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Practical and theoret",{"id":16,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":17,"piName":10,"institution":18,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":20,"abstract":21},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-287382","Proton Ionization Molecular Mass Spectrometry","THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM","UK","€4,134,042","The need for quantitative and fast identification of trace gaseous compounds in complex chemical matrices continuously pushes the limits of analytical chemistry in many areas of relevance to the EU, including food, health, the environment, and security.  A relatively new broad-based and rapidly growing analytical technique, proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS), combines excellent chemical specification with ultra high detection sensitivity in real-time, but is only partially explo",{"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-289150","OSTEOIMMUNE - Unraveling the Interactions between the Immune System and Bone","UNIVERSITATSKLINIKUM JENA","DE","€3,227,975","Inflammatory rheumatic diseases affect millions of European citizens causing chronic pain, disability and premature death. Curative treatments are lacking. Conventional research often focuses on one single organ system such as the bone or the immune system and. ignores interactions between organ systems. OSTEOIMMUNE is a supra-disciplinary training network that targets this gap by providing comprehensive, structured and coherent training. The scientific training within OSTEOIMMUNE reflects the p",{"id":30,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":31,"piName":10,"institution":32,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":34},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-309395","new MAterials and REliability in offshore WINd Turbines technology","INSTYTUT MASZYN PRZEPLYWOWYCH IM ROBERTA SZEWALSKIEGO POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK - IMP PAN","PL","One of the strategic objectives of the industrial initiative of the SET Plan on wind energy is to reduce cost of energy by improving reliability of wind turbines and their components and optimizing operation and maintenance (O&M) strategies. Increasing reliability and optimizing O&M have a direct impact on the availability of wind turbines and thus reduce cost and increase energy output. This strategy considerably contributes to making wind energy fully competitive. This is particularly evident ",{"id":36,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":37,"piName":10,"institution":18,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":38},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290246","Rheumatoid Arthritis and Periodontal Inflammatory Disease (RAPID)","The most prevalent chronic inflammatory diseases of humans are complex disorders of multifactorial aetiology influenced by genes, the environment and their interactions. Periodontitis (PD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are two such chronic inflammatory diseases associated withsignificant morbidity and mortality, and have recently shown to have a bi-directional association. Moreover, the prevalence of both increases substantially with age, and given both the Europe-wide ageing population and the ",{"id":40,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":41,"piName":10,"institution":42,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":43,"abstract":44},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290002","ADenoViruses as novel clinical treatments","UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW","€3,861,450","ADVance  is designed to integrate 8 leading academic centres and 4 private companies under a single umbrella to create an opportunity to train young scientists in adenovirus (AdV) research. Our full partners and industrial partners represent internationally leading academic centres of excellence in key facets of research into the basic biology of AdV and their application as vectors for clinical protocols in cancer, cardiovascular disease and vaccination that is unique as a training opportunity.",{"id":46,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":47,"piName":10,"institution":48,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":49,"abstract":50},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317497","European Doctorate in Image Sensors with Optical Nanotechnology at Glasgow and Awaiba","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD","€1,467,957","Digital cameras designed with CMOS image sensors are one of the fastest growing sectors of the consumer electronics market. With increasing number of pixels and improving image quality, they have found applications in a range of systems from mobile handsets to space observatories. Despite this growth, they still suffer from limited dynamic range and poor colour discrimination abilities. Furthermore, increasing number of pixels have led to increasing power dissipation in these sensors. This proje",{"id":52,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":53,"piName":10,"institution":42,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":54,"abstract":55},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290080","A systematic analysis of parasite metabolism - from metabolism to intervention","€3,816,703","Parasites exact a devastating toll on health and economic productivity, infecting man and also domestic livestock.  Drugs used to combat parasitic diseases are deficient in many ways and new, better drugs are needed to establish sustainable means to combat diseases caused by protozoan parasites that include malaria, trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis in man, and coccidiosis among others in animals.  This ITN will train a new generation of European scientists in the requisites of preclinical drug ",{"id":57,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":58,"piName":10,"institution":59,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":60,"abstract":61},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290201","Reconstructing Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange during the Miocene","UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL","€2,692,902","MEDGATE combines the expertise of 29 geoscientists from both the oil industry and academia in the training of 10 researchers.  It aims to equip these researchers for successful careers in either sector through interdisciplinary projects focussing on an intriguing problem which has implications for both environmental change and hydrocarbon exploration.  The research aim of MEDGATE is to reconstruct the evolution of the marine corridors that linked the Atlantic and Mediterranean prior to the forma",{"id":63,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":64,"piName":10,"institution":65,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":67},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317371","Manipulating folding, assembly and disassembly of protein complexes - from molecule to disease","UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT","NL","ManiFold is organised by researchers and teachers of the Bijvoet Graduate School for Biomolecular Sciences to achieve 3 key aims: (i) Moving the Bijvoet towards a Graduate School with annual rhythm and specific recruitment moments. (ii) Centering the research around focus areas to stimulate synergies. (iii) Strengthening the links of the School to private enterprises and international partners. ManiFold aims to extend its impact to the entire Bijvoet School by creating a coherent group of select",{"id":69,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":70,"piName":10,"institution":71,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":72},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316906","European Network on Luminescent Materials","UNIWERSYTET WROCLAWSKI","Luminescent materials have entered our every day life. They can be found in lamps, traffic lights, computer screens, cell phones, in labels for goods, are used in medical applications, airport security check devices and many more. Indeed, they have become indispensable and much of societies convenience and welfare depend on them. No wonder that the development and use of luminescent materials has truly exploded in the past decade stimulated by the challenging requirements of technological applic",{"id":74,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":75,"piName":10,"institution":76,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":77,"abstract":78},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316690","Training network for developing innovative (bio)artificial devices for treatment of kidney and liver disease","UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE","€3,792,616","Renal and liver diseases are global public health problems, with the incidences of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and end-stage liver disease (ESLD) rising annually. Due to the lack of donor kidneys, most of ESRD patients depend on dialysis treatment using either an artificial kidney or the peritoneal membrane. Both modes are inefficient in removing uremic waste molecules and inadequately remove excess body fluids, potassium and phosphate contributing significantly to severe patient health probl",{"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-316978","Interdisciplinary training network for Tourette Syndrome; structuring European Training capacities for neurodevelopmental disorders","DIMOKRITIO PANEPISTIMIO THRAKIS","EL","There is a striking lack in structured and standardized training infrastructure for neurodevelopmental disorders across Europe. Such training will be fundamental to promoting standards of care across Europe and will ultimately lead to strategies for the promotion of childhood mental health in Europe. The focus of this Initial Training Network (ITN) is Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (TS), an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder that provides an excellent paradigm for the study and training needs f",{"id":86,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":87,"piName":10,"institution":88,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":89},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289278","Sphingolipid homeostasis: from basic biology to applications","UNIVERSITAET OSNABRUECK","SPHINGONET was inspired by a common vision of its partners on the training of researchers in the field of sphingolipid homeostasis and body-wide sphingolipid signaling networks using innovative technological approaches. Dysregulation of sphingolipid balances contributes to a broad range of pathological processes, spanning neurodegeneration, asthma, autoimmune disease, insuline resistance, obesity and cancer progression. Key to defining proper sites for therapeutic intervention is a comprehensive",{"id":91,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":92,"piName":10,"institution":93,"country":94,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":95},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317488","Collaborative Network for Training in Electronic Skin Technology","FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER","IT","Future electronic systems will be bendable and conformable. They will be wearable, disposable, and ubiquitous. CONTEST will train young researchers in the fast expanding field of flexible and large area electronics with emphasis on “wearable” devices.Training will be implemented through well-defined work packages covering critical aspects of flexible electronics, converging towards an electronically-enhanced smart skin. Silicon and organic materials based solutions will be investigated, yielding",{"id":97,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":98,"piName":10,"institution":99,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":101},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316919","Education in advanced VR\u002FAR Safety Systems for Maintenance in Extreme Environments","ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE","CH","The Edusafe project is a 4-year ITN with 10 ESR and 2 ER researchers, which focuses on research into the use of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) during planned and emergency maintenance in extreme environments (nuclear installations, space, deep sea etc). The scientific objective of this project is research into advanced VR and AR technologies for a personnel safety