[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"awarded-msca-doctoral-networks-2005":3,"awarded-stats-msca-doctoral-networks":577},{"awarded":4,"total":576},[5,16,22,29,35,41,48,54,60,67,74,80,87,94,100,106,112,119,125,132,139,145,152,157,163,169,175,182,188,194,201,208,214,220,226,232,238,243,249,255,262,268,275,281,287,293,299,304,310,316,321,327,333,339,345,351,357,363,368,374,380,386,392,398,403,408,414,420,425,431,436,441,447,453,459,464,470,476,482,487,492,497,502,507,512,518,524,530,536,541,548,554,559,565,570],{"id":6,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":9,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":15},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-20722","Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions","MSCA Doctoral Networks","Research Training@VDTC",null,"FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.","DE",2005,"€1,104,805","The proposed single hosted EST project aims at providing early stage research training in the innovative fields of application-oriented Virtual Reality (VR).",{"id":17,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":18,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":20,"abstract":21},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-19417","Coupled Multi-scale Simulation and Optimisation in Nano-electronics","BERGISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WUPPERTAL","€2,294,900","Performing the step from micro- to nanoelectronics, the semiconductor industry is confronted with very high levels of integration introducing coupling effects that were not observed before. The complexity of this problem is beyond the possibilities of the software and design environments used within the microelectronics industry at present. Furthermore, it places additional requirements on the researchers of the future, since they must be able to understand all aspects of the problems faced by t",{"id":23,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":24,"piName":10,"institution":25,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":27,"abstract":28},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7597","Bioinformatics Optimisation Training","UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM","UK","€2,121,547","Completion of the sequencing of the entire human genome and other major technological advances in bioinformatics have opened up a huge range of scientific challenges that will need to be addressed in order to maintain Europe's scientific and commercial competitiveness and effectiveness in this emerging area of healthcare. An FP6 Network of Excellence, BIOPATTERN, has been established to integrate leading institutes around Europe to form a virtual institute for the study of individualised healthc",{"id":30,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":31,"piName":10,"institution":32,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":34},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-19198","Multidisciplinary research and training on composite materials applications in transport modes","UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE","€3,750,000","The objective of the MOMENTUM research training network is to set up an effective and sustainable research platform for the study and development of innovative composite materials applications for the rail, aerospace, maritime and automotive transport mode s using outstanding training based on a multidisciplinary approach and transfer of knowledge as main tools producing a new generation of highly employable researchers with unique skills.These objectives will lead to the following technological",{"id":36,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":37,"piName":10,"institution":38,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":39,"abstract":40},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-20986","Advanced training in hybrid technologies for nano-structured composites","UNIVERSITAET ROSTOCK","€998,493","Considerable research efforts still need to be devoted to the integrated processing of nanomaterials and composite nanostructures. Cutting-edge results are nowadays awaited from special field- and pressure-assisted synthesis and processing technologies dev eloped during the past few years. Processing under extreme pressure and temperature conditions leads to important changes of the density, electron configuration and free energy of the constituent phases.The resulting chemical equilibrium chang",{"id":42,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":43,"piName":10,"institution":44,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":47},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-19277","MAP kinase cascades controlling virulence in fungi: from signals to pathogenicity response","UNIVERSIDAD DE CORDOBA","ES","€2,070,855","Filamentous fungi make a devastating impact on agriculture and human health. European agrochemical and medical drug discovery companies face a pressing need for safer and more effective products. The major bottleneck in the development of better antifungal s is the discovery of novel cellular targets. SIGNALPATH is a state-of-te-art post-genome project that used highly sophisticated and integrated genetic, genomic, and bioinformatic tools to sort through the large quantities of information avail",{"id":49,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":50,"piName":10,"institution":51,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":52,"abstract":53},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7909","GeneTime: An interdisciplinary training site in Ancient Biomolecules","UNIVERSITY OF YORK","€1,032,990","We propose an inter-institutional, interdisciplinary training centre dedicated to the recovery of information from ancient biomolecules, GeneTime. The study of ancient biomolecules is a vibrant and innovative new interdisciplinary research area, with important scientific and cultural implications. Small, fragmented bimolecular remains have proved to be storehouses of past information, and their analyses can provide a window to the past, yielding information that is both of relevance and fascinat",{"id":55,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":56,"piName":10,"institution":57,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":58,"abstract":59},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512120","Advanced modelling of ground improvement on soft soils","UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE","€1,382,844","Soft soils have high compressibility and low shear strength. They include a variety of geological materials and can be found all around Europe. Sustainable development in Europe requires safe and economical design of structures constructed on soft soils an d this creates new challenges for geotechnical design. Construction on soft soils often requires utilisation of ground improvement techniques. These include preloading techniques, often combined with prefabricated vertical drains, and increasi",{"id":61,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":62,"piName":10,"institution":63,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":65,"abstract":66},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512194","SUPERSTRING THEORY","CHALMERS TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLA AB","SE","€3,180,793","The proposal aims to further develop string theory as a unified theory of the physical forces in order to understand its physical implications. The specific research programme focuses primarily on the non-perturbative extension of the theory, also known as 'M-theory', in order to unravel its underlying physical and mathematical principles. This is essential for determining how the theory describes quantum space-time, and is necessary for understanding its applications to elementary particle phys",{"id":68,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":69,"piName":10,"institution":70,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":72,"abstract":73},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-5616","European Network on Random Geometry","UTRECHT UNIVERSITY","NL","€2,930,727","The Royal Road of theoretical Physics, the search for a unified quantum theory of space, time and matter, has led to a point where non-perturbative and background-independent methods are essential if the journey is to be completed. The further development of such methods, analytic and numerical techniques of random geometry and random matrices, and their application to this central goal, is the overarching scientific objective of this proposal. More specific objectives include the construction o",{"id":75,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":76,"piName":10,"institution":77,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":78,"abstract":79},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512443","Hydrogen storage research training network","UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD","€2,653,631","HYTRAIN integrates the leading centres in Europe active in hydrogen storage research within a coherent framework of dedicated networking activities focused on the training of young researchers through a joint innovative research programme. The core researc h objectives of HYTRAIN are to: propose and assess