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The Global Countryside: Rural Change and Development in Globalization (GLOBAL-RURAL)

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

"GLOBAL-RURAL aims to advance our understanding of the workings and impact of globalization in rural regions through the development and application of new conceptual and methodological approaches. Globalization has a pervasive influence in transforming rural economies and societies, with implications for the major societal challenges of environmental change and resource security. However, in comp ...
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A SOCIOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (SOCIOLOGY OF UK IR)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2013, Date de fin: 30 août 2018,

The proposed research is an in-depth sociological investigation of the production of knowledge in the field of International Relations (IR) in the United Kingdom. Its main objective is to understand how social, institutional and individual factors affect the production of IR scholarship and IR teaching in the country, as well as the dispositions, perceptions, and practices of IR scholars and their ...
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The impacts of global environmental change for marine biotic interactions and ecosystem functioning (GLOBEF)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2012, Date de fin: 18 janv. 2017,

Oceans cover 70% of our planet, provide 90% by volume of its biosphere, support 50% of global primary production and provide vital ecosystem services, including climate regulation, carbon sequestration and the provision of protein, on which large proportions of the global population rely. The Earth’s oceans are, however, increasingly subject to multiple interacting anthropogenic stressors. At the ...
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Impact of Research on EU Agriculture (IMPRESA)

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

"The project will:• describe the contemporary evolution of traditional public and private agricultural research, particularly as its boundaries with food processing, biotechnology and bioeconomy activities (for example, renewable energy) are becoming increasingly blurred, and its objectives are broadening, using on-going structured interaction with an expert stakeholder panel• survey the trends, s ...
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Citizen Observatory Web (COBWEB)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2012, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2016,

COBWEB will leverage the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR). Concentrating initially on the Welsh Dyfi Biosphere Reserve, we will develop a citizens’ observatory framework, and then validate the work within the context of the UK National Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and internationally, within the WNBR; specifically, within Greek and German Reserves. The infrastructure we devel ...
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European Plant Phenotyping Network (EPPN)

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

The ability to quantitatively analyze plant phenotypic traits (from single cells to plant and stand level) and their dynamic responses to the environment is an essential requirement for genetic and physiological research, and the cornerstone for enabling applications of scientific findings to bioeconomy. Whereas molecular profiling technologies allow today the generation of a large amount of data ...
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Microbially enhanced geologic carbon capture, trapping and storage (CO2TRAP) (CO2TRAP)

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

Geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide, also known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), is one strategy to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases generated through the combustion of fossil fuels. Geologic sequestration of CO2 involves the injection of supercritical CO2 into underground brine formations such as oil bearing formations, deep un-mineable coal seams, and deep saline aquifers.Sites w ...
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AN Integration of Mitigation and Adaptation options for sustainable Livestock production under climate CHANGE (ANIMALCHANGE)

Date du début: 1 mars 2011, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2015,

ANIMALCHANGE will provide scientific guidance on the integration of adaptation and mitigation objectives and design sustainable development pathways for livestock production in Europe, in Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. ANIMALCHANGE will inform public policy development in EU27 and propose cooperation programs addressing smallholder livestock farming in selected developing count ...
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The targeted development of a new generation Vaccine for Schistosomiasis (TheSchistoVac)

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

The aim of this project is to develop a new generation vaccine for schistosomiasis. The vaccine will be based on exposed proteins and/or glycans of the vulnerable skin stage schistosomula, making it safe and effective. The life stage-specific vaccine target selection strategy is based on state-of-the-art schistosomal transcriptomics and glycomics technologies and data, and unique serum and sample ...
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Control of Microtubule Nucleation and Dynamics in Plant Cells (CoMNaDiPC)

Date du début: 14 mars 2012, Date de fin: 13 mars 2014,

During land plant evolution, genetic and functional changes of regulatory mechanisms drive morphological innovations. One of such innovations is the loss of centrioles and the gain of properties of plant microtubules that allow them to self-nucleate in acentriolar cells. The nature of this proposed research is to study the evolution of the microtubule-organizing gene network during the conquest of ...
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The Transformation of Global Health Governance: Competing Worldviews and Crises (GHG)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2009, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2013,

Globalisation has changed health conditions worldwide, affecting the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions. While historically many health issues have readily crossed borders (e.g. Black Plague), the intensification and extensification of contemporary globalisation processes has required new forms of governance to address changed global health needs. How do we collectively protect and prom ...
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Intrinsically Motivated Cumulative Learning Versatile Robots (IM-CLeVeR)

