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MIREL - MIning and REasoning with Legal texts (MIREL)

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

The management of large repositories of norms, and the semantic access and reasoning to these norms are key challenges in Legal Informatics. The MIREL project will create an international and inter-sectorial network to define a formal framework and to develop tools for MIning and REasoning with Legal texts, with the aim of translating these legal texts into formal representations that can be used ...
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European Human Rights Law for Universities of Ukraine and Moldova

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

Wider objective is to enable Ukraine and Moldova to face the challenges of dealing with Human Rights policies in accordance with EU and international standards through capacity and institutional building measures. By developing and introducing new Bologna-compliant case-oriented master and doctoral curricula, intensive capacity building mechanism and establishing Offices of Student Ombudsman suppo...
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SMEs Human resource attraction, retention and performance enhancement network

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

The SHARPEN project is a network of five universities from five EU countries that are aligned around collaboration with one main objective: Human Resources Attraction, Retention and Performance Enhancement in Small and Midsized Enterprises (SMEs).All five universities are situated in regions where the strongest economic power and majority of work opportunities are held by SMEs. From previous surve...
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Geometrical Quality Control and Large Scale Metrology in the Aeronautic Industry

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

BACKGROUNDThe aeronautic Industry have a special place in European advanced manufacturing. It's stands in the high-added value productions and uses the most demand technologies and quality control . To ensure interchangeability and advanced performance, parts to be assembled need appropriate QUALITY CONTROL as well as advanced design and optimisation. A key factor for the successful implementation...
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TCBL – Textile and Clothing Business LabsTransformative Business Models for the Textile Clothing Sector (TCBL)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

TCBL uses Europe’s Textiles & Clothing (T&C) industry as test beds for evolutionary-driven co-design, dynamic optimisation and deployment of business models. It aims to increase the performance of a sector that, over the past two decades, upheld three main strategies to handle global competitive pressure: cost-oriented, product/service-oriented and productivity-oriented. TCBL provides a business e...
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Enhancing Synergies for disaster PRevention in the EurOpean Union (ESPREssO)

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

ESPREssO aims at contributing to a new strategic vision to approach natural risk reduction and climate change adaptation, thereby opening new frontiers for research and policy making. From this perspective it wants also to be of support to the EC research and development and to the JRC Knowledge Centre on Disaster Risk Management.To achieve this goal, the project structure is built upon the centra...
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Advancing Skill Creation to ENhance Transformation

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Among many communities in the EU and beyond, disasters pose significant concerns and challenges, and are an issue that requires international cooperation and solutions. In the last three decades, records of natural disasters show that Asia experiences the most disasters. A major contributory factor to disaster risk is capacity. Capacity development is a widely recognised priority in the disaster r...
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Develop Business and Economic Research Centers Capacity at Palestinian Higher Education Institutions

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Develop Business and Economic Research Centers Capacity (BERC) aims to develop the quality of business and economic research environment in West Bank and Gaza strip. The literature shows that production of research is not according to the quality standards and suffering from many challenges. Researchers as well as teaching staff have inconvenient experience in contribution in the knowledge parad...
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Geometrical Product Specification and Verification as toolbox to meet up-to-date technical requirements

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

The ISO standards for the Geometrical Product Specification and Verification (GPS) define an internationally uniform symbol language, that allows expressing unambiguously and completely all requirements for the micro and macro geometry of a product with the corresponding requirements for the inspection process in technical drawings, taking into account current possibilities of measurement and test...
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EU Intersex Citizenship (EUICIT)

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

The EUICIT action addresses the rights claims and agendas of intersex people and those with Disorders of Sexual Development (DSD), in response to recent Council of Europe recommendations to revise medical and policy approaches. The term 'Intersex' refers to people born with sex characteristics (chromosomal, gonadal and/or anatomical) not easily classifiable as either male or female; at least 1 per...
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Accurate Full-Field 3D Shape Measurement Technique of Specular Surfaces by Phase-to-Depth Deflectometry (3DRM)

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

With the advent of advanced manufacturing technology and the advent of intelligent manufacturing, it is becoming more and more important to fast and accurately measure 3D shape of components surface, especially specular objects, in the process of intelligent manufacturing, which is a guarantee to improve the product quality. This project will solve the challenging problems in deflectometry. If suc...
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Innovative technical solutions for improved train DYNAmics and operation of longer FREIGHt Trains (DYNAFREIGHT)

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

DYNAFREIGHT stands for Innovative technical solutions for improved train DYNAmics and operation of longer FREIGHt Trains. The project will provide inputs for the development of the next railway freight propulsion concepts within S2R. Two main areas will be addressed: 1. Freight running gear for locomotives: DYNAFREIGHT will design and develop the necessary concepts that will allow a locomotive fre...
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Innovative Welding Processes for New Rail Infrastructures (WRIST)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