system platform, including features, methods and tools. Current technology is not acceptable because of significant ",{"id":103,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":104,"piName":10,"institution":105,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":106},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316654","Thermo-acoustic and aero-acoustic nonlinearities in green combustors with orifice structures","UNIVERSITY OF KEELE ROYAL CHARTER","Combustion instabilities represent a serious problem for combustion-driven devices, such as gas turbine engines and domestic burners. These instabilities can cause intense pressure oscillations, which in turn causes excessive structural oscillations, fatigue and even catastrophic damage to combustor hardware. In recent years, the development of clean combustion systems with reduced pollution of the environment has become a priority",{"id":108,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":109,"piName":10,"institution":110,"country":94,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":111},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316832","TRAINING NETWORK ON ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS INTEGRATED WITH LIVING SYSTEMS FOR NEUROSCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS AND APPLICATIONS","CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE","OLIMPIA is a training network initiative built on research and development of innovative organic optoelectronic devices interfaced and integrated with living systems. The living systems of choice are neural cells (glia and neuron) that will be interfaced and integrated in vitro and in vivo with different organic electronic and optoelectronic devices (such as OLED, OFET\u002FOLET, OECT, OPD). The major objective of OLIMPIA is to establish an innovative training program aimed at enabling and supporting",{"id":113,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":114,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":116,"abstract":117},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316394","Aerospace Multidisciplinarity Enabling DEsign Optimisation","UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS","€3,621,872","AMEDEO is a multi-disciplinary design optimisation (MDO) research training network designed to provide outstanding leadership career development for talented young researchers. Network training incorporates advanced multi-disciplinary optimisation, high fidelity simulation tools and techniques for resolving complex engineering design problems in the aerospace industry. It is complemented by a comprehensive package of generic skills training and career-enhancing secondments throughout the network",{"id":119,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":120,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":121},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316657","Spin Currents","SPINICUR (from spin currents) is a training network of European experts dedicated to providing state-of-the-art education and training for early stage and experienced researchers.  We have concentrated on an aspect of spintronics – pure spin currents – and specific technical goals in order to secure a very high level of industrial involvement and strong network connectivity through a sharp focus.   The overarching objective of this network is to significantly enhance the employment prospects of ",{"id":123,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":124,"piName":10,"institution":125,"country":126,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":127},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290148","Software for the Use of Multi-Modality images in External Radiotherapy","AQUILAB BY COEXYA","FR","The greatest challenge for radiation therapy is to reach the highest probability of cure with the least morbidity. In practice, some difficulties remain to identify cancer cells, target them with radiation and minimize collateral damage. Over the last decades, remarkable progress has been made thanks to modern advances in computer and imaging technologies. Currently, the radiotherapy has reached a point where, besides 3D tumour morphology, time variations and biological variability within the tu",{"id":129,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":130,"piName":10,"institution":131,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":132},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317019","Molecular technology for nuclear imaging and radionuclide therapy","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT","Cancer is undoubtedly becoming the second largest cause of death in the EU. Future predictions are very somber expecting worldwide 17.5 million deaths and 27 million new cases annually by 2050. New innovative research and properly educated generation of young scientists in fields related to cancer prevention, diagnostics, treatment and management is the only way to ensure progress in solving this issue. The aim of this proposal is to provide starting researchers with the skills necessary to beco",{"id":134,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":135,"piName":10,"institution":131,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":136,"abstract":137},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316656","Soft Materials Advanced Research Training Network","€4,129,500","SMARTNET (“Soft materials advanced training network”) is an ITN at the interface of chemistry, physics, and biology, and deals with the science and technology of molecular soft materials. Soft matter (e.g. gels, emulsions, membranes) is of great societal and economic impact in fields such as food industry, cosmetics, oil extraction and increasingly in high value areas such as biomedicine and nanotechnology. Soft matter is formed when fluids are mixed with molecular additives, giving rise to mole",{"id":139,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":140,"piName":10,"institution":141,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":142,"abstract":143},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289923","Initial Training for Atmospheric Remote Sensing","UNIVERSITAT ZU KOLN","€3,693,644","This proposal brings together a group of universities, research organisations and high-tech companies from different disciplines (meteorology, geosciences, physics, electrical engineering, mathematics) with the aim to foster training and further development in the area of  remote sensing of the atmosphere. The last years have brought a rapid development in instrumental techniques, i.e. lidar, radar, radiometry, that have great potential to monitor atmospheric composition and dynamics in unpreced",{"id":145,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":146,"piName":10,"institution":147,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":148},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290308","Training Network for Self-Healing Materials: from Concepts to Market","FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV","The aim of the present Marie Curie project proposal is the development of self-healing materials, the market implementation for the most promising material concepts and developments as well as the training of young scientists and their knowledge transfer in mutual interaction programs due to the distinct interdisciplinary shape of the project.The partners intend to address both actual fundamental research in material development as well as the complementary aspects of conceptual process chain an",{"id":150,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":151,"piName":10,"institution":152,"country":153,"year":13,"amount":154,"abstract":155},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290251","Soft, Small, and Smart: Design, Assembly, and Dynamics of Novel Nanoparticles for Novel Industrial Applications","EOTVOS LORAND TUDOMANYEGYETEM","HU","€3,619,626","The proposed ITN (NanoS3) have assembled eight academic groups with complementary expertise in synthesis, modeling and characterization. They are joined by two full industrial partners active in the development of novel luminescent materials (LuminoChem), and in the home and personal care sectors (Procter and Gamble). Two associated partners will contribute to the work of our proposed network: BioTalentum is an SME in the field of stem-cell research and the Institute for Surface Chemistry (YKI) ",{"id":157,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":158,"piName":10,"institution":159,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":160,"abstract":161},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289581","NPlast - A neuroscience school that aims to preserve and restore neuroplasticity in brain disorders","LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER NEUROBIOLOGIE","€3,954,679","Brain disorders impose an increasing economical and social burden in the member states of the European Union (EU). For most neurodegenerative diseases and many neuropsychiatric disorders no efficient treatment is available and no cure exists. In the next coming years the number of particularly elderly people suffering from brain disorders will tremendously increase. Predictions from the turn of the century about the exponential increase of dementia patients turned out to be correct and Alzheimer",{"id":163,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":164,"piName":10,"institution":165,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":166},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316866","Soft Matter at Aqueous Interfaces","FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH","Soft nanotechnology is generally considered as a field that will have a major impact on technological developments in near future. However, the fundamental understanding of the wealth of new structures lacks far behind, despite supporting activity from material science. Such an understanding is indispensable for sustainable growth of this important research domain and its applications. A physics-oriented interdisciplinary education is urgently needed to guide young researchers to the point where",{"id":168,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":169,"piName":10,"institution":170,"country":171,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":172},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289995","Developing single cell technologies for systems biology","GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET","SE","Biological cells are entities with highly complex, non-linear control circuits. They can thus express intricate behavior, such as stochasticity-induced multistability, oscillations, responses at different time scales, hysteretic behavior, memory, etc. Biology is only about to start to investigate these phenomena, which all occur at single cell level and often result in phenotypic heterogeneity. It is required to experimentally probe single cells, as population-level analyses will mask most of th",{"id":174,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":175,"piName":10,"institution":176,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":177},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317348","Actuation and characterisation at the single bond limit","THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM","Scanning probe microscopy(SPM) has now evolved to the point where not only is imaging and manipulation with single atom resolution achievable but the state of the art in the field involves sub-molecular and sub-atomic resolution: individual chemical bonds can be resolved, their properties measured, and their spatial symmetry exploited.SPM is, however, increasingly a victim of its own success. The wide availability of commercial instruments means that the technique is now very commonly seen as a ",{"id":179,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":180,"piName":10,"institution":181,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":182,"abstract":183},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289795","Few Spin Solid-State Nano-systems","THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD","€4,000,024","This network brings together an exceptionally strong group of world leading experts in nano-science and technology in order to achieve breakthroughs in understanding and successful utilisation of nanoscale systems in future devices. The focus of the consortium is on few spin nano-systems in solid-state materials including III-V semiconductors and Carbon-based structures: carbon