innovative methods of storage from the point of view of full engineering design; allow for a better response time to suggested novel storage materials, enabling quick assessment and developmen",{"id":81,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":82,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":84,"year":13,"amount":85,"abstract":86},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514483","Autoimmunity and rheumatic disease research groups","UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN","NO","€1,714,390","AUTOIMMUNITY research groups at the Universities of Bergen, Lund, Erlangen and Oxford will offer earlystage training in immunology, genetics and molecular medicine of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Sjogren'ssyndrome (SS) and multiple sclerosis (MS). This train ing is based on a broad integrated disciplinary approachwith the aim of initiating a better understanding of the common features of the immunopathogenesis andcommon genetic background of autoimmune diseases in general. The long-term objectives",{"id":88,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":89,"piName":10,"institution":90,"country":91,"year":13,"amount":92,"abstract":93},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-21120","Mineral-fluid Interface Reactivity","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE","FR","€2,129,824","The Mineral-fluid Interface Reactivity (MIR) Early Stage Training Network (EST) is comprised of 5 universities located in Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, and the United Kingdom offering structured training for students pursuing a PhD or Masters Degrees. This training program is intended to produce young scientists to fill needs in industry, consulting engineering firms, regulatory agencies, and local government in addition academic positions.The core objective of the MIR network is the training",{"id":95,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":96,"piName":10,"institution":97,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":98,"abstract":99},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514499","Bristol environmental atmospheric chemistry","UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL","€1,064,361","Air quality and climate change are two of the most pressing environmental challenges facing us in the 21st Century. The vast majority of the population of Europe live within or near to an urban conurbation and are subject to the resultant air pollution, wi ll-implications for the health of humans, animals and plants. Release and chemical degradation of pollutants from urban and industrial centres, as well as from biomass and fossil fuel burning, contributes significantly to the atmospheric loadi",{"id":101,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":102,"piName":10,"institution":103,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":104,"abstract":105},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-20561","Understanding and conserving Earth biodiversity hotspots","ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW","€1,661,477","The earth biodiversity is threatened by human activities yet the sustainable use of biodiversity is fundamental to the future development of humanity. Because financial and human resources are limited for nature conservation, it is appropriate to focus efforts on the richest and most threatened reservoirs of biodiversity.About 25 such biodiversity hotspots have been recently proposed based on available data on plant and vertebrate species richness, endemism and threat status. While there is a wi",{"id":107,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":108,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":110,"abstract":111},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-5645","GlycoGold: Exploration of the nature and potential of Glyco-nano-particles","UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT","€2,327,423","The aim of the RTN is to explore the potential of gold Glyco-Nano-Particles (GNPs), to deepen the understanding of bio-molecular interactions and to solve biomedical problems. The innovative combination of a variable metallic core with a selected set of ligands can turn GNPs into vaccines or anti-adhesion agents or dedicated vehicles to deliver compounds safely at their target location. GlycoGold will operate as a virtual research-training centre at the interface of physics, chemistry, immunolog",{"id":113,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":114,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":116,"year":13,"amount":117,"abstract":118},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-5583","Interfacial Phenomena at Atomic Resolution and Multiscale Properties of Novel III-V Semiconductors","ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI","EL","€2,889,317","The ultimate goal of this project is to provide a profound knowledge on III-V semiconductor heterostructures-nanostructures. The project will lead to extensive comprehension of growth mechanisms, microstructures and interfacial phenomena, as well as of the interrelation of structural and physical properties in order to control the atomic level the synthesis, the growth, processing and properties of novel III-V semiconductors such as III-nitrideternary and quaternary alloys, InN, and â-dilute nit",{"id":120,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":121,"piName":10,"institution":122,"country":91,"year":13,"amount":123,"abstract":124},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-20692","Nanostructures of Oxides for Terahertz IMaging Exploration","ECOLE SUPERIEURE D'ELECTRICITE - SUPELEC","€926,209","The NANOTIME project relies on a bipolar competence: that of a recognised research laboratory (founded in 1968); and that of a high level engineering institute (founded in 1894).Moreover, the research field targeted terahertz imaging involves multidisci plinary issues such as materials sciences and nanotechnologies, electromagnetics or electronic circuits design, astronomy (in the planet atmospheres or interstellar matter areas), environment on both pollution and climate contexts, energy in the ",{"id":126,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":127,"piName":10,"institution":128,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":130,"abstract":131},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7307","Microelectronics, telecommunication and controls developments","EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH","CH","€1,550,115","The MITELCO project will provide training for early stage researchers in the CERN Physics Department and provide them with innovative research opportunities in novel developments in microelectronics, telecommunication and control for future experiments. Early stage researchers will be closely supervised by internationally recognized experts, using state-of-the-art, and sometimes unique, equipment. Particular emphasis will be placed on direct, laboratory-based training. They will follow formal tr",{"id":133,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":134,"piName":10,"institution":135,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":137,"abstract":138},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-20552","Early stage research training in an Eastern European site with tradition in computational science and engineering","UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA BUCURESTI","RO","€744,229","Politehnica University of Bucharest provides a multidisciplinary research training program within EST mono-site, where several research groups having best research merits, from different departments such as: mathematics, computer science, electrical, bio and mechanical engineering, offer joint structured training on various advanced aspects of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). It provides to the hosted ESRs the necessary theoretical and scientific background for an advanced research p",{"id":140,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":141,"piName":10,"institution":142,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":143,"abstract":144},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-19566","A multidisciplinary approach to the study of DNA enzymes down to the single molecule level","JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITÄT","€30","Many enzymes interacting with DNA locate their target sites by facilitated diffusion or DNA translocation driven by NTP hydrolysis. The focus of attention with such enzymes in the past has been on the processes of recognition and catalysis that occurs after the target has been located. What is presently lacking and urgently needed is a better understanding of the molecular mechanics of target location and how this is coupled to recognition and catalysis. It is proposed to investigate these quest",{"id":146,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":147,"piName":10,"institution":148,"country":149,"year":13,"amount":150,"abstract":151},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512265","Functional genomics for biogenesis of the plant cell wall","KØBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET","DK","€1,865,788","Plant cells are surrounded by a strong wall composed mainly of