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CLIMATE ADAPTATION TO SHIFTING STOCKS (CLOCK)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

Management of marine fisheries is still far from incorporating adaptation to climate change, even though global stocks are heavily overexploited and climate change is adding additional pressure to the resource. In fact, there is growing evidence that current fisheries management systems may no longer be effective under climate change, and this will translate into both ecological and socioeconomic...
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Africa-EU Innovation Alliance for Water and Climate (AfriAlliance)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

The main objective of AfriAlliance is for African and European stakeholders to work together in the areas of water innovation, research, policy, and capacity development to prepare Africa for future Climate Change challenges. There are many but fragmented initiatives and networks in place, therefore we will not create new but will consolidate existing networks of scientists, decision makers, pract...
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Accellerating CCS technologies as a new low-carbon energy vector (ACT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2021,

"This ERA-NET Cofund action is a transnational collaboration on CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) technology. CCS is regarded as one of the main routes for Europe to mitigate climate change. Our initiative "Accelerating CCS technology as a new low-carbon energy vector" (ACT) targets mainly the energy sector, but will also have benefits for energy intensive industries. The vision of ACT is to ensure th...
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AcceLerate Innovation in urban wastewater management for Climate changE (ALICE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The challenges facing society in urban wastewater management cannot be solved by any one sector alone. ALICE (AcceLerate Innovation in urban wastewater management for Climate changE) will accelerate innovation by bringing together and exchanging knowledge between the key players who can, together, address the future techno-economic, governance and societal challenges arising from climate change. I...
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DemoWind 2 ERA-NET Cofund action - delivering cost reduction in offshore wind (DemoWind 2)

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

DemoWind 2 proposes to bring together a number of national and transnational organisations with an interest in accelerating cost reduction in offshore wind. It follows on from the first DemoWind initiative that launched in 2014 and, like its predecessor, is focussed on enabling industry, through partnership, to push technologies through TRLs 5-6 to 6-7 in transnationally funded projects. We aim t...
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Bioenergy Sustaining the Future (BESTF) 3 (BESTF3)

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

This ERA-NET Co-fund will bring together a number of national and transnational organisations with an interest in promoting the greater use of bioenergy. It follows on from two previous BESTF ERA-NET Plus initiatives launched in 2013 and, like its predecessors, aims to kick-start large scale investment in close-to-market implementation of bioenergy, thereby helping to achieve the key objectives of...
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Promoting awareness of wildlife crime prosecution and liability for biodiversity damage in NATURA 2000 areas in Crete. (LIFE Natura Themis)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Background In Crete there is a lack of prosecution of wildlife crime and measures for remediation of damage to biodiversity in Natura 2000 sites. The EU, however, introduced the Environmental Liability Directive in 2014 to remediate biodiversity damage and establish wildlife crime as a separate area of prosecution. Local communities have a role to play in...
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PLAtform for Climate Adaptation and Risk reDuction (PLACARD)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2020,

Significant challenges exist towards strengthening the Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) communities for coherent, mutually reinforcing and pragmatic planning and action. PLACARD seeks to support the coordination of these two communities. PLACARD will tackle current challenges by 1) providing a common ‘space’ where CCA and DRR communities can come together, share ex...
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Innovation for Sustainable Sheep and Goat Production in Europe (iSAGE)

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

iSAGE will enhance the sustainability, competitiveness and resilience of the European Sheep and Goat sectors through collaboration between industry and research. iSAGE have a powerful consortium with 18 industry representatives from various EU production systems and socio-economic contexts. The sheep and goat sector will be investigated because it is sensitive to general socio-economic, demographi...
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DemoWind ERA-NET Cofund action - delivering cost reduction in offshore wind (DemoWind)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

DemoWind proposes to launch and implement a coordinated, collaborative, joint offshore wind technology demonstration Call worth in excess of €100m between 2015-19 under Horizon 2020 topic LCE 18 – 2014: Supporting Joint Actions on demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions. Partners: Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom, aim to pool their nati...
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Novel integrated refurbishment solution as a key path towards creating eco-efficient and competitive furnaces (VULKANO)

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

The main goal of VULKANO is the retrofitting of two types of industrial furnaces, namely preheating and melting, applied on three energy–intensive sectors (steel, ceramic and aluminium) with a huge number of potential users in Europe. Thus, this project aims to design, implement and validate an advanced retrofitting integrated solution to increase the energy and environmental efficiency in existin...
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INter-sectoral Health Environment Research for InnovaTions (INHERIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The overarching aim of INHERIT is to define effective inter-sectoral policies and interventions that promote health and well being across the social gradient by tackling key environmental stressors and related inequalities in the areas of living, consuming and moving.INHERIT will bring together relevant stakeholders from different sectors, including the private sector. It will support inter-sector...
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CONSumer Energy Efficiency Decision Making (CONSEED)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Consumers do not minimize the total costs of their energy-consuming investments due to a range of market and non-market based failures. This is known as the ‘Energy Efficiency Gap’. To reduce the gap and provide customers with energy consumption information, the EU has mandated that electrical appliances, cars and buildings carry information to indicate their energy consumption.There is a large k...
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Enabling the Energy Union through understanding the drivers of individual and collective energy choices in Europe (ENABLE.EU)

