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Personal Technologies for Affective Health (AffecTech)

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

Personalized health is a European priority and one of the strategic research areas for Horizon 2020. This project advances the state-of-the-art of personal health technologies for affective disorders, estimated to be the highest ranking cause of disease by 2020. It marks a significant shift from the current wearable technologies capturing emotional responses whose understanding usually requires ph ...
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Water - Sustainable Point-Of-Use Treatment Technologies (WATERSPOUTT)

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

The WHO estimates that in 2015 in Africa ~156 million people relied on untreated sources for their drinking water. WATERSPOUTT will design, develop, pilot and field-test a range of, sustainable point-of-use solar disinfection (SODIS) technologies that will provide affordable access to safe water to remote and vulnerable communities in Africa and elsewhere. These novel large-volume water treatment ...
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The Sign Hub: preserving, researching and fostering the linguistic, historical and cultural heritage of European Deaf signing communities with an integral resource (SIGN-HUB)

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

SIGN-HUB aims to provide the first comprehensive response to the societal and scientific challenge resulting from generalized neglect of the cultural and linguistic identity of signing Deaf communities in Europe. It will provide an innovative and inclusive resource hub for the linguistic, historical and cultural documentation of the Deaf communities' heritage and for sign language assessment in cl ...
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Towards a European THeory Of juStice and fairness (ETHOS)

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

"ETHOS seeks to provide building blocks for the development of the an empirically informed European theory of justice by (a) refining and deepening the knowledge on the European foundations of justice - both historically based and contemporary envisaged; (b) enhancing the awareness of the mechanism that impede the realisation of the justice ideals that live in contemporary Europe; (c) advancing th ...
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EPOS Implementation Phase (EPOS IP)

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

The nations of Europe are distributed around some of the most complex and dynamic geological systems on the planet and understanding these is essential to the security of livelihoods and economic power of Europeans. Many of the solutions to the grand challenges in the geosciences have been led by European scientists – the understanding of stratigraphy (the timing and distribution of layers of sedi ...
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Effectiveness of VPL Policies and Programmes for Labour Market Inclusion and Mobility – Individual and Employer Perspectives

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

CONTEXTThe VALIDATION and RECOGNITION of PRIOR NON-FORMAL and INFORMAL LEARNING (VPL) is a priority of EU educational policies and central to lifelong and life-wide learning. The aim is to strengthen the flexibility of learning pathways to increase labour market transition and mobility across Europe. Key objective is to enhance employability and labour market opportunities for disadvantaged indivi ...
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Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management (STORM)

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

Starting from previous research experiences and tangible outcomes, STORM proposes a set of novel predictive models and improved non-invasive and non-destructive methods of survey and diagnosis, for effective prediction of environmental changes and for revealing threats and conditions that could damage cultural heritage sites. Moreover, STORM will determine how different vulnerable materials, struc ...
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Enhancing Postgraduate Environments

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

The Higher Education sector in South Africa is going through a fundamental transformation process, addressing several challenges such as inequality of representation amongst existing staff, high student : staff ratios, low throughput rates, limited qualifications of existing staff and an inadequate postgraduate pipeline. Therefore, the government aims to identify and nurture academic talent, supp ...
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European Speakers of Other Languages: Teaching Adult Immigrants and Training their Teachers (EU-Speak 3)

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

Adult immigrants require literacy and numeracy in the language of the community to participate in the economic and social life of that community. While many post-industrialized countries fund programmes to actively support the development of immigrants’ basic and more advanced literacy skills, in most of these countries, there is no specific training and development for teachers who work with the ...
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Green growth and win-win strategies for sustainable climate action (GREEN-WIN)

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

The GREEN-WIN project will develop a major international transdisciplinary research collaboration to apply a solution-oriented approach targeted at increasing the understanding of links between climate action and sustainability and overcoming implementation barriers through win-win strategies. The project will critically assess where and under which conditions win-win and in particular green growt ...
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All Rights Reserved? Barriers towards EUropean CITIZENship (BEUCITIZEN)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The European Court of Justice expects European citizenship to become the fundamental status of nationals of the Member States. It ‘lies at the heart of the European integration process’. The treaties, legislation, and case law have given Europeans an increasing number of rights. Yet the European Commission complains that these remain underused. Therefore, it has included in FP7 a call for a large- ...
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Accelerating and Rescaling Transitions to Sustainability (ARTS)

