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A CIDADE EDUCADORA COMO PROPOSTA POLÍTICA E PEDAGÓGICA TRANSFORMADORA PARA A EDUCAÇÃO DO SÉCULO XXI.

Pensar a cidade, com a cidade e para a cidade tem se tornado uma tarefa envolvente não apenas para os gestores municipais, mas também para uma série de outros agentes responsáveis por implementar políticas públicas voltadas para a cidade e seus habitantes. Quando a educação é colocada como o fator fundamental para o desenvolvimento da cidade, surge a cidade como meio para uma formação integral do cidadão, desde a mais tenra idade. É nesse contexto que emerge a perspectiva da Cidade Educadora, perspectiva que vem se difundindo pelas cidades brasileiras. Este trabalho procurar investigar por que tal perspectiva pode ser considerada tanto uma proposta política como pedagógica atraente e transformadora do século XXI. Por meio da análise textual da Carta de Cidades Educadoras tentou-se identificar o que seu conteúdo nos revela acerca dessa perspectiva. Por último, trataremos de exemplos de projetos e ações que se articulam como políticas públicas nas Cidades Educadoras no contexto brasileiro. A metodologia consiste em análise documental e bibliográfica, além de análise textual por meio da aplicação do software Iramuteq. Os resultados obtidos nos revelam que o Iramuteq é um recurso metodológico muito útil para a realização de análises textuais e para a produção acadêmica. Conclui-se que a cidade está no centro de uma formação cidadã, mas para que não se torne um discurso utópico, a Cidade Educadora deve realizar projetos e ações que envolvam as comunidades, fazendo com que participem ativamente das mudanças que desejam promover para a educação e para os espaços onde vivem.
Regional policies for competitive cybersecurity SMEs

Cybersecurity threats know no borders and are becoming more and more sophisticated.
In a fast changing world, increasingly dependent on digital services, breaches in cybersecurity are a threat to governments, businesses and citizens. They not only cause damages and costs. They also undermine trust of internet users.
The EU is investing in answers to these challenges. Its Digital Single Market Strategy is flanked by the EU Cyber Security Strategy (2013) and the Network and Information Systems Directives.
With these challenges, however, comes opportunity. Europe 2020 is designed to ensure that the EU economy addresses today’s main challenges, while promoting competitiveness. Cybersecurity fits into this aim. It presents an opportunity for SME competitiveness. If policy can help SMEs to overcome a series of barriers, SMEs can take advantage of the cybersecurity market as it expands at an astonishing rate.
CYBER overall objective is to boost competitiveness of  cybersecurity SMEs, thanks to improved public policies. It involves public authorities that can help knock down barriers of market fragmentation, lack of coordination of regional actors and lack of skills. The innovation ecosystem is the thread that runs through CYBER’s suggested policy improvements.
Interregional cooperation is key to identifying solutions and moving towards a more integrated cybersecurity market. CYBER uses a series of interregional events and connects stakeholders to address common barriers to an interregional problem. 
Thanks to policy improvements that help to create and strengthen innovation ecosystems, CYBER achieves improved competitiveness of EU cyber SMEs.
Medium-term results are to reduce fragmentation and ensure greater coherence between offer and market demand, with a chance to build up skills and merge competences. In the long term, by making the digital world safer, CYBER contributes to the development of the EU digital market.
Thermal hydraulics simulations and experiments for the safety assessment of metal cooled reactors

The thermal-hydraulics Simulations and Experiments for the Safety Assessment of Metal cooled reactor (SESAME) project supports the development of European liquid metal cooled reactors (ASTRID, ALFRED, MYRRHA, SEALER). The project focusses on pre-normative, fundamental, safety-related, challenges for these reactors with the following objectives:
• Development and validation of advanced numerical approaches for the design and safety evaluation of advanced reactors;
• Achievement of a new or extended validation base by creation of new reference data;
• Establishment of best practice guidelines, Verification & Validation methodologies, and uncertainty quantification methods for liquid metal fast reactor thermal hydraulics.
The SESAME project will improve the safety of liquid metal fast reactors by making available new safety related experimental results and improved numerical approaches. These will allow system designers to improve the safety relevant equipment leading to enhanced safety standards and culture.
Due to the fundamental and generic nature of SESAME, developments will be of relevance also for the safety assessment of contemporary light water reactors. By extending the knowledge basis, SESAME will allow the EU member states to develop robust safety policies. At the same time, SESAME will maintain and further develop the European experimental facilities and numerical tools.
The consortium of 25 partners provides American-European-wide scientific and technological excellence in liquid metal thermal hydraulics, as well as full alignment with ESNII and with NUGENIA where of interest. A close interaction with the European liquid metal cooled reactor design teams is foreseen involving them in the Senior Advisory Committee. They will actively advise on the content of the project and will be the prime end-users, ensuring their innovative reactor designs will reach highest safety standards using frontier scientific developments.
Bioprinting on-chip microphysiological models of humanized kidney tubulointerstitium

