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Multi-country cOllaborative project on the rOle of Diet, FOod-related behaviour, and Obesity in the prevention of Depression (MooDFOOD) (MOODFOOD)

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

MooDFOOD is a Multi-country cOllaborative project on the rOle of Diet, Food-related behaviour, and Obesity in the prevention of Depression. Depression is one of the most prevalent, severe and disabling disorders in the EU and places a heavy burden on individuals and families. A large proportion of the EU population is overweight which increases depression risk. Improving food-related behaviour and ...
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Micro and Nanoscale Design of Thermally Actuating Systems (MIDAS)

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

Actuating smart systems rely on the distinct class of functional materials able to actuate in a specific field. The highest thermally controlled actuation is provided by shape memory alloys, the class of materials relying on the thermoelastic martensitic phase transformation. Such materials are not only a solution for ecological and durable development but also a continuous subject of research and ...
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Development of improved perennial non-food biomass and bioproduct crops for water stressed environments (WATBIO)

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

"The goal of WATBIO is to use the power of next generation sequencing to develop an accelerated route for producing new germplasm with enhanced drought tolerance whilst maintaining biomass productivity and quality in water scarce, marginal environments unsuitable for food crops.This will be achieved for three non-food crops (Populus, Miscanthus and Arundo), suitable for growth on water scarce, mar ...
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Solar Heat Integration Network (SHINE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Large solar heating systems are decisive to cover a major part of European low temperature heat demand by solar energy and therewith to meet European policy aims. However, today only a negligible share of solar heating systems installed in Europe are large units due to manifold technical and socio-economic obstacles. The challenge of solar thermal technology and the overall objective of the propos ...
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Membrane lipid composition as new antitumor therapeutic target: sphingomyelin synthase (SGMS) at the basis of Minerval® mechanism of action and design of new Minerval®-related drugs (MEMBRANELIPIDTHERAPY)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: May 2, 2017,

MembraneLipidTherapy proposal is a translational research project introducing an innovative therapeutic approach for fighting cancer disease that takes advantage of inter-sectoral industry-academia strengths and international cooperation.Membrane Lipid Therapy relies on the specific lipid composition from the cell membrane in tumour cells as a strong element controlling tumour growth surpassing on ...
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Determinants of eating behaviour in European children, adolescents and their parents (I.Family)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Nutrition-related diseases caused a loss of over 56 million years of healthy life of European citizens in 2000. I.Family will make a significant contribution to reduce this burden by studying the interplay and impact of the main drivers of dietary behaviour and food choice. It will take advantage of the unique opportunity to follow-up the large IDEFICS children’s cohort to not only provide added v ...
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DYNamic citizens @ctive for sustainable MObility (DYN@MO)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

CIVITAS-DYN@MO is an ambitious project with strategic importance to sustainable mobility planning in four dynamic European cities. Aachen (DE), Gdynia (PL), Koprivnica (HR) and Palma (ES) will jointly develop "Mobility 2.0" systems and services, implement city and citizen-friendly, electric mobility solutions and vehicles, and engage in a dynamic citizen dialogue for mobility planning and service ...
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Inspection Capabilities for Enhanced Ship Safety (INCASS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

In the day-to-day ship operations, structural and machinery failures may lead to major accidents, endangering crew and passengers lives onboard, posing a threat to the environment, damaging the ship itself and having a great impact in terms of business losses. Moreover, with the introduction and building of a big number of new ships, their monitoring and inspection from both regulatory bodies and ...
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Innovative Policy Modelling and Governance Tools for Sustainable Post-Crisis Urban Development (INSIGHT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Cities embody the twofold challenge currently facing the European Union: how to improve competitiveness while achieving social cohesion and environmental sustainability. They are fertile ground for science and technology, innovation and cultural activity, but also places where problems such as environmental pollution, unemployment, segregation and poverty are concentrated.INSIGHT aims to investiga ...
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Integrative Eco-mechanics of Diatom Sinking: Cellular Physiology, Complex Advection and the Biological Carbon Pump (DIASIN)

