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Public FLOOD Emergency and Awareness SERVice (FLOOD-serv)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

Floods are an increasingly acute problem. Floods endanger lives and cause human tragedy as well as heavy economic losses. In addition to economic and social damage, floods can have severe environmental consequences, for example when installations holding large quantities of toxic chemicals are inundated or wetland areas destroyed. Intense precipitation has become more frequent and more intense, gr...
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Climate Resilient Cities and Infrastructures (RESIN)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

With most of its population and capital goods concentrated in urban areas, cities are key to the European economy. One of the major challenges cities face are more frequent extreme weather events due to climate change.The current diversity of approaches and methods available for cities developing an adaptation strategy limits the comparability between cities of vulnerabilities, adaptation option...
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A neW concept of pubLic administration based on citizen co-created mobile urban services (WeLive)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

The WeLive project is devised to transform the current e-government approach by facilitating a more open model of design, production and delivery of public services leveraging on the collaboration between public administrations (PAs), citizens and entrepreneurs. WeLive applies the quadruple-helix approach based on the joint collaboration of 3 PAs, 4 research agents and 5 companies, constituing the...
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COoperative loGISTICS for sustainable mobility of goods (CO-GISTICS)

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

Key logistics stakeholders from seven European cities/logistics hubs (Bordeaux, Frankfurt, Thessaloniki, Trieste, Arad, Bilbao and Vigo) have joined forces to deploy, validate and set-up after project life of five piloted cooperative logistics services combining cooperative mobility services and intelligent cargo with real-life logistical aspects. CO-GISTICS services will increase energy efficienc...
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GAZTE-TALK: INICIATIVAS PARA LA CONSTRUCCIÓN COLECTIVA

Start date: Jan 20, 2016, End date: Oct 19, 2016,

GAZTETALK is a project promoted by Bilbao City Council and, specifically, its Youth Department. The project is aimed at debating about youth policies from a cross point of view that enables policy makers, young people and other stakeholders to the decision making process.The project is part of a wider workplan in order to strengthen and innovate in this field from a double approach; on the one ha...
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BROWNFIELD Decontamination In Southern Europe. Preparing PCP to R+D for efficient, cost effective and innovative solutions for brownfields decontamination (BRODISE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Public procurement represents +/-19% of the EU’s GDP. Historically a small and slower uptake of innovations has been witnessed along with the fragmentation of publ demand.. PE represents a fundamental driver of innovation and competitiveness.Urban regeneration conducted by Bilbao confirms that the development of mixed formulas publ-priv for projects of mutual interest entails higher quality, effec...
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Holistic Approach to Resilience and Systematic Actions to make Large Scale UrbaN Built Infrastructure Secure (HARMONISE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

For the first time, more than 50% of the world's population live in urban areas. By 2050, c. 70% of people are likely to be city dwellers, compared with less than 30% in 1950. This trend brings with it increased security and safety threats in urban areas, not least to urban built infrastructure. The central aim of HARMONISE (A Holistic Approach to Resilience and Systematic ActiOns to Make Large Sc...
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Quiet areas definition and management in action plans (QUADMAP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Background A range of studies have demonstrated that noise influences our sense of our social surrounding. EU Directive 49/2002/CE on Environmental Noise (END) defines a “Quiet Area” (QA) as an area that is delimited by a competent authority and is not exposed to a noise above a certain threshold (set by the Member State), from any noise source. This...
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Portable microfluidic-based device for in situ detection of viable legionella (PINVIALEG)

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

"Legionella outbreaks have great sanitary, economic and social implications. Diagnostic method use to prevent and control Legionella is bacteria culture. Available detection kits are based on DNA technology, unable to discriminate between viable and non-viable bacteria. On the contrary, RNA is widely used as a viable bacteria indicator. Although molecular based techniques, as PCR and qPCR, have be...
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Urban Freight Energy Efficiency Pilot (FREILOT)

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

Transportation of goods is a key enabler for European economy to maintain its competitiveness. However, the same transportation brings other, less positive effects, such as CO2 emissions, contributing to the global gas house effect. Therefore, reduction of fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and emissions of other pollutants is one of the biggest challenges for the road transport today.The specific en...
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L07 - Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus

Start date: Jul 15, 2009,

This action was prepared after two years of the EMECW implementation. The previous links and meetings and the follow-up meetings and implementation of the first two phases have proved a mutual beneficial experience. These were contributions made by the applicant, the EU partners, and the third country partners. The universities were selected by a number of criteria: these included involvement in t...
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