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Innovative approaches to turn agricultural waste into ecological and economic assets (NoAW)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

NoAW : No Agro-Waste.Innovative approaches to turn agricultural waste into ecological and economic assets.Driven by a “near zero-waste” society requirement, the goal of NoAW project is to generate innovative efficient approaches to convert growing agricultural waste issues into eco-efficient bio-based products opportunities with direct benefits for both environment, economy and EU consumer. To ach...
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Interactive Soil Quality Assessment in Europe and China for Agricultural Productivity and Environmental Resilience (iSQAPER)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

Knowledge regarding the complex interplay between agricultural land use and management and soil quality and function is fragmented and incomplete, in particular with regard to underlying principles and regulating mechanisms. The main aim of iSQAPER is to develop an interactive soil quality assessment tool (SQAPP) for agricultural land users that integrates newly derived process understanding and a...
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Integrated and innovative key actions for mycotoxin management in the food and feed chain (MycoKey)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

MycoKey aims to generate innovative and integrated solutions that will support stakeholders in effective and sustainable mycotoxin management along food and feed chains. The project will contribute to reduce mycotoxin contamination mainly in Europe and China, where frequent and severe mycotoxin contaminations occur in crops, and where international trade of commodities and contaminated batches are...
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New commercial EUropean RICE (Oryza sativa) harbouring salt tolerance alleles to protect the rice sector against climate change and apple snail (Pomacea insularum) invasion (NEURICE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

About 2/3 of the rice consumed by European citizens is produced in EU, and its productivity is affected by abiotic and biotic stresses. Of particular concern, global temperature has increased over the last century, especially during the last 50 years (0.13° C / decade). One consequence has been a clear tendency toward salinization, which affects rice as one of the most salt sensitive crop in the r...
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Safe Food and Feed through an Integrated ToolBox for Mycotoxin Management (MyToolBox)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

MyToolBox mobilises a multi-actor partnership (academia, farmers, technology SMEs, food industry and policy stakeholders) to develop novel interventions aimed at achieving a 20-90% reduction in crop losses due to fungal and mycotoxin contamination. MyToolBox will not only pursue a field-to-fork approach but will also consider safe use options of contaminated batches, such as the efficient producti...
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European Virus Archive goes global (EVAg)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The overall objective will be to create and mobilise an International network of high calibre centres around a strong European group of institutes selected for their appropriate expertises, to collect, amplify, characterise, standardise, authenticate, distribute and track, mammalian and other exotic viruses. The network of EVAg laboratories including 25 institutions represents an extensive range o...
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Strengthening Animal Production and Health through the Immune Response (SAPHIR)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

SAPHIR aims to develop vaccine strategies effective against endemic pathogens responsible for high economic losses in livestock in order to strengthen the profitability of food animal systems, improve animal welfare and reduce xenobiotic usage in farming with a One Health perspective. SAPHIR will bring novel vaccine strategies to the market i) at short term, with several promising vaccines brought...
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Innovative Real-time Monitoring and Pest control for Insects (INSECTLIFE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Background Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a sustainable approach to pest control that combines the use of prevention, avoidance, monitoring and suppression strategies to maintain pest populations below economically damaging levels. IPM can also minimise pest resistance and harmful effects of pest control on human health and environmental resources. ...
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Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Most agricultural rural areas in the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan are characterized by drastic changes in the agriculture and nutrition sector, due to privatization, modernization and increasing differences between large-scale agro-holdings and small holder farms. The importance of rural development and the need to develop perspectives for agricultural land use is both recognized by politics ...
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International University Cooperation on Land Protection in European-Asiatic Countries

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Soil and land degradation refers to all process(es) by which soil declines in quality and is thus made less fit for a specific purpose, such the crop production. Education will play a crucial role in the land degradation protection. This involves an opportunity and implies rethinking and reorganizing higher education institutions (HEIs) to become effective change agents in terms of learning out...
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Fit für Europa 2.0 - Mobilität für Auslandspraktika

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The BilSE-Institute is located in the northeastern part of Germany, in the federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV). The area is economically affected by agriculture and tourism. Lacking of infrastructure, MV has to deal with increasing migration of young professionals and with obsolescence. Therefor it is one of the major issues to stabilize and consolidate a professional competence for the agri...
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Ceurope 2016-18 on job training for Danish farm students.

