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Belgian Nature Integrated Project (BNIP)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2023,

Background The Habitats Directive Article 17 and Birds Directive Article 12 report, published in 2007, revealed the unfavourable conservation status in Belgium of many habitats and species listed in these directives. The main drivers identified were inappropriate land use, low environmental quality, insufficient management and under-resourced conservation ...
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Action Plan for the Improvement of Habitats of Threatened European Species in the Demer Valley through Broad Cooperation (LIFE Delta)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2022,

Background The Demer is an 85 km long river that runs through the Belgian provinces of Limburg and Vlaams Brabant. The project area is a broad and flat inland ‘river polder’ hosting vegetation that is unique within the Atlantic biogeographic region. The Demer Valley is particularly important for several plant and bird species of Community importance ...
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Photonics based sensing (PhotonicSensing)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

According to the final report of the High-Level Expert Group on Key Enabling Technologies photonics has with 480 billion $ by far the biggest market of all key enabling technologies in 2015.If we take a closer look on the various markets within photonics, we see that the sensor market is with 44% by far the biggest individual market (followed by the lighting market with 19%). The ERANET Cofound ac ...
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ERA-NET for materials research and innovation (M-ERA.NET 2)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

M-ERA.NET 2 aims at coordinating the research efforts of the participating EU Member States, Associated States and Regions as well as of selected global partners in materials research and innovation, including materials for low carbon energy technologies and related production technologies.A large network of 43 national and regional funding organisations from 23 EU Members States and Associated St ...
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Internet of Food and Farm 2020 (IoF2020)

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

The IoF2020 project is dedicated to accelerate adoption of IoT for securing sufficient, safe and healthy food and to strengthen competitiveness of farming and food chains in Europe.It will consolidate Europe’s leading position in the global IoT industry by fostering a symbiotic ecosystem of farmers, food industry, technology providers and research institutes.The IoF2020 consortium of 73 partners, ...
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DemoWind 2 ERA-NET Cofund action - delivering cost reduction in offshore wind (DemoWind 2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

DemoWind 2 proposes to bring together a number of national and transnational organisations with an interest in accelerating cost reduction in offshore wind. It follows on from the first DemoWind initiative that launched in 2014 and, like its predecessor, is focussed on enabling industry, through partnership, to push technologies through TRLs 5-6 to 6-7 in transnationally funded projects. We aim t ...
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Water Works 2016-2020 in Support of the Water JPI (WaterWorks2015) - Sustainable water use in agriculture, to increase water use efficiency and reduce soil and water pollution (WaterWorks2015)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The WaterWorks2015 proposal responds to the Horizon 2020 (H2020) Societal Challenge 5 2015 Call topic Water-3 [2015]: Stepping up EU research and innovation cooperation in the water area.WaterWorks2015 aims at pooling resources from the 32 participating research programme owners / managers of 23 countries to implement a joint call for proposals, with EU co-funding in the area of sustainable water ...
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Connectivity of the Natura 2000 network across the Belgian-Dutch borders in the Meuse basin (LIFE Pays mosan)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

Background This project’s area contains 40 Natura 2000 sites (covering 24 566 ha) in Belgium and the Netherlands, within the basin of the Meuse River and its tributaries between Andenne and Maastricht. The river basin has supported highly species-rich habitats related to former pastoral systems. But these habitats have become extremely fragmented and ar ...
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Cross-Border heath restoration, inland dunes and pools, integrated invasive plant management. (HELVEX-LIFE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

Background The project area covers 3 950 ha of the cross-border "Grenspark De Zoom – Kalmthoutse Heide" nature reserve, which extends over the Dutch-Belgian border (and comprises 6 000 ha in total). The reserve contains continental dunes, dry and wet heath, ponds and woods. Human impact, such as nutrient enrichment of the soil, afforestation and soil de ...
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FLemish And North-French Dunes REstoration (Life FLANDRE)

Start date: Sep 2, 2013, End date: Mar 1, 2020,

Background The coastal dunes between Dunkirk in France and Westende in Belgium make up one of the most famous dune systems in continental Europe. The area is characterised by broad sandy beaches, carved foredunes, megaparabolic dunes with large humid dune slacks and low, gently undulating older 'fossil' dunes that were formed between 3 000 BC and 800 AD. ...
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SUstainable and Resilient agriculture for food and non-food systems (FACCE SURPLUS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The objective of FACCE SURPLUS is to strengthen the European Research Area in support of different integrated food and non-food biomass production and transformation systems, especially by organising, implementing and cofunding with the EU a joint call for transnational research projects on the topic of sustainable and resilient agriculture. As this topic falls within the scope of the Strategic Re ...
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ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus: support deep knowledge sharing between regional and European Smart Grids initiatives (ERANet SmartGridPlus)

Start date: Jan 30, 2015, End date: Jan 29, 2020,

"From local trials to a European knowledge community".The challenges of modernising the electricity grids in Europe lies in enabling an increased flexibility of the European power system, efficiently providing increased transfer capacity and enabling an active participation of users and new market actors (by providing the information, services, market architectures and privacy guarantees).To addre ...
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Agroforestry Innovation Networks (AFINET) (AFINET)

