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Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Changing European Seas (MERCES)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

The project MERCES is focused on the restoration of different degraded marine habitats, with the aim of: 1) assessing the potential of different technologies and approaches; 2) quantifying the returns in terms of ecosystems services and their socio-economic impacts; 3) defining the legal-policy and governance frameworks needed to optimize the effectiveness of the different restoration approaches. ...
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Highly-efficient biomass CHP plants by handling ash-related problems (Biofficiency)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

Medium- to large-scale bioenergy utilisation for electricity and combined industrial or district heating is predicted to increase by 160% in 2020 compared to 2010, while carbon emission quotas are becoming stricter. Finding new ways to efficiently utilise cheap and currently unused feedstocks are necessary in order to meet these challenges.Within the project Biofficiency we will investigate how to ...
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MARine MAnagement and Ecosystem Dynamics under climate change (MARmaED)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The proposed European Training Network, MARmaED, connects science, policy and people and transcends national borders, disciplinary barriers and sectorial divides. By building a greater knowledge base and train the next generation of scientists to think across disciplines, MARmaED contributes to reinforce Europe’s position as a global leader in marine science and ensure blue growth and sustainable ...
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Highly Innovative building control Tools Tackling the energy performance GAP (HIT2GAP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Measurement campaigns have shown major discrepancies in buildings energy performance between planned energy demand and real energy consumption, while nowadays most of the newly constructed offices buildings are equipped with BMS systems, integrating a more or less extended measurement layer providing large amounts of data. Their integration in the building management sector offers an improvement c ...
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Playful Learning Experience - Enhancing adult education and learning environments with digital media

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

...and joyful way.The partnership behind the project PLAY&LEARN DIGIMEDIAThe partnership consist of five project partners representing HEIs and adult education. The coordinating partner is Åbo Akademi University (AAU) form Finland. The partner organisations are from Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia and Portugal. All project partners are involved in adult education and teacher training in their ordinary activ ...
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Global BioImaging Project - International imaging infrastructure services for the life science community (Global BioImaging)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

"The EC H2020 funded "Global BioImaging Project" enables Euro-BioImaging, the research infrastructure for access to biological and medical imaging technologies on the ESFRI roadmap, to work together with its international counterparts - the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility (AMMRF), the National Imaging Facility (Australia) and India-BioImaging - on concrete and sustainable ...
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Euro-BioImaging Preparatory Phase II - Project (EuBI PPII)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Euro-BioImaging (EuBI) is the pan-European research infrastructure project for imaging technologies in biological and medical sciences and has been on the ESFRI Roadmap since 2008. In close match with the scope and objectives of the INFRADEV2 call, Preparatory Phase II (PPII) funding will enable EuBI:• to finalize the submission and approval procedure of its ERIC statutes with the EC and bring the ...
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Network for Sensor Knowledge Transfer (IBS-NETWORK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The aim of Research Exchange programme Ionophore Based Sensor Network (IBS-NETWORK) is to establish the scientific basis from which the utility and potential for IBSs can be extended in a range of new sectors. To achieve this requires the combined expertise from a number of disciplines and backgrounds, including analytical science focused on IBSs, organic synthesis, material science, microfluidics ...
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E-learning Objects for Innovative Science Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The basic idea of the project “E-learning Objects for Innovative Science Education” (E-LOISE) is to improve adult education and teachers´ skills and knowledge in using interactive objects in all types of science education, as well as providing inspiration for new ideas in teaching. One aim of the project is to explore how to utilize the many opportunities for adaptive and self-paced learning, how ...
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Services of general interest in the EU: a citizens’ perspective on public versus private provision (EUsers)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The EUsers Network aims at encouraging the diffusion of innovative teaching approaches, applied research and policy debate on services of general interest (SGI) in the European Union (EU) from a citizens’ perspective, by creating a network of six universities. The focus of the EUsers Network on SGI stems from their increasing relevance in the EU policy debate. Since mid-1990s the role of SGI in th ...
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Brain Imaging Return to Health (r'BIRTH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Extended lifespan is a new and permanent feature of human life globally. The demographic for population growth of persons over 60 years is predicted to expand by 70% and 400% respectively in developed and less developed regions during the coming decades. Ageing, is accompanied by cognitive decline and greater risk of depression and anxiety. Major drug companies have recently cutback significantly ...
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Fostering Human Rights Among European (external and internal) Policies (FRAME)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

