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Risky Decisions: Revealing Economic Behaviour (RDRECON)

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

Households are exposed to a wide array of monetary and non-monetary risks: employment risk, financial risk, interest rate risk, and health and mortality risk, to name a few. Society and policymakers can certainly help households manage risk, but to be effective, they need to understand the ways households cope with risk and how vulnerable they are to market and policy changes. For instance, how do...
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Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART)

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

This Project aims to address an increasingly pressing global challenge: How to achieve the EU’s development goals and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, while meeting the global target of staying within two degrees global warming and avoid transgressing other planetary boundaries.EU policies must align with sustainable development goals (Article 11 TFEU). The impacts of climate change and glo...
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Next generation sepsis diagnosis (SMARTDIAGNOS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

Sepsis is a potentially fatal condition that arises when the body’s response to an infection damages its own tissues and organs. It is mainly caused by bacteria and fungi, which spread through the blood circulation. It is one of the biggest public health issue in the EU and worldwide due to its high incidence, mortality, human and economic cost. Early diagnosis is crucial to the management of seps...
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Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators (COFFERS)

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

Since 2008 'fiscal leaks' have become an immediate policy challenge for EU governments, partly as a result of tax abuse. The COFFERS project unfolds as EU tax authorities transition to a new era in tackling tax abuse based upon policy innovation at the OECD, EU and national levels. COFFERS recognizes this creates a state of flux where much tax authority expertise regarding past regulations, system...
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Revisioning the ‘Fiscal EU’: Fair, Sustainable, and Coordinated Tax and Social Policies (FairTax)

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

Plans for economic and monetary integration in the European Union call for fundamental changes in fiscal relations among EU member states and other countries. The 2012 Blueprint for the European Monetary Union (EMU) calls for deeper integration of fiscal policies at the level of domestic EU members, including establishing EU own-source revenues. The 2013 Social Dimension of the EMU emphasizes that...
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Knowledge Alliance for Urban Challenges

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

This Knowledge Alliance aims at creating an international educational programme, the Urban Challenge Programme (KAUC), as we have identified a need to create a foundational unit for students, teachers, municipalities and businesses across disciplinary backgrounds and national borders to cooperate on addressing urgent challenges and sustainability issues in different European urban settings. The fu...
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The Neurobiology of Decision-Making in Eating - Innovative Tools (NUDGE-IT)

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

Nudge-it engages internationally leading experts in the neurobiology of motivational behaviour, the neuroscience of reward pathways, the neuroendocrinology of homeostatic regulation of appetite, experimental psychology, functional brain imaging, behavioural economics, and computational modelling. They will work together to develop new tools and approaches that can provide the evidence needed to in...
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Trash-2-Cash: Designed high-value products from zero-value waste textiles and fibres via design driven technologies (Trash-2-Cash)

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

Within Trash-2-Cash, growing problems with paper fibre waste from the paper industry and textile fibre waste, originating from a continuously increasing textile consumption, will be solved through design-driven innovation. This will be performed by using the wastes to regenerate fibres that will be included into fashion, interior and other products. The cotton production suffers from non-sustainab...
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Mobile context-aware cross-cultural applications (MOCCA)

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

This proposal proposal intends to systematically pioneer the cross-cultural mobile user experience issues and provide valuable guidelines for designing cultural adaptability into the context-awareness of smart phones. The objectives of this proposal are to: 1) Identify the user experience problems that exists in mobile context-awareness system in Europe and China, and uncover the key factors produ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

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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Consistently Optimised Resilient Secure Global Supply-Chains (CORE)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

CORE will consolidate, amplify, extend and demonstrate EU knowledge and capabilities and international co-operation for securing supply chains whilst maintaining or improving business performance, with specific reference to key Supply Chain Corridors.CORE will be driven by the requirements of:• the Customs, law enforcement authorities, and other agencies nationally and internationally to increase...
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European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times: the role of European Networks (ENLIGHTEN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

ENLIGHTEN responds to the first part of the EURO-4 call on “The future of European integration - 'More Europe – less Europe?'” by bringing together an interdisciplinary ‘next generation’ research team that integrates insights from Comparative Political Economy, European Studies, International Political Economy, and Sociology. ENLIGHTEN answers the call by focusing on how European modes of governa...
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Networking to the top: networks and women's access to board positions (WOMBOARDNET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 29, 2018,

Existing research shows that the numbers of women on boards are still very low except in countries that have implemented quota laws. The aim of the proposed IEF project is to explore the role of networks in relation to women’s access to board positions. The project will contribute to reinforce European excellence in questions of diversity and governance, and bring new insights into the much-debate...
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Participation, Privacy and Power in the Sharing Economy (Ps2Share)

