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An Integrated European ‘Flagship’ Program Driving Mechanism-based Toxicity Testing and Risk Assessment for the 21st Century (EU-ToxRisk)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The vision of EU-ToxRisk is to drive a paradigm shift in toxicology towards an animal-free, mechanism-based integrated approach to chemical safety assessment. The project will unite all relevant disciplines and stakeholders to establish: i) pragmatic, solid read-across procedures incorporating mechanistic and toxicokinetic knowledge; and ii) ab initio hazard and risk assessment strategies of chemi ...
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PRONTO: PROcess NeTwork Optimization for efficient and sustainable operation of Europe’s process industries taking machinery condition and process performance into account. (PRONTO)

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

The typical lifetime of an industrial process plant is between 30 and 50 years. Technologies to enhance the operation and optimization of process plants can both guide the development of new state-of-the-art process plants and, perhaps more pertinently, can ensure that the large installed base of existing plants operates efficiently. The PRONTO Consortium partners are strongly convinced that for E ...
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Training in Bio-Inspired Design of Smart Adhesive Materials (BioSmartTrainee)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

...nological adhesives, coatings, tissue adhesives, wound dressings or transdermal delivery devices. This carefully planned research and training program in a network of leading academic and industrial (BASF, AkzoNobel, UGRO) partners will ensure that young researchers are given an excellent training in a pioneering research domain of high scientific and technological relevance, where Europe can take ...
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Exploiting native endowments by re-factoring, re-programming and implementing novel control loops in Pseudomonas putida for bespoke biocatalysis (EmPowerPutida)

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

We aim to engineer the lifestyle of Pseudomonas putida to generate a tailored, re-factored chassis with highly attractive new-to-nature properties, thereby opening the door to the production of thus far non-accessible compounds. This industrially driven project capitalises on the outstanding metabolic endowment and stress tolerance capabilities of this versatile bacterium for the production of spe ...
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Training of Innovative, Creative and Entrepreneurial Researchers in Waterborne Dispersed Polymers (TRACKWAY)

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

...bining projects at the frontline of the research in functional dispersed polymers with interdisciplinary training in transferable and specialized skills. Based on the synergetic collaboration between BASF, a leading industry in dispersed polymers and University of the Basque Country, a reputed academic institution in the field, the research programme faces the challenge of innovation aiming at cre ...
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PROcessing Diluted Aqueous Systems (PRODIAS)

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

The use of renewable resources in the process industries is socially desirable and a market pull for products has started to develop in recent years, but renewable products have to compete with identical or similar-in-application products based on fossil raw materials in terms of quality and production cost. One of the main reasons for currently higher production costs of products based on renewab ...
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Integrated self-assembled SWITCHable systems and materials: towards responsive organic electronics – a multi-site innovative training action (iSwitch)

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

iSwitch will offer top-level multi-disciplinary and supra-sectorial training to a pool of talented young researchers, involving contributions from different scientific and technological fields such as, supramolecular chemistry, materials, nanoscience, physics and engineering. iSwitch’s appointees will be trained through lecture courses, dedicated international schools and workshops, topical confer ...
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Lærlingmobilitet Telemark fylkeskommune

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Context/background: Telemark county has through Vestfold county had an opportunity to send out apprentices. Telemark now wants to stand as responsible organization for our apprentices and build local skills and an enhanced focus on international projects. In spring 2016 we will have a politically approved strategy for internationalization in secondary education, and the intentions of this strategy ...
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PROJET PILOTE FRANCO-ALLEMAND POUR UN ERASMUS DES APPRENTIS

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

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PROJET PILOTE FRANCO-ALLEMAND POUR UN ERASMUS DES APPRENTIS

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

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Modelling stability of organic phosphorescent light-emitting diodes (MOSTOPHOS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

The lifetime, reliability, and efficiency of organic light emitting diodes (OLED) are critical factors precluding a number of novel devices from entering the market. Yet, these stability issues of OLEDs are poorly understood due to their notorious complexity, since multiple degradation and failure channels are possible at different length- and timescales. Current experimental and theoretical model ...
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Waste-Based Rapid Adhesive-free Production of Sports goods (WRAP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

WRAP aims to identify and develop innovative partly waste-based long-fibre reinforced composites enabling the automatic production of easily customisable plastic sports goods. The project will focus on the production of balls and shoes and will adopt a design-driven approach exploiting the automation potential of rotation moulding processes, which offer significant design freedom. The innovation ...
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Graphene-based disruptive technologies (GrapheneCore1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CS ...
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Integrated Control and Sensing for Sustainable Operation of Flexible Intensified Processes (CONSENS)

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

Intensified continuous processes are a key innovation of the last decade for the production of high quality, high value and customer-specific products at competitive prices in a sustainable fashion. To realize the potential of this technology, key steps must be made towards long-term stable, tightly controlled and fully automated production. The goal of the CONSENS project is to advance the contin ...
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Cross-sectorial real-time sensing, advanced control and optimisation of batch processes saving energy and raw materials (RECOBA)