WRIST will develop and demonstrate flexible and cost effective joining processes for rail products, and in particular for advanced bainitic rail steels, which have been developed to answer the increasing demands of increasing speed and growth of railway’s load. This will be delivered by the combined development of the joining processes itself, welding experiments, computational modelling, material...
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Innovative Intelligent Rail (IN2RAIL)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

IN2RAIL is to set the foundations for a resilient, consistent, cost-efficient, high capacity European network by delivering important building blocks that unlock the innovation potential that exists in SHIFT2RAIL: innovative technologies will be explored and resulting concepts embedded in a systems framework where infrastructure, information management, maintenance techniques, energy, and engineer...
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Capacity building in agricultural innovation services in CEE countries

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Short Project DescriptionCapacity building in agricultural innovation services in CEE countries (CATAlySt) project aims to support agricultural innovation within the CEE region by identifying the necessary skillset and knowledge for practicing agricultural innovation professionals and providing them with a well elaborated training programme based on Dutch and British examples.ObjectiveThe aim of t...
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STEAM- Making Sense of Science through Art (STEAM)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

STEAM will adopt a novel multidisciplinary approach which utilities the medium of art and creative disciplines to communicate complex STEM concepts to a wide audience.The University of Huddersfield will be the primary site for the STEAM events which will showcase the research ongoing at universities and businesses across the Yorkshire Region, emphasizing specifically the pan-European research with...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

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

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. 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: 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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Increasing Capacity 4 Rail networks through enhanced infrastructure and optimised operations (CAPACITY4RAIL)

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

In 2011, the White Paper on European Transport reasserted how fundamental transport was for society, for the mobility of European citizens and for the growth and vitality of the European economy.CAPACITY4RAIL will deliver research that is innovative, prepares rail for the future and takes into account results from previous research projects and programmes. The project builds on previous useable re...
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Semantic Data Management (SemData)

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

Semantic data management refers to a range of techniques for the manipulation and usage of data basedon its meaning. Semantically enabled linked and open data have been published at an increasing pace inrecent years, and this technology has been adopted by major industrial players, including Google, Yahoo,Oracle, Talis and IBM. But to reach their full potential of becoming a transformative technol...
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Children's Identities and Citizenship - Best Practice Guides

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

This proposal has focus on European Integration promoting active citizenship in young people through guidance for the training of education professionals and young researchers. It links 25 institutions from 17 states that are involved in training education professionals and concerned with citizenship education (CE) and the development of identities in young people. We emphasise that our concern is...
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Enhanced European Coordination for Accelerator Research & Development (EUCARD-2)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

Research accelerators are facing important challenges that must be addressed in the years to come: existing infrastructures are stretched to all performance frontiers, new world-class facilities on the ESFRI roadmap are starting or nearing completion, and strategic decisions are needed for future accelerators and major upgrades in Europe.While current projects concentrate on their specific objecti...
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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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Integrated framework for a cost-effective and ease of Repair, Renovation and Re-use of machine tools within modern factory (EASE-R3)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The current maintenance policies, including e.g. RCM (Reliability Centred Maintenance) and TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), can be generally useful in answering questions such as “how much maintenance should be done on this machine?” “How frequently should this part be replaced?” “How many spare parts should be kept in stock?” “How should the shutdown be scheduled?” It is generally accepted tha...
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Biomimetic Approaches of Natural Functional Surfaces with hierarchical micro & nano structure and the extreme Wettability (BIOAPPRONFS WETT)

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

Proposal Full title: Biomimetic Approaches of Natural Functional Surfaces with hierarchical micro & nano structure and the extreme Wettability (Acronym: BioApproNFS Wett)Abstract:In the natural world, plants and animals have evolved over time to best adapt to the environment. They interact very effectively with the surrounding environment by exchanging energies and mass flow across their cuticles ...
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Development of a New Wavelength Scanning Interferometer for Embedded Metrology (EMInstr)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The proposed EMInstr project aims to elevate the important research result, a lab prototype of a new wavelength scanning interferometer (NWSI) developed during the ERC-2008-ADG 228117 SURFUND project and to verify its potential as a commercial product. The EMInstr project intends to set up a commercialisation pathway: from verification/validation of the lab prototype, through to technical optimisa...
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Nanoscale Defect Detection, Cleaning and Repair for Large Area Substrates (NANOMEND)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

NanoMend will pioneer efforts to develop better, more integrated process inspection, cleaning, repair and control systems for nano-scale thin films on large area foils, and will do so in two exemplar vertical supply chains for functionalized polymer-coated paper products and for low cost flexible photovoltaics (PV). The aim is to demonstrate beyond state-of-the-art in-line detection, cleaning an...
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FP7 High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Design Study (HILUMI LHC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest scientific instrument ever built. It has been exploring the new energy frontier since 2009, gathering a global user community of 7,000 scientists. It will remain the most powerful accelerator in the world for at least two decades, and its full exploitation is the highest priority in the European Strategy for Particle Physics, adopted by the CERN Counc...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

