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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Date du début: 1 juin 2014, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2015,

Background/objectives: The University of Sheffield?s internationalisation strategy supports our vision that we will be one of the best universities in the world, renowned for the excellence, impact and distinctiveness both of its research and its research-led learning and teaching. The 4 key themes are: ensuring global visibility of the University and what it stands for; developing a truly interna...
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The Effect of Active Labour Market Policies on the Behaviour and Employability of Benefit Claimants (ALMP)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2016, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,

This project studies the impact of Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) on the transition from unemployment to employment as well as on the behaviour of the unemployed. It will be based on two Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) and freshly-released data from the IZA Evaluation dataset. The RCTs are carried out with our partner organization, the British Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In ...
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Encouraging Network Generation’s Accountability and Global Engagement (ENGAGE)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2015, Date de fin: 31 août 2016,

The key aim of ENGAGE is to address young people's participation in society via social media. ENGAGE focuses on understanding new forms of political and civic engagement within the digital visual cultures and social networked societies that young people from Norway and the United Kingdom are a part of. Through a comparative study focusing on two cities, Sheffield and Oslo, the project will explore...
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Does a moving hybrid zone leave a genomic footprint? (GENOMIC FOOTPRINT)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2016, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2019,

Species are the currency of biodiversity. However, during the early stages of their evolution, species are difficult to delineate, as barriers to gene flow are not yet complete. Range expansions and contractions exaggerate the reshuffling of the genomes of hybridizing species. The key objective of this project is to experimentally test the theoretical prediction that, under hybrid zone movement, g...
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Contentious Rights: A Comparative Study of International Human Rights Norms and their Effects on Domestic Social Conflict (CONRICONF)

Date du début: 17 janv. 2016, Date de fin: 16 janv. 2019,

Contentious Rights: A Comparative Study of International Human Rights Norms and their Effects on Domestic Social Conflict Over the last 60 years, a broad set of international norms gained importance as instruments to regulate a globalising world. Enshrined in human rights conventions, these norms contribute to strengthen a platform for social mobilization and voice. The introduction of human right...
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Scientific Excellence in Animal Reproductive Medicine and Embryo Technology (SEARMET)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2016, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2018,

The aim of the SEARMET project is to improve the scientific knowledge and innovation capacity of the Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU) in the linked fields of animal reproductive medicine and embryo technology. This will be done by strengthening collaboration with two high-ranking foreign academic institutions: Sheffield University (USFD), a leading university in the field of reproductive...
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Diagnostic and Drug Discovery Initiative for Alzheimer’s Disease (D3i4AD)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2014, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2018,

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the major cause of dementia which has no cure at the moment. The overall aim of the work described in this proposal is to create a long-term strategic partnership between Sheffield University (UK), Lisbon University (Portugal), Eli Lilly (UK) and Biofordrug (Italy) in order to develop chemical biology tools for better understanding the role of PrPC in AD and harnessing ...
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Humanizing Antiquity: Biocultural Approaches to Identity Formation in Ancient Boeotia, central Greece (HumAn)

Date du début: 1 août 2016, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2018,

HumAn aims at providing insights into the biological dimensions of the sociopolitically constructed notions of kinship, citizenship and ethnicity in Archaic to Roman-era Boeotia (central Greece) by integrating mortuary data, historical information and osteoarchaeological analysis. Although identity negotiation is a social phenomenon, it has often constrained genetic relationships. Osteoarchaeologi...
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“Can bean yield losses caused by drought, heat stress and climate change be ameliorated by enhancing pod-specific stomatal conductance?” (Pod Yield)

Date du début: 12 juin 2017, Date de fin: 11 juin 2020,

CO2-induced climate change is causing global warming and droughts, resulting in crop yield losses. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is among the most important food crops worldwide, but is very vulnerable to heat- and drought-induced yield losses. The key objective of this project is to experimentally test the potential for increased pod transpiration to enhance bean pod yield under climate-change...
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Optimisation of an on-board adsorbent/catalyst unit for aviation fuel thermal stability improvement (FUEL DEOX)

Date du début: 1 août 2016, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2018,

The research programme proposed by the University of Sheffield experimentally investigates the application of an optimized on-board adsorbent/catalyst unit to reduce the tendency of jet fuel that contains dissolved oxygen to produce solid carbonaceous deposit in the fuel system and injection system at moderate temperature regimes. Improved fuel thermal oxidative stability offers the fuel to serve ...
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Chromosomal rearrangements and diversification on environmental gradients (INVERTIDAL)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2018,

