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This novel “rational” (n InN\u002Fm GaN) alloy is based on short period superlattices that stack integer numbers of m (n) monolayers (MLs) of InN (GaN), i.e. heterostructures of pure InN MLs embedded in a GaN matrix. The development of fundamental knowledge on this rational (InN",{"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-641665","The next generation epigenetic medicine for inflammation","AMSTERDAM UMC RESEARCH BV","NL","€1,294,785","Epigenetic mechanisms allow cells to adjust gene expression in response to environmental cues. Increased understanding of this area has led to excitement about the potential of applying epigenetic regulation to drug discovery. EPIMAC aims to pursue the potential of epigenetics as a novel and innovative therapeutic modality for immuno-inflammatory diseases, in particular Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). IBD is a severe and disabling chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract affecting mi",{"id":23,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":24,"piName":10,"institution":25,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":27},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642014","Imprinted Polymers as Coffee Sensors","QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","UK","Food quality is a global key priority area where technological advances in terms of quality control have been limited. The aim of the IPCOS Network is to bring innovation to the field of food quality by offering an international, interdisciplinary and intersectorial doctoral training programme that will target the development of chemical sensors, using the molecular imprinting technology, for application in the coffee industry, focusing on three main targets: chlorogenic acids, cafestol and kaur",{"id":29,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":30,"piName":10,"institution":31,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":32},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642935","Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe","UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS","ENHANCE (Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe) will provide the first fully coordinated training programme for Environmental Humanities in Europe. It will train twelve early-stage researchers, joining three leading universities for environmental research––the University of Leeds, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, and the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm––with Europe's largest science and technology museum, the Deutsches Museum, and a further five Associated Partners from t",{"id":34,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":35,"piName":10,"institution":36,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":38},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-676452","European Joint Doctorate in Teacher Education","UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK","AT","The EDiTE joint research programme is a response to the current challenges in the complex processes of transformation of education professionals' career development. Particularly in focus is the teaching profession as central to all education systems. In the research area it is essential that typical national or regional perspective found in TE programmes are extended to include transnational perspectives. A European perspective on the academic level can only be fostered through joint European r",{"id":40,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":41,"piName":10,"institution":42,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":43},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642836","Engineering of new-generation protein secretion systems","ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN","The market for recombinant proteins, including biopharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes and membrane proteins, is estimated to be about 78 billion Euro and rising. A high proportion of the target proteins are produced in bacteria, where secretion out of the cytoplasm is a favoured strategy. However, current production platforms have severe limitations and cannot handle many secreted enzymes and membrane proteins. There is an overwhelming need for new production systems that can deliver these produ",{"id":45,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":46,"piName":10,"institution":47,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":49},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641984","Training and research in Listeria monocytogenes Adaptation through Proteomic and Transcriptome deep Sequencing Analysis","UNIVERSITE DIJON BOURGOGNE","FR","List_MAPS is a network dedicated to the training of innovative young researchers in the field of Microbiology and Systems Biology. It focuses on Listeria monocytogenes, an ubiquitous pathogen that is in the EU the leading cause of mortality and food recalls due to foodborne pathogens, costing the EU millions of euro per annum in medical care and associated costs in the food sector. ESRs will develop scientific expertise through PhD training, mobility of researchers, summer schools, workshops and",{"id":51,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":52,"piName":10,"institution":53,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":55},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675526","European Joint Doctorate in Biology and Technology of Reproductive Health","UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA","ES","The main objective of the European Doctorate in Biology and Technology of the Reproductive Health (REP-BIOTECH) is to build a research, training and academic programme in the interdisciplinary domain of reproductive health and fertility. Basic knowledge of mechanisms involved in mammalian fertilization and embryo development provides useful strategies to improve food quality (by implementation of efficient and secure animal reproductive technologies), human health (by contributing to the control",{"id":57,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":58,"piName":10,"institution":59,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":61},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675351","EU Training Network on Novel Targets and Methods in Atrial Fibrillation","KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET","DK","The AFib-TrainNet consortium will enable promising young scientists to become excellent research leaders of the future, capable of fighting the challenges that Atrial Fibrillation (AF) presents to the European population. AF is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, occurring in between 1-2% of the general population. More than 6 million Europeans suffer from this arrhythmia and its prevalence is expected to increase by more than two-fold during the next 40 years due to increased life exp",{"id":63,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":64,"piName":10,"institution":65,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":66},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642904","Interdisciplinary concepts for municipal wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Tackling future challenges","FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA DE RECERCA DE L'AIGUA","Wastewater treatment and management in Europe has a large potential for growth; however needs to be supported by education of a new generation of interdisciplinarily trained wastewater professionals able to face future challenges and implement wastewater-related directives in practice. TreatRec, with the participationof two academic partners (ICRA-Catalan Institute for Water Research and University of Girona) and two non-academic (ATKINS and AQUAFIN) identifies several pertinent technological ga",{"id":68,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":69,"piName":10,"institution":70,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":72},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642709","Around the Caspian: a Doctoral Training for Future Experts in Development and Cooperation with Focus on the Caspian Region","DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY","IE","The main goal of this project is to train the next generation of experts on the Caspian region in order to establish, and make sustainable, a network of excellence. This will be achieved through an integrated PhD programme on the Caspian that boosts the researchers’ theoretical, empirical and administrative skills, a thing that will make them extremely competitive for employment in both academic and non-academic sectors but also confident and knowledgeable enough to start their own projects. The",{"id":74,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":75,"piName":10,"institution":76,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":77},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675712","ALK Activation as a target of TRAanslational Science (ALKATRAS): Break free from cancer","THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","This ETN is embedded into an established international research programme; The European Research Initiative on Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK)-related malignancies (ERIA; www.erialcl.net) is an existing and functional network of 13 partners, which will cosset and nurture a cohort of early stage researchers to become confident, competent, independent and well-connected European scientists with excellent career perspectives. ERIA was instigated to coordinate research into ALK-related malignancies",{"id":79,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":80,"piName":10,"institution":81,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":82},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-633567","Improving Design, Evaluation and Analysis of early drug development Studies","UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER","Drug development is a long and costly process which suffers from the major shortcoming that frequently failure is often onlydetermined during the final stage. Recently, it has been recognised that more care needs to be taken during the early stagesof development to avoid going into lengthy and costly confirmatory studies with ineffective or harmful treatments. To achievethis goal it is essential to implement efficient methods for the design and analysis of such early development studies. Theexpe",{"id":84,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":85,"piName":10,"institution":86,"country":87,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":88},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675115","Regulation of red cell life-span, erythropoiesis, survival, senescence and clearance","UNIVERSITAT ZURICH","CH","Anaemia is the most common pathological condition affecting 1.6 billion individuals worldwide. It thus presents a serious health care problem and an economic burden. Reduction in red blood cell (RBC) number can be caused by blood loss, diet, stress conditions including endurance sport, and pathologies which are caused by primary genetic aberrations or are secondary to the malfunction of other cell types.  Transfusion of RBC, which is often the only cure for severe cases of anaemia, is associated",{"id":90,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":91,"piName":10,"institution":92,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":93},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675395","European Network linking informatics and genomics of helper T cells","HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR INFEKTIONSFORSCHUNG GMBH","ENLIGHT-TEN is a European Network Linking Informatics and Genomics of Helper T cells: our mission is to provide cross-disciplinary training in cellular immunology and big data analysis such that we train a new generation of researchers to fully exploit the power of emerging technological platforms. Our network of TEN beneficiaries combines T cell expertise with state-of-the-art technologies such as next generation sequencing (NGS), bioinformatics, multi-colour flow cytometry, preclinical models ",{"id":95,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":96,"piName":10,"institution":97,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":98},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642738","RNA-based technologies for single-cell metabolite analysis","RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN","Metabolism is the foundation of all living organisms. While cells in a population are often phenotypically different, most of our current analytical approaches still probe metabolism only at the population level. Because strong evidence exists that metabolic cell-to-cell heterogeneity has, for instance, disease relevance, researcher from MetaRNA will overcome this severe analytical limitation through exploiting exciting opportunities emerging from the RNA field. Such synergy potential between th",{"id":100,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":101,"piName":10,"institution":102,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":103},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675392","Deciphering PI3K biology in health and disease","FUNDACIO INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIO BIOMEDICA DE BELLVITGE","The Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway is at the core of multiple fundamental biological processes controlling metabolism, protein synthesis, cell growth, survival, and migration. This inevitably leads to the involvement of the PI3K signalling pathway in a number of different diseases, ranging from inflammation and diabetes to cancer, with PI3K pathway alterations present in almost 80% of human cancers. Therefore, PI3Ks have emerged as important targets for drug discovery and, during 2014,",{"id":105,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":106,"piName":10,"institution":107,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":108},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641833","ONCOgenic Receptor Network of Excellence and Training","STICHTING VU","Cancer is a leading health concern. There is a need to fully understand the fundamental processes underlying development of cancer. There is increasing evidence that G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and their associated signalling cascades are involved in both cancer progression and metastasis. As oncogenic GPCRs are likely to be amenable to manipulation via drugs they are ideal therapeutic targets. In ONCORNET (Oncogenic Receptor Network of Excellence and Training) we propose to target two o",{"id":110,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":111,"piName":10,"institution":112,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":113},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641943","Waves and Wave-Based Imaging in Virtual and Experimental Environments","SORBONNE UNIVERSITE","Demand for highly trained scientists with a deep understanding of wave propagation in complex media, and capable of exploiting this knowledge to develop imaging tools for seismology and acoustics, is very high in the Earth and environmental sciences. Wave-based imaging serves to map spatial and temporal variations in the structure of the Earth's interior, of the oceans and atmosphere; it is used to monitor faults and volcanoes and detect natural-resource reservoirs. It is relevant to other disci",{"id":115,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":116,"piName":10,"institution":117,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":118},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675448","Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Health and Disease","UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY","Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is emerging as a common feature in the pathology of numerous diseases including cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, metabolic syndromes and inflammatory diseases. Thus ER stress represents a potential therapeutic intervention point to be exploited to develop novel therapies, diagnostic tools and markers for these diseases. However, exploitation is hampered by the shortage of scientists with interdisciplinary training that can navigate with ease between the acad",{"id":120,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":121,"piName":10,"institution":122,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":124},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675320","European Network for Cyber-security","CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE","IT","The European Network for Cybersecurity (NECS) was formed in response to the increased need of highly qualified experts able to cope with all the aspects of the European cybersecurity strategy  that is currently under implementation.There is indeed an evident need and opportunity to grow a new generation of young researchers able to answer this demand for expertize, trained to the changing nature of the challenges to be faced. These challenges include evolvable threats and new technological means",{"id":126,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":127,"piName":10,"institution":128,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":129},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643071","Advanced Biological Waste-to-Energy Technologies","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CASSINO E DEL LAZIO MERIDIONALE","The Advanced Biological Waste-to-Energy Technologies (ABWET) EJD provides education and research at PhD level on environmental technologies that convert waste materials into bioenergy, training doctoral candidates to think globally and work in multidisciplinary research teams. This makes ABWET alumni attractive for European universities and industry, able to contribute to solving the global challenges of waste management, energy scarcity and sustainable development.  