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Network models for the computational design of proficient enzymes (NetMoDEzyme)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

Billions of years of evolution have made enzymes superb catalysts capable of accelerating reactions by several orders of magnitude. The underlying physical principles of their extraordinary catalytic power still remains highly debated, which makes the alteration of natural enzyme activities towards synthetically useful targets a tremendous challenge for modern chemical biology. The routine design ...
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Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Medical Imaging and Applications

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

REFERENCE: 564522-EPP-1-2015-1-ES-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB_MAIATITLE: Medical Image Analysis and Computer Aided Diagnosis Systems, MAIAObjectiveMedical Image Analysis and Computer Aided Diagnosis Systems, in close development with new imaging techniques, have revolutionized healthcare in recent years, allowing doctors to achieve a more efficient and early diagnosis and a better treatment. Technology behind ...
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Innovative Ecological on-site Sanitation System for Water and Resource Savings (INNOQUA)

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

INNOQUA will accelerate the path to market of a modular set of innovative, patent protected, award winning and scalable fully ecological sanitation solutions that address wide market needs in rural communities, for agricultural industries, for sustainable home-builders or collective housing owners and for developing countries worldwide. The modular system is based on the purification capacity of b...
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Non-Noble Metal Catalysis - NoNoMeCat (NoNoMeCat)

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

Transition metal catalysts are formidable tools towards greener chemistry, allowing for low-waste, energy-efficient, and selective reactions. However, the noble metals (Ru, Os, Rh, Ir, Pd, Pt) that are currently most common in homogeneous catalysts suffer from high toxicity and environmental impact in addition to their scarcity and ensuing high cost. First-row metals (Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) are emerg...
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Developping curricula for Environmental safety and Conservation of the Biodiversity in SEA

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

The Wider objective of CONSEA is to ensure Biodiversity Conservation & Environmental sustainability around the Mekong River Basin. CONSEA consortium aims to develop a strong education program on biodiversity conservation in SEA. In spite of socio-economic difficulties of Cambodia and Vietnam, these countries are located in biodiversity hotspots. These territories endowed of added value are under c...
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EUROPEAN MASTER IN TOURISM MANAGEMENT

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Objective The European Master in Tourism Management aims at giving students advanced knowledge in contemporary tourism management.Course duration Two years (120 ECTS)Brief DescriptionTourism is a social and economic phenomenon, which calls for a holistic approach to tourism education where the broader aims of the industry and society need to be explicitly addressed. The indispensable complexity of...
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Muinin-Confidence - Building Institutional Confidence in Work/life learning and Experience RPL EQUAL Ireland

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

CONTEXTThe key contextual elements which form the working environment for this project are fivefold:1. The fragmented operation of RPL which is current in the EU2. The lack of standardisation in terms of qualifications for RPL support staff3. The insufficiency of RPL information, guidance and advice, especially for disadvantaged groupsall of which have been detailed in the EU Inventory of Validati...
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Highly Innovative building control Tools Tackling the energy performance GAP (HIT2GAP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Measurement campaigns have shown major discrepancies in buildings energy performance between planned energy demand and real energy consumption, while nowadays most of the newly constructed offices buildings are equipped with BMS systems, integrating a more or less extended measurement layer providing large amounts of data. Their integration in the building management sector offers an improvement c...
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Patient Empowerment through Predictive PERsonalised decision support (PEPPER)

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

This proposal is for a personalised decision support system for chronic disease management that will make predictions based on real-time data in order to empower individuals to participate in the self-management of their disease. The design will involve users at every stage to ensure that the system meets patient needs and raises clinical outcomes by preventing adverse episodes and improving lifes...
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Excelling LABUST in marine robotics (EXCELLABUST)

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

Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST) at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical and Engineering (UNIZG-FER) in Croatia positioned itself in the last years as the regional leader in marine robotics: LABUST has the required technologies, people, infrastructure, and experience in field experiments. What LABUST is missing is research excellence that will allow it to fully...
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STRengthening MARritime Technology Research Center (STRONGMAR)

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

INEST TEC is strongly committed to become a center of excellence in maritime technology and, in particular, deep sea technology. It is strategically located, with fast access to deep sea, it has been steadily building up its skills, capabilities and resources, and is presently in the process of implementing an open research infrastructure, thus preparing itself to become capable of providing servi...
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Interdisciplinary concepts for municipal wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Tackling future challenges (TreatRec)

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

Wastewater treatment and management in Europe has a large potential for growth; however needs to be supported by education of a new generation of interdisciplinarily trained wastewater professionals able to face future challenges and implement wastewater-related directives in practice. TreatRec, with the participationof two academic partners (ICRA-Catalan Institute for Water Research and Universit...
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Modernization of tEaching meThodologies in higher educatiOn: EU experience for jorDan and paleStinian territory

