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Understanding creativity and problem solving through sleep-engineering (SolutionSleep)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2017, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2022,

Innovative problem solving is critical for all spheres of organised endeavour, including science and industry, and thus forms the cornerstone of a successful society. Such creative thinking often requires suppression of preconceptions and restructuring of existing knowledge. Pioneering work has shown that sleep facilitates problem solving, but exactly how, and which sleep characteristics are imp ...
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The Genus Haslea, New marine resources for blue biotechnology and Aquaculture (GHaNA)

Date du début: 1 mars 2017, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2021,

The GHaNA project aims to explore and characterize a new marine bioresource, for blue biotechnology applications in aquaculture, cosmetics and possibly food and health industry. The project will determine the biological and chemical diversity of Haslea diatoms to develop mass-scale production for viable industrial applications by maximising biomass production and associated high-value compound pro ...
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Engineering optoelectronic INterfaces: a global action intersecting FUndamental conceptS and technology implementatION of self-organized organic materials (INFUSION)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2017, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2020,

Investing in energy efficiency and saving is crucial to support energy accessibility and environmental protection, and it is the world’s best interest to share and implement forms of energy efficiency. This implies a stronger and effective transnational policy to promote and disseminate know-how about new technologies both at the market and R&D level. In this respect, development of projects cente ...
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Comorbidity and Synapse Biology in Clinically Overlapping Psychiatric Disorders (COSYN)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2016, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2020,

COSYN integrates outstanding European academic and three large Pharma to exploit genomic findings for intellectual disability (ID), autism, and schizophrenia. We capitalise on comorbidity, from clinic to cells and synapses, and have access to large existing samples. We focus on rare genetic variants of strong effect in patients with clinical comorbidity. Our aims are: (1) Understand comorbidity by ...
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Training, Research and Raising of Public Awareness in Cell Biology and Pathology of Neuroglia (EU-GliaPhD)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2016, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2020,

The research in which the young scientists of the EU-GliaPhD consortium will be trained is centred on the role of neuron-glia interactions in brain function and pathology.Prompted by exciting discoveries of recent years, many academic research groups are currently focussing their research on the field of neuron-glia interactions for a better understanding of brain function. Also the private sector ...
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The psychology and neurobiology of cognitive control training in humans (CCT)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2015, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2020,

Cognitive control regulates our thoughts and actions, helping us avoid impulsive behaviours that are inappropriate, costly or dangerous. In recent years, evidence has emerged that training in behavioural tasks that promote response inhibition or avoidance of specific stimuli can enhance cognitive control, reducing overeating and alcohol consumption. Despite the promising nature of cognitive contro ...
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ENTREPRENEURING DYNAMIC SELF-ORGANIZED INTERFACES IN PHOTOCATALYSIS: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAINING NETWORK CONVERTING LIGHT INTO PRODUCTS (PHOTOTRAIN)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2016, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2020,

The global need to move current human technologies into a sustainable future will have a great impact for the world of chemistry and related industries. In close concert with other disciplines, chemistry will be increasingly solicited to identify solutions that are practical, affordable and ultimately sustainable. To meet these objectives, not only research, but also chemical education will need p ...
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Mapping gravitational waves from collisions of black holes (BlackHoleMaps)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2015, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2020,

...zes on a breakthrough preliminary model produced by my team in 2013, with the pragmatic goal of focussing on the physics that will be measurable with GW detectors over the next five years. My team at Cardiff is uniquely placed to tackle this problem. Since 2005 I have been at the forefront of black-hole simulations and waveform modelling, and the Cardiff group is a world leader in analysis of GW d ...
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Lighting up the dark - the evolution of dust throughout cosmic time (CosmicDust)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2015, Date de fin: 31 août 2020,

After more than two decades of infrared astronomy, we still know very little about the origin and evolution of cosmic dust in galaxies, responsible for obscuring half of all starlight since the Big Bang. This obscured starlight is re-radiated in a region of the electromagnetic spectrum that is still relatively unexplored. Herschel provides a unique opportunity to resolve this by revealing the 90% ...
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Superconducting Diamond Quantum Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems (SUPERNEMS)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2015, Date de fin: 30 juin 2020,

