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Cost efficient biomass boiler systems with maximum annual efficiency and lowest emissions (BIOMAXEFF)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewables for heating and cooling
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,France,Germany,Germany,Italy,Spain,Greece,Austria,Austria,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-15
End date: 2014-10-14
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6723027.08
EU funding (EUR): 4238558.19
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The BioMaxEff proposal aims at the demonstration of ultra-low emission and highest efficiency performance small scale biomass boilers under real life operating conditions. The demonstrated technologies will fulfil the requirements of three substantially different market sectors, namely 1) boiler exchange, 2) refurbishment, 3) new buildings. The boiler exchange and refurbishment markets are addressed with an outstanding natural draught log wood boiler and a product series of a 10 to 26 kW pellet boiler, and a 6 to 12 kW pellet boiler. The pellet boilers are demonstrated solely or in combination with an electrostatic precipitator The investigated boilers are characterized by outstanding behaviour regarding load change. This allows the optimum integration with ventilation components for energy recovery to energetically optimize the energetic performance of buildings. Integrated solutions will be demonstrated in pre-fabricated houses to highlight the substantial potential for seasonal efficiency increase and emission reduction in this field. The chosen system approach of the BioMaxEff consortium rather than an isolated product optimization and demonstration approach consequently is: • Perform an analysis of framework conditions and market needs • Develop seasonal efficiency and emission factor determination methods for the test stand and field testing • Demonstrate and optimize considered technologies and components under test stand conditions • Demonstrate and optimize system solutions by integrating components into buildings • Demonstrate the performance of system by a wide spread field monitoring with sold installations • Accompany the demonstration and optimization with R&D activities where necessary • Perform an overall environmental impact assessment • Dissemination of results The consortium consists of 13 partners from 8 European countries.

Keywords: ultra low emissions,ultra high efficiency,low cost,biomass boilers,demonstration
Preparation and Application of new n-type, Electron Acceptor Materials in Organic Solar Cells (DAMASCO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Organic Photovoltaics have advantages compared to traditional inorganic solar cells, offering the prospect of low fabrication cost and flexiblility. The properties of organic and polymeric materials, open the perspective of a widely distributed photovoltaic low cost mass production. For this development to take place, the devices power conversion efficiency have to reach 10% and their lifetime have to increase. The development of polymer based solar cells has made significant progress but more research in the design and synthesis of new photoactive organic materials is needed. Bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells have active layers composed by electron-donating p-type semiconductors and electron-acceptor n-type materials. DAMASCO project will contribute to the design, synthesis and testing of new electron acceptor molecules and polymers with n-type properties for organic BHJ solar cells. Perylene diimides dyes are a significant class of n-type organic semiconductors for optoelectronics. These materials have good thermal and photochemical stability, high electron affinity, high absorption and their electronic properties can be easily modified via chemical tailoring by introducing substituent groups. Due to these properties, perylenes are candidates for organic photovoltaics. DAMASCO will develop novel perylene based molecules and polymers with n-type semiconduction properties and good solar harvesting. DAMASCO project has the following objectives: 1) design and synthesis of novel electron acceptor perylene based systems; 2) preparation and characterization of polymeric donor/acceptor photoactive blends; 3) assembling of BHJ solar cells and photovoltaic performance evaluation. The expected results are: a) new highly stable molecules and polymers with n-type semiconduction properties; b) nanostructured photoactive layer made of polythiophenes and perylene acceptor systems; c) BHJ solar cells with good harvesting of the solar light and longer live time.

Keywords: solar cells,bulk heterojunction,n-type materials,solar chemistry,organic chemistry,macromolecular chemistry,polymer chemistry,physical sciences
People, prey and predators: Community dynamics in the Last Interglacial (P3LIG)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Human societies have a large impact on mammal faunas. Conversely, over the course of history, human culture has been shaped by interactions with mammal communities. The proposed research will tease out how the interplay between climatic factors and community dynamics affected the composition of large mammal faunas and the distribution and behaviour of human groups in northwest Europe, focusing on the warm period known as the Last Interglacial (around 120,000 years ago). During this period, important differences occurred between large mammal communities of the British Isles and the continent. In particular, humans, horses and forest rhinos (the latter two were prime prey species for human groups during the cold period before the Last Interglacial) are missing from the British faunas. A comparison between continental Europe and the British Isles provides a unique opportunity to study the interactions between humans, their competitors (large carnivores) and their prey species. An innovative combination of palaeoecological and morphometric approaches, including palaeoenvironmental modelling, statistical analysis, food web topology, geometric morphometrics, and microwear and mesowear analysis, will be applied to fossil assemblages to address these questions. The integration of different levels of analysis (populations, species, communities) will greatly increase our insight into the dynamics of mammal communities in rapidly changing environments. The research will form part of a postdoctoral fellowship, enabling the applicant to move to an institute which has the appropriate knowledge and resources to facilitate the acquisition of new skills and the application of new research methods by the applicant. The proposed research will strengthen the applicant’s position as an academic researcher after a trans-national mobility period for carrying out PhD research and expand on previously established contacts with researchers and institutes across northern Europe and Russia.