Eight hundred and fifty million people worldwide are currently affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD), which is also the 11th leading cause of mortality worldwide.  CKD can occur from a multitude of causes including diabetes and high-blood pressure. Moreover, recent clinical and experimental studies have shown that CKD is closely interconnected with acute kidney injury (AKI) as well. Currently available in vitro models show limited relevance to study AKI, especially drug- and virus- induced AKI, due to the poor functionality and relevance compared to a diseased human tissue. BIRDIE aims at developing three-dimensional (3D) in vitro human renal tubulointerstitium (TI) models to enable viral infection and nephrotoxicity studies while creating a robust platform to address other diseases and treatment innovations in the future. Two enabling technologies, bioprinting and organ-on-chip, will be combined to build a microphysiological relevant TI model. Primary human cells and induced pluripotent stem cells will be used to generate kidney models, and combined with the aforementioned techniques model envisioning a reliable screening platform for future patient specific therapies. Our ambition is to create a new 3D renal in vitro model allowing an unprecedented degree of mimicry and function compared to a human kidney. While developing the model focusing on the applications mentioned before, our goal is to make it broadly applicable to the multitude of kidney-related diseases.
From leaf to terrestrial biosphere model: integrating multi-scale observations of highly diverse tropical ecosystems for global scale simulations

The representation of terrestrial ecosystems is a key source of uncertainty in future projections of the coupled carbon cycle/climatic system. Current Terrestrial Biosphere Models (TBMs) represent the worldwide vegetation by a dozen of rigid Plant Functional Types (PFT), with empirical mechanisms calibrated on discrete observations. As a result, TBMs represent highly diverse ecosystems such as tropical forests with only one clone of the same plant. This over-simplified representation arises from the lack of observations in some regions such as over Africa, which leads to widely diverging results for C cycling and nutrient/water limitations under future scenarios.
Simulating plant diversity is crucial for assessing global change impact on ecosystems and their feedback on climate.
LEAF2TBM targets the unresolved challenge for TBMs to simulate the effects of plant diversity on tropical forest ecosystem functioning and associated global biogeochemical cycles based on an integrated assessment of processes across different scales. 
I will achieve this by using unique concomitant field observations of carbon dioxide and water vapor exchanges measured at multiple scales (from individuals to ecosystem) and state-of-the-art modelling approaches to ( 1 ) accurately quantify the effect of the functional diversity on ecosystems fluxes for two forests located in the Congo Basin and Amazon; ( 2 ) disentangle the roles of species composition and environment on ecosystems fluxes; and ( 3 ) provide a robust estimate of the global C budget uncertainty for tropical forests in TBMs. 
LEAF2TBM will enhance EU scientific excellence and will be a crucial step for guiding the development of the next generation TBMs that are central for policy decision making. The science excellence and training through LEAF2TBM will enable me to apply for senior research positions or an ERC starting grant in the future, which would allow me to establish my own research group on terrestrial ecology.
Analysis of temporal variability in the concentrations of some elements in the terrestrial moss Pseudoscleropodium purum

The uptake of contaminants by moss is a complex process that depends on the nature and characteristics of the contaminants and on the physicochemical and biological processes that affect the moss. All of these factors in turn depend on environmental variables that may vary within a short time. It can therefore be assumed that the uptake of elements varies in such short periods that it is very difficult to obtain temporally representative results in biomonitoring studies with terrestrial moss. In order to investigate the temporal variability and the implications that it may have on the interpretation of the results obtained in this type of study, the tissue concentrations of 12 elements were determined in samples of the moss Pseudoscleropodium purum collected from two sampling sites in Galicia (NW Spain), during a long term survey with a high frequency of sampling. The results showed that the concentrations of the elements in the moss varied greatly within very short periods, and that the error associated with the temporal variability in the results was high. In accordance with these findings, and taking into account that the technique enabled contaminated and uncontaminated sites to be distinguished, we recommend that the results of biomonitoring studies should be regarded as qualitative or semiqualitative, rather than attempting to provide absolute data, which may not be temporally representative, and may have a high degree of uncertainty associated with them.
Probing neutrino magnetic moments at the Spallation Neutron Source facility

