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Calcium and magnesium metal anode based batteries (CAMBAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Li-ion battery is ubiquitous and has emerged as the major contender to power electric vehicles, yet Li-ion is slowly but surely reaching its limits and controversial debates on lithium supply cannot be ignored. New sustainable battery chemistries must be developed and the most appealing alternatives are to use Ca or Mg metal anodes which would bring a breakthrough in terms of energy density relyin ...
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Evaluating a Combination of Immune-based Therapies to Achieve a Functional Cure of HIV Infection (HIVACAR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The main goal of HIVACAR proposal is to change the current paradigm of HIV treatment by obtaining a functional cure for HIV (i.e., control of viral load to levels below the threshold of 50 copies/ml and maintenance of high CD4+ T-cell count after discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy) thanks to effectively targeting residual virus replication and viral reservoirs. In order to do so, the planne ...
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MULTI-site organic-inorganic HYbrid CATalysts for MULTI-step chemical processes (MULTI2HYCAT)

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

The main goal of MULTI2HYCAT is to design, obtain proof of concept (2 gr.) and upscale in a pre-pilot reactor (20-50 gr.) a new class of hierarchically-porous organic-inorganic hybrid materials, which will be used as active catalysts to carry out multi-step asymmetric catalytic processes with predominantly high conversions (up to 90%) and selectivity (in the range of 80-90%) towards the desired fi ...
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SENSors and Intelligence in BuLt Environment (SENSIBLE)

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

The goal of this project is to develop novel information sensing research and innovation approaches for acquiring, communicating and processing a large volume of heterogeneous datasets in the context of smart buildings, by building an international, inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral collaboration network through research and innovation staff exchanges and seamless exchange of ideas, expertise, ...
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Effects of confinement on inhomogeneous systems (CONIN)

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

The objective of the project is determination of universal features and specific properties of various systems spontaneously ordering into spatially inhomogeneous structures (mobile ions in solids, ionic liquid mixtures, soft-matter and biological systems), with special focus on effects of confinement. There is striking similarity between properties of the above systems despite different interacti ...
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Synergising International Research Studies into the Environmental Fate and Behaviour of Toxic Organic Chemicals in the Waste Stream (INTERWASTE)

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

The overall vision of INTERWASTE is to develop scientific understanding of issues related to environmental contamination with toxic organic chemicals (specifically flame retardants (FRs) and pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs)) arising from their presence in the waste stream. Specific research objectives include: (a) exchange of knowledge of and best practice in methods for rapid and ...
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Utilization of secondary raw material in geopolymers production (GeoDust)

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

A lot of cement plants all around Europe are standing before problem of by-pass kiln dust disposal. Nowadays small part of production is added in stabilizing admixture and the rest is disposed of as a waste material. In light of the fact that this material contains approximately 10–50 wt. % of KCl, free lime and dicalcium silicate, the possibility of their usage in alkali activated systems is at h ...
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Pre-commercial lines for production of surface nanostructured antimicrobial and anti-biofilm textiles, medical devices and water treatment membranes (PROTECT)

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

PROTECT aims to introduce to the market One step antimicrobial finish processes for polymeric materials used in i) specialty textiles for public areas and hospitals, ii) water treatment membranes, and iii) implantable medical devices. Compared to main existing manufacturing routes, the proposed one-step coating technologies are simple, fast, and reproducible. For this, PROTECT uses as a starting p ...
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Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy (OPTICON)

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

Europe has become a global leader in optical-near infrared astronomy through excellence in space and ground-based experimental and theoretical research. While the major infrastructures are delivered through major national and multi-national agencies (ESO, ESA) their continuing scientific competitiveness requires a strong community of scientists and technologists distributed across Europe’s nations ...
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Towards enduring mouse resources and services advancing research into human health and disease (INFRAFRONTIER2020)

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

The INFRAFRONTIER RI integrates European Mouse Clinics and the European Mouse Mutant Archive with the common goal to ensure access to mouse models for basic research of human health and disease, and to translate this knowledge into therapeutic approaches for the benefit of the European society. The expanded INFRAFRONTIER2020 network, coordinated by the INFRAFRONTIER GmbH, includes 3 SMEs and is st ...
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Releasing the full potential of Instruct to expand and consolidate infrastructure services for integrated structural life science research (INSTRUCT-ULTRA)

