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Restoration of sterlet populations in the Austrian Danube (LIFE Sterlet)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Background The sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus) is the smallest species of the Danube sturgeons and resides for its whole lifecycle in freshwater without the need to migrate to the Black Sea. Sterlets are still present in very small quantities in the Upper Danube whereas the large anadromous sturgeon species became extinct in the last century due to overfishi...
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RECAP: Research on European Children and Adults born Preterm (RECAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

The project’s overall aim is to improve the health, development and quality of life of children and adults born very preterm (VPT, < 32 weeks of gestation) or very low birth weight (VLBW, < 1500g) – approximately 50 000 births each year in Europe – by establishing an ICT platform to integrate, harmonise and exploit the wealth of data from 20 European cohorts of VPT/VLBW children and adults and the...
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TRANSlating the role of Mitochondria in Tumorigenesis (TRANSMIT)

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

The consolidation of the knowledge that cancer is not only a genetic, but also a metabolic disease, has led scientists to investigate the intricate metabolic plasticity that transformed cells must undergo to survive the adverse tumor microenvironment conditions, and the contribution of oncogenes and tumor suppressors in shaping metabolism. In this scenario, genetic, biochemical and clinical eviden...
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Comorbidity and Synapse Biology in Clinically Overlapping Psychiatric Disorders (COSYN)

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

COSYN integrates outstanding European academic and three large Pharma to exploit genomic findings for intellectual disability (ID), autism, and schizophrenia. We capitalise on comorbidity, from clinic to cells and synapses, and have access to large existing samples. We focus on rare genetic variants of strong effect in patients with clinical comorbidity. Our aims are: (1) Understand comorbidity by...
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A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities (Danube:Future)

Start date: Jan 9, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2020,

Danube:Future is a joint contribution of the Danube Rectors’ Conference (DRC) and the Alps-Adriatic Rectors’ Conference (AARC), thus tapping the largest pool of institutionalized knowledge in the Danube River Basin. Based on this network, interdisciplinary research and education in the DRB will be undertaken. Any path towards a sustainable future of the region has to account for the solution of p...
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Restore desertified areas with an innovative tree growing method across the Mediterranean border to increase resilience. (LIFE The Green Link)

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

Background European countries are increasingly facing floods, water scarcity, heatwaves, prolonged droughts, unpredictable river flows, temperature rises and decreased rainfall with related impacts on vegetation. These phenomena are closely related to human development and climate change. Their impact is expected to intensify existing risks, particularly ...
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ROCKET

Start date: Mar 31, 2016, End date: Mar 30, 2020,

Description (EN): The "ROCKET - Regional Collaboration on Key Enabling Technologies" project is the engine to bring the Comprehensive Economic competencies in the area of KETs in the German-Dutch border area together, to build and to deploy a measurable and future-oriented economic development .KETs enable innovations in various application domains. The combination of technology and...
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Sustainable adaptation of typical EU farming systems to climate change (LIFE AGRI ADAPT)

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

Background The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted in its 2014 report that climate change would have negative impacts on agriculture for the rest of this century, even in temperate zones such as in Europe. Integration of adaptation measures into the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Cohesion Policy can increase the resilience of ...
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Advanced Regenerative and REStorative Therapies to combat corneal BLINDNESS (ARREST BLINDNESS)

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

Over 30 million Europeans are blind or visually impaired, leading to reduced quality of life and a tremendous loss of productivity in society. Corneal blindness is the second largest cause of blindness globally and while treatable, millions remain unnecessarily blind due to issues of access to transplantable tissue, lack of standardized treatments, and the lag in translating new regenerative medic...
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Danube River REsearch And Management…from Basic Research to Knowledge Society (DREAM)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2019,

Aims of the projecta) An important aim is to enable research on hydrodynamic, sediment transport, morphodynamic, and ecological processes in the various reaches of the Danube River by means of adequate hydraulic laboratories that provide a significant discharge (up to 10 m³/s without pumping) and space (large scale models).b) On the basis of an improved understanding of the processes, derive...
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Development of an Easy-to-use Metagenomics Platform for Agricultural Science (MetaPlat)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

The aim of this project is to bring together experts from the academic and non-academic sectors and to create an easy-to-use integrated hardware and software platform. This will enable the rapid analysis of large metagenomic datasets. It will provide actionable insights into probiotic supplement usage, methane production and feed conversion efficiency in cattle. In the recent years, the number of ...
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Short supply chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (SKIN)

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

SKIN is an ambitious initiative of 20 partners in 14 countries in the area of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs). It intends to systematise and bring knowledge to practitioners, promote collaboration within a demand-driven innovation logic and provide inputs to policymaking through links to the EIP-AGRI. SKIN will build and animate a community of about 500 stakeholders, with the strategic objective ...
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MOdel based coNtrol framework for Site-wide OptmizatiON of data-intensive processes (MONSOON)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The MONSOON vision is to provide Process Industries with dependable tools to help achieving improvements in the efficient use and re-use of raw resources and energy.MONSOON aims at establishing a data-driven methodology supporting the exploitation of optimization potentials by applying multi-scale model based predictive controls in production processes.MONSOON features harmonized site-wide dynamic...
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Restoration of Estonian alvar grasslands (LIFE to alvars)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Sep 1, 2019,