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

Description Robot design methodology for skills acquisition IM-CLeVeR aims to develop a new methodology for designing robots controllers that can cumulatively learn new efficient skills through autonomous development based on intrinsic motivations and reuse such skills for accomplishing multiple, ...
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Eukaryotic unicellular organism biology – systems biology of the control of cell growth and proliferation (UNICELLSYS)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2008, Date de fin: 31 mars 2013,

The overall objective of UNICELLSYS is a quantitative understanding of fundamental characteristics of eukaryotic unicellular organism biology: how cell growth and proliferation are controlled and coordinated by extracellular and intrinsic stimuli. Achieving an understanding of the principles with which bio-molecular systems function requires integrating quantitative experimentation with simulation ...
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"Impact of climate change on the transport, fate and risk management of viral pathogens in water" (VIROCLIME)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2010, Date de fin: 31 mars 2013,

"The use of hydrological models to determine the effects of climate change on the variation in viral flux, and therefore in risk associated with viral disease, constitutes a novel approach to the management of water-related disease. Tools developed in previous EU Projects will be used to conduct case studies on five selected sites (in Sweden, Spain, Hungary, Greece and Brazil) vulnerable to clima ...
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European Planetology Network Research Infrastructure (EuroPlaNeT RI)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2009, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2012,

The Europlanet RI project will provide the European planetary science community with a unique research infrastructure, combining access to a suite of state of the art facilities while fostering their joint development and integration in terms of capacity and performance. This research infrastructure will include access to laboratory and field site facilities, advanced modelling, simulation and dat ...
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Political Economies of Democratisation (PEoD)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2008, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2012,

Democracy promotion has been a key political project in the post-Cold War era and many studies have documented the successes and failures of democratisation. Yet, the current practice of, and academic literature on, democratisation have been characterised by two key limitations. First, engagement with the essentially contested meaning of the concept of democracy has been weak. Second, the contextu ...
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Indicators for biodiversity in organic and low-input farming systems (BioBio)

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

Organic and low-input farming systems have been shown to benefit farmland biodiversity although a generic indicator system to assess these benefits at the European level is lacking. The BIOBIO project will therefore pursue the following objectives: 1. Conceptualization of criteria for a scientifically-based selection of biodiversity indicators for organic/low-input farming systems; 2. Assessment ...
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Planetary Robotics Vision Ground Processing (PRoVisG)

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

PROVISG will build a framework for planetary robotic vision ground processing - develop the technology to better process and visualise existing & future data from planetary missions to maximize value-adedd exploitation of the data for research, technology and education - increase public awareness of such missions and the EC contribution to their scientific evaluation.We define robotic planetary sp ...
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Using MicroBes for the REgulation of heavy metaL mobiLity at ecosystem and landscape scAle: an integrative approach for soil remediation by geobiological processes (UMBRELLA)

Date du début: 1 mai 2009, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2012,

"The overall goal of UMBRELLA is to use microorganisms to develop cost-efficient and sustainable measures for soil remediation at heavy metal contaminated sites throughout Europe. This will be facilitated by research in microbiology, plant uptake and (hydro)geochemistry centers on the study of microbial influence on metal biogeochemical cycles and their impact for use in soil and water protection. ...
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Developing Europe's Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization: An Interpretative Model for Better Anticipating and Responding to Challenges for Regional Development in an Evolving International Context (DERREG)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2009, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2011,

"Globalization is one of the key challenges facing rural regions in Europe, bringing significant social, economic, cultural and political changes. Current studies on the impact of globalization on rural regions tend to focus on specific sectors or processes or localities. The absence of an overarching integrative analysis has resulted in the inability of regional development strategies to cope wit ...
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Economic analysis of certification systems for organic food and farming (CERTCOST)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2008, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2011,

"With the ongoing growth of the organic sector and the spread of organic production across the EU, the field of organic certification has become a maze of competing labels and logos, involving different private and public standards, in addition to European law. This diversity reflects the specific conditions for organic operators in countries or regions but can also lead to confusion for both prod ...
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Emergence of communication in RObots through Sensorimotor and Social Interaction (ROSSI)

Date du début: 1 mars 2008, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2011,

Description Robots endowed with neural/computational mechanisms and sensorimotor systems structurally similar to human beings The ROSSI project addresses the question how the possibility of communication between agents (e.g. humans and robots) is affected by differences in sensorimotor capacities. ...
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Theoretical Developments and Empirical Measurement of the External Costs of Pesticides (TEAMPEST)

Date du début: 1 mai 2008, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2011,

Pesticides are defined as chemical substances protecting plants from pathogens, insects, nematodes and weeds. They are used to secure yields, improve quality of food and facilitate harvesting. However, their heavy use in agriculture resulted in pest resistance, ground, surface and water contamination as well as possible health problems on farmers/operators and consumers. Within this context, the o ...
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