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A NOVEL FRAMEWORK FOR MULTI-CLOUD SERVICES DEVELOPMENT, ORCHESTRATION, DEPLOYMENT AND CONTINUOUS MANAGEMENT FOSTERING CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES UPTAKE FROM DIGITAL SMES AND STARTUPS (UNICORN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Unicorn aims to simplify the design, deployment and management of secure and elastic –by design- multi-cloud services. This will be achieved by a) development and design libraries that will provide security enforcement mechanisms, data privacy restrictions, monitoring metric collection and resource management; b) enabling continuous orchestration and automatic optimization of portable and dynamic ...
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NAture Insurance value: Assessment and Demonstration (NAIAD)

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

NAIAD aims to operationalise the insurance value of ecosystems to reduce the human and economic cost of risks associated with water (floods and drought) by developing and testing - with key insurers and municipalities - the concepts, tools, applications and instruments (business models) necessary for its mainstreaming. We will do this in detail for 8 demonstration sites (DEMOs) throughout Europe a...
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Industry 4.0 for wood and furniture manufacturers

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

The EU supports the 4th industrial revolution through its industrial policy and through research and infrastructure funding. However, challenges like training workers and future professionals remain. Furthermore the furniture and wood sector has identified that it has a shortage of professionals with high qualification in ICTs and other emerging technologies. Some of the specific skills and compe...
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Tackling secondhand tobacco smoke and e-cigarette emissions: exposure assessment, novel interventions, impact on lung diseases and economic burden in diverse European populations. The TackSHS Project. (TackSHS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

"Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) has been classified as a "Group 1" carcinogen (known human carcinogen) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and has been shown to have adverse health effects on adults and children, including heart disease and respiratory disorders. Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), the most common “electronic nicotine delivery system”, have irrupted i...
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MICroACTuators (MICACT)

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

Electroactive polymers (EAP) consist of materials capable of changing dimensions and/or shape in response to electrical stimuli. Most EAPs are also capable of generating electrical energy in response to applied mechanical forces. These polymeric materials exhibit properties well beyond what conventional metal or plastic-based actuators can offer, including very high mechanical flexibility (can be ...
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MOTIVA: Developing digital entrepreneurship contents for secondary schools

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

This project has been improved following recommendations from evaluation reports of calls Erasmus+ 2014 and 2015.MOTIVA. Developing digital Entrepreneurship contents for secondary schools is a project that faces several challenges linked totransversal skills implementation and assessment, specifically regarding sense of initiative and entrepreneurship and digitalcompetences, as well as an efficien...
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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: May 31, 2018,

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: 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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Rehabilitation of a heavy metal contaminated riverbed by phytoextraction technique (RIVERPHY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Background In Europe, techniques for rehabilitating river sediments contaminated with heavy metals have tended to focus on ex-situ physical and chemical approaches, such as pyrometallurgical separation, solidification, electrokinetics, soil washing, and excavation and burial at hazardous-waste sites. Remedial techniques based on phytoextraction have scarc...
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Implementation of efficient irrigation management for a sustainable agriculture (LIFE+ IRRIMAN)

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

Background The Guadalquivir river basin is in the south of Spain, with a surface area of 57,527 km², including parts of four regions: Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura and Murcia. Rains in the area are often torrential and fall on lands recurrently affected by long periods of drought and high temperatures, and a marked susceptibility to erosion....
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Enhancing of legumes growing in Europe through sustainable cropping for protein supply for food and feed (EUROLEGUME)

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

Long term S&T objective: The project is aimed to sustainable use of Leguminous plants and soil resources in order to ensure European citizens with balanced and safe food, ensuring the high quality protein sources in their daily diet by increasing competitiveness and cultivation of legumes for food and feed. Short-term S&T objectives: 1. Evaluation of pea, faba bean and cowpea/black-eye-bean local ...
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Boosting Adult System Education in Agriculture

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2017,

Adult education addresses three distinct sets of priorities in socio economic development: the needs and goals of individuals, the needs and goals of the institution, and the needs and goals of the society. Adult education program in agriculture has reached a significant level of importance. Local academic systems should accept responsibility for offering adult education programs that meet the nee...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 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, 2015, End date: May 31, 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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Scaling up entrepreneurial hubs to Europe (STARTUP- SCALEUP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The aim of the innovation action STARTUP SCALEUP is to build a European ecosystem around four consolidated entrepreneurial ecosystems in Spain (Cloud Incubator HUB), the Netherlands (Crosspring Lab), Lithuania (Open Coffee Club) and Ireland (The Ryan Academy) and the largest social network for startups in the European Union (F6S), in order to provide a greater range and quality of services to ambi...
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Accelerating Entrepreneurial Learning across European Regions (EU-XCEL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Accelerating Entrepreneurial Learning across European RegionsThere are a number of profound challenges facing the European Union. Despite the single market being in existence for quite some time, start-ups and entrepreneurs tend not to think European wide and business scaling is very fragmented. The entrepreneurial ecosystem is also fragmented and not joined up between countries. Unemployment leve...
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Conservation of Astragalus nitidiflorus in its potential habitat in the Murcia region (CONSERVASTRATRAGALUS-MU)

