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Programming cellular networks and community behaviour with synthetic RNA-based devices (RIBONETS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-C, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1300114.0
EU funding (EUR): 994854.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

RiboNets aims at programming cellular networks and community behaviour using newly engineered logical gates that transmit and process information within cells in an innovative way, namely via RNA-based devices. RiboNets wants to develop a newly designed RNA-based toolbox for cellular computing. RNA has three major advantages: (a) RNA turnover is fast thus efficient computing is possible with RNA networks, (b) RNA folding and RNA-RNA interactions can be well predicted, thus, a large number of novel devices can be build, (c) RNA production is energetically cheap, therefore the host cell is not affected by computing. The RiboNet toolbox will be created following a three-step process: (i) rational design and analysis of RNA-based devices on a computer, (ii) selecting best performers in vitro within highly parallel microfluidic reactors and, finally, (iii) integrating and testing them in living cells. The combination of all three layers of analysis, in silico, in vitro and in vivo, is a major point of this proposal. It will allow us to deal with complex regulatory networks and to examine the underlying mechanisms of information transmission and processing within cells. The toolbox developed by RiboNets will provide an outstanding prerequisite for novel designs in synthetic biology and life sciences. The usage of the RiboNet toolbox will result in the creation of RNA-based sensors and RNA-based devices with efficient regulation of engineered metabolic and signalling pathways that will have potential applications in white biotechnology and medicine. For example, RNA-based antibiotics would improve human condition in technological applications, as well as in health, in the future. With RiboNets, a new territory will be explored, shedding light on how RNA networks contribute to cell-to-cell information processing and communication.

Keywords: rna synthetic programming
The Dynamics of Migration and Economic Adjustment (DMEA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120411, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1129428.0
EU funding (EUR): 1129428.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The research proposed here is concerned with the dynamics of immigrant impacts and the process of economic adaptation in receiving societies. The immigration process is inherently dynamic: many new immigrants return home within a short time; and those that remain undergo a long term series of investments and behavioural changes that gradually alter the way that they interact with the economy of the receiving country. Moreover, in the longer run the presence of immigrants affects the choices of firms over new technology investments, and the choices of native workers over schooling and occupations. Thus simple static frameworks provide an incomplete and even potentially misleading perspective for understanding modern immigration patterns. The point of departure for this proposed research is the recognition that we need to reformulate the analysis of immigrant impacts in a fully dynamic framework, acknowledging the inter-temporal choices of immigrants, firms, and native workers and the ways that these three groups of agents interact over a longer horizon. Our approach involves treating immigration as a dynamic shock, where the dynamics relates to the different agents involved: immigrants, who change their position in the native skill distribution over time as a result of their life-cycle decisions; firms, who react by adjusting their technologies, product mix, and their involvement with institutions and regulatory environment; and native workers, who adjust by changing their career plans. Our work will combine highly innovative theoretical perspectives with state-of-the-art empirical analyses exploiting unique policy experiments and exceptional data sources, merging longitudinal administrative population data with data from firm and individual surveys. This agenda will enable us to construct a comprehensive picture of the adjustment process in response to immigration and open new horizons for future research on the impact of immigration in a dynamic framework.