Background Alvar grasslands are semi-natural grasslands with thin lime-rich soil on limestone bedrock. One third of all the alvar grasslands in Europe are found in Estonia. However, currently less than 30% of these are being managed annually (i.e. by animal grazing), which is necessary for the long-term survival of this habitat type. Unmanaged sites have ...
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EU Environmental Policy and Law

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

To ensure the implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU it is necessary to study thoroughly and learn from experience of the European Union Member States, and to prepare a new generation of public officials being able to effectively implement EU environmental policy into the life of Ukrainian society. Environmental problems are very complicated in Ukraine and have accu...
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Developing and implementing a community-based intervention to create a more supportive social and physical environment for lifestyle changes to prevent diabetes in vulnerable families across Europe (Feel4Diabetes)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The Feel4Diabetes project addresses “HCO5-2014: Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases: prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes”. The aim of this project is to develop, implement and evaluate a community-based intervention aiming to create a more supportive social and physical environment to promote lifestyle and behaviour change to prevent type 2 diabetes among families from low and middle inco...
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Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMVs) from “Vaccinobacter”: A Synthetic Biology approach for effective vaccines against infectious diseases and cancer (OMVAC)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2019,

This proposal intends to apply Synthetic Biology to create a new bacterial species, Vaccinobacter, devoted to the production of multivalent, highly effective vaccines. The project originates from the evidence that Outer membrane Vesicles (OMVs) naturally produced by all Gram-negative bacteria can induce remarkable protective immunity, a property already exploited to develop anti-Neisseria vaccines...
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Energy consumption and CO2 and NOx emissions Minimised in an Intermittent Ceramic Kiln (LIFE ECONOMICK)

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

Background Ceramics manufacturing is one of the most energy-intensive industries. The sector is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, producing an estimated 1.84 million tonnes of CO2 globally, including 400 000 tonnes of CO2 in the EU. The LIFE ECONOMICK project fully contributes to the European Union’s climate and energy targets rel...
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Metrics, Models and Foresight for European Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security (SUSFANS)

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

Strengthening food and nutrition security (FNS) in the EU requires a move towards a diet that supports sustainable food consumption and production. To gauge the policy reforms needed for this major societal challenge, the SUSFANS-consortium will identify how food production and nutritional health in the EU can be aligned. The multidisciplinary research agenda of SUSFANS will build the conceptual f...
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Turning waste from steel industry into a valuable low cost feedstock for energy intensive industry (RESLAG)

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

The RESLAG project proposal is aligned with the challenges outlined in the call WASTE-1-2014: Moving towards a circular economy through industrial symbiosis. In 2010, the European steel industry generated, as waste, about 21.8 Mt of steel slag. The 76 % of the slag was recycled in applications such as aggregates for construction or road materials, but these sectors were unable to absorb the total ...
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International Partners Sharing Skills (iPass)

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

The Homeless World Cup Foundation is a charity registered in Scotland. Our main work involves the facilitation and growth of a network of social organisations around the world that use football to help improve the lives of people who have been excluded from society. Often this exclusion results in an individual experiencing a period of homelessness.We currently have 74 official national partner or...
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A simple blood test for prognosis and monitoring of patients undergoing cancer therapy. (ONCOCHECK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The objective of the ONCOCHECK project is to bring to the healthcare market a unique solution for cancer prognosis and monitoring which is a simple and inexpensive (
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Strategic Planning for Alpine River Ecosystems – Integrating protection and development (SPARE)

Start date: Dec 16, 2015, End date: Dec 15, 2018,

Description (EN): The Alps are Europes WATER-TOWERS, providing MULTIPLE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES such as water for human consumption, agriculture, industry, energy and maintaining tourism, recreation & quality of life not only for the residents but also for surrounding lowlands & big metropolitan areas. Alpine rivers are the BLUE BACKBONES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, but only healthy rive...
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Integrated planning tool to ensure viability of grasslands (LIFE Viva Grass)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Background Natural and semi-natural grasslands (NSG) are complex ecosystems that provide a range of ecosystem functions and services, which are essential for maintaining biodiversity and healthy societies in general. Loss of grassland biodiversity leads to the degradation and even total destruction of ecosystem functions and services, which would require ...
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Ecology from Farm to Fork Of microbial drug Resistance and Transmission (EFFORT)

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

EFFORT studies the complex epidemiology and ecology of antimicrobial resistance and the interactions between bacterial communities, commensals and pathogens in animals, the food chain and the environment.This will be conducted by a combination of epidemiological and ecological studies using newly developed molecular and bio-informatics technologies. EFFORT will include an exposure assessment of hu...
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Targets and biomarkers for antiepileptogenesis (EPITARGET)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Epilepsy is a devastating condition affecting over 50 million people worldwide. This multidisciplinary project is focused on the process leading to epilepsy, epileptogenesis, in adults. Our main hypothesis is that there are combinations of various causes, acting in parallel and/or in succession, that lead to epileptogenesis and development of seizures. Our central premise and vision is that a comb...
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Silver Learners

