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Novel materials architecture based on atomically thin crystals (HETERO2D)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2019,

We propose a new paradigm in materials science – heterostructures based on two-dimensional atomic crystals (and their hybrids with metallic and semiconducting quantum dots and nanostructures), and develop several devices which are based on such concept. Two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals (such as graphene, monolayers of boron nitride, molybdenum disulphide, etc) possess a number of exciting prop ...
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"MOLECULAR-SCALE ELECTRONICS: Concepts, Contacts and Stability ""MOLESCO""" (MOLESCO)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,

"The MOLESCO network will create a unique training and research environment to develop a pool of young researchers capable of achieving breakthroughs aimed at realising the immense potential of molecular electronics. In part this will involve the major challenges of design and fabrication of molecular-scale devices. To deliver this step-change in capability, MOLESCO will coordinate the activities ...
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QUANTItative scanning probe microscopy techniques for HEAT transfer management in nanomaterials and nanodevices (QUANTIHEAT)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2013, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2017,

The thermal properties of nanostructured materials are of fundamental importance to modern technology, but at present reproducible metrological definitions, tools and methods do not exist. This is because the mechanisms of heat transport at the nanoscale are entirely different to those at the macro scale.The project will place nanothermal metrology on a solid basis by an integrated physics-based e ...
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Development of improved perennial non-food biomass and bioproduct crops for water stressed environments (WATBIO)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2012, Date de fin: 31 oct. 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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Integrated Approaches to Food Allergen and Allergy Risk Management (IFAAM)

Date du début: 1 mars 2013, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2017,

Up to 20 million European citizens suffer from food allergy. However management of both food allergy (by patients and health practitioners) and allergens (by industry) is thwarted by lack of evidence to either prevent food allergy developing or protect adequately those who are already allergic. iFAAM will develop evidence-based approaches and tools for MANAGEMENT of ALLERGENS in FOOD and integrate ...
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Sustainable Technologies for Calcined Industrial Minerals in Europe (STOICISM)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,

Europe is a major global producer of industrial minerals. Around 180 million tonnes per year of products are extracted in the EU, with an estimated contribution of €10 billion to European GDP and offering direct employment to some 42,500 people. A secure supply of sustainable mineral products is essential to maintaining the European mining, mineral and manufacturing industries.The main objective ...
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Safety of ACtinide Separation proceSSes (SACSESS)

Date du début: 1 mars 2013, Date de fin: 30 juin 2016,

"Nuclear power plays a key role in limiting EU’s greenhouse gases emissions, and makes an important contribution to improve European Union’s independence, security and diversity of energy supply. However, its social acceptance is closely linked to an enhanced safety in the management of long-lived radioactive waste contributing to resource efficiency and cost-effectiveness of this energy and ensur ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 31 mars 2016,

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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Drought-tolerant yielding plants (DROPS)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2010, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2015,

DROPS will develop novel methods and strategies aimed at yield maintenance under fluctuating water deficit and at enhanced plant water-use efficiency. We deal with high genotype x environment interaction in the field (any trait can have positive, negative or no effect depending on drought scenarios) with an approach combining Physiology, Genetics, field testing and Ecophysiological modelling. The ...
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Action research: Improving understanding and methodologies in early development (ACT)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2012, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2015,

"The ACT Initial Training Network aims to establish a leading European training network devoted to investigating the interplay between action and cognition using a developmental approach. The ACT network represents a collective of scientific and industrial groups at the cutting edge of research in the fields of social development, developmental psychology, cognitive science, developmental neuropsy ...
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FP7 High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Design Study (HILUMI LHC)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2011, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2015,

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest scientific instrument ever built. It has been exploring the new energy frontier since 2009, gathering a global user community of 7,000 scientists. It will remain the most powerful accelerator in the world for at least two decades, and its full exploitation is the highest priority in the European Strategy for Particle Physics, adopted by the CERN Counc ...
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Postgraduate Research on Photonics as an Enabling Technology (PROPHET)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2011, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2015,

