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PCP for Water Smart Metering (SMART.MET)

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

European Water utilities environment is embedded in a context dealing with global issues such as water scarcity and technical-economic issues such as infrastructure aging. Management of drinking water supply is facing key challenges partly related to traditional water meter, such as managing capital and operational costs; water loss (also known as non-revenue water) due to leaks and other system f...
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Empowering Patients by Professional Stress Avoidance and Recovery Services (STARS)

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

Patient EmpowermentIndividualized tackling of unnecessary stress, in particular when related to healthcare procedures, promises to enhance the autonomy and quality of life of many people and yield a significant contribution to self-empowerment, thus relieving careers and related persons from personal assistance. Not at least, also a considerable economic relief (see Impact).This is the topic the S...
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Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Changing European Seas (MERCES)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

The project MERCES is focused on the restoration of different degraded marine habitats, with the aim of: 1) assessing the potential of different technologies and approaches; 2) quantifying the returns in terms of ecosystems services and their socio-economic impacts; 3) defining the legal-policy and governance frameworks needed to optimize the effectiveness of the different restoration approaches. ...
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Deep-sea Sponge Grounds Ecosystems of the North Atlantic: an integrated approach towards their preservation and sustainable exploitation (SponGES)

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

The objective of SponGES is to develop an integrated ecosystem-based approach to preserve and sustainably use vulnerable sponge ecosystems of the North Atlantic. The SponGES consortium, an international and interdisciplinary collaboration of research institutions, environmental non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations, will focus on one of the most diverse, ecologically and biologicall...
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Development of a multi-stakeholder dialogue platform and Think tank to promote innovation with Nature based solutions (ThinkNature)

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

Nature-based solutions (NBS) aim to help societies to address a variety of environmental, social and economic challenges in sustainable ways. They are actions which are inspired by and supported by nature. Some involve using and enhancing existing natural solutions to challenges, while others are exploring more novel solutions, for example, based on how non-human organisms and communities cope wit...
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MOVE-IN LOUVAIN: Incoming Post-doc Fellowships (MOVE-IN LOUVAIN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

"Building upon the success of the current ""IPoD"" programme, the partner institutions (Université Saint-Louis (USaint-Louis), Université de Namur (UNamur), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)) launch a new programme called “MOVE-IN LOUVAIN”.This programme, which is targeted at incoming researchers, aims at reinforcing the international dimension of the partner institutions by supporting highly...
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Enhancing Sales Capacity for Agrifood Products in Europe

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

The “Enhancing Sales Capacity for Agri-food Products in Europe” (ESCAPE) project aims at developing and implementing aninnovative blended learning methodology to train food technology students in sales techniques.Most graduates with Master’s degrees in business are highly skilled in sales, but very often lack technical knowledge in food areas.On the other hand, Food Science programmes mostly train...
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Quantum Metamaterials in the Ultra Strong Coupling regime (MUSiC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Due to their mixed photon-electronic excitation character, cavity polaritons have highly interesting properties. Especially interesting is the so-called ultrastrong coupling regime, reached when the strength of the photon-two-level system coupling is larger than the energy of the resonant state. We have recently demonstrated that terahertz metamaterials coupled to high-mobility two-dimensional ele...
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Green Bubbles RISE for sustainable diving (GreenBubbles)

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

Recreational SCUBA divinga has become a mass leisure activity engaging millions of divers worldwide. The diving industry generates large direct and indirect revenues for coastal communities and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Other benefits linked to diving include the promotion of ocean stewardship, contribution to scientific research, fostering social inclusion and personal development. Yet, divi...
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Sparse Representations and Compressed Sensing Training Network (SpaRTaN)

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

The aim of this Initial Training Network is to train a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers in sparse representations and compressed sensing, contributing to Europe’s leading role in scientific innovation. By bringing together leading academic and industry groups with expertise in sparse representations, compressed sensing, machine learning and optimization, and with an interest in appl...
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BEYOND STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGIES FOR POWER AC CORRIDORS AND MULTI-TERMINAL HVDC SYSTEMS (BEST PATHS)

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

"A group of eight Transmission System Operators with a generator company, manufacturers and research organisations, propose 5 demonstration projects to remove, in 4 years, several barriers which prevent large-scale penetration of renewable electricity production in the European transmission network. The full scale demonstrations led by industry aim at proving the benefits of novel technologies cou...
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Prevention of early dropout of VET through inclusive strategies for migrants and Roma

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

In the EU, 6 million young people between 18 and 24 do not have a finished VET or another secondary school. Consequently, these youngsters face deprivation and unemployment, which in turn influences the social and economical development of a country. Especially migrants and Roma face these difficulties. Furthermore, these groups face discrimination at the transition from general school to VET, as ...
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Social lnclusion Through Education

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

Partners supporting the SITE project - Social Inclusion Through Education- would like to explore and experiment in their contexts, methods and approaches, able to create interconnection between formal, non-formal and informal learning, in order to share best practice, following the work already started with a previous Grundtvig partnership project, implemented in 2012-2014, the results and workin...
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Innovative Education towards Sustainable Food Systems