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The Silver Learners project is a strategic partnership for exchanging good practice between 10 partners from Germany, Great Britain (3), Hungary, Luxembourg, The Netherlands (2) and Poland (2). The project will take place between 1st September 2016 and 31st October 2018 and is aimed at representatives of local education centres, i.e. at the directors of these institutions and the teaching staff wh...
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Diagnostic and Drug Discovery Initiative for Alzheimer’s Disease (D3i4AD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the major cause of dementia which has no cure at the moment. The overall aim of the work described in this proposal is to create a long-term strategic partnership between Sheffield University (UK), Lisbon University (Portugal), Eli Lilly (UK) and Biofordrug (Italy) in order to develop chemical biology tools for better understanding the role of PrPC in AD and harnessing ...
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Dobutamine for NEOnatal CIRCulatory failure defined by novel biomarkers (NEO-CIRC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Dobutamine and adrenaline are widely used as second line therapy for systemic hypotension in infants. Dopamine is currently the most widely used first line drug. In neonates, sustained hypotension may, and impaired organ perfusion will, cause brain injury and poor neurodevelopmental outcomes. All three catecholamines are currently used off-label and have different modes of action which may result ...
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Landscape Education for Democracy

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

LED (Landscape Education for Democracy) is an interdisciplinary, international course unit training conceptual thinking, diversity management and intercultural communication for building leadership competence in the spatial planning professions. To meet contemporary needs in spatial planning, we need to rethink design and planning education so that future practitioners will have the knowledge, sk...
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“ACHIEVE” - innovative methods for training and development of youth workers

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

“ACHIEVE” - innovative methods for training and development of youth workers is designed to support the development of quality youth work in the participating countries. As known Bulgaria, Romania and Cyprus are among the EU countries where the youth sector is in the initial stage of development. Youth policies are under development and no national strategies for Youth work exists. However, in all...
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NeoCraft Transfer

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

PURPOSEThe purpose of the project is to transfer an existing successful concept to inform adults in Europe about existing cross-border training opportunities. For this purpose the project partners use the web based tool geocaching.The project partners collect and prepare information on a total of 180 professional education and training establishments (30 per participating country) and in these occ...
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adaptive model-based Control for laser-assisted Fibre-reinforced tape winding (ambliFibre)

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

ambliFibre will develop and validate the first intelligent model-based controlled laser-assisted tape winding system for fibre-reinforced thermoplastic (FRP) components. This system will include optical non-contact monitoring and innovative Human-Machine-Interfaces, which are easily manageable for the worker. Based on thermal and optical models embedded into integral process simulation tools combi...
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Sağlık İçin Harekete Geç / Let's Move For Health

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

Let's Move for Health is a short term group EVS project which will last for 2 months with the participation of 30 volunteers from 15 different countries in Muş. The volunteers's main tasks will be the contribution to preparation, implementation and dissemination steps of the International Oncology Days. Through the project, the vounteers will take place in organizing of non-formal workshops and tr...
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Ambassadors for Europe

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

We are doing this project to bring European volunteers as ambassadors in the projects of Jena. They are acting as representatives of their country and their culture. So they can then return to their home as ambassadors for Germany and Europe.The objectives of the project are to promote European values, intercultural and religious understanding, promoting European citizenship and peaceful coexisten...
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Experience EuroAsia and Empower

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

"Experience EuroAsia and Empower aims to equip NGO representatives with tools for environmental education, socio-economic development and youth awareness on know-how, as powerful tools that can help participants and third users energy into positive and entrepreneur activities. By doing so, project beneficiaries are mostly young people coming from fragile economic and social background, remote area...
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Exploring European Education- and Labourmarket 2.0

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

ROC Leeuwenborgh is a medium sized regional vocational college, situated in the Euregio together with Germany and Belgium. With “Leeuwenborgh makes the difference” a new strategic course has been set in which a contemporary curriculum and personalised learning is provided by indepenent operating training teams. 8.500 students are catered for in this way. Merely the geografic location indicates tha...
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Building Capacities for Youth Participation across Borders

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

"Building Capacities for Youth Participation across Borders" is a project that will help to build a greater network between young people and the organizations they are volunteering in from 10 different countries from different regions in the world. The participants will be coming from Germany, Poland, Great Britain, Malawi, Ghana, Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. During the p...
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MigranTeam

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

“MigranTeam” is a project aimed to foster the intercultural dialogue and sensibilise youth towards the topics of xenophobia and perception of social diversity.The project foresees three different actions. The first action will consist of EVS mobilities (10 months from November 2016 to August 2017) involving organisations from Italy, Spain, Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia:- 1 EVS volunteer from Egypt (St...
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Incipit: It begins!

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

The “Incipit: it begins!" project is aimed at all youngsters willing to get involved in a volunteer project. It will give the opportunity to 29 youngsters to get involved to various organizations and to implement diverse activities based on their personal interests and expectations regarding their long-term projects.This project is aligned with the actions leaded by ADICE for more of 15 years, giv...
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