ABWET is centred around envi",{"id":131,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":132,"piName":10,"institution":70,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":133},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642023","Click Chemistry for Future Gene Therapies to Benefit Citizens, Researchers and Industry","Gene therapy is expected to play a key role in next-generation medicine by correcting the underlying genetic causes of disease, thereby facilitating personalised medicine. Current gene therapy methods possess undesirable side effects, including insertional mutagenesis, toxicity, low efficiency and off-target cutting. Questions also remain regarding the optimal methods for delivering nucleases into cells and tissues. These limitations will be addressed through the original and innovative approach",{"id":135,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":136,"piName":10,"institution":137,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":138},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-674901","In the eye of the observer: Visual processing at the heart of the retina","EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN","All visual information is broadcasted by an intra-retinal pathway formed by a group of neurons called bipolar cells. They collect photoreceptor signals in the outer retina and relay the signals to the inner retinal neurons. This transfer of visual information is far from passive: Each of the at least 10 bipolar cell types transforms the photoreceptor signals in a unique and highly specific way. As a result, the bipolar cell output signals form the first “elementary operations” from which the neu",{"id":140,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":141,"piName":10,"institution":142,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":143},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675063","EUROPEAN ESRs NETWORK ON SHORT PULSED LASER MICRO\u002FNANOSTRUCTURING OF SURFACES","BSH ELECTRODOMESTICOS ESPANA SA","Today, industrial markets demand highly added value products offering new features at a low-cost. To this extent, technologies to modify surfaces instead of creating composites or applying coatings on surfaces can offer new industrial opportunities. Current state of the art identifies short pulsed(SP)\u002Fultra-short pulsed(USP) laser-material processing as a promising technology for structuring surfaces and thus for embedding new functionalities for industrial applications. The LASER4FUN research p",{"id":145,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":146,"piName":10,"institution":147,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":149},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643238","SupramolecularlY eNgineered arCHitectures for optoelectRonics and photONICS: a multi-site initial training action","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON","€3,650,589","Photonics will play a major, enabling role in the future of ICT and healthcare. However, to fulfill its potential and deliver on its promises, photonics will heavily rely on novel and more performing materials, that can be manufactured cheaply for thespecific requirements of photonic applications. To lead this “photonics revolution” and rip the societal benefits of being at the leading-edge of novel technological and scientific developments, the EC needs a highly-skilled scientific and technical",{"id":151,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":152,"piName":10,"institution":153,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":154},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642294","Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling","UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID","Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling (TCCM) is emerging as a powerful tool to help in the rational design of new products and materials for pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, computer, and new-materials industries. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to go beyond the traditional electronic structure studies, and merge complementary techniques that are normally not available at a single research group. The research programme of the TCCM-EJD aims at applying computational modelling t",{"id":156,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":157,"piName":10,"institution":158,"country":159,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":160},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-674973","Training Network for the Design and Recycling of Rare-Earth Permanent Magnet Motors and Generators in Hybrid and Full Electric Vehicles","KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN","BE","Hybrid and Full Electric Vehicles ((H)EVs) are essential for the transition towards sustainable e-mobility. The permanent magnets in motors\u002Fgenerators of (H)EVs are either NdFeB or SmCo magnets, which contain large quantities of rare earths, which are critical metals with the highest supply risk for Europe. As highlighted by the European Rare Earths Competency Network, recycling of rare-earth magnets from (H)EVs should receive top priority. Reclaiming of rare-earth magnet motors\u002Fgenerators used ",{"id":162,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":163,"piName":10,"institution":164,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":165},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642774","Hybrid Colloidal Systems with Designed Response","UNIVERSITAT WIEN","The etymology of the word colloid stems from the Greek word for glue. The systematic study of colloids (as we perceive them nowadays) is considered to have begun in the middle of the 19th century. However, the word colloid itself had been mentioned before in very different senses. The development of the physics and chemistry of colloids really took off in the 20th century. Colloids found different applications in almost every part of our lives, and it might even seem that these systems are fully",{"id":167,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":168,"piName":10,"institution":169,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":170},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641887","DEFect NETwork materials science and engineering","RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM","Porous coordination network materials, also known as Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs), are at the cutting edge of molecular materials science. DEFNET, “DEFect NETwork materials science and engineering”, is the first European Training Network (ETN) at the intersection of chemistry, physics and engineering aimed at structural and functional complexity of MOFs. It provides a unique interdisciplinary training platform for early stage researchers and combines the expertise of the academic and the non-",{"id":172,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":173,"piName":10,"institution":174,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":175},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675676","Holistic Approach of Spray Injection through a Generalized Multi-phase Framework","CITY ST GEORGES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","Development of fuel injection equipment (FIE) able to reduce pollutant emissions from liquid-fueled transportation and power generation systems is a top industrial priority in order to meet the forthcoming EU 2020 emission legislations. However, design of new FIE is currently constrained by the incomplete physical understanding of complex micro-scale processes, such as in-nozzle cavitation, primary and secondary atomization. Unfortunately, today’s computing power does not allow for an all-scale ",{"id":177,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":178,"piName":10,"institution":179,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":180},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643063","MICROWINE - Microbial metagenomics and the modern wine industry","AARHUS UNIVERSITET","A diverse, complex, and poorly characterised community of microorganisms lies at the heart of the wine – an industry worth over €220 billion globally. These microorganisms play key roles at all stages of the viniculture and vinification processes, from helping plants access nutrients from the soil, driving their health through protection against pathogens, to fermentation processes that transform the must into wine with its complex array of aromas and flavours. Given this importance, an improved",{"id":182,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":183,"piName":10,"institution":184,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":185},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642414","Targeting Cartilage Regeneration in joint and intervertebral disc diseases","ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM","Mobility, important for well-being, is seriously impaired by chronic low back pain and osteoarthritis in many people due to degeneration of cartilaginous tissue of the intervertebral disc and joint. To develop a treatment for these diseases this ETN aims to combine expertise in novel highly advanced drug delivery carriers with dedicated targeting tools, state of the art imaging techniques and expertise in stem cell and joint biology by training 15 young scientists in 12 partner institutes locate",{"id":187,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":188,"piName":10,"institution":59,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":189},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-676480","Boosting plant-Endophyte STability, compatibility and Performance Across ScaleS","We need to increase the crop yield while reducing pesticide and use of inorganic fertiliser to meet the challenges of world population growth and climate change. Plant endophytic microorganisms can improve plant yield and enhance plant tolerance to abiotic stress as well as to pathogens under experimental conditions, but these effects are often not sufficiently stable for practical application. How do we boost the stability and reliability of the positive effects of endophytes on plants? We need",{"id":191,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":192,"piName":10,"institution":193,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":194},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641789","Molecular Electron Dynamics investigated by IntensE Fields and Attosecond Pulses","POLITECNICO DI MILANO","The interaction of matter with light is one of the most fundamental processes occurring in nature with countless scientific and technological applications. In recent years, the continuing development of intense, ultrashort, coherent light sources from the mid-infrared (mid-IR) to the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) spectral range has opened new possibilities for the investigation of this interaction in new and complementary domains. In both the IR and XUV regimes, molecules and clusters of atoms inter",{"id":196,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":197,"piName":10,"institution":198,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":200},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675044","Training for Big Data in Financial Research and Risk Management","TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR","FI","BigDataFinance, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network “Training for Big Data in Financial Research and Risk Management”, provides doctoral training in sophisticated data-driven risk management and research at the crossroads of Finance and Big Data for 13 researchers.  The main objectives are i) to meet an increasing commercial demand for well-trained researchers experienced in both Big Data techniques and Finance and ii) to develop and implement new quantitative and econometric me",{"id":202,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":203,"piName":10,"institution":204,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":205},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-676201","Connected Health Early Stage Researcher Support System","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN","Changing demographics and increasing pressure on health related resources mean that new models of care must be found.  Fortunately, technology developments and increasing digital literacy mean that we can now put the correct information in the correct hands at the correct time.  This is connected health and it allows patients, clinicians, and planners to make better decisions.  Ultimately, these decisions can save lives, save money and ensure a better quality of life for the patient during and a",{"id":207,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":208,"piName":10,"institution":147,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":209},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642355","FIber-Wireless Integrated Networks for 5th Generation delivery.","This European Training Network aims to produce the next generation of early stage researchers who will enable Europe to take a leading role in the development of future devices, systems and networks supporting the 5G high-speed wireless internet. To do this, researchers must be able to work in interdisciplinary teams, integrate their activities, share expertise, and promote a vision of a converged wireless and optical devices and networks that efficiently supports the services and applications b",{"id":211,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":212,"piName":10,"institution":42,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":213},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641805","Training the Next Generation of European Visual Neuroscientists for the benefit of innovation in health care and high-tech industry","The human visual brain can learn and adapt to change, which solves many of the problems posed by an ever-changing visual environment. However, to maintain a consistent overall representation of the visual world, the brain also has to retain previously acquired neuronal mechanisms. The key is to strike a balance between plasticity and stability.Increasing our knowledge about the stability and plasticity of the visual brain has tremendous potential for innovation in health care and high-tech indus",{"id":215,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":216,"piName":10,"institution":217,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":218},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642866","Research Training Network on Integrated Component Cycling in Epithelial Cell Motility","UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM AACHEN","Cell migration (cell motility) is a fundamental biological process that is pivotal in (i) tissue formation and repair (health) and (ii) tissue invasion during carcinogenesis (disease). Understanding and controlling cell migration will have major clinical impact. Clarifying mechanisms driving cell motility has been challenging due to the complex underlying cellular mechanisms; these involve multiple components coordinated by structural, chemical and physical signals in terms of time and space. To",{"id":220,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":221,"piName":10,"institution":222,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":223},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642901","Genetic and molecular priming approaches to increase crop strength and stress tolerance","UNIVERSITAET POTSDAM","The project provides advanced systems biology training for 5 ESRs who will develop novel methods for increasing crop strength and resistance to stress by alternative genetic and genomic, non-GMO, technologies: (1) Selecting allelic variants of a novel gene identified by members of the consortium which regulates oxidative and abiotic stress tolerance and (2) Molecular priming by biostimulants or low doses of H2O2 to induce stress-protective mechanisms in crops. This dual approach will meet the gr",{"id":225,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":226,"piName":10,"institution":227,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":228},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643056","Rapid Bioprocess Development","UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE","Reducing lead times of new medicinal drugs to the market by reducing process development and clinical testing timeframes is a critical driver in increasing European (bio)pharmaceutical industry competitiveness. Despite new therapeutic principles (e.g. the use of pluripotent stem cells, regenerative medicine and treatments based on personalised medicine or biosimilars) or regulatory initiatives to enable more efficient production, such as Quality by design (QbD) with associated Process Analytical",{"id":230,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":231,"piName":10,"institution":232,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":233},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-674801","European Training Network on “Process Fingerprint for Zero-defect Net-shape MICROMANufacturing”","DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET","The continuous trend towards miniaturization and multi-functionality embedded in products and processes calls for an ever increasing innovation, research and development within the European manufacturing sector. A necessary condition for the European productive sector to be at the global forefront of technology, ensuring job creation and sustainable growth, is to have access to innovative, entrepreneurial, highly skilled research engineers in the fields of micro manufacturing and micro product\u002Fp",{"id":235,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":236,"piName":10,"institution":237,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":238},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643130","Viruses, Immune stimulation and RNA Interference in Oncology Network","STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC","The Viruses, Immune stimulation and RNA Interference in Oncology Network (VIRION) is focused on the execution of an internationally competitive cancer research project focused on the development of a novel therapeutic regime by combining immune therapy with oncolytic virotherapy and RNA interference techniques. Recent clinical successes have shown the immune system to be a powerful ally in the fight against cancer. While surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy remain the first lines of treat",{"id":240,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":241,"piName":10,"institution":242,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":243},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643084","Brachiopods As SEnsitive tracers of gLobal marINe Environment: Insights from alkaline, alkaline Earth metal, and metalloid trace element ratios and isotope systems","HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR OZEANFORSCHUNG KIEL (GEOMAR)","Data on seawater composition since the start of the Phanerozoic eon ~540 million years ago provide essential information for understanding long-term chemical processes of socio-economic dimension like the evolution of life, land-ocean interaction, atmospheric chemistry, ecosystem adaptation to climate change, oceanic trace metal cycling, and for applied geological processes like the formation of submarine energy resources. Although partly known this knowledge is still limited pending new methodi",{"id":245,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":246,"piName":10,"institution":247,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":248},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642557","Advanced glasses, Composites And Ceramics for High growth Industries","POLITECNICO DI TORINO","The aim of CoACH (Advanced glasses, Composites And Ceramics for High growth Industries) is to offer a multidisciplinary training in the field of high-tech GLASSES, CERAMICS and COMPOSITES based on effective and proven industry-academia cooperation. Our scientific goals are to develop advanced knowledge on glass and ceramic based materials and to develop innovative, cost-competitive, and environmentally acceptable materials and processing technologies. The inter\u002Fmulti-disciplinary and -sectorial ",{"id":250,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":251,"piName":10,"institution":198,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":252},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-676401","European Training Network on Full Parallax Imaging","Current displays fall far short of truly recreating visual reality. This can never be achieved by painting an image on a flat surface such as a TV screen, but requires a full-parallax display which can recreate the complete lightfield, i.e. the light traveling in every direction through every point in space. Recent years have seen major developments towards this goal, promising a new generation of ultra-realistic displays with applications in medicine, informatics, manufacturing, entertainment, ",{"id":254,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":255,"piName":10,"institution":256,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":257},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642929","SUPRAmolecular polyolefins as oxygen BARRIER materials","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA","The production of the next generation of oxygen-barrier polyolefins materials capable of meeting the current and future demands of society in a sustainable manner will require both new technologies and highly trained scientists. Supramolecular chemistry provides a powerful approach to develop new materials with emerging properties, such as low permeability to oxygen, maintaining easy processing. The SUPRABARRIER EID ITN will train a new generation of European scientists with the skills necessary",{"id":259,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":260,"piName":10,"institution":261,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":262},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642642","Smart ELECTrodeposited Alloys for environmentally sustainable applications: from advanced protective coatings to micro\u002Fnano-robotic platforms","UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA","SELECTA is a highly inter-disciplinary initiative which has the primary goal of training young researchers in the field of smart electrodeposited metallic alloys suitable for environmental \u002F sustainable development applications. The Network encompasses the fabrication and in-depth characterization of: (i) innovative protective coatings, (ii) resilient micro\u002Fnano-electromechanical systems, and (iii) wirelessly actuated micro\u002Fnano-robotic platforms for cutting-edge environmental applications. The ",{"id":264,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":265,"piName":10,"institution":256,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":266},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642620","Interdisciplinary Training Network for Validation of Gram-Negative Antibacterial Targets","Antimicrobial resistance is posing a continuously-rising threat to global health. Indeed, one key recommendation from the recent “Action plan against the rising threats from Antimicrobial Resistance” report (submitted by the Commission to the European Parliament and Council (15.11.2011)) is the development of effective antimicrobials or alternatives for treatment of human and animal infections.  