Interuniversity attraction poles 5 (IAP)

Accompanying committee - Objectives - Description - Projects - Documentation

Organization :

• Responsible(s) Federal Science Policy:
  Feys Veronique, Lejour Corinne
  Info
• Final decision of the Ministers Council: 22/12/2000
• Duration of the research: 1/1/2002 - 31/12/2006
• Budget: 111.638.000,00 EUR
• Research projects: 36

Accompanying committee:

Members of the Federal Authority, Flemish Community, French Community, VLIR, CREF, 2 foreign experts

Objectives:

The "Interuniversity Attraction Poles" (IAP) Programme aims to provide support for teams of excellence in basic research that belong to Belgium’s various (linguistic) Communities and work as part of a network in order to increase their joint contribution to general scientific advances and, where applicable, to international scientific networks.

The programme’s objectives are to:

- award teams already recognised in the international scientific community additional human and material resources in order to put together a sufficient critical mass;
- encourage interactions between Belgium’s Communities and consolidate ties between universities belonging to these Communities in order to form lasting networks;
- develop or create collaborations between teams from different institutions and promote complementarity and interdisciplinarity between these teams;
- enable young teams to benefit from the environment of excellence constituted by a network and its international influence in order to ensure continuity in the excellence of basic research in Belgium.

Description:

The 36 research networks are classified into different categories: biology, medicine, chemistry, physics, applied sciences, historical sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Research projects:

• P5/01: Quantum size effects in nanostructured materials



• P5/02: Angiogenesis and vessel wall diseases



• P5/03: Supramolecular chemistry and catalysis



• P5/04: Dynamic sensory processsing, learning and visual cognition



• P5/05: Transmembrane transport and protein phosphorylation in the regulation of cell function



• P5/06: Advanced mechatronic systems (AMS)



• P5/07: Exotic nuclei for nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics



• P5/08: From microstructure towards plastic behaviour of single- and multiphase materials



• P5/09: Urban and rural transformation in de western and eastern Roman Empire. Interdisciplinary archaeology of late antique and early medieval times



• P5/10: Urban society in the Low Countries (late Middle Ages - 16th century)



• P5/11: Mobile multimedia communication systems and networks



• P5/12: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of inflammation and cell death



• P5/13: Growth and development of higher plants



• P5/14: The land of Sumer and Akkad. Reconstruction of its environment and history



• P5/15: Human rights of children. Standard setting, implementation, social reality: evaluation of the emancipatory character of human rights instruments



• P5/16: The loyalties of knowledge. The positions and responsabilities of the sciences and of scientists in a democratic constitutional state



• P5/17: Molecular and cellular basis for beta cell therapy in diabetes



• P5/18: Photons and photonics: from basic physics to system concepts



• P5/19: Molecular genetics and cell biology



• P5/20: Neuro-endocrine interactions in the gastro-intestinal tract under normal and pathological conditions



• P5/21: Equilibrium theory and optimisation for public policy and industry regulation



• P5/22: Dynamical systems and control: computation, identification and modelling



• P5/23: Theory of the norm and democratic governance



• P5/24: Statistical techniques and modelling for complex substantive questions with complex data



• P5/25: Molecular pathogenesis of genetic diseases



• P5/26: Universities and firms: a comparative analysis of the interaction between market processes, organizational strategies and governance



• P5/27: Fundamental interactions: at the boundary of theory, phenomenology and experiment



• P5/28: Regulation of immune responses: from fundamental immunology to anti-tumoral immunity



• P5/29: Cell signalling and differentiation during host-parasite interactions: the trypanosome model



• P5/30: G protein-coupled receptors: functional genomics, molecular pharmacology, structure-function studies



• P5/31: Identification and functional analysis of key genes in hormone-sensitive human epithelial tumors



• P5/32: The law of European integration: the internal dimension and the external dimension



• P5/33: Protein structure and function in the post-genomic and proteomic era



• P5/34: Computational electromagnetics for electrical power applications and interactions with information technology devices



• P5/35: Paracrine and transcriptional control of embryogenesis in vertebrates



• P5/36: Modern aspects of theoretical and observational (ground-based and space-borne) astrophysics

Documentation:

Jouer avec les atomes : la nanotechnologie acquiert ses lettres de noblesse
(Revue Mens n°27)    Malines : Mens, 2003 (SP1133)
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Spelen met atomen : nanotechnologie wordt volwassen
(Mens n°48)    Malines : Mens, 2003 (SP1134)
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Interuniversity attraction poles : phase V    Brussels : Federal Science Policy, 2004 (SP1279)
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