[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"awarded-msca-doctoral-networks-2009":3,"awarded-stats-msca-doctoral-networks":497},{"awarded":4,"total":496},[5,16,22,28,34,40,46,53,59,66,72,79,85,90,96,102,108,114,118,124,129,135,141,147,151,158,164,170,176,182,187,194,200,206,212,218,224,229,233,238,245,250,257,263,268,273,279,285,289,295,302,308,313,318,323,329,335,341,346,351,357,362,367,373,378,383,387,392,397,402,408,414,420,424,430,436,441,446,452,458,464,469,475,480,485,490],{"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-237907","Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions","MSCA Doctoral Networks","Language, Cognition, and Gender",null,"UNIVERSITAET BERN","CH",2009,"€4,106,379","The Initial Training Network - Language, Cognition, and Gender (ITN LCG) investigates European languages from an interdisciplinary perspective to expand current knowledge of how language influences and forms the cognitive representations of women and men. The diversity of Europe offers a unique opportunity to investigate the impact of language and culture in establishing and maintaining gender inequality. This issue has not yet been systematically addressed on a large scale, although the reducti",{"id":17,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":18,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":21},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-237956","Innovative Techniques and Models to Study Glia-Neuron Interactions","EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN","DE","It became evident over the last 20 years that glial cells are involved in virtually every aspect of nervous system function. Neurons and glia exchange chemical signals that are essential for the normal function of the nervous system, and are crucial in disease. Recently it was discovered that glial cells also act as neural stem cells both in early development and adulthood, and in synapse formation. This rapid progress in glia research generated not only many new insights but also numerous new q",{"id":23,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":24,"piName":10,"institution":25,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":26,"abstract":27},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238701","Environmental Chemoinformatics","HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT GMBH","€3,386,676","The implementation of the new EU legislation concerning the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals (REACH) requires demonstration of the safe manufacture of chemicals and their safe use throughout the supply chain. REACH encourages development of new in vitro test methods and replacement of animal tests wherever possible by alternative methods. These goals are not achievable without well-trained personnel with a broad expertise and knowledge in both experimental and",{"id":29,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":30,"piName":10,"institution":31,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":32,"abstract":33},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238511","Post-graduate training network for capacity building to control ticks and tick-borne diseases","LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN","€2,864,700","In the context of global warming and globalisation, tick and tick-borne diseases (TTBD) are expected to emerge, with an increasing risk for animals and humans. It is imperative therefore to build up training capacities to improve integrated control measures, including the development of efficient and appropriate vaccines. The POSTICK ITN aims to (1) design new effective control strategies for TTBD diseases through understanding the mechanisms of tick-host-pathogen interactions regarding (i) path",{"id":35,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":36,"piName":10,"institution":37,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":39},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-237946","Tissue Transmigration Training Network","UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM HAMBURG-EPPENDORF","€2,857,635","Cardiovascular and cancer-related diseases are the leading causes of human mortality and disability. The underlying mechanisms originate from chronic interstitial cell activation leading to pathological tissue remodelling and malfunction of cells. These depend on three fundamental processes: cell adhesion, migration, and modulation\u002Fdegradation of the extracellular matrix (ECM), which together determine tissue invasion and remodelling. The proposed ITN Tissue Transmigration Training Network (T3Ne",{"id":41,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":42,"piName":10,"institution":43,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":45},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238778","Advanced Teaching and TRaining for Adoptive Cell Therapy","THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER","UK","Considerable resources are devoted to fighting cancer throughout Europe, yet these efforts are not producing the results that health practitioners and citizens might expect. This is partly due to the fragmentation and duplication of research efforts within Member states and the lack of co-ordination at European level. However it can also be attributed to the need to retain and most importantly develop researchers within the EU who have the research skills required to make a real contribution to ",{"id":47,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":48,"piName":10,"institution":49,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":51,"abstract":52},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-237890","INitial TRAining network on Mass Independent Fractionation","UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT","NL","€3,036,392","Molecules containing the element oxygen can be further characterized by the distributions of the stable oxygen isotopes. In some cases, these isotopes have an anomalous distribution, which is evidence of Mass Independent Fractionation (MIF). MIF has become a powerful research tool in earth system science and its use is expected to spread from the core science disciplines to industrial applications. With INTRAMIF, we bring together experts from atmospheric and climate research, hydrology, oceanog",{"id":54,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":55,"piName":10,"institution":56,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":57,"abstract":58},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-237942","A Clostridal Biology Network to Facilitate European-wide Medical Countermeasures and Commercial Exploitation","THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM","€4,811,791","There is an urgent need to better understand the basic biology of Clostridium as a prerequisite for both countering the diseases they cause (C.difficile, C.perfringens and C.botulinum), and exploiting their beneficial properties in industry (biofuels by C.acetobutylicum) and medicine (cancer therapy by C.sporogenes). Attainment of this goal is being impeded because: (i) European research efforts are fragmented; (ii) there is no coherence between researchers working on pathogenic species and indu",{"id":60,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":61,"piName":10,"institution":62,"country":63,"year":13,"amount":64,"abstract":65},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238201","Materials and Interfaces for Energy Conversion and Storages","UPPSALA UNIVERSITET","SE","€2,137,685","There is a consensus today that supplying a growing world population with energy is one of the biggest – if not the biggest – challenge mankind is facing in the 21st century. The reasons for this are numerous and are among others related to the observation that energy is critical to human development, including economic growth, equity and employment, and that fossil fuels – our current energy backbone – are slowly but inevitably declining. This generates an increasing demand of well-educated you",{"id":67,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":68,"piName":10,"institution":69,"country":70,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":71},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238423","Muscle Z-disk Protein Complexes: from atomic structure to physiological function","UNIVERSITAT WIEN","AT","Movement is vital to all living organisms, from the transport of single molecules in cells to the movement of entire organisms. Sarcomeres are the smallest cellular unit behind the operation of skeletal and heart muscles. Furthermore, dysfunctional sarcomeres are responsible for a long list of diseases that reduce the quality of life and burden the health care sector throughout the world. Understanding the function of sarcomere Z-disk – the focus of MUZIC - requires knowledge ranging from cellul",{"id":73,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":74,"piName":10,"institution":75,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":77,"abstract":78},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-212402","Forging Identities: The Mobility of Culture in Bronze Age Europe","AARHUS UNIVERSITET","DK","€2,856,053","This ITN will continue and enhance the success of a recent RTN ‘The Emergence of European Communities (2-2001-00366)’: Several PhDs have been educated and new knowledge has been unearthed concerning the economic and political foundations of intercultural interaction in Bronze Age Europe – a golden epoch  between 3000 and 500 BC with new patterns of social identification, specialised production, complex polities and wide-reaching interaction networks across Europe.       