Chromosomal rearrangements (CRs) are considered to foster adaptation (and speciation) by protecting advantageous combinations of alleles from recombination. This is supported by the frequent observation of inversion clines linked to environmental gradients. However, direct evidence for the proposed allelic interactions within CRs and their role in diversification remains elusive. The rocky interti...
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Nanoscale solid-state spin systems in emerging quantum technologies (Spin-NANO)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2016, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2019,

This network brings together world-leading experts in nano-science and technology from 6 European countries in order to achieve breakthroughs in understanding and successful utilization of nanoscale solid-state spin systems in emerging quantum technologies. The proposed innovative science in the supra-disciplinary field of physics and applications of spin nano-systems will underpin breakthrough de...
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Volunteer Studio - Tarlungeni Open Space Project

Date du début: 1 mars 2011,

The project is a Trans-national Youth Initiative between students at the University of Sheffield, UK and FAST (Fundatia pentru Asistenta Sociala si Tineret), Romania. The 8.5 month project involving 8 participants from the UK and 20 participants from Romania will develop community recreational facilities in the marginalised Roma settlement of Tarlungeni village, Brasov county, Romania. The project...
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EuroPubHealth Plus

Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2021,

Six European universities collaborate to deliver EuroPubHealth Plus (EPH+), an innovative, integrated 2-year Master course (120 ECTS) for students wishing to engage in a public health career. Emphasizing at its core the urgent need to build sustainable health systems whilst addressing health inequalities, EPH+ provides multi-disciplinary training delivered in a unique multi-cultural environment. E...
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3D PRInting Skills for Manufacturing

Date du début: 1 nov. 2015, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2018,

BACKGROUND & CHALLENGES 3D printing is a cornerstone of the industrial shift towards advanced manufacturing, creating opportunities for employment, value creation, and reallocation of manufacturing production back to Europe. As is the case with any disruptive technology, new needs for skills and qualifications are emerging; 3D printing requires skilled blue-collar employees in manufacturing (i.e. ...
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Inter-generational Ecological and Economical Co-learning

Date du début: 3 sept. 2015, Date de fin: 2 sept. 2017,

ECOLE_IG implements informal local knowledge exchange structures in six European localities to facilitate inter-generational knowledge exchange and collaborative innovation with the aim to equip young people in underprivileged areas (rural remote, difficult urban) with the skills, confidence and support network to set up new entrepreneurial structures which are rooted in their local or regional tr...
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Cloud and Internet Services with Open Source Software for SMEs

Date du début: 1 sept. 2015, Date de fin: 31 août 2017,

Cloud and Internet Services with Open Source Software for SMEs (CISOSS) is a Partnership proposal promoted by the Training Center in ICT of the Directorate General of Vocational Training (Dirección General de Formación) of the Regional Government of Madrid jointly with a plural association, made up of vocational training centers, university and technology companies. The functions that perform thes...
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Health and Social Care Promotion Materials That Focus on Intimacy and Sexuality in the Third Age

Date du début: 1 sept. 2014, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2016,

Europe is in need of innovative new solutions to prepare for the unprecedented ageing of its population, reflecting a number of factors including the increasing life expectancy and access to health care. The need to improve and increase the exchange of knowledge on healthy ageing and the challenges raised by the increasing number of elderly people is a major task for all EU countries. Sexuality is...
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Numeracy for Advanced MAnufacturing

Date du début: 1 sept. 2014, Date de fin: 31 août 2016,

BACKGROUND & CHALLENGES The trend within the European manufacturing sector towards Advanced Manufacturing systems has highlighted the skill gap between workers' numerical skills and workplace requirements in modern facilities. Workers nowadays are expected to both understand and perform math calculations, and to have a basic understanding of concepts and processes of algebra and trigonometry. This...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Date du début: 1 juin 2014, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2015,

Background and context Bidasoa Technical College is a public vocational training school located in Irun, Basque Country, Spain. We have been taking part in many different international projects under several International Relations Managers since the beginning of the 1990s. Many teachers and students from our school have improved both their language and technical skills and have enjoyed enriching ...
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Joint Interdisciplinary Master's Degree in Arid Land Studies

Date du début: 1 sept. 2009,

Texas Tech University (TTU) US, The University of Sheffield (SU), UK and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (HU), Germany are collaborating on aJoint Interdisciplinary Master's Degree on Arid Land Studies. Students will take modules aí TTU and either SU or HU with a research placementat the third institution, Students will become proficient in another language and do a thesis project as part of the de...
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EUROPEAN NETWORK OF CITY-REGION COMPETITIVENESS (COMPETE)