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

Project title: ‘Innovative Education towards Sustainable Food Systems’In face of global population growth, resource constrains and growing environmental as well as public health concerns, there is a strong need for a shift towards more sustainable development. As most of the mentioned global problems are strongly influenced by the current unsustainable food systems including diets, high priority i...
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REUSSIR AUTREMENT EN UNION EUROPEENNE Acte 2

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

The MFR (associations) has two unique features: a training system based on reality and experience through an alternation between company and MFR, allowing families to take their place in the education of their children. This organization promotes the mobilization of parents, tutors and learning, former students, elected from the territory, employees to work together on the development and success ...
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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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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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Herramientas, estrategias, emociones y Europa(Tools, Strategies, Emotions and Europe)

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

1. Background:Since 1946 our centre has developed itself as an innovative school with a vision that enables students to meet the new challenges of a rapidly changing society like ours. On the basis of our own identity and culture, we open ourselves to the broad and comprehensive conception of Europe and the world, respecting different social and cultural realities around us. It is within this back...
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Neuro-Plasmonics

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Research neuronal signaling is the subject of a very large community, but progresses face a dense multi-scale dynamics involving signaling at the molecular, cellular and large neuronal network levels. Whereas the brain capabilities are most likely emerging from large neuronal networks, available electrophysiological methods limit our access to single cells and typically provides only a fragmented ...
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Nanometer Resolution in Two-Beam Direct Laser Writing Lithography (NanoR 2BDLW)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Two-photon direct laser writing (DLW) lithography is a powerful tool to fabricate 3D structures with feature sizes of ~100 nm. This technique is based on the quadratic dependence of the absorption of near-infrared (NIR) light (two-photon absorption, 2PA) by molecules called photoinitiators which trigger the photopolymerization of curable resins. With the aim of downsizing the structures to the nan...
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PIVOTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTS OF BIOACTIVES ON HEALTH AND WELLBEING. FROM HUMAN GENOMA TO FOOD INDUSTRY - PATHWAY (PATHWAY-27)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Scientific understanding of the role and mechanisms of bioactives is fragmented. Research often addresses the theoretical possibility of health improvement effects rather than their real, practical use for everyday diets. Bioactives cannot be considered as discrete chemical compounds and research must focus on bioactive-enriched foods (BEF), if consumer demands for foods delivering appropriate hea...
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European Foodbusiness Transfer Laboratory for stimulating entrepreneurial skills, for fostering innovation and for business creation in the Food Sector

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Food business is the first sector in terms of employment in Europe, 90% of food companies being SMEs (majority of them being micro enterprises). Though innovation is the main leverage to improve competitiveness, there is neither high enough innovation and entrepreneurship spirit nor innovation transfer from High Education Institutes (HEI) to business. The partners of this consortium, involved for ...
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Programming Language-Based Security To Rescue (PROSECUTOR)

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

It is alarming that the society's critical infrastructures are notfully prepared to meet the challenge of information security. Moderncomputing systems are increasingly extensible, inter-connected, andmobile. However, exactly these trends make systems more vulnerable toattacks. A particularly exposed infrastructure is the world-wide webinfrastructure, where allowing the mere possibility of fetchi...
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FeAsiBility analysis and development of on-Road chargIng solutions for future electric vehiCles (FABRIC)

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

FABRIC addresses directly the technological feasibility, economic viability and socio-environmental of dynamic on-road charging of electric vehicles.FABRIC responds to the need to assess the potential and feasibility of a more extensive integration of electric vehicles in the mobility and transportation system, focusing primarily on dynamic wireless charging which would allow practically all of th...
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Establishment of Safer Animal Rescue Capacity

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Farm animals and horses commonly fall into wells, slurry pits and irrigation canals, can be trapped in holes, septic tanks, ditches, mud, water/ice. Villagers resolve entrapments with crude tactics that cause suffering to the animal before its often eventual death. The project's objectives are to establish a long-term cooperation and partnership in the animal rescue domain among the project partn...
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The coordination of national research activities of Member States and Associated States in the field of Ocean Energy (ERA-NET) (OCEANERA-NET)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Europe’s vast coast line harbours a huge potential resource of ocean energy to be exploited as a renewable electricity source contributing towards the 2020 targets and beyond. The ocean is a complex working environment, relatively little is known about it and it is widely used by others, such as fishing, shipping and recreation. However, the prize for introducing ocean energy generation is high, e...
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Marine Biotechnology ERA-NET (ERA-MBT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

"The ERA-NET MarineBiotech (ERA-MBT) recognises that Europe’s marine ecosystems and organisms are largely unexplored, understudied and underutilized, in spite of Europe’s access to an extensive and diverse set of marine ecosystems, supporting an enormous marine biodiversity. This resource, through the coordinated application of marine biotechnology, has the potential to provide a major contributio...
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Resource Conservative Manufacturing- transforming waste into high value resource through closed-loop product systems (ResCoM)