However, new questions ha",{"id":80,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":81,"piName":10,"institution":82,"country":83,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":84},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-237920","UNIFICATION IN THE LHC ERA","ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE","FR","The main research theme of the proposed network is the theoretical interpretation of results coming from the LHC and other experimental and observational sources. The aim is to identify the physics Beyond the Standard Model of strong, weak and electromagnetic forces and ultimately to provide a fully unified description of the fundamental states of matter and their interactions. We will investigate the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking, the origin of masses and their hierarchies and the qua",{"id":86,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":87,"piName":10,"institution":43,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":88,"abstract":89},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238531","A EUROPEAN BIOTECHNOLOGY TRAINING NETWORK FOR THE SUPPORT OF CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING","€4,369,872","The objective of BIOTRAINS is to deliver a trans-European network of industrially oriented white biotechnologists fully trained in the application of biocatalysis to sustainable chemical manufacturing. Their skills will be developed through a joint research programme at leading national CoE’s (Centre of Excellence) with research projects identified by internationally leading Principal Investigators in this field. There is an urgent need for these scientists to support the KBBE (Knowledge Based B",{"id":91,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":92,"piName":10,"institution":93,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":94,"abstract":95},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238802","Integrated Interventional Imaging Operating System","UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE","€3,712,345","The scope of the present consortium is to provide technology and training for the integration of ultrasound and biophotonics based imaging with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to define the specs of an Integrated Interventional Imaging Operating System (III OS) aimed at minimal invasive treatment of common life-threatening disorders, e.g., cancer, cardiovascular disease and structural heart defects. Effective therapy of these cond",{"id":97,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":98,"piName":10,"institution":99,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":100,"abstract":101},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238278","Prostate Research Organizations-Network of Early Stage Training","ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM","€5,179,226","New and recent developments have revolutionized the prostate cancer research and clinical arenas, requiring the next generation scientists to have comprehensive knowledge and expertise in basic, clinical and applied research. PRO-NEST offers young researchers a European integrated, multi-disciplinary training programme to become an independent and all-round scientist and team leader in (prostate) cancer research. This network is driven by recognised and experienced scientists from 17 academic an",{"id":103,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":104,"piName":10,"institution":105,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":106,"abstract":107},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238700","Hybrid Models for Tailoring Nano-Architectures of polymers","FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN","€2,702,706","The large scale production of commodity polymers is increasingly shifting overseas. Europe still plays a major role in polymer processing and product development, but the competition with the US and Asia requires distinctive efforts to sustain this leadership. Thus, it is decisive for European researchers and companies to design innovative, specialised commodities and optimise current production strategies. NANOPOLY’s main scientific objective is to further create, exchange and spread-out such k",{"id":109,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":110,"piName":10,"institution":111,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":112,"abstract":113},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-235649","Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Entry of Enveloped Viruses","HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN","€3,844,983","Virus infections are a major cause of diseases and death among men and animals. The recent outbreak of SARS and the danger that an avian influenza virus may become pandemic, have clearly shown that members of any virus family can potentially turn into a pathogen. To combat virus infection and propagation, systematic and comprehensive studies both on viral components mediating virus-cell interactions, and on the cell biology behind virus entry are necessary. Our network, teaming academic and indu",{"id":115,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":116,"piName":10,"institution":31,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":117},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238007","Quantitative Estimation of Earth's Seismic Sources and Structure","Storing CO2 in the subsurface to reduce global warming, finding hydrocarbon and other resources and monitoring their extraction, generating energy with Earth’s internal heat, and forecasting natural hazards (earthquake-induced ground motion, volcanic eruptions) requires high-resolution tomographic images of the Earth’s interior. The main goal of QUEST is research and training in the development of strategies for automated seismic imaging using the increasing power of 3-D simulation technology. W",{"id":119,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":120,"piName":10,"institution":121,"country":83,"year":13,"amount":122,"abstract":123},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-215353","How does plate tectonics work: From crystal-scale processes to mantle convection with self-consistent plates","UNIVERSITE MONTPELLIER 2 SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES","€2,700,128","CRYSTAL2PLATE is a coherent training and career development platform for early stage and experienced scientists in Geodynamics. It involves 6 European research teams internationally recognized for their excellence in complementary fields of Earth Sciences, 2 high-technology SME, and 2  multinational companies in the oil and gas industry. It places emphasis in experience-based training through cross-disciplinary research projects that combine case studies in well-chosen target areas with new deve",{"id":125,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":126,"piName":10,"institution":127,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":128},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238690","SPINEFX: A University–Industry Network for the Training of High-quality Multidisciplinary Researchers to Deliver Enterprising, Cost-effective Surgical Solutions for Spinal Disease and Trauma","UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS","SPINEFX is an integrated ITN comprising academic, industrial and clinical partners that is designed to create exceptionally trained researchers with the key skills to deliver commercially significant, innovative solutions to the challenges posed by spinal disease and trauma, namely vertebral fracture. The significant economic and personal impact of these fractures can be gleaned from the fact that in osteoporosis 1 in 3 women will suffer one. Added to this is the high cost of vertebral fractures",{"id":130,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":131,"piName":10,"institution":132,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":133,"abstract":134},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238363","Marie Curie Initial Training Network for the tailored supply-chain development of the mechanical and electrical properties of CNT-filled composites","FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV","€3,477,181","The EU is currently directing intensive research efforts into nanotechnology. Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs), with the electrical conductivity of copper and an E-modulus 10 times greater than steel, are one of the most promising developments, enabling the creation of materials with revolutionary characteristics. The commercial potential is huge, but only a fraction of the possible applications have reached the market. Collaboration is needed between academia and industry, so that processes developed on",{"id":136,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":137,"piName":10,"institution":138,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":139,"abstract":140},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238186","Joint training and research on Hedhehog-Gli signalling and its pharmacological modulation for regenerative medicine","UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE","€3,733,564","Debilitating degenerative diseases such as non-healing wounds and neurodegeneration do not yet have a cure. They represent a huge unmet medical need worldwide, especially in the aging European population. To reduce the incidence and improve recovery from such ephitelial diseases there is an major need to understand molecular signaling in order to promote stem cell behavior and enhance regeneration and healing. The key objectives of the HEALING network are 1) to train researchers in the fields of",{"id":142,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":143,"piName":10,"institution":144,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":145,"abstract":146},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238490","Scientific Training in Antimicrobial Research Strategies","WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY","€2,081,294","Researchers who aspire to work in drug discovery need to adapt to constantly changing technology and be able to harness new tools both to ask and to answer pertinent scientific questions. Structural biology was going to rationalize drug design. Next, combinatorial chemistry was to be the industrial panacea, only to be superseded by high-throughput screening of chemical libraries. Technologies such as molecular cell biology, in silico modelling, genetic engineering and NMR, are now also part of a",{"id":148,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":149,"piName":10,"institution":43,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":150},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-237984","Risk Management and Risk Reporting","The financial markets turbulence in recent months serves to highlight the key roles of risk management and risk reporting in both private and public sectors. The rapid innovations of financial structured products and the difficulty in valuing and reporting them present a huge challenge to both investors and risk regulators. The developments of Basel II and Insolvency II regulatory frameworks have been seen as less than effective response to this increasing complex financial problem. The proposed",{"id":152,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":153,"piName":10,"institution":154,"country":155,"year":13,"amount":156,"abstract":157},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238242","Chromatin diseases: from basic mechanisms to therapy","CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE","IT","€2,574,827","The scope of this ITN is to promote research and training in the field of chromatin diseases. Chromatin diseases (CD) are genetic pathologies resulting from mutations in structural components of chromatin or in enzymes that biochemically modify chromatin, altering chromatin status and thereby causing drastic effects on gene expression. CD frequency ranges from very rare to quite common pathologies; so far for the vast majority of them no treatment is as yet available. Molecular studies on these ",{"id":159,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":160,"piName":10,"institution":161,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":162,"abstract":163},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-235065","ROBOTics for Development Of Cognition","UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH","€3,492,830","The ROBOT-DOC proposal aims at the establishment of a multi-national doctoral training network for the interdisciplinary training on developmental cognitive robotics. Developmental robotics is a novel approach to the design of robots that takes direct inspiration from the developmental mechanisms studied in children by psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists. The Fellows will develop advanced expertise of domain-specific robotics research skills and of complementary transferable skills for c",{"id":165,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":166,"piName":10,"institution":167,"country":155,"year":13,"amount":168,"abstract":169},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-215761","NOTCH SIGNALING IN DEVELOPMENT AND PATHOLOGY","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA","€3,460,000","Eight partners from six different EU countries will converge in NotchIT, a multi-site ITN aimed to increase the knowledge of cellular and molecular mechanisms by which Notch signaling regulates the development and pathology of different tissues. Notch signaling plays a key role in cell-fate determination and differentiation of various cell types and aberrant Notch signaling is associated with pathogenesis of different human diseases, including cancer. NotchIT integrates the research and training",{"id":171,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":172,"piName":10,"institution":173,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":174,"abstract":175},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238821","Biology of Liver and Pancreatic Development and Disease","THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM","€3,719,150","Aims: provide a cutting edge research training programme encompassing complementary approaches to the investigation of liver and pancreatic development and disease. Provide early stage researchers with a balanced mix of experience and skills in academic and industry based research. Give early stage researchers a set of transferrable skills which will improve their employment and career prospects. Objectives: 1) To provide a broad multi-disciplinary approach to liver and pancreatic development an",{"id":177,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":178,"piName":10,"institution":179,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":180,"abstract":181},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238562","Developing Genetic Tools to Mitigate the Environmental Impact of Dairy Systems","STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH","€2,173,481","The EU25 produce approximately 132 million tonnes of milk from 24.3 million cows on 1.76 million farm holdings. Ruminant animals account for up to 20% of the world methane production with the EU25 dairy population producing approximately 3.2 million tonnes of methane (CH4) per year. Many EU countries have specific and binding commitments relating to the reduction of GHG emissions, and all sectors of the economy are coming under increasing scrutiny in relation to their share in the overall