The University of Huddersfield?s vision is ?To be an inspiring, innovative University of international renown? and our Strategy Map outlines our aims. The University?s International aims are to become an increasingly popular destination of choice for world class international students, to ensure our international students have an inspiring world class student experience and to become ranked as an...
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The sustainable freight railway: Designing the freight vehicle – track system for higher delivered tonnage with improved availability at reduced cost (SUSTRAIL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

"A sustainable and efficient freight transport in Europe plays a vital role in having a successful and competitive economy. Freight transport is expected to grow by some 50 % (in tonne-kilometres) by 2020. However rail has, in many areas, been displaced from a dominant position as road transport services have grown and developed in capability and levels of sophistication that have not been matche...
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Solutions and Processes to Enhance the Competitiveness of Transport by Rail in Unexploited Markets (SPECTRUM)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Modern manufacturing techniques and logistics require reliable, time sensitive delivery of lower density and higher value goods. This presents a market opportunity for rail freight to grow, partly due to increasing congestion on roads, and mainly due to the need for reliable and environment friendly transport of goods. At the same time, to meet customer requirements, rail freight has to rise to th...
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Collaborative Action towards Societal Challenges through Awareness, Development, and Education (CASCADE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

CASCADE aims to provide the foundation for a future INCONET programme targeting South Asian Countries, which will promote bi-regional coordination of Science &Technology (S&T) cooperation, including priority setting and definition of S&T cooperation policies. The objectives of CASCADE, as an 18-month supporting action, are to: compile a regional position paper that identifies global challenges and...
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Fundaments and Principles for Measurement and Characterization of 21st Century Science and Engineering Surfaces (SURFUND)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

This proposed project explores fundaments and principles for surface measurement and characterization for ultra/nano-precision non-Euclidean geometry and deterministic surfaces, which are vital for making possible key areas of 21st century science - pure and applied, engineering and bio-engineering. The research will explore an original integrated measurement and characterization system with two ...
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Preserving Linked Data (Prelida)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

PRELIDA will target the particular stakeholders of the Linked Data community, including data providers, service providers, technology providers and end user communities. These stakeholders have not been traditionally targeted by the Digital Preservation community, and are typically not aware of the digital preservation solutions already available. So an important task of PRELIDA is to raise awaren...
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Development of the Future Rail Freight System to Reduce the Occurrences and Impact of Derailment (D-RAIL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

D-RAIL will focus on freight traffic, identifying root causes of derailment of particular significance to freight vehicles, which have a wider range of operating parameters (as a result of the huge range in loads, speeds and maintenance quality) than passenger vehicles. One key question that will be studied is how independent minor faults (e.g., a slight track twist and a failing bearing) could co...
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Railway Vehicle Dynamics and Track Interactions Total Regulatory Acceptance for the Interoperable Network (DYNOTRAIN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

The certification of a rail vehicle according to European regulations, Technical Specifications for Interoperability, European Standards and national safety rules represents a significant element of both vehicle cost and time to market. Indeed, a large part of vehicle certification mandates testing for safety, performance and infrastructure compatibility. The new EN standards together with the CR/...
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European Coordination for Accelerator Research and Development (EuCARD)

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

Particle physics stands at the threshold of a new era of discovery and insight. Results from the much awaited LHC are expected to shed light on the origin of mass, supersymmetry, new space dimensions and forces. In July 2006 the European Strategy Group for Particle Physics defined accelerator priorities for the next 15 years in order to consolidate the potential for discovery and conduct the requi...
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Hierarchical and Adaptive smaRt COmponents for precision production systems application (HARCO)

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

The primary goal of HARCO project is to achieve cost-effective structural solutions consisting of a new class of Smart Components (belonging to machine tools applications) based on plug-and-produce “Modular Adaptronic devices” which integrate smart and multifunctional actuators/sensors capable of performing a wide array of multiple functions, ranging from high and adaptable damping and stiffness c...
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"Children of Prisoners, Interventions & Mitigations to Strengthen Mental Health" (COPING)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"COPING presents a child-centred research strategy covering four European countries, the UK, Germany, Romania and Sweden, which will identify the characteristics of children with imprisoned parents, their resilience, and their vulnerability to mental health problems. This group of children are exposed to triple jeopardy through break-up of the family, financial hardship, and extremes of stigma and...
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SELF OPTIMISING MEASURING MACHINE TOOLS (SOMMACT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

SOMMACT develops and validates an innovative production hardware and control system founded on understanding, evaluating and controlling production system performances. This approach is based on detection (in-process traceable measurement embedded capabilities) and compensation (adaptive control and self-learning capabilities) of geometrical effects of varying external and internal quantities, suc...
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