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

...e RECOBA consortium represents a selection of batch processes operating industries and partners across the value chain of batch process control, among them 3 global players from the polymer industry (BASF), the steel industry (TKSE), and the silicon metal industry (ELKEM). Within RECOBA there will be developed and validated:(1) new & innovative solutions for the measurement of different types of q ...
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Development of an integrated approach based on validated and standardized methods to support the implementation of the EC recommendation for a definition of nanomaterial (NANODEFINE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Nanotechnology is a key enabling technology. Still existing uncertainties concerning EHS need to be addressed to explore the full potential of this new technology. One challenge consists in the development of methods that reliably identify, characterize and quantify nanomaterials (NM) both as substance and in various products and matrices. The European Commission has recently recommended a definit ...
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Developing a validated technology platform for the application of oxygen dependent enzymes in synthesis and transformation of alcohols (BIOOX)

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

Currently the aerobic bio-catalytic oxidation reaction is the one that would have the biggest impact on the future uptake of industrial biotechnology in Europe. Chemical oxidation is both hazardous and has high environment impacts. Many oxidative bio-catalytic reactions and transformations have been identified in academic laboratories but only a very small number have been applied by industry to o ...
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Erasmus+ mobilities for Hordaland 2015

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

Hordaland is a region in growth, having reached half a million inhabitants it is now one of the fastest growing counties in Norway. This development creates opportunities as well as challenges. The growing need for more relevant and competent professional expertise, changes in demographics, and increased globalisation all require new and innovative professional competences and relevant vocational ...
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Practice Europe 15

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

Based on plans for internationalization in the Trøndelag counties of Norway, adopted by the South Trøndelag County Council, the County Authority (STFK) applies for grants to fund the project "Practice Europe 15". The project is a continuation of earlier Erasmus+ and Leonardo da Vinci projects. The two areas given priority in the county's overall strategy is internationalization of enterprises and ...
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SUSTAINABLE NANOTECHNOLOGIES (SUN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

SUN (Sustainable Nanotechnologies) is the first project addressing the entire lifecycle of nanotechnologies to ensure holistic nanosafety evaluation and incorporate the results into tools and guidelines for sustainable manufacturing, easily accessible by industries, regulators and other stakeholders. The project will incorporate scientific findings from over 30 European projects, national and inte ...
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Engineered nanomaterial mechanisms of interactions with living systems and the environment: a universal framework for safe nanotechnology (NANOMILE)

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

The NanoMILE project is conceived and led by an international elite of scientists from the EU and US with the aim to establish a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of nanomaterial interactions with living systems and the environment, and uniquely to do so across the entire life cycle of nanomaterials and in a wide range of target species. Identification of critical properties (physico-che ...
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A common European approach to the regulatory testing of nanomaterials (NANOREG)

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

The innovative and economic potential of Manufactured Nano Materials (MNMs) is threatened by a limited understanding of the related EHS issues. While toxicity data is continuously becoming available, the relevance to regulators is often unclear or unproven. The shrinking time to market of new MNM drives the need for urgent action by regulators. NANoREG is the first FP7 project to deliver the answe ...
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Sustainability assessment methods and tools to support decision-making in the process industries (SAMT)

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

Sustainability assessment methods are needed to support sustainable technology development and to evaluate the impacts of existing solutions, products and technologies. While there are aspects and indicators that are common to all process industries, sector specific tools are required to address the sector specific features in a fair and transparent way. At the moment, several tools, assessment me ...
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Modelling of morphology Development of micro- and Nano Structures (MODENA)

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

"MoDeNa aims at developing, demonstrating and assessing an easy-to-use multi-scale software-modelling framework application under an open-source licensing scheme that delivers models with feasible computational loads for process and product design of complex materials. The use of the software will lead to novel research and development avenues that fundamentally improve the properties of these nan ...
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Dynamic Management of Physically Coupled Systems of Systems (DYMASOS)

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

The well‐being of the citizens in Europe depends on the reliable and efficient functioning of large interconnected systems, such as electric power systems, air traffic control, railway systems, large industrial production plants, etc. Such large systems consist of many interacting components, e.g. generation plants, distribution systems, and large and small consumers. The subsystems are usually ma ...
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Practice Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Based on plans for internationalization in the Trøndelag counties of Norway, adopted by the South Trøndelag County Council, the County Authority (STFK) applies for grants to fund the project "Practice Europe". The project is a continuation of earlier Leonardo da Vinci projects. The two areas given priority in the county's overall strategy is internationalization of enterprises and youth. "Practice ...
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Erasmus+ for Vestfoldlærlinger 2014-2016