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

The Energy Union Framework Strategy laid out on 25 February 2015 has embraced a citizens-oriented energy transition based on a low-carbon transformation of the energy system. The success of the energy transition pillar in the Energy Union will hinge upon the social acceptability of the necessary reforms and on the public engagement in conceptualizing, planning, and implementing low carbon energy t...
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Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings. An integrated solution for residential building energy storage by solar and geothermal resources (TESSe2b)

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

There is a compelling need of encouraging energy efficiency in buildings, enhance green technologies and promote advance thermal energy storage solutions. TESSe2b will enable the optimal use of renewable energy and provide one of the most advantageous solutions for correcting the mismatch that often occurs between the supply and demand of energy in residential buildings. The target of TESSe2b is t...
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Increasing Malta’s participation in LIFE (Increase LIFE !)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Background The LIFE programme introduced action grants for capacity-building projects for the 2014-2017 funding period. These are projects designed to build Member States' capacity to participate more effectively in the LIFE Programme. Specifically, these projects propose interventions to develop the capacity to submit successful applications for funding ...
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Enhancing landscape connectivity for brown bear and wolf through a regional network of NATURA 2000 sites in Romania (LIFE Connect Carpathians)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Background The Carpathian Mountains are an important biodiversity reservoir for the brown bear (Ursos arctos) and wolf (Canis lupus). However, an assessment of environmental suitability for large carnivores (LCIE 2008) identified the isolation of the Apuseni Mountains (Western Carpathians) from the Southern Carpathians in Romania as a pressing connectivit...
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Towards We-Government: Collective and participative approaches for addressing local policy challenges (WeGovNow)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

WeGovNow will tap into emerging technologies for effectively supporting coproduction by civic society stakeholders and collective proposition development, whereby citizens are partners as opposed to customers in the delivery of public services. By integrating a set of innovative technologies within a unified citizen engagement platform, the project will overcome the current limitations of existing...
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Inclusive Direction in Education of Adults on Article 12

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

The idea of the project “IDEA 12” comes from an observation that full legal capacity of persons with disability is still restricted in practice. Implementation of the latest EU legislation, namely Article 12 “Equal recognition before the law” of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, has been slow and patchy. This project contributes to enhancing the implementation of Articl...
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FOSTERING WATER-AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN MALTA (FOWARIM)

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

FOWARIM (Fostering Water-Agriculture Research and Innovation in Malta) objective is to strengthen the research capacity of the Malta College of Arts, Science & Technology (MCAST)’s Water Research and Training Centre in 4 crucial themes related to the field of water use in agriculture: (a) Decreasing Water Demand, (b) Making Use of Alternative Sources of Water (c) Renewable Desalinization, On-Farm ...
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Knowledge, Assessment, and Management for AQUAtic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services aCROSS EU policies (AQUACROSS) (AQUACROSS)

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

AQUACROSS aims to support EU efforts to enhance the resilience and stop the loss of biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems as well as to ensure the ongoing and future provision of aquatic ecosystem services. It focuses on advancing the knowledge base and application of the ecosystem-based management concept for aquatic ecosystems by developing cost effective measures and integrated management practice...
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Bioenergy Sustaining the Future 2 (BESTF2)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

This ERA-NET_Plus Coordination and Support Action, BESTF, will bring together a number of national and transnational initiatives in the field of bioenergy. It follows on from the first BESTF call that launched in January 2013 and, like its predecessor, aims to kick-start large scale investment in close-to-market implementation of bioenergy thereby helping to achieve the key objectives of the Europ...
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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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Community based complex school program for effective prevention and treatment of aggression and bullying - intersectoral approach from best practices to policy making

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

Context and background: Violence and bullying at schools are increasingly prevalent phenomena in Europe. Although there have been numerous fruitful initiatives, the problem has not been significantly reduced for various reasons: lack of adequate training for teachers, busy parents, wrong role models, the legitimating effect of the media, an unhealthy political climate, etc. New approaches are need...
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Transitions pathways and risk analysis for climate change mitigation and adaption strategies (TRANSrisk)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Both the models concerning the future climate evolution and its impacts, as well as the models assessing the costs and benefits associated with different mitigation pathways face a high degree of uncertainty. There is an urgent need to not only understand the costs and risks associated with climate change but also the risks, uncertainties and co-effects related to different mitigation pathways as ...
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Life+ Benthic Habitat Research for marine Natura 2000 site designation. (LIFE BaĦAR for N2K)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Background Marine habitats are becoming more vulnerable, largely due to the impact of human activities. Some are listed in Annex I of the Habitats Directive and following a Natura 2000 marine biogeographic seminar in 2010, and various communications with the Commission, Malta is required to protect certain of these marine habitats. However, it lacks marin...
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Demonstration and validation of innovative methodology for regional climate change adaptation in the Mediterranean area (LIFE MEDACC)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Background Progress in the preparation of climate change adaptation strategies varies across the Mediterranean countries, where work is still needed to properly evaluate and validate the impact of strategy proposals. Methodological gaps remain in terms of preparing holistic strategies and much of the current work on climate change adaption is focused on s...
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Soil stabilisation measures to protect Annex I habitats in Buskett-Girgenti Natura 2000 site (LIFE SAVING BUSKETT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2018,