Date du début: 30 sept. 2004, Date de fin: 30 déc. 2007,

Cities occupy a pivotal role in advanced European economies, acting as a launch pad for raising productivity and leading the wider renaissance of the regions they are located in. But although EU and national urban policy has placed a great deal of emphasis on dealing with severe deprivation in cities, there is still relatively little evidence about the economic relationship between cities and thei...
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Building Performance Evaluation for Sustainable Architecture (BuPESA)

Date du début: 1 mars 2013, Date de fin: 30 juin 2015,

The principle aim of this project is to develop and test new methods for comparing the original design intentions of housing regeneration and development with the actual outcomes of the construction process and performance of the final design product in use. This will include detailed evaluation of the usability of the buildings and user control elements (heating, ventilation, lighting) in relatio...
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European Universities in the area of Knowledge. Collaboration and networks in teaching and research (EUKnow)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2009, Date de fin: 30 déc. 2013,

The overall fellowship objectives are twofold: • First to consolidate the outcomes of the EIF research project through: - the organisation of workshops in which results will be disseminated and future collaboration possibilities will be discussed. Organised at the University of Sheffield, where the fellow has been offered a permanent appointment as lecturer in Higher Education and Lifelong Learnin...
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Genetics of Ecological Speciation in Birds (GENES AND SPECIATION)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2009, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2010,

"This joint international research staff exchange programme launches a programme on the genetics of ecological speciation, using birds as a model system. We will use population genomics approaches in combination with the candidate gene approach, and follow up with additional techniques such as QTL association mapping. In particular, we will gather further molecular evidence to confirm or refute th...
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Collaborative research and development of green roof system technology (GREEN ROOF SYSTEMS)

Date du début: 1 mai 2009, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2013,

"In the last 20 years green roofs (vegetated layers that sit on top of the conventional roof surfaces of a building) have become relatively commonplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland because of their role in urban stormwater management. In particular, the so-called ‘extensive’ green roof technology (very lightweight, low maintenance, vegetated roof surfaces) has been adopted widely because of...
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Regulation of ventral otic patterning and integration with general programmes of neurogenesis in the zebrafish embryo (EM zf otic 082010)

Date du début: 1 mai 2011, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2013,

Both during my diploma and my PhD project, neural development has been a focus of my research interest. During my PhD thesis I have worked with the role of signalling pathways on the specification and patterning of the caudal neural tube and during early olfactory development mostly using an in vitro system. Now I would like to change focus and a future challenge lies in understanding the molecula...
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Defining the Role of Flap Endonuclease 1 Conformational Dynamics in Catalysis (hFEN1dynamics)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2011, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2012,

Flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) catalyzes the removal of 5’-flap structures generated by strand-displacement synthesis during lagging-strand DNA synthesis and long-patch base excision repair. Homozygous knockout of FEN1 in mice is embryonically lethal, whereas haploinsufficiency or catalytic deficiency due to mutation leads to rapid tumor progression, thereby illustrating the importance of FEN1 to geno...
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Novel Short Wavelength Quantum Cascade Lasers for HIgh Sensitivity Gas Detection (QUANTATEC)

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

"The overall aim of the work described in this proposal is to create a long-term strategic partnership between Sheffield University, Radboud University, M-Squared Lasers and Sensor Sense in order to develop a new generation of instrumentation for ultra-high sensitivity trace gas detection based on novel, mid infrared quantum cascade lasers emitting in the 3-4 micron wavelength range. The 3-4 micro...
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Understanding Interactions of Human Tissue with Medical Devices (UNITISS)

Date du début: 1 mars 2012, Date de fin: 29 févr. 2016,

"The Scientific and technological vision of UNITISS is to meet the needs of today’s healthcare industry and social expectation in reducing patient discomfort and infection and reducing the need for in vivo tests using animals. UNITISS focuses on catheterisation involving acute (< 24 hrs.) to more sustained (< 30 days) usage, where the catheters are inserted into blood vessels and the urinary tract...
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Personalised Access To cultural Heritage Spaces (PATHS)