nano-tubes, graphene and diamonds. Such wide material base emphasizes the truly intersectoral character of this collabo",{"id":185,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":186,"piName":10,"institution":187,"country":94,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":188},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316647","Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization","ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA","Complex decision making in enterprises should involve mathematical optimization methods, because a “best choice” has to be made out of a huge number of feasible options. A mathematical description of such decision processes typically involves both “continuous” and “discrete” decisions. If the latter are present, the customary modelling approach is to use integer variables, which are also used to represent all possible nonlinearities, so that the remaining part of the model is linear. This leads ",{"id":190,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":191,"piName":10,"institution":192,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":193},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290248","Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles and their Application in Chemistry and Biomedicine","UNIVERSITAET REGENSBURG","Functionalized magnetic nanoparticles are proposed as smart platforms for applications in chemistry - emphasizing catalysis -, environmental chemistry - emphasizing catalytic detoxification, or biomedicine - emphasizing delivery of biomolecules and drugs. The magnetic properties of the entities offer an additional dimension for their manipulation by external magnetic fields, e.g. for flow reactors, for recovery from the environment, for imaging (MRI) or for directed targeting of tumors in living",{"id":195,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":196,"piName":10,"institution":197,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":198},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316427","Environmental Acclimation of Photosynthesis","HEINRICH-HEINE-UNIVERSITAET DUESSELDORF","AccliPhot is an interdisciplinary, intersectorial research andtraining network devoted to study photosynthetic acclimation processesin plants and algae. We will train 13 early-stage researchers (ESRs)and 1 experienced researcher (ER) in cutting-edge experimentaltechnologies, modern modelling approaches, industrial applications anda wide spectrum of complementary and industry-relevant skills. In theframe of our research goal to obtain a systems-wide understanding ofphotosynthetic acclimation proc",{"id":200,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":201,"piName":10,"institution":202,"country":203,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":205},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289911","Multiscale Modelling of Landslides and Debris Flows","UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN","AT","€4,318,727","Landslides and debris flows are serious geo-hazards common to countries with mountainous terrains. The high speed and the enormity of debris mass make debris flows one of the most dangerous natural hazards. Debris flows are often triggered by landslides partially or completely mobilizing into debris flows. Globally, landslides cause billions of dollars in damage and thousands of deaths and injuries each year. The numerous devastating events worldwide have made us aware of the complexity of lands",{"id":207,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":208,"piName":10,"institution":209,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":211},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289374","ENTITLE. European Network of Political Ecology","UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA","ES","ENTITLE will train 17 researchers in the emerging supra-disciplinary field of Political Ecology, giving them the theoretical, analytical and complementary skills that will make them employable in jobs related to environmental policy analysis and advocacy. Research and training are framed around five key cluster sub-programmes concerned with the analysis of: environmental conflicts; environmental movements; natural disasters; changes in the commons; and environmental justice and democracy. Resear",{"id":213,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":214,"piName":10,"institution":215,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":216,"abstract":217},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290025","Novel Statistical Methodology for Diagnostic\u002FPrognostic and Therapeutic Studies and Systematic Reviews","UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM FREIBURG","€3,935,114","Novel statistical methodology promises to greatly facilitate development of approaches for personalised medicine. While state-of-the-art statistical techniques have already advanced clinical trials and diagnostic\u002Fprognostic studies as the major source of evidence in clinical medicine, increasing availability of molecular techniques holds an even greater promise. However, for leveraging such information for individualised diagnosis\u002Fprognosis, and treatment, the corresponding complex structures ha",{"id":219,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":220,"piName":10,"institution":221,"country":171,"year":13,"amount":222,"abstract":223},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-264699","Robust affinity materials for applications in proteomics and diagnostics","MALMO UNIVERSITET","€3,053,584","PEPMIP represents a joint European effort involving eleven partners aimed at the development of the next generation of dedicated separation materials, designed to recognize peptides and proteins, and the implementation of these materials in new high performance methods for peptide and protein analysis. Artificial receptors will be developed by various Molecular Imprinting techniques. This will be supplemented by a new class of generic peptide and protein fractionation tools that will be integrat",{"id":225,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":226,"piName":10,"institution":227,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":228,"abstract":229},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317142","Aeronautical Training Network in Aerodynamic Noise from Widebody Civil Aircraft","UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER","€2,872,746","A new Aeronautical Training Network is proposed to train Early Stage Researchers and Experienced Researchers in front-line, integrated, industry relevant research in unsteady aerodynamics and noise for the next generation of environmentally friendly wide-body civil aircraft. Building upon the multi-host EST FP6 programme AeroTraNet, AeroTraNet 2 clusters the complementary expertise of 5 established European academic institutes, 2 EU multi-national companies, 1 SME, and one national research cent",{"id":231,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":232,"piName":10,"institution":233,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":234,"abstract":235},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316549","STRATEGY TO INHIBIT TGF-Beta IN LIVER DISEASE","FUNDACIO INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIO BIOMEDICA DE BELLVITGE","€3,312,185","Chronic liver diseases (CLD) and their end-stages, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), are leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide with enormous socio-economic costs. Patients with liver cirrhosis are at high risk of deadly hepatic failure and over 80% of HCC develop on a cirrhotic background. HCC ranks as the 5th most common cancer and with >600,000 deaths per annum it constitutes a major global health problem. The main etiologies of CLD are chronic HCV and HBV infections,",{"id":237,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":238,"piName":10,"institution":239,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":240,"abstract":241},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317445","Tumor Infiltrating Myeloid Cell Compartment","ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN","€3,756,469","The ITN TIMCC brings together eight expert teams from different disciplines within Immunology, Genetics and Oncology, to provide substantive and methodological training in the analysis of the role of the Tumor Infiltrating Myeloid Cell Compartment (TIMCC) of the innate immune system. Leukocytes recruited to (pre)malignant tissues are mainly myeloid cells. They can either prevent or functionally contribute to cancer development. However, the mechanisms underlying pro- versus anti-tumor programmin",{"id":243,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":244,"piName":10,"institution":245,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":246,"abstract":247},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289880","Reproductive Biology Early Research Training","CONSORCI INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIONS BIOMEDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER","€3,649,828","The “Reproductive Biology Early Research Training” network (REPRO-TRAIN) aims to provide all the elements required to train the nextgeneration of researchers with the latest skills to solve the current societal problems in male reproductive biology (Andrology). Thedecline in sperm counts and concomitant increase in testicular cancer demands research in this field as an urgent priority.Spermatogenesis is the essential physiological process for male gamete production. It also provides a ideal para",{"id":249,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":250,"piName":10,"institution":239,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":251},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317246","Translational research (training) in Polycystic Kidney Disease","Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is an inherited kidney disorder with a prevalence of more than 1:1000, characterized by the development of renal cysts, slowly progressing towards end-stage renal disease. ADPKD is often associated with extra-renal complications, which can be devastating. Current therapy is directed towards limiting the morbidity and mortality from these complications, whereas effective specific treatments targeting the renal cystic disease are missing.Transla",{"id":253,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":254,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":255},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316610","Cancer Associated Fibroblasts (CAF) Function in Tumor Expansion and Invasion","Aim of the CAFFEIN network is to provide 10 early stage researchers (ESRs) and 2 exprerienced researchers (ERs) with excellent training in an industry relevant area of cancer research, complementary skills required for pharmaceutical industry, and knowledge in setting up biomedical start-up companies. To this end, the network comprises two full industrial partners: the established pharmaceutical company Medimmune, a global leader in immunopharmaceuticals, and the small biotech company Gimmune, w",{"id":257,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":258,"piName":10,"institution":259,"country":94,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":260},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290056","Training Network for Monitoring Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas","UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE","The Initial Training Network for Monitoring Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas (MMMPA) aims to train the next generation of MPA scientists and managers, equipping them with a flexible set of skills essential within a wide range of professional environments, including public administration, local authorities, industry and academia. They will focus on the most important aspects that need adequate conservation. In particular, researchers will maturate the experience to: identify species listed in",{"id":262,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":263,"piName":10,"institution":264,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":265},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316662","CLOUD Initial Training Network (CLOUD TRAIN)","JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN","The aim of “CLOUD-TRAIN” is to establish a multi-site network of Early Stage Researchers (here predominantly PhD students) and Experienced Researchers at 10 partner institutions