"Photonics is an important enabling technology for a wide range of applications in diverse areas. The photonics industry in Europe accounted for revenues of €49 billion in 2006, and is expected to soon exceed that of microelectronics. In the training network proposed here, a cohort of 14 early stage researchers and 5 young experienced researchers will be trained in the full gamut of skills require ...
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Functional semiconductor nanowire probes (FUNPROB)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2011, Date de fin: 30 juin 2015,

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is an established technique for the characterisation of materials and structures at the nanoscale and is increasingly bridging traditional disciplines including the biosciences. As such, it is of fundamental and practical interest across the sciences and industry. The geometry of the tip is the critical factor which determines the resolution of an SPM sensor. In an ...
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Ecological Function and Biodiversity Indicators in European Soils (ECOFINDERS)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2011, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2014,

The strategic goal of EcoFINDERS is to provide the EC with tools to design and implement soil strategies aimed at ensuring sustainable use of soils, including: i) Characterisation of European soil biodiversity; ii) Determination of relations between soil biodiversity, soil functions and ecosystem services; iii) Design of policy-relevant and cost-effective indicators for monitoring soil biodiversit ...
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Non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum fluids in one dimension (NEDFOQ)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2012, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2014,

This research proposal addresses non-equilibrium processes occurring in one-dimensional quantum fluids. The interest to this area has surged in recent years due to the rapid development of fabrication and measurement techniques in nanophysics and physics of ultra-cold atomic gases. Nanoelectronics devices (such as quantum point contacts, nanotubes and organic nanowires) and ultracold gases in elon ...
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European Intersectorial and Multi-disciplinary Palliative Care Research Training (EURO IMPACT)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2010, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2014,

EURO IMPACT aims to develop a multi-disciplinary, multi-professional and intersectorial educational and research training network aimed at monitoring and improving palliative care in Europe. Palliative care is less than optimal in many developed countries and some patients suffer from severe symptoms. While international research on palliative care has begun to develop over the past decades, it ha ...
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Safety in numbers or beware thy neighbour: collective motion and disease transmission in a migratory pest (LOCDIS)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2011, Date de fin: 31 août 2014,

"A key principle in the evolutionary ecology of disease is the degree to which hosts invest in defence against parasites and pathogens. Established concepts in this area include (1) that disease risk is a function of host density and (2) that risk of disease leads to selection on the host to minimize the potential costs of disease. A clear prediction that arises from these concepts is that hosts l ...
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SUSTAINABLE USE OF IRRGATION WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION (SIRRIMED)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2010, Date de fin: 31 mars 2014,

"SIRRIMED project will address issues related to sustainable use of water in Mediterranean irrigated agricultural systems, with the overall aim of optimizing irrigation water use. The approach proposed in SIRRIMED for reaching this goal will be based in an Integrated Water Irrigation Management (IWIM) where the improving water use efficiency will be considered at farm, irrigation district and wate ...
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European Research Training in Monte Carlo based Innovative Management and Processing for an Unrivalled Leap in Sensor Exploitation (MC IMPULSE)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2009, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2014,

Sensor technology has become ubiquitous in almost every area of our daily life. Its application has the potential to significantly improve our quality of life, for example through systems for independent living (ambient assisted living) or accident prevention in traffic. The MC IMPULSE consortium has identified sensor data processing as a key technological area where Europe can make a difference. ...
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Arctic Health Risks: Impacts on health in the Arctic and Europe owing to climate-induced changes in contaminant cycling (ArcRisk)

Date du début: 1 juin 2009, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2014,

Long-range transport of contaminants to the Arctic, the resulting exposures observed in Arctic human populations, and impacts of such exposures on human health have been the subject of considerable work in recent years, providing a baseline against which to compare future developments. Global climate change has the potential to remobilize environmental contaminants and alter contaminant transport ...
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GRaphenE for NAnoscaleD Applications (GRENADA)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2011, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2013,