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

Project summary.Context/background of project; Dalum Academy of Agricultural Business Denmark is one of the leading agricultural education centres for farmers with an international outlook in Denmark. One soft point is however the international activities and possibilities at the first step of the education program, the basic course. In 2014 we started two Erasmus programs in order to offer more i...
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Coordination of the Agricultural Research in the Mediterranean (ARIMNET2)

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

Agricultural research in the Mediterranean is characterised by three main features: it is scattered within the EU members and in Mediterranean Partner Countries as well as most of the problems and challenges that the Mediterranean agriculture is facing are shared by all the countries in the area and even further, its objectives are largely the same in the whole area, even if priorities can vary fr...
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Innovative model and demonstration based water management for resource efficiency in integrated multitrophic agriculture and aquaculture systems (INAPRO)

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

"The objective of INAPRO is to mobilise industry, member states and stakeholders to promote a new and innovative technical and technological approach right up to an Aquaponic system which allows a nearly emission free sustainable production and contributes remarkably to global food security for the 21st century. Considering that traditional Aquaponic systems, combining aquaculture and hydroponics,...
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"Land use change: assessing the net climate forcing, and options for climate change mitigation and adaptation" (LUC4C)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"LUC4C will advance our fundamental knowledge of the climate change - land use change interactions, and develop a framework for the synthesis of complex earth system science into guidelines that are of practical use for policy and societal stakeholders.Policies in support of climate change mitigation through land management, and the societal demand for other services from terrestrial ecosystems ar...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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EUROVOUZELA 3

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Escola Profissional de Vouzela (EPV) started its activity in Ocotber 1991, being exclusively dedicated to teaching and Professional training of youngsters, having graduated already around 5000 youngsters and young adults.The lack of specialized labor in hospitality in the region and the high number of students who left (and leave) early school justified its creation. Today it is a consistente inst...
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Multipurpose hemp for industrial bioproducts and biomass (MULTIHEMP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Hemp is a sustainable high yielding crop well adapted to most European conditions, with advantageous environmental and agronomical characteristics. Traditionally cultivated for the fibres, seeds and psychoactive substances, it is now considered an ideal crop to produce innovative biomaterials. Once a key industrial crop for fibre, hemp production declined in the last century and was displaced by c...
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"Agro-technological training methodology based on organic farming - Einkorn - Ancient innovation II"

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Einkorn is an ancient grain that dates back approximately a 10 000 years. Bulgarian einkorn, unlike other varieties found, contains higher than typically met nutrients. Unfortunately in Bulgaria no targeted studies have been conducted to understand, grow and cultivate the Bulgarian variety of einkorn. By conducting initial studies within the framework of our successfully ongoing 2013 "Transfer of ...
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BACterial Hosts for production of Bioactive phenolics from bERRY fruits (BacHBerry)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Plants synthesize a staggering variety of secondary metabolites, and this chemodiversity is a poorly used pool of natural molecules with bioactive properties of importance for applications in the pharma and food industries. BacHBerry focusses on phenolic compounds, a large and diverse class of plant metabolites, which are currently in the spotlight due to their claimed beneficial effects in preven...
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Linking Epidemiology and Laboratory Research on Transboundary Animal Diseases and zoonoses in China and EU (LinkTADs)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The continuous growth of the world population translates into a demand of animal protein that can only be achieved through technological advances in farming, intensification, and expansion of farmed land. These pressures, combined with the increasing international trade of animals and their products, will lead to the rapid spread of animal diseases across borders and the emergence of new pathogen...
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MODelling vegetation response to EXTREMe Events (MODEXTREME)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The continuous supply of services provided by agricultural systems is increasingly threatened by climate change in association with an estimated increase in the frequency of extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves or heavy precipitation events.MODEXTREME has the overarching goal to help the European and non-European agriculture face extreme climatic events by improving the capability o...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Choose Your Future

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

Choose Your Future is a project focused on cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices between schools. The project covers a variety of topics which link to: labor market issues incl. career guidance , youth unemployment; early school leaving, combating failure in education; entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education. The most relevant priorities addressed by the proj...
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Zemědělství stále žije II

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The project proposal was designed for students of the Secondary School Znojmo, Dvorakova, enabling them to foreign internships at workplaces in France, Denmark and Austria. In to this project were enrolled students of four-year graduation courses Agrobusiness and Science lyceum, then pupils of three years apprenticeship farm machinery repairman. Students of these fields during their studies have ...
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Fit für Europa 2.0 - Mobilität für Auslandspraktika

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The BilSE-Institute is located in the northeastern part of Germany, in the federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV). The area is economically affected by agriculture and tourism. Lacking of infrastructure, MV has to deal with increasing migration of young professionals and with obsolescence. Therefor it was one of the major issues to stabilize and consolidate a professional competence for the ag...
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Learning by Action - Mobilizing Basic level students(Dyr, planter og natur), to on-job-training without salary in Europe.

