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Resin-free Liquid-Stone Process elimination of ynthetic polluting resisns and toxic solvents used in the production of decorative elements in bass-relief with high artistic contents, substituted by eco sustainable and natural row materials imparting similar effect. (ReLiStoP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Sep 30, 2009,

Background ‘Artificial stone’ products used in the ceramic and building sector are currently obtained by mixing crushed-stone aggregate with a polymeric bonding agent (polyester) at a controlled temperature. It is an attractive product because it can be made more cheaply and more uniform than natural stone. Furthermore, it can be cast near the place o ...
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Sewage energy exchange (SEWEEX)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Sep 1, 2015,

Background Limited reserves of natural gas and oil are causing prices to rise almost continuously and the link between these fuels and climate change is now largely accepted. Nevertheless, they still account for most of the fuel for heating in the EU. Alternatives that are ecologically and economically feasible are vital. An innovative and potential alte ...
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Neurovascular coupling in stroke - the brain microvasculature as a target for prevention of ischemic brain damage (NEUVASCHEMIA)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"What happens in the small brain blood vessels and surrounding neurons and glia cells (the neurovascular unit) after a stroke? Can we therapeutically prevent this pathology to normalise blood flow regulation and improve outcome after stroke? These questions are at the heart of my proposal.Current treatment options for stroke - the leading cause of long-term disabilities in Europe - are remarkably ...
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Ultrasensitive chiral detection by signal-reversing cavity polarimetry: applications to in-situ proteomics, single-molecule chirality, HPLC analysis, medical diagnostics, and atmospheric studies (ULTRACHIRAL)

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

Chirality is a fundamental property of life, making chiral sensing and analysis crucial to numerous scientific subfields of biology, chemistry, and medicine, and to the pharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetic, and food industries, constituting a market of 10s of billion €, and growing.Despite the tremendous importance of chiral sensing, its application remains very limited, as chiroptical signals are t ...
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Microfabrication-Based Rational Design of Transcriptional-Metabolic Intervention for the Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection (TMIHCV)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection affects over 3% of the world population and is the leading cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. Current treatments are effective in only 50% of the cases and associated with significant side effects. Therefore, there is a pressing need for the development of alternative treatments. Recently, our group and others demonstrated that the HCV lifecycle is critical ...
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ICT-enabled Education for Sustainable Development

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

Higher Education Institutions face challenges related to the slow progress regarding the implementation of the UN Decade of ESD (2004-2015). This is due to a number of barriers such as, limited staff awareness and expertise, overcrowded curricula, lack of new teaching methods and courses to address sustainability. As a response to these challenges, seven European Universities with considerable exp ...
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New post-socialist city: Competitive and Attractive (ReNewTown)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

Over 300 million people in Central and East Europe live in areas affected by socialist era. Close to 2/3 of them live in cities and towns often with districts which were created and quickly developed in this period. Whoever has travelled through countries of Former Eastern Europe bloc would agree that very often grim looking buildings make out landscape of almost every city. These remains of comm ...
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The influence of Her2 status on mammary stem/progenitor cells (HER2 MAMMARYSTEMCELL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"c-ERBB2/HER2 is a gene that is found overexpressed in ~25% of mammary tumours, and defines the molecular signature of one of the breast cancer subtypes: the HER2-positive tumour subtype. However, the role of the c-ErbB2 tyrosine kinase and the stem cell of origin of HER2-positive breast cancers are poorly understood. Our project aims to study the relationship between c-ErbB2 function and normal a ...
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High Performance Nano-structured Composites for Tooling Industry (VibraCoat)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

‘VibraCoat’ is one of the brand names of Plasmatrix Materials AB and refers to a member of a family of multi-functional nanostructured metal matrix composites with elastic modulus comparable to metals, resilience comparable to rubbers, hardness comparable to ceramics and vibration damping comparable to polymers.The proposal aims at commercialize the process technology and VibraCoat material for an ...
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Biohybrid templates for peripheral nerve regeneration (Biohybrid)

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

The BIOHYBRID consortium was build up with the overall aim to develop, in a preclinical perspective, an innovative biohybrid artificial nerve device for the regenerative treatment of traumatic injuries of peripheral nerves. This consortium consists of three active and well integrated SMEs as well as seven academic partners that are recognised leaders in the scientific areas of interest for this pr ...
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The formation of the state in Early Medieval Castile: craft production and social complexity (EARMEDCASTILE)