polysaccharides. This wall is essential for the form of the plant and allows the plant to stand upright, and the wall is the first line of defence against invading pathogens. Very little is known about how the wall polysaccharides are formed and integrated into the wall. Many enzymes are necessary for biosynthesis of the polysaccharides; the majority are glycosyltransferases (GTs) but also transglycosidases are involved.The overall o",{"id":153,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":154,"piName":10,"institution":32,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":155,"abstract":156},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-513904","EST programme to study the regulation of organ survival after transplantation","€718,487","Transplantation is often the only therapy for end-stage organ failure. The number of patients for whom this surgery is indicated is increasing but the number of available organs has remained relatively constant and waiting lists are growing. At present over 17,000 patients in the UK and Eurotransplant zones, which contain some 170 million people, are waiting for organ transplantation. The early success of transplant surgery is impressive with more than 80% of heart, kidney and liver grafts survi",{"id":158,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":159,"piName":10,"institution":160,"country":91,"year":13,"amount":161,"abstract":162},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512464","Biogeochemistry and climate change research and training network","COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE","€2,835,949","Human activity is believed to be having a profound influence on the global environment through inadvertent changes in the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. It is almost certain that these effects are already altering global climate patterns a nd will have major impacts on the future well-being of life on earth. However, our understanding of these changes remains inadequate to predict with confidence the evolution of the earth system over the rest of this century and beyond. Advanci",{"id":164,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":165,"piName":10,"institution":166,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":167,"abstract":168},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-21090","Humanitarian crises and conflict studies: Bridging the gap between European research, policy and practice","UNIVERSIDAD DE DEUSTO","€1,693,908","The European Union attempts to address humanitarian crises and violent conflicts in a comprehensive manner. Yet, the need for consistency, coherence and complementarity prevails. In order to fill this gap, the multi training -site seeks to train early stag e researchers, to learn from the experiences and produce and disseminate scholarly knowledge. It will enhance European research co-operation as well as the quality of research and training on the subject. It combines collaborative research pro",{"id":170,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":171,"piName":10,"institution":172,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":173,"abstract":174},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514667","Materials for environmentally-friendly transport and power generation","IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE","€1,243,739","Marie Curie Fellows will develop into internationally leading young researchers by actively performing research on this topic. The London Materials Processing Research Centre (LMPC) has established an international recognition in modelling, processing and characterisation of structural materials used in transport and power applications. The LMPC aims to develop novel materials processing routes and characterisation methods for transport and power generation applications. Investigations range fro",{"id":176,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":177,"piName":10,"institution":178,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":180,"abstract":181},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-19217","Biology of Neuro-degenerative Diseases Research","UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND","FI","€54,908,708","The Kuopio University campus in Finland hosts about 20 neuroscience groups and 50 PhD students in 5 graduate schools. The 2 major basic science facilities (A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences and Department of Neuroscience and Neurology) are located near the Department of Neurology in Kuopio University Hospital. Our feature worldwide is a strong continuum between basic and clinical research that takes questions from lab-bench to bedside and back. The major research interests include s",{"id":183,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":184,"piName":10,"institution":185,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":186,"abstract":187},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8201","Consumer-oriented access to media content","PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND B.V.","€666,167","The CONTACT project addresses the societal and technological problems faced by consumers due to vastly increasing amounts of audio and video content. Technological developments are leading to dramatically increased storage capacities of multimedia devices used in the home as well as large increases in the bandwidth of Internet connections and broadcast channels. These developments pose great problems for the consumer in terms of selecting, archiving and retrieving content. They also pose a chall",{"id":189,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":190,"piName":10,"institution":191,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":192,"abstract":193},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-513973","European bioinformatics early-stage training in advanced research","THE EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY","€562,468","The publication of the human genome sequence, along with that of other organisms, has created an unprecedented demand for bioinformatics tools to allow researchers to mine and analyse the explosion of data, which continues to emerge. More sophisticated too ls also require more sophisticated skills from the people who use them, and the shortage of skilled bioinformaticians needs to be addressed for Europe to remain competitive in the field. The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) will make it",{"id":195,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":196,"piName":10,"institution":197,"country":198,"year":13,"amount":199,"abstract":200},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-19885","Development of Biotechnology derived alternatives for sustainable detergents and innovative strategies of using Sustainable ingredients by encapsulation and surfactants structuring","PROCTER AND GAMBLE EUROCOR N.V.","BE","€1,039,757","The Protect and Gamble European Technical Centre (B) and its partners offer the opportunity to 7 fellows to build up scientific-technological knowledge in the field of enzyme technology and encapsulation\u002Fsurfactant structuring technology in order to develop sustainable detergents that will lead to significant reductions of detergent weight, energy, CO2 and solid waste. The training focuses on developing the scientific basis to create a detergent, which minimizes surfactant and bulk bleach level ",{"id":202,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":203,"piName":10,"institution":204,"country":205,"year":13,"amount":206,"abstract":207},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512331","Self-organisation under confinement","NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN","IE","€3,158,522","Colloidal systems such as foams, emulsions and dispersions are widely used in industrial applications and everyday products, e.g. for household and personal care, pharmacy and food. However, the reason for their stability - or instability - is not yet unde rstood in sufficient detail. The reason is that we lack fundamental knowledge of the anisotropic environment which is induced by an interface and is then perturbed by the confinement between two neighbouring interfaces. These confinement-induc",{"id":209,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":210,"piName":10,"institution":211,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":212,"abstract":213},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-513924","Analytical methods in the development of science and technology of polymers","MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.","€1,413,257","The purpose of this EST site at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz is to provide early stage researchers with a comprehensive training in advanced methods of analysis and characterization of polymer materials. This includes rese arch in how to design and optimize polymer-based materials and processes for advanced technologies in the context of industrial production and market development. Therefore training in Analytical Methods in the Development of Science and Techn",{"id":215,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":216,"piName":10,"institution":217,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":218,"abstract":219},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512397","Understanding