In this project, the fabrication and characterisation of all diamond superconducting Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems (NEMS) is proposed for the investigation of macroscopic quantum states. This involves state of the art Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) of diamond, doping, nanofabrication and modelling of devices. The fundamental properties of superconducting diamond, the associated mechanical prop ...
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Formal lexically informed logics for searching the web (FLEXILOG)

Date du début: 1 mai 2015, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2020,

Semantic search engines use structured knowledge to improve traditional web search, e.g. by directly answering questions from users. Current approaches to semantic search rely on the unrealistic assumption that all true facts about a given domain are explicitly stated in their knowledge base or on the web. To reach their full potential, semantic search engines need the ability to reason about know ...
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Building and district thermal retrofit and management solutions (THERMOSS)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 29 févr. 2020,

The 20% primary energy consumption reduction targets set by the European Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), published in 2012, call for effective and wide-scale building heating and cooling systems upgrade strategies. These will be successful only if they base upon the right combination of technology innovation, industrial commitment and building owners awareness.In line with this statement, THERM ...
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Calcium-Sensing Receptor (CaSR): Therapeutics for Non-Communicable Diseases (CaSR Biomedicine)

Date du début: 1 mars 2016, Date de fin: 29 févr. 2020,

The calcium sensing receptor (CaSR) is a class C Gprotein-coupled receptor that plays a pivotal role in systemic calcium metabolism by regulating parathyroid hormone secretion and urinary Ca excretion. Abnormal CaSR function is implicated in calciotropic disorders, and in non-calciotropic disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes (DM), sarcopenia and cancer ...
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Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe - Carbapenem Resistance (COMBACTE-CARE)

Date du début: 1 mars 2015, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2020,

Multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB): the ultimate challenge!Antibiotic resistance is a global public health concern recently elevated to the top three threats identified by the WHO, and subject of numerous national and international government activities. Although focused strategies have beneficially influenced infection rates due to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (M ...
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European Gram Negative Antibacterial Engine (ENABLE)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2014, Date de fin: 31 janv. 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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Probing safety of nano-objects by defining immune responses of environmental organisms (PANDORA)

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

PANDORA (Probing safety of nano-objects by defining immune responses of environmental organisms) shall assess the global impact of engineered nanoparticles (NP) on the immune responses of representative organisms covering all evolutionary stages and hierarchical levels from plants to invertebrates and vertebrates. Immunity is a major determinant of the survival and fitness of all living organisms, ...
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European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia Consortium (EPAD)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2015, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2019,

Background:The secondary prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) is achievable if we can identify individuals at risk of disease progression defined by biomarker evidence of AD pathology and no or only minimal clinical symptoms and engage them in a standing adaptive clinical trial, of the highest quality, testing multiple interventions. To achieve this, EPAD will also provide the analytical infras ...
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Unlocking European grid local flexibility trough augmented energy conversion capabilities at district-level (PENTAGON)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2016, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2019,

Pentagon is a 3-years research and innovation project that will investigate the potential of wider deployment of energy conversion technologies and strategies at district-level, with the aim to foster flexibility in the low-voltage and medium-voltage grid. The rationale that underlies Pentagon approach is that multi-vector smart districts can be the key enablers of future smart grids, provided the ...
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A Gaia and Herschel Study of the Density Distribution and Evolution of Young Massive Star Clusters (StarFormMapper)

Date du début: 1 juin 2016, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2019,

We propose to use a combination of data from the ESA space missions GAIA and Herschel, alongside other satellite and European-led ground-based observations, to map the density distribution of star formation regions. This will allow us to identify the mechanisms that underlie both how massive stars themselves form, but more fundamentally, how their natal clusters evolve around them. Our work wi ...
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Changing Energy Efficiency Technology Adoption in Households (CHEETAH)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2016, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2019,

Modelling analyses typically suggest that policies accelerating the adoption of energy-efficient technologies (EETs) by overcoming barriers to energy efficiency in the residential sector provide benefits for individual households, the energy system and for society as a whole. Yet, implicit discount rates, employed to reflect households’ decision criteria and response to policy, are disputed in pol ...
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SUSPLACE

Date du début: 1 oct. 2015, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2019,