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

In a world with growing pressures on resources and the environment, the EU has no choice but to go for the transition to a resource-efficient and ultimately regenerative circular economy. The main objective of the ResCoM project is to develop an innovative framework and a collaborative software platform for the industrial implementation of closed-loop manufacturing systems.In ResCoM, four manufact...
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CAScade deoxygenation process using tailored nanoCATalysts for the production of BiofuELs from lignocellullosic biomass (CASCATBEL)

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

The present project is aimed to the development of a multi-step process for the production of second-generation biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass in a cost-efficient way through the use of tailored nanostructured catalysts. The proposed process is based on the cascade combination of three catalytic transformations: catalytic pyrolysis, intermediate deoxygenation and hydrodeoxygenation. The seq...
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Mediterranean changing relationships: global change, networks and border openings (MEDCHANGE)

Start date: Oct 24, 2013, End date: Oct 23, 2017,

MEDCHANGe focuses on the analysis of the relationships between global networks (Internet), flows (virtual and spatial mobilities of individuals, information i.e. migration also in light of gender issues such those of Moroccon female migrants; climate change migrants; tourism and heritage valorisation flows) and geographical localities in terms of local development and marginalisation/segregation. ...
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İstihdam için son basamak: Avrupa da Staj

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Oct 2, 2017,

The structure of employement and dimension of the unemplomeyent in the countries is an important indicator of the level of economical and social development. The high unemplomeyent percentages of unemplomeyent in the early 2000's in many countries is still seriously creating social and economical problems. According to the data given by Eurostat at June ,2015 the unemplomeyent rate in EU countries...
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MakE StudentS Addiction-frEe

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

This project emerges from the fact that certain addiction types, substance abuse, alcohol, smoke, drug etc. ; screen addiction; internet, games, social networks etc. and food addiction adversely affects students and prevent them having a healthy and successful life. Students with addictions have difficulty in sustaining a successful education life, besides they can’t maintain a healthy life and i...
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Let's learn differently

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

As we are going to finalize the new building of the Human Resource Centre, where we will develop optional courses of foreign language, literature and music clubs, handmade workshops as well as training courses for the teachers, the school Matei Basarab proposes this project with the scope to enhance the basis abilities of the teachers and the working methods. At the same time, a large number of s...
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Brains at school - knowledge is power! / Mózgi w szkole - wiedza jest potęgą!

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

Brains at school – knowledge is power! The idea of the project was born out of the need of getting answers for the questions 'How to teach?' and 'How to learn?' in today's reality when we are flooded with information. Students often can't learn autonomously and many of them quickly feel discouraged and they take on a passive attitude. Neurodidactics seems to be the answer for this important issue...
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Practica europeana pentru alinierea cunostintelor IT la cerintele actuale ale pietei muncii

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

The project ““Developing IT knowledge through European practice for reaching the latest requirements on labour market” is dedicated to a group of 24 students from the 11th grade, theoretical profile, math and science profile with Math and Informatics/ mainly Informatics specialization. The project began from the idea that we live in a period with great interest in informatics and computers are eve...
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Simulation based control for Energy Efficiency building operation and maintenance (Energy IN TIME)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Buildings Operational stage represents 80% of building’s life-cycle cost of which 50% is consequence of the energy use. Up to 90% of the buildings’ life cycle carbon emissions occur during their operational phase, mainly as consequence of the HVAC, lighting and appliances’ energy use. Therefore, energy and cost saving strategies addressing this building operation phase will have a major impact in ...
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Exchanging good practices in CLIL methodology

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

The four participating secondary schools have CLIL bilingual teaching in English in different subjects and at different levels of implementation, appart from the different languages that are taught. There is a need to create CLIL curricular materials for this teaching and to exchange experiences in the implementation of CLIL methodology. According to this need and this complementarity of the part...
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Europa en Prácticas III

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

This project is involved in a context with more than 2000 students, with a vocational training with more than 600 students in initial education and 300 students for unemployed people, which is located in Aranjuez the southern part of Madrid in a current moment of crisis of unemployement among the youth. Students in vocational training are divided in: Basic vocational training, students who hav...
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VIRTUAL MUSEUM – through the online door to real life

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

For many young people a museum associates with a boring place. At present interactive museums enable us to carry out experiments, visit virtual exhibitions, create online collections, modify and make famous masterpieces by using web tools. The concept for this project is to collaborate and help our students explore museums in a new way with the use of web tools. During two years students will work...
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Inspiring and developing our future wealth creators through entrepreneurship

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

It is widely recognized throughout the European Union that future growth and prosperity needs to be driven by the business sector. The growth of the small business sector is seen as a vital to future wealth creation and employment. Therefore, entrepreneurial skills are essential if we are to prepare our students to be successful in their future careers. Many may create their own businesses, others...
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