Keywords: immigration,labour market,wage and employment dynamics,firms,institutions,human capital
Family life courses, intergenerational exchanges and later life health (FAMHEALTH)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Environment and society
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Norway,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120411, 2012)
Start date: 2013-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1423110.0
EU funding (EUR): 1423110.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of this research programme is to uncover how family life courses influence health and well-being in later adulthood, whether family related strengths or disadvantages relevant to health offset or compound socio-economic sources of disadvantage, and the extent to which these associations are influenced by societal factors. An important element will be to consider the role of intergenerational influences, including support flows. The geographical focus will be on Europe and the methodological focus on the advanced quantitative analysis of large scale longitudinal data sets. These data sets, chosen for their complementary strengths, will include both country specific and cross national sources. Three major interlinked strands of work will be undertaken. These will focus on 1) Impacts of parenting and partnership histories on health and mortality in mid and later life. 2) Intergenerational support exchanges: demographic, cultural and policy influences and effects on health of both providers and receivers. 3) An over arching theme to be addressed in the above strands and consolidated in the third is how investments in family and social networks are related to socio-economic disparities in later life health and mortality. The programme is will bring together perspectives from a range of disciplines to address issues of great relevance to current policy challenges in Europe. It is challenging because of the problem of dealing with issues of health selection and possible bias arising from various kinds of missing data which will require methodological care and innovation. Results will contribute to the development of theory, the development of methods and provide substantive knowledge relevant to the health and well-being of older Europeans.

Keywords: ageing fertility histories marital histories social support health
An empire of 2000 cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman empire (EMPIREOF2000CITIES)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120411, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2496560.0
EU funding (EUR): 2496560.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The central aims of this project are to establish the shapes of the various urban hierarchies existing in the provinces of the Roman empire and (especially) to use the quantitative properties of these hierarchies to shed new light on levels of economic integration. Should we conceptualize the urban system of the Roman world as a collection of cellular ‘modules’ which were only loosely connected by the imposition of a rudimentary administrative superstructure and by resource flows of limited significance? Or did the creation of an overarching empire favour the emergence of an economically well-integrated urban network or at least the growth of certain ‘nodal points’ which helped to tie the empire together by mediating resource flows between regions? Key topics to be explored include the physical size of cities, the overall shape of regional urban hierarchies, the role of harbour cities in connecting various parts of the empire, and the economic implications of the emergence and existence of large provincial capitals and other ‘primate cities’. Building on spatial and economic theories from various disciplines, the project starts from the working hypothesis that the urban system of the Roman empire possessed a number of unique features which set it apart from that of the various urban system existing in the same geographical area during the early-modern period. While some of these features (such as the size of Rome) can plausibly be attributed to the fact that the Roman empire was much larger than the empires and emerging nation states of early-modern times, the project aims to demonstrate that the specific configuration of regional urban hierarchies in the Roman world also reflects levels of economic integration which fell dramatically short of those achieved in various parts of early-modern Europe.

Keywords: roman empire,urban hierarchies,economic integration
Problematizing ‘Muslim Marriages’: Ambiguities and Contestations (MUSLIMMARRIAGES)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120411, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 76.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499488.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499488.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

During the last two decades, in the North as well as in the global South, new forms of Muslim marriages, such as unregistered, visiting, or temporary marriages, have become the target of public debate. State authorities, religious scholars, women’s organisations, (neo-)nationalists, and parents express concern about youngsters, and especially young and not so young women, entering into such marriages. These new, unconventional marriages, or existing forms in new contexts, are often discursively linked to sexual exploitation and religious radicalisation. But how do those involved in these new marriage forms evaluate them? This ethnographic project starts with an investigation of when and how these new marriages have become subject to public debate. The main empirical focus is on new marriage forms as social practices. What kinds of marriage forms and wedding celebration are emerging, who are participating in them, and how are they performed? Particular attention is paid to the intersections of gender and religion, and whether and how these new marriage forms are authenticated and authorized as Muslim marriages. The wider question this project addresses is what economic, political, religious and cultural work these new Muslim marriages do. Neo-liberalism has turned livelihood increasingly precarious (linking the marriage crisis to that of the male provider), while neo-nationalism has solidified divides between in-groups and out-groups. What kinds of subjectivities and socialities do these new marriage forms produce? How do they shape economic relations, group boundaries, religious ethics, and cultural forms? Fieldwork will be conducted in Europe, Kyrgyzstan, the Gulf, Indonesia, Lebanon and Morocco. These sites, linked through the circulation of persons, goods, and ideas, can be productively compared in terms of majority/minority positions, religious traditions, economic and migration histories, state-religion relations, gender structures, and cultural styles.