emissi",{"id":183,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":184,"piName":10,"institution":185,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":186},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238409","European Research Training Network of “New Materials: Innovative Concepts for their Fabrication, Integration and Characterization”","RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM","The multi-site European initial training network – “ENHANCE” – “New Materials: Innovative Concepts for their Fabrication, Integration and Characterization” will be established to deal with the mid and long term issues of concern to the European industry encompassing the whole spectrum of functional materials for microelectronics, nano-electronics, data storage, photovoltaic, with emphasis on emerging nano-technologies. This network consisting of 3 academic groups from chemistry 1 from physics, 3",{"id":188,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":189,"piName":10,"institution":190,"country":191,"year":13,"amount":192,"abstract":193},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238405","Common Language Resources and their Applications","UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN","NO","€3,613,919","CLARA will train a new generation of linguistic experts who will be able to cooperate across national boundaries on the establishment of a common language resources infrastructure and its exploitation for the construction of the next generation of language models with wide theoretical and applied significance. The scientific objectives of the CLARA research context are twofold: 1. to develop the next generation of data-intensive language models and applications by integrating approaches across l",{"id":195,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":196,"piName":10,"institution":197,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":198,"abstract":199},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238678","Sustainable Hydrogen Generation","UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE","€1,736,940","Water arguably is the only true renewable source of hydrogen fuel. However extraction of the hydrogen requires significant energy input; either thermal, electrical or light. By utilizing a renewable electrical energy source, water electrolysis offers a practical route to sustainable hydrogen production. The coupling of electrolysis with renewable electrical energy (e.g. from wind) enables the full available energy to be stored as fuel (hydrogen) when there is low electrical energy demand. In add",{"id":201,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":202,"piName":10,"institution":203,"country":204,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":205},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-213592","Carbohydrate Multivalent Systems as tools to study Pathogen interaction with DC-SIGN","AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS","ES","The importance of glycosciences in the development of biology and medicine and the central role played by chemistry in this process have recently been pointed out by ESF. However, it appears that exposure of young scientists in their training phase to the chemical biology of carbohydrates is still lacking. This multidisciplinary project intends to approach the design and synthesis of carbohydrate multivalent systems to be used as tools to study the interaction between carbohydrates and DC-SIGN (",{"id":207,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":208,"piName":10,"institution":209,"country":83,"year":13,"amount":210,"abstract":211},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-237252","Spin effects for quantum optoelectronics","UNIVERSITE BLAISE PASCAL CLERMONT-FERRAND II","€3,280,068","We propose to join the forces of ten leading European teams in order to achieve a critical mass in the new research field of Spin-Optronics, a vast novel research area at the crossroads of fundamental physics of quantum-mechanical spin, optoelectronics and nanotechnology, and establish the European leadership in this area on a world-wide scale. All three main directions of the Network research activities – growth and technology, spectroscopy and theory - will be concentrated on novel spin and li",{"id":213,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":214,"piName":10,"institution":215,"country":83,"year":13,"amount":216,"abstract":217},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238157","Europe, Brain and Music: New perspectives for stimulating cognitive and sensory processes","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS","€2,341,796","EBRAMUS investigates an attractive, promising new research avenue at the intersection of neuroscience, the human sciences and new technologies: can music boost sensory, cognitive and motor development in normal and impaired children and adults? The project will assess this issue in an integrative way by combining behavioural, neurophysiological, neuropsychological and computational methods. Three research topics will cover both basic and clinical research using music in the rehabilitation of var",{"id":219,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":220,"piName":10,"institution":221,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":222,"abstract":223},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-214919","MULTI-SCALE COMPLEX FLUID FLOWS and INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA","LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY","€6,205,912","Understanding and controlling of interfacial phenomena in multiphase fluid dynamics remains one of the main challenges at the crossroad of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Engineering. Examples include film flows, spreading and dewetting of (complex) liquids including suspensions, polymer solutions, liquid crystals, colloids and biofluids. Such systems are central for technological advances in the chemical, pharmaceutical, environmental and food industries and are crucial for the development ",{"id":225,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":226,"piName":10,"institution":173,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":227,"abstract":228},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238665","Neuroendocrine Immune Networks in Ageing","€3,034,226","Current demographic trends indicate that by the year 2020 almost 1 in 5 of the European population will be aged over 65. However, although life expectancy is increasing in the developed world, the period of good health enjoyed by its people is not keeping pace. The ageing population is thus a major health and economic issue for Europe. Although ageing is a complex process, we know much about its actions at the cellular and tissue level. In contrast, our understanding of how the various age-relat",{"id":230,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":231,"piName":10,"institution":127,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":232},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238381","From Mathematical Logic To Applications","Mathematical logic is a rapidly-developing subject with sophisticated techniques and many applications in algebra, geometry, number theory, analysis, and computer science. Even though the branches of logic share vital concepts and techniques, in recent years increased specialism has meant that most researchers are trained in just one branch of logic, and there is a need in Europe for researchers who have an overview of techniques from logic. To meet this need, this project will provide a broad t",{"id":234,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":235,"piName":10,"institution":236,"country":155,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":237},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-235114","Exciton-polaritons in microcavities: physics and devices","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA","The discovery of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of exciton-polaritons in 2006 and the demonstration of room-temperature polariton lasing in 2007 have opened the way to realisation of a new generation of optoelectronic devices referred to as polariton devices. The research on exciton-polaritons and polaritonics allows the quantum effects of superfluidity, entanglement, squeezing of light to be brought to the everyday life and used in new light sources, optical switches, modulators and memory