the dynamics of cell divisioneuropean network for composite reinforcement","THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD","€1,675,231","Construction is facing its first major revolution in the use of new materials since the introduction of Reinforced Concrete (RC) more than a century ago. Advanced composites in the form of Fibre Reinforced Polymers (FRP) have been adopted in most strengthe ning applications and are being progressively used as reinforcement in new structures. The market for FRP in construction is expected to increase between 5 and 7 times in the next decade. This will lead to more durable structures and give a bo",{"id":221,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":222,"piName":10,"institution":223,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":224,"abstract":225},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514743","Bioanalytical electrochemistry and bionanotechnology BIONEL","LUNDS UNIVERSITET","€1,185,831","BIONEL is a Marie Curie EST site at Lund University involving Analytical and Biochemistry\u002FBiotechnology\u002FApplied Microbiology\u002FCell-Organism\u002FNeural Stem Cell Biology\u002FRestorative Neurology\u002FSolid State Physics. The aim is to provide early stage research traini ng in Bioanalytical Chemistry\u002FBionanotechnology\u002FBioelectrochemistry for stays from 9 months to a full PhD. The scientific content can be summarised as: Global parameters such as bioavailability\u002Ftoxicity can only be assayed using living cells. ",{"id":227,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":228,"piName":10,"institution":229,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":230,"abstract":231},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7832","Nano-scale analysis, prototyping and self-assembly processes","PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND BV","€1,004,354","The general goal of this project is to train young researchers in nanotechnology, to go for a technology leap from purely silicon technology to new and more advanced technologies in the future Europe.A broad interdisciplinary training program in the field of nanotechnology is proposed covering three areas,1) The improvement of analysis methods for nanotechnology,2) Prototyping of nano-devices and3) A novel and future process for nanotechnology, i.e., self-assembly.The objectives of the training ",{"id":233,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":234,"piName":10,"institution":235,"country":198,"year":13,"amount":236,"abstract":237},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512481","Host-pathogen interaction systems as tools to identify antifungal targets in C. Albicans and C. Dubliniensis","FLANDERS INTERUNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY VZW","€2,689,991","One of the major tasks the Life Science industry faces in the coming years is to validate a plethora of targets for treatment of various diseases and the identification of novel lead compounds to generate novel pharmaceutics specifically acting on the targets identified. CanTrain will train both early and experienced researchers in the methodologies necessary for drug development, including target identification, target validation, development of cell-based screening assays all of which is cause",{"id":239,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":240,"piName":10,"institution":241,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":186,"abstract":242},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514421","Evaluation of vascular risk predictors","PIE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT B.V.","Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the most common cause of death in adults world-wide, as well as in the Netherlands. Blood vessel properties in general, and vascular wall pressure in particular, could indicate risks for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). P ie Medical, CARIM (Maastricht University) and TU\u002Fe (Technical University Eindhoven) provide in this project a high-level training program targeted at ultrasound measurement of bloodvessel wall properties as potential predictors for CVD. Resear",{"id":244,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":245,"piName":10,"institution":246,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":247,"abstract":248},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-5632","Innovative mouse models for functional genomics in immunology","AKADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN","€3,088,294","The growing notion that in the pathology of many human diseases immunity plays an important, sometimes determining, role and that the use of antibiotics results in resistant pathogens, make high demands upon immunology research. In the functional analysis of human diseases and the role of immunity therein mouse models are crucial. Progress in immunology would substantially accelerate by improving efficacy and success rate of the generation of genetically modified mice and their phenotypic analys",{"id":250,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":251,"piName":10,"institution":252,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":253,"abstract":254},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-20725","Doctoral Training in developmental cognitive Neuroscience within a European Context","BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","€1,069,463","We will provide a structured training programme based on the completion of individual research projects that gravitate around a common research agenda.That agenda is to understand the neural basis of cognitive functions, and their typical and atypical development in the infant, child and adult brains through the combination of neuroimaging, computational modelling and behavioural testing.We aim to understand typical and atypical developmental paths in infancy and childhood relative to cognitive ",{"id":256,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":257,"piName":10,"institution":258,"country":259,"year":13,"amount":260,"abstract":261},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-515968","Design, synthesis, Structural Characterization and biological evaluation of new peptidomimetics with a defined secondary structure","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELL'INSUBRIA","IT","€57,978,286","Protein-Protein interactions are fundamental to biology and constitute an interesting target class for medicinal chemistry projects investigating cell adhesion, signal transduction, proteolysis or protein folding diseases. With the deciphering of the human genome project, the next decades will bring a myriad of new proteins being potentially important receptors since they might be associated with diseases. To design ligands towards such receptors, peptides and peptidomimetics will play an import",{"id":263,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":264,"piName":10,"institution":265,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":266,"abstract":267},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-5624","Devlopment and evolution of animal form: training modern comparative zoologists","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON","€3,770,000","Linking classical evolutionary biology to modern molecular developmental genetics has led to the emergence of a new, rapidly expanding field called Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo). This inter-disciplinary field, that integrates traditional comparative anatomy, systematics and paleontology, with modern molecular biology, developmental genetics and molecular phylogenetics, has recently begun to address many of the major unsolved questions of animal evolution. The main purpose of ZOON",{"id":269,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":270,"piName":10,"institution":271,"country":272,"year":13,"amount":273,"abstract":274},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-5578","Fisheries-induced adaptive changes in exploited stocks","INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS","AT","€2,873,430","Today, fishing is the dominant source of mortality in most commercially exploited fish stocks. According to the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organization, world capture fisheries have reached a ceiling, with three stocks out of four being maximally exploited or overexploited. Since all fish species were genetically adapted to the environmental conditions experienced prior to intensive exploitation, the current, drastically altered conditions cannot possibly leave their life-history patt",{"id":276,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":277,"piName":10,"institution":278,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":279,"abstract":280},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514262","Bio-transformation of trace elements in aquatic systems","UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON","€2,220,111","Microbial organisms interact with trace elements in diverse aquatic systems ranging from glaciers to sediment pore-waters. These transformations can have profound implications for element cycles such as those of C and N. Microbially mediated changes to the form