across Europe. The role of aerosol nucleation for atmospheric CCN levels, clouds and climate is investigated. The influence of various vapours and ions for aerosol nucleation, growth and cloud processes is studied to significantly improve our understanding of natural and anthropogenic climate forcing as well as feedback ",{"id":267,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":268,"piName":10,"institution":269,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":270,"abstract":271},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-315963","Improving HSCT By Validation Of Biomarkers & Development Of Novel Cellular Therapies","UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE","€3,226,319","Novel transplant regimens are currently being developed to improve beneficial GvL effects and reduce GvHD and infections via several new forms of cellular therapies. This newly emerging supra-disciplinary field of cellular therapy and regenerative medicine is also being used to improve outcomes in autoimmune disease (such as Rheumatoid Arthritis) and cancers. The goal of this research programme is to gain insight into the mechanisms of action of GvL and GvHD in order to improve current therapies",{"id":273,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":274,"piName":10,"institution":275,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":276},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317297","The Sugar Code: from (bio)chemical concept to clinics","AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS","Coding of biochemical information is commonly described to be based solely on nucleotides and amino acids, whereas carbohydrates, the most abundant type of molecule in Nature, appear sidelined in this respect. That carbohydrates, as part of cellular glycoconjugates, have exceptional talents for building biochemical signals is an emerging insight, at the heart of the concept of the Sugar Code. Intuitively, emergence of recognition partners for information transfer is expected, and this is the cas",{"id":278,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":279,"piName":10,"institution":280,"country":83,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":281},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317126","Uncoordinated network strategies for enhanced interference, mobIlity, radio resource, and energy saving management in LTE-Advanced networks","ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON","The aim of the CROSSIRE project is to provide forward-looking solutions for Long-Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) network co-existence including aspects ranging from the physical layer such as co-channel interference and cognition to the user perception of the service, i.e., Quality of Experience (QoE). The project will analyze and propose network virtualization solutions for LTE-A networks a technology which is envisioned to transform operation of cellular networks in the years to come. The proj",{"id":283,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":284,"piName":10,"institution":110,"country":94,"year":13,"amount":285,"abstract":286},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290123","Studying Physiology and Pathology of Imprinted Genes to understand the role of Epigenetic Mutations in Human Disease","€3,662,880","The aim of this ITN is to promote research and training in the field of epigenetics associated with human disease. Expression of imprinted genes is mono-allelic and gamete of origin-dependent. This is due to different epigenetic modifications present on the maternal and paternal chromosomes. Failure in normal establishment, maintenance or erasure of these marks results in gene dosage dysregulation and Imprinting Disorders (IDs). This ITN brings together different expertise from both public and p",{"id":288,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":289,"piName":10,"institution":290,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":291},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289347","TRAINING NETWORK IN INNOVATIVE POLYELECTROLYTES FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT","UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO\u002F EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA","The introduction of new ionic moieties (cations and anions) into polymers is giving rise to a new family of functional polymers with particular properties and new applications which is provoking a RENAISSANCE of the chemistry and applications of classic polyelectrolytes.   However, further developments and a better understanding of the properties and applications of innovative polyelectrolytes are still necessary to develop their actual and emerging applications. RENAISANCE will aim at excellenc",{"id":293,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":294,"piName":10,"institution":295,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":296,"abstract":297},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289442","INVISIBLES","UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID","€3,823,903","NEUTRINOS AND DARK MATTER are the most abundant particles in the universe and yet they remained unnoticed -invisible- for a long time, due to their tenuous couplings to the ordinary matter we are composed of.Neutrino masses inferred from neutrino oscillations and the existence of dark matter constitute the first evidence ever of particle physics beyond the Standard Model. A wide experimental program focused on the properties of both type of particles is imminent and major breakthroughs are expec",{"id":299,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":300,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":301},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290040","Mineral Scale formation: from the atomic to the field scale","The MINSC Initial Training Network (ITN) is comprised of partners from first-rate universities and high-level industrial partners located in the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Norway, and Italy. The prime aims of this network is to provide research and training opportunities to a new generation of young fellows in fundamental and collaborative research projects related to the nucleation and growth of a series of relevant scale mineral systems in the absence or presence of inh",{"id":303,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":304,"piName":10,"institution":305,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":306},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-287252","Coherent Information Processing in Rare-earth Ion doped Solids","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT","Rare-earth ions (lanthanides) play an increasingly important role in modern optical technologies. Lanthanides are extensively used in solid-state laser physics, e.g. as key components in telecommunication networks. Rare-earths are also employed as luminescent materials in lamps or as radiation detectors in X-ray imaging. Rare-earths are already commercially omnipresent.However, the full potential of rare-earth ions is not yet explored – in particular with regard to the rapidly evolving field of ",{"id":308,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":309,"piName":10,"institution":310,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":311},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289209","Training Network on Zebrafish Infection Models for Pharmaceutical Screens","UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN","Infectious diseases caused by pathogenic micro-organisms are major causes of death, disability, and social and economic disruption for millions of people. During evolution these pathogens have developed intricate strategies to manipulate host defence mechanisms and outwit the immune system. To reduce the burden of infectious diseases it is important to increase understanding of these host-pathogen interaction mechanisms and to develop more effective strategies for drug discovery. The zebrafish h",{"id":313,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":314,"piName":10,"institution":315,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":316},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289966","BEAN – Bridging the European and Anatolian Neolithic:  Demography, Migration, and Lifestyle at the Advent of Civilization","JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ","One of the most interesting questions in prehistory is that of the origins of European peoples following the introduction of settled farming life to the continent some 8,000 years ago. The interdisciplinary BEAN network will address this by combining teaching and research in three different fields: i) Anthropology and genetics, ii) computer simulation and modelling, and iii) prehistoric archaeology.  Particularly, it will provide state of the art training in palaeo-genomics, mathematical modelli",{"id":318,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":319,"piName":10,"institution":320,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":321},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289720","Stromal Cell- Immune Cell Interactions in Health and Disease","UNIVERSITY OF YORK","STROMA is an Initial Training Network promoting the study of stromal cell – immune system interactions during stroma development and function in health and disease.  In STROMA we have bought together world leading experts from academia and industry in Europe to address the key scientific questions in this emerging field.  STROMA will promote the training of three Experienced Researchers (ER) and seventeen Early Stage Researchers (ESR) combining research and training in state-of-the-art multidisc",{"id":323,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":324,"piName":10,"institution":48,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":325,"abstract":326},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290336","Metal Transport in the Environment","€3,584,452","Understanding the processes that control the transport of metals in the environment is essential for a wide range of fields, including environmental protection and remediation, mineral resources, climate change. Through recent analytical developments, it is possible, using natural variations in metal isotopes, to identify and quantify how metal concentrations in natural waters are controlled by interactions with mineral surfaces, microbially-mediated reactions, and release during mineral weather",{"id":328,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":329,"piName":10,"institution":330,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":331},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289313","Detailed Anatomy of Galaxies","INSTITUTO DE ASTROFISICA DE CANARIAS","We propose an ambitious network based on a combination of training through high-level astrophysical research and a comprehensive package of complimentary skills training. Our network exploits a unique data set: a combination of very deep mid-infrared imaging of over 2300 local galaxies which we are obtaining with the Spitzer Space Telescope, with ground- and space-based UV, optical, and radio data. The data reach unprecedented levels of surface brightness and radial extent over a very large samp",{"id":333,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":334,"piName":10,"institution":335,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":336,"abstract":337},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290038","Statistical Physics Approaches to Networks Across Disciplines","KING'S COLLEGE LONDON","€3,377,761","Networks are ubiquitous in all aspects of human existence. They manifest themselves in everyday life, they underpin the most advanced information and communication technologies, and they provide a powerful framework for addressing a wide spectrum of complex problems in the natural sciences, in engineering, and in economics and the social sciences. Networks, network-related science, and network-based technologies are thus of central importance to maintaining and improving human well-being as well",{"id":339,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":340,"piName":10,"institution":275,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":341},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290023","Nanocapsules for targeted delivery of radioactivity","The consortium RADDEL (RADioactivity DELivery) has a research-based approach for the training of the new generation of scientists in the development of novel