el",{"id":239,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":240,"piName":10,"institution":241,"country":242,"year":13,"amount":243,"abstract":244},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-237962","Novel multifunctional cyclodextrin-based nanocarriers for drug encapsulation and delivery as a strategy to overcome current therapeutic drawbacks","NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH DEMOKRITOS\"","EL","€2,415,547","There is a high demand for the development of new drug delivery strategies to combat major diseases in our society, particularly cancer. Current treatments are based on high efficacy drugs, however their non-selective uptake by both normal and tumor cells as well as the development of multidrug resistance (MDR), constitute major hurdles. Resistance is also associated with the use of nucleoside analogues as anticancer drugs in vivo. Photodynamic therapy (PDT), aims at selectively killing neoplast",{"id":246,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":247,"piName":10,"institution":248,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":249},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-237868","International sensor development network","NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL","This ITN project will train young investigators to enable them make significant advances in the field of in situ sensor technology. It will bring together 15 research groups and 2 industrial partners from across the European Union. The ITN will provide training for 16 PhD students, early stage researchers (ESRs) and 1 Postdoctoral student, experienced researcher (ER). The programme will combine the strengths of the leading marine and engineering research groups in the EU, and through a structure",{"id":251,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":252,"piName":10,"institution":253,"country":254,"year":13,"amount":255,"abstract":256},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238296","Training in Research, Product Developement, Marketing and Sales in Biobusiness","KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN","BE","€2,468,200","The combination of new technology with biology offers high opportunities for EU in terms of realising and implementing directives in different applications as well as economic terms. The main problem however is that people educated in biology are not aware of the possibilities of modern technology. At the same time technical people developing technology are not participating to the world of bio-processes. The objective is to train biologically educated people to collaborate with technology drive",{"id":258,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":259,"piName":10,"institution":260,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":261,"abstract":262},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238132","Priorities and Standards in Pharmacogenomic Research: Opportunities for a Safer and More Efficient Pharmacotherapy","ROBERT BOSCH GESELLSCHAFT FUR MEDIZINISCHE FORSCHUNG MBH","€3,187,750","Pharmacogenomics is the scientific discipline that relates inter-individual variation in drug response to genetic variation. While there have been major advances in basic genomic knowledge and genotyping technologies, translation into clinical practice has been slow. It is essential we quicken the pace of translational research in pharmacogenomics - at present, we cannot define which patients are going to respond to drugs, and which patients are going to develop adverse drug reactions. In this I",{"id":264,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":265,"piName":10,"institution":215,"country":83,"year":13,"amount":266,"abstract":267},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238579","Initial training network on biocorrosion","€3,249,870","Any material in contact with water or moisture during its life-cycle is rapidly colonised by microbial species which can be the source of severe deterioration processes, such as microbially influenced corrosion (MIC), also called biocorrosion. The annual direct and derived costs of corrosion are estimated to be around 4% of the GNP of developed countries, of which 10-20% are related to biocorrosion. Today the main treatment against biocorrosion is the massive application of biocides that lead to",{"id":269,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":270,"piName":10,"institution":271,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":272},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238356","Pan-European training in computational cosmology: modelling cosmic structures","UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM","European scientists lead the world in the modelling of the formation of cosmic structures using computer simulations. The objective of the CosmoComp proposal is to reinforce Europe's world standing in this field by training the next generation of computational cosmologists. CosmoComp builds on and extends existing research collaborations between major European centres, and has a global element with links to Latin America and the Far East. New training capacity will be developed through the netwo",{"id":274,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":275,"piName":10,"institution":276,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":277,"abstract":278},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238017","Control of Light Use Efficiency in Plants and Algae - From Light to Harvest","STICHTING VU","€4,683,560","Photoprotection against excess absorbed light energy is an essential and universal attribute of oxygenic photosynthetic organisms. This requirement has been a strong force in the evolution of plants and micro-organisms, and a diverse range of solutions have arisen. It has determined survival, productivity and habitat preference, and it determines the ceiling on the efficiency of energy conversion in photosynthesis in natural environment. Its investigation also provides insights into unique nanos",{"id":280,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":281,"piName":10,"institution":282,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":283,"abstract":284},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238084","Enzyme technology for Lean and Green food processing","KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET","€3,427,528","Plant material, including industrial vastes from grain production and the juice and vegetable oil industry, is a rich source for valuable functional ingredients for processed foods. Processing of relevant agricultural vaste and product refinery needs, however, rethinking, as it often depends on use of chemical reagents of environmental concern and of harsh reaction conditions with high energy demands. Large requirement of process water adds further to the environmental load. The LeanGreenFood In",{"id":286,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":287,"piName":10,"institution":127,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":288},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-214627","DYNamics of Architecturally COmplex Polymers","The scientific objective of DYNACOP is to obtain a fundamental understanding of the flow behaviour and the dynamics of blends of topologically complex macromolecular fluids and their role in processing and properties of blends.  These materials exhibit complex dynamics and rheology and, in many cases, show hierarchical relaxation over many different timescales.  This in turn affects the processing and properties of the final materials.  