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European Gram Negative Antibacterial Engine (ENABLE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The intensive use and misuse of antibiotics has resulted in some level of antibiotic resistance in essentially all human bacterial pathogens. There is a growing concern that the loss of therapeutic options will present us with a post-antibiotic era where present and future medical advances are negated. Resistant bacteria dramatically reduce the possibilities of treating infections effectively, a ...
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Production and distribution of food during the Roman Empire: Economics and political dynamics (EPNET)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The project aims at detecting and defining the political and economic dynamics of the Roman Empire trade system by designing and implementing an experimental laboratory to explore different historical hypoteses through computer simulations. Empirical data will be used to correct and validate the results of the simulations and define rigourous and falsifiable models of ancient trade sytems.The Roma ...
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Nanodevice Engineering for a Better Chemical Gas Sensing Technology (BETTERSENSE)

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

BetterSense aims to solve the two main problems in current gas sensor technologies: the high power consumption and the poor selectivity. For the former, we propose a radically new approach: to integrate the sensing components and the energy sources intimately, at the nanoscale, in order to achieve a new kind of sensor concept featuring zero power consumption. For the latter, we will mimic the biol ...
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MANAGING THE EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE STRESSORS ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS UNDER WATER SCARCITY (GLOBAQUA)

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

Water and water-related services are major components of the human wellbeing, and as such are major factors of socio-economic development in Europe; yet freshwater systems are under threat by a variety of stressors (organic and inorganic pollution, geomorphological alterations, land cover change, water abstraction, invasive species and pathogens. Some stressors, such as water scarcity, can be a st ...
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Dynamics and assemblies of colloidal particles under Magnetic and Optical forces (DYNAMO)

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

Control of microscale matter through selective manipulation of colloidal building blocks will unveil novel scientific and technological avenues expanding current frontiers of knowledge in Soft Matter systems. I propose to combine state-of-the-art micromanipulation techniques based on magnetic and optical forces to transport, probe and assemble colloidal matter with single particle resolution in re ...
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Aggression subtyping for improved insight and treatment innovation in psychiatric disorders (AGGRESSOTYPE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Aggression is a basic physiological trait with important roles throughout evolution, both in defence and predation. When expressed in humans in the wrong context, aggression leads to maladjustment, social impairment and crime. Despite this, knowledge about aggression aetiology is limited and current treatment strategies are insufficient. Contingent to a subdivision into impulsive and instrumental ...
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Grassroots economics: Meaning, project and practice in the pursuit of livelihood (GRECO)

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

In Southern Europe promises of wellbeing and social mobility have become increasingly elusive since 2008. Economists and policy makers have provided analyses and advised on political action to end the economic crisis, but this has often resulted in greater precarity producing social protest as well as nationalistic and xenophobic reactions. Expert’s accounts are based on mainstream economic models ...
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Elucidating early pathogenic mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease through a humanized dynamic in vitro model (PD-HUMMODEL)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Our understanding of Parkinson’s disease (PD) pathogenesis is currently limited by difficulties in obtaining live neurons from patients and the inability to model the sporadic, most frequent, form of PD. It may be possible to overcome these challenges by reprogramming somatic cells from patients into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). In preliminary studies, we have generated a collection of 5 ...
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CHEMometric and High-throughput Omics Analytical Methods for Assessment of Global Change Effects on Environmental and Biological Systems (CHEMAGEB)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

We propose to develop new chemometric and high-throughput analytical methods to assess the effects of environmental and climate changes on target biological systems which are representative of ecosystems. This project will combine powerful chemometric and analytical high-throughput methodologies with toxicological tests to examine the effects of environmental stressors (like chemical pollution) an ...
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Tuning Attention during Language Learning (TUNINGLANG)

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

Language is the most amazing skill that humans possess. It allows social interaction, can make us cry, laugh and transmit our most complex thoughts. Comprehending the cognitive processes involved in language learning is of critical importance for our understanding of why under certain conditions language learning is impaired. However, current language learning research has often offered limited ex ...
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Arctic Geo-hazards, Geo-fluids and Climate Change (ARCTIC GEO-HAZARDS)