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

In this project, we propose an in-depth empirical investigation of privacy in the sharing economy. We will investigate three challenges in particular: privacy, participation/exclusion and power. First, sharing services come with compounded privacy risks extending beyond the informational into the physical realm. In addition, online sharing services entail both institutional and social privacy thre...
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Financial Frictions (FRICTIONS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"Financial economics is at a crossroads: Academics are struggling to redefine the theory of finance and practitioners and regulators to restructure the financial industry. The current financial crisis will have significant impact on how we regulate financial markets and how we manage risk in companies and financial institutions. It will continue to inspire an intense discussion and research agenda...
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Online Learning Modules for Business Process Management (BPM) Advanced Higher Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The project will develop a reference curriculum for executive education on Business Process Management (BPM) for Europe. Such a curriculum is strongly needed, because there is a huge demand for competences in BPM, which is about the value creating application of information and communication technology (ICT) in business and society to support excellence and innovation. A number of European initiat...
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Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (STYLE)

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

The overriding aim of this project is to conduct a comparative EU wide analysis on youth unemployment that is sensitive to gender, ethnic and class differences and the historical legacies of multi-level institutions shaping relevant policies.This aim will be achieved through 10 objectives organized around 12 research, management, dissemination and scientific coordination work packages.There are th...
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Institutional Transformation in European Political Economy - A Socio-Legal Approach (ITEPE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

The objective is to develop a socio-legal theory explaining the institutional transformations from corporatism over neo-corporatism to governance and the role of law and legal instruments within the 3 types of institutions.The period of investigation covers the period between 1850 and today and is limited to the European setting.The core hypothesis is that corporatism, neo-corporatism and governan...
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Innovation in the road freight transportation chain facilitating sustainability and low cost: A socio-technical perspective on work and development of road freight transport markets. (InnoMarket)

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

InnoMarket is opening the black box of the international road freight transport market, which is organized as a bazaar. The project will investigate this 'institutional order' of road freight transportation that leads to unintended inefficiencies such as less than full truck loads. The objective is firstly to identify innovative potentials for lowering cost and increasing sustainability by analyzi...
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GLOBAL VALUE - Assessing the Impacts of Multinational Corporations on GLOBAL Development and VALUE Creation (GLOBAL VALUE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

"The GLOBAL VALUE project develops an innovative framework for assessing impacts of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) on issues related to the Millennium Declaration, sustainable development, human rights, transparency, and anti-corruption. To ensure utility, we will monitor the policy debate on global and sustainable development and deliver a regularly updated catalogue of goals and indicators. W...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 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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Social Innovation and Civic Engagement (ITSSOIN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Research has made seminal contributions to describing the size and scope of the Third Sector, including volunteering as an essential component. However, most of the research has focused on economic benefits (revenues, employment etc.). We highly value these efforts, but posit that the core contribution and main impact of the sector on socio-economic development lies in the creation of social innov...
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Determinants of eating behaviour in European children, adolescents and their parents (I.Family)

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

Nutrition-related diseases caused a loss of over 56 million years of healthy life of European citizens in 2000. I.Family will make a significant contribution to reduce this burden by studying the interplay and impact of the main drivers of dietary behaviour and food choice. It will take advantage of the unique opportunity to follow-up the large IDEFICS children’s cohort to not only provide added v...
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Research and Competence Training Network for Sustainability-Driven Innovation (I4S)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The EC is committed to a research and innovation policy that drives ‘smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’. The I4S training network is designed to study sustainability-driven innovation (SDI) in support of this objective. This is much needed as SDI is poorly understood, with companies only now experimenting with practice in this emerging field. This provides opportunity for a new program of r...
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Sustainable Lifestyles 2.0: End User Integration, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (EU-INNOVATE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Typically, end users or “consumers” are perceived as adopters of sustainable products and services, developed by companies. Thus, a lot of attention is paid to the (non-) diffusion of sustainable products and services. From this perspective end users are seen as – more or less – passive recipients of sustainable products and services.We propose to investigate the active roles of end users in shapi...
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The Privacy Policies of Internet Intermediaries: High-tech Responsibility in the Multi-stakeholder Nexus (INTERNET PRIVACY)

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

"This project advances and interrelates two new conceptual insights – i.e. the ‘high-tech responsibility’ and ‘multi-stakeholder nexus’ concepts – and uses these concepts to conduct an empirical analysis of the privacy policies, and broader political context, of the four internet intermediaries (IIs) that dominate the European search engine and social media market: i.e. Facebook, Google, Microsoft...
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EULA NETWORK IN CERAMIC MATERIALS WITH ENVIRONMENTAL AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS (EULA-NETCERMAT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"Commercial use of advanced ceramics is limited by the complexity and high costs of implementation; skepticism about the long-term stability and consistency of material properties, coupled with lack of industry-wide standardization, high cost of components and absence of performance tracking deterring the full-scale commercialization of advanced ceramics until recently. However, burgeoning researc...
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Future INternet and Open Data EXpansion (FINODEX)