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

Instruct-Ultra aims to advance the scope and efficiency of implementation of Instruct and consolidate the foundations for long-term sustainability. This will be achieved through specific objectives: expand Instruct membership to new Member States and increase global links; engage new user communities; improve efficiencies in service delivery; improve data capture and management; adjust the scale a ...
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Smart high-frequency environmental sensor networks for quantifying nonlinear hydrological process dynamics across spatial scales (HiFreq)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

Regulators and industries are challenged by the difficulty to analyse and predict the impact of nonlinear environmental processes on short-term and long-term responses of ecosystems to environmental change. Until very recently, the development of most conventional monitoring, forecasting and prediction tools has been based on the assumption of stationary environmental systems. In the context of gl ...
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Xylella Fastidiosa Active Containment Through a multidisciplinary-Oriented Research Strategy (XF-ACTORS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

XF-ACTORS aims to establish a multidisciplinary research program to answer the urgent need to improve prevention, early detection and control of Xylella fastidiosa (Xf). Recently, Xf was introduced into Italy, where it is causing severe damage to olive crops, and in France, where so far it is limited to ornamental plants and some landscape trees. The overall goal of the research program is to asse ...
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Olive Alive: Towards the design and certification of biodiversity friendly olive groves. (LIFE Olivares Vivos)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Background Olive groves extend over nearly five million hectares in the EU and are one of the main crops in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. With nearly 1.9 million olive farms (Eurostat, 2007) the olive sector is a vital source of employment and economic activity in many European regions. In Andalusia almost 100 000 ha of olive groves are located in in ...
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Advanced solutions for assuring the overall authenticity and quality of olive oil (OLEUM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

The OLEUM project will generate innovative, more effective and harmonized analytical solutions to detect and fight the most common and emerging frauds and to verify the overall quality of olive oils (OOs). By a core group of 20 partners from 15 countries OLEUM will undertake RESEARCH ACTIVITIES based on the development of IMPROVED and NEW ANALYTICAL METHODS by targeted and omics approaches with th ...
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Protection of key ecosystem services by adaptive management of Climate Change endangered Mediterranean socioecosystems (LIFE ADAPTAMED)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Jul 15, 2020,

Background The link between the provision of key ecosystem services (e.g. soil retention, temperature regulation, pollination) and socio-ecosystems (e.g. mountain Mediterranean scrub, coastal dune forests) in three Mediterranean Natural Protected Areas (NPAs) is well established on the basis of long-term management experience and scientific knowledge. Hab ...
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Cost effective FCL using advanced superconducting tapes for future HVDC grids (FASTGRID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

Sustainability of energy systems goes through high penetration of renewable energy with huge volumes of electricity to transmit over long distances. The most advanced solution is the HVDC Supergrid. But fault currents remain an issue even if DC circuit breakers have emerged. These are not satisfying, whereas Superconducting Fault Current Limiters (SCFCLs) using REBCO tapes bring an attractive solu ...
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Restore desertified areas with an innovative tree growing method across the Mediterranean border to increase resilience. (LIFE The Green Link)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Background European countries are increasingly facing floods, water scarcity, heatwaves, prolonged droughts, unpredictable river flows, temperature rises and decreased rainfall with related impacts on vegetation. These phenomena are closely related to human development and climate change. Their impact is expected to intensify existing risks, particularly ...
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European Nuclear Science and Application Research 2 (ENSAR2)

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

ENSAR2 is the integrating activity for European nuclear scientists who are performing research in three of the major subfields defined by NuPECC: Nuclear Structure and Dynamics, Nuclear Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Tools and Applications. It proposes an optimised ensemble of Networking (NAs), Joint Research (JRAs) and Transnational Access Activities (TAs), which will ensure qualitative and qua ...
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Advanced European Network of E-infrastructuresfor Astronomy with the SKA (AENEAS)

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

The objective of the AENEAS project is to develop a concept and design for a distributed, federated European Science Data Centre (ESDC) to support the astronomical community in achieving the scientific goals of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The scientific potential of the SKA radio telescope is unprecedented and represents one of the highest priorities for the international scientific communit ...
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IN SITU IMAGING OF LIVING TISSUES WITH CELLULAR SPATIAL RESOLUTION (HISTO-MRI)