The INTEGRATE project is a direct response to this. We have assembled a team of 10 beneficiaries from",{"id":268,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":269,"piName":10,"institution":59,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":270},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642241","BIG4 - Biosystematics, Informatics and Genetics of the big 4 insect groups: training tomorrow's researchers and entrepreneurs","BIG4 is a global network to amalgamate the cutting edge methods of genomics, phylogenetics, informatics, taxonomy, semantic biodiversity publishing and citizen science, into highly competitive cross-disciplinary training programme for 15 ESRs with a stronghold in biosystematics. These 15 future leaders will extend the exploration of the four biggest groups of living organisms in a more forward looking way than has been attempted before. The urgent focus on the “big four” insect groups, i.e. Cole",{"id":272,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":273,"piName":10,"institution":274,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":275},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642004","Peptide-Drug Conjugates for Targeted Delivery in Tumor Therapy","UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD","Many tumor cells are characterized by the overexpression of certain antigens. Molecules that specifically recognize these structures are suitable as homing devices in tumor therapy. Conjugates of anticancer drugs with such a delivery vector targeting tumors would be a “magic bullet” according to the Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich. Three antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) have already been approved for anticancer therapy. However, ADC have e.g. limitations with respect to tumor penetration, high manufac",{"id":277,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":278,"piName":10,"institution":279,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":280},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642514","Training of Innovative, Creative and Entrepreneurial Researchers in Waterborne Dispersed Polymers","UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO\u002F EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA","TRACKWAY aims at training the next generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative researchers combining projects at the frontline of the research in functional dispersed polymers with interdisciplinary training in transferable and specialized skills. Based on the synergetic collaboration between BASF, a leading industry in dispersed polymers and University of the Basque Country, a reputed academic institution in the field, the research programme faces the challenge of innovation aiming a",{"id":282,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":283,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":284},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641939","Hyporheic Zone Processes – A training network for enhancing the understanding of complex physical, chemical and biological process interactions","Hyporheic zones (HZs) are key compartments for the functioning of aquatic ecosystems. As dynamic and complex transition regions between rivers and aquifers, they are characterized by the simultaneous occurrence of multiple physical, biological and chemical processes. Turnover and degradation of nutrients and pollutants figure among the prominent ecological services the HZ provides. We are facing a significant knowledge gap in the understanding of how hyporheic processes are linked and how they i",{"id":286,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":287,"piName":10,"institution":288,"country":289,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":290},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675153","Adaptation to a New Economic Reality","HASKOLI ISLANDS","IS","The present economic model of permanent growth is unstable and leads to cycles of growth, peaks and crashes.  We propose to contribute to developing new economic thinking based on knowledge of global resources availability. The Adaptation to a New Economic Reality (AdaptEconII) project is divided into three parts:  1. Sustainable resource management; 2. Integrated economic systems assessment; and 3. Integrating society and economics.  These components will be combined to form an overarching econ",{"id":292,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":293,"piName":10,"institution":193,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":294},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643134","Combustion for Low Emission Applications of Natural Gas","Natural Gas (NG) will be one of the key parameters of the EU energy policy for the next decades. EU gas imports are expected to reach over 80% of total consumption by 2030. Thus, the EU is investing heavily in natural gas equipment. Natural gas combustion has two side effects: the production of greenhouse gases and the emission of pollutants. Conventional techniques used to reduce these emissions are post-combustion treatments. Another solution is to act directly on the combustion process, limit",{"id":296,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":297,"piName":10,"institution":147,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":298},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642841","Distributed 3D Object Design","The DISTRO network brings together leading laboratories in Visual Computing and 3D Computer Graphics research across Europe with the aim of training a new generation of scientists, technologists, and entrepreneurs that will move Europe into a leading role in the scientific and technological innovation in the area of casual, distributed 3d object design and customization.Whilst digital content has certainly grown, the world’s economy is still dominated by manufacturing. A new class of rapid proto",{"id":300,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":301,"piName":10,"institution":59,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":302},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642720","European Training Network on Bone Pain","The aim is to create an innovative European PhD training network in bone pain. Millions in Europe and beyond suffer from bone pain, a debilitating complication of many musculoskeletal disorders such as arthritis and bone metastasis. However, being a truly multidisciplinary subject spanning neuroscience, bone biology, and even cancer research, it demands a multidisciplinary approach. Despite a huge negative impact on the quality of life of the patients and on society as a whole, no specific treat",{"id":304,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":305,"piName":10,"institution":306,"country":307,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":308},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675730","Privacy and Usability","KARLSTADS UNIVERSITET","SE","With the rapid accumulation and processing of personal data by numerous organizations, it is of paramount importance to protect people from adverse uses of their data, while allowing them to enjoy the benefits the use of these data can possibly provide. This is the question of protecting citizens’ privacy, while enabling them to make informed decisions regarding their actions with privacy implications.The PRIVACY.US innovative training network will train thirteen creative, entrepreneurial and in",{"id":310,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":311,"piName":10,"institution":312,"country":313,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":314},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675007","A training network for the chemical site-selective modification of proteins: Preparation of the next-generation of therapeutic chemically-defined protein conjugates","INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR JOAO LOBO ANTUNES","PT","ProteinConjugates is an inter- and multi-disciplinary network for the education of talented young scientists who will learn how to rationally design and construct the next generation of chemically-defined and innovative protein drug-conjugates for the targeted treatment of serious conditions such as cancer or rheumatoid arthritis. A complementary interaction between academy and pharmaceutical industry is at the centre of such a network, which involves 8 academic groups and 1 SME partner as benef",{"id":316,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":317,"piName":10,"institution":318,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":319},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642996","Integrated view on disruptions of early brain development","STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT","Early onset neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are rather common, and affect more than 30 million children in Europe. The disorders carry a huge burden to the patients and their families and to society in general. This burden is linked to their chronic course and the absence of curative treatments. These neurodevelopmental disorders are thought to result from the disruption of normal brain development and relat",{"id":321,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":322,"piName":10,"institution":323,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":324},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641549","Training Network for the Immunotherapy of Cancer","LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN","In the European Union, cancer is the leading cause of death and the overall cancer incidence is still increasing. As a result of expanding efforts to improve cancer outcome, a main paradigm change is occurring in cancer therapy towards individualized medicine. Antibody-based therapies form an integral and constantly growing part of this approach. Antibody-based therapies will strongly influence the coming decade of cancer care. The importance of immunotherapy has been highlighted by the prestigi",{"id":326,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":327,"piName":10,"institution":328,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":329},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642973","Drivers of Pontocaspian biodiversity RIse and DEmise","STICHTING NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER","Since the 1930s, the unique endemic aquatic biota of the Caspian-Black Sea region is facing a biodiversity crisis as it is severely affected by anthropogenic activities such as habitat destruction, invasive species and pollution. Understanding long-term natural biotic and abiotic drivers of lake system change and biotic response to perturbations in the past 2 Ma – i.e. gradual, rapid and\u002For threshold responses – is absolutely necessary to assess the current response of Pontocaspian biota to risi",{"id":331,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":332,"piName":10,"institution":333,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":334},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642445","Real time therapy planning for Thermal based therapy modalities in oncology care.","PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND BV","AdapTT will unlock the potential for development of a real time adaptive therapy planning tool for thermal treatment in prostate oncology. Highly specialized and cost effective state-of-the-art scientific solutions can only be developed when complimentary partners of different sectors work synergistically. The intersectoral nature of the European Industrial Doctorates (EID) framework, between industry and academia, is a key requirement for success of the proposed PhD projects. Specific applicati",{"id":336,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":337,"piName":10,"institution":318,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":338},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642820","Pulsed valves: Fast Forward","Small miracles occur in the ‘puff’ of gas emitted by a modern pulsed valve. Broad thermal velocity distributions are converted into a mono-velocity uni-directional supersonic jet and the numerous rotational states of the molecules in the jet are frozen down to their lowest level; all of this taking place in a very modest vacuum apparatus. Pulsed valves have revolutionized molecular dynamics and mass spectrometry research; however, the commercial supply of these valves is at this moment rapidly d",{"id":340,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":341,"piName":10,"institution":342,"country":343,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":344},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642934","Chromatin Dynamics in Development and Disease","IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS","EL","The cell nucleus is organized and compartmentalized into a highly ordered structure that contains DNA, RNA, chromosomal and histone proteins which make up a structure called chromatin. The dynamics associated with these various components are responsible for regulating physiological processes and the overall stability of the genome. The destabilization of such regulatory mechanisms that act on the chromatin structure are implicated in pathologies such as cancer. Higher order organization of chro",{"id":346,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":347,"piName":10,"institution":247,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":348},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642121","FULLY INTEGRATED ANALYSIS, DESIGN, MANUFACTURING AND HEALTH-MONITORING OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES","Composite structures are massively exploited in many engineering fields. For instance, the state-of-the-art civil aircraft (B787 and A350) are mostly made of composite materials. The design of composites leads to challenging tasks since those competencies that stemmed from the adoption of metallic materials are often inadequate for composites. Insights on many different disciplines and tight academic\u002Findustrial cooperation are required to fully exploit composite structure capabilities. The skill",{"id":350,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":351,"piName":10,"institution":31,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":352},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641458","MELanoma GENetics - understanding and biomarking the genetic and immunological determinants of melanoma survival","MELGEN (MELanoma GENetics) – understanding and biomarking the genetic and immunological determinants of melanoma survivalThe MELGEN European Training Network (ETN) will create an environment for long-term, collaborative, inter-sectorial cancer genetics research with the ultimate aim of improving precision (personalised) medicine. In a 2012 report the European Science Foundation identified the importance of precision medicine and recommended that there should be 1) provision of comprehensive, acc",{"id":354,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":355,"piName":10,"institution":356,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":357},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675527","Modulation of glycolytic flux as a new approach for treatment of atherosclerosis and plaque stabilization: a multidisciplinary study","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO","The mission of MoGlyNet is to define a joint doctorate educational training model in Drug Discovery and Development where Academia and Industry join their forces for:- creating a common platform of knowledge and language for early stage researchers (ESR) working in the Drug Discovery and Development area aiming to convey complementary pharma-skills- exploiting this platform to train a new generation of cutting-edge researchers and professionals highly attractive for employment by the European Ph",{"id":359,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":360,"piName":10,"institution":31,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":361},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675866","Complex and Open Innovation for Networked Society","COINS European Industrial Doctorate partnership will create a sustainable platform for researchers to engage in collaborative production of knowledge by investigating challenges for managing processes of complex and open innovation created by advances in digital technology. Five Early Stage Researchers, accompanied by experienced, interdisciplinary and intersectoral group of supervisors will study development of innovation capabilities required for organizations of different types to effectively",{"id":363,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":364,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":365},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675715","Mathematics and Materials Science for Steel Production and Manufacturing","The five partners EFD (Norway), SSAB, Outokumpu, and University of Oulu (Finland), and