functional nanomaterials . A well structured training program will be provided with a balanced combination of local and network-wide training through secondments, joint network meetings, workshops, schools, industrial training and the final network conference. The research program focuses on the design, synthesis, characterisation, pharmaco",{"id":343,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":344,"piName":10,"institution":176,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":345},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317485","Quantum sensor technologies and applications","This training network focuses on the development of modern quantum sensors based on precision measurements of inertial forces, electro-magnetic fields, and time. Important ideas and major contributions to current research in this field have originated from atomic physics and quantum optics. The topics covered are gravitational probing, rotational sensing, field probes, and atomic clocks, with potential future applications ranging from fundamental science to geological exploration, navigation and",{"id":347,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":348,"piName":10,"institution":349,"country":126,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":350},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290022","Ensuring STABiLIty in organic Solar cells","UNIVERSITE DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR","The Earth receives the energy in 1 hour required for all human needs in a year. Harvesting solar energy will reduce harmful CO2 emissions and resolve the forthcoming energy deficit that other sources alone cannot make up. The market for stable, cheap, roll-to-roll mass-produced organic solar cells (OSCs) is estimated at 1 billion Euros by 2016. The ITN ESTABLIS will produce a team of 11 ESRs and 4 ERs to harness this pivotal point in Europe’s development based on a reliable, economically powerfu",{"id":352,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":353,"piName":10,"institution":354,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":355},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289600","Translational Training network on the Cellular and Molecular Bases of Heart Homeostasis and Repair","CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CARLOS III (F.S.P.)","The CardioNeT Initial Training Network aims to implement a highly multidisciplinary, intersectoral and competitive training programme in cardiovascular research  through cutting-edge projects and extensive training in complementary areas.CardioNeT training comprises two tightly linked components - research and complementary training - that will be implemented at local as well as network level and which will be united by individual personal career development plans carefully elaborated for each r",{"id":357,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":358,"piName":10,"institution":359,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":360},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289723","Replication and Adaptation in Molecular Networks","RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN","Systems Chemistry (the chemistry of complex mixtures of interacting molecules) is a rapidly developing new fronteir in the chemical sciences. Where chemistry has for centuries been a firmly reductionistic science, Systems Chemistry breaks with this tradition by focussing on complexity and emergent behaviour.This network brings together nearly all major academic players active in Europe on experimental approaches to Systems Chemistry in general and molecular networks in particular. Our consortium",{"id":362,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":363,"piName":10,"institution":364,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":365},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289941","Systems neuroscience of Drosophila: from genes to circuits to behaviour","FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA","Understanding how the brain works represents one of the greatest challenges in modern science. This question embraces mechanisms spanning multiple levels of description, from genes to biochemical pathways, from neurons to circuits, from circuit activities to adaptive behaviours. The goal of the FLiACT programme is to train young researchers in the concepts and techniques necessary to study integrated brain functions. FLiACT will create a unique pan-European training network interconnecting 8 aca",{"id":367,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":368,"piName":10,"institution":369,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":370},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317321","The changing nature of employment in Europe in the context of challenges, threats and opportunities for employees and employers","UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE","Europe is today facing several major challenges. These go beyond the future of the euro and the instability of the financial system to some of the underlying issues concerned with the work activities that underpin the European economy. How can Europe retain manufacturing and production as restructuring and relocation towards lower-wage costs economies gathers pace? As demographic change lifts the proportions of older workers in society and in employment, how can Europe both maintain decent level",{"id":372,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":373,"piName":10,"institution":374,"country":375,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":376},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316422","Best Engineering Training in Electric, Lightweight and Quiet Driving","KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN","BE","Engineering for future mobility must be inspired by ecology and economy to enable green and silent vehicles. Current university based education is focusing on classical fields like mechanical engineering on one side with some aspects of Noise, Vibration & Harshness (NVH) and LightWeight Design (LWD) or like electrical engineering covering aspects of “Electrification” & “Hybridisation” on the other side.The proposed eLiQuiD project (Best Engineering Training in Electric, Lightweight and Quiet Dri",{"id":378,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":379,"piName":10,"institution":380,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":381},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290011","Adaptive Brain Computations","THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","Adaptive interactions with the environment depend on sophisticated brain plasticity mechanisms at multiple levels: from single neurons to large-scale brain networks. Traditionally, the study of plasticity has been fragmented into sensory, motor or decision-related circuits. However, translating brain plasticity findings to brain repair requires an understanding of the interactions between these circuits. Our aim is to integrate this study of learning and plasticity to promote wellbeing and advan",{"id":383,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":384,"piName":10,"institution":385,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":386},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289428","Advances in Numerical and Analytical tools for DEtached flow prediction","UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID","The present project is based on existing collaborations in different national and international projects,  a common research interest toward fluid dynamics applied to industrial problems and existing, although immature, common training programs between the partners. We all partners agree that the current skills of science graduates in the technologies covered by this project are still insufficient. The project also tries to address the shortage of scientists and engineers in Europe in the next f",{"id":388,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":389,"piName":10,"institution":390,"country":391,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":392},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317132","Ultrasound guided cardiac arrythmia treatment","GE VINGMED ULTRASOUND AS","NO","Every 30 second, a person in the Western world suffers sudden cardiac death and\u002For death from heart failure. These two conditions remain the major challenges in modern cardiology. However, new treatments now emerging offer hope in combating these events.Despite significant advances in new therapeutic approaches, current tools for risk stratification are insufficient, and treatment using ablation therapy or implantable pacemakers is often not optimized yielding less than satisfactory results.In o",{"id":394,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":395,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":396,"abstract":397},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290077","Engineering Tribochemistry and Interfaces with a Focus on the Internal Combustion Engine","€3,369,190","The main aim of the ENTICE proposal is to provide professional development in the multidisciplinary field of ENgineering Tribochemistry and Interfaces for IC Engines, capable to develop the new generation of clean and energy-efficient engines.  It aims to train the next generation of researchers to work in diverse teams, to cross disciplinary and sectoral boundaries and apply advanced communication and information technologies to work across many scales of time and space. Detailed project object",{"id":399,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":400,"piName":10,"institution":401,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":402},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317205","A new paradigm in drug use and human health risk assessment: Sewage profiling at the community level","UNIVERSITY OF BATH","SEWPROF aims to develop inter-disciplinary and cross-sectoral research capability for the next generation of scientists working in the newly-emerging field of sewage epidemiology. It will provide an integrated approach towards public health monitoring at a community level based on innovative sewage epidemiology techniques. The approach will deliver real-time profiling of community-wide health and lifestyle through the analysis of human biomarkers in sewage using a wide-range of methods including",{"id":404,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":405,"piName":10,"institution":320,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":406},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289217","Development of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes for the Chemical Manufacturing Industries","The objective of the P4FIFTY project is to deliver a trans-European network of industrially oriented white biotechnologists fully trained in the application of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) for application in the chemical manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries. This willinvolve academic groups investigating P450 diversity exploration from the wild type enzymes and their genes, genome mining for novel P450s, the expression of these in suitable hosts, the enzymology and molecular bio",{"id":408,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":409,"piName":10,"institution":410,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":411},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317058","Biorefinery Training Platform:Bacterial Factories for Sustainable Chemical and Drug Production","DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET","There is a growing demand for scientific, technological and industrial developments, which can support the transition from oil based chemical refinery towards biorefinery processes. The Training Program of this IDP – BacTory – comprises a multi-disciplinary platform providing scientific and industrially relevant skills necessary for establishment of next-generation biorefinery activities in Europe. The program is designed to integrate state-of-the-art research in relevant areas associated with f",{"id":413,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":414,"piName":10,"institution":99,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":415},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289198","Advanced Radiation Dosimetry European Network Training initiative","ARDENT is a multi-site ITN that will provide training for 15 ESRs in the field of advanced instrumentation for radiation dosimetry. This training initiative is founded on actions aiming to strengthen and enrich international cooperation amongst all partners involved (7 Full and 5 Associate), promoting the technological transfer of the research results to industry through the active involvement of four industrial partners (3 Full and 1 Associate). The project focuses on three main technologies: g",{"id":417,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":418,"piName":10,"institution":419,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":420,"abstract":421},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289240","The Astrodynamics Network","INSTITUT D'ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA FUNDACION","€3,888,318","The objectives of the proposal are:- To introduce ESR's and ER'sto a range of astrodynamical concepts and problems and the relevant new mathematical theories and techniques. To develop their expertise in a number of these fields and to train them to conduct research, collaborate, and communicate their results.