of trace elements have common underlying chemical and biological processes with associated implications for element cycles. Our detailed understanding of these bio-transformations is poor, but nonetheless central to our understanding of m",{"id":282,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":283,"piName":10,"institution":284,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":285,"abstract":286},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512301","Cope with the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century: integrated basic and applied training in a success-oriented bioprospecting","JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITäT MAINZ","€1,721,887","There is an increasing interest of pharmaceutical industry in the natural environment as a source for new lead compounds. This interest is based on the fact that the chemical diversity of natural bioactive compounds is much higher than that of compounds synthesized by standard combinatorial chemistry. A successful drug discovery heavily relies on the coordinated multi-disciplinary effort of highly qualified researchers with special skills in different disciplines. There is, however, an urgent ne",{"id":288,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":289,"piName":10,"institution":290,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":291,"abstract":292},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7931","The Biomembrane: the development of a multifaceted skills base for the new millennium","UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS","€117,616,680","Mission Statement: To enhance the knowledge base and mobility of researchers in biomembranes so as to generate effective, motivated and ambitious scientists with the skills to significantly improve out understanding of biological systems and through this, facilitate the development of innovative technologies and novel therapies. The biological membrane is the gateway and principal organisational element of the cell. Its evolution was a key step in the development of Life. Thus, determining the s",{"id":294,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":295,"piName":10,"institution":296,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":297,"abstract":298},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-5428","Molecular mechanisms of epithelial plasticity and its involvement in carcinoma progression","CANCER RESEARCH UK","€2,399,341","During tumour progression, proliferating tumour cells lose their polarized epithelial phenotype, acquire an invasive phenotype and metastasize to other organs in the body. These processes frequently kill the cancer patient, however, little is currently known about the mechanisms that underlie tumour invasion and metastasis. To discover how cells develop an invasive phenotype, we will study epithelial plasticity, with particular focus on epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) both in vitro an",{"id":300,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":301,"piName":10,"institution":211,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":302,"abstract":303},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7776","Marie Curie Training Site for Marine Microbiology","€1,429,704","The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) of Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany was founded in 2002 through an initiative of the Max Planck Society as a high profile, international graduate school with a clearly defined identity, a world-class teaching and research program. The Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology (MarMic) involves 4 research institutes in or near Bremen with departments at the forefront of research in marine microbiology: the Max Planck Institute for",{"id":305,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":306,"piName":10,"institution":307,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":308,"abstract":309},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-21016","TRACEability of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi as plant-beneficial micro-organisms in agro-environments","LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN","€702,143","Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) is probably the most important terrestrial symbiosis. AM fungi (AMF) supply the majority of land plants with nutrients and confer resistance against various stresses. Therefore, their exploitation is of high environmental relevance and economic value. Although demanded for safer food production, mass-production of AMF inoculum is still prone to contamination, and AMF cannot be traced in the field. Consequently, quality control is problematic and traceability in the agr",{"id":311,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":312,"piName":10,"institution":313,"country":91,"year":13,"amount":314,"abstract":315},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-5336","SYSTEMS BIOLOGY OF STEM CELL FUNCTION IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA","INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE","€2,434,693","Shoot apical meristems are populations of dividing, undifferentiated cells that generate organs at the tips of stems and branches throughout the life of the plant. As they define the number, type and position of lateral organs, meristems are the basis of plant architecture, allowing plants to adapt their development to their environment. Significant progress has been made in this field during the last few years, but the complexity and lack of completeness of the available data is such, that an i",{"id":317,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":318,"piName":10,"institution":90,"country":91,"year":13,"amount":319,"abstract":320},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-5503","Intelligent design of nanoporous sorbents","€2,711,500","The present RTN project aims to investigate and INtelligently DEsign NanoporouS media most adapted for the storage\u002Fseparation of specific gas molecules. A number of applications use adsorption phenomena in nanoporous materials. The present Marie-Curie training project will form both ESR's and ER's in the dual fields of experiment and simulation with respect to given storage and separation applications inside nanoporous media. The RTN aims to design the zeolite and zeotype materials, to predict t",{"id":322,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":323,"piName":10,"institution":324,"country":259,"year":13,"amount":325,"abstract":326},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512285","Trans-cis elements regulating key switches in plant development","UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO","€2,106,526","TRANSISTOR creates a training network where young scientists carry their projects around a hub of expert laboratories, receiving specialist scientific training at each node on the hub. The projects themselves form part of a coherent larger project, made up of overlapping subunits, building up to form an integrated study of gene regulation, that will be used to develop bioinformatic tools of use to the entire community.The participants' convergent biological interests and complementary technologi",{"id":328,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":329,"piName":10,"institution":330,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":331,"abstract":332},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512229","Pathogenesis of pulmonary disease","UNIVERSITÄTSKLINIKUM ULM","€2,315,168","Exposure of the lung surface to air-born pollutants or other toxic\u002F infectious agents causes reactions at the air-liquid interface, the immune system, the epithelial barrier and adjacent tissue. This may result in acute and\u002For chronic diseases, representin g an increasing socio-economic burden to the European Community. Their underlying pathogenetic mechanisms involve physico-chemical events, such as air-liquid interface phenomena, and cellular events, such as immune defense, secretion, transpor",{"id":334,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":335,"piName":10,"institution":336,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":337,"abstract":338},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-5330","Lipid flippases - Protein-mediated lipid translocation Regulation and physiological significance of transbilayer lipid distribution","HUMBOLDT UNIVERSIT??T ZU BERLIN","€3,262,033","The dynamics of biomembrane lipid organisation and its physiological role is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field. Membrane dynamics is largely controlled by lipid transporters also known as flippases, which play a pivotal role in cell homeostasis. Putative flippases belong to various subfamilies of the P-type ATPases and ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters. These proteins are involved in regulating lipid asymmetry, cellular signalling, in the budding of transport vesicles and protei",{"id":340,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":341,"piName":10,"institution":342,"country":91,"year":13,"amount":343,"abstract":344},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-5439","Computational and cognitive vision systems : A training European