FRAME, a 4-year multidisciplinary project, represents a consortium of 19 internationally recognized and globally networked human rights institutes from across Europe and strategic regions around the world. Through FRAME, more than 100 leading researchers and practitioners - with a strong gender balance - aim to provide the necessary building blocks for a coherent EU human rights policy comprised ...
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Reusable learning objects in education

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The aim of the project “Reusable learning objects in education” is to improve the adult education in the participating countries and strengthen the teachers´ skills and knowledge in using videos in all education and thus their digital competences, as well as inspiring them to new ideas about teaching methods and on-line learning. On European level there is a growing need for modern learning materi ...
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Reliable and Efficient Combustion of Oxygen/Coal/Recycled Flue Gas Mixtures (RELCOM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Most coal-fired utility boilers are fired with pulverised coal and the use of this technology for power generation far outweighs that of alternatives. The consortium have identified key issues that need to be addressed to pave the way for full-scale deployment of oxy-coal firing. As most previous work has been undertaken at pilot-scale so that, in addition to medium scale demonstration activities, ...
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The European Research Infrastructure for Thermochemical Biomass Conversion (BRISK)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Enhancing biomass utilization without risking its sustainability is a European energy priority, and can be linked to targets for curbing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 and 50% by 2050: enhanced energy security and integration with other industrial sectors, such as agriculture, also play a role. Improved use of biofuels and products in advanced biomass conversion units and biorefineries ar ...
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Materials and Advanced Sensor Knowledge Exchange (MASK)

Start date: Jun 3, 2011, End date: Jun 2, 2015,

This exchange programme brings together well established research teams from three European and three Australian Universities with complementary skills and knowledge, who have a clearly demonstrable commitment to research networking, and management of complex research programmes involving multiple partners. These teams together have extensive research experience ranging across fundamental materia ...
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Expanding EPNOE leadership towards Food and Health related materials, and increasing industrial participation (EPNOE CSA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The need for a transition towards a CO2 neutral biobased economy or bioeconomy, increasing population and globalisation of economies will have the consequence of a need for enhanced supplies of biobased resources. To this end, polysaccharides will be at the central point of the world of tomorrow for sustainable fuel, food, materials and medicine production. EPNOE (European Polysaccharide Network o ...
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Collaborative Research into Exascale Systemware, Tools and Applications (CRESTA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

For the past thirty years, the need for ever greater supercomputer performance has driven the development of many computing technologies which have subsequently been exploited in the mass market. Delivering an exaflop (or 10^18 calculations per second) by the end of this decade is the challenge that the supercomputing community worldwide has set itself. The Collaborative Research into Exascale Sys ...
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Exploring Marine Resources for Bioactive Compounds: From Discovery to Sustainable Production and Industrial Applications (MAREX)

Start date: Aug 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

"Biodiversity in the seas is only partly explored, although marine organisms are excellent sources for many industrial products. Through close co-operation between industrial and academic partners, the MAREX project will collect, isolate and classify marine organisms, such as micro- and macroalgae, cyanobacteria, sea anemones, tunicates and fish from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans as well ...
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Euro-BioImaging - Research infrastructure for imaging technologies in biological and biomedical sciences (Euro-BioImaging)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

Euro-BioImaging brings together imaging technologies stretching from basic biological imaging with advanced light microscopy, in vivo molecular imaging of single cells to animal models up to the clinical and epidemiological level of medical imaging of humans and populations. Euro-BioImaging, in close consultation with its stakeholders, will address the imaging requirements of both biological and m ...
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Modern polymer-based catalysts and microflow conditions as key elements of innovations in fine chemical syntheses (POLYCAT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