SUSPLACE will train 15 ESRs in sustainable place-shaping by 1) its cutting edge scientific knowledge and methodologies 2) enhancing transferable skills 3) supporting a career development plan and 4) expose ESRs to science, public administration and governance, private businesses, NGOs and citizens initiatives. This will create career prospects for ESRs as an academic, policy-maker or policy-adviso ...
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Principles of Polarity – Integrating genetic, biophysical and computational approaches to understand cell and tissue polarity (PolarNet)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2015, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2019,

The ability of cells to polarize underlies the most basic biological functions such as motility and response to external challenges, but also the formation and maintenance of tissues in a multicellular organism. The importance of cell polarity is underscored by the fact that cell polarity is essential for animal development and is perturbed in disease states such as cancer. Understanding cell pola ...
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Culture of Learning

Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2019,

The world is changing rapidly and becoming increasingly globalised. Our young people will be facing a very different employment market in the next 10-20 years. Employment opportunities will change as the use of digital skills increases with rapid developments in technology.Our project is based on the evidence that although students are overall improving their results in external tests, when stu ...
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Communication competences for migrants and disadvantaged background learners in bilingual work environments

Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2019,

In bilingual or multilingual countries where several languages coexist, it is usual to use (one of) the local language in some labor sectors. In such cases, people who do not speak the local language can encounter a barrier to enter the labor market: they either remain outside the regulated labor market, or, even though they are integrated into the labor market, they have difficulty to maintain a ...
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Understanding blood pressure and vascular haemodynamics in implanted Left Ventricular Assist Device patients. (HIT-LVAD)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2019,

Background: Advanced heart failure (HF) is a growing health problem in the European Union (EU). Consequently, a growing number of HF patients now depend on state-of-the-art continuous flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices (cf-LVAD) as a bridge to transplant or as a means of destination therapy. Since the introduction and usage of cf-LVAD’s rather than traditional pulsatile LVAD’s, survival rates ha ...
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Southern Ocean and Antarctic Climatic Phasing:Tephrochronological Correlation of Southern Ocean Marine Records and Antarctic Ice-cores (SHARP)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2019,

Determining the temporal relationships of large-scale atmospheric and oceanic fluctuations is crucial for advancing understanding of the mechanisms controlling heat transfer between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The thermal bipolar see-saw caused asynchronous interhemispheric climatic changes during the last glacial period and Southern Ocean marine records and the Antarctic ice-cores are ...
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Environmental Research Infrastructures Providing Shared Solutions for Science and Society (ENVRI PLUS)

Date du début: 1 mai 2015, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2019,

ENVRIPLUS is a cluster of research infrastructures (RIs) for Environmental and Earth System sciences, built around ESFRI roadmap and associating leading e-infrastructures and Integrating Activities together with technical specialist partners. ENVRIPLUS is driven by 3 overarching goals: 1) favoring cross-fertilization between infrastructures, 2) implementing innovative concepts and devices across R ...
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Authentication and Authorisation For Research and Collaboration (AARC2)

Date du début: 1 mai 2017, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2019,

The goal of AARC2 is to design an AAI framework to develop interoperable AAI, to enable researchers to access the whole research and infrastructure service portfolio with one login. AARC2's objectives are:1. enable federated access in research communities participating in AARC22. assist research communities to map their requirements to concrete service offerings3. support research (e-)infrastructu ...
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Improvement of energy efficiency in industrial water circuits using gamification for online self-assessment, benchmarking and economic decision support (WaterWatt)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2016, Date de fin: 31 mars 2019,

The improvement of energy efficiency across European industry is crucial for competitiveness. So far, the measures for improvement of energy efficiency have been directed at primary production processes. In this project, we will address the improvement of energy efficiency in industrial water circuits: auxiliary electric motor driven systems with high optimisation potential. The European manufactu ...
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Strengthening Animal Production and Health through the Immune Response (SAPHIR)

Date du début: 1 mars 2015, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2019,

SAPHIR aims to develop vaccine strategies effective against endemic pathogens responsible for high economic losses in livestock in order to strengthen the profitability of food animal systems, improve animal welfare and reduce xenobiotic usage in farming with a One Health perspective. SAPHIR will bring novel vaccine strategies to the market i) at short term, with several promising vaccines brought ...
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European Training Network on Antiviral Drug Development (ANTIVIRALS)

