTIME seeks to train the next generation of ESRs in the intellectual, technological, complementary and commercial skills required for future European competitiveness in the area of biological timing, an area with considerable commercial potential. The scientific focus will be on circadian and seasonal rhythms in the model insect, Drosophila, which has proved particularly relevant for understan ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

Statistical models for musical signal processing (STAMUS)

Start date: Mar 15, 2014, End date: Mar 14, 2017,

"This project lies in the interdisciplinary field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). The objective of the project is the development of innovative technologies for enabling access to the immense amount of audio music collections that are available on the Web. Bringing together efforts from speech and signal processing, statistical modeling, musicology and machine learning, we seek to build effi ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Hybrid Architecture for quantum Information using Rydberg ensembles and Superconductors (HAIRS)

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

We propose to solve the long-standing problem of coupling quantum states in atoms to solid-state quantum devices. The realization of such a quantum interface represents a major breakthrough for information science, as it enables the development of a powerful hybrid architecture, where long-lived states of atoms store quantum information that can be processed rapidly using superconducting quantum c ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

Microfluidic multiplexed cell chips (MultiCell)

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

There exist very few techniques for studying a group of cells containinga large number compared to a single cell but small compared to a wholetissue. This implies that statistics are exceedingly difficult to obtainfrom measurements of individual cells. Microfluidics provides a way toamend this by allowing ways to observe individual cells and automatesuch measurements. The aim in this project is to ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

DNA traffic during bacterial cell division (DNAtraffic)

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

The molecular mechanisms that serve to couple DNA replication, chromosome segregation and cell division are largely unknown in bacteria. This led a considerable interest to the study of Escherichia coli FtsK, an essential cell division protein that assembles into DNA-pumps to transfer chromosomal DNA between the two daughter cell compartments during septation. Indeed, our recent work suggests that ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

UltraCOLD ion and electron beams for NANOscience (COLDNANO)

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

COLDNANO (UltraCOLD ion and electron beams for NANOscience), aspires to build novel ion and electron sources with superior performance in terms of brightness, energy spread and minimum achievable spot size. Such monochromatic, spatially focused and well controlled electron and ion beams are expected to open many research possibilities in material sciences, in surface investigations (imaging, litho ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Competition-Induced Novel Quantum States (COMPETE)

Start date: Jan 27, 2015, End date: Jan 26, 2017,

"Our project aims at an experimental investigation of exotic states of matter, particularly, quantum criticality and quantum spin liquid where quantum criticality seems to play a major role, which are rapidly expanding fields in physics and material chemistry. We focus on itinerant ferromagnetic quantum critical systems and geometrically frustrated novel triangular corner sharing kagome antiferro ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

EUropean CLimate and weather Events: Interpretation and Attribution (EUCLEIA)

Start date: Nov 13, 2013, End date: Jan 1, 2017,

Climate change is expected to impact extreme weather in Europe. There is therefore a clear need to adapt effectively to climate change, particularly in Europe, where recent heatwaves, floods and droughts have demonstrated the vulnerability of European citizens to extreme weather. However, scientifically robust information about the extent to which recent extreme weather can be linked to climate va ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

MicrOwave Spintronics as an AlternatIve Path to Components and Systems for Telecommunications, Storage and Security Applications (MOSAIC)

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

Description Process (mix, modulate, synchronise) and detect microwave frequencies based on innovative spin transfer devices.The overarching objective of the MOSAIC project is to bring the device level knowledge acquired in the past years by the partners towards systems as a first crucial step towards industrialization, warranting the lead ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Coupling effects in magnetic patterned nanostructures (COEF-MAGNANO)

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

The scientific objective of this programme is to achieve a comprehensive knowledge of magnetically coupled systems of reduced dimensionality. Spin configuration, magnetic and electrical properties of patterned nanostructures will be investigated in three kinds of magnetically coupled materials: antiferromagnetic / ferromagnetic (AF/FM), very thin multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy and super ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

Gauge Theory as an Integrable System (GATIS)

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

"Gauge Theories provide the most successful framework for the description of nature at its most basic level, and in particular of high energy physics. However, extracting reliable predictions relevant for experiment from gauge theory has remained a major challenge which so far requires massive use of computer algebra. Over the last decade an entirely new approach to quantum gauge theories has begu ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

Quark-gluon tagged jet quenching studies in PbPb collisions with the CMS detector at LHC (QGTAGCMSHI)

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

The studies of high energy nuclear (heavy-ion) collisions have been exploring the properties of QCD under extreme conditions. It is predicted that the matter in these conditions forms a new phase which is called the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Many features of this matter is already observed in RHIC and LHC experiments, one of them being the jet-quenching phenomenon. The color-charged highly-energet ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Exploiting RESonant processes to understand CORrelations (RESCOR)

Start date: May 12, 2014, End date: Nov 12, 2016,

Spectroscopy is one of the fundamental tool in condensed matter physics, materials science and nanoscience. Resonant spectroscopies, like Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) and angle resolved Resonant PhotoEmission Spectroscopy (RPES), offer invaluable information on the system under investigation, being able to probe different types of excitations, from electron-hole pairs (excitons), to ...
Read Project

 1