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Soil Care for profitable and sustainable crop production in Europe (SOILCARE)

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

European crop production is to remain competitive while reducing environmental impacts, requiring development and uptake of effective soil improvingcropping systems. The overall aim of SOILCARE is to identify and evaluate promising soil-improving cropping systems and agronomictechniques increasing profitability and sustainability across scales in Europe. A trans-disciplinary approach will be used ...
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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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Setting the trends in IoT education

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

In the last couple of years, the impact of the Internet has led to the development of a new sub-area of the continuously developing domain of IT: Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT refers to a structure where the Internet is connected to the physical world via ubiquitous sensors. Although it is a system still under technical and standardization development, due to its forecasted impact, it has rece...
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Jean Monnet Chair in European Solidarity and Social Cohesion

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

The Jean Monnet Chair in European Solidarity and Social Cohesion (ESSCO) will enhance academic excellence and promotion of European Union studies by providing new and relevant courses and activities that resonate for students and societies today as they face a grave and uncertain future. In this way it expands the scope and deepens the academic and research programmes at the University of Pannonia...
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Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research InfraStructure (ACTRIS-2)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

ACTRIS-2 addresses the scope of integrating state-of-the-art European ground-based stations for long term observations of aerosols, clouds and short lived gases capitalizing work of FP7-ACTRIS. ACTRIS-2 aims to achieve the construction of a user-oriented RI, unique in the EU-RI landscape. ACTRIS-2 provides 4-D integrated high-quality data from near-surface to high altitude (vertical profiles and t...
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Development of flexible pyrolysis-catalysis processing of waste plastics for selective production of high value products through research and innovation (FLEXI-PYROCAT)

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

This Research and Innovation Staff Exchange project aims to develop and maintain long term collaborations between Universities in the EU with China and Australia. This collaboration will build a truly world-leading group through 140 person months of structured staff exchanges involving 38 individual researchers to innovate next generation advanced thermal processing of wastes. The research innovat...
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Intelligent Serious Games for Social and Cognitive Competence

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

Social competence (SC) is related positively with building and maintaining of positive social relations – intimate and professional. Social competence is positively connected with the development of pro-social behaviors and the restriction of destructive behaviors (Denham & Burton, 2003). SC is linked positively with academic ability and success in learning (Blair, 2002, Klimoski & Donahue, 2001)....
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Sustainable Supply Chains Design for Energy and Products: Environmental and Economic Criteria (SSCD)

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

The integration of process, supply chain, and network design with sustainability is the main focus of this proposal. The goal of the proposed work is to aid the cost-effective improvement of the sustainability and general environmental performance of manufacturing processes and business supply chains. This is to be done by combining concepts and methods from the P-Graph framework for network and ...
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Let's learn how to learn!- Raising awareness to the importance of and providing an innovative solution for the inclusion of the training of learning skills in existing higher education curricula

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

Being successful today, apart from possessing factual knowledge, requires ‘soft skills’ and certain personality traits that are not taught at universities, like Ability to Learn Quickly, Positive Attitude/Motivation and Loyalty. There is a skills gap, or rather a training gap between the skills graduates have and the skills employers seek in their employees. Higher education institutions and emplo...
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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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International Social Innovation Competition for Students and Adult Learners

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

According to the EU’s definition “Social enterprises seek to serve the community’s interest (social, societal, environmental objectives) rather than profit maximisation. They often have an innovative nature, through the goods or services they offer, and through the organisation or production methods they resort to. They often employ society’s most fragile members (socially excluded persons). They ...
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"Financialisation, economy, society and sustainable development." (FESSUD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"The research programme will integrate diverse levels, methods and disciplinary traditions with the aim of developing a comprehensive policy agenda for changing the role of the financial system to help achieve a future which is sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms. The programme involves an integrated and balanced consortium involving partners from 14 countries that has unsurpa...
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Human-centric Intelligent LED engines for the take up of SSL in Europe (HI-LED)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The HILED project will advance the state of the art of Solid State Lighting (SSL) through research on innovative light engines that take advantage of full control of light. The incorporated intelligence enables responsive fine tuning of spectral properties in real time, as well as precise dimming capabilities. These smart engines with added intelligence offer natural illumination patterns that res...
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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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European Blended Learning and HDR Photography