Keywords: community ecology,quaternary vertebrate palaeontology,animal morphology,climate change impact,biogeography,paleoclimate,palaeolithic archaeology
Gut-liver axis’ protein impact: Influence of dietary protein on gene expression and metabolic phenotype in the gut-liver axis (GLAPI)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-06
End date: 2013-10-05
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The gut and the liver are the key organs in nutrient absorption and metabolism. The gut adapts to the composition of the diet by direct substrate effects in addition to neural and endocrine mechanisms. These adaptations include the intestinal mucosa and the gut microbiota. Depending on the diet, the profile of nutrients, metabolites, gut peptides and other mediators released from the gut can be modified. The liver is the first organ which comes into contact with the molecules arising from gut digestion. Nutrients and metabolites delivered from the intestine are sensed in the liver and trigger an adaptation of liver function to improve their hepatic processing. These processes together with neural and endocrine mechanisms regulate liver function and exert a direct or indirect feedback control of gut function. This project aims to evaluate the consequences of increasing protein in a context of either a high carbohydrate or a high fat diet on the adaptation of the gut-liver axis in rodents. A high carbohydrate diet induces hepatic steatosis through the stimulation of hepatic lipogenesis. In contrast, a high fat diet is believed to induce liver metabolic dysfunction and steatosis through dietary fat accumulation but also by inducing gut bacterial overgrowth and endotoxemia leading to a pro-inflammatory state in the gut-liver axis. In order to evaluate the effect of protein in both situations, animals are adapted for several weeks to 4 diets including a control high carbohydrate diet, a high protein-low fat diet, a high fat diet and a high fat-high protein diet. The analyses include gene expression and metabolic phenotyping in the gut mucosa and liver, characterisation of the microbiota, gut, liver and peripheral inflammatory state, hepatic lipogenesis and steatosis, glucose homeostasis, protein turnover in tissues, energy expenditure, substrate oxidation, body composition and food intake behaviour.

Keywords: natural sciences,nutritional sciences,genomics,molecular markers and recognition,protein,liver,steatosis,metabolism
Solar Magnetic Eruptions: Understanding and Forecasting (SOME-UFO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We propose a four-year project aiming to first, understand solar eruptions and second, help build a future capacity to predict them, thus contributing to the forecasting of the ever-changing space weather conditions. Inclement space weather has adverse consequences on exposed humans and technological assets in space and near-space environments, and sometimes even on ground-based facilities. As solar eruptive activity is predominantly magnetic in origin, the targeted research objectives will be achieved via a comprehensive, innovative analysis of solar magnetogram data combined with complementary information from other solar data sets. The proposed research topic presents a milestone for modern solar physics, thus carrying significant intellectual weight, and at the same time it may lead to meaningful practical improvements toward the safety and smooth operation of our manned and unmanned space infrastructure. The proposal coordinator has spent the past nine years in the United States of America, most of them as a Senior Professional Staff Physicist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) in Laurel, Maryland. As of September 2009 he possesses a tenure-track Assistant Research Professor (Researcher C') position at the Academy of Athens in Athens, Greece. He is also an elected Board Member of the European Solar Physics Division (ESPD; 2008 - 2011). With virtually non-existent institutional funding for travel, publications, and student supervision/mentoring, he applies for Marie Curie IRG funding primarily for these three purposes rather than for salary support. The proposal demonstrates that a Marie Curie IRG Grant will substantially improve his employment conditions and help him solidify his career prospects in Europe at the same time keeping his strong ties with the US solar physics community and providing the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European solar physics community with needed expertise in the study of solar magnetism.

Keywords: solar magnetic fields,solar eruptions,solar flares,coronal mass ejections,space weather,combinatorial analysis,statistics
Fundamentals and Applications of Holographic Duality (HOLOERG)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We propose a project whose goal is to broaden the current range of applicability of the AdS/CFT correspondence, to draw lessons for the strongly coupled dynamics of gauge theories in diverse dimensions and to learn about new aspects of the holographic duality. To achieve these goals we focus on four systems with interesting and useful applications: (i) flavor dynamics in holographic QCD, (ii) the AdS4/CFT3 correspondence and non-perturbative dynamics of supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theories, (iii) AdS/CFT descriptions of disordered strongly coupled QFT's, and (iv) the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence as a laboratory for holographic dualities.

Keywords: ads/cft,holographic qcd,3d conformal field theories,supersymmetry,strongly coupled gauge theories,disorder,spin glasses
Deep-Sea Coral Geochemistry and Climate: a Focus on the History of the Southern Ocean (DEEP-SEA CORALS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Southern Ocean plays a crucial role in modulating global climate, and exhibits a sensitive response to perturbations. Today, some of the most obvious symptoms of changing climate, such as ice shelf melting and ocean temperature rise, are being observed in the Southern Ocean and coastal Antarctica. Leading hypotheses for the cause of the low atmospheric CO2 levels at the last glacial maximum include Southern Ocean processes such as enhanced biological productivity or stronger vertical stratification. Constraining the rates and amplitude of environmental change (on both millennial and decadal timescales) in the Southern Ocean is, therefore an important goal of climate science. This sensitivity of the Southern Ocean to climate perturbation means that the fauna that live there are likely to experience large changes in their environments. Carbonate organisms are at risk from ocean acidification, with deep-sea corals being a group that is likely to be particularly vulnerable. However, our understanding of how climate change may affect the distribution and health of cold-water corals is inadequate and improving this understanding is a pressing concern for conservation efforts. This project seeks to combine existing and novel geochemical approaches to optimize the use of deep-sea coral skeletons as archives of past Southern Ocean climate. The records produced during the reintegration period will provide data suited to testing hypotheses linking Southern Ocean circulation to global climate on timescales from decades to millennia and will provide unique insights into the history of deep-sea coral population dynamics.