In order to rationally design appropriate materials and pro",{"id":290,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":291,"piName":10,"institution":292,"country":204,"year":13,"amount":293,"abstract":294},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238576","Wind Resource Assessment Audit and Standardization","FUNDACION CENER","€3,984,000","The objective of WAUDIT is the generation of a pool of researchers, in the field of wind resource assessment, in order to support the technological development of wind energy as one of the fastest growing industries worldwide (annual increase rate of 20%). The scientific motivation of the project is grounded on current state-of-the-art at industrial level. A technical audit to industry provides the point of departure for the development of new levels of standardization on added value wind assess",{"id":296,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":297,"piName":10,"institution":298,"country":299,"year":13,"amount":300,"abstract":301},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238325","Training future mechanical, civil, electrionic engineers and computer scientists in SYStem Identification, Condition & Health Monitoring for a New Generation of WIND Turbines","THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN","IE","€3,026,568","Growth in the European wind energy market has led to the manufacture of larger turbines (~ 7.5 MW). There are several challenges associated with these turbines, particularly offshore, e.g., vibrations\u002F damage of the flexible blades, mechanical drives\u002Felectric converters. These raise maintenance concerns and result in operational downtime, impacting on power systems and supply reliability. For these reasons there have been huge R&D investments creating the requirement for highly trained manpower ",{"id":303,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":304,"piName":10,"institution":305,"country":10,"year":13,"amount":306,"abstract":307},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238113","Medical Devices Design in Cardiovascular Applications","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON","€2,903,444","We propose an innovative, multi-disciplinary and multi-centre Marie Curie Initial Training Network; “MeDDiCA” (Medical Devices Design in Cardiovascular Applications) focused on Cardiovascular Engineering and Medical Devices. MeDDiCA Early Stage Researchers will build a career in cardiovascular engineering founded on both “skills for life” (communication skills, research and project management, IP, patenting, entrepreneurship, etc.) and “academic and technical skills”. The ultimate aim of MeDDiCA",{"id":309,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":310,"piName":10,"institution":311,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":312},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-237900","Hybrid organic-inorganic nanostructures for photonics and optoelectronics","THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD","The proposed ITN will support close collaboration between 8 highly experienced and complementary European teams, who in all cases are working at the forefront of semiconductor science, photonics and materials technology. The real value that is offered by our collaboration will be realized by the generation of new, genuinely disruptive hybrid-semiconductor optoelectronic technologies. It will also train the next generation of scientists at the highest level, producing a skilled cadre of researche",{"id":314,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":315,"piName":10,"institution":316,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":317},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238362","Ultrafast Dynamics using ATTosecond and XUV Free Electron Laser Sources","FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN EV","Worldwide there is great excitement about two new ultrafast XUV\u002Fx-ray sources that are presently coming available. Attosecond XUV pulses by high-harmonic generation (HHG) will now allow for the first time to “make movies” of ultrafast electron motion, and thereby to investigate photo-chemical processes beyond the Born-Oppenheimer limit. At the same time, XUV\u002Fx-ray Free Electron Lasers (FELs) based on self-amplification of spontaneous emission (SASE) of relativistic electrons moving through an un",{"id":319,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":320,"piName":10,"institution":321,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":322},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238273","Advanced Technologies for Water Resource Management","THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST","Technology gaps exist within the EU that prohibit compliance with the Water Framework Directive in providing an integrated water resource management strategy that will secure both water quality and quantity. The fundamental objective of the ATWARM ITN is to enhance the career prospects of 16 young researchers by providing them with greatly enhanced multidisciplinary skills and business aptitudes that will enable them to address these technology gaps. The two scientific objectives of the ATWARM p",{"id":324,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":325,"piName":10,"institution":326,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":327,"abstract":328},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238710","European Research Training in Monte Carlo based Innovative Management and Processing for an Unrivalled Leap in Sensor Exploitation","THALES NEDERLAND BV","€3,315,000","Sensor technology has become ubiquitous in almost every area of our daily life. Its application has the potential to significantly improve our quality of life, for example through systems for independent living (ambient assisted living) or accident prevention in traffic. The MC IMPULSE consortium has identified sensor data processing as a key technological area where Europe can make a difference. Additional investment in research and technological development, training of researchers and network",{"id":330,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":331,"piName":10,"institution":332,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":333,"abstract":334},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-237955","Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States - Initial Training Network (FACETS-ITN)","RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG","€4,677,779","FACETS-ITN is a research and training network involving partners from 11 universities and research centres, 3 industrial companies and 1 semi-industrial research centre from 6 European countries. It combines competencies in neurobiology, computational neuroscience, information science, physics and electrical engineering. The scientific goal is to experimentally and theoretically explore the structure and the computational principles of biological neural circuits using in-vitro and in-vivo neurob",{"id":336,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":337,"piName":10,"institution":338,"country":242,"year":13,"amount":339,"abstract":340},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238013","Multiscale Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Systems","ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS","€4,311,643","The MULTIMOD Training Network will have duration of 48 months and will bring together 8 academic research groups with 5 industrial partners from 8 European countries to undertake innovative research and scientific research training in “Multi-Scale Computational Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Systems”. The network will provide unique cross- and multi-disciplinary training opportunities for 19 ESRs (each for 3 years) with background in chemistry, chemical engineering, physics, biology and ap",{"id":342,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":343,"piName":10,"institution":344,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":345},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238148","Mechanistic Effect Models for the Ecological Risk Assessment of Chemicals","HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR UMWELTFORSCHUNG GMBH - UFZ","There is widespread concern about how production and use of chemicals affect the environment. Yet food production and benefits of chemical products are vital for the functioning of European societies. In order to ensure sustainable use, EU regulations require extensive risk assessment before a chemical is approved for use. Current risk assessments focus on risk at the level of individual organisms, but according to EU directives the protection goal aims at achieving sustainable populations. Popu",{"id":347,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":348,"piName":10,"institution":69,"country":70,"year":13,"amount":349,"abstract":350},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-234810","Physics of Complex Colloids: Equilibrium and Driven","€4,714,765","With progress in nanotechnology, biophysics, and polymer synthesis, colloidal science has reached a new level of importance. A large variety of complex colloids of different shapes, with binding specificity, and variable softness has been synthesized, opening quite exciting ways for engineering materials at the nanoscale. The