Start date: Mar 21, 2014, End date: Feb 10, 2018,

Recent studies indicate that water and methane stored in deep sediments might be abruptly mobilized by warming due to Climate Change.At the particularly climate-sensitive Arctic margin, sudden migration of such deep geo-fluids might cause submarine slope instability andlandslides, and might even result in a significant release of methane into the atmosphere. Submarine landslides threaten infrastru ...
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Protecting the health of Europeans by improving methods for the detection of pathogens in drinking water and water used in food preparation (Aquavalens)

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

The AQUAVALENS consortium has brought together SMEs, Industries, Universities and Research Institutes with the mission of protecting the health of European Citizens from contaminated drinking water and water used in food processing. We will achieve this by developing sustainable technologies to enable water system managers whether in large or small water systems or within food growers or manufactu ...
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Industry-academia partnership for the design and implementation of an efficient, reliable and secure smart energy network (SMART-NRG)

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

Smart energy networks (SENs) are electric systems that use two-way networking technologies, cyber-secure communications technologies, and computational intelligence and control in an integrated fashion to efficiently manage energy consumption with the aim of providing a new electricity grid that is clean, safe, secure, reliable, resilient, efficient, and environmentally sustainable. SENs can be we ...
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Evaluating the impact and outcomes of European SSH research (IMPACT-EV)

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

"The main objective of IMPACT-EV is to develop a permanent system of selection, monitoring, evaluation and comparison of the impact and outcomes from European SSH research, taking into account the latest quantitative and qualitative evaluation tools, identifying new ways of implementing them and exploring new standards and indicators that complement existing impact assessment processes. IMPACT-EV ...
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Ageing Europe: An application of National Transfer Accounts (NTA) for explaining and projecting trends in public finances (AGENTA)

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

"The AGENTA project aims at explaining the past and forecasting the future of taxes and public transfers and services in the light of demographic change in the European Union. Conceptually AGENTA puts a special emphasis on- the links between the public and the non-public sector (particularly households) in providing resources in the dependent periods of the life cycle;- the links between the diff ...
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Seasonal interactions in migratory seabirds: influence of carryover effects on fitness (CyOv_effs)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Migratory species spend different parts of the annual cycle in geographically disparate places but events and processes occurring at each stage are inextricably linked because what occurs in one season carry over to influence individual success the following season. For instance, habitat quality in the non-breeding grounds can affect physical condition, reproductive success and survival during the ...
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Ecohydrological interfaces as critical hotspots for transformations of ecosystem exchange fluxes and biogeochemical cycling (INTERFACES)

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

"INTERFACES is a supra-disciplinary training and research network that aims (1) to develop conceptual process understanding of the role of ecohydrological interfaces (i.e. system boundaries) for the transport and transformation of fluxes of heat, energy and water and interlinked biogeochemical cycles (C, N, O) at micro- to landscape-scale; and (2) to create the next generation of supra-disciplinar ...
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USE OF INNOVATIVE THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE FOR MARKED ENERGY SAVINGS AND SIGNIFICANT LOWERING OF CO2 EMISSIONS (INNOSTORAGE)

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

"INNOSTORAGE proposal is driven by the need to develop efficient thermal storage (TES) systems using phase change materials (PCM). One of the main contributions to the rational use of energy is given by the TES systems. They accommodate efficient storage of thermal energy, promoting the possibility of using renewable energy such as solar energy, ambient cold and residual heat. The use of PCM for T ...
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Holography for the LHC era (HOLOLHC)