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

Transnational cooperation of different education providers is becoming increasingly important in particular as regards the European Educational fields. Against this background the development and practice of innovative and efficient pedagogical approaches and ways of communication is required. Although, webinars could be used in all education sectors for seminars, lectures, discussion groups, the...
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Energy Systems Engineering (ESE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

"The main idea of the ESE proposed project is to exchange and transfer knowledge between 3 European Research groups (Imperial College - UK, University of Pannonia - Hungary and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) and 3 distinguished and top university groups from China (Tsinghua University and Fudan University) and Korea (Yonsei University). The selected groups are leaders in the energy ...
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Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe (WWWFOREUROPE)

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

"The objective of this 4-year project is to provide the analytical basis for a socio-ecological transition in Europe: the change to a new growth path with smart, sustainable and inclusive growth as is envisaged in the EU 2020 strategy. In order to support the transition, we analyse the need, the feasibility and best practice for change, specifying the institutional changes needed at all policy lev...
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Distributed Knowledge-Based Energy Saving Networks (DISKNET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

"Project DISKNET, plans an innovative scientific exchange in the field of designing and optimising distributed networks for efficient energy supply, management and use. The sustainability in the development in the EU and worldwide depends on a number of interrelated factors, originating from the environment, the economy and the society. Sufficient and secure energy supply at acceptable cost and mi...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

Within the mobility period, we have organized and carried out student, staff and administrative personnel mobility. We have recalibrated the content of the curricula by negotiating it with the partner institutions, thus students could be sent and accepted in the refreshed educational programs. Information dissemnation has been increased in the form of forums at university and faculty level, we hav...
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Efficient Energy Integrated Solutions for Manufacturing Industries (EFENIS)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

The overall objective of EFENIS is to facilitate and accelerate a move to low carbon manufacturing processes and site management by deployment and demonstration of innovative energy management systems and enabling efficiency technologies, which extend the scope of energy management outside the boundaries of a single plant to total site and then beyond the total site to district heating/cooling sys...
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Four towers - virtual route of history, culture and tradition linking the area between Nagykanizsa, Kaposvár, Koprivnica and Čakovec. (Four Towers)

Start date: Mar 31, 2014, End date: Jul 29, 2015,

The aim of the project is to seek out and assess the information and to build a database about people and communities possessing local values as well as to publish all the significant information on a new joint website. Based on the data gathered, a joint brand name (Four Towers) will be implemented advertising the representatives of local values via brochures, free info points, maps, mobile apps,...
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Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research Infrastructure Network (ACTRIS)

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

Climate change is for a large part governed by atmospheric processes, in particular the interaction between radiation and atmospheric components (e.g. aerosols, clouds, greenhouse and trace gases). Some of these components are also those with adverse health effects influencing air quality. Strengthening the ground-based component of the Earth Observing System for these key atmospheric variables ha...
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Integrating research training in particle & powder technology to deliver efficient products with high functionality (POWTECH)

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

"Approximately 80% of all products are or were a particle at some point in their processing lifetime. Particle and colloid technology has been described as the ""Growth Engine of Tomorrow"" with the market projected to grow from $2T to $10Tr over the next decade. Alongside with this challenge, the number of researchers active in powder technology is limited and only a few universities, public and...
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High quality and energy efficient LED illumination for art (LED 4 ART)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The Sistine Chapel with Michelangelo's famous "universal judgement" from 1541 is one of the most impressive icons in European art works and is ranked sixth worldwide in the number of visitors with 4.44 million visitors per year.The illumination of art certainly belongs to one of the most ambitious tasks in interior lighting with respect to requirements towards the light quality. Thus in many museu...
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Telemedicine System Empowering Stroke Patients to Fight Back (StrokeBack)