Date du début: 1 mars 2015, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2019,

Viral infections are a major cause of disease, mortality and economic losses worldwide. Antiviral therapy is an essential instrument to control virus infections. At present, however, licensed antiviral drugs have been developed only against a limited number of viruses (e.g. HIV, HCV, influenza, herpesviruses). There is a clear and unmet need for antiviral drugs to treat infections with other impor ...
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Targeting Cartilage Regeneration in joint and intervertebral disc diseases (TargetCaRe)

Date du début: 1 mars 2015, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2019,

Mobility, important for well-being, is seriously impaired by chronic low back pain and osteoarthritis in many people due to degeneration of cartilaginous tissue of the intervertebral disc and joint. To develop a treatment for these diseases this ETN aims to combine expertise in novel highly advanced drug delivery carriers with dedicated targeting tools, state of the art imaging techniques and expe ...
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Platform foR European Preparedness Against (Re-)emerging Epidemics (PREPARE)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2014, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2019,

Far from receding, the threats posed by infections with epidemic potential grow ever greater. Although Europe has amongst the best healthcare systems in the world, and also the world’s supreme researchers in this field, we lack co-ordination and linkage between networks that is required to respond fast to new threats. This consortium of consortia will streamline our response, using primary and sec ...
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Development and application of global lipidomic arrays to inflammatory vascular disease (LIPIDArray)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2014, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2019,

How lipids are regulated on a global scale during vascular inflammation is not known. Thus, a major challenge exists to describe and catalog the total lipidome, in particular enabling the identification of new biologically active lipids, and description of changes. This is analogous to ‘omics’ of DNA, RNA and protein, but instead describing diversity of lipids in tissue samples. Importantly, thi ...
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Low-carbon Lifestyles and Behavioural Spillover (CASPI)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2014, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2019,

"Responding to climate change has profound implications for behaviour; yet policies to achieve this change have met with limited success. A key challenge for environmental social scientists is the need to move forward in understanding how to bring about change in consumption, community and political behaviours, which is commensurate to the scale of the climate change challenge. One promising area ...
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Developing new therapies for Batten disease (BATCure)

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

The goal of BATCure is to advance the development of new therapeutic options for a group of rare lysosomal diseases - neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) or Batten disease. There are > thousand affected across Europe, with a combined incidence of c.1:100 000. The NCLs are devastating and debilitating genetic disorders that mainly affect children, who suffer progressive dementia and motor decline, ...
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Synthesis of methanol from captured carbon dioxide using surplus electricity (MefCO2)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2014, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2018,

Methanol represents one of the most common and widespread platform chemicals and precursors for further synthesis, and is traditionally produced from synthesis gas, obtained by the reforming of natural gas. This methanol synthesis process operates in a stable, high-throughput manner and demands low carbon dioxide/carbon monoxide ratios in feed. The current project, nonetheless, is to encompass fle ...
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Cultural production, social movements and virtuous spirals; Using cultural production to influence social transformation. An ethnographic case study of a transmedia and translocal experiment. (IMAGINACTIVISM)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2015, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2018,

In this action I will track the people and processes involved in adapting the novel The Fifth Sacred Thing as a transmedia phenomenon, whose stated goal is: “to help nurture and support the movements that are already growing to put our world on a path of peace, justice and ecological harmony”. I will focus on the producers’ intentions to “be faithful to the book’s artistic vision … but also … to t ...
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Educational Robotics for STEM (ER4STEM)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2015, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2018,

Many children lose their natural curiosity for how things function and interrelate to each other along the way into their lives as young adults. The Educational Robotics for STEM (ER4STEM) project aims to turn curious young children into young adults passionate about science and technology with a hands-on use case: robotics. The domain of robotics represents a multidisciplinary and highly innovati ...
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Using fine structure line emission to observe the life-cycle of molecular clouds (BEYONDCO)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2016, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2018,

The formation of stars underpins all of astrophysics, from driving the evolution of galaxies to setting the conditions for the genesis of planetary systems. Stars form deeply embedded in the densest regions of molecular clouds (MCs), but we still know very little about how MCs are assembled and destroyed -- the two processes that ultimately set the timescale over which stars can form. Since carbon ...
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