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

The objective of ARTS is to benefit policy, practice and theory related to accelerating sustainability transitions and to create opportunities for innovation (including social innovation) by coupling, rescaling and accelerating sustainability initiatives in European city-regions. ARTS will create interfaces between policy, practice and theory that are spaces for co-creation, theory building, polic ...
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Large Deviations for Random Walks in Random Environments (LargeDevRWRE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Random walk in random environment (RWRE) is one of the standard models in the study of random media. Originally motivated by molecular biology applications and subsequently used in the modeling of disordered systems, it has been a constant source of fascinating mathematical phenomena and challenging open problems over the last four decades. The theory of large deviations is a cornerstone of modern ...
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Exchange of Excellence in Ubiquitous Computing Technologies to Address Healthcare Challenges (UBIHEALTH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"Pervasive Healthcare is focused on working out how to cope with the next generation challenges in healthcare. Addressing these challenges will require expertise and knowledge exchange with countries beyond European borders as well as training of the next generation of researchers in order to gain the expertise necessary to be able to address the upcoming challenges. Moreover, research on Pervasiv ...
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PRACE - Third Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-3IP)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

PRACE-3IP supports the accelerated implementation of the pan-European HPC Research Infrastructure (RI) created in April 2010. It continues, complements, and extends the work of the PRACE-1IP and -2IP projects.PRACE-3IP addresses the computational and simulation needs of European scientific communities and of industry to keep them at the forefront of discovery. Our vision is the formation of an int ...
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ENTITLE. European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

"ENTITLE will train 17 researchers in the emerging supra-disciplinary field of Political Ecology, giving them the theoretical, analytical and complementary skills that will make them employable in jobs related to environmental policy analysis and advocacy. Research and training are framed around five key cluster sub-programmes concerned with the analysis of: environmental conflicts; environmental ...
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A Scientific Network for Earthquake, Landslide and Flood Hazard Prevention (SciNetNatHazPrev)

Start date: Apr 30, 2013, End date: Nov 29, 2015,

The overall objective of the project in to achieve a strong regional partnership and cooperation by the Development of a Scientific Network for the establishment a scientific consensus, in order to setup common strategies and natural hazard prevention methods. The Scientific Network members will work together sharing competencies and resources to address earthquake, landslide and floor hazards whi ...
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Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT)

Start date: Mar 15, 2011, End date: Mar 14, 2015,

Environmental Justice Organizations (EJOs) are civil society organizations locally or globally involved in conflicts over resource extraction or waste disposal. Such conflicts increase in number as the world economy uses more materials and energy. The EJOs focus on the link between the need for environmental security and the defence of basic human rights. The project EJOLT unites a consortium of i ...
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Strategies and tools for Real Time EArthquake RisK ReducTion (REAKT)

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

Earthquakes are a serious threat for many European countries, particularly those around the Mediterranean Sea. In many cities exposed to high earthquake hazard, a substantial proportion of the population still lives in buildings that do not meet modern earthquake-resistant standards. Preventive actions, such as retrofitting of structures, are essential, but they are not sufficient and cannot be a ...
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Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation (NERA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

"The overall aim of NERA is to achieve a measurable improvement and a long-term impact in the assessment and reduction of the vulnerability of constructions and citizens to earthquakes. NERA will integrate the key research infrastructures in Europe to monitor earthquakes and assess their hazard and risk, and will combine expertise in observational and strong-motion seismology, modeling, geotechnic ...
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PRACE - Second Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-2IP)