WIAS (Germany) propose an EID programme on Mathematics and Materials Science for Steel Production and Manufacturing, where eight PhD projects are jointly carried out, providing a unique interdisciplinary and inter-sectorial training opportunity. The research is focussed on three major topics - induction heating, phase transformations in steel alloys, ladle stirring. Two theses concern hardening: one is the har",{"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-643159","Advanced Pump Engineering for Severe Applications","WEIR MINERALS NETHERLANDS BV","Weir Minerals Netherlands (WMNL), a subsidiary of The Weir Group PLC, is a manufacturer of industrial pumps for the mining, energy and minerals and waste processing sectors. WMNL, in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde (UStrath), is proposing an Advanced Pump Engineering for Severe Applications (APESA) EID to improve the total cost ownership of the GEHO slurry pump range. The GEHO range of positive displacement (PD) pumps for transportation of mineral concentrates and feeding of min",{"id":372,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":373,"piName":10,"institution":25,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":374},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642959","Industrial optimal design using adjoint CFD","Adjoint-based methods have become the most interesting approach in numerical optimisation using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) 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 projects FlowHead and AboutFlow which develops complete adjoint-based design methods",{"id":376,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":377,"piName":10,"institution":378,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":379},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642434","European Training Network on Antiviral Drug Development","UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT","Viral infections are a major cause of disease, mortality and economic losses worldwide. Antiviral therapy is an essential instrument to control virus infections. At present, however, licensed antiviral drugs have been developed only against a limited number of viruses (e.g. HIV, HCV, influenza, herpesviruses). There is a clear and unmet need for antiviral drugs to treat infections with other important human pathogens.Europe needs well-trained experts with multidisciplinary skills to advance the ",{"id":381,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":382,"piName":10,"institution":383,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":384},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642571","Children Born of War - Past, Present and Future","THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM","The physical and psychosocial impact of armed conflict on children is immense and particularly so, if these children are associated with the enemy. Overwhelming evidence suggests that children born of war (CBOW), i.e. children fathered by foreign soldiers and born to local mothers have been and continue to be a major obstacle to successful integration of both their mothers and themselves into post-conflict societies. At a global level, previous UN studies have further emphasized the lack of rese",{"id":386,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":387,"piName":10,"institution":388,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":389},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675919","Empowered decision-making in simulation-based engineering: Advanced Model Reduction for real-time, inverse and optimization in industrial problems","UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA","“AdMoRe: Empowered decision-making in simulation-based engineering: Advanced Model Reduction for real-time, inverse and optimization in industrial problems” aims at providing in-depth training of Early Stage Researches (ESRs) in the development and application of state-of-the-art computational models and numerical methods to solve cutting-edge engineering problems. The main driving factors of all the beneficiaries are reduced order modeling techniques for real-time, inverse and optimization prob",{"id":391,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":392,"piName":10,"institution":383,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":393},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675790","Deciphering the Metabolism of Haematological Cancers","It has long been realised that metabolism is central to cellular development, proliferation and homeostasis. Collectively, aberrations in metabolism are now recognised as a major hallmark of cancer, opening new avenues for personalised medicine. As haematological malignancies are multi-factorial diseases, our main emphasis will be on the integration of biomedical multi-omics data and computational systems modelling with the ultimate aim to understand metabolic regulation in haematological cancer",{"id":395,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":396,"piName":10,"institution":397,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":398},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642771","Lightning protection of wind turbine blades with carbon fibre composite materials","UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON","The consortium behind SPARCARB – Global Lightning Protection Services A\u002FS (GLPS, non-academic beneficiary), Denmark, together with the University of Southampon (SOTON, academic beneficiary entitled to award doctoral degrees), UK, and six Partner organizations – aims at providing an innovative international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral training network for four Early-Stage Researcher (ESRs), which will integrate in a single project (1) Science-based Training in material and electrical eng",{"id":400,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":401,"piName":10,"institution":402,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":403},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643050","Drug-Free Antibacterial Hybrid Biopolymers for Medical Applications","LUCIDEON LIMITED","There is a general consensus that biomedical polymers of natural and synthetic origin should and will play a very important role in the development of new therapeutic strategies to treat diseases. Due to resistance of bacteria to drugs, infection has become one of the toughest problems in the medical world as there are hardly any effective antibiotics left in the fight against many pathogens. This project aims to develop new therapies through a new combination of technology (a) development of ne",{"id":405,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":406,"piName":10,"institution":407,"country":159,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":408},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642656","Nanophotonics by Nanocrystals, from integration to single photon operation","UNIVERSITEIT GENT","Phonsi is a research and training program on the development of nanophotonic devices by means of colloidal nanocrystals. Working at the cross-roads of nanomaterials and nanophotonics, it brings together multinational and start-up companies with universities and research institutes around a research programme combining the synthesis and analysis of quantum dots (QDs) with the formation of QD-based nanophotonic devices for emitting and detecting light down to the single photon level. The consortiu",{"id":410,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":411,"piName":10,"institution":412,"country":313,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":413},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642116","Service Design for Innovation","UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO","Service Design for Innovation (SDIN)-ETN aims to integrate service design and service innovation approaches that are now dispersed into an innovative research training framework; doing so leverages the creative power of service design to foster innovation. Specific objectives are: creating a mass of researchers who can drive widespread application of service design to leapfrog innovation in European organisations; and developing interdisciplinary competences in the key SDIN area and in key servi",{"id":415,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":416,"piName":10,"institution":417,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":418},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642095","From Omics to Patient: Improving Diagnostics of Pathogenic Yeasts","FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA","OPATHY is an innovative translational research training network that will explore the potential of omics technologies, including genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics, to study the interactions of yeasts that cause disease to humans (e.g. Candida and Cryptococcus sp.) with their host, and to develop new diagnostic tools to monitor yeast infections in the clinic. Today, these infections are poorly understood, difficult to diagnose, and are becoming increasingly frequent and serious, affecting ",{"id":420,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":421,"piName":10,"institution":204,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":422},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642662","Head protection: a European training network for Advanced Designs in Safety","Head injury is the most severe injury caused by motorcycling, bicycling, snowsports and equestrian activities, and it is the leading cause of death within these activities. Linear acceleration has been used extensively to determine head injury risk, but it has been found that brain injury is actually influenced by angular kinematics. This is ignored by current injury criteria and product certification tests. To date, there is no consensus in terms of head injury due to angular kinematics and thi",{"id":424,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":425,"piName":10,"institution":342,"country":343,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":426},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642743","Wireless Visionaries for 2020","The industrial telecommunications sector stands currently at the forefront of a new era, which is marked by the transition to the new generation of wireless communications, namely the rise of 5G. With the recent explosion of the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications and the Internet-of-Things applications, the internet traffic is growing exponentially. Future networks should support applications with extremely variant Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, from low throughput and generally med",{"id":428,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":429,"piName":10,"institution":158,"country":159,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":430},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675746","Innovative training network: Immunoprofile-directed stratification of patients with the autoimmune disorder thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura","The PROFILE Innovative European Industrial Doctoral programme will develop improved tools for stratification of patients with the autoimmune disorder acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). Patient stratification is needed in order to further develop personalized medicine approaches for human disorders. Therefore, a detailed understanding of the disease at the molecular level is needed. Furthermore, implementation of a robust set of novel biomarkers is essential for stratification of",{"id":432,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":433,"piName":10,"institution":434,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":435},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642380","Metabolomic analysis for the forensic detection of drugs of abuse in performance and food producing animals","THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST","Forensic detection of the illicit use of drugs in performance and food-producing animals is experiencing critical shifts in paradigms with a growing threat in the form of new compounds emerging from human drug development and clinical applications. The MET-A-FOR project will be the first European training platform solely focussed on the development and practical advancement of animal forensic testing based on new concepts in metabolomics. This EID programme will train 3 early stage researchers (",{"id":437,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":438,"piName":10,"institution":439,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":440},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642795","Answering Questions using Web Data","RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN","The H2020 work programme aims at increasing citizens’ participation in the digital society and making infrastructures“smart”. These processes are increasingly data-driven. Our central motivation is that sharing, connecting,managing, analysing and understanding data on the Web will enable better services for citizens, communities andindustry. However, turning web data into successful services for the public and private sector requires skilled weband data scientists, and it still requires further ",{"id":442,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":443,"piName":10,"institution":444,"country":307,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":445},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642328","ArcInTex ETN","HOEGSKOLAN I BORAS","A fundamental challenge in design research today is to define the design programs that suggest how we can turn our days scientific knowledge and technical development into design for new forms of living that will provide foundations for a more sustainable way of life. Through a cross-disciplinary and cross-national network in architecture, textiles and interaction design the consortium will build and train a new research community to take on this challenge in practice based design research from ",{"id":447,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":448,"piName":10,"institution":449,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":450},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642760","European Dry Eye Network","UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID","EDEN is a platform for the training and career development of 10 early-stage researchers (ESRs) in Vision Sciences. It coordinates research and training collaboration among 4 leading academic institutions in Europe, providing for a new combination of in-depth expertise from different countries. Furthermore, to strengthen the contact with the industrial world, the network has the following partners: 1 large company of hospitals, 1 SME that provides advance ophthalmic devices for ocular examinatio",{"id":452,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":453,"piName":10,"institution":454,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":455},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642768","Modelling and Computation of Shocks and Interfaces","THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX","The proposed ITN entitled  Modelling and computation of Shocks and Interfaceswill focus on the training of young researchers in the general area of nonlinear hyperbolic and convection dominated PDEs with emphasis on innovative modelling and computational methods.The research program of the proposed ITN is centered on an important field (in terms of both history and scope), that is placed at the forefront of modern Computational and Applied Mathematics.The fact that hyperbolic convection dominate",{"id":457,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":458,"piName":10,"institution":459,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":460,"abstract":461},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641456","Breeding Invertebrates for Next Generation BioControl (BINGO)","WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY","€3,288,069","BACKGROUNDSecure and sustainable food production in terms of quantity and quality is a major challenge facing human societies. However, food security is continuously threatened by current and invasive pest species. EU regulations for the use of pesticides are getting stricter to ensure food safety and protect ecosystem health. Biocontrol of agricultural pests by using natural enemies has great potential to deal with these two demands.CHALLENGEControlling novel exotic pests often involves importi",{"id":463,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":464,"piName":10,"institution":465,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":466},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675132","MASS Spectrometry TRaining network for Protein Lipid adduct ANalysis","ASTON UNIVERSITY","MASSTRPLAN will train the next generation of interdisciplinary research leaders in advanced molecular analytical techniques to detect oxidized phospholipids & proteins in biological & clinical samples, evaluate their biochemical roles in inflammation, and translate these findings to develop new diagnostic tools. Chronic inflammatory diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD) & cancer are major causes of mortality and cost the EU economy dearly in healthcare and lost working time; CV",{"id":468,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":469,"piName":10,"institution":470,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":471},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642157","Toll-Like Receptor 4 activation and function in diseases: an integrated chemical-biology approach.","UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA","Based on an international team derived from the COST action BM1003 (www.cost-bm1003.info, 2011-2014) and thus relying on consolidated group interactions and synergies and on a unique combination of chemistry, biology, biophysics, biochemistry and pharmacology expertise, the TOLLerant project aims to gain information on molecular aspects of TLR4 activation and signaling by using synthetic and natural compounds and nanoparticles that interact selectively with some components (mainly MD-2 and CD14)",{"id":473,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":474,"piName":10,"institution":475,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":476},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675318","Innovative controls for renewable sources Integration into smart energy systems","FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA EN ENERGIA DE CATALUNYA","The continuous increase of the share of renewable energy sources is redefining the electrical networks. In future infrastructures, an important number of agents (sources, storage devices and consumers) will have intelligent interfaces allowing the regulation of the injection and extraction of power into the grid. This context will create multiple alternatives to increase the efficiency in electricity generation and consumption, to reduce energy costs and to provide a more reliable operation of e",{"id":478,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":479,"piName":10,"institution":480,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":481},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675378","GRACE: Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe","UNIVERSITY OF HULL","The aim of the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project is to