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Marie Curie Excellence Teams are supported under the sixth Framework Programme of the European Union and are "devoted to the promotion and recognition of scientific excellence." To quote from the FP6 work programme "These [Grants] aim at providing support for the creation and development of European research teams which are considered to have the potential to reach a high level of excellence, more particularly for leading edge or interdisciplinary research activities."
The Marie-Curie Excellence team ECERTA was one of about 30 teams established from 280 proposals made in response to the call of January, 2006. The €1.6 million project started on 1st January, 2007 and will last for 4 years. The grant supports the efforts of 8 man years of experienced researchers, 6 man years of early stage researcher (PhD student) and the Team Leader, Prof Ken Badcock. Prof John Mottershead is contributing his expertise on structural model updating.
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