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

With the advent of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), particle and nuclear physics have entered a new era. Heavy ion collisions at the LHC have already begun to provide new insights into the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) phase of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The beam energy scan program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will explore part of the rich phase diagram of QCD at finite baryon dens ...
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Benznidazol and Triazol REsearch group for Nanomedicine and Innovation on Chagas diseasE (BERENICE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The BERENICE consortium is aiming at providing a new and cost-effective solution to a better treatment for Chagas chronic patients. Please see its objectives below :Main objective• Obtain a more effective, better tolerated and cheaper formulation of a drug with trypanocidal activity to cure Chagas diseaseSpecific Objectives• Obtain results of pharmacokinetics of new formulations• Assess trypanocid ...
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Erk1/2 SIGNALING IN MEMORY CONSOLIDATION AND ALLOCATION (ERKMEM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"The growing aging population of the EU predicts a steady increase in the health and economic burden of mental decline. Hence, the study of the molecular basis of long-term memory formation is a central topic in neuroscience with forseeable social implications. The Erk1/2 MAPK signaling pathway has been strongly implicated in the consolidation of episodic, hippocampus-dependent memories, and it al ...
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CAtastrophic Shifts in drylands: how CAn we prevent ecosystem DEgradation? (CASCADE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The aim of CASCADE is to obtain a better understanding of sudden ecosystem shifts that may lead to major losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services, and to define measures that can be used to prevent such shifts. The focus of CASCADE is explicitly on drylands as being one of the most fragile and threatened ecosystems in Europe. CASCADE will investigate the historical evolution of dryland ecosys ...
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Understanding human cooperation with humanoid robots: analysis from a social psychological perspective (HUMROBCOOPERATION)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2017,

"The aim of this project is to understand better people’s social interaction with humanoid robots to predict humans’ willingness to cooperate with them. Specifically, in the outgoing phase, the project examines whether (a) the predisposition to cooperate with other humans, (b) the influence of positive or negative information about the robot on impression formation, (c) the type of causal attribut ...
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Real time monitoring of SEA contaminants by an autonomous Lab-on-a-chip biosensor (SEA-on-a-CHIP)

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

Early warning systems that can provide extreme sensitivity with exquisite selectivity are required to assess chemical contamination of estuarine and coastal areas. SEA-on-a-CHIP aims to develop a miniaturized, autonomous, remote and flexible immuno-sensor platform based on a fully integrated array of micro/nano-electrodes and a microfluidic system in a lab-on-a-chip configuration combined with ele ...
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Gaia European Network for Improved data User Services (GENIUS)

Start date: Sep 20, 2013, End date: Apr 1, 2017,

GENIUS is designed to boost the impact of the next European breakthrough in astrophysics, the Gaia astrometric mission. Gaia is an ESA Cornerstone mission scheduled for launch in October 2013 and aims at producing the most accurate andcomplete 3D map of the Milky Way to date. A pan-European consortium named DPAC is working on the implementation of the Gaia data processing, of which the final resul ...
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Equipping the Next Generation for Active Engagement in Science (ENGAGE)

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

The key to engaging the next generation to participate in scientific issues is to change how science is taught. Students gain an image of science as a body of content whereas RRI deals with uncertain areas of knowledge is uncertain, where values and argument matter as much as facts. The shift is hugely challenging. High stakes education systems marginalise teaching about the nature of science. Th ...
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iSocial: Decentralized Online Social Networks (ISOCIAL)

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

The rapid proliferation of Online Social Networking (OSN) sites, like Facebook and MySpace, is expected to reshape the Internet’s structure, design, and utility. Industry experts believe that OSNs create a potentially transformational change in consumer behavior and will bring a far-reaching impact on traditional industries of content, media, and communications. Nevertheless, at a European level, ...
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KINOPTIM: An ICT solution for the implementation of an innovating fall prevention and holistic management service for the elderly community (KINOPTIM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Falls are prominent among the causes of unintentional injury, particularly for the elderly. According to WHO, 28-35% of people aged of 65 and above fall each year increasing to 32-42% for those over 70. ICT is an excellent tool for addressing the situation briefly sketched above therefore KINOPTIM will develop, integrate and pilot an infrastructure for the implementation of a comprehensive fall pr ...
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Studying at high energies the dynamical and non-thermal processes in astrophysical outflows (ASTFLOW)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Powerful relativistic outflows are associated to the brightest sources in the sky. These sources reach their large luminosities at very high energies through non-thermal emission. The relativistic particles responsible of this non-thermal emission are the result of different acceleration mechanisms, which can take place in different regions linked to these outflows. The production of relativistic ...
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New cost/effective superHYDROphobic coatings with enhanced BOND strengh and wear resistance for application in large wind turbine blades (HYDROBOND)