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

The project aims at modernization of Higher education methodologies with cooperation of EU experiences, by establishing well equipped center, which engage technology with teaching process and it will be used to train Professors, Lecturers, Trainers whom already exist in Partner countries and Trainees in best practices of ICT in education. The project aims to ensure that universities in Jordan and ...
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Implementing quality of education & training of the young Universities in rural area of Cambodia

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

The UNICAM project has been designed to enhance overall human health and ecosystem security posture of Cambodia (ME) by accelerating the availability of educational and training resources designed to improve the behavior, skills, and knowledge of every segment of the population. The main project objective is to enhance education quality and develop human resources through implementing comprehensiv...
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Proyecto Sapere Aude-Mejora de los resultados educativos de jóvenes tutelados a través de la mentoría

Start date: Sep 5, 2016, End date: Sep 4, 2018,

Recent studies at European level, show significant differences in the career and academic performance of children and youth in care in its various forms (residential care and foster care) compared to the general population. This happens paradoxically, despite the large investment in resources and professional involvement they gather.. Given the role of education in the social ascension, the failur...
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How to wIN the challenGE: internationalising EQF Level 5

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

The general objectives of the project are to strengthen cooperation between the world of education and training and the world of work, to foster quality, innovation and internationalization of partner institutions and to establish transnational cooperation between education providers and regional/local authorities in charge of accreditation of training bodies, development of LLL and recognition o...
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ON THE WAY TOWARDS A LOW-CARBON SOCIETY - Increasing professionalism in land use and landscape management within climate change

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

ON THE WAY TOWARDS A LOW-CARBON SOCIETY - Increasing professionalism in land use and landscape management within climate change The European Commission is looking for cost-efficient ways to make the European economy more climate-friendly and less energy-consuming. By 2050, the European Union could cut most of its greenhouse gas emissions. In this framework, the idea of a low-carbon society has bee...
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Mind Safety- Safety Matters!

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

According to Eurostat (2009) Health problems related with working conditions affected 8,6% EU workers and 3,2% suffered an accident at work during the annual working time, (this means 7 million europeean workers). The continuous increase of young workers ( between 15 and 24 years ) in the world economy , raises special concerns in the safety and health. Younger workers are more likely to be vict...
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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: Jul 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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De-urbanizing and recovering the ecological functioning of the coastal systems of La Pletera (LIFE-PLETERA)

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

Background The Ter river reaches the Mediterranean sea in the municipality of Torroella de Montgrí. In the flood plain of the Ter estuary is a Natura 2000 network site centred on the La Pletera saltmarsh. The site is of high ecological importance due to the presence of brackish (salinity greater than freshwater but less than seawater) and hyperhaline (sa...
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Negotiating early job-insecurity and labour market exclusion in Europe (NEGOTIATE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Through an innovative use of four key concepts (resilience, capability, active agency and negotiation) and primary data (life course interviews, vignette experiments), NEGOTIATE will deliver gender-sensitive comparative knowledge about consequences of early job insecurity. We move beyond the state-of-the-art by investigating the linkages across macro, meso and micro levels as mechanisms of early j...
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Computational Exploration of Directed Evolution rules for tuning enzymatic activities (DIREVENZYME)

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

"Biocatalysis is based on the application of natural catalysts for new purposes, for which the enzymes were not designed. Although the first examples of biocatalysis were reported more than a century ago, biocatalysis was revolutionized after the discovery of an in vitro version of Darwinian evolution called Directed Evolution (DE). Despite the recent advances in the field, major challenges remain...
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Strategies to develop effective, innovative and practical approaches to protect major European fruit crops from pests and pathogens (Dropsa)

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

The DROPSA consortium will create new knowledge and understanding of the damage and losses of fruit crops resulting from pests and pathogens, with a specific focus on the new and emerging threats due to Drosophila suzukii and quarantine pathogens Pseudomonas syringae, Xanthomonas fragariae and X. arboricola. The project will deliver a cost effective approach that can be widely implemented by the E...
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Copper Catalysis Applications (CatalApp)

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

An innovative methodology has been developed in the field of copper-catalyzed cross coupling catalysis, with the goal of developing more efficient and sustainable synthetic protocols used by Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries.Successful research developed within the ERC-2011-StG-277801 project has led to discover new methodologies for sustainable catalytic transformations using copper catalyst...
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European Academy for Marine and Underwater Robotics (ROBOCADEMY)

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

"The Robocademy ITN will establish a European training and research network to develop key skills and enabling technologies in underwater robotics for the scientific and economic exploration of the oceans(e.g. offshore oilfield of the future). Through the close collaboration of leading research institutes,academia, industry, and SMEs in robotics, marine technology, marine science, and offshore ind...
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Sustainable C-X and C-H Functionalization Catalyzed by Copper(III) Species (SUSCATCU3)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