systematically investigate the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe. Extending the success of GEMMA, the Erasmus Mundus ‘Masters of Excellence’ in Women’s and Gender Studies, the central objective of GRACE is to become the programme of reference for innovative interdisciplinary doctoral training for early career researchers. Previous scholarly work focuses on European gender equality policies. GRACE ",{"id":483,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":484,"piName":10,"institution":485,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":486},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643045","Applied mathematics for risk measures in finance and insurance, in the wake of the crisis","STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN","The EID WAKEUPCALL has been set up with the knowledge that, in the WAKE of the financial crisis, a reconsideration of fundamental assumptions that have been standard in the mathematical models for the valuation of financial and insurance products, like CALLs is taking place. The crisis alerted to reiterate models, assumptions and computations. It is now better understood that the usual paradigm, in which financial risks can be mitigated, spread, or even hedged away perfectly, is too simplistic f",{"id":488,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":489,"piName":10,"institution":490,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":491},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642623","Radiation Innovations for Therapy and Education","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD","Approximately 45-60% of all cancer patients are treated with radiotherapy. Some of these patients have a good outcome, but in other cases their illness fails to be cured. This may result from distant metastases or from regrowth of the primary tumor. This training network is built on the premise that considerable advances in understanding radiobiology will open novel routes for effective therapeutic intervention with biological targets to improve the outcome of cancer treatment; this progress req",{"id":493,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":494,"piName":10,"institution":495,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":496},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-676455","Time-lapse understanding of the static and human scene and its lighting","OSRAM GMBH","Europe has a strong position in the fast-growing photonics and lighting industry but has to face the fast technological changes and, most importantly, a demand for larger transfer from research to industrial innovation and application. With the introduction of Solid State Lighting (SSL) new targets of energy efficiency were set and smart lighting technology was boosted.SCENEUNDERLIGHT leverages the privileged role of Europe in photonics as well as in smart lighting technologies. We propose 1. tr",{"id":498,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":499,"piName":10,"institution":158,"country":159,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":500},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643161","European Integrated Research Training Network on Advanced Cryptographic Technologies for the Internet of Things and the Cloud","The goal of this ETN is to develop advanced cryptographic techniques for the Internet of Things and the Cloud and to create implementations that offer a high level of security and increased usability, for a wide range of physical computation platforms. The ITN will equip a group of 15 early stage researchers with a set of interdisciplinary skills combining mathematics, computer science and electrical engineering that will allow them to create advanced cryptographic solutions that will be availab",{"id":502,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":503,"piName":10,"institution":504,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":505},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642963","BigStorage: Storage-based Convergence between HPC and Cloud to handle Big Data","UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID","The consortium of this European Training Network (ETN) BigStorage: Storage-based Convergence between HPC and Cloud to handle Big Data” will train future data scientists in order to enable them and us to apply holistic and interdisciplinary approaches for taking advantage of a data-overwhelmed world, which requires HPC and Cloud infrastructures with a redefinition of storage architectures underpinning them - focusing on meeting highly ambitious performance and energy usage objectives.There has be",{"id":507,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":508,"piName":10,"institution":509,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":510},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642108","Advanced Wind Energy Systems Operation and Maintenance Expertise","FUNDACION CIRCE CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION DE RECURSOS Y CONSUMOS ENERGETICOS","AWESOME network aims to educate eleven young researchers in the wind power operation and maintenance (O&M) field by constructing a sustainable training network gathering the whole innovation value chain. The main EU actors in the field of wind O&M have worked together, under the umbrella of the European Wind Energy Academy (EAWE), in order to design a training program coping with the principal R&D challenges related to wind O&M while tackling the shortage of highly-skilled professionals on this ",{"id":512,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":513,"piName":10,"institution":232,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":514},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642661","Infrared sensing made visible: Combining infrared light sources and upconversion sensors for improved sensitivity in medical applications and gas analysis","The mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength range is an emerging and important new topic for frontier research. Its general importance relates to a multitude of mid-IR industrial and biomedical sensor applications. Chemical finger prints of most complex molecules such as those found in food, tissue or catalytic compounds all have vibrational spectra in the mid-IR, thus identifiable through mid-IR spectroscopy. Incidentally also the fundamental absorption bands of gas molecules are located in the mid-IR",{"id":516,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":517,"piName":10,"institution":518,"country":519,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":520},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642080","Social Science Aspects of Fisheries for the 21st Century","UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET","NO","SAF21 is an interdisciplinary and intersectoral network that embeds the social scientists of the future into EU fisheries management systems. It trains experts in analysis of human social behaviour for the better management of socio-ecological complex systems such as fisheries. Behaviour of fishers is complex as trust building and norms acceptance influence compliance with fishing regulations in unpredictable ways. The desired behaviour of fishers is often different from the actual subsequent on",{"id":522,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":523,"piName":10,"institution":524,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":525},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675659","European Industrial DoCtorate on Offshore WiNd and Wave ENergy","THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN","ICONN is a unique European Industrial Doctorate initiative to meet the current and future demand for highly skilled offshore wind and wave energy engineers by developing and advancing European capacity in the design, development and performance optimisation for Offshore Wind and Wave Energy installations. The initiative is strongly shaped by active participation from industries, and will develop and enhance  European capacity in the offshore renewable energy area at a critical juncture in time w",{"id":527,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":528,"piName":10,"institution":529,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":530},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643072","innovative Quality Of Experience maNagement in Emerging mulTimedia services","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CAGLIARI","The realization of the paradigm of Internet anywhere, anytime and any-device and the diffusion of end-user multimedia devices with powerful and user-friendly capabilities such as smartphones, tablets PCs, mobile gaming terminals and e-books, are leading to the proliferation of a significant amount of emerging multimedia services: immersive environments, mobile online gaming, 3D virtual world, book\u002Fnewspaper consumption, social networking, IPTV applications, just to cite a few. Some of these serv",{"id":532,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":533,"piName":10,"institution":534,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":535},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642688","Dynamic electromechanical control of semiconductor nanostructures by acoustic fields","UNIVERSITAET AUGSBURG","The dynamic modulation of semiconductor structures using vibrations provides a powerful tool for the control of the materials properties required for novel functionalities. Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) with GHz-frequencies and micrometre-size wavelength can be generated using piezoelectric transducers fabricated with standard integrated circuit technology. Their small propagation velocity and high sensitivity to disturbances confined to a superficial region have long been exploited in electroni",{"id":537,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":538,"piName":10,"institution":539,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":540},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-674875","Platform-aware Model-driven Optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN","Many modern industrial systems fall in the realm of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) because of the tight interaction between computation, communication and control elements (the cyber part), and physical processes such as motion, heating\u002Fcooling, vibration, wear and tear (the physical part) within these systems. Traditional design methods involve multiple, often isolated, design phases involving different disciplines (mechanical, electrical, control and software engineering). Requirements related t",{"id":542,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":543,"piName":10,"institution":544,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":545},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-676421","Exploiting Glycosylation of Colorectal Cancer for the development of improved diagnostics and therapeutics","ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN","Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a major worldwide cancer burden with about 1.4 million cases in 2012 and an annual mortality of approximately 700,000. Early detection is crucial as treatment is most efficient in early stages where population based screenings could substantially reduce incidence and mortality.Current screening techniques are invasive or lack sensitivity and specificity. Moreover, the molecular mechanisms leading to the formation of different antigens suggested as CRC biomarkers and po",{"id":547,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":548,"piName":10,"institution":549,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":550},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642892","New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art","UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT","The importance of European cultural heritage has been generally acknowledged. A significant part of this heritage, however, modern and contemporary art, runs a great risk of getting lost for future generations, because it is particularly difficult to preserve. Proper care requires resolving fundamental questions concerning the identity and authenticity of modern and contemporary artworks and the consequences for their conservation, rethinking historically grown professional distinctions as those",{"id":552,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":553,"piName":10,"institution":554,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":555},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642609","Control of leishmaniasis, from bench to bedside and community","FUNDACION PRIVADA INSTITUTO DE SALUD GLOBAL BARCELONA","Leishmaniasis control is the topic for EUROLEISH-NET, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie – Innovative Training Network. Leishmaniasis is a neglected infectious disease and a major public health and veterinary problem that afflicts both developing countries and Europe. The current technological and epidemiological advances underpin the necessity to develop training programmes aiming at developing new tools and strategies to control of leishmaniasis. An excellent group of academic and non-academic instituti",{"id":557,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":558,"piName":10,"institution":559,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":560},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642332","Joint Doctorate in Geoinformatics - Enabling Open Cities","UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER","Urbanisation has been a key trend for centuries and is expected to continue throughout the 21st century as well. Cities have to continuously strive to provide a sustainable, safe and liveable environment for their ever-increasing populations. In recent years, the term ‘smart cities’ has been coined for initiatives that monitor and analyse different aspects of urban life, and manage service provision intelligently. A key gap in this area relates to how people can understand the processes driving ",{"id":562,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":563,"piName":10,"institution":564,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":565},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642068","UNDERSTANDING THE CLOSTRIDIUM SPORE, A PREREQUISTE FOR DISEASE INTERVENTIONS AND EXPLOITATION","THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM","Bacterial endospores are the most resistant life-forms on earth and the most important single feature of the genus Clostridium. Thus, whilst the pathogenesis of its notorious pathogens (C. botulinum, C. perfringens and C. difficile) is ascribed to the devastating toxins produced (neurotoxins, endotoxins and cytotoxins), it is their capacity to produce spores that lies at the heart of the diseases they cause. This is because spores play the pivotal role in the spread of infection (eg, C. difficil",{"id":567,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":568,"piName":10,"institution":569,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":570},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642196","Integrated self-assembled SWITCHable systems and materials: towards responsive organic electronics – a multi-site innovative training action","UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG","iSwitch will offer top-level multi-disciplinary and supra-sectorial training to a pool of talented young researchers, involving contributions from different scientific and technological fields such as, supramolecular chemistry, materials, nanoscience, physics and engineering. iSwitch’s appointees will be trained through lecture courses, dedicated international schools and workshops, topical conferences, secondments to other consortium nodes and an ambitious and carefully planned research activit",{"id":572,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":573,"piName":10,"institution":574,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":575},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642682","Airborne Wind Energy System Modelling, Control and Optimisation","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT","The height of conventional wind turbines is limited by the enormous stresses on the structure. The idea of the Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) is to replace the most efficient part of a conventional wind turbine, the tip of the turbine blade, with a fast flying high efficiency kite, and to replace the rest of the structure by a tether which anchors the kite to the ground. Power is generated either by periodically pulling a ground based generator via a winch, or by small wind turbines mounted on the k",{"id":577,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":578,"piName":10,"institution":579,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":580},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642685","Machine Sensing Training Network","UNIVERSITY OF SURREY","The aim of this Innovative Training Network is to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers (ESRs) in the research area of measurement and estimation of signals using knowledge or data about the underlying structure. With its combination of ideas from machine learning and sensing, we refer to this research topic as “Machine Sensing”. We will train all ESRs in research skills needed to obtain an internationally-recognized PhD; to experience applyin",{"id":582,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":583,"piName":10,"institution":76,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":584},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642192","Multi-Stimuli Responsive Molecular Systems and Materials","Nanotechnology has been identified as a key enabling technology of economic growth and the value of nanomaterials in the global market is forecast to grow to €2 trillion by 2015. In order to be a market leader in this area, it is imperative that Europe invest in research where the gap between knowledge creation and successful commercialisation is bridged, and in training the next generation of highly skilled researchers in nanotechnology. This ETN will increase innovation capacity and strengthen",{"id":586,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":587,"piName":10,"institution":383,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":588},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642773","EUROPOL","NMR and MRI play unique roles in contemporary Science, from Physics, Chemistry and Biology, to clinical research and diagnosis. Despite its irreplaceable role, further progress in NMR and MRI is hampered by sensitivities that are much lower than those of alternatives such as mass-spec, or PET. The prospects of solving this problem by “bigger machines” are uncertain and of poor return, given the high maturity already achieved by NMR\u002FMRI. This ETN challenges this status from an untapped perspectiv",{"id":590,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":591,"piName":10,"institution":592,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":593},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675585","Systematic Models for Biological Systems Engineering Training Network","IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE","Mathematical, computational models are central in biomedical and biological systems engineering; models enable (i) mechanistically justifying experimental results via current knowledge and (ii) generating new testable hypotheses