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

Description Significant amounts of cultural heritage material are now available through online digital library portals. However, this vast amount of cultural heritage material can also be overwhelming for many users who are provided with little or no guidance on how to find and interpret this information. The situation is very different in m...
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Upgrading the capacity of NIRDTP to develop sensing applications for biomedicine using magnetic nanomaterials and nanostructured materials (NANOSENS)

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

The overall aim of the NANOSENS project is to upgrade the research and innovation capacity of the National Institute of Research and Development for Technical Physics (NIRDTP) to the highest European level in microsensors for medical applications and biosensors based on magnetic nanoparticles and nanowires.NIRDTP is a very promising European research organisation in the fields of nanoscience and m...
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Cognitive strategies and self-regulation of learning character based scripts as a second language: The learning of kanji and hanzi (Japanese and Chinese characters) by alphabetic first language users (KANJI HANZI LEARNING)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2013, Date de fin: 1 juil. 2017,

The proposed study investigates the kanji and hanzi learning (the learning of Japanese and Chinese written characters) of native-English speaking learners of the Chinese and Japanese languages. The purpose of the study is to investigate cognitive strategies and self-regulation of kanji and hanzi learning using in-depth qualitative methods to broaden the understanding of how learners approach this...
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Increasing the PaRticipation of the ElDerly in Clinical Trials (PREDICT)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2008, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2010,

"AIM. To investigate the reasons for the exclusion of the elderly in clinical trials and to provide solutions for this problem. INTRODUCTION. Although the elderly account for high drug consumption, they are underrepresented in clinical trials. With an increasingly ageing European population it is essential to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of drugs. Clinical trials need to take into account t...
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THRIVING IN THE WORKPLACE - SUPPORTING PEOPLE AT THE AGE OF 55 YEARS AND OVER IN SATISFYING AND PRODUCTIVE WORK (Thriving at 55+)

Date du début: 3 juin 2013, Date de fin: 2 juin 2015,

Workers aged 55+ are not always utilised or valued as much as they could be in the workplace, yet their contributions are increasingly necessary as the European population ages. Many of them need to work for longer than they expect, due to pension fund shortfalls and changes in official retirement ages. For some, this will require a change in perspective and strategies for managing self and career...
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Methodologically Accurate Modelling of BOne: new experimental methods for the validation of cortical bone tissue computer models (MAMBO)

Date du début: 1 mai 2013, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2015,

"Multiscale modelling of the human body is becoming an essential approach in large part of biomedical engineering research, as well as in the development of technologies for clinical applications, such as the Virtual Physiological Human. Bone is a hierarchical material and plays a fundamental role in the framework of the musculoskeletal system. In the last years the bone models at the tissue level...
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Investigating Intermediate Structures in the Economy of Mycenaean Greece (c. 1400 - 1200 BC) Through Archaeological and Textual Data (IISEMG)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2012, Date de fin: 8 déc. 2014,

"In the framework of the long-lasting debate on the structure of the Mycenaean economy (e.g. Voutsaki and Killen 2001), the program aims at investigating the function of some recently individuated units, the so-called “édifices intermediaries” (i.e. Darcque 2005). This aspect of the problem has not been systematically investigated up to now. An integrated approach will be used, combining the evide...
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Synthesis of Liquid-filled Micro-particles as Icy Cosmic Dust Analogues (SLIMPICODA)

Date du début: 2 juin 2014, Date de fin: 1 juin 2016,

Shock processes involving volatile-bearing bodies are of extreme interest in planetary science and astrobiology, due to the role volatiles - in particular water - are suspected to play in the formation and evolution of life. This project concerns the synthesis and characterisation of liquid-filled nanometre and micrometre sized particles for the simulation of cosmic dust in hypervelocity (km/s) im...
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Monitoring of Structural Performance (MOSP)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2015,

The proposal has symbiotic parallel objectives in career development and technical innovation. On the career development side the objective is to support the fellow in attaining a leading independent position after the fellowship. The technological objective is to develop the next generation of bridge monitoring technology.The fellow has 10 years postgraduate experience in both research and indust...
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Nanostructured & Biomimetic Ceramic-Polymer Composites for Bone Tissue Regeneration (NBC-ReGen4)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2012, Date de fin: 31 août 2014,

The interdisciplinary proposal NBC-ReGen4 is based on the existing expertise in materials science of the incoming European Fellow (Dr. Piergiorgio Gentile) in combination with the host laboratories knowledge of biocompatibility assessment and medical device development (University of Sheffield-Scientist in charge: Prof. P.V. Hatton). NBC-ReGen4 is a timely project with respect to the scientific an...
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