purpose of COMPLOIDS is to obtain a fundamental understanding of the Physics governing the self-organization and the dynamical behavior of complex colloidal particles in th",{"id":352,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":353,"piName":10,"institution":354,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":355,"abstract":356},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238607","Training Network in Electoral Democracy","THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER","€3,324,246","This Initial Training Network in electoral democracy will bring together 11 expert teams from 9 European countries, including 1 from an associated country and 2 new Member States and 2 full industry partners. The goals of the ELECDEM network are encapsulated in three linked, inter-dependent themes which evaluate the effects of globalisation, communication and institutions on the quality of electoral democracy. Our proposed training network seeks to provide the substantive and methodological skil",{"id":358,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":359,"piName":10,"institution":360,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":361},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238475","Low-dimensional quantum magnets for thermal management","LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FUR FESTKORPER UND WERKSTOFFORSCHUNG DRESDEN EV","Thermal management in innovative technology is a major problem to be solved, especially in novel electronic devices, such as further miniaturized microchips, hard disks and interfaces between biological structures (e.g. nerve cells) and semiconductor microstructures. In this Initial Training Network (ITN) we will train young researchers through an experimental\u002Ftechnological and theoretical approach to the application of a new highly efficient magnetic mode of thermal conduction for thermal manag",{"id":363,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":364,"piName":10,"institution":365,"country":83,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":366},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238177","SUPramolEculaR functional nanoscale archItectures for Organic electronics: a host-driven network","UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG","SUPERIOR aims at providing top-quality cross-disciplinary and supra-sectoral training to a pool of promising young researchers, in an area at the interface between Supramolecular Chemistry, Materials- and Nano-Science, Physics and Electrical Engineering. SUPERIOR appointees will be formally trained in lecture courses, dedicated schools and workshops, and through an ambitious and carefully planned research activity that benefits both from the expertise of world-leading senior investigators and of",{"id":368,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":369,"piName":10,"institution":370,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":371,"abstract":372},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238671","Imaging and CONtrol In Chemistry - ICONIC","STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT","€4,088,474","Velocity map imaging (VMI) has enabled a number of remarkable advances in the field of molecular dynamics over the past few years. Owing to the robustness of VMI, exciting new applications are anticipated. ICONIC will link 15 European partners using and improving VMI in a four year program spanning several areas of experimental physics and chemistry and underpinning technologies in lasers, imaging detectors, high-speed electronics and mass spectrometric methods. We will pursue the following scie",{"id":374,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":375,"piName":10,"institution":370,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":376,"abstract":377},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238551","Training Multidisciplinary scientists for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine","€2,879,487","MultiTERM is a training network providing multidisciplinary training for 13 early stage scientists in 5 host institutes that will deliver a number of excellently trained, highly employable scientists for companies and academia in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (TERM). The aging population of the EU requires the development of new treatment strategies for diseased, defective, or damaged tissues. Since donor material is often not available, artificial tissue needs to be ",{"id":379,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":380,"piName":10,"institution":381,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":382},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-213850","Speech Communication with Adaptive Learning","UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES","All aspects of speech processing are rapidly growing in commercial importance. A leading market analyst reports 129.8 million USD were generated by speech products in North America in 2004, but predicts these revenues will increase to nearly one billion USD by 2011. In order to accelerate the rate of advance in speech technology, a new elite of researchers are required who are well-versed in all aspects of speech processing, as opposed to the narrowly-concentrated specialists who are currently t",{"id":384,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":385,"piName":10,"institution":365,"country":83,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":386},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238434","Bio-Orthogonal Chemo-Specific Ligation","The Post-genomic era calls for a deep understanding of protein structure and function. The elucidation of protein structures, localization, post-translation modifications, and protein-macromolecule interactions are important to establish their role in the biology of the cell. To establish their role and investigate the protein functions requires the integration of various complementary disciplines. Among all disciplines, chemistry is central in establishing new effective ways to manipulate a bio",{"id":388,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":389,"piName":10,"institution":390,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":391},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238577","PARticle Systems: Training on DEM simulation for industrial and scientific applications","THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH","The overarching aim of the PARDEM project is to provide high quality training to a group of young researchers to work within and to further develop the multidisciplinary field of DEM computational simulation of granular processes. Granular materials are estimated to constitute over 75% of all raw material feedstock to industry. They also present many challenges for innovation and fundamental science to solve problems in areas as diverse as natural disasters and industrial material handling which",{"id":393,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":394,"piName":10,"institution":395,"country":204,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":396},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238819","Medical Imaging Using Bio-inspired and Soft Computing","FUNDACION PARA EL PROGRESO DEL SOFT COMPUTING","Medical imaging (MI) is at the heart of many of today’s improved diagnostic and treatment technologies. Computer-based solutions are vastly more capable of both quantitative measurement of the medical condition and the pre-processing tasks of filtering, sharpening, and focusing image detail. Bio-inspired and Soft Computing (BC, SC) techniques have been successfully applied in each of the fundamental steps of medical image processing and analysis (e.g. restoration, segmentation, registration or t",{"id":398,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":399,"piName":10,"institution":400,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":401},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238514","Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts Vernacular Literature and Learning in the Rhineland and the Low Countries (ca. 1300-1550)","UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN","Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts is a joint PhD programme (2009-2013) that studies the medieval transmission of learning from the ecclesiastical and academic elites of the professional intellectuals to the wider readership that