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"Enrichment of macular pigment, and its impact on vision and blindness" (CREST)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the developed world. The macula, the central part of the retina, is responsible for optimal spatial vision. There is a growing body of evidence that a lack of a dietary pigment at the macula, known as macular pigment (MP), is associated with increased risk of AMD.MP contains the carotenoids lutein (L), zeaxanthin (Z) and ...
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Coordination of European Future Internet Forum of Member States and the Collection and Sharing of Research Data to Enhance and Promote National Cooperation (ceFIMS-CONNECT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Significant resources are being deployed in research at the European and Member State (MS) levels to bolster Europe's position as the global leader in Future Internet (FI) research. There is a strong consensus that this should continue in order to maintain the fostering of European competitiveness in this strategic area. However, a lack of coordination between Member States and EU initiatives (in ...
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INFINITY: INfrastructure support and capacity building for the Future INternet communITY (INFINITY)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The INFINITY Support Action will have a positive impact on the success of the FI-PPP programme. Through collaboration with organisations across Europe, INFINITY will capture and communicate information about available infrastructures and any interoperability requirements and issues. INFINITY will document any usage-related operational constraints and seek to identify and foster federation opportun ...
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Coordination of the European Future Internet forum of Member States (ceFIMS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

The limitations of the present Internet require global investment to develop a Future Internet (FI) capable of meeting the unprecedented demands of the Knowledge Society. It is strategically important for Europe to engage fully in the conception, research, development and innovation of the FI. Other regions recognise the potential of the FI and have launched major initiatives, such as NetSE (US), ...
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User-Centric paradigm for Seamless Mobility in Future Internet (PERIMETER)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

PERIMETER's main objective is to establish a new paradigm of user-centricity for advanced networking. In contrast to network-centric approaches, user-centric strategies could achieve true seamless mobility. Putting the user at the centre rather than the operator enables the user to control his or her identity, preferences and credentials, and so seamless mobility is streamlined, enabling mobile us ...
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Exposing the Features in IP version Six protocols that can be exploited/extended for the purposes of designing/building Autonomic Networks and Services (EFIPSANS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

The EFIPSANS project aims at exposing the features in IP version six protocols that can be exploited or extended for the purposes of designing or building autonomic networks and services. What this means is, a study of the emerging research areas that target desirable user behaviours, terminal behaviours, service mobility, e-mobility, context-aware communications, self-ware, autonomic communicatio ...
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Pan-European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation (PII)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

PII addresses the need for large-scale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds. The central objective of PII is to create a testbed federation among regional innovation clusters in Europe. This will enable companies participating in these clusters to test new communication services and applications across Europe. The testbed federatio ...
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Embedding P2P technology in Next Generation Networks: A New Communication Paradigm & Experimentation Infrastructure (VITAL++)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

Emerging types of applications, rich in user-created or provider-created content, enabled by P2P technology, with high demands for network resources are rapidly changing the landscape of network requirements and operations creating new challenges in network and service management, configuration, deployment, protocols etc. P2P is primarily a technology that fosters self-deployment and self-organisa ...
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Network of ICT experienced organisations, sharing experiences, knowledge and supporting SMEs (NET-SHARE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

Description The NET-SHARE project intends to create a network of experienced ICT organizations, from several European countries, to provide support to European SMEs through sharing of the experiences and knowledge gained mainly during participation in the SME domain of the former eTEN programme.The network will be composed by former and curr ...
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Communication Middleware for Monitoring Financial CI (CoMiFin)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

As remarked in very recent studies of the Federal Reserve (http://www.federalreserve.gov/), a financial infrastructure is anunmanaged large scale networked system of interconnected financialmarkets and banking systems by which domestic and internationalfinancial institutions allocate capital and manage their riskexposures. The 9/11 attack and European and North American blackoutsover the past deca ...
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International Co-operation in Trustworthy, Secure and Dependable ICT infrastructures (INCO-TRUST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

The main purpose of the INCO-TRUST Coordination Action, specifically targeting international cooperation in the area of Trustworthy, Secure and Dependable ICT infrastructures, is: 1. To promote collaboration and partnerships between researchers from the developed countries with the goal of coordinating the multiple research efforts underway in the areas of ICT Trust, Security and Dependability (TS ...
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Autonomic Internet (AUTOI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

Networks require greater degree of service-awareness. This implies that not only are all digital items pertaining to a service delivered, but also all relevant business goals are fulfilled, and network resources are used optimally. As a consequence the network's complexity grows with service abundance placing new requirements on network control and management as well as on Internet network resourc ...
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Think Tank for Converging Technical and Non-Technical Consumer Needs in ICT Trust, Security and Dependability (ThinkTrust)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

The ThinkTrust project is a Coordination Action project whose main aim is to bring together the European RandD community in the field of trust, security and dependability (TSD) and other identified important correlative non-technical stakeholders that would have a vested interest and can contribute in a meaningful way in the development of present and future programmes of Research and Development ...
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Protection And tRuSt In FinanciAL infrastrcutures (PARSIFAL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2010,

The European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection underlines that "since various sectors possess particular experience, expertise and requirements with CIP, EPCIP will be developed on a sector-by-sector basis and implemented following an agreed list of CIP sectors". The European Critical Infrastructure Directive puts forward in Annex 1 a list of 11 critical infrastructure sectors that ...
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