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Pedagogies of Educational Transitions (POET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Sweden,United Kingdom,Iceland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222600.0
EU funding (EUR): 222600.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The project - Pedagogies of Educational Transition (POET) - brings together experienced and early career researchers from universities in five countries to build expertise and skills, and strengthen international research partnerships in the area of researching young children's educational transitions. The proposal outlines staff exchanges and networking activities which will build sustainable research collaborations and provide the basis for the establishment of a European research centre of excellence. Working from the concept of the "knowledge triangle" in which education, research and innovation are stimulated through international collaboration on a shared topic, POET is as collaboration between three European nations, Sweden, Scotland (UK), Iceland and two international partner countries: New Zealand and Australia, each with an S&T agreement with the EU. The POET project is based on the premise that positive early educational transition experiences are a key element of the sustained educational engagement of children and families over time. The project will work with five themes of pedagogical transitions: pedagogies of inclusion, indigenous pedagogies of transition, pedagogies of continuity, pedagogies of transition over time, pedagogical beliefs and practices with the aim of reconceptualising educational transitions cross nationally. These themes will be addressed through the following questions: 1. What are the dominant and emerging pedagogies of educational transition 2. What research models and approaches exist to describe and explain educational transitions 3. How are these transitions theorised 4. What evidence-based recommendations for national and international action (research, policy and practice) can be made as a consequence of POET The project aims to map, analyse, synthesize and reconceptualise educational transitions in order to inform transitions policy, research, pedagogies and practices cross sectorally, cross culturally and cross nationally

Keywords: education,early childhood,educational transition
Vestibular System, Cognition and Vegetative Regulations (SVETA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160500.0
EU funding (EUR): 160500.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The vestibular system (VS), and more specifically its otolithic part (specialized in detecting gravity and inertial linear acceleration), has long been recognized for its role in spatial orientation and postural equilibrium. Its involvement in the regulation of other physiological systems (respiratory and cardiovascular systems, circadian regulation, food intake, bone mineralization) has been made clear only recently. Besides an increase in basic scientific knowledge, studying the biological impact of VS is also crucial for space exploration because it could participate in some harmful effects of prolonged exposure to weightlessness - such as cardiovascular and sensory-motor deconditioning, bone loss, and hormonal changes. VS dysfunction could also be implicated in common pathological conditions such as orthostatic hypotension, sleep disruption, bone loss…Studying the biological effects of the otolith system can be performed by removing it or, more physiologically, by changing the level of gravity. Hypergravity can be produced by centrifuges while reduced gravity can only be obtained during parabolic or space flights. There are few ground alternatives, such as head-down bed rest and dry immersion, for studying some aspects of the effect of weightlessness on physiological systems. These facilities are scattered throughout Europe, Russia and the USA and no single scientific team has the expertise in all the main scientific fields relevant to gravitational physiology: neurosciences, musculo-skeletal physiology, endocrinology, chronobiology, and cardiovascular physiology. Thus, ambitious scientific research on the implication of VS in gravitational physiology is not conceivable without international cooperation. The aim of this proposal is to establish long-term research cooperation on VS and gravitational physiology at an international level, involving the main research facilities in Europe, Russia and the USA, and to create new research opportunities in this area.

Keywords: l213 systems biology,l504 sensory systems,l507 cognition,bone mineralization,vestibular system,cardiovascular system,weightlessness,inactivity,human and animal research
The role of non coding RNA in human health and disease (RNA_REGULOMICS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Portugal,Italy,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 155400.0
EU funding (EUR): 155400.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

RNA molecules have been already proven to be a key target for disease therapy as well as a tool for the development of new drugs. Since the discovery of small non coding RNA (ncRNA) and all the associated phenomena like RNA interference, the possibility of using RNA-based drugs has become a subject of great interest in the pharmaceutical and clinical fields. ncRNA is at the core of many cellular processes and might become an outstanding landmark in the way how we will fight disease in the future. The objective of this exchange programme is to establish collaborative training and joint research initiatives addressing the role of non-coding RNAs in health and disease. The specific scientific aims are: - To unravel the role of non-coding RNA and RNA-binding proteins in thyroid development, physiology and pathology. - To determine whether thyroid hormones affect non-coding RNAs in osteoblasts derived from adipose stem cells. - To determine whether circulating micro RNAs can be used as biomarkers for heart disease. The programme that we propose to implement will significantly expand biomedical research and training across the Brazilian academic community, while providing the European partner institutions expanded opportunities for collaborations in research and post-graduate education.
Toxic protein aggregation in neurodegeneration (TOPAG)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2012-SyG, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13927098.0
EU funding (EUR): 13927098.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Formation of amyloid-like protein aggregates is the hallmark of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, but how the aggregation process is linked with cytotoxicity and cell death remains unclear. The goal of this pro¬ject is to elucidate the basic mechanisms of aggregate toxicity and how it affects the biological system in its entirety. We will analyse cell culture and mouse models of Huntington’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclero¬sis and Alzheimer’s disease using a trans-disciplinary approach combining cellular biochemistry, quantita¬tive proteomics and 3D cryo-electron tomography. The effects of aggregating protein species (APS) formed by designer proteins and authentic disease proteins will be compared to define general and disease-specific toxicity mechanisms. The main aims of this project are: 1. To determine the sequence of cellular events occurring during toxic protein aggregation. Live cell imaging and single molecule fluorescence fluctuation measurements will be employed to monitor how APS evolve from diffusible oligomers to large inclusions and quantitative proteomics will define signatures for cells with different forms of aggregates. 2. To identify the mechanisms of aggregation toxicity through a systematic interactome analysis of APS in cell culture and mouse brain. The cellular localization of APS and their potential association with membrane structures and cellular machinery will be determined by cryo-ET. 3. To elucidate why cellular protein quality control fails in neurodegenerative disease. Specially designed proteostasis sensors will be used to monitor the status of the protein folding machinery as aggregate pathol¬ogy develops. The potentially protective pathways of inclusion body formation will be explored using cryo-ET and laser capture dissection coupled with highly sensitive proteomics. Understanding aggregation toxicity will be invaluable in developing novel therapeutic strategies for some of the most debilitating diseases of our time.