- To deepen and and broaden the knowledge and skills of ER's working in the areas of astrodynamics and dynamical systems theory. To encourage the more mathematical scientists to apply their",{"id":423,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":424,"piName":10,"institution":170,"country":171,"year":13,"amount":425,"abstract":426},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290137","Design as driver of innovation and competitiveness","€3,422,641","DESMA is a training network including 4 leading universities, 4 design consultancies and 4 product and service organizations in the area of Design Management - an area of research and practice that is concerned with the dynamic intersection of design and management. The great potential of design as a driver of innovation and competitiveness is increasingly celebrated in the popular and scholarly management press, by European policy makers as well as manufacturing and service companies. However, ",{"id":428,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":429,"piName":10,"institution":99,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":430},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289161","Training for cAreer deveLopment in high-radiation ENvironment Technologies","TALENT is a 4-year multi-site training network aiming at career development of young researchers on design, construction, manufacturing, testing and commissioning of innovative radiation hard detector modules and novel scientific instruments. TALENT provides, to 15 ESRs and 2 ERs, training for deep understanding of the complexity of scientific instrument building from theoretical design until industrial manufacturing cost efficiency considerations. The network consists of 9 academic institutions",{"id":432,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":433,"piName":10,"institution":434,"country":126,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":435},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290042","Coupled Parallel Simulation of Gas Turbines","CENTRE EUROPEEN DE RECHERCHE ET DEFORMATION AVANCEE EN CALCUL SCIENTIFIQUE","The proposed project COPA-GT has been structured to provide training of a multi-disciplinary and intersectorial nature for young Fellows in Europe in the field of propulsion and electric power generation systems. The young researchers will obtain expertise in gas turbines engine (GT) design, based on fluid and structural mechanics, combustion, acoustics and heat transfer. They will become familiar with tools to design and operate innovative GT engines, taking into account the whole diversity of ",{"id":437,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":438,"piName":10,"institution":439,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":440},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290161","Cavity Quantum Optomechanics","ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE","Over the past year a new research field has emerged: cavity Optomechanics which brings the quantum regime of mechanical oscillators in reach and may allow to explore new fundamental measurements concepts, may lead to novel transducers and test quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale. In this research field, which utilizes mechanical oscillators coupled to laser fields, Europe has played a pioneering role. The distinguishing feature of this ITN training network is that the partners are active in",{"id":442,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":443,"piName":10,"institution":444,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":445},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317450","Molecular Medicine for Bladder Cancer","MOSAIQUES DIAGNOSTICS GMBH","BCMolMed integrates complementary and multi-disciplinary expertise of two main (research-intensive SME-academia) and five associate partners with the objective to generate a state of the art training platform on application-oriented biomarker research and systems biology. Special emphasis is placed on the efficient employment of proteomics and bioinformatics techniques to clinical research, and understanding clinical phenotypes in a spherical manner, in line to main EU research priorities. Resea",{"id":447,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":448,"piName":10,"institution":449,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":450,"abstract":451},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289958","BIOCERAMICS FOR BONE REPAIR","IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE","€3,691,022","There is a general consensus that ceramic based materials should play a very important role in the development of new therapies to treat and substitute damaged or diseased bone. Due to their resistance to wear and corrosion, bioinert technical ceramics are the ideal candidates to replace metallic alloys in a new generation of small, durable and safe orthopaedic implants. On the other hand, osteoconductive and bioactive ceramics such as calcium phosphates and bioactive glasses are the most promis",{"id":453,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":454,"piName":10,"institution":455,"country":171,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":456},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316808","iSocial: Decentralized Online Social Networks","KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN","The rapid proliferation of Online Social Networking (OSN) sites, like Facebook and MySpace, is expected to reshape the Internet’s structure, design, and utility. Industry experts believe that OSNs create a potentially transformational change in consumer behavior and will bring a far-reaching impact on traditional industries of content, media, and communications. Nevertheless, at a European level, there is a recognized shortage of highly skilled researchers, scientists and engineers trained in bu",{"id":458,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":459,"piName":10,"institution":460,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":461},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316633","Polymer - Carbon Nanotubes Active Systems for Photovoltaics","FUNDACION IMDEA NANOCIENCIA","Organic solar cells (OSC) feature several advantages over “classical” silicon solar cells: low cost, energy effective production, low weight and semi-transparency. This makes them apt for novel applications like, building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) with high market potential. However, both the efficiency and the long-term stability must be enhanced for OSCs to become profitable. POCAONTAS will develop highly efficient and stable OSCs based on tailored blends of polymers (P) with single wall",{"id":463,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":464,"piName":10,"institution":465,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":466},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317006","Adjoint-based optimisation of industrial and unsteady flows","QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","Adjoint-based methods have become the most interesting approach in CFD optimisation due to their low computational cost compared to other approaches.  The development of adjoint solvers has seen significant research interest, and a number of EC projects have been funded on adjoint-based optimisation. In particular, partners of this proposal are members of the EC FP7 project FlowHead which develops complete adjoint-based design methods for steady-state flows in automotive design.Integration of th",{"id":468,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":469,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":470,"abstract":471},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317472","Beyond the Genome; training the next generation of ophthalmic researchers","€3,090,797","Eye research has often blazed a trail for other disciplines to follow, giving a lead in neuroscience, genetics, the development of gene- and stem-cell therapies and other important areas of medical research. In recent years, geneticists have made many remarkable discoveries of relevance both to normal human vision and the development of inherited retinal pathology. However the genes and mutations identified account for only a proportion of cases of inherited retinal degeneration, and recent disc",{"id":473,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":474,"piName":10,"institution":475,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":476,"abstract":477},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289932","European Training Network for Excellence in Molecular Imaging in Diabetes","STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT","€3,981,670","Currently, 180 million people suffer from diabetes worldwide and this number is expected to double until 2030. Diabetes-related healthcare costs may rise to 40% of the total healthcare budget in high incidence countries. Despite these daunting numbers, our knowledge about the pathophysiology of T1D and T2D remains limited and many questions about the relation of the of the beta cell mass, the beta cell function and the metabolism of different tissues remain unanswered. In order to address these ",{"id":479,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":480,"piName":10,"institution":176,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":481},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289146","Neural Engineering Transformative Technologies","Neural Engineering is an inherently new discipline that coalesces engineering, physics and neuroscience for the design and development of brain–computer interface systems, cognitive computers and neural prosthetics. For the implementation of future transformative technologies a new breed of young researchers must be trained to integrate ideas and skills from a broad range of disciplines.NETT is composed of seven full network partners and ten associated partners including one international indust",{"id":483,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":484,"piName":10,"institution":485,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":486},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316639","Industrial Academic Initial Training Network towards focused treatment of age-related motor symptoms","EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN","Gait and postural control impairments, and falls are ubiquitous among the elderly, and lead to enormous personal, occupational and health care burden. Especially patients with PD are severely affected by the progressive deterioration of these gait and postural control mechanisms. Elucidating mechanisms of age- and disease-related motor control impairments and devising focussed treatment strategies to counteract these symptoms represent major challenges for future research. Moving beyond focuses ",{"id":488,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":489,"piName":10,"institution":490,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":491},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289404","Action research: Improving understanding and methodologies in early development","UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER","The ACT Initial Training Network aims to establish a leading European training network devoted to investigating the interplay between action and cognition using a developmental approach. The ACT network represents a collective of scientific and industrial groups at the cutting edge of research in the fields of