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

"Perhaps the most striking example of the influence of aquatic microorganisms in global cycles is their role in the oxygenation of the Earth's atmosphere and the transfer of photosynthetically fixed carbon from the ocean's surface to the deep ocean through sinking, a mechanism referred to as the Biological Carbon Pump, the process responsible for most of the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2.Mai ...
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Learning about Interacting Networks in Climate (LINC)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Improving our understanding of the Earth’s climate phenomena, such as El Niño, has a huge economic and social impact for present and future generations, and can underpin advances in areas as diverse as energy, environment, agricultural, etc. There is a great shortage of qualified workforce to perform this task and a major challenge is the training of qualified researchers that can approach climate ...
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multi-LAyer SpAtiotemporal Generalized NEtworks (LASAGNE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Thanks to modern ICT, a new generation of large data sets of social, biological, and man-made systems are now available. Many more will be produced at an ever–increasing rate in the near future. Such data contain high precision and integrated information on the nature and the evolution -in space and time- of the state of each single component, together with information on different types of intera ...
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Optimization of Perennial Grasses for Biomass Production (OPTIMA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

OPTIMA will integrate an ambitious biology system approach for perennial grasses such as switchgrass, miscanthus and giant reed in the Mediterranean environment. Moreover the perennial species cardoon, which has been proven to be particularly adapted to the Mediterranean climate, will be used as a control species.The main objective of the OPTIMA project is to identify high-yielding perennial grass ...
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Recruitment and activation of brown adipocytes as preventive and curative therapy for type 2 diabetes (DIABAT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"The DIABAT project will employ knowledge of the function, dysfunction and physiological regulation of brown adipocytes to develop innovative therapeutic and preventive strategies for type 2 diabetes. Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is currently a worldwide recognized target to combat obesity and diabetes due to last years re-discovery of functional BAT in adult humans by several of the members of the ...
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Biology and control of vector-borne infections in Europe (EDENext)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

To address the call for proposals 'Biology and control of vector-borne infections in Europe' launched by the European Commission, we want to investigate the biological, ecological and epidemiological components of vector-borne diseases (VBD) introduction, emergence and spread, and to propose innovative tools for controlling them, building on the basis of acquired knowledge. We have selected the ma ...
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BIOmarkers of Robustness of Metabolic Homeostasis for Nutrigenomics-derived Health CLAIMS Made on Food (BIOCLAIMS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The food and health relationship focuses on maintenance of optimal health, both in terms of physiology and new European legislation. Yet, most accepted biomarkers quantify (intermediate) disease endpoints or damage. This has led to major problems in demonstrating health benefits and establishing health claims, and blocks competitive economic and health developments in the food sector. BIOCLAIMS de ...
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3rd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics (EUCogIII)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Description The EUCogIII project organises a network of many hundreds of researchers and continues building the cognitive systems community in Europe, which straddles the divides of traditional academic disciplines in its work towards artificial intelligent systems that are autonomous, robust, flexible and self-improving in pursuing their go ...
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Evolutive User-centric Networks for Intraurban Accessibility (EUNOIA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

Urban transport is essential for citizens to perform their daily activities, but it also constitutes a major source of pollution. The goal of EUNOIA is to take advantage of smart city technologies and complex systems science to develop new models and tools empowering city governments and their citizens to design sustainable mobility policies.EUNOIA will pursue advances in three complementary direc ...
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Marine Robots and Dexterous Manipulation for Enabling Autonomous Underwater Multipurpose Intervention Missions (TRIDENT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

Description Developing new methodology to provide multipurpose dexterous manipulation capabilities for intervention operations in unknown, unstructured and underwater environments There is an ever increasing demand for technology which provides autonomous assistance in underwater scenarios, rangin ...
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towards a PHOtonic liquid state machine based on delay-CoUpled Systems (PHOCUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The aim of this project is to design and implement a photonics realization of a liquid state machine (LSM), with the potential for versatile and fast signal handling. We target to achieve high computational performance with only a small number of photonics components, using dynamical systems with time delay to realize the required high dimensionality for the LSM. This ambitious aim is motivated by ...
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Marine INspection rObotic Assistant System (MINOAS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"The increasing competitiveness in marine operations creates a need for new system concepts that introduce high technology value added products, facilitate the processes involved and minimize the downtimes. The need, thus, lies not only in incorporating the technological means so far available, but in changing the way the corresponding authorities stand against the challenges at hand.MINOAS projec ...
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2nd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics (EUCogII)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

Description Fostering collaborative research through network activities Research in artificial cognitive systems currently suffers from fragmentation and the lack of a clear agenda. It is for this reason that EUCogII establishes a closely cooperating research community in Europe that develops its ...
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Municipal Territorial Information System (SITMUN)

Start date: Jan 31, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2005,

The idea of SITMUN arises out of the verification of the difficulty of implementation of SIG tools on a municipal level. The plan is to develop a centralized municipal SIT that, managed by supramunicipal bodies, will allow the provision of SIG functions to those town councils who need them but who do not have the means for correct implementation. The main objective of SITUM thus consists in develo ...
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