Keywords: proteotoxicity,protein aggregation,protein quality control,molecular chaperones,cryo electron tomography
Salvador da Bahia: American, European, and African forging of a colonial capital city (BAHIA16-19)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Portugal,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195300.0
EU funding (EUR): 195300.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The project Bahia16-19 aims at creating a top-level research and advanced training network on the colonial history of the Atlantic. The coordinator, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), promotes this network together with the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) and with Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France). The aim of this proposal of mobility scheme is to give birth to a trans-Atlantic web of faculties and advanced students, specialized in the long-term history of colonial Atlantic. The partners have chosen to focus on Salvador de Bahia, and to study its role and functions as a capital city in an imperial context. In Salvador de Bahia European settlement, native cultures, and African forced migration created a multi-cultural society. Due to this fact, this city was undoubtedly an exceptional place. Covering the period from the 16th century to the post-independence era, the ensemble of researches due to be carried out within the project will provide an archival based and reflexive addition of up-to-date knowledge. The promoters of the project share the assumption that Salvador da Bahia may be the shortest way to link European scholars with African history and historiography. The recent Brazil’s massive investment in research and training on African history and society had become a major resource to reformulate also European approaches to Africa. Another major output of the project is the joint Master’s proposal on Trans-Atlantic colonial history. Such a course will be a dramatic move forward in the relations between the European, the Brazilian and the African scholarships. The applicants think of offering further partners from African universities to join our Master’s syllabus and, at the end of this program, to apply to a Erasmus Mundus training.

Keywords: colonial history - entangled histories - global history,historiography - theory and methods of history,modern and contemporary history,globalization - migration - interethnic relations
Nanotechnology Education for Industry and Society (NANOEIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Belgium,Ireland,Israel,Netherlands,Poland
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2012-CSA-6, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 571279.2
EU funding (EUR): 518176.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Nanotechnology is an emerging area with strong implications for European society and industry. It is a challenge for the education system to integrate this interdisciplinary and transsectoral subject into curricula shaped mostly along classical disciplines. NanoEIS will evaluate how nanotechnology education has been integrated into secondary schools and universities, how cooperations between different partner institutions were implemented, and in which ways industrial and non-industrial (social) employers have been involved. NanoEIS will make, based on a thorough assessment of employer needs, recommendations for curriculum contents as well as for best practice strategies to implement them. This will help to resolve the problem that education contents are not always well matched with the needs of the job market. Improving this situation will benefit both graduates seeking jobs, and industrial / social employers who need specific skills in the professional environment. Nanotechnology education has to start at secondary schools, since nano is by now part of the daily environment and schools need to teach about relevant issues to allow informed consumers to take full advantage of nano-enabled products in a safe and sustainable way. NanoEIS will develop novel teaching and assessment tools for secondary schools. In addition, career choices start in school when decisions about study subjects are made, which should be based on full and relevant information, to achieve a good match between the interests of students and the contents of their studies and courses. A website based on the existing NANOfutures site will be set up, as one-stop shop for information on nanotechnology education for all stakeholders, including secondary school students, university students, educators and education administrators, and both industrial (large industry, SME, start-ups) and social employers (regulatory agencies, media, legal and IP services etc.).