Keywords: muslim marriages,anthropology,gender,islamic law
Vernacular religion on the boundary of Eastern and Western Christianity: continuity, changes and interactions (EAST-WEST)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Hungary
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120411, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2079484.8
EU funding (EUR): 2079484.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This interdisciplinary research project, relying on mutually complementary historical, anthropological and folklore investigations, will examine continuities and transformations in vernacular religion in the border-zone between Eastern and Western Christianity. The project will have three foci: 1) the role of the religious worldview and norms in past and present communities; 2) change and religious modernisation including the intertwining of the breaking up of the traditional worldview and the appearance of consumer-type attitudes of New Age religiosity; 3) the role of religion in identity formation and the emergence of religious pluralism and co-operation as well as of religious antagonism and conflict between different denominations and nationalities in the region. Members of the project will study these questions in Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian, Ukrainian and Croatian communities of mixed religion. Thematically the research will be organised around exploring symbolic exchange relationships (demonology and witchcraft) sacred communication (shrines, visions, miracles, saints) and healing using both historical sources and contemporary anthropological field work. The project builds on two previous long-term historical/folkloristic research projects led by PI Éva Pócs and will expand and complement their findings through contemporary anthropological field research and continued archival work. Integrating the results of the current and earlier projects through an innovative electronic document collection, embedded in a geographical information system, will enhance the impact of both sets of materials. The research will bring us closer to understanding a) inter-religious relationships between Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox believers, b) problems of national identity underlying religious antagonisms, and c) how religious and cultural border zones separate and unite, generate conflict and create mutual understanding, potentially promoting peaceful co-existence.

Keywords: central and eastern europe,religious and cultural border zone,religious pluralism,religious and national identity,historical,anthropological and folkloristic research
Modeling the Emergence of Social Complexity and Order: How Individual and Societal Complexity Co-Evolve (MOMENTUM)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120411, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498831.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498831.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal develops a new perspective on social systems by combining analytical sociology with evolutionary game theory, agent-based modeling, computational social science, complexity science, and experimental research. Our focus on co-evolutionary processes will shed new light on emergent phenomena in social systems and elaborate a “social ecosystem” perspective. We will overcome problems of previous approaches by implementing social mechanisms, learning rules, and parameters in an evolutionary way. Our major goal is to show how a “homo socialis” can emerge as the result of an evolutionary competition. For this, we will demonstrate that strict payoff maximization or mechanistic, stimulus-response interactions may eventually be replaced by other-regarding behaviors. In particular, we will study how social cooperation and social norms emerge from repeated social interactions. We will furthermore equip agents with small virtual “brains” and simulate the co-evolution of individual and societal complexity. This will add cognitive complexity to our modeling approach and allow us to study origins and effects of subjectivity, but also early stages in human social evolution. We plan to demonstrate that, in a complex society, boundedly rational agents can perform equally well as a perfect “homo economicus”, and that both types of agents emerge and spread under different conditions. Our project is broad and highly interdisciplinary. It combines various methodologies and pursues an innovative complexity science approach to solve long-standing scientific puzzles. It has the potential to bridge previously incompatible research traditions by revealing unexpected and seemingly paradoxical relationships between them. Thereby, it will help to overcome existing controversies and the related fragmentation in the social sciences.