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

Background Garbancillo de Tallante (Astragalus nitidiflorus ) is a plant that is endemic to Cartagena in the Murcia Region of Spain. First described early in the 20th Century, the species has a population of just 300 adult plants, all growing in the SCI Cabezos del Pericón (ES6200040) and surrounding area. It is a named species on several conservation l...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 30, 2016,

The new Erasmus Plus programme for the 2014-2020 period, framed in the Europe 2020 strategy, has been approved by the European Commission thus being the main source of mobility and interaction between the UPCT and other universities and institutions or companies, as well as a source of promotion of the idea of a common European identity. The Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2014-2020 allows to...
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Post-mined polluted landscapes reclamation by means of valorization of different residues (MIPOLARE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Background Although abandoned several decades ago, mining activities in the Murcia Region of Spain have left environmental scars that persist to the present day. The extensive mining of iron, lead, and zinc has left behind 85 mining ponds containing industrial mine tailings - the material remaining after removing the desired fraction from mined ores. The...
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ENSOCIO-LA: Strategic, Sustainable R&I Cooperation with Latin America (Climate Action, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials) (ENSOCIO-LA)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Bi-regional cooperation between the EU, its Member States and Latin America has focussed on the environment since the 1st EU-LAC Summit in Rio de Janeiro and the creation of the Strategic Partnership in 1999. Within political dialogue and the subsequent EU-LAC summits, the environment has always been a priority, focusing on climate change, sustainability, biodiversity, natural resources and hazard...
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SUSTAINABLE USE OF IRRGATION WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION (SIRRIMED)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

"SIRRIMED project will address issues related to sustainable use of water in Mediterranean irrigated agricultural systems, with the overall aim of optimizing irrigation water use. The approach proposed in SIRRIMED for reaching this goal will be based in an Integrated Water Irrigation Management (IWIM) where the improving water use efficiency will be considered at farm, irrigation district and wate...
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NANO/MICRO INTEGRATION IN MICROMANUFACTURING (NANOMICRO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The new high productive platform for 3D main objective of NANOMICRO project is to provide the manufacturing industry with an entirely nanomicromanufacturing platform, by way of a new micron scale resolution and an innovative direct parallel-deposition process. The process will be able to deliver a layer wise manufacturing approach using highly focalized powder/heat fluxes, with dimensions in the ...
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RFID from Farm to Fork (RFID-F2F)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

The pilot aims at showcasing to SMEs in the food sector what is needed in terms of technology, business processes, skills and management for an RFID implementation delivering in-house business value and identifying which food information is required to fulfil society's, citizens and/ or organisations needs.Related to this call for pilot projects, the European Commission funds through the FP7 RTD p...
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Integrated European Industrial Risk Reduction System (IRIS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Current practices in risk assessment and management for industrial systems are characterized by its methodical diversity and fragmented approaches. In retrospect these risk and safety paradigms resulted from diverse industries driven and limited by available knowledge and technologies. A change based on industry driven R&D work is needed. At present the European Industry recognised their obligatio...
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Building the Future Optical Network in Europe: The e-Photon/ONe Network (BONE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

Description Building the Future Optical NetworkMain ObjectivesThe BONE-network brings together 49 laboratories and research institutes from al over Europe in a close networking infrastructure, built on the foundations laid down by the FP6 ePhoton/ONe Network and represents the research activities within Europe in the field of Optical Netw...
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GRINMED

Start date: Jun 30, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

Le projet entend à travers une analyse de la problématique nitrates en agriculture, et suite à une comparaison entre les différentes approches méthodologiques mises en œuvre selon les espaces, définir les territoires vulnérables à ce risque et développer à partir d’études des actions qui permettent de promouvoir les adaptations nécessaires auprès des agriculteurs et des techniciens agricoles. ...
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Horticulture in Towns for Inclusion and Socialisation

Start date: Jan 1, 2013,

Nowadays most people in the world – for the first time in history – live in urban areas rather than in the countryside. Urban gardens reconcile man with nature. They play important social and didactic functions and often represent an opportunity for learning and socialisation, but also for self-food production: especially for people who are experiencing loneliness, precarious income and underfeedi...
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