or novel intervention methods. SyMBioSys is a joint academic\u002Findustrial training initiative supporting the convergence of engineering, biological and computational sciences. The consortium's mutual goal is developing a new generation of innovative and entrepreneurial ear",{"id":595,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":596,"piName":10,"institution":597,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":598},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675440","Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis for New Physics Searches at the LHC","ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE","With the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider, LHC, the Standard Model of particle physics has been completed, emerging as a most successful description of matter at the smallest distance scales. But as is always the case, the observation of this particle has also heralded the dawn of a new era in the field: particle physics is now turning to the mysteries posed by the presence of dark matter in the universe, as well as the very existence of the Higgs. The upcoming run ",{"id":600,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":601,"piName":10,"institution":602,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":603},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675762","Training Engineers and Researchers to Rethink geotechnical Engineering  for a low carbon future","UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE","TERRE aims to develop novel geo-technologies to address the competitiveness challenge of the European construction industry in a low carbon agenda. It will be delivered through an inter-sectoral and intra-European coordinated PhD programme focused on carbon-efficient design of geotechnical infrastructure. Industry and Research in the construction sector have been investing significantly in recent years to produce innovative low-carbon technologies. However, little innovation has been created in ",{"id":605,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":606,"piName":10,"institution":607,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":608},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642687","Engineering responsive and biomimetic hydrogels for biomedical therapeutic and diagnostic applications","DWI LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR INTERAKTIVE MATERIALIEN EV","BIOGEL is set up to educate young scientists to develop innovative hydrogel chemistries and systems for biomedical applications. The first objective is to provide a platform for young researchers to undergo a well-rounded PhD education, particularly focussed on translational skills for a career focused in biomedical research and medical technology development. The second objective is to engineer functional and responsive hydrogels, which resemble specific properties of the extracellular matrix. ",{"id":610,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":611,"piName":10,"institution":612,"country":87,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":613},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642889","MEDICIS-produced radioisotope beams for medicine","ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE","Pure accelerated radioisotope beams have been used for 50 years in fundamental physics R&D, e.g. for nuclear structure studies (pear shaped exotic nuclei, Nature 2013); CERN-ISOLDE plays a central role in developing accelerator technologies and fostering collaborative approaches to advance this field of isotope mass separation online. Our most recent contribution was the use of nanomaterial targets for more intense and reliable beam production, and laser ion sources for their purification (disco",{"id":615,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":616,"piName":10,"institution":174,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":617},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642536","Development and experimental validation of computational models for cavitating flows, surface erosion damage and material loss","Cavitation, described as the formation of vapour\u002Fgas bubbles of a flowing liquid in a region where the pressure of the liquid falls below its vapour pressure, often leads to vibration and damage of mechanical components, for example, bearings, fuel injectors, valves, propellers and rudders, impellers, pumps and hydro turbines. Cavitation erosion when experienced, normally leads to significant additional repair and maintenance costs or component replacement.  Even if erosion problems can be avoid",{"id":619,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":620,"piName":10,"institution":174,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":621},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675528","Effect of 4500bar injection pressure and super-critical phase change of surrogate and real-world fuels enriched with additives and powering Diesel engines on soot emissions reduction","Reduction of soot emissions from Diesel engines will be explored by utilising simultaneously (a) injection pressure between 2000-4500bar, (b) engine operation at supercritical conditions relative to the injected fuel’s critical point and (c) additives that improve atomisation and reduce pollutant formation. The detailed processes of nozzle flow cavitation\u002Fboiling, atomisation, phase-change and mixing, combustion and soot emissions under such conditions will be explored both experimentally and co",{"id":623,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":624,"piName":10,"institution":383,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":625},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643062","Computational and functional annotation of genomic elements during development of the model vertebrate zebrafish","The recent explosion of next generation sequencing (NGS) data has caught Europe unprepared and led to a critical shortage of computational biology expertise. As NGS methods are expected to become pervasive from basic science to personalised medicine there is an urgent need for highly skilled young scientists trained in both computational biology and experimental wet lab biology. Our network addresses this important problem of the postgenomic era. We aim to provide multi-disciplinary skills for a",{"id":627,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":628,"piName":10,"institution":629,"country":87,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":630},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675619","Brain barriers training","UNIVERSITAET BERN","The brain barriers function to protect the central nervous system (CNS) from neurotoxic compounds. By the same traits they unfortunately block delivery of drugs to the CNS thus hindering proper diagnosis and effective treatment of neurological disorders including Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis. The unusual complexity of the brain barriers has severely hampered progress in the market of CNS targeting therapeutics. BtRAIN bridges this gap by creating particular knowledge on vertebrate ",{"id":632,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":633,"piName":10,"institution":574,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":634},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642987","Multi-Scale Fluid Flow in DYNamically FRACtured Porous Reservoir","The unconventional recovery processes of oil and gas reservoirs raise significant costs and risks to the surrounding environment (including contamination of ground water, risks to air quality etc.) around the world and threatens to pose greater challenges in the future to meet the rising energy demand. The oil-gas industry is meeting this threat with developing diverse technologies that work by different mechanisms but share a common goal: to reduce risks for the surrounding environment and to i",{"id":636,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":637,"piName":10,"institution":638,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":639},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643095","Research and training network on MIniaturized Gas flow for Applications with enhanced Thermal Effects","KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE","Depletion of natural resources combined with the extending footprint of mankind has led to a shift in importance of research and development topics. In the 1970s and 1980s process yield was primarily targeted, but emphasis is now focussed on resource efficiency as a primary objective. Routes for resource efficiency have to be identified and implemented to provide a more environmental and resource-oriented technology in near future. MIGRATE is planned as an ETN, gathering top-level research and d",{"id":641,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":642,"piName":10,"institution":147,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":643},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642881","The Extracellular Matrix in Epileptogenesis","Over 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy and 30% are resistant to our present therapies. Epilepsy, therefore, comprises a major burden to society and so there is a pressing need for new approaches to treatment. The brain extracellular matrix (ECM) plays a critical role in governing brain excitability and function. Although research into the role of the ECM in neuronal signalling and network function has advanced considerably in recent years, its full translational potential has yet to be r",{"id":645,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":646,"piName":10,"institution":647,"country":648,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":649},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-674990","Donor-Acceptor light emitting exciplexes as materials for easily to tailor ultra-efficient OLED lighting","POLITECHNIKA SLASKA","PL","Artificial lighting is a global and growing industry. New forms of efficient solid state lighting (SSL) in particular are rapidly gaining a market share. New OLED technologies (Organic Light Emitting Diode) can revolutionise this industry as they have done in displays because of their potential flexible structure, infinite tailoring of their properties, efficiency and high colour quality. Industrial forecasts predict that the OLED lighting market will grow from $200 million in 2015 to $1.7 billi",{"id":651,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":652,"piName":10,"institution":653,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":654},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641639","Biochemical and mechanochemical mechanisms in polarized cells","THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD","BIOPOL is an interdisciplinary European training network at the interface of cell biology, physics and engineering. BIOPOL aims specifically at the understanding of fundamental mechanochemical principles guiding cellular behaviour and function and their relevance to human disease. A new supra-disciplinary research field is emerging bringing together the fields of molecular cell biology, physics and engineering aiming at an in depth understanding of fundamental cellular mechanochemical principles",{"id":656,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":657,"piName":10,"institution":658,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":659},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642667","Safety Enables Cooperation in Uncertain Robotic Environments","UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG","The majority of existing robots in industry are pre-programmed robots working in safety zones, with visual or auditory warning signals and little concept of intelligent safety awareness necessary for dynamic and unpredictable human or domestic environments. In the future, novel cognitive robotic companions will be developed, ranging from service robots to humanoid robots, which should be able to learn from users and adapt to open dynamic contexts. The development of such robot companions will le",{"id":661,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":662,"piName":10,"institution":663,"country":307,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":664},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-676144","Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer Disease","KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET","Given an overwhelming increase of dementia costs and an aging population, there is an urgent need for finding novel therapies for Alzheimer Disease (AD). We are, however, facing a large number of failed clinical trials and a retraction of the nervous system R&D programmes from several big pharmaceutical companies. Increased collaboration between academia and the private sector is required to overcome this challenge.The “Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer Disease” (SyDAD) project will significantl",{"id":666,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":667,"piName":10,"institution":279,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":668},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642671","European Joint Doctorate in Organocatalysis and Sustainable Polymers","SUSPOL-EJD is an European Joint Doctorate in “Organocatalysis and Sustainable Polymers”. SUSPOL-EJD is set up by a consortium formed by four Academic beneficiaries: University of Bordeaux (FR), University of the Basque Country (SP), University of Mons (B) and University of Warwick (UK). Furthermore, six industrial organizations: BASF (D), Purac Corbion (NL), Critical Pharma (UK), Synthomer (UK), IBM (CH and USA) and FORESA (SP) will act as partners collaborating in the research and training acti",{"id":670,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":671,"piName":10,"institution":672,"country":519,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":673},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642153","Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems for Marine and Coastal Monitoring","NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU","European countries have vast coasts and economic zones that go far into the Atlantic and Arctic oceans and are challenging to monitor and manage. The need to protect and manage the vulnerable natural environment and marine resources in a sustainable manner is an important policy that is manifested in European legislation such as the European Strategy for Marine and Maritime Research. Moreover, the drive towards activities in more remote locations and harsher environment demands new  approaches a",{"id":675,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":676,"piName":10,"institution":81,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":677},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641899","Postgraduate Research on Dilute Metamorphic Nanostructures and Metamaterials in Semiconductor Photonics","Photonics, nanotechnology, advanced materials, and advanced manufacturing technologies have been identified as key enabling technologies (KETs) for the EU. Today the photonics global market alone is around €300 billion and Europe has established a strong position with a total share of 20%, directly employing about 290,000 people. However, the shortage of sufficient skilled labour and entrepreneurs capable of handling the highly multi-disciplinary nature of KETs remains a major problem in the EU.",{"id":679,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":680,"piName":10,"institution":681,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":682},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642954","Software ENgineering in Enterprise Cloud Applications  systems","SOFTWARE IMPROVEMENT GROUP BV","The growth of cloud computing is phenomenal, with vendors experiencing yearly growth over 90%. This reflects the rate at which organizations and individuals are leaving the comfort of tried and tested solutions to move into promising but uncharted territory.The aim of SENECA is no less than to address key issues in the software engineering of cloud-based systems, including a disciplined approach to their development and operation. The project partners have pooled their considerable knowledge and",{"id":684,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":685,"piName":10,"institution":686,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":687},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-634200","BIOCASCADES- Sustainable and Scalable Biocatalytic Cascade Reactions Training Network","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ","In BIOCASCADES, nine early-stage researchers (ESRs) will investigate the development of sustainable (chemo)enzymatic cascade reactions under the ‘green chemistry’ philosophy. The proposed BIOCASCADES project combines different techniques such as compartmentalization, protein engineering and reaction engineering in order to develop commercially viable and environmentally benign one pot reactions. By avoiding intermediate downstream- and purification-steps, cascade reactions minimize production co",{"id":689,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":690,"piName":10,"institution":204,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":691},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642453","Training in Reducing Uncertainty in Structural Safety","The growth of cities, impacts of climate change and the massive cost of providing new infrastructure provide the impetus for this proposal – entitled Training in Reducing Uncertainty in Structural Safety (TRUSS) – which will maximize the potential of infrastructure that already exists. If flaws in a structure can be identified early, the cost of repair will be vastly reduced, and here an effective monitoring system would allow identifying the optimum time to repair as well as improving structura",{"id":693,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":694,"piName":10,"institution":204,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":695},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-674964","CEREALPATH - Training in innovative and integrated control of cereal diseases","There is a massive and urgent effort needed to ensure security of food supply for the growing world population. This challenge of doubling crop yields by 2050 provides the motivation for this project, entitled Cereal Pathology – training in innovative and integrated control of cereal diseases (CEREALPATH). Cereals are the most important source of human calories, but we lose billions of euro worth of grain annually due to diseases that reduce yield. CEREALPATH is a multidisciplinary, multisectora",{"id":697,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":698,"piName":10,"institution":699,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":700},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642197","AQUAtic INVAders: Early Detection, Control and Management","SWANSEA UNIVERSITY","Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) are on the rise due to the synergistic effects of climate change and habitat destruction. The impacts of AIS on Biodiversity, human health, and loss of ecosystem services are well known, but their control and management has now become a worldwide priority.  