POLYCAT provides an integrated, coherent and holistic approach utilizing novel polymer based nanoparticulate catalysts in pharmaceutical, crop protection and vitamin syntheses in conjunction with the enabling functions of micro process technology and “green” solvents such as water or ethyl lactate. This provides a discipline bridging approach between fine chemistry, catalysis and engineering. This ...
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SmartComp - Smart competitiveness for the Central Baltic region (SmartComp)

Start date: Apr 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Maritime sector has always been sensitive for economical changes. During the past years maritime clusters in the Central Baltic region have faced tightened competition, new requirements of environmental protection, structural changes and weakened competitiveness. Maritime clusters play an important role in different sectors of economy and thus its profitability has wide influences to other sectors ...
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E-Math:Improving Competence in Mathematics using New Teaching Methods and ICT (E-Math)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

... for mathematics, physics, computer science, and engineering education. The project is carried out in close cooperation between the cities of Turku (lead partner), Stockholm, Tallinn, and Mariehamn, Åbo Akademi University and University of Turku. The project builds upon a new method for teaching mathematics called structured derivations, which has been extensively tried in the Turku region during ...
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Green Islands in the Baltic Sea (Green Islands)

Start date: Oct 31, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

The main goal of the project of Green Islands is to improve the environmental conditions in the Baltic region. The project aims at achieving ‘greener’ islands by mapping, analyzing and evaluating waste, energy and water management together with greenhouse gas footprint, and ecosystem services provided and utilised on islands in Sweden, Finland, and Estonia. The evaluation will be a platform to ba ...
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Combining Process Intensification-driven Manufacture of Microstructured Reactors and Process Design regarding to Industrial Dimensions and Environment (COPIRIDE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

The ultimate ambition of COPIRIDE is to develop a new modular production and factory concept for the chemical industry using adaptable plants with flexible output. This concept will be superior, intellectual property (IP) protected, and enable a much wider spread of know-how and education of this skill-intensive technology. Key functional enabling units are new production-scale, mass-manufactured ...
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Inventories and planning for the marine Natura 2000 network in Finland (FINMARINET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Background Marine habitats have greatly regressed in the Baltic Sea due to extensive eutrophication and the influence of increased amounts of toxic substances. The Finnish exclusive economic zone (EEZ) was established recently, after the designation of the Natura 2000 network, and only a few preliminary surveys of underwater habitat types have been made i ...
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Climate Change Adaptation Tools for Environmental Risk Mitigation of Acid Sulphate Soils (CATERMASS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Background From an environmental point of view, acid sulphate soils (AS-soils) are regarded as the most problematic soil types in the world. Finland has Europe's largest areas of AS-soils (c. 1 000-2 000 km2). Land uplift has caused these sulphide-bearing sediments to emerge above the current sea-level. Through reclamation, burning of the peat cover and h ...
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hosphorus from the seabed and water quality in archipelagos - modeling attempt (SEABED)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

Despite of extensive water protection measures, the state of the Baltic Sea is poor. Nutrients levels in the water and sediments are high, and anoxic dead bottoms are widespread in the sea floor. Even shallow archipelago waters are suffering from oxygen deficiency, though effective water protection measures have cut nutrient discharges from coastal areas. The phenomenon is supposed to be caused by ...
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SNOOP - Shipping-induced NOx and SOx emissions – OPerational monitoring network (SNOOP)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

Based on an existing framework of ship exhaust emission estimation, SNOOP aims to take the strategic evaluation of ship emission effects to a new level by enlargement the scope from nitrogen oxides to SOx, PM, CO, CO2 emissions. The cause-effect chains are studied by monitoring ambient air quality and estimating its human health effects in harbour areas, by modelling the nitrogen input from ship e ...
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moting Natural Materials know-how (ProNatMat)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) with the other Finnish partners has worked with natural materials for several years and Estonian Heritage Society (SRIK) has experience from the year 2001. The idea about the joint project arose from the common interest and need to develop cooperation. ProNatMat promotes natural material know-how in Finland and in Estonia and between these countries. T ...
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Industrial Deployment of Advanced System Engineering Methods for High Productivity and Dependability (DEPLOY)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