On the basis of recent PI’s findings, this project aims to take advantage of the Cu(I)/Cu(III) redox pair chemistry to perform a wide range of copper catalyzed organic transformations under very mild conditions, i.e. aryl-heteroatom cross coupling, aryl-halide exchange, aryl fluorination, and direct C-H functionalization reactions. The development of new sustainable methodologies alternative to Pd...
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Biologically inspired chiral oxidation catalysts for commercial applications of fine chemistry (CHIROXCAT)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The ERC-funded project BIDECASEOX ERC-239910 has produced a series of chiral catalysts with broad applicability in various commercial fields associated with synthetic organic chemistry. These catalysts are based in earth abundant metals and activate hydrogen peroxide to perform asymmetric introduction of oxygen atoms into readily available and cheap non chiral organic molecules, producing highly v...
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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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European Network for Durable Reinforcement and Rehabilitation Solutions (endure)

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

The growth of advanced composites in construction in recent years has been spectacular, doubling in size in the last 10 years. This expansion has been largely due to the use of Fibre Reinforced Polymer reinforcement in structural applications and, although the current economic climate has seen a slowdown of the general construction market, the demand of composite products within the European const...
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Certification Européenne de Technicien de la Performance Energétique du Bâtiment

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

The fight against global warming , the mobilization of renewable energy and energy efficiency are key issues for all countries . European policy on climate and energy until 2030 sets binding targets for reducing Greenhouse Gases, for renewable energies , and integrates energy efficiency because no transition to a safe, sustainable and competitive energy system is possible without this improvement....
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Biological production of butanol from syngas (SYNTOBU)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The global energy consumption has doubled over the last 30 years, sustained mainly by the use of fossil fuels. The potential depletion of these may leave our society at the edge of an energy crisis unless reliable alternative energy sources are developed. The current context has led to the investigation of alternatives, such as bio-fuels, a renewable energy source with carbon neutral contribution ...
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Scattered radiation reduction tool to improve computer-aided diagnosis performance in digital breast tomosynthesis (SCARtool)

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

Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women worldwide. This has motivated the establishment of breast screening (BSPs). X-ray mammography is the current gold standard technique in BSPs for early breast cancer detection. However, this technique suffers from performance limitations due to tissue superposition which can either mimic or obscure malignant pathology. For this reason digit...
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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: Jul 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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HERITAGE INTERPRETATION & INNOVATIVE PRACTICES (HIIP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

Europe’s cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, is our common wealth – our inheritance from previous generations of Europeans and our legacy for those to come. It is an irreplaceable repository of knowledge and a valuable resource for economic growth, employment and social cohesion. It enriches the individual lives of hundreds of millions of people, is a source of inspiration for thinker...
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Accelerating metal-directed assembly, recognition and catalysis with computational methods (MetAccembly)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

Transition metals (TMs) are found in the core of several phenomena such as catalysis, self-assembly and (bio)molecular recognition and are directly involved in a number of diseases that span from cancer to neurodegenerative disorders. The presence of metal ions or metallocofactors in the active site of enzymes remarkably enhances the diversity of functions displayed by these biomolecules. TMs are ...
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New operational steps towards an alliance of European research fleets (EUROFLEETS2)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

EUROFLEETS2 is the enhancement of EUROFLEETS1, with the aim of developing a new pan-European distributed infrastructure with common strategic vision and coordinated access to Research Vessels (RVs) and marine equipment. EUROFLEETS2 will furthermore undertake specific actions to consolidate research fleets’ organization, methodology and tools through operational initiatives (like virtual fleets) le...
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Open geo-data for innovative services and user applications towards Smart Cities (GeoSmartCity)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

GeoSmartCity contributes to the Smart City implementation by establishing a cross-platform, re-usable and open hub able to publish open geographic information and to provide specialized services based on open standards. GeoSmartCity leverages the use of open (geo)data as recommended by the EU Open Data Strategy and starts from PSI and INSPIRE Directives data infrastructures, with an emphasis on Mu...
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The development and dissemination of methodologies for Low-Cost Mooc production and delivery.

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

LoCoMoTion is a project on the development and dissemination of methodologies for "Low-Cost Mooc Production". Its purpose is to increase activity in the development of MOOCs in Europe. By investigating and verifying the cost-effectiveness of a range of techniques, it will increase the capacity of institutions to develop MOOCs and the number of institutions and individuals that can afford to devel...
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Key insights into oxidation chemistry through synthetic systems: N2O activation with first-row transition-metals and O2 activation in heterobimetallic Fe-Ni systems (NewOxMet)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Oxidation reactions are one of the most important chemical transformations applied both in bulk and fine chemistry. In nature, this type of reactions is catalyzed by metalloenzymes which can perform highly selective transformations under mild conditions. Several bioinspired model systems have been developed but key issues remain to be successfully developed both from the catalysis point of view an...
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