Keywords: natural sciences,deep-sea coral,geochemistry,climate,ocean circulation
Advanced coding techniques for mitigating error floors (ERRORFLOORS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Iterative decoding algorithms for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are known to be subject to decoding failures that result in high error floors in the bit error rate performance curves. Recently, researchers became aware that the error floor was a result of a number of properties of the code's graph representation, including cycles, stopping sets, trapping sets, absorbing sets, and pseudo-codewords. This research aims at analyzing the error floor phenomenon for these structures and developing improved code representations as well as decoder architectures to mitigate the error floor. The convolutional counterparts of LDPC codes, namely LDPC convolutional codes will also be examined in this scope. It is proposed to extend the results to the decoding of conventional codes with denser graph representations, where the error floor issue is even more severe.

Keywords: electrical engineering,telecommunications engineering,error control coding,low-density parity-check (ldpc) coding,iterative decoding
Role of the Keap1/Nrf2 antioxidant response system in thyroid gland homeostasis and thyroid cancer (THYROIDANTIOXIDANT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recently, it has been discovered that the thyroid gland has increased ability to withstand oxidative stress compared to other organs. This important feature allows the gland to maintain its homeostasis in the face of increased burden of free radicals produced during iodine metabolism for thyroid hormone synthesis. Iodine deficiency and goiter are associated with increased oxidative stress in the thyroid. While some antioxidant enzymes are known to be upregulated in the thyroid under such conditions, the broader regulatory mechanisms of oxidative stress resistance remain unknown. The proposed research aims to investigate the role of the major antioxidant response system orchestrated by the transcription factor Nrf2 in thyroid gland homeostasis and thyroid cancer. Specifically, it will examine whether Nrf2 regulates the thyroid’s antioxidant defenses; whether Nrf2 activity in the thyroid is altered during iodine deficiency and goitrogenesis; and whether constitutive Nrf2 activation by somatic mutations is associated with thyroid cancer. These investigations will utilize mouse knockouts of Nrf2 and wild-type animals, primary thyroid cell cultures derived from these mice, and archived thyroid cancer samples from human subjects. This work has implications for the management of iodine deficiency and the prevention of thyroid carcinogenesis. This interdisciplinary research project will be executed by Dr. Gerasimos Sykiotis, a translational investigator who has prior research experience in thyroid gland pathophysiology and has acquired state-of-the-art expertise with the Nrf2 antioxidant response system in the country of origin (USA). The University of Patras Medical Center is a highly qualified host organization as it has in place both the nrf2-/- animals and the human thyroid cancer samples. Lasting professional integration, international collaborations with the USA and European countries, and advanced European competitiveness are features of this proposal.

Keywords: endocrinology,thyroid,oxidative stress,antioxidant,nrf2
ESTABLISHMENT OF A CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (CIPTT) IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (CIPTT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: North Macedonia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2016-07-02
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The purpose of the requested Marie Curie IRG is to assist Dr. Bratislav Stankovic in his permanent professional reintegration into his native country, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Dr. Stankovic has spent 19 years in the USA as a researcher, scholar, educator, and law practitioner, acquiring professional experience in both the academic and private sectors. He recently accepted employment as a full-time faculty member at the University American College (UACS) in Skopje. The award of an IRG should assist Dr. Stankovic to share in his native country his knowledge and expertise in intellectual property (IP) rights, technology transfer (TT), science, and socio-economic development. He has already developed expertise and track record in IP law, technology and knowledge transfer, both as a scholar and as a law practitioner, working for one of the largest IP law firms in the USA. He is keenly aware of the global developments in IP law and TT. An award of an IRG would be instrumental in supporting his efforts to create an interdisciplinary Center (CIPTT) intended to promote a strategic focus on innovation in, and development of, various industries - and to enhance commercialization of research. The long-term goal of this effort relates to promotion and enablement of innovation, intellectual asset management, fostering the creation of new technologies, tools, SMEs, and paradigms in the FYROM. The CIPTT will have a strong intersectoral aspect, bringing together experts from diverse areas such as law, economics, science, business, and education, thus combining a unique set of partner skills. The establishment of the Center will be an incremental yet important step in the positioning of FYROM as a place of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth built upon an economy in which knowledge and innovation are the primary tools, where development stems from brains rather than brawn or materials (in line with EC’s "Europe 2020: a new economic strategy").

Keywords: intellectual property law,technology transfer,training,education,innovation,economic growth