The semiconductor industry has been able to improve the performance of electronic system by making ever-smaller devices. However, this approach will soon encounter both scientific and technical limits, which is why the industry is exploring alternative device technologies. Carbon-based nano-electronic is currently investigated. Discovered recently, the graphene is rapidly raising star on the horiz ...
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Theory of Two-Dimensional Materials: Graphene and Beyond (Graphene and Beyond)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2012, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2013,

This projects aims to explore physics of the new class of materials: atomically thin films of layered crystals. Graphene, because of its extraordinary electronic properties, will be a major focus of this project. In view of application of graphene in electronics, we shall model electronic transport and dynamical properties of devices based upon epitaxial graphene (monolayer and bilayer), graphene ...
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New Electronics Concept: Wafer-Scale Epitaxial Graphene (ConceptGraphene)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2010, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2013,

The concept of this project is to unlock the potential of epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide (SiC) for development of scalable electronics with the view to develop graphene-based devices & circuits with a non-conventional functionality. Our strategy is to explore two promising directions of graphene-based technology: (i) the development of large-scale graphene wafers for manufacturing high-dens ...
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European Coordination for Accelerator Research and Development (EuCARD)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2009, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2013,

Particle physics stands at the threshold of a new era of discovery and insight. Results from the much awaited LHC are expected to shed light on the origin of mass, supersymmetry, new space dimensions and forces. In July 2006 the European Strategy Group for Particle Physics defined accelerator priorities for the next 15 years in order to consolidate the potential for discovery and conduct the requi ...
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Safety (and maintenance) improVEment Through automated fLight data ANAlysis (SVETLANA)

Date du début: 1 août 2010, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2012,

"The objective of SVETLANA project is to involve important EU and Russian Federation industries and research organisations from the aviation area into a common ambitious effort to enhance flight operational safety and initiate smart maintenance through intelligent and automated Flight Data Monitoring (FDM). More specifically, SVETLANA aims to provide an advanced smart update of flight safety by:• ...
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Sustainable Innovations and Treatment in Industrial Waste Water Clusters (STINNO)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2009, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2012,

The STInno project introduces 3 research driven clusters and 12 partners from 5 European countries. The regions of Päijät-Häme, Kalmar and Western Greece have a common objective to strengthen RTD resources in industrial wastewater treatment and become world leaders in sustainable, cost and energy efficient methods. The regions have clear focus on clean technologies and complement each other as the ...
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Model driven Soil Probing, Site Assessment and Evaluation (ModelPROBE)

Date du début: 1 juin 2008, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2012,

Conventional techniques for site characterization are time consuming, cost intensive, and do not support decision making. Therefore, new techniques for step by step site characterization strategy with smart feed back loops are necessary. These will be able to support a future “soil framework directive”. Advanced geophysical site characterization techniques combined with new types of vegetation ana ...
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Privacy Awareness Through Security Branding (PATS)

Date du début: 1 août 2009, Date de fin: 31 mars 2012,

While it can be assumed that the security industry and organisations will increase their efforts to keep and to strengthen trust relations with citizens, the question however remains: how can one raise more awareness of social conflicts and privacy concerns among those public and private agencies that undermine privacy necessarily on a daily basis in their mission to provide security? PATS follows ...
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Marine Micro-Algae as Global Reservoir of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Degraders (MARPAH)

Date du début: 20 oct. 2008, Date de fin: 19 oct. 2011,

"Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are recognised as priority pollutants to the environment and human health because of their poor water solubility, recalcitrance, inherent toxicity and potential to bio-accumulate in higher organisms – EU Water Framework Directive (No. 2000/60/EC). To manage and mitigate the impacts of PAH pollution in the marine environment, it is necessary that we understa ...
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Extended Large (3D) Integration TEchnology (ELITE)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2007, Date de fin: 31 août 2011,

Description 3-D integration in high performance digital systems For developing complex next-generation chips which include a combination of disparate technologies, the circuit integration exclusively in two dimensions has proved to be a seriously limiting factor. Utilising the third dimension for ...
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