The Interuniversity Attraction Poles (PAI) Programme - Programmes and projects

Programmes and projects - Phase VII

List of the IAP-VII Networks (2012-2017)

47 IAP-research networks, implicating 369 research teams (257 Belgian teams and 112 European partners), are classified in different domains.

Life Sciences (24 networks)

Code (FEDRA)	Title of the network (link to the network's website)
P7/03	Cancer cells and their microenvironment: from gene regulatory networks to therapy
P7/04	SPatial and environmental determinants of Eco-Evolutionary DYnamics: anthropogenic environments as a model (SPEEDY)
P7/07	Paracrine and transcriptional control of cell differentiation in organ development and repair.
P7/10	Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Electrical Excitability
P7/11	Integrated cerebral networks for perception, cognition and action in human and non-human primates
P7/13	Integration of cellular signaling pathways in health and disease
P7/16	An integrated approach towards understanding the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration
P7/17	Hormones and neuroplasticity: image guided discoveries of molecular mechanisms in neuroplasticity
P7/20	Mechanisms of brain wiring in normal and pathological conditions
P7/24	The soil systems under global change
P7/25	Microbial Resource Management (MRM) in engineered and natural ecosystems (µ-manager)
P7/28	Role of developmental processes in the virulence of human pathogens: from molecular mechanisms to novel therapeutic targets
P7/29	Growth and development of higher plants
P7/30	Importance and interaction of allergy, infections and respiratory environmental exposures in chronic lower & upper airway diseases (AIReWAY II consortium)
P7/31	Aquatic Systems under multiple stress: a New Paradigm for Integrating Aquaculture and Ecotoxicology Research
P7/32	Molecular Signaling in Cell Death and Inflammation: an integrative approach from basic mechanisms to disease models
P7/33	Mechanisms of conscious and unconscious learning
P7/39	T lymphocytes: from basic biology to immunotherapy
P7/40	G protein-coupled receptors: from structures to functionally validated targets
P7/41	Tolerance and resistance to parasite infection: trypanosomatidae as paradigm
P7/43	Belgian Medical Genomics Initiative
P7/44	Integrative Protein Science: from small molecules to complex biological systems (IPROS)
P7/45	Virus host interplay at the early stages of infection
P7/47	Human liver desase: Study of the hepatic stem cells and their niche, and development of novel model systems

Exact and Applied Sciences (15 networks)

Code (FEDRA)	Title of the network (link to the network's website)
P7/02	Multiscale Modelling of Electrical Energy Systems
P7/05	Functional Supramolecular Systems (FS2)
P7/06	Developing crucial Statistical methods for Understanding major complex Dynamic Systems in natural, biomedical and social sciences (StUDyS)
P7/08	Contemporary physical challenges for Heliospheric and AstRophysical Models (CHARM).
P7/12	The Belgian Research Initiative on eXotic nuclei for atomic, nuclear and astrophysics studies (BriX)
P7/15	Planets: Tracing the Transfer, Origin, Preservation, and Evolution of their ReservoirS (PLANET TOPERS)
P7/18	Dynamics, Geometry and Statistical Physics (DYGEST)
P7/19	Dynamical systems, control and optimization (DYSCO)
P7/21	Multiscale mechanics of INTErface dominated MATErials (INTEMATE)
P7/23	BElgian network on STochastic modelling, analysis, design and optimization of COMmunication systems (BESTCOM)
P7/34	Physical chemistry of Plasma-Surface Interaction (PSI)
P7/35	photonics@be: towards smart photonics in 2020
P7/36	Combinatorial Optimization: Metaheuristics and Exact methods
P7/37	Fundamental interactions: at the boundary of theory, phenomenology and experiment
P7/38	Microfluidics and micromanipulation: multi-scale applications of surface tension (micro-MAST)

Human Sciences (8 networks)

Code (FEDRA)	Title of the network (link to the network's website)
P7/01	Literature and media innovation: the question of genre transformations
P7/09	Comparing regionality and sustainability in Pisidia, Boeotia, Picenum and NW Gaul between Iron and Middle Ages (1,000 BC - AD 1,000)
P7/14	Greater Mesopotamia: reconstruction of its Environment and History
P7/22	Justice & populations, the Belgian experience in international perspective, 1795-2015
P7/26	City and Society in the Low Countries (ca. 1200-ca. 1850). The condition urbaine: between resilience and vulnerability
P7/27	The Global Challenge of Human Rights Integration: Toward a Users’ Perspective
P7/42	If not for Profit, for What? And How? Building interdisciplinary and integrated knowledge on Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise
P7/46	Participation and Representation. A comparative study of linkage mechanisms between citizens and the political system in contemporary democracies