Majorana neutrino electromagnetic properties are studied through neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering. We focus on the potential of the recently planned COHERENT experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source to probe muon-neutrino magnetic moments. The resulting sensitivities are determined on the basis of a chi^2 analysis employing realistic nuclear structure calculations in the context of the quasi-particle random phase approximation. We find that they can improve existing limits by half an order of magnitude. In addition, we show that these facilities allow for Standard Model precision tests in the low energy regime, with a competitive determination of the weak mixing angle. Finally, they also offer the capability to probe other electromagnetic neutrino properties, such as the neutrino charge-radius. We illustrate our results for various choices of experimental setup and target material.
Erweiterung der Entwicklungsabteilung des Lichtlabors und Prototypenwerkstatt

Das vorliegende Projekt wird zur Erweiterung der bestehenden Entwicklungsaktivitäten des Unternehmens führen, nämlich den Ausbau der Entwicklungsabteilung des Beleuchtungslabors und der Prototypwerkstatt.
Diagnostics device for rapid testing of prostate cancer at point-of-care

Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most common types of cancers. As an age-related disease, it is very infrequent below the age of 40 but very common above 65. Currently in Europe, 1 in 7 men will develop PCa before reaching age of 85. With population growth and ageing, the numbers of PCa diagnoses and PCa deaths are likely to substantially increase. It is estimated that by 2030, with an increase in the proportion of people over 65, the number of PCa cases will quadruple. Most PCa’s are first found through a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test. Under the current standard of care, men with an elevated PSA levels and/or abnormal digital rectal exam (DRE) are considered at high risk for cancer and will be referred to a urologist for a biopsy. But most men selected for biopsy could have avoided this painful procedure, with its associated complications and costs. More accurate non-invasive tests could help PCa-free men safely avoid unnecessary biopsies, while helping to identify men who may be harbouring aggressive PCa, who will benefit from earlier detection. In response to this challenge, we have developed Nevada, a non-invasive urine-based test assay that identify those men at increased risk of PCa who may benefit most from earlier detection. We plan to convert our test into a Point of Care assay, resulting in significant savings for the healthcare systems across Europe, by only referring those patients to the hospitals that are at risk for a clinically significant cancer. Upon completion of the project, Nevada will boost the growth of our company generating additional 85 FTEs, revenues of €309M and a ROI of 7.9 by the fifth year after Phase 2 execution. With the help of the SME instrument, MDxHealth aims to complete clinical validations and assay optimization so that it can be commercialized across European markets first, and global markets later on, improving the quality of care of healthcare systems worldwide as well as the PCa patient´s quality of life.
Success for Convergence Regions' Economies

It is commonly accepted that convergence regions within the EU do not only suffer from far below average GDP per capita, but are also forced to grow faster than other regions and to ensure that this growth is consistent. In order to tackle this reality, many EU-funded projects aim at stimulating these regions’ development and helping to strengthen the regional capacity in the fields of physical and human capital, innovation, knowledge-based society, adaptability to change, the environment and administrative effectiveness.  Against this backdrop, this project focuses on the specific challenges of development of convergence regions within the EU. Despite the fact that these regions have been awarded with extensive funds, not all have taken advantage to the same extent and therefore are still unable to improve their socio-economic performance and competitiveness. Therefore this project seeks to understand why some convergence regions are unable to improve economic performance and competitiveness. It will do so by systematically comparing relevant factors for economic growth and by analysing successful cohesion projects over the last 15 years in convergence regions with both high and low growth rates.
FKBP5 as a possible moderator of the psychosis-inducing effects of childhood trauma

Background FK506 binding protein 5 (FKBP5) has repeatedly been shown to be a critical determinant of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression following childhood trauma. Aims To examine the role of FKBP5-trauma interactions in the partly stress-related psychosis phenotype. Method In 401 general population twins, four functional polymorphisms were examined in models of psychosis and Cortisol, and followed up in models of psychosis in three samples at different familial liability (175 controls, 200 unaffected siblings and 195 patients with a psychotic disorder). Results The most consistent finding was an interaction between childhood trauma and rs9296158/rs4713916 on psychotic symptoms and Cortisol in the twin sample, combined with a directionally similar interaction in siblings (rs4713916) and patients (rs9296158), A-allele carriers at both polymorphisms being most vulnerable to trauma. Conclusions Trauma may increase the risk of psychosis through enduring changes in the Cortisol feedback loop, similar to that for PTSD, suggesting comparable biological mechanisms for psychosis across diagnostic boundaries.
Open dynamics of interacting and disordered quantum systems