Network","INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE (INRIA)","€3,461,991","Visiotrain addresses the problem of understanding vision from both computational and cognitive points of view. The research approach will be based on formal mathematical models and on the thorough experimental validation of these models. Under this framework, we intend to reduce the gap that exists today between biological vision (which is by large not yet understood) and computer vision (which is biologically inspired and whose flexibility, robustness and autonomy remain to be demonstrated).In ",{"id":346,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":347,"piName":10,"institution":348,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":349,"abstract":350},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8332","Assessment of in situ Transformation of Xenobiotic Organic Material","UFZ - UMWELTFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM LEIPZIG - HALLE GMBH","€764,509","AXIOM provides an early stage research forum for doctoral studies integrated into applied research projects dealing with transformation and fate of organic chemicals in the environment.Microbiologists, hydrologists, chemists, and ecologists will be trained in the application of novel stable isotope techniques to evaluate the fate of organic contaminants in the context of contaminated land rehabilitation and testing of the environmental behaviour of chemicals. Within this research area, interdisc",{"id":352,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":353,"piName":10,"institution":354,"country":116,"year":13,"amount":355,"abstract":356},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7295","Functional analysis of miRNAs during early development","FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY - HELLAS","€1,022,293","Four research teams of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) will provide training for early stage researchers in the format of a 'mono-site'. We will provide open access to eligible fellows, who will be selected based on their motivation and potential of excellence. We offer to integrate the foreign fellows into our existing tutorial program for local graduate students, thus strengthening our ongoing educational activities and we will provide for each fellow an individual ",{"id":358,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":359,"piName":10,"institution":360,"country":259,"year":13,"amount":361,"abstract":362},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-5652","European Network In Geometry, Mathematical Physics, and Applications","SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE SUPERIORE DI STUDI AVANZATI","€1,763,577","Geometry traditionally played a central role in the mathematical formalism of physics. The relationships between geometry and mathematical physics received a great impetus from the discovery of the integrability phenomenon. This conceptual breakthrough produced many exciting new ideas in mathematics and physics during the last 35 years. Geometry and mathematical physics grew even closer after the discovery that the Korteweg - de Vries equation plays a fundamental role in the matrix and topologic",{"id":364,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":365,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":366,"abstract":367},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512202","Quantitative spectroscopy for atmospheric and astrophysical research","€2,527,192","In order to model our environment, or indeed the many environments that occur in the Universe, one needs to know its molecular constitution. Beyond determining what is there, an essential element to the successful modelling of such an environment is to know precisely how much is there. Molecular spectroscopy allows one to obtain information about molecules by analysing the absorption and emission of light. Since light can travel long distances before being detected and analysed, spectroscopy is ",{"id":369,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":370,"piName":10,"institution":371,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":372,"abstract":373},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8475","The European Union´s Infection models beyond cell culture training","KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET","€1,495,201","The objective of this research programme is to analyze the complex interplay between the host and the microbe, which eventually leads to an infection, in the full biological context.The spectrum of infectious diseases in industrialized countries changed significantly during the last decades, however several global health challenges remain. Infections often result from the dis-equilibrium in a previous delicate balance between host and microbe, which can lead to a shift from acute to persistent i",{"id":375,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":376,"piName":10,"institution":377,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":378,"abstract":379},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512234","Model theory and applications","UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA","€2,739,162","This proposal is designed to promote multi-disciplinary training and research in model theory, a branch of mathematical logic dealing abstractly with structures. In the past decade, model theory has reached a new maturity, allowing for a strengthening o f existing connections with, and striking applications to, other areas of mathematics. A network is the ideal setting for providing the adequate training needed to preserve and nourish this impetus. The proposed network involves most European mod",{"id":381,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":382,"piName":10,"institution":383,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":384,"abstract":385},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7512","Centre of excellence for space, planetary and astrophysics research Training and Networking","UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER","€1,649,890","We propose to create a Centre of Excellence in the training of early stage researchers in the space, planetary (including Earth Observation) and astrophysical sciences in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester.The principal aims of this centre will be to:- Provide a broad postgraduate training in space research that exposes students to different research disciplines and skills, leading to a recognized qualification (Masters degree or Doctorate).- Enable access to ",{"id":387,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":388,"piName":10,"institution":389,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":390,"abstract":391},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512362","The biomedical and sociological effects of sleep restriction","HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO","€4,406,160","The training network consists of six multi-discplinary laboratories (from 5 partner institutions), which will train 12 experienced and 12 early stage researchers during four years.The aims of the training program are:1) Train sleep researchers who will be come familiar with basic skills in all relevant areas of sleep research, including basic sleep research, experimental sleep research, clinical sleep research and sociological aspects of sleep. We particularly emphasize the need to integrate soc",{"id":393,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":394,"piName":10,"institution":395,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":396,"abstract":397},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-6423","Molecular Oncology Early Research Training","FUNDACION CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLOGICAS CARLOS III","€1,229,368","The aim of this proposal is to provide interdisciplinary training for early stage researchers in state-of-the-art molecular oncology. The recent growth of proteomics, genomics and other large-scale approaches has generated an enormous wealth of data that has transformed cancer research. Current cancer research is thus a multidisciplinary field of research involving disciplines such as biology, medicine, computer sciences, physics and chemistry, for example. However, the new strategies and experi",{"id":399,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":400,"piName":10,"institution":313,"country":91,"year":13,"amount":401,"abstract":402},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7576","Versailles evry research training site","€2,011,244","The Versailles-Evry Research Training (VERT) site proposes to train early-stage researchers (ESRs) in Plant Biology using a multidisciplinary approach integrating high-throughput functional genomics, multiple biological resources and state-of-the-art technologies. The training offered takes advantage of the unique concentration of facilities and scientific\u002Ftraining expertises available in five laboratories of INRA located at the campus of Versailles and at the Evry-Genopole, the major site for g",{"id":404,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":405,"piName":10,"institution":25,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":406,"abstract":407},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8041","Training in Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Techniques, Hardware and Applications","€1,170,979","Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive technique for imaging the human body, which has revolutionised the field of diagnostic medicine. Future advances in digital medicine will rely strongly on the realisation of the huge potential that MRI has in this area. Many of the fundamental developments in the history of MRI have originated from the work of European-based research groups, with the achievements of the research group in Nottingham led by Nobel laureate Professor Sir Peter Mansf",{"id":409,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":410,"piName":10,"institution":411,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":412,"abstract":413},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7264","Multi-modal biomedical imaging for research and clinical application","EBERHARD-KARLS-UNIVERSITÄT TÜBINGEN","€1,119,265","Integrated Early Stage Training is offered in the fast growing field of biomedical imaging for medical research and clinical applications. The integrated use of modern imaging modalities is extremely important for non-invasive studies focusing on elucidation of functional and metabolic processes with high spatial resolution in major diseases (eg, cancer or diabetes).The optimised use of those modern imaging techniques in a clinical environment leads to improved individual diagnosis and improved ",{"id":415,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":416,"piName":10,"institution":417,"country":198,"year":13,"amount":418,"abstract":419},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514632","Training in plant systems biology","FLANDERS INTERUNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY","€1,054,645","The Department of Plant Systems Biology (PSB) of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB)-Ghent University strives to become a centre of excellence in Systems Biology. The Department is extremely well positioned to take a leading role i n this innovative approach, and the education and training of the next generation of top scientists in Systems Biology is one of its main missions.Systems biology requires the integration of three disciplines:I) bioinformatics and computatio",{"id":421,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":422,"piName":10,"institution":371,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":423,"abstract":424},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-20954","Early stage training in mitochondrial medicine","€1,004,796","Mitochondrial medicine is a growing field that is anticipated to give rise to many future breakthroughs in medicine. We will use an interdisciplinary approach to study the link between mitochondrial dysfunction and human disease. Several rare metabolic diseases are caused my mitochondrial dysfunction, mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in a wide variety of age-associated human diseases, such as heart failure, diabetes mellitus type II and Parkinson's disease and it is even implicated as one",{"id":426,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":427,"piName":10,"institution":428,"country":149,"year":13,"amount":429,"abstract":430},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-20542","Evolution of animal body plans as inferred by developmental biology, morphology, molecular phylogeny, and palaeontology","KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET","€2,131,047","Multi-cellular animals have evolved an impressive variety of forms or body plans. The evolutionary and developmental processes causing and determining this diversity remain largely unknown and present one of the great challenges in evolutionary biology. Based on recent molecular, morphological, developmental, and palaeontological data, the phylogenetic interrelationships of the major metazoan lineages are currently controversially discussed. In particular, the early evolution of the Bilateria, t",{"id":432,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":433,"piName":10,"institution":128,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":434,"abstract":435},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-20174","Radiation Protection and Environmental Impact of Future Accelerators","€580,443","The RADENV project will provide training for 3 EST researchers in the CERN RP Group and provide them with innovative research opportunities. The next generation of accelerators with their increased energies and intensities will pose new challenges in terms of radiation protection. The radiation environment is highly complex and can only be understood with a combination of model calculations and benchmark experiments. The consequences of such new accelerators in terms of risk exposure to workers ",{"id":437,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":438,"piName":10,"institution":128,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":439,"abstract":440},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8235","Research into high intensity accelerators and radioactive Ion production","€771,655","We will provide training for young researchers in the domains of high-intensity proton and radioactive ion beams. Of high priority for future accelerators, these research areas offer excellent training possibilities in a variety of disciplines, such as bea m dynamics computer simulations and programming, radio frequency cavities, and ion sources including materials research and chemistry. High intensity accelerators are more and more of interest for different applications. At CERN the possible f",{"id":442,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":443,"piName":10,"institution":444,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":445,"abstract":446},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514169","Interdisciplinary training in systems biology","GOETEBORG UNIVERSITY","€1,502,026","The overall goal of this project is to provide advanced training to early-stage researchers in Systems Biology. Systems Biology uses a combination of experimental and mathematical approaches to achieve a deeper understanding of the function and operation o f pathways, cells, organs and entire organisms. Systems Biology has enormous potential in future medicine and predictable treatment regimes. The field requires a generation of scientists trained in experimental and mathematical\u002Fcomputational b",{"id":448,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":449,"piName":10,"institution":450,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":452},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-512348","Understanding the dynamics of cell division","EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY","€2,401,446","This Research Network consists of nine teams that provide an interdisciplinary environment for training researchers in the field of eukaryotic cell division. The teams combine expertise in cell biology, biochemistry, proteomics, biophysics, chemical geneti cs, organic chemistry, and mathematics. The scientific goal of the joint research programme is to understand the dynamics of cell division and to discover inhibitors of mitosis with potential as anti-cancer drugs. The multidisciplinary network",{"id":454,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":455,"piName":10,"institution":456,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":457,"abstract":458},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8303","Chemical Biology at Cambridge - ChemBioCam","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","€1,241,754","Biological chemistry is a vital discipline at the interface between chemistry and biology, which underpins the development of the European pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and agrochemical industries. This interdisciplinary subject is at a crucial and exciting stage, and the demand for trained personnel has never been higher. The aim of this project is to establish a centre of excellence in research training, which draws on the established strengths in Chemistry and Biology at Cambridge. The goal ",{"id":460,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":461,"piName":10,"institution":313,"country":91,"year":13,"amount":462,"abstract":463},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514428","Novel applications of lactic acid bacteria to improve food safety and health","€1,433,399","This Early Stage Training project aims at establishing the scientific basis for the development of novel applications of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) to improve food safety and health (LABHEALTH). The project proposes a solid disciplinary training, opening o ut to multidisciplinary approaches and the creation of new inter-sectorial training. It plans to integrate 12 Marie-Curie fellows (6 PhD and 6 programmes of 12 to 18 months) to whom both theoretical and experimental training will be given.The ",{"id":465,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":466,"piName":10,"institution":467,"country":91,"year":13,"amount":468,"abstract":469},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514307","Orsay training site on emergent phenomena in condensed matter physics: from the macro- to the