social development, developmental psychology, cognitive science, developmental neuropsychology, and computational science. The network will train PhD students and produce new technology to",{"id":493,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":494,"piName":10,"institution":475,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":495},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-290000","Investigating Speech Processing in Realistic Environments","In everyday life, people listen to speech under a wide range of conditions that are “non-optimal” relative to the controlled conditions in laboratory experiments. Classical research methods can only deal with the effects of individual “adverse” conditions. This has contributed to the fragmentation of speech communication research in numerous sub-disciplines that have little interaction. While each type of adversity can have important consequences on its own, it is often the combination of condit",{"id":497,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":498,"piName":10,"institution":264,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":499},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289220","Pollen thermotolerance and crop fertility","The Marie Curie Initial Training Network SPOT-ITN will establish a multi-site network of early stage and experienced researchers at 9 partner institutions - including 3 from the private sector - in 4 European member countries and Israel to investigate fundamental and applied aspects of thermotolerance mechanisms contributing to the protection of pollen development at increased ambient temperatures. The envisioned joint research program is of broad commercial interest and will be an important con",{"id":501,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":502,"piName":10,"institution":176,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":503,"abstract":504},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316716","Ultra-High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging","€3,597,440","The High field Magnetic Resonance (HiMR) Initial Training Network aims to train the future leaders of academic and industrial research in the fundamental science and novel applications of ultra-high field (UHF) in vivo magnetic resonance (MR), in order to address an increasing and currently unmet demand from academia and industry for such specialists. The highly complex and multi-faceted nature of UHF MR means that excellent training can only be provided by immersing ESRs in an environment that ",{"id":506,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":507,"piName":10,"institution":508,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":509},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316965","Epigenetic regulation of economically important plant traits","UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM","The mission of EpiTRAITS is to train young researchers in epigenetic gene regulation and flowering in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the crop plants maize (Zea mays) and barley (Hordeum vulgare). Epigenetic gene regulation confers stability of gene expression patterns through cell divisions while allowing changes in expression in response to environmental or developmental cues. Although changes in epigenetic gene regulation are a major cause for trait variation, no rational strategies ",{"id":511,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":512,"piName":10,"institution":513,"country":210,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":514},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316488","Training for sustainable low cost PV technologies: development of kesterite based efficient solar cells","FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA DE L'ENERGIA DE CATALUNYA","The overall objective of this project is the creation of an ITN network for the structured interdisciplinary training of researchers in advanced thin film photovoltaic (PV) technologies.The project proposes the development of new technologies compatible with the cost, efficiency, sustainability and mass production requirements that are needed to become areliable and future alternative to conventional non renewable energy sources. With this objective in mind, the project will focus on the develop",{"id":516,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":517,"piName":10,"institution":465,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":518},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289974","Innotive Training Environment for Researchers Combining the Resources of Statistical Science, Informatics & Genetics","The principal strategic objective of INTERCROSSING is the cultivation of a new type of young researcher to deal with challenges of exploiting the latest Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies – individuals with rigorous training in three disciplines hardly ever found together any one young scientist: population genetics, informatics and statistics.  The need for this supra-disciplinary combination of skills reflects the extraordinary new demands produced by technologies that allow us to s",{"id":520,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":521,"piName":10,"institution":522,"country":523,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":524},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317052","Industrial Biological Biomaterials Doctorate","INEB-INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENGENHARIA BIOMEDICA","PT","The present proposal consists in an elite doctorate program designed to train PhD candidates at the highest academic level in combination with strong components in entrepreneurship, technology transfer and business development since part of the research and training will be carried out in an industrial environment and using a problem solving approach.The major scientific objective of this project is to grow stem cells of human origin in xenofree conditions. Currently, the clinical applications o",{"id":526,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":527,"piName":10,"institution":528,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":529},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316687","Joint Max Born Institute - Amplitude Phd Program","FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN EV","The Max Born Institute for Non-Linear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) and Amplitude Technologies (AT) are an academic research institution and a company that operate at the forefront of ultrafast laser physics, and that have a long tradition of mutual collaboration. The JMAP network is the result of a joint observation by MBI and AT that many university students with a talent for science and engineering end up pursuing careers outside these fields, because they have difficulty obtainin",{"id":531,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":532,"piName":10,"institution":269,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":533},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317228","Advanced Training in Industrial Enzyme Manufacturing","One of the main activities in the biotech industry is the manufacturing of enzymes, and access to cheap and diverse enzymes is crucial for the development of a sustainable biobased economy. However, improving the production efficiency of an increasingly large variety of commercial proteins and enzymes poses significant challenges for industrial-scale fermentations. In addition, the European biotech industry is confronted with rising competition from developing countries in Asia. To face these ch",{"id":535,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":536,"piName":10,"institution":537,"country":538,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":539},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316973","Multi-disciplinary training environment for next generation hydrogel-based smart bio-interactive materials","DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY","IE","Smart resorbable hydrogels will play a key role in next-generation biomedicine, for instance as platform materials for tissue engineering. As these materials have potential to address a wide range of medical conditions, significant growth for the biomedical materials industry is forecast. To explore this opportunity and exploit the potential, highly-qualified and well-trained biomaterials experts are urgently required. NeoGel will address this need by providing cross-disciplinary training to fou",{"id":541,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":542,"piName":10,"institution":543,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":544},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317382","A Networked and IT-enabled Firm's Perspective on Crisis Management","Stichting CETIM - CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT","By the middle of the year, experts announced 2011 to be the most expensive year in counts of global disaster damages ever. The EU has articulated its ambition to become an effective player in crisis management as part of the European Security Strategy (Stockholm Programme 2010-2014, Lisbon Treaty). The Hyogo Framework stipulates that a substantial reduction of disaster losses is only possible through advanced governance and management.NITIMesr has been designed as a practice-inspired research in",{"id":546,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":547,"piName":10,"institution":548,"country":94,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":549},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316845","OFET biosensors for point-of-care applications","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BARI ALDO MORO","Electronic, label-free biosensors characterized by rapidity and detection proved to be very promising being able to directly detect biological recognition events without the need of markers. In this respect, organic bioelectronics has gained a huge interest among scientists coming from different disciplines and sectors due to its high impact on medical, clinical, food and environmental fields. Presently Europe holds a leading position in this research area, being almost all the world-leading res",{"id":551,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":552,"piName":10,"institution":18,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":553,"abstract":554},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316940","Vaccine Design and Immune Responses","€1,174,366","The successful development of new vaccines depends on the interaction of industrial expertise for vaccine design and engineering with academic understanding of the mechanisms of protection afforded by the immune responses they elicit. Close interaction between both sectors expedites vaccine development and, in the context of global health, this can translate to the saving of thousands of lives. The VADER (Vaccine Design and Immune Responses) EID programme, established between the Novartis Vaccin",{"id":556,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":557,"piName":10,"institution":558,"country":375,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":559},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316773","Medicinal Chemistry Open Innovation Doctorates","UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN","The establishment of influential public and private public partnerships fostering true collaboration between big Pharma and universities for a non-profit end goal has opened the door for stronger interaction and integration. This structural change has come to stay and is slowly permeating other sectors in which the commercial return on investment is clear (Drug. Discov. Today, 2009, 14, 1003). This new paradigm is also creating opportunities for young scientists to experience and understand both",{"id":561,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":562,"piName":10,"institution":563,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":564},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316426","Adaptive RF front-end for 4G communication systems and beyond","THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST","ARTISAN programme is founded on the expertise of the two renowned research groups at QUB and Bell Labs. Its primary goal is to train RF technology researchers to PhD level in the area of wireless infrastructure hardware.ARTISAN capitalises on the partner strengths – QUB’s research excellence in the fundamental RF technologies and Bell Labs Ireland’s strong