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

Vi er en lille landbrugsskole-afdeling på Sydfyn med ca. 100 elever på grundforløb/1HF. Rammerne er gamle som andels- og højskolebevægelsen. Her er en lang tradition for at arbejde international. Vi har arbejdet med undervisning af især østeuropæiske elever i en periode. Vi har modtaget elever fra Kina i 4 ugers forløb. På adelingen i Odense har vi etableret en egentlig international kursusafdelin...
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Optimizing Miscanthus Biomass Production - OPTIMISC (OPTIMISC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Miscanthus is a C4 perennial rhizomatous grass that has become a leading candidate crop for production of lignocellulosic feedstocks due to its rapid biomass accumulation in temperate climates. There is currently a single commercial clone, M. x giganteus, which has a number of limitations. Research over the past 20 years has shown that a few key species and their interspecific hybrids have a high ...
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STrengthening And Redesigning European FLOOD risk practices Towards appropriate and resilient flood risk governance arrangements (STAR-FLOOD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Urban regions in the EU face increasing but uncertain flood risks due to urbanization and the effects of climate change. In European (a.o. the Flood Risk Directive) and in national and regional policies, attempts are made to diversify and align different Flood Risk Strategies (FRSs). In our proposal, five such strategies are distinguished: risk prevention; flood defense; mitigation; preparation; a...
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Genetics and physiology of wheat development to flowering: tools to breed for improved adaptation and yield potential (ADAPTAWHEAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"ADAPTAWHEAT will show how flowering time variation can be exploited for the genetic improvement of the European wheat crop to optimise adaptation and performance in the light of predicted climate change. It will test current hypotheses that postulate specific changes in ear emergence and the timing and duration of developmental phases, which are thought of as components of ear emergence, will i...
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Drought-tolerant yielding plants (DROPS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

DROPS will develop novel methods and strategies aimed at yield maintenance under fluctuating water deficit and at enhanced plant water-use efficiency. We deal with high genotype x environment interaction in the field (any trait can have positive, negative or no effect depending on drought scenarios) with an approach combining Physiology, Genetics, field testing and Ecophysiological modelling. The ...
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Fiber Crops as a Sustainable Source of Bio-based Materials for Industrial Products in Europe and China (FIBRA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The FIBRA network has as main target to link the research and development activities for fibre crop innovations carried out by universities and institutions in both EU and China. This proposal is set up to promote the communication between experts about the key issues of fibre crop production, processing and application, while attention towards quality and efficiency improvement, and product diver...
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Finding the regional strengths to create business opportunities for Arctic agriculture based on special plants

Start date: Mar 4, 2013, End date: Oct 3, 2015,

Enhancing special plant production and businesses in Barents regionagriculture Achievements: The project has increased competence in specific plant production and enhanced creation of new production lines. It has also helped to increase the information about the effects...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The Agricultural Academy (AA) applied for a mobility project for higher education, training and staff in the end of February, 2014. The project proposition was approved by the Bulgarian National Agency (The Human Resources Development Center) and a contract for financial support was signed between the Agency and the Agricultural Academy on the 22.10.2014. The first training mobilities for staff fr...
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Reconciling Renewable Energy Production and Nature in the Alps (recharge green)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The growing demand for renewable energy (RE) will increase the pressure on the Alpine environment. It will strongly impact land use patterns, ecological connectivity and biodiversity. Both the demand for renewable energy and the need for the conservation of biodiversity, soil, and connectivity transcend national borders. A transnational dialogue to address multiple environmental objectives, interd...
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A data infrastructure to support agricultural scientific communities (agINFRA)

Start date: Oct 15, 2011, End date: Feb 14, 2015,

agINFRA is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) project that will try to introduce the agricultural scientific communities into the vision of open and participatory data-intensive science. In particular, agINFRA aims to design and develop a scientific data infrastructure for agricultural sciences that will facilitate the development of policies and the deployment of services that will prom...
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Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR-IDAZ)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

Animal diseases can cause serious social, economic and environmental damage and in some cases also threaten human health. An increasing number of the major disease problems or threats faced by the livestock industry and zoonoses are of a global nature. The overall aim of the global strategic alliances for the coordination of research on the major infectious diseases of animals is to improve coordi...
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Ultrafine Particles – an evidence based contribution to the development of regional and European environmental and health policy (UFIREG)

Start date: Jun 30, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Air quality is a topic of concern for all citizens. It directly influences life-quality and span. In order to meet the challenges resulting from increased air pollution, regional authorities have to adapt to innovative interdisciplinary approaches. A little attention has however been paid so far to the measurement of ultrafine particles and to providing knowledge-based contributions to regional po...
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Young InNOvators Network for SustainaBLE Ideas in the Agro-Food Sector  (NO-BLE Ideas)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The project develops on the basis of three elements: the awareness that innovation in the agro-food sector can contribute to sustainable development; the conviction that to innovate it is necessary to enhance young researchers ideas thanks to the support of entrepreneurs with innovative spirit (and thus the merging between research demand and supply); the presence, in all countries of the target a...
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