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

Vestfold county council, department of upper secondary education, has a long history of applying for EU-funding for mobility for initial vocational training. Since 1995 the department has offered mobility experiences for apprentices and pupils in vocational institutes, and there is a wish to continue to offer this possibility with the new EU program Erasmus+. In Vestfold county there was and is a ...
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Erasmus+ mobilities for Hordaland 2014

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

International cooperation is an integrated part of Hordaland County Council’s (HCC) strategy for regional development (International Strategy, 2013-2016). The strategy aims at creating a sustainable, attractive and competitive region, and give young people international competence, experience and shared responsibility. The region faces challenges concerning climate and energy, sustainable developm ...
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Praxiserwerb in der dualen Ausbildung in Europa

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

Within the framework of this project, selected apprentices of BASF SE (18 apprentices to Spain, 24 apprentices to Norway ) and Norwegian apprentices out of different companies will participate. The vocational fields will be technical, clerical and natural science. According to their professions the apprentices will be appointed to the partner companies and partner schools. There they will get know ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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Managing Risks of Nanoparticles (MARINA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

While there are standard procedures for product life cycle analysis, exposure, hazard, and risk assessment for traditional chemicals, is not yet clear how these procedures need to be modified to address all the novel properties of nanomaterials. There is a need to develop specific reference methods for all the main steps in managing the potential risk of ENM. The aim of MARINA is to develop such ...
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Praxiserwerb in der dualen Ausbildung in Europa

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

Within the framework of this project, selected apprentices of BASF SE (18 apprentices to Spain, 28 apprentices to Norway ) and Norwegian apprentices out of different companies will participate. The vocational fields will be technical, clerical and natural science. According to their professions the apprentices will be appointed to the partner companies and partner schools. There they will get know ...
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Control and Real-Time Optimisation of Intensive Polymerisation Processes (COOPOL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Transition of processing industries towards a more sustainable model of manufacturing is one of key priority topics for European Research Area. This transition requires adoption of novel reactor technologies, greener reactions and the increase in the use of intelligent systems in processing industries. The latter means improving processes through use of real-time information and ability to affect ...
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MODEL-BASED OPTIMIZATION & CONTROL FOR PROCESS-INTENSIFICATION IN CHEMICAL AND BIOPHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEMS (OPTICO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

In response to world-wide changes in the chemical/biopharmaceutical industry, new market requirements for specific end-use product properties as well as to stricter energy, safety and environmental constraints a revolutionary approach is needed regarding equipment design, plant operation and new production paradigms that will result in better products and processes. Process intensification (PI) is ...
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Energy savings from smart operation of electrical, process and mechanical equipment (ENERGY-SMARTOPS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The drive across the world towards energy efficiency and reduction of CO2 emissions is leading to new industrial processes and new ways of operating existing processes. In particular, the control and operation of processes, rotating machinery and electrical equipment is becoming radically more integrated giving new opportunities for energy saving through equipment management, automation, and optim ...
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Products from methanol by synthetic cell factories (PROMYSE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

There is a high societal need for a sustainable production of key chemistry, food and health care compounds. Microbial cell factories are logical production systems, but up to now they use sugars and other food derived raw materials as substrates. Sugars originating from plants demand cultivable land which is more and more needed for human nutrition. Methanol - with a worldwide production capacity ...
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GraphenE-orgaNIc hybrid architectures for organic electronics: a mUltiSite training action (GENIUS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

"GENIUS aims at offering highest-quality supra-sectoral and cross-disciplinary training to a pool of promising young researchers, in an area at the interface between Supramolecular Chemistry, Materials- and Nano-Science, Physics and Electrical Engineering. GENIUS appointees will be trained in lecture courses, dedicated schools and workshops, and through an ambitious and carefully planned research ...
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European Coordinating Body in Maths, Science and Technology Education (ECB) (ECB)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The European Coordinating Body in Maths, Science and Technology Education (ECB) is a large-scale strategic response to the FP7 call to reinforce links between science education and science and technology careers in the private sector through reinforcing the partnership industry/education.The overall aim of the ECB is to increase young Europeans’ interest in mathematics, science and technology (MST ...
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From Biodiversity to Chemodiversity: Novel Plant Produced Compounds with Agrochemical and Cosmetic interest (AgroCos)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The consortium will discover and carry to the stage of development candidates, plant derived small molecules with potential as new cosmetic and agrochemical agents. These compounds will derive from plants originating from major biodiversity hotspots in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. The starting point of the project will be a diversity-oriented natural product library ...
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Development of Nanotechnology-based High-performance Opaque & Transparent Insulation Systems for Energy-efficient Buildings (NANOINSULATE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

NANOINSULATE will develop durable, robust, cost-effective opaque and transparent vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) incorporating new nanotechnology-based core materials (nanofoams, aerogels, aerogel composites) and high-barrier films that are up to four times more energy efficient than current solutions. These new systems will provide product lifetimes in excess of 50 years suitable for a variety o ...
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