Keywords: nanotechnology,education,training,industry,society,interdisciplinary,intersectoral,best practice models
Introducing Exascale Computing in combustion instabilities Simulations (INTECOCIS) (INTECOCIS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Products and process engineering
Countries involved: France,France
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120216, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2488656.0
EU funding (EUR): 2488656.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

INTECOCIS is a project on energy production by combustion built by IMFT (experiments, theory and instabilities) and CERFACS (numerical simulation). Combustion produces 90 percent of the earth energy and will remain our first energy source for a long time. Optimizing combustors is a key issue to burn fossil and renewable fuels more efficiently but also to replace wind or solar energy production on days without sun or wind. This optimization cannot take place without numerical simulation (‘virtual combustors’) that allows to test designs without building them. These virtual combustors cannot account for combustion instabilities (CI) which are a major risk in combustors where they induce vibration, loss of control and destruction. CIs cannot be predicted reliably today. INTECOCIS aims at introducing recent progress in High Performance Computing (HPC) into studies of CIs, to build simulation tools running on massively parallel computers that can predict CIs in future combustors and assess methods to control them. To achieve this goal, the simulations used today for CIs will be revolutionized to integrate recent HPC capacities and have the capabilities and brute power required to compute and control CI phenomena. A second objective of INTECOCIS is to distribute these HPC-based tools in Europe. These tools will integrate UQ (uncertainty quantification) methodologies to quantify the uncertainties associated with the simulations because CIs are sensitive to small changes in geometry, fuel composition or boundary conditions. Moreover, simulation tools also contain uncertain parameters (numerical methods, space and time discretization, impedances, physical sub models) that will have to be investigated as well. Most of the work will be theoretical and numerical but INTECOCIS will also include validation on laboratory burners (at IMFT and other laboratories in Europe) as well as applications on real combustors for European companies collaborating with IMFT and CERFACS.

Keywords: combustion instabilities gas turbines energy production high performance computing uncertainty quantification fossil fuel pollution climate change
Building Enterprises – Wireless and Internet Security in European Regions (BE WISER)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Regions of Knowledge
Destination: Transnational cooperation between regional research-driven clusters
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Ireland,Spain,Germany,Slovenia,Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-REGIONS-2012-2013-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-07-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3298310.06
EU funding (EUR): 2873922.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Be Wiser examines organisation and technical research challenges in some of Europe’s best known RTD regions. The technology focus is on wireless internet security; while the organisational challenge is to more effectively utilise Triple Helix clusters in regional innovation processes. This approach will strengthen Europe’s position in wireless rollout and address the challenges set out in the Digital Agenda. With the rapid expansion in wireless based devices, many undertaking complex and often highly confidential transactions, the security of data transmission is increasingly important as trillions of objects are connected via the Internet of Things. The need for fully secure systems cannot be overstated in retaining the confidence of all users and to balance the requirements of Citizens, Government and Enterprises in terms of their privacy and security needs. The clusters involved in this project are both central and peripheral and have strong technological complementary skills and experience – they have varying levels of organisational sophistication in terms of how they manage their innovation processes and recognise the potential to mentor each other while working collaboratively on RTD challenges. Be Wiser will: • Analyse the regions involved and the sector addressed via triple helix clusters bringing Policy Makers, Researchers and Enterprises together to focus on innovation processes and RTD; • Develop a JAP and develop smart specialisation strategies and identify further research and product opportunities as part of broader economic development strategies ; • Deliver tangible outputs that will enhance the competitiveness of the clusters, • Seek new market opportunities for regional enterprises, especially SMEs; • Mentor all partner regions on technology, business and clustering themes; • Develop a sustainable business and resourcing plan.

Keywords: wireless and internet security european regions
PEDCA Pan-European Data Centre Academy. (PEDCA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Regions of Knowledge
Destination: Transnational cooperation between regional research-driven clusters
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-REGIONS-2012-2013-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-07-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1889811.13
EU funding (EUR): 1711126.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Data centres are the cornerstones which underpin the digital economy, and create the essential environment for both business and employment to flourish. It is becoming urgent for established data centre states to contribute to R&D, share and develop skills, define standards and promote strategies for network investment. All of these activities will lead to increased trust of new technology such as cloud computing and encourage collaboration and interoperability. EU states with a less established data centre industry and footprint, but with a need for it to grow can benefit greatly from the knowledge transfer, insight, experience and raised profile. Initial research and workshops held between industry leaders and academic institutions within UK, The Netherlands and Germany has confirmed that Europe would benefit greatly from the creation of a Pan-European Data Centre Research and Development Academy. Most data centre related standards, guidelines and research comes from the USA which often causes a confusing mix of conflicting information with little relevance to Europe. Therefore, many new innovations that promote energy efficiency and general improvements are misinterpreted, not taken up or developed. This is due to a perceived risk factor due to lack of testing, validation and education. The vision, which is shared by the vast majority of the data centre sector, is to build upon existing collaboration within the data centre industry via the DCA. The foundations of such a initiative and broad agreement has already been reached. The proposal is to establish and extend the facility to all European Union states encompassing both higher education and the wider data centre industry. This is in order to meet the challenges laid out within the Europe’s Digital Agenda.

Keywords: digital economy cyber security interoperability energy efficiency carbon footprint pedca academy dca skills set cost effectiveness datacentre datacenter data centre training test validation