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

Agroforestry (AF) is the practice of deliberately integrating woody vegetation (trees or shrubs) with crop and/or animal systems to benefit from the resulting ecological and economic interactions. Research activities developed by AFINET partners indicates that appropriate application of AF principles and practices is a key avenue to help the European Union to achieve more sustainable methods of fo ...
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DemoWind ERA-NET Cofund action - delivering cost reduction in offshore wind (DemoWind)

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

DemoWind proposes to launch and implement a coordinated, collaborative, joint offshore wind technology demonstration Call worth in excess of €100m between 2015-19 under Horizon 2020 topic LCE 18 – 2014: Supporting Joint Actions on demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions. Partners: Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom, aim to pool their nati ...
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Veteran Tree Management Skills Certification

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

As a result of the VETree project, training material on veteran tree management has become easily and freely accesible, both for training centres and arboricultural professionals. This has led to an increased awareness about the importance and specific management of veteran trees. As defined in the VETree project, there is now an increased number of training possibilities on the subject: now that ...
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Big Picnic:Big Questions - engaging the public with Responsible Research and Innovation on FoodSecurity (BigPicnic)

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

Ensuring the availability of and access to sufficient safe and nutritious food is a key priority that impacts all EU citizens and Horizon 2020 has therefore identified food security as one of the major challenges to be addressed. BGCI, an international network organisation will work with botanic gardens, experienced informal science centres with research expertise in food and food plants, alongsid ...
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Natuurherstel Most-Keiheuvel: natuurherstel op de gradiënt van veen naar stuifzand (Most-Keiheuvel)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Background The project will take place in the nature reserves De Most (a peaty depression) and Keiheuvel (a land dune area), in the upper reaches of the Grote Nete river, Province of Antwerp. The project area has a total surface of 540 ha and is entirely situated within a Natura 2000 network site. The area is unique for the favourable conservation status ...
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Accessible Culture and Training

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

Accessibility plays a major role in modern knowledge-based Information societies. The potential of Accessibility through ICT and Assistive Technologies (AT) for inclusion and participation of all citizens is increasingly growing allowing for a full integration in everyday life. The proportion of people depending on Accessibility (15% in 2013) increases and EU demography shows the growing tendency ...
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OZON - Restoration of natural habitats for critically endangered species by defragmentation of the Sonian Forest. (Life)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Background The Sonian Forest (Forêt des Soignes/Zoniënwoud) is a 4 421-ha forest in Belgium that is primarily within the administrative region of Vlaams Brabant (Flanders), as well as covering parts of south-east Brussels and Brabant Wallon (Wallonia). Roads and railways, however, run through the forest dividing wildlife populations. Monitoring of road ...
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Innovation and Commercialisation in the NMP thematic area (INCOMERA)

Start date: Jan 15, 2014, End date: Jan 14, 2018,

Towards Europe 2020, European Commission adopted a comprehensive innovation strategy to enhance Europe's capacity to deliver smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. This strategy concerns the so called concept of Smart Specialization Strategy.By itself, sounds a challenging task, but it is of crucial importance, especially for less advanced regions. According to this concept, each region must set ...
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Innovative model and demonstration based water management for resource efficiency in integrated multitrophic agriculture and aquaculture systems (INAPRO)

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

"The objective of INAPRO is to mobilise industry, member states and stakeholders to promote a new and innovative technical and technological approach right up to an Aquaponic system which allows a nearly emission free sustainable production and contributes remarkably to global food security for the 21st century. Considering that traditional Aquaponic systems, combining aquaculture and hydroponics, ...
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Information and Communication Technologies and Robotics for Sustainable Agriculture (ICT-AGRI 2)

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

Information and Communication technologies (ICT) and robotics for sustainable agriculture
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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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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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Sustainable network for Independent Technical EXpertise of radioactive waste disposal - Interactions and Implementation (SITEX-II)

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

The coordination action SITEX-II aims at implementing in practice the activities along with the interaction modes issued by the FP7 program SITEX project (2012-2013), in view of developing an Expertise function network. This network is expected to ensure a sustainable capability of developing and coordinating joint and harmonized activities related to the independent technical expertise in the fie ...
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To get heath restored (Life Together)

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

Background The Natura 2000 site, Valleigebied van de Kleine Nete, is located in northeast Flanders, in the central Campine region, and covers 4 884 ha. The project focuses on 732 ha in the eastern part of this site, where nutrient-poor sandy soils are predominant. In 1935, the project area was mostly a heathland landscape, with a complex of land dunes and ...
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Habitat Restoration of alluvial forests and creeks within the flood controlled Scheldt estuary site Kruibeke-Bazel-Rupelmonde. (LIFE+SCALLUVIA)

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

Background The project area, ‘Kruibeke-Bazel-Rupelmonde’ (690 ha), is located in Flanders, near the border of the province of East Flanders and Antwerp. Here, the Sigma-plan is being implemented by the Flemish authorities, in collaboration with stakeholders in the agricultural and nature sectors. One of the aims of the plan – which is linked to the ...
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Mobiliteit in de Leertijd 2

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The consortium of SYNTRA Flanders and the 5 SYNTRA training centers - SYNTRA West, SYNTRA Central Flanders, SYNTRA provinces of Antwerp and Flemish Brabant, SYNTRA Limburg and SYNTRA Brussels - is responsible for the organization of the apprenticeship system in Flanders. Although the apprenticeship is acknowledged as a highly effective training system, it has been experiencing a decreasing influx ...
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ERANET Plus on "Photonic appliances for life sciences and health" (BiophotonicsPlus)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Biophotonic applications offer a broad range of innovative solutions, e. g. for the ageing society in industrialised countries, for improved health care in third world countries, for surveilling and safeguarding the environment, and for controlling food and drinking water quality. Such biophotonic solutions may relate to analytics, screening, imaging, therapy or surgery techniques.This ERANET-PLUS ...
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BEST FOR BETTER – Best Skills for a Better Teaching

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

The consortium needs a system activity to train the staff on specific issues related to education/training, employment and international mobility. The sending organizations involved need to learn innovative teaching and working processes, methods and instruments, in order to improve their educational activities, to prepare students for the labour market and to improve their strategies of internati ...
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Integrated ICT Solutions for Smart Personal Protective Equipment for Fire Fighters and First Responders (Smart@Fire)

Start date: Nov 15, 2012, End date: Mar 14, 2017,

Fostering innovation through Pre-commercial procurement (PCP) has received renewed impetus by the EC and the launch of initiatives in several EU countries. The potential of PCP is generally recognized; however, no large scale projects have been carried out where several countries join their efforts procurers encounter bottlenecks in the implementation of the PCP concept.Smart@Fire has two main obj ...
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Zwin Tidal Area Restoration (ZTAR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Background The Zwin is the largest and most important tidal salt marsh site in Belgium, with a surface area of nearly 180 ha on Belgian territory – 125 ha of tidal saltwater lagoon, gullies and salt marshes and 55 ha of sand dunes and tidal sandy beach – and a further 27 ha in the Netherlands. It was defined as a “wetland of international importance ...
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Delivering services on behalf of H2020 for enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs by the Enterprise Europe Network in Flanders (VEBIN SME 2.0)

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

This proposal aims at continuing the services of EEN in Flanders with regard to the key account management for the SME instrument under the H2020 programme as entrusted by the European Commission to the Enterprise Europe network. It also concerns the additional support services that EEN will deliver in Flanders with regard to the enhancement of the innovation management capacities of SMEs as decid ...
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Coordinated Integrated Pest Management in Europe (C-IPM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Europe faces the challenge of responding to the mandatory implementation of the principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) as called for by Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides. Most European countries are investing in research and extension to face this challenge, reduce reliance on pesticides, and reduce risks associated with their use. Added value and synergies can be ...
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Coordination of European funding for infectious diseases research (Infect-ERA)

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

Infectious diseases (ID) also known as communicable diseases are one of the majorcauses of death worldwide. Every year in Europe, infectious diseases cause tens of thousands of deaths (from ECDC ‘Microbes without borders: key facts on infectious diseases in Europe’ 2007 report).In order to address the challenges in ID and design adapted treatments, as well as diagnostic and preventive tools, the f ...
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Developing Resource Efficient Business Models (LIFE REBus)

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

Background Domestic material consumption (DMC) in the EU reached 8.2 billion tonnes in 2007, 13% of all materials extracted globally. The annual average per capita material consumption in the EU was some 65% above the global average. The supply of stable, secure resources, however, is now constrained, while the global population continues to grow and the ...
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EUROpean network for transnational collaborative RTD projects in the field of NANOMEDicine (EURONANOMED II)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Nanomedicine, the application of nanotechnology to health, is a fast-growing field with a large potential for improving diagnostics and therapeutic solutions in many diseases. The EuroNanoMed II (ENM II) consortium, with 20 partners from 17 countries and regions, aims to foster the competitiveness of European nanomedicine actors through the support of translational research projects enhancing tran ...
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ERA-NET on Solar Electricity for the Implementation of the Solar Europe Industry Initiative (SOLAR-ERA.NET)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The goal of SOLAR-ERA.NET is to undertake joint strategic planning, programming and activities for RTD and innovation in the area of solar electricity generation, i.e. photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP). Joint activities, namely joint calls, are defined for key topics and priorities in accordance with the Solar Europe Industrial Initiative (SEII) based on the Strategic Energy T ...
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Organic and Large Area Electronics (OLAE+)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Organic & large area electronics (also known as plastic electronics, printed electronics or organic electronics) allows electronic circuits and devices to be produced using relatively low cost printing processes onto any surface, whether rigid or flexible, and over large areas. It will lead to the creation of whole new generations of products such as conformable and rollable displays, large area ...
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FET Flagship ERA-NET (FLAG-ERA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The FET Flagship ERA-NET, called FLAG-ERA, gathers national and regional funding organisation with the goal of supporting the FET Flagship initiatives and more generally the FET Flagship concept. Most funding organisations in Europe participate, either directly or as associated members. The project also fosters international cooperation with funding organisations outside Europe. FLAG-ERA thus offe ...
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