Start date: Jul 8, 2015, End date: Jul 7, 2017,

The main goal of the project is to analyse the emergency and the collapse of states in the Early Middle Ages through the study of production and distribution systems, which are consider a marker of social and political complexity. The project is based on two main axes: first at all, an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of pottery would have the capability of revealing the political backgr ...
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Mutational and Functional Analysis of the Melanoma Genome (MELGEN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Cancer is a genetic disease that involves the accumulation of somatic mutations. Comprehensive understanding of the mutations that cause cancer and their functional effects is a critical step towards: a) global understanding of cancer development and tumor phenotypes, b) sub-classification of cancer based on mutational signatures, and c) developing targeted therapies based on mutations in specific ...
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Feasibility study of a novel treatment for cancer based on a recombinant peptide therapy (PEPTO1)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Peptomyc S.L. is an SME created to develop a new, first-in-class, cancer therapy using innovative anti-Myc peptides. Myc is an oncogene deregulated in the majority of human cancers, making Peptomyc’s products potentially applicable to all cancer patients. The recombinant peptides are based on Omomyc, a Myc inhibitor benefiting from 20 years of preclinical validation as gene therapy. Omomyc display ...
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Pre-Normative Research for Thermodynamic Optimization of Fast Hydrogen Transfer (HYTRANSFER)

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

Hydrogen transfer concerns filling and emptying processes. Filling generates heat which can lead to overheating of composite pressure vessels especially when filling transportable containers or fuelling vehicles. Emptying generates cooling. Excessive cooling may occur during delivery of hydrogen from a trailer. The HyTransfer project will address both issues.As hydrogen vehicle refuelling is the l ...
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low-coSt Printing of high-pErformanCe Thermoplastics foR structurAl appLications (SPECTRAL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The technology known as Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) is one of the oldest known methods for 3D printing of objects. In fact, it was the first technology to be widely commercialized, and still has, by far, the largest presence on the market. In addition, printers based on FFF technology commonly have prices far less than comparable designs using photo polymerization or sintering technologies. ...
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SMEs & eLEARNING

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

This SMEELEARN Project has as its aim to test and transfer elearning practices that are common in the formal education sector to SMEs in order to address the vocational skills needed to develop and sustain SME growth in Europe. This involved working closely with SMEs employees and managers and VET providers. Research has shown that SMEs have limited resources for offering training and what they re ...
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Graphene-enabled on-chip supercontinuum light sources (GRAPHENICS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

To pave the way towards the widespread application of on-chip mid-infrared(MIR)-pumped nonlinear supercontinuum light sources, we want to introduce a paradigm shift in integrated nonlinear optics. Rather than relying on non-standard waveguide designs, large waveguide footprints, bulky MIR pump lasers and/or limited spectral coverage in strategies that could never comply with the requirements for w ...
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Innovative System for the Biochemical Restoration and Monitoring of Degraded Soils (BIOREM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Background Soil degradation is an issue for the whole EU, although it varies considerably between Member States, with different threats of different degrees of severity. An estimated 115 million hectares (ha), or 12% of Europe’s total land area, is subject to water erosion, and 42 million ha is affected by wind erosion. An estimated 45% of European soi ...
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Radiation and Tumour Blood Vessels (TUMOUR BLOOD VESSELS)

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

The tumour microenvironment plays a significant role in regulating tumour growth, metabolism, DNA repair, metastasis and response to therapy including radiation treatment. In particular, the oxygenation of a tumour greatly affects the response to ionizing radiation as hypoxic cells are more resistant to radiation then normoxic cells. Conversely radiation influences the microenvironment of the tumo ...
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Social Entrepreneurship in a European Dimension