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

The main objective of HISTO-MRI project is to develop the technologies that will enable the non-invasive visualization of individual human cells in vivo and in real time, based on a radical new Magnetic Resonance Imaging concept: High Frequency Pulsed MRI. To accomplish this ambitious objective, several new challenging multidisciplinary technologies will have to be developed: 1) new method for the ...
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Andalusian blue carbon for climate change mitigation: quantification and valorization mechanisms (LIFE Blue Natura)

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

Background Certain coastal habitats such as marshes and seagrass meadows, including Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) meadows, are significant carbon sinks, both in terms of the intensity of gas sequestration and carbon deposits that are stored for thousands of years. Despite the importance of this, and other ecosystem services, these habitats are disapp ...
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DUCKWEED TECHNOLOGY FOR IMPROVING NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE EFFICIENCY IN PIG PRODUCTION SYSTEMS (LIFE LEMNA)

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

Background Diffuse pollution affects 90% of river basin districts, 50% of surface water bodies and 33% of groundwater bodies across the EU. Manure nutrients, especially nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) are among the main pollution sources, especially in high-density farming areas. Agriculture and livestock (especially manure) are responsible for over 50% ...
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Valorization of alcoholic wastes to produce H2 to be used in the sustainable generation of electricity (ECOELECTRICITY LIFE)

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background New technologies play an essential role in helping to mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Impure alcohol fractions with low commercial value are a waste product of bioethanol manufacturing. A new technology has been designed to reuse these waste fractions to produce gaseous hydrogen-rich streams for the productio ...
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Pest Organisms Threatening Europe (POnTE)

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

This proposal SFS-03a-2014-aligned focuses to minimize the risk of introduction/impact of emerging pests threatening EU agriculture and forestry. The targets are: 1) Xylella fastidiosa and its vectors in olive, grapevine, citrus, stone fruit, ornamentals and landscape trees of high socio-economic importance; 2) ‘Ca. Liberibacter solanacearum’ and its vectors affecting a number of strategic crops s ...
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ELIXIR-EXCELERATE: Fast-track ELIXIR implementation and drive early user exploitation across the life-sciences. (ELIXIR-EXCELERATE)

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

The life sciences are undergoing a transformation. Modern experimental tools study the molecules, reactions, and organisation of life in unprecedented detail. The precipitous drop in costs for high-throughput biology has enabled European research laboratories to produce an ever-increasing amount of data. Life scientists are rapidly generating the most complex and heterogeneous datasets that scienc ...
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Sustainability of photocatalytic technologies on urban pavements: From laboratory tests to in field compliance criteria (LIFE-PHOTOSCALING)

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

Background The key European Union air quality directives include the Air Quality Directive (2008/50/EC), which merged the Air Quality Framework Directive (AQFD) and daughter directives, the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive (2008/1/EC) and the National Emission Ceilings Directive (2001/81/EC). Among other things, these directives aim t ...
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Bioremediation and revegetation to restore the public use of contaminated land (LIFE-BIOREST)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Background Contamination by hazardous substances is one of the main causes of soil degradation and loss of terrestrial ecosystem services. In the European Union, there are 42 potentially contaminated sites and 5.7 contaminated sites per 10 000 inhabitants. Approximately 340 000 sites require remediation. So far, only 15% of known contaminated sites have b ...
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A novel approach for accounting & monitoring carbon sequestration of tree crops and their potential as carbon sink areas (LIFE CLIMATREE)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Jun 28, 2019,

Background Climate change mitigation is a crucial objective of the Kyoto Convention, and is oriented towards reducing GHG emissions. By 2013, the EU reduced its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 11%, a progress achieved through multidisciplinary strategic planning and applying measures in numerous EU policies. However, only forests’ capacity as carbon s ...
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Restoration of lentic habitats and aquatic species of Community interest in high mountains of the Pyrenees (LIFE LimnoPirineus)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2019,