Successful management of AIS is challenging because it requires several steps in succession: (1) early detection, (2) identification of routes of introduction and pathways of dispersal, and (3) development of ef",{"id":702,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":703,"piName":10,"institution":704,"country":307,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":705},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643167","Efficient harvesting of the wind energy","LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET","As wind energy is considered one of the most promising renewable energy resources, energy production technologies relying on wind energy are currently flourishing under the EU ambitious plan for 2020. Market demands to prepare a generation of researchers within the EU that are able to face the challenge of fulfilling the EU ambitious plan, to sustain the production of wind energy and to innovate and promote wind energy systems (WES) for the future needs, are clearly met in AEOLUS4FUTURE. The pri",{"id":707,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":708,"piName":10,"institution":318,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":709},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641459","RELIability of product Environmental Footprints","To move towards a more sustainable world there needs to be a systematic change in the consumption of resources driven by informed decision-making and policies. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is widely accepted as a tool for supporting decisions on environmental footprints. However, it is also acknowledged that the reliability of state-of-the-art LCA needs to be improved as uncertainty and variability are generally not addressed. The importance of improving the reliability of environmental footprint",{"id":711,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":712,"piName":10,"institution":713,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":714},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642961","Perception and Action in Complex Environments","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS","The PACE research and training programme sits at the interface between basic science, technology and clinics, in order to unveil how humans control and adapt their movements in complex, naturalistic environments.  Such a research agenda has major consequences for understanding how these movements are impacted by specific brain insults and how these impairments can be compensated for via new rehabilitation methods. Improving rehabilitation programmes for sensory and motor disabilities across the ",{"id":716,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":717,"piName":10,"institution":718,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":719},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642575","The Algal Microbiome: Friends and Foes","THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE SCIENCE LBG","Algal aquaculture is developing exponentially worldwide, with multiple applications in the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Current research in algal biotechnology mostly focuses on metabolite discovery, aquaculture yield improvement and engineering bottlenecks. However, agronomical experience shows that controlling the interaction of land crops with mutualistic or pathogenic microbes is most critical to successful production. Likewise, controlling the microbial flora associated wit",{"id":721,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":722,"piName":10,"institution":723,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":724},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-637295","Advanced XFEL and Synchrotron based Probes of Protein Structure and Dynamics","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA","This cross-disciplinary Marie Curie Innovative Training Network builds upon the transformative opportunities created by existing X-ray sources and new sources soon to be operative in Europe. These opportunities include using ultrafast X-ray sources to extract time-dependent structural information from proteins; and revolutionary possibilities created by X-ray Free Electron Laser radiation for an entirely new regime of pre-damage serial femtosecond crystallography. No lag should exist between bui",{"id":726,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":727,"piName":10,"institution":713,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":728},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642029","Complex RhEologies in Earth dynamics and industrial Processes","The CREEP Innovative Training Network is a training and career development platform for early stage researchers (ESRs) in Geodynamics, Mineral Physics, Seismology, Fluid Mechanics, and Materials Sciences. It aims to structure the collaboration in research and doctoral training between 10 leading academic centers in Earth Sciences in Europe: the CNRS (FR), represented by Geosciences Montpellier and the FAST Orsay, the universities of Bristol, Durham and UCL (UK), Munster and Mainz (DE), Roma TRE ",{"id":730,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":731,"piName":10,"institution":539,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":732},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641861","Accelerating photoredox catalysis in continuous-flow systems","The use of visible light energy to induce chemical transformations constitutes an interesting and green activation mode of organic molecules. However, implementation of this energy source in organic synthetic methodologies and in the industrial production of fine chemicals has been challenging. The Photo4Future Innovative Training Network establishes a training network with five beneficiaries from academia and five beneficiaries from industry to tackle the challenges associated with photochemist",{"id":734,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":735,"piName":10,"institution":736,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":737},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675325","HUmins as Green and Sustainable precursors of eco-friendly building blocks and materials","AVANTIUM CHEMICALS BV","The HUGS concept ( HUmins as Green and Sustainable precursors of eco-friendly materials and biofuels) discloses an integrated multidisciplinary EID proposal with involvement of high-tech SME’s two research centers and 3 world class universities in the area of biorefinery. All partners have been chosen by their complementary expertise and their extensive experience in supervising PhD programs and coordinating international scientific projects. The proposed methodology and approach focuses on side",{"id":739,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":740,"piName":10,"institution":713,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":741},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642937","Development and disease of the renal tract","The renal tract (kidneys, the ureters, bladder) is a complex organ system crucial for maintaining the body homeostasis. This organ system arises from different precursor pools through a complex program of patterning, differentiation and morphogenesis in embryonic development. Alteration of this program leads to renal tract malformations (RTM) that are incompatible with a healthy life. While some of these RTM can be surgically corrected, others develop into chronic entities that may lead to renal",{"id":743,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":744,"piName":10,"institution":745,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":746},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675671","A training network for the rational design of the next generation of well-defined glycoconjugate vaccines","GLAXOSMITHKLINE VACCINES SRL","GLYCOVAX is a network for the education of promising young scientists who will learn how to rationally design a next generation of well-defined and innovative glycoconjugate vaccines to improve current preventive therapies and to tackle unmet medical needs. Glycoconjugate vaccines represent the key for success of vaccination in children. The covalent linkage to proteins renders carbohydrates able to evoke a T-cell memory response. Current vaccines are prepared from heterogeneous mixtures of suga",{"id":748,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":749,"piName":10,"institution":713,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":750},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642083","Monomer sequence control in Polymers : Toward next-generation precision materials","The aim of the project “Euro-Sequences” is to establish a multidisciplinary training network on the emerging topic of sequence-controlled polymers. It has been shown during the last 5 years that such polymers open up unprecedented options for the future of manmade materials. Indeed, similarly to biopolymers such as DNA and proteins, synthetic sequence-controlled polymers contain precisely engineered chain-microstructures that allow a fine control over their molecular, nanoscopic and macroscopic ",{"id":752,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":753,"piName":10,"institution":713,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":754},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641985","Innovative Architectures, Wireless Technologies and Tools for High Capacity and Sustainable 5G Ultra-Dense Cellular Networks","The fifth-generation (5G) is coming.Quo vadis 5G?What architectures, network topologies and technologies will define it?Are methodologies to the analysis, design and optimization of current cellular networks still applicable to 5G? 5Gwireless is the first integrated and multi-disciplinary training-through-research network of ESRs and Senior Supervisors fully committed to re-architecting current cellular principles aiming at making 5G a reality, it will define and optimize radically-changing arch",{"id":756,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":757,"piName":10,"institution":758,"country":759,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":760},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642069","High Performance Computing in Life Sciences, Engineering And Physics","THE CYPRUS INSTITUTE","CY","Progress in computers and algorithms in the last years has made numerical simulation and modelling a key research methodology in both academia and industry, which in turn drives exascale computing in order to maintain excellence in research and innovation. A disruptive evolution in computer technologies is required for attaining exascale performances in the coming years bringing challenges that urgently need to be addressed across science and engineering fields. Therefore new interdisciplinary s",{"id":762,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":763,"piName":10,"institution":232,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":764},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675251","Advancing Modelling for Process-Product Innovation, Optimization, Monitoring and  Control in Life Science Industries","The ModLife project is a European Training Network initiative that brings together 5 leading European universities, 4 global industrial players and 2 SMEs to undertake research and training in the area of product-process innovation, optimization monitoring and control for life sciences and biotechnology industries. Modlife aims to develop Advanced Model-Based Optimization, Monitoring and Control as Enabling Technologies for bioprocess-product development and innovation tailored for the needs in ",{"id":766,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":767,"piName":10,"institution":470,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":768},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642028","Design and development of advanced NAnomedicines to overcome Biological BArriers and to treat severe diseases","Many therapeutic targets are shielded behind biological barriers, limiting the possibility to reach them with conventional drugs or diagnostic probes. Biological barriers are even more problematic for most biological pharmaceutics, such as recombinant proteins, antibodies and gene therapeutics. The most promising solution to this challenge is the use of nano-vehicles for specific targeting and delivery. The aim of NABBA is to form European early stage researchers (ESR) with cutting-edge scientif",{"id":770,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":771,"piName":10,"institution":772,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":773},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642691","Epigenetic regulation of endocrine therapy resistance in breast cancer:  A systems medicine approach to predict treatment outcome","UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM","The mission of EpiPredict is to train a multidisciplinary cohort of young researchers in a new approach to fully exploit the epigenetics of complex diseases. The 12 early-stage researchers (ESRs) will focus on a narrowly defined case, Tamoxifen-induced resistance in Estrogen Receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer, considering five resistance interacting pathways. Given the frequent Tamoxifen treatment failure, resistance prevention and reversal is an urgent clinical problem that is central in Epi",{"id":775,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":776,"piName":10,"institution":777,"country":519,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":778},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642976","Nano-tailoring organo-mineral materials - Controlling strength and healing with organic molecules in mineral interfaces","UNIVERSITETET I OSLO","Cement production for the construction industry contributes up to 5% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Developing more environmentally friendly concrete requires the assessment of strength for a diverse range of new cement materials. Similar issues arise during the development of biocompatible cements for medical applications. Properties of naturally cemented materials of organic origin are of key importance in the oil industry, with carbonate reservoirs prone to creep, particularly during the inj",{"id":780,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":781,"piName":10,"institution":193,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":782},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642458","MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to CArdiac care","MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to CArdiac care – MUSICARE - is proposed by a team of universities, companies and hospitals from 4 EU countries (Italy, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium). The main scope of MUSICACARE is to structure a new trans-sectoral and multidisciplinary network capable of developing research and technology with no barriers between academia, industries and clinicians in the cardiac arena, and of shaping young researchers with a novel and truly multidisciplinary m",{"id":784,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":785,"piName":10,"institution":378,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":786},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675407","Principles of Polarity – Integrating genetic, biophysical and computational approaches to understand cell and tissue polarity","The ability of cells to polarize underlies the most basic biological functions such as motility and response to external challenges, but also the formation and maintenance of tissues in a multicellular organism. The importance of cell polarity is underscored by the fact that cell polarity is essential for animal development and is perturbed in disease states such as cancer. 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In order to meet these needs, BE-OPTICAL will provide a unique and structured ",{"id":801,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":802,"piName":10,"institution":713,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":803},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675806","Application-aware User-centric Programmable Architectures for 5G Multi-tenant Networks","The vision of future 5G networks encompasses a heterogeneous communication landscape in which existing Radio Access Technologies (RATs) will be integrated with evolving wireless technologies and systems, software-design network architectures and cloud-enabled services. Effectively harnessing the potential of all these innovative and heterogeneous features and providing a programmable multi-tenant network architectural framework will be the key to the success of 5G, and will be the main objective",{"id":805,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":806,"piName":10,"institution":232,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":807},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642663","Enhancing CHO by Mammalian Systems Biotechnology (eCHO systems)","Chinese hamster (CHO) ovary cells are the production host for a +50 billion €\u002Fyr biopharmaceuticals market. Current CHO production platforms dates to 1980 and are based primarily on media and process optimisation with little consideration to the optimization of the cellular machinery. Fortunately, with the recent sequencing of the CHO genome, an opportunity has opened to significantly advance the CHO platform. The benefit will be advanced production flexibility and a lower production cost.This I",{"id":809,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":810,"piName":10,"institution":434,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":811},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643087","Improved decision-making in contaminated land site investigation and risk assessment","The REMEDIATE ETN comprises 10 beneficiaries (from 5 EU Member States – the UK, Ireland, Germany, Denmark, and Italy) and 15 partner organisations. The beneficiaries and partner organisations are committed to the provision of innovative research and training for more cost effective and sustainable remediation of contaminated land. It is a multidisciplinary collaboration between internationally renowned research teams (from both the academic and non-academic sectors) each with complementary exper",{"id":813,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":814,"piName":10,"institution":815,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":816},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642877","Building Innovation in the Extended Digital Chain","DET KONGELIGE DANSKE KUNST-AKADEMISSKOLER FOR ARKITEKTIR, DESIGN OG KONSERVERING","The InnoChain ETN network is a shared research training environment examining how advances in digital design tools challenge building culture enabling more sustainable, more informed and more materially smart design solutions. The network aims to train a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers with a strong industry focus that can effect real changes in the way we think, design and build our physical environment. The programme investigates the extended digital chain as a particular oppor",{"id":818,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":819,"piName":10,"institution":820,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":821},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641652","Advancing brain research in children’s developmental neurocognitive disorders","JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO","The European Brain Council (EBC) has recommended the disorders of the brain to be prioritised for funding. The purpose of this ChildBrain ETN is 1) to train young scientists, Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), to