track record in exploiting innovations to create novel RF hardware architectures. This alliance will produce researchers who will give Europe",{"id":566,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":567,"piName":10,"institution":568,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":569},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289377","Optimising plant polyphenols in LEGUMES for ruminant nutrition PLUS health PLUS environmental sustainability","THE UNIVERSITY OF READING","Europe must face the Grand Challenges of climate change and global warming, which will seriously affect the production of foods, including animal feeds. Tightening supplies of energy, foods and feeds will further impact on food security. Feeding animals in Europe with large quantities of imported soyabeans is not sustainable. ‘Home-grown’ protein sources, such as forage legumes, offer a valuable alternative, but ruminant animals make inefficient use of protein from most forage legumes. LegumePlu",{"id":571,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":572,"piName":10,"institution":573,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":574},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316897","New Propagation Techniques for the simulation of dynamical processes in extended systems","UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG","A leading European scientific software company (SCM), a research group of a private university (JacobsUni) and an associated research group with long-term history in collaborating with the industry partner (VU Amsterdam), want to collaborate in the development of advanced methods for first principles atomistic computer simulations and their application on environmentally important topics of nanotechnology and biophysics. Three ESR will develop methods allowing efficient first-principles molecula",{"id":576,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":577,"piName":10,"institution":578,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":579,"abstract":580},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317013","Natural Killer Cell-Based Anti-Cancer Immunotherapies:Research training in molecular medicine and biotechnology business","MEDIZINISCHE HOCHSCHULE HANNOVER","€3,526,286","In the research part we will deal with the basic principles of the innate immune defense used to control tumors and viral infections with a focus on NK and NK\u002FT cells, including analysis of NK receptor genomics\u002Fepigenetics, gene polymorphisms\u002Fdisease linkage, differentiation of hitherto unrecognized NK cell subpopulations and novel ligands for NK receptors exposed by tumor and\u002For virally infected cells. We will investigate the mechanisms installed by tumors and viruses to avoid or subvert immune",{"id":582,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":583,"piName":10,"institution":584,"country":585,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":586},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316020","Careers in Sustainability Excellence","EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE","FI","Implementing the EU vision of a Green Economy will cause rapid changes to the forest-based and bio-energy sectors. Growing bioenergy demands change land use and cause intensified resource utilisation in agriculture and forestry. Sustainable development targets in production and consumption of biomass and wood products have stimulated wider adoption of sustainability assessment methods in policy and company practices. The forest-based and bioenergy sectors have prominent roles to play in developi",{"id":588,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":589,"piName":10,"institution":590,"country":83,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":591},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316390","Joint training and research network on Chromatin Dynamics and the DNA Damage Response","IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS","DNA is tightly wrapped around histones to form chromatin, a highly dynamic structure that can adopt different conformations with contrasting degrees of compaction. Essential processes of DNA metabolism, such as DNA repair, replication or transcription operate in the context of chromatin and higher order chromosomal organization. Understanding how modulation of chromatin structure and repair influence cell fate decisions in development and disease or how genome surveillance factors interact with ",{"id":593,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":594,"piName":10,"institution":401,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":595},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316494","DyE SensiTized solar cells wIth eNhanced stabilitY","The DESTINY initial training network will tackle major challenges in the development of stable dye-sensitized solar cells, DSC. DSC offer exciting possibilities for applications in building integrated photovoltaics and consumer electronics. However they possess a complex structure with disparate materials. For DSC to be marketable and to compete with its inorganic counterparts, fundamental science has to be done to understand the causes of degradation and find ways of enhancing cell and module l",{"id":597,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":598,"piName":10,"institution":485,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":599},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317259","EID on the advanced science and technology of rat models for neurodegenerative diseases","One of the most important bottlenecks for finding more effective drugs for brain disorders is the development of model systems that translate to human pathology and are predictive of clinical efficacy. To address this bottleneck PhenoRat will focus on the generation, characterisation and validation of transgenic rat models of two neurodegenerative diseases: Huntington disease (HD) and spinocerebellar ataxia type 17 (SCA17). For this purpose we have assembled a unique consortium in which industry",{"id":601,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":602,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":603},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317184","Design & Engineering of Photosynthetic Communities for Industrial Cultivation","The generation of young biotechnologists is of paramount importance for Europe´s future. PHOTO.COMM will train primarily early stage researchers who have demonstrated high ambitions and talents in a unique platform based on emerging technology and science that would shape the forefront of future European biotechnology. PHOTO.COMM involves the utilization of microalgae for the conversion of carbon dioxide and water into chemicals and fuels, to directly replace finite fossil fuels and products. Al",{"id":605,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":606,"piName":10,"institution":607,"country":94,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":608},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289976","Numerical, Experimental and stochastic Modelling of vOlcanic processes and Hazard: an Initial Training Network for the next generation of European volcanologists","ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA","Volcanic eruptions, and associated hazards, are a constant concern for many European countries and for Europe as a whole. During last decades, disciplines like thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, and advanced experiments and computation, have been incorporated in volcano science, and formalized treatment of uncertainties has become a prominent means of volcanic hazard evaluation. This has developed volcanology to the level of a multidisciplinary, quantitative branch of the Eart",{"id":610,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":611,"piName":10,"institution":141,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":612,"abstract":613},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316354","The role of Chronic DNA damage in Ageing and Age-related pathology","€3,647,707","Ageing is an inexorable homeostatic failure of largely unknown aetiology that leads to increased vulnerability to disease limiting the quality of life in the elderly and creating high costs to the society. Until recently, the daunting complexity of the ageing process, the conspicuous lack of tools to study it, and a dearth of experimentally tractable model systems have greatly hindered any hypothesis-driven reductionist approaches to understand the molecular basis of ageing. Whereas molecular an",{"id":615,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":616,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":617},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289285","Training and Research AImed at Novel Antibacterial Solutions in Animals and People","TRAIN-ASAP addresses a very urgent public health issue. The lack of effective antibacterial drugs against resistant bacteria poses a serious threat to human health and has huge economical consequences to the healthcare system. The objective of this ITN is to fill the current gap between the burden of infections due to resistant bacteria and the strong need for alternative solutions to combat antibiotic resistance in both humans and animals. Young researchers will be trained in the scientific and",{"id":619,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":620,"piName":10,"institution":537,"country":538,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":621},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289253","REnewable FunctIoNal matErial –  Training material scientists for a sustainable polymer industry","The plastic industry contributes around 23% of the total sales in the European chemical industry but is traditionally heavily reliant on petrochemicals for their raw material, additives and reaction media (solvents). REFINE will develop sustainable routes to functional materials (green routes) for various polymer\u002Fplastic applications. The network will make use of integrated approaches combining green raw materials, green synthesis (biotechnology) and green processing. This will be complemented b",{"id":623,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":624,"piName":10,"institution":625,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":626},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-289903","EUropean TRanslational training for Autoimmunity & Immune manipulation Network","UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT","Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID) are important health challenges in Europe and beyond, afflicting an estimated 5-8% of the total population. IMID with an onset during childhood such as Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) cause particular concern as pediatric patients form an especially vulnerable group. Currently there is no safe and cost-effective cure for JIA and related juvenile IMID. Thus, these children face lifelong treatment with serious consequences both for the patient (high",{"id":628,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":629,"piName":10,"institution":630,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":631},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-316964","MARie CuRIe AGEing Network","ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN","One of achievements of developed societies has been the remarkable extension of human lifespan. In the upcoming decades the number of Europeans with advanced age will increase dramatically. It is evident that age-associated diseases will become much more prevalent. This poses challenges for society but also opportunities for commercial enterprises that develop strategies to combat deleterious consequences of ageing. However, our understanding of the mechanisms that contribute to ageing and its a",{"id":633,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":634,"piName":10,"institution":401,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":635,"abstract":636},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-317420","Cancer Diagnosis: Parallel Sensing of Prostate Cancer Biomarkers","€4,006,853","The Marie Curie ITN Cancer Diagnostics: Parallel Sensing of Prostate Cancer Biomarkers (PROSENSE) aims at training a new generation of young scientists in the interdisciplinary techniques and methods required to meet the major challenges in the development of diagnostic tools for prostate cancer. 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