nanoscales","UNIVERSITE PARIS-SUD","€2,334,156","The Orsay Training Site on Emergent Phenomena in Condensed Matter Physics offers the possibility to early stage researchers to apply for Ph. D. or shorter periods at the Laboratoire dePhysique des Solides d'Orsay. This laboratory is the largest institute devoted to condensed matter physics in France. It has, over nearly 45 years, formed most of the French community of condensed matter physics, as well as many foreign students and visitors. It has pioneered, since the 60's, important advancements",{"id":471,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":472,"piName":10,"institution":473,"country":198,"year":13,"amount":474,"abstract":475},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514213","Influence of the sterol biosynthesis inhibitor fungicides on the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis","UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN","€520,528","The majority of agricultural important plant species form naturally a symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. These fungi offer several benefits to the host plant including faster growth, improved nutrition, higher drought resistance, and in certain cases protection against root pathogens. Both these benefits, and the increased concern for environmental quality, support the interest of these micro-organisms for management practices in agricultural and horticultural systems. However, th",{"id":477,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":478,"piName":10,"institution":479,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":480,"abstract":481},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-6724","Network theory and applications to computing and engineering","BRUNEL UNIVERSITY","€1,773,934","NET-ACE will provide high quality multi-disciplinary research training within a research project developing and applying the theory of the novel small world and scale free networks. This topic is both novel and timely, and will allow new insights into our current understanding of graph theory as well as the development of new tools and methods for a variety of technologically important problems in engineering and computing. The methodologies to be employed will come from statistical physics, dis",{"id":483,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":484,"piName":10,"institution":90,"country":91,"year":13,"amount":485,"abstract":486},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8450","International PhD Program in Developmental and Cellular Decisions","€1,675,512","Organism development is driven by a range of decisions at the cellular level, tightly regulated in time and space. An in depth training in both Developmental and Cellular Biology is required to unravel the mechanisms of biological processes and their malfunction in disease. The primary objective of the International PhD Program in Developmental and Cellular Decisions (InterDeC) is to train high quality PhD level researchers from across Europe at the interface of Developmental and Cellular Biolog",{"id":488,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":489,"piName":10,"institution":377,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":490,"abstract":491},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514159","Fellowships in Antarctic air-sea-ice science","€1,419,147","This is a proposal to create a Marie Curie EST mono-site based in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, jointly with the British Antarctic Survey (the Inter-related Group). It is focused on chemical and physical air-ice-ocean interactions in the Antarctic, the Antarctic marginal ice zone and in the surrounding Southern Oceans. Fellows will receive a high quality interdisciplinary training programme rich in transferable skills and contributing to developing",{"id":493,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":494,"piName":10,"institution":32,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":495,"abstract":496},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8036","INTegrated approaches to chemical pROcess and product quality monitoring using SPECTroscopy","€709,573","The proposed training programme aims at providing Early Stage researchers a unique, well-rounded multi-disciplinary training in the area of chemical process and product quality monitoring through a combination of research training and taught courses. Research training will be through a unique research programme that seeks to overcome the limitations of the current state of the art information extraction techniques through a multi-disciplinary engineering science approach that integrates measurem",{"id":498,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":499,"piName":10,"institution":223,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":500,"abstract":501},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-19374","Applied stochastic models for ocean engineering, climate and safe transportation","€2,000,000","The network shall bring together probabilists\u002Fstatisticians, researchers in the marine and meteorological fields, and maritime safety enterprise on wave climate, information and databases, and the safety of marine transports, offshore and coastal installations.Much of the research in the area has been highly fragmented. 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Our objectives are: * to integrate and expand current knowledge of brain process es that lead to word recognition; * to form a better understanding of how biological, perceptual, cognitive and environmental effects interact to form language systems in the brain; * to establish an active long-lasting network of collaboratio",{"id":508,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":509,"piName":10,"institution":510,"country":149,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":511},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7819","Training Risk Assessment in Non-human Antimicrobial Usage","UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN","The project aims at the development of a multidisciplinary early-stage training (EST) site on identification, characterisation and assessment of public health risks associated with non-human use of antimicrobials. 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Analysis of microdata improves understanding of the dynamics of individual behaviour,",{"id":525,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":526,"piName":10,"institution":527,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":528,"abstract":529},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514510","Research training in artificial intelligence for industrial applications","SKF B.V.","€90,461,864","The main objective of the AI4IA project is to build capacity of young professionals to investigate, identify, demonstrate and promote Artificial Intelligence (Al) techniques for industrial applications. The project offers an extensive research-training programme to 11 young research fellows who will be trained for 36 months as PhD-candidates. Applications of Al in industry can dramatically increase agility, speed and quality of the design, implementation and the control in industrial processes. 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This single host Early Stage Training (EST) presented by the Councilfor Scientific Research (CSIC), the most important multidisciplinary research organisation in Spain, offers a multidisciplinar",{"id":537,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":538,"piName":10,"institution":204,"country":205,"year":13,"amount":539,"abstract":540},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514333","Molecular neuro-immunology early stage training","€1,553,095","NeuroImmunology is a rapidly growing area of research with enormous potential for contribution to our understanding of physiological and disease processes. As current training opportunities in this area are inadequate to address this potential, this progra mme is targeted at providing postgraduate researchers with cross-disciplinary research training in cellular and molecular NeuroImmunology in the context of human physiology and disease. 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The Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation at the University of Leeds is an established Centre of Excellence in teaching and research, with an interdis",{"id":560,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":561,"piName":10,"institution":562,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":563,"abstract":564},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514569","European graduate programme in social protection policy","UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT","€2,276,826","The objective of the European graduate programme in Social Protection Policy (ESPP) is to train a critical mass of young researchers in social protection and social policy in a European and multidisciplinary perspective by pooling the resources of 12 top r esearch institutes and universities in 8 EU-countries.Social Protection is a research area wherein many European institutes have built up serious expertise. However, no specialised PhD- programmes are found at universities. 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