utilise evidence-based neuroscientific knowledge for helping children, especially those at high risk for dropout due to neurocognitive disorders, to meet future educational and societal demands. The network aims 2) to develop new, innovative brain imaging-based tools through research and i",{"id":823,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":824,"piName":10,"institution":318,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":825},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643051","Mastering skills in the training Network for attention deficit hyperactivity and autism spectrum Disorders","Attention deficit\u002Fhyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are frequent, chronic and highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorders. Despite their societal importance, progress in understanding disease biology has been slow and no curative treatment options are available.The pan-European training network MiND aims to educate a new generation of researchers in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders, through innovation-oriented research combined with highly interdiscipli",{"id":827,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":828,"piName":10,"institution":829,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":830},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642676","Towards a novel paradigm for cardiac function assessment from imaging","UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA","Cardiovascular diseases have been defined as a top priority within H2020. Although  diagnostic approaches and therapies have drastically improved over the last decennia, effective, validated and auditable tools for the integrated assessment of cardiac function in clinical practice have yet to be developed. CardioFunXion will contribute to a novel paradigm for integrated assessment, combining (image-based) measurements with (model-based) incorporation of physiological knowledge and clinical guide",{"id":832,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":833,"piName":10,"institution":222,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":834},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642563","Complex Oscillatory Systems: Modeling and Analysis","Many natural and artificial systems are often composed of oscillatory elements which, besides evolving according to their own non-trivial internal dynamics, mutually interact. As a result, many temporal and spatial scales are typically present, often accompanied by the spontaneous emergence of collective properties. Altogether, such features make the task of understanding the resulting evolution a challenging interdisciplinary problem. Zero-knowledge methods do generally require too large amount",{"id":836,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":837,"piName":10,"institution":222,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":838},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641858","Understanding and predicting developmental language abilities and disorders in multilingual Europe","PredictAble aims to train a new generation of young scientists at the crossroads between academic research, technological development in the private sector and clinical practice to pioneer an interdisciplinary approach to language related developmental disorders, like specific language impairment (SLI) and developmental dyslexia (DD). The innovative and timely research program will enhance the understanding of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie developmental disorders of spoken and written l",{"id":840,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":841,"piName":10,"institution":842,"country":307,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":843},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643002","Anticipatory Networking Techniques in 5G and Beyond","LINKOPINGS UNIVERSITET","The rapid growth in mobile network data traffic contributed to the unprecedented speed of 4G LTE adoption, creating the need of sustainable capacity growth in next generation of wireless systems, namely 5G. A key success factor of 5G is network and management system design for flexibility by prediction and adaptation. To this end, anticipation is a promising new approach. By predicting and adapting to upcoming events at various time scales, an anticipatory network improving the operation quality",{"id":845,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":846,"piName":10,"institution":847,"country":519,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":848},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642893","Improved production strategies for endangered freshwater species.","NORGES MILJO-OG BIOVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET","The IMPRESS European Training Network will provide a new generation of researchers with the multidisciplinary skills and competences needed to oversee new stocking strategies for Europe’s most important and threatened freshwater fish species (Atlantic salmon, European eel and sturgeons) thus enabling conservation and growth in a sector of significant economic and societal importance. Freshwater fish populations bring many benefits to Europe´s citizens through leisure activities, and enhance rura",{"id":850,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":851,"piName":10,"institution":852,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":853},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641640","European Joint Doctorate in Functional Materials Research","UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX","EJD-FunMat is a European Joint Doctoral programme in the field of functional materials research. EJD-FunMat is embedded in an existing research network, with previous experience in co-tutelle doctorates , but the project will add new major elements, with the strategic aim of becoming a permanent reference European Joint Doctoral School in Materials Science and beyond.The key innovative aspects of the programme are:- Research in PhD clusters: The 15 PhD projects are grouped into 6 thematic cluste",{"id":855,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":856,"piName":10,"institution":592,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":857},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-643073","Critical Transitions in Complex Systems","Complex systems research has been on the forefront of scientific priorities of many national research councils and the EUfor more than a decade. Many very interesting phenomena have been identified and explored, but the development of theunderpinning mathematical theory has been lagging behind. The proposed training network builds on an emergingdevelopment in applied mathematics to provide proper mathematical theory for the existence of early-warning signals forsudden changes in dynamical behavi",{"id":859,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":860,"piName":10,"institution":861,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":862},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642861","Training in Bio-Inspired Design of Smart Adhesive Materials","LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR POLYMERFORSCHUNG DRESDEN EV","The last half century has seen a tremendous advancement in adhesives technology and has led to widespread replacement of mechanical fasteners with adhesive bonds (e.g. aircraft, automobile, construction, etc.). Bonding to wet, rough and fouled surfaces, however, remains challenging and adhesive technology is rarely applied for bonding in wet conditions, such as in (orthopaedic) medicine. Therefore, a need exists to educate young researchers in this interdisciplinary research field of controlling",{"id":864,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":865,"piName":10,"institution":777,"country":519,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":866},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675997","MARine MAnagement and Ecosystem Dynamics under climate change","The proposed European Training Network, MARmaED, connects science, policy and people and transcends national borders, disciplinary barriers and sectorial divides. By building a greater knowledge base and train the next generation of scientists to think across disciplines, MARmaED contributes to reinforce Europe’s position as a global leader in marine science and ensure blue growth and sustainable exploitation of marine living resources. The objectives of MARmaED are:- To increase the marine scie",{"id":868,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":869,"piName":10,"institution":459,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":870},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-674962","SUSPLACE","SUSPLACE will train 15 ESRs in sustainable place-shaping by 1) its cutting edge scientific knowledge and methodologies 2) enhancing transferable skills 3) supporting a career development plan and 4) expose ESRs to science, public administration and governance, private businesses, NGOs and citizens initiatives. This will create career prospects for ESRs as an academic, policy-maker or policy-advisor, private business consultant or intermediate between various stakeholders in collaborative sustain",{"id":872,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":873,"piName":10,"institution":713,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":874,"abstract":875},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642742","Graphene-based nanomaterials for touchscreen technologies: Comprehension, Commerce and Communication","€3,358,044","“Enabling Excellence” offers integral R&D training at PhD level around one of the most active and exciting topics at the forefront of nanoscience and nanotechnology, graphene-based nanostructures and materials. We propose a training experience built on three interrelated pillars, namely COMPREHENSION AND CONTROL, COMMERCE, and COMMUNICATION.*Comprehension & Control* covers fundamental knowledge of the nano-objects, the development of functionalities and processing into macroscopic advanced mater",{"id":877,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":878,"piName":10,"institution":879,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":880,"abstract":881},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642870","Development of Selective Carbohydrate Immunomodulators Targeting C-type Lectin Receptors on Antigen Presenting Cells","ASOCIACION CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION COOPERATIVA EN BIOMATERIALES- CIC biomaGUNE","€3,811,581","IMMUNOSHAPE aims at training a new generation of scientists that will be capable of combining state of the art synthesis and screening technology to develop new lead structures for highly selective glycan based multivalent immunotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune diseases and allergy. To this end, we have set up a training program in a unique academic-industrial environment that will educate young researchers in scientific and practical biomedical glycoscience with the final ai",{"id":883,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":884,"piName":10,"institution":885,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":886},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-642793","Multivalent Molecular Systems for Innovative Applications","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA","This network brings together the major academic players active in Europe on the fundamentals and application of multivalency and cooperativity. The network is complemented by industrial partners ranging in scale from a small spin-off to a large multinational. The main objective of this consortium is to raise a new generation of researchers able to develop complex chemical systems that harness cooperativity for enhanced functional properties.Multivalency is one of Nature’s governing principles fo",{"id":888,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":889,"piName":10,"institution":490,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":890},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641839","Directed Colloidal Structure at the Meso-Scale","Fluid dispersions containing highly elongated colloidal particles form a plethora of ordered, liquid-crystalline states as well as glassy and gel-like disordered states already at very low concentrations. In spite of their remarkable properties, industrial applications of such dispersions have entered the market only relatively recently, in contrast to more conventional low-molecular-weight, liquid-crystalline fluids for which the major practical applications are in opto-electronic device techno",{"id":892,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":893,"piName":10,"institution":894,"country":759,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":895},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675530","ANtibioticS and mobile resistance elements in WastEwater Reuse applications: risks and innovative solutions","UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS","In response to the increasing problem of water shortage, the reuse of treated urban wastewater is considered the most suitable and reliable alternative for sustainable water management and agricultural development. In spite of the benefits associated with this practice, major concerns currently exist, related to the adverse effects regarding chemical and biological contaminants of emerging concern such as antibiotics and mobile antibiotic resistance elements such as antibiotic resistant bacteria",{"id":897,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":898,"piName":10,"institution":592,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":899},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-675867","Interfaces in opto-electronic thin film multilayer devices","Development of new materials over the past decade paved the way for organic\u002Fhybrid electronics into commercial applications. Now, perfection of material interfaces in organic\u002Fhybrid thin-film devices is key to drive the technology further and enable new, more advanced applications. INFORM offers a paradigm shift from focusing on materials to focusing on devices by probing, modelling and controlling relevant processes that take place at interfaces, e.g. charge transfer, injection and collection. ",{"id":901,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":902,"piName":10,"institution":903,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":904},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641272","High-Intensity Coherent Nonlinear Optics","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT","Optical laser-based technologies are a key technology of the 21st century. Extension of the range of scientific and commercial laser applications requires a constant expansion of the accessible regimes of laser operation. Concepts from nonlinear optics, driven with ultra-fast lasers provide all means to achieve this goal. However, nonlinear optics typically suffer from low efficiencies, e.g. if high-order processes are involved or if the driving laser pulse intensities must be limited below dama",{"id":906,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":907,"piName":10,"institution":908,"country":909,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":910},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-641822","MICroACTuators","TARTU ULIKOOL","EE","Electroactive polymers (EAP) consist of materials capable of changing dimensions and\u002For shape in response to electrical stimuli. Most EAPs are also capable of generating electrical energy in response to applied mechanical forces. These polymeric materials exhibit properties well beyond what conventional metal or plastic-based actuators can offer, including very high mechanical flexibility (can be stretched to twice their initial size), low density, a high grade of processability, scalability, mi",187,{"programme":8,"total":913,"withPiName":914,"firstYear":915,"lastYear":916,"countryCount":917,"perYear":918,"topInstitutions":989,"topCountries":1053},2899,130,2003,2027,37,[919,921,924,927,930,933,936,939,942,945,948,951,954,955,958,961,964,967,970,973,976,979,982,984,987],{"year":915,"count":920},1,{"year":922,"count":923},2004,45,{"year":925,"count":926},2005,95,{"year":928,"count":929},2006,165,{"year":931,"count":932},2007,32,{"year":934,"count":935},2008,67,{"year":937,"count":938},2009,86,{"year":940,"count":941},2010,46,{"year":943,"count":944},2011,79,{"year":946,"count":947},2012,131,{"year":949,"count":950},2013,193,{"year":952,"count":953},2014,57,{"year":13,"count":911},{"year":956,"count":957},2016,133,{"year":959,"count":960},2017,148,{"year":962,"count":963},2018,182,{"year":965,"count":966},2019,176,{"year":968,"count":969},2020,138,{"year":971,"count":972},2021,126,{"year":974,"count":975},2022,116,{"year":977,"count":978},2023,151,{"year":980,"count":981},2024,166,{"year":983,"count":914},2025,{"year":985,"count":986},2026,145,{"year":916,"count":988},104,[990,993,996,999,1002,1004,1007,1010,1012,1015,1018,1021,1023,1026,1028,1030,1033,1035,1037,1039,1041,1044,1046,1048,1051],{"name":991,"count":992},"Katholieke Universiteit Leuven",91,{"name":994,"count":995},"Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS",56,{"name":997,"count":998},"Danmarks Tekniske Universitet",55,{"name":1000,"count":1001},"Kobenhavns Universitet",39,{"name":1003,"count":917},"The University of Birmingham",{"name":1005,"count":1006},"University of Leeds",34,{"name":1008,"count":1009},"University of Nottingham",33,{"name":1011,"count":932},"Technische Universiteit Eindhoven",{"name":1013,"count":1014},"Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas",28,{"name":1016,"count":1017},"University of Sheffield",25,{"name":1019,"count":1020},"Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen",23,{"name":1022,"count":1020},"National University of Ireland, Dublin",{"name":1024,"count":1025},"Academisch Ziekenhuis Groningen",22,{"name":1027,"count":1025},"Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche",{"name":1029,"count":1025},"Stichting Radboud Universiteit",{"name":1031,"count":1032},"Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique",21,{"name":1034,"count":1032},"Politecnico di Milano",{"name":1036,"count":1032},"Rijksuniversiteit Groningen",{"name":1038,"count":1032},"Stichting Vu",{"name":1040,"count":1032},"University of Galway",{"name":1042,"count":1043},"Aarhus Universitet",20,{"name":1045,"count":1043},"Stichting Amsterdam Umc",{"name":1047,"count":1043},"Universiteit Utrecht",{"name":1049,"count":1050},"Technische Universiteit Delft",19,{"name":1052,"count":1050},"Universiteit Antwerpen",[1054,1056,1058,1060,1062,1064,1066,1068,1070,1072,1074,1075,1077,1079,1081,1083,1085,1086,1088,1091,1094,1096,1098,1101,1104],{"name":26,"count":1055},481,{"name":12,"count":1057},406,{"name":19,"count":1059},339,{"name":54,"count":1061},256,{"name":48,"count":1063},240,{"name":123,"count":1065},239,{"name":159,"count":1067},188,{"name":60,"count":1069},141,{"name":71,"count":1071},112,{"name":307,"count":1073},80,{"name":37,"count":935},{"name":87,"count":1076},65,{"name":519,"count":1078},53,{"name":343,"count":1080},51,{"name":199,"count":1082},42,{"name":313,"count":1084},31,{"name":648,"count":1050},{"name":759,"count":1087},16,{"name":1089,"count":1090},"GB",12,{"name":1092,"count":1093},"CZ",8,{"name":1095,"count":1093},"SI",{"name":909,"count":1097},6,{"name":1099,"count":1100},"IL",5,{"name":1102,"count":1103},"HU",4,{"name":1105,"count":1103},"RO"]