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

"The main objective of HYDROBOND is the development of a highly innovative process for application of superhydrophobic coatings onto large off-shore turbine blades, that will contribute to minimize the power losses and mechanical failures. Novel thermal spray technologies will be the way to achieve the nanostructured coatings with tailored anti-icing properties and enhanced bond strengh, in a cost ...
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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 ...
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Expanding Capability in Heterocyclic Organic Synthesis (ECHONET)

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

"ECHONET is an Initial Training Network (ITN) comprising 8 full network participants from 6 countries, spanning 6 academic institutions and two private sector organisations, the latter representing SME and Global fine chemicals companies. The network is also supported by 2 associated partners from the private sector. Taken together, the consortium will offer research training and generic skills de ...
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GENETICS OF TEMPERATURE MODULATION OF PLANT IMMUNITY (DISEASENVIRON)

Start date: Dec 3, 2012, End date: Dec 2, 2016,

During their life cycle, plants are exposed to microbes in soil and leaf surfaces that can cause disease and result in crop losses and pathogen spread. Even though chemical treatment and genetic engineering have been successfully applied to combat disease, it is increasingly being recognized that understanding the natural co-evolution of plants with pathogens will provide new leads for pest regula ...
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Design of Thin-Film Nanocatalysts for On-Chip Fuel Cell Technology (CHIPCAT)

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

chipCAT aims at the knowledge-driven development of a novel type of thin-film catalysts for silicon-based “on-chip” micro fuel cells (u-FCs). Combining fundamental surface-science, model catalysis, and first-principles computational studies, a detailed understanding of the surface chemistry on complex nanostructured catalysts will be achieved. This microscopic-level understanding will be used to t ...
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Probing strongly coupled deconfined matter at the LHC (DECOLHC)

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

Since 2010, the LHC has produced high quality data on a variety of observables in heavy ion collisions which have already led to exciting new developments in the field, despite of the fact that the LHC has not yet reached to its full power. Complementary to the experimental program a big theoretical effort is needed in order to fully exploit the potential of these data to determine the properties ...
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Preparedness, Prediction and Prevention of Emerging Zoonotic Viruses with Pandemic Potential using Multidisciplinary Approaches (PREDEMICS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The capacity of zoonotic RNA viruses to emerge as major agents of human disease can appear limitless. Current intervention strategies have demonstrated limited success. Rapid, innovative and effective solutions are needed to reduce the apparently accelerating process of zoonotic disease emergence. We will study the following zoonotic viruses with epidemic potential in Europe: influenza virus, hepa ...
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Social Innovation on active and healthy ageing for sustainable economic growth (SIFORAGE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The general aim of SIforAGE project will be to strengthen the cooperation mechanisms and tools among the stakeholders working along the value chain of active and healthy ageing, with the aim of improving the performance of the European Union competitiveness and growth, through research and innovative products for more and better lives.The objective is change minds and attitudes for a new vision of ...
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Managing Impacts of Deep-seA reSource exploitation (MIDAS)

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

The MIDAS project addresses fundamental environmental issues relating to the exploitation of deep-sea mineral and energy resources; specifically polymetallic sulphides, manganese nodules, cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts, methane hydrates and the potential mining of rare earth elements. These new industries will have significant impacts on deep-sea ecosystems, in some cases extending over hundre ...
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A Computational Environment to Stimulate and Enhance Creative Designs for Mathematical Creativity (M C Squared)

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

The M C Squared project will design and develop an intelligent digital environment to support stakeholders from creative industries involved in the production of media content for educational purposes to engage in collective forms of creative thinking and working to co-design appropriate digital media. The focus will be on social creativity in the design of digital media intended to enhance creati ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

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

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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