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

A social enterprise is a firm with social impact mission managed in accountable, transparent and innovative way.Social enterprises are crucial for EU: the social economy is 10% of EU GDP and employs 4.5% of EU workers. At 1.43 trl € value and 11 ml workers in 2014, social economy is a unique engine for growth and employment (“Map of Social Enterprises & Their Ecosystems”,DG EMPL, 2014).Social ente ...
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5G MiEdge: Millimeter-wave Edge cloud as an enabler for 5G ecosystem (5G MiEdge)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Current research efforts on 5G Radio Access Networks (RAN) strongly focus on mmWave access to realize enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services. However, there are many unsolved issues to deploy mmW ave 5G RAN. The most critical issue is backhauling since it is infeasible to provide 10 Gigabit Ethernet backhaul everywhere. Meanwhile, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) have obtained much attention in 5G n ...
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Climate Change, Water and Productivity in the Mediterranean: Capacity Building for Geospatial Modelling (CLIMed)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

The aim of this research is capacity building through exchanging young scientist to estimate both hydrological and rates of biogeochemical cycling in order to test hypotheses on the relationship between climate change and ecosystem productivity in the Mediterranean environment. Remotely sensed-data, GIS and process-based simulation models have provided the capability to assess ecological change at ...
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Fostering the Virtual Mobility within the Metal Sector

Europe is living a stage of great changes, where it is necessary to act firmly on the relation between training and labour market to progress realistically towards the so called Knowledge Society. The economic crisis is showing a sectoral and occupational restructuring in the Metal Sector:In Europe, there are qualification tension in emerging sectors, with scarce offer of qualified manpower and ot ...
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Signs2Go : British Sign Language for Foreign Signers

For the majority of Deaf people who use a sign language as their first or preferredlanguage, the only realistic option is to learn a second sign language. The opportunitiesto do this, however, are extremely limited. The interest on the other hand, is high. Deafpeople travel abroad, Deaf students study abroad.In the Signs2Go project, we want to accomplish two objectives:1. to develop an on-line e-l ...
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Proyect to demonstrate a system to increase cullet leverage for environmentally attractive recycling (CLEAR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2005, End date: Sep 1, 2007,

Background Glass is fundamentally a highly recyclable material and in recent years, new legislation and fiscal drivers have contributed to an increase in glass recycling across the EU. Much of this increase has been observed in the glass manufacturing industry, where recycled glass cullet (waste or broken glass) has increasingly been used as feedstock. Th ...
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Intermodal cross-border passenger transport solutions supporting regional integration of interface regions in SBA (INTERFACE)

Start date: Apr 26, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

Crossing SBA as foot passenger by ferry has lost its importance during the last decades. This trend has triggered a circuit of negative effects, becoming evident esp. in interface areas. Services of infrastructure providers & transport operators are adjusted to cargo & car passenger traffic only, whereas raising service requirements of foot passengers were neglected completely. Ferry ports do not ...
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OFD Summer Camp Revisited

Start date: Aug 1, 2013,

OFD Summer Camp Revisited 2013: The project is focused on recruiting and training young volunteers and empowering them to develop a summer camp to be held in September 2013.The project develops over 3 phases:Phase 1 - New volunteer recruitment + trainingPhase 2 - Summer campPhase 3 - Wrap-up, evaluation & disseminationOFD summer camp is an informal education experience, whereby youths create, deve ...
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Time-resolved Ring-Cavity-Enhanced Polarization Spectroscopy: Breakthroughs in measurements of a) Atomic Parity Violation, b) Protein conformation and biosensing and c) surface and thin film dynamics (TRICEPS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Polarimetry is a crucial tool in both fundamental and applied physics, ranging from the measurement of parity nonconservation (PNC) in atoms, to the determination of biomolecule structure, and the probing of interfaces. These measurements tend to be extremely challenging as the change of the polarization of light is usually extremely small; typical differences in polarization states are of the ord ...
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Unilateralism and the protection of global interests: opportunities and limits of the exercise of state jurisdiction (UNIJURIS)

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

"In the 20th century, states have increasingly sought to apply their laws to situations and persons beyond their borders. They typically did so to protect their own interests from harm spilling over their borders. Recently, however, states appear to be giving their laws ‘extraterritorial’ application to protect global interests, not only when prosecuting international criminals, but also by enacti ...
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Ηλεκτρολογικές εγκαταστάσεις σε ενεργειακά κτίρια

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

The programme "Electrical installations in energy buildings" referring to BMS (Building Management Systems), which are systems that monitor and control the electromechanical installations of a building, with main reference to saving energy through the precise control of the monitored facilities. The work undertaken by the BMS system are the following: A. Heating, Ventilation, B. Ilektrostasio & li ...
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Action for empowerWOMENt: empowering young women for civic engagement and participation in structured dialogue.