Keywords: evolutionary game theory,agent-based modeling,computational social science,self-organization,emergence,complexity science,analytical sociology,laboratory and web experiments
BIOpolymers and BIOfuels from FURan based building blocks (BIOFUR)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 920563.04
EU funding (EUR): 920563.04
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The BIOFUR project consists of three partners. The SME Avantium Chemicals (AVT - NL), selected as one of the Cleantech top 100 companies in 2011 and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS - FR) and the University of Messina (UNIME - IT), both leaders in their respective fields. This multi-sectorial research work will contribute to breakthrough knowledge on the catalytic furanic conversion fundamentals and will be necessary for a sustainable technological development of these novel polyester materials and fuels based on renewable resources. The project consist of three workpackages: WP1: Production, Characterization, Optimisation and Environmental Impact of the Production of Polyesters; WP2: Development of Nanostructured Catalysts to improve the Performances and Sustainability of the Catalytic Conversion and Upgrading of Furanics, and; WP3: Managerial, Interdisciplinarity, Intersectoral and Dissemination aspects. The BIOFUR project shows that the proposed knowledge transfer for the three host organizations through the secondment of their own staff and the recruitment of researchers from outside the partnership is very beneficial for the host organizations by significantly increasing their research quality and overall RTD capabilities and competitiveness. The proposed dissemination and outreach activities will make sure that also to the greater European community will benefit from this project. The Coordinator of the BIOFUR project is Dr. Ed de Jong of AVT and the other lead researchers are Prof. Gabriele Centi of UNIME and Prof. Nicolas Sbirrazzuoli of CNRS.

Keywords: biopolymers,biofuels,furanics,pet,pef,diesel,polyesters,interdisciplinarity,intersectorial,dissemination
EURAXESS SERVICE NETWORK FAROE ISLANDS (ESNFO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: MSCA other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Faroe Islands
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 129633.0
EU funding (EUR): 119753.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project will set up the EURAXESS service network in the Faroe Islands, and include the national services in the context of the broader European service network. The overall goal is to set up a national service network that offers first class mobility guidance to researchers wanting to work in the Faroe Islands. This will be accomplished through a number of initiatives that collectively work towards this goal. The relevant persons and institutions will be engaged to solve possible legislative issues and provide the best knowledge base for the services. Two Service Centres will be established of which one is the Faroese Bridgehead Organisation. Together the centres will provide all the necessary tools for the EURAXESS services including training of staff and the publication and continuous running of the Faroese EURAXESS portal.

Keywords: euraxess,mobility,service network,rights
Bringing Western Balkans closer to Innovation Union: An example of EURAXESS Regional Collaboration (WEB-INUNION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: MSCA other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Serbia,North Macedonia,Croatia,Albania
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-EURAXESS-IU, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242924.0
EU funding (EUR): 199970.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

More than a decade ago, Lisbon Strategy highlighted the importance of investing in R&D as crucial factor of social development. Nowadays, though, in a period of economic instability, the investment in Research and Innovation is even more required and has been proposed as a reliable solution to major societal challenges. EU Member States renewed their commitments towards an Innovation Union by 2020. To this end, WeB-InUnion proposal will contribute in realising three of the Innovation Union (IU) commitments in the Western Balkan region so as to be an example of successful regional collaboration towards European integration. Specifically, nine (6 partners + 3 associated partners) Western Balkan EURAXESS member organisations with different experiences and expertise will seek to promote Commitments #1, #4 and #30 of the IU flagship in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, FYRoMacedonia, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia. Commitment #1 will be implemented by promoting the C&C principles and bringing research organisations closer to Human Resources Strategies respecting the C&C principles. Commitment #4 will be achieved by exploring the current situation on mobility issues in the region and preparing recommendations to stakeholders. Special emphasis will be given on the promotion of the EURAXESS Jobs portal as a tool to establish open recruitment practices. Finally, commitment #30 will be achieved by initiating or maintaining a dialogue with Diaspora researchers, investigating possible motives for their return in Europe and proposing relevant recommendations at national policy makers. In parallel with the above mentioned actions, the consortium, through its promotional activities, aims at adding value to the EURAXESS initiative by raising awareness of its services. The successful collaboration of the project’s partners is likely to set an example to other European regions that, if followed, could lead to a European-wide implementation of the Innovation Union’s commitments.

Keywords: euraxess western balkans mobility researchers charter & code obstacles diaspora jobs attractive working conditions open recruitment mapping exercise