could be reached through the vernacular. The programme focuses on the medieval dynamics of intellectual life in the Rhineland and the Low Countries, nowadays divided over five countries (Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands) but one cultura",{"id":403,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":404,"piName":10,"institution":405,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":406,"abstract":407},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238291","Membrane Enhanced Tide Synthesis - A New Paradigm Peptide \u002F Oligonucleotide Synthesis Technology","IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE","€2,329,000","The MemTide Initial Training Network will create a new generation of synthesis technologies for peptide and oligonucleotide (“tide”) manufacture, with focus on the use of emerging membrane technology to effect critical separations. New nanofiltration membranes with improved chemical stability, and closely controlled molecular discrimination properties, will be developed. Novel synthesis strategies for tides, which utilise membranes for key separations will be created. MemTide will consider both ",{"id":409,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":410,"piName":10,"institution":411,"country":412,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":413},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238726","Smart Management for Sustainable Human Environment","TECHNOLOGIKO PANEPISTIMIO KYPROU","CY","There are increasing concerns regarding the environmental impact of human actions, the use of the environment and climate changes. These are coupled with ageing infrastructure systems, continuously growing and changing demands on the built and natural environments as well as limited financial and depleting natural resources. Until now, research has been focused on the development of proactive risk-based approaches for civil infrastructure reliability and management with benefits in improved perf",{"id":415,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":416,"piName":10,"institution":417,"country":242,"year":13,"amount":418,"abstract":419},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-214902","Integrated approaches to study gene regulation during cellular differentiation","EREVNITIKO KENTRO VIOIATRIKON EPISTIMON ALEXANDROS FLEMINGK","€2,300,000","Cellular differentiation from stem cells to fully functional mature cells is a multi step process executed by complex transcription programs. Once differentiated, cells must faithfully maintain their identity through cellular memory mechanisms. The utilisation of genetic information stored in linear DNA sequence occurs within the three dimensional context of chromatin, chromosomes and the nucleus, all of which contribute to gene regulation mechanisms. The main aim of this ITN is to get a compreh",{"id":421,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":422,"piName":10,"institution":305,"country":10,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":423},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238214","Cerebellar-Cortical Control: Cells, Circuits, Computation, and Clinic","A functional understanding of the cerebellum, the structure of the human brain with the most neurons, requires the combined effort of scientists working from the cellular level up to the behavioural level, and it requires scientists trained to cross these levels. The C7 network brings together 9 research groups to form a European institute for the interdisciplinary study of the cerebellum. The network will provide a unique multi-disciplinary training experience for young researchers in systems n",{"id":425,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":426,"piName":10,"institution":427,"country":299,"year":13,"amount":428,"abstract":429},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238648","Training in European Asset Health Management","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN","€3,249,341","Transport demand, both for passengers and freight, is growing strongly. To meet the economic growth targets of the Lisbon Agenda and to facilitate the economic integration of the European Union, European transportation needs to cater for a continuing medium term growth in demand. However, transport growth using the technologies of today is unsustainable. New technologies and processes need to be developed which deliver cheap transport which is sustainable. In the past two decades there has been ",{"id":431,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":432,"piName":10,"institution":433,"country":242,"year":13,"amount":434,"abstract":435},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238639","TransForm: Theoretical Foundations of Transactional Memory","IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS","€2,030,302","Major chip manufacturers have shifted their focus from trying to speed up individual processors into putting several processors on the same chip. They are now talking about potentially doubling efficiency on a 2x core, quadrupling on a 4x core and so forth. Yet multicore is useless without concurrent programming. The constructors are now calling for a new software revolution: the concurrency revolution. This might look at first glance surprising for concurrency is almost as old as computing and ",{"id":437,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":438,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":439,"abstract":440},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238316","Academic-Industrial Training Network on Alpha-Synuclein-related Brain Diseases","€2,419,227","Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. It is characterized pathologically by the accumulation of aggregated conformations of the presynaptic protein alpha-synuclein (ASYN) in cytoplasmic inclusions termed Lewy Bodies (LBs). Furthermore, aberrant aggregated species of ASYN accumulate in various disease states, such as Multiple System Atrophy, Diffuse LB Disease, LB Variant of Alzheimer’s Disease and others, collectively termed synucleinopathies. Point mutat",{"id":442,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":443,"piName":10,"institution":31,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":444,"abstract":445},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238176","Nucleosome Structure & Function across Biological Scales and Biological Function","€4,609,511","Chromatin packages a few meters of DNA into a nucleus measuring a few microns. This tight folding occurs by assembling DNA with histones into so-called nucleosomes, thus ensuring the mechanical stability of our genome. On the flipside, this makes nucleosomes a formidable obstacle to the machines that read, copy or repair its DNA message. One of the fundamental questions in biology is to understand how nucleosome structure is established, maintained and manipulated. Our Marie Curie Initial Traini",{"id":447,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":448,"piName":10,"institution":449,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":450,"abstract":451},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-238808","SCALing by means of Ubiquitous Storage","UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN","€3,298,114","Storage research increasingly gains importance based on the tremendous need for storage capacity and I\u002FO performance. Over the past years, several trends have considerably changed the design of storage systems, starting from new storage media over the widespread use of storage area networks, up to grid and cloud storage concepts. Furthermore, to achieve cost efficiency, storage systems are increasingly assembled from commodity components. Thus, we are in the middle of an evolution towards a new ",{"id":453,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":454,"piName":10,"institution":455,"country":63,"year":13,"amount":456,"abstract":457},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-235711","Small Artery Remodelling","MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University","€3,096,503","Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the European population and represent a great burden of suffering and costs. Their complex etiology originates from different pathological stimuli and involves different cell types, resident in the vascular wall or infiltrating from the blood. 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