Background Wied il-Luq (Valley of Poplars) is one of the tributary valleys feeding the Wied il-Kbir system, which is the largest valley system in Malta. Wied il-Luq now carries water only during the wet season, draining runoff from the higher ground and from the land surrounding its course. Over the past 200 years, gardens and woodlands were planted and g...
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Tackling the challenges in sustainable and multifunctional forestry through enhanced research coordination for policy decisions (SUMFOREST)

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

The important climatic, environmental, socio-economic and land-use changes taking place at global, regional and local levels, pose new challenges for meeting the multifunctional demands on European forest resources, and for their sustainable management. In the European Union the formulation of forest policies is in the competence of the Member States and although the Treaties of the EU make no pro...
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BioEnergy Sustaining the Future : Joint Strategic Planning and Programming to Enable the Implementation of Bioenergy Demonstrations (BESTF)

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

"BESTF will bring together a number of national and transnational initiatives in the field of bioenergy. These include; research, development, demonstration and financial instruments. They have been stimulated and driven by both public and private participants. By integrating these actions, risk will be minimised and confidence will be provided to private investors in support of bringing bioenergy...
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Learning of Local Bodies to Integrate Immigrants

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Same as above.
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New perspectives for young people

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

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Madeiran Heritage

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

The University of Madeira Students’ Union (AAUMa) develops, since 2012, guided tours in several landmarks of the city of Funchal. These are divided in four types: quick tours, guided visits, autonomous circuits and educational visits.This project, through an extensive ongoing investigation, offers to local people and visitors that come to Funchal, an opportunity to learn real histories of differen...
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Connecting the youth

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

“Connecting the youth” EVS project aims at promoting the discovering the country of Armenia, with the local volunteers and try to emphasize the country heritage: the traditions, customs , habits. The volunteer will become a cultural messengers and will bring the knowledge and experience back to their home. Together, all parties will learn to celebrate the broad diversity that exists in Europe,...
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Sustainable Urban Gardening - EVS

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

The4Cs, a UK based registered charity and an accredited host organisation, proposes hosting EVS volunteers at their newly acquired garden project with plenty opportunities for Sustainable Development ideas. The overall aim being to develop capacities, networks, good practice learning and developing future project ideas, in an attempt to encourage young people to engage in farming. This is an idea ...
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GENDERED - Pour une approche intégrée de l'égalité dans les projets et organisations de jeunesse

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

The GENDERED project (Gather - Explore - Nurture - Deconstruct - Experiment - Raise awareness - Empower - Disseminate) has been developed in the framework of a Partnership Building Activity that took place in October 2015 in Armenia. Besides ParticipAction, a number of non-profit organisations have expressed their interest in engaging themselves in a global reflection on gender equality within the...
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Outdoor Education at Hollowford

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

Context:This project proposes to support a long term EVS placement with the Lindley Educational Trust (LET), an outdoor activity and youth development charity based in the UK’s Peak District National Park. LET has 50 years’ experience of supporting personal development through challenging and inspiring outdoor activities, including climbing, caving, kayaking and bushcraft, delivered in a safe, sup...
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CYCLADES "Integrated monk seal conservation in Northern Cyclades" (CYCLADES Life)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Background The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is a priority species for conservation, according to Annex II of the Habitats Directive. It is also designated as a “critically endangered” species under the IUCN Red List; and is included in Annex III of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive – as a key indicator of the status of the marin...
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calculatinG heaLth impActs of atmospheric pollutioN in a Changing climatE (GLANCE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Current annual global estimates of premature deaths from poor air quality are estimated in the range of 2.6-4.4 million, and 2050 projections are expected to double against 2010 levels. In Europe, annual economic burdens are estimated at around 750 bn €. Climate change will further exacerbate air pollution burdens; therefore, a better understanding of the economic impacts on human societies has be...
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REtrofitting Solutions and Services for the enhancement of Energy Efficiency in Public Edification (RESSEEPE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

RESEEPE will bring together design and decision making tools, innovative building fabric manufacturers and a strong demonstration programme to demonstrate the improved building performance through retrofitting. The core idea of the RESSEEPE project is to technically advance, adapt, demonstrate and assess a number of innovative retrofit technologies. Reductions in the area of 50% will be achieved i...
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