This research proposal focuses on the open quantum system dynamics of disordered and interacting many- body systems coupled to external baths. The dynamics of systems which contain both disorder and interactions are currently under intense theoretical investigation in condensed matter physics due to the discovery of a new phase of matter known as many-body localization. With the experimental realization of such systems in mind, this proposal addresses an essential issue which is to understand how coupling to external degrees of freedom influences dynamics. These systems are intrinsically complex and lie beyond the unitary closed system paradigm, so the research proposed here contains interdisciplinary methodology beyond the mainstream in condensed matter physics ranging from quantum information to quantum optics. The project has three principal objectives each of which would represent a major contribution to the field:

O1. To describe the dynamics of a interacting, disordered many-body systems when coupled to external baths.
O2. To perform a full characterization of spin and energy transport in their non-equilibrium steady state.
O3. To explore the system capabilities as steady state thermal machine from a systematic microscopic perspective.

This will be the first comprehensive study of the open system phenomenology of disordered interacting many-body
systems. It will also allow for the systematic study of energy and spin transport and the exploration of the potential of these systems as steady state thermal machines. In order to successfully carry out the work proposed here, the applicant will build a world class team at Trinity College Dublin. Due to his track record and interdisciplinary background in many-body physics, quantum information and statistical mechanics combined with his personal drive and ambition the applicant is in a formidable position to successfully undertake this task with the platform provided by this ERC Starting Grant.
BALLISTIC RESISTANT THERMOPLASTIC SHEET, PROCESS OF MAKING AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Woven fabrics are formed from high tenacity fibers or tapes that are loosely interwoven with adhesive coated filaments, to composite articles formed therefrom, and to a continuous process for forming the composite articles.
The Poverty Impact of Climate Change in Mexico

This paper examines the effects of climate change on poverty through the relationship between indicators of climate change (temperature and rainfall change) and municipal level gross domestic product, and subsequently between gross domestic product and poverty. The evidence suggests that climate change could have a negative impact on poverty by 2030. The paper proposes a two-stage least squares regression where it first regresses temperature and rainfall (along with geographic controls and state and year fixed effects) on municipal gross domestic product per capita for 2000 and 2005 The resulting gross domestic product per capita is used in a second equation to estimate municipal poverty on the same years. The authors then incorporate projections of temperature and rainfall changes by 2030 into the estimated climate-gross domestic product coefficients to assess the effects of climate change in economic activity and how this in turn will influence poverty. At the same time, they account for the potential adaptive capacity of municipalities through higher population densities and economic growth. Both would reduce poverty by 31.72 percentage points between 2005 and 2030 with changing climate. However, poverty could have been reduced up to 34.15 percentage points over the same period had there been no climate change. This suggests that climate change slows down the pace of poverty reduction. An alternative reading is that poverty is expected to increase from 15.25 percent (without climate change) to 17.68 percent (with climate change) by 2030. Given the existing population projections for 2030, this represents 2,902,868 people remaining in poverty as a result of climate change.
Financing scheme for energy efficiency and renewable energy guaranteed in deep renovations of building stock

The National Fund “NFOSiGW” supported by KAPE and partners seek to replicate the financing scheme, systems and procedures developed for private and public sectors under the Latvian Baltic Energy Efficiency Facility’ “LABEEF”. The Fund will structure demand and execute the financing scheme of a pilot project through the existing online platform SHAREX. Partner organizations in Austria, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria will be replicating in their countries.

The public funding will work as a leverage for ESCO to take on new projects without the need to wait for the repayment of already implemented projects. Therefore, their funds could be reinvested faster. The standardisation of procedures, expert verification of archived savings and increased amount of investments will motivate the financial sector to support energy efficiency and environmental protection projects. 

The standardisation and scaling up the number of investments in energy efficiency and environment protection will increase the trust of banks, increasing their involvement on the market. 

The support from public funds will aim at already implemented, successful projects assuring the repayment of invested public money in a long-term, providing the leverage effect in increasing the number of projects carried out by ESCOs and making the public funds available in the future for reinvesting. 

The stimulation of the ESCO market will help to utilise the potential for energy efficiency in the SME sector. The solution will work as a guarantee for energy savings and environmental effect which will be furtherly verified with the unified procedures implemented in the mechanism.
Types of buildings and infrastructure included in the project (might be different in different countries):
- multifamily private and municipal buildings,
- public buildings,
- individual residential buildings, housing communities, cooperatives.