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

Stroke is a disease with very high socio-economic impact. In average the healthcare expenditure cost for Strokes across different countries in Europe and USA is 3% of their entire healthcare expenditure. This includes inpatient treatment cost, outpatient hospital visits and long-term rehabilitation and care. Analysis showed that costs of long-term care have increased from 13% to 49% of overall cos...
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Design Technologies for Multi-scale Innovation and Integration in Post-Combustion CO2 Capture: From Molecules to Unit Operations and Integrated Plants (CAPSOL)

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

A new technology towards breakthrough innovation in solvent based post-combustion CO2 capture for enhanced energy efficiency, improved cost effectiveness and increased process sustainability and environmental benefits is developed. Advances in the identification of highly performing solvents and solvent blends in CO2 absorption, the design of innovative separation equipment internals, and the deve...
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Biomimetic and Biomineralized Magnetic Nanoparticles for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Bio2MaN4MRI)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Nanoscience and nanotechnology are currently revolutionizing sectors such as medicine, information technologies, environmental or materials sciences, and creating new opportunities for our societies. In this context, magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) are key components to the development of novel nano- and biotechnologies. Magnetosomes are unique hybrid magnetic MNP produced by magnetotactic bacteria (...
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Merging Hydrologic models and EO data for reliable information on Water (MyWater)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

In the entire world we are experiencing changing water resources needs mainly as a result of changes in land use. In developing countries the occupation of natural areas by agriculture is a major cause; economical reasons pushed by world globalization play also a major role. In both cases further global changes are expected as a result of climate change.Water availability is essential for socio-ec...
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Etablierung einer universitären Kooperation basierend auf einer gemeinsamen überregionalen Forschungszusammenarbeit in der Lehre und Forschung auf dem Gebiet des Geflügels (CEPO)

Start date: Nov 30, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Während in Österreich der Geflügelverbrauch steigt, ist er in Ungarn schon jetzt von großer Bedeutung. Diese Tendenz und Tatsache wirkt sich auf die Wirtschaft der Region und die Unternehmen aus.Die Klinik für Geflügel an der Veterinärmedizinischen Universität in Wien hat umfangreiche Erfahrungen auf dem Gebiet der Infektionskrankheiten im Geflügelsektor; die Georgikon Fakultät der Pannonischen Un...
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Unterstützung von Unternehmen aus dem Bereich der Mechatronik und des ‚smarthouse bei der Erreichung von neuen Innovationen , Ausbau eines interregionalen Innovationsnetzwerkes (INNOVAL)

Start date: Nov 30, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Die österreichisch-ungarische Grenzregion umfasst ein Gebiet von 23.921 qkm mit rund 3,7 Millionen EinwohnerInnen. Durch die geographisch günstige Lage erfuhr die Region in den letzten zehn Jahren eine überdurchschnittlich dynamische Wirtschaftsentwicklung. Dies zeigt sich in der hohen Anzahl an aktiven und prosperierenden Klein- und Mittelbetrieben, gut ausgebildeten Arbeitskräften, einem dynamis...
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Regionale Zusammenarbeit und Wissenstransfer im Bereich Bioenergie und Energieeffizienz (REBE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2013,

In Österreich ist das Anwendungsverhältnis von erneuerbaren Energien hoch, trotzdem gibt es relativ wenig gut ausgebildete Fachleute. In Ungarn sind besonders wenige übungsorientierte Fachleute vorhanden. Die Klimaschutzziele bringen Energie-effizienz bzw. die Verpflichtung zur Steigerung der erneuerbaren Energiequellen mit sich. Deshalb hat die Energieplattform der Kleinregion Schneebergland in N...
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Solid State Lighting for Europe (SSL4EU)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