Start date: Nov 30, 2015, End date: Jun 29, 2016,

When formulating policies affecting the lives of young people, many political actors, including institutions, decision and policy-makers, do not consider young people (in particular young women) nor youth organisations as relevant contributors, thus denying their ability to have an impact. Traditional means of civic engagement and political participation often lack transparency and the accountabil ...
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Együtt határok nélkül - Zempléni határmenti üzleti együttműködés az EU tükrében (Együtt határok nélkül / Spoločne bez hraníc)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Sep 29, 2010,

The project named ''Overcoming borders together" "Cross-border economic cooperation in Zemplén/Zemplín "is based on the possibilities afforded by the EU membership of both countries. The multi-ethnic Zemplén/Zemplín Region extending both sides of national borders is a disadvantaged area located on the eastern edge of the Union. By developing a shared communication infrastructure both sides of the ...
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Directed Evolution of Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases (NRPS) Using the Novel BeSD Screening System (EVO-NRPS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"Nonribosomal peptides are a highly important class of natural products and display a broad spectrum of bioactivity, ranging from antimicrobial and immunosuppressant to anticancer. They are synthesized by non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs), a diverse group of large multifunctional enzymes that operate as molecular assembly lines. They consist of modules that are responsible for coupling, pr ...
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Fundamentally new strategy for coupling of secondary alkyl boronic esters for the formation of new C-C bonds (FUNTASTIC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"The formation of new carbon-carbon bonds is of central importance in organic chemistry and a prerequisite for all life on earth. In this context, palladium catalysed cross-couplings have emerged as exceptionally powerful and useful methods for C-C bond formation. However, the reaction is largely limited to C(sp2)–C(sp2) bond formation. There are very few examples of cross couplings to form C(sp2) ...
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PAthways for Carbon Transitions (PACT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

Most «business-as-usual scenarios» built up till now have shown that hydrocarbon resources scarcity and the growing release of greenhouse gases will bring the world far away from sustainability over the next decades. Then, deep changes in behaviours away from «BAU» are unavoidable long before the turn of the century in a move towards a post-carbon society. Urbanisation and mobility are probably ...
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SELF-HEALING POLYMERS FOR CONCEPTS ON SELF-REPAIRED AERONAUTICAL COMPOSITES (HIPOCRATES)

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

A composite aero-structure with self-repair capabilities will offer durability, extend its service life and prolong maintenance protocols leading to lower aircraft operational costs. Despite the extensive research activities in the area of self-healing resins applied to composite materials, the research for aeronautical applications is currently very limited. To this end, the main objective of HIP ...
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"Development of an automatic process of in-house collection, storage and application of adaptive bacteria culture for fish farms." (ADAPOND)

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

"Evidence from recirculation systems shows that new starters experience 30-80% loss in sales almost unavoidably in the first year during the adaption period of a biofilter, accompanied by the failure losses from fish medication and seasonal depressions counting summingly for more than €70-90M annually in Europe. Low reliability of biofilter systems are considered the main reason why people avoid e ...
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Postgraduate Training Network in Biotechnology of Neurosciences (BioN)

Start date: Jan 15, 2010,

The Project aims to create the first national-level Postgraduate Training Network in Biotechnology of Neurosciences (BioN). The BioN will optimize the use of the limited recourses available for postgraduatelevel education in Russia, stimulate national and international cooperation, enhance mobility of students and teachers. The BioN will become a sustainable network of leading Russian universities ...
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Advancing the Scalability and Performance of I/O Subsystems in Multi-core Platforms (IOLanes)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Data storage technology today faces many challenges, including performance inefficiencies, inadequate dependability and integrity guarantees, limited scalability, loss of confidentiality, poor resource sharing, and increased ownership and management costs. Given the importance of both direct-attached and networked storage systems for modern applications, it becomes imperative to address these issu ...
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Cell circuits as targets and biomarkers for liver disease and cancer prevention (HEPCIR)

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

Chronic liver diseases such as liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are major challenges for global health. HCC is the second leading and fastest rising cause of cancer death worldwide. The limited availability of therapeutic options reflects our poor understanding of the molecular and clinical mechanisms involved in progression of liver disease. Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infec ...
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