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

PRACE-2IP supports the accelerated implementation of the pan-European HPC Research Infrastructure created in April 2010 as the result of the preparatory phase PRACE project. It complements and extends the work of the PRACE-1IP project that was started in July 2010.PRACE-2IP addresses the computational and simulation needs of European scientific communities to keep them at the forefront of discover ...
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PRACE - First Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-1IP)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Large scale simulations are the third pillar of science today alongside theory and experiment. They produce scientific insights, technological advances, and solve problems in many fields of society. Their tools are high-end computers and effective software. PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing, has been created as a not for profit association in May 2010 as a permanent pan-European High P ...
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Collaborative, Complex and Critical Decision-Support in Evolving Crises (TRIDEC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

Description TRIDEC focuses on new technologies for real-time intelligent information management in collaborative, complex critical decision processes in earth management. Key challenge is the construction of a communication infrastructure of interoperable services through which intelligent management of dynamically increasing volumes and dim ...
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SEISMIC ENGINEERING RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES FOR EUROPEAN SYNERGIES (SERIES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

"European seismic engineering research suffers from extreme fragmentation of research infrastructures (RI) between countries and limited access to them by the S/T community of earthquake engineering, especially that of Europe’s most seismic regions. A 23-strong Consortium of the key actors in Europe’s seismic engineering research (including 3 industrial partners) addresses these problems in a sust ...
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Seismic Hazard Harmonization in Europe (SHARE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

SHARE will deliver measurable progress in all steps leading to a harmonized assessment of seismic hazard – in the definition of engineering requirements, in the collection and analysis of input data, in procedures for hazard assessment, and in engineering applications. SHARE will create a unified framework and computational infrastructure for seismic hazard assessment and produce an integrated Eur ...
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Action for the Science of complex SYtems for Socially intelligent icT (ASSYST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Description ASSYST will coordinate research around the call Science of complex systems for socially intelligent ICT (COSI-ICT) in the context of the wider science of complex systems (CS).ASSYST will make Complex Systems science and the potential of COSI-ICT better understood by scientific policy makers and funders at national and internation ...
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III (EGEE-III)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

A globally distributed computing Grid now plays an essential role for large-scale, data intensive science in many fields of research. The concept has been proven viable through the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project (EGEE and EGEE-II, 2004-2008) and its related projects. EGEE-II is consolidating the operations and middleware of this Grid for use by a wide range of scientific communities, such as ...
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SEE-GRID eInfrastructure for regional eScience (SEE-GRID-SCI)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

eInfrastructure in Europe has reached a mature state where the GÉANT network forms a backbone on top of which a distributed computing infrastructure – the Grid – provides processing and storage services for eScience research. The South-East European eInfrastructure initiatives are committed to ensuring equal participation of the less-resourced countries of the region in European trends. SEEREN ini ...
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Preparing Science Educators for Everyday Science

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

The aim of the project is to engage elementary and secondary pre-service teachers in critical discussions of everyday science through socio-scientific issues (SSI), and prepare them to teach SSI. Engaging in critical discussions of SSI has been recognized as an important goal of science education since it enables students to understand the relevance of science to everyday life, understand the huma ...
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Developing an In-Service Training in Inclusive Classroom Practices

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

Research shows that inclusive practices in classroom are important for students with special needs (learning disabilities-LD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder-ADHD). Therefore, implementation of inclusive practices has been becoming even more important. Yet, classroom teachers lack necessary training and skills to provide appropriate practices for students with special needs. As a result, ...
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European Values Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

There is a great lack of knowledge of European values and of how these differ from country to country, among young people. Teachers in high schools and at Teachers’ Colleges and their students don’t know these values and don’t know how to deal with them. There are hardly any or no known training examples, teaching materials or approaches. To answers these questions this project is being executed.R ...
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Mobility Coach

Learning mobility is one of the main strategic priorities of the EU. The Europe 2020 strategy sets ambitious objectives for smart, inclusive and sustainable growth. Quality VET, successful labour market integration and more mobility of young people are key to unleashing all young people’s potential and achieving these objectives. To reach the 75% employment target for the population (20-64 years), ...
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Theatre as empowerment methodology for iVET

Centro Studi Opera Don Calabria has been organizing, since many years, theatrical activities dedicated to students attending vocational training courses, at risk of drop out. The experience is realized by the theatrical workshop "Cosquillas" made up of