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

FINODEX is a project born to provide new economic and societal value to the European society, through the promotion and the support of innovative ICT services based on FI-PPP technologies and the massive reuse of open data while involving the SMEs and Web entrepreneurs on their creation. They will be able to take advantage of the availability of open data and FI-PPP technologies to create, in a fa...
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Creativity for Innovation & Growth in Europe (CRE8TV.EU)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Creativity is a fundamental transformative mechanism of the European economy. To study this mechanism, this project brings together 11 of Europe’s leading innovation research centres, and is structured around six themes: 1. Mapping and measuring the creative-cultural industries and their impacts; 2. Understanding and modelling creativity and design; 3. Entrepreneurship and industrial dynamics in ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

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"The ""Hidden Architecture"" of Organizations: A Study of Organizational Secrecy" (ORGSEC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"Secrecy, defined as intentional concealment of information by insiders from outsiders, is a fundamental part of organizations. It serves as the basis for the “hidden architecture” of organizations: how organizational groups, such as exclusive and powerful ones, are established, organized and regulated can be an outcome of the workings of secrecy. This “hidden architecture” significantly shapes or...
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VARiability In safety critical Embedded Systems (VARIES)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"In order to succeed or even to survive, manufacturers and system integrators must be able to deliver new products with speed, diversity, high quality, and at an acceptable cost.Embedded Systems (ES) are rarely entirely conceived from scratch. Companies developing ES constantly face decisions about using and adapting existing products or product assets versus new developments. Determining the long...
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"“No Risk, No Innovation?” - The Effects of the Fluency of Brand Names on Consumers’ Responses to Innovations" (FLUENTBRAND)

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

"The creation of brand names has been identified as the “centerpiece of introductory marketing programs” for innovations as they “can enhance brand awareness and/or help create a favorable brand image” (Keller et al. 1998, p. 48). Yet, only a few studies have empirically investigated properties of good brand names and most of them have focussed primarily on the factual meaningfulness of names.Flue...
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Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks (GREEN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"GREEN will study the current and future role of the EU in an emerging multi-polar world through a programme of stock-taking, multi-disciplinary research and complementary activities. It aims at an understanding of the prospective directions of the emerging global governance structures and Europe’s place in them.Analysis will focus on the extant actors from the 20th century, the 21st century risin...
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Professions in International Political Economies (PIPES)

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

"Who writes the rules for the governance of the world economy? The Professions in International Political Economies (PIPES) project is concerned with how professional actors compete in public and private arenas to provide solutions to policy problems. This project provides an original framework to understand how actors in professions shape global economic governance in a manner that commonly ignor...
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Next Generation Teaching, Education and Learning for Life (NEXT-TELL)

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

NEXT-TELL will provide, through research and development, computational and methodological support to teachers and students so that they have available nuanced information about learning when it is needed and in a format that is supportive of pedagogical decision making, thus optimizing the level of stimulation, challenge, and feedback density. Methods and software will be developed that cover the...
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Cognitive Analysis and Statistical Methods for Advanced Computer Aided Translation (CASMACAT)

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

The CASMACAT project will build the next generation translator's workbench to improve productivity, quality, and work practices in the translation industry.We will carry out cognitive studies of actual unaltered translator behaviour based on key logging and eye tracking. The acquired data will be examined for how interfaces with enriched information are used, to determine translator types and styl...
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Food Research Exchange Programme between India and Europe (EASTWESTFOOD)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

"EASTWESTFOOD is an exchange programme between the Centre for Advanced Food Studies (LMC), Denmark (P1); Wageningen University, the Netherlands (P2); Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, India (P3), Banaras Hindu University, India (P4), and the Copenhagen Business School (P5). The overall aim is to strengthen research in India and Europe within the food related sciences. This will be done by...
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HUBS - sustainable development for the tourism industry- in the shadow of larger cities (HUBS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Focus of the project will be cooperation between small actors on different themes, to develop mutual "visitor packages" or other attractions to help increase turnover and employment in the tourism industry. Achievements: HUBS have been developing technical solutions tha...
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Impact Measurement and Performance Analysis of CSR (IMPACT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) assumes greater practical significance and political relevance in the EU. A central concern is the extent to which CSR delivers benefits for economies, societies and the environment, providing a business contribution to the EU’s policies for growth, competitiveness, better jobs (Lisbon Strategy) and sustainable development (Gothenburg strategy). By contrast th...
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