Background The area targeted by the project is in the ‘Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici’ National Park, which is a high-mountain landscape (3 000 m – 1 200 m) with impressive relief. It includes the Natura 2000 sites of Alt Pallars and Aigüestortes. Publicly owned land accounts for 98.36% (13 888 ha) of the park and 24.78 % of the Natura 2000 ...
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Cement-based materials, properties, evolution, barrier functions (Cebama)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

The HORIZON 2020 EURATOM Collaborative Project “Cement-based materials, properties, evolution, barrier functions (Cebama)” is developed with the overall objective to support implementation of geological disposal of nuclear waste by improving the knowledge base for the Safety Case. Cement-based materials are highly relevant in this context, being used as waste forms, liners and structural component ...
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Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators (AIDA-2020)

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

Particle physics is at the forefront of the ERA, attracting a global community of more than 10,000 scientists. With the upgrade of the LHC and the preparation of new experiments, the community will have to overcome unprecedented challenges in order to answer fundamental questions concerning the Higgs boson, neutrinos, and physics beyond the Standard Model. Major developments in detector technology ...
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DIVERSITY OF LOCAL PIG BREEDS AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS FOR HIGH QUALITY TRADITIONAL PRODUCTS AND SUSTAINABLE PORK CHAINS (TREASURE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Research and development activities are proposed for the benefit of sustainable pork chains based on European local pig breeds and their production systems. Workprogramme is planned to respond to consumer demands for quality and healthiness of pork products with regional identity and societal demands for environment preservation and development of local agro-economy. Description and evaluation of ...
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Efficient Integrated Real-time Control in Urban Drainage and Wastewater Treatment Plants for Environmental Protection (LIFE EFFIDRAIN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 29, 2019,

Background Combined Urban Drainage Networks (UDNs) collect and convey both wastewater and storm water. This mixed water is sent to wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) before being released to the environment. During heavy-rain events, UDN and WWTP capacities can be easily exceeded, causing untreated water discharges, known as combined sewer overflows (CSO ...
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Synergic TPAD and O3 process in WWTPs for Resoruce Efficient waste management (LIFE STO3RE)

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

Background Pollution from agriculture is a major pressure on Europe’s freshwater resources. Nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorous) from fertilisers, pesticides, organic material, pathogenic micro-organisms in sediment and micropollutants are washed into waterways. This is especially the case in areas with intense rainfall and poorly drained soils. In some ...
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Innovative fully biodegradable mulching films & fruit protection bags for sustainable agricultural practices (LIFE MULTIBIOSOL)

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

Background For over half a century growers/farmers have been using plastic materials in agriculture, also known as agro-films. Current existing semi-intensive and intensive farming practices require the use of large quantities of mulching film and fruit protection bags (and clips to close them) since they help prevent the growth of weeds, protect crops fr ...
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Ensuring the Integrity of the European food chain (FOODINTEGRITY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Food Integrity “the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished or in perfect condition”.Providing assurance to consumers and other stakeholders about the safety, authenticity and quality of European food (integrity) is of prime importance in adding value to the European Agri-food economy. The integrity of European foods is under constant threat from fraudulently labelled imitations that try to ...
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European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development Plus Plus (ECHORD Plus Plus)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Description ECHORD++ will create new opportunities for European robotics researchers to work directly with SME/start-ups and new users/customers to create innovative products. ECHORD++ will continue ECHORD’s two pillars, “experiments” and “structured dialogue”, taking advantage of experience and investment in the infrastructure. In addition, ...
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Mitigation of environmental impact caused by DWOR textile finishing chemicals studying their non-toxic alternatives (MIDWOR-LIFE)

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

Background DWOR (Durable Water and Oil Repellents) are textile-finishing products made of long chain fluorocarbon polymers. They repel water, oil and dirt from fabrics. These chemicals are persistent and bioaccumulative. Many perfluorochemicals are already classified as dangerous to human health and the environment. For example, perfluorooctane sulfonates ...
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Re-utilisation of drainage solution from soilless culture in protected agriculture. From open to close system (LIFE DRAINUSE)

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

Background Modern agriculture focuses on increasing crop yield and its quality, which requires an intense use of water and fertilisers. One of the advances of modern agriculture is the use of soilless culture, which allows further increases in productivity. Open hydroponic systems, a type of soilless culture, are widely present in Europe. In The Netherlan ...
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