Description The overall aim of the DEPLOY Integrated Project is to make major advances in engineering methods for dependable systems by deploying formal engineering methods.The overall aim of the DEPLOY Project is to make major advances in engineering methods for dependable systems through the deployment of formal engineering methods. For ...
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Science Teacher Education Advanced Methods (S-TEAM)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"Helping teachers raise the quality of science teaching and its educational environment has the potential to increase student engagement, attainment, scientific literacy and science career choices. S-TEAM will achieve this by connecting existing science education research and teacher knowledge to teacher education. This task requires the power of coordinated action across a wide range of instituti ...
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Policies and Research for an Integrated Management of Urban Sustainability (PRIMUS)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The PRIMUS project has been designed to bridge the gap between research on the European level on one hand, and policy-making at (and for) the local level on the other hand. The theme chosen for this 36-months coordination action is 'sustainable urban management', thus covering the way how the various policy areas of urban development (energy/water/waste, transport, planning and design, social inc ...
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Flexible working culture - Rethinking of work, place, time and life (FLEX)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

The development of attractive island communities requires competitiveness and innovation. It also requires the development and recognition of island communities and the archipelago as a whole, in regional, economical, and political terms. Because of the geographic heterogeneity of the islands as well as the regional inequality within the archipelago, flexible work arrangements offer one possibil ...
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"Detection Technologies, Terrorism, Ethics and Human Rights" (DETECTER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

"DETECTER aims at increasing the compliance of counter-terrorism with human rights and ethical standards in the rapidly changing field of detection technologies. The project addresses the increasingly international character of counter-terrorism, the increasing use of informal mechanisms for altering law-enforcement practice to meet the threat of terrorism, and the great variety of detection tech ...
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Quadruple Helix Central Baltic (Quadruple)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

Quadruple addresses the need to integrate a gender perspective in policies and practices for cluster and innovation promotion in the Central Baltic Region (hereinafter called CBR). Although the innovation system in CBR is considered as one of the most advanced in Europe it has weaknesses when it comes to the involvement of women. Prior cooperation among project partners has highlighted the importa ...
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EU Fusion for ITER Applications (EUFORIA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

ITER is the next generation of fusion devices and is intended to demonstrate the scientific and technical feasibility of fusion as a sustainable energy source for the future. To exploit the full potential of the device and to guarantee optimal operation for the device a high degree of physics modelling and simulation is needed already in the current construction phase of the ITER project. First pr ...
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Integrated management system for Russian cities - MATRUSCHKA (MATRUSCHKA)

End date: Dec 30, 2008,

MATRUSCHKA aimed at strengthening the capacity of local authorities and developing their city planning process. It contributed to the development of a solid foundation within local authorities upon which long-term planning decisions could be made to support sustainable development. Both EU and Russian cities either initiated or further elaborated their Integrated Management Systems around a chosen ...
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ShipNODeff - (Deposition and effects of shipborne atmospheric nitrogen emissions (ShipNODeff)

Start date: Aug 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The project aims at development and implementation of an operational emission estimation algorithm. The algorithm consists of the following: 1) an operational air quality model to estimate the dispersion and deposition of the ship emissions; 2) an air quality and deposition measurement and model validation system, which will in the next phase be extended to a small measurement network that can iso ...
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AgingWell (eAW)

Start date: Sep 30, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

eAgingWell project is based on a regionally unified method for the observation and screening of cognitive disorders and everyday operation/performance. The programme can be used in desktop computers and laptops. Information related to impairment of cognitiveness and everyday operation helps in making decisions concerning the care and dementia diagnostics. In future, eAgingWell-programme can be int ...
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