The lighting industry worldwide faces a paradigm shift as a new era of lighting appears at the horizon: that is Solid State Lighting (SSL). Light emitting diodes (LEDs) based on inorganic semiconductors are mercury-free, have a long lifetime and instant on/off, can be colour tunable and most important: they will become the light source with the highest energy-efficiency in the near future. Thus, L...
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Development of Efficient and Robust Controllers for Advanced Energy Systems (DECADE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"The main objective of the DECADE proposal is to promote a significant increase in the range of energy control problems to which advanced optimisation-based control can be reliably applied. This will be achieved through the development of an electronic look-up function tailor-made for the specific energy systems. It can retrofit onto existing control hardware, or on new hardware. The above obje...
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Central Nervous System Imaging (CSI)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 1, 2013,

Diseases affecting the brain and the central nervous system are among those with the greatest impact on our society. The ENIAC JU project CSI aims to advance the state of the art in three-dimensional (3D) medical-imaging platforms to improve the efficiency of the diagnosis and therapy of these serious diseases. The objective of the project is to develop an innovative yet simple and low-cost smart ...
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assiveHouseCraftsmenCourse - Entwicklung des europaweit ersten, modularen PassivhausHandwerkerInnen-Lehrgangs in HandwerkerInnensprache mit Vorbereitung für das ECVET-Creditsystem und grenzüberschreitende Implementierung (PHCC)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

Im Zug einer Analyse zum Bildungsbedarf im Bereich Energieoptimiertes Bauen, welche im Rahmen des ETZ AT-HU 2007-2013 Projektes CEEBEE durchgeführt wurde, musste sowohl in Österreich als auch in Ungarn ein eklatanter Mangel an Aus- und Weiterbildungsangeboten für ausführende Gewerke im Bereich des hochenergieeffizienten Bauens festgestellt werden. Diesem Mangel soll durch die Entwicklung eines eur...
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Intensified Heat Transfer Technologies for Enhanced Heat Recovery (INTHEAT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"A core part of this proposal is the development of methodologies to select and rigorously design the appropriate type of enhancement technology into energy optimisation studies to a practical level, whereby process plant engineers can plan and carry out plant energy reduction programmes in which they will have confidence. The project aims to achieve at least 20% to 30 % energy savings in the ener...
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Integrated system of data collection technologies for mapping soil properties (DIGISOIL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

The multidisciplinary DIGISOIL consortium intends to integrate and improve in situ and proximal measurement technologies for the assessment of soil properties assessment and soil degradation indicators, going from the sensing technologies to their integration and their application in (digital) soil mapping (DSM). In addition, our SMEs experience will allow to take into account the feasibility of s...
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Regional Tourism Product Plan of the Hungary-Croatia IPA Cross-border Co-operation Programme 2007-2013 (RTPP HU-HR)

Start date: Mar 8, 2010, End date: Mar 7, 2011,

Elaboration of an overall strategy for the development of tourism in the cross-border region. Through the setting up of a GIS database collecting data on attractions, services and other endowments, development of a comprehensive marketing strategy and specilized product plans, the ground will be laid for the elaboration of concrete tourism projects funded in the future Calls within the Programme. ...
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Developing advanced Biorefinery schemes for integration into existing oil production/transesterification plants (SUSTOIL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2010,

"An ambitious and achievable vision for 2030 is that up to 25% of the EU’s transport fuel needs could be meet by clean and CO2-efficient biofuel. To achieve this, it will be necessary to promote the transition towards “second generation biofuels” (e.g. lignocellulosic ethanol, syngas gas based fuels, pyrolysis oil based biofuels) but also support the implementation of currently available biofuels ...
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HATÁRRÉGIÓK SAJÁTOSSÁGAI

The goal of the project is joint development of human resources, training and educating those involved in the economy of the rural region to meet the challenges of rural development within the context of the European Union. The main activities were held in cooperation with higher education partner institutions, one from Croatia and one from Hungary, in the field of agriculture, but also involving ...
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