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Guiding European Policy toward a low-carbon economy. Modelling Energy system Development under Environmental And Socioeconomic constraints (MEDEAS)

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

The transition to a low carbon economy needs to achieve multiple aims: competitiveness, protection of the environment, creation of quality jobs, and social welfare. Thus policy-makers and other key stakeholders require tools that need to focus beyond the energy sector by including these other domains of economy, society and the environment. Currently, most available tools lack integration of these ...
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Assessment and mitigation of liquefaction potential across Europe: a holistic approach to protect structures / infrastructures for improved resilience to earthquake-induced liquefaction disasters (LIQUEFACT)

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

Over the past decade, earthquakes proved to be the deadliest of all European disasters, with almost 19,000 fatalities and direct economic losses of approx. €29 billion. Earthquake Induced Liquefaction Disasters (EILDs) is responsible for tremendous amounts of the structural damages and fatalities; with experiences from recent events giving example of where approx. half of the economic loss was dir ...
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Support, Monitoring and Reminder Technology for Mild Dementia (SMART4MD)

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

As Europe’s population is ageing, long-term care for elderly citizens will become an increasing cost for society. To manage this transition healthcare policies in the EU and individual Member States are heavily focussed on extending the independent life of the elderly, with the dual aim of increasing their quality of life and reducing the costs of care. Dementia affects more than 6% of people aged ...
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Social Sciences and Humanities for Advancing Policy in European Energy (SHAPE-ENERGY)

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

SHAPE-ENERGY “Social Sciences and Humanities for Advancing Policy in European Energy” will develop Europe’s expertise in using and applying energy-SSH to accelerate the delivery of Europe’s Energy Union Strategy.Our consortium brings together 7 leading academic partners and 6 highly respected policy, industry and communications practitioners from across the Energy, Social Sciences and Humanities ( ...
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The MEDiterranean Public HEALTH Alliance (MED-HEALTH)

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

A solid public health system constitutes a pillar of advanced societies, capable of providing their citizens with an enabling environment for development and smart and inclusive societies. All countries in Europe and beyond need to address increasingly global health challenges with the support of innovative approaches and skilled professionals. To do so, HEIs need to introduce programmes with a wi ...
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‘Reciprocal Encounters’ - Young Adults Leaving Care (ReProCounters)

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

The objective of this proposal, ‘Reciprocal Encounters – Young Adults Leaving Care’, is not only to produce preventive, client-based social work guidelines regarding how to search for the best ways to support the well-being of young adults with substitute care experiences and the process of their deinstitutionalisation or leaving substitute care, but it will also use a complementary participatory ...
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Pluralistic Economics for Development in Green Economic Enhancement (PEDIGREE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The question of which economic framework (or sets of frameworks) is (are) appropriate for providing policy prescriptions conducive to ecological sustainable has gained renewed interest within the community of ecological economists and political economists. To help answer this question I propose to investigate the suitability of four economic frameworks — neoclassical environmental economics, non-W ...
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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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Young Children, Public Spaces and Democracy

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

This proposal is for a 36 month transnational strategic partnership (BRIC) that focuses on the democratic engagement of children under the age of five years using public spaces. The rationale of the project is that young children are often excluded from access or participation in public spaces and that their democratic engagement is not only a right, but also an essential aspect of their identity ...
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"Reconstruction and REcovery Planning: Rapid and Continuously Updated COnstruction Damage, and Related Needs ASSessment" (RECONASS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2017,

"This work will provide a monitoring system for constructed facilities that will provide a near real time, reliable, and continuously updated assessment of the structural condition of the monitored facilities after a disaster, with enough detail to be useful for early and full recovery planning. The above assessment will be seamlessly integrated with automated, near real-time and continuously upda ...
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MOBILISING THE POTENTIAL OF ACTIVE AGEING IN EUROPE (MOPACT)

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

The starting point for MOPACT is the ambitious goals set by Horizon 2020 and the European Innovation Partnership Pilot Project on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPAHA). Our response is ambitious too: we aim to provide the research and practical evidence upon which Europe can make longevity an asset for social and economic development. MOPACT will create a high quality, multi-disciplinary critical mas ...
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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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Keep Me Safe in Europe Project

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

...f recognition, telling and help seeking. The project builds on learning by partner organizations who have in previous work examined child protection systems from a EU context and youth perspective. Anglia Ruskin and East Anglia University examined young people’s emotional journey of recognition, telling and seeking help with abuse and neglect which was funded by the Office of Children’s Commissi ...
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Design of a serious game for cars to help increase driver skills and lower fuel consumption (Safe and Sound Drive)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...riendly approaches to driving. Through his research, Dr Arne Nykänen has developed successful methods and procedures for efficient product sound design, already implemented at Volvo Cars and Scania. Anglia Ruskin University has leading expertise on creative and user-centred design, serious gaming, mobile applications and sound design for theatre and film. Combining this expertise enables the intro ...
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Water Efficiency in European Urban Areas (WE@EU)

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

WE@EU is a coordination action born from the initiative of a wide range of actors from five different European regions that have a true awareness on problems related to availability of water in sufficient quantities and adequate quality in their regions. Taking into account that over 80% of the population is expected to be living in urban areas in EU countries by 2050, pressures on the availabilit ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

Anglia Ruskin University is committed to its ongoing process of Internationalisation, of which the Erasmus programme is a vital part. We have been actively developing and strengthening our relationships with institutions in Europe and beyond, to offer our students the opportunity to experience international dimensions in their degrees, and our staff the opportunity to participate in international ...
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A novel, autonomous and REVersible Inflow control VALve to increase oil production and reservoir recovery rate by stopping the production of unwanted water and gas locally in the reservoirs (REVIVAL)

Start date: Aug 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

REVIVAL focuses on the problem of maximising recovery of oil from wells and prolonging their productive life; a commercial imperative for the industry and a response to EU policies to secure Europe’s energy supply in respect to oil.Globally only 32% of available oil reserves are extracted from oil fields. A 5% increase in the recovery factor would yield as much oil as is expected from all future e ...
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Business Opportunities for Healthy Ageing (BIZ4AGE)

Start date: Mar 31, 2014, End date: Feb 27, 2015,

The aim of the cluster is to improve economic competitiveness by raising awareness of new business opportunities for SMEs through innovations that contribute to healthy ageing, thereby improving the quality of life & reducing public expenditure.Healthy ageing is a new & expanding area where the scope for innovation & trade goes beyond medical interventions to include a broad range of environmental ...
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Waardevermeerdering door ontwikkeling van een internationaal netwerk Visual Design (VIVID)

Start date: Jun 30, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

The VIVID project aims to create a cross-border virtual network in the Visual Design sector, a sector that creatively translates communication into multimedia applications. This sector is constantly evolving and offers great economic potential for the 2 Seas area, using new media and technology to develop visual communication tools which are more efficient, more understandable and can also be appl ...
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A novel sound absorption technology to enable energy efficient construction techniques and promote the health and wellbeing of occupants (ECHO2ECO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

The building sector consumes 40% of Europe’s energy. With rising energy prices and greater focus on energy efficiency the building sector offers the single largest potential for energy savings. This is reflected in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, EPBD, 2002/91/EC. This Directive strongly encourages the use of passive heating and cooling techniques such as thermal mass in building c ...
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acCURAte-Business (CURA-B)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

CURA-B aims at enabling the innovative power of entrepreneurs to strengthen services in health and social care markets. In this project, organisations in the area of economic development, providers of health and social care, as well as universities are working together to develop and test new business models, communicative interactions and strategies for a smooth and win-win implementation of inno ...
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Transhistorical tropes of female subordination (TTFS)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

"A society defines itself partly through the stories it tells about itself. There is an interchange between the individuals who consume the stories and the society the produces them, each influencing the other. The project Transhistorical Tropes of Female Subordination analyses this interchange through three ubiquitous tropes in present-day fiction - referred pain, women suffering patiently for lo ...
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Control of renewable integrated systems targeting advanced landmarks (CRISTAL)

Start date: Dec 10, 2007, End date: Dec 9, 2009,

The CA aims to contribute to the integration and strengthening of European research on Renewable Energy Sources and associated power converters, controllers and combined use. The proposal is a step forward in securing a leading role for Europe in sustainable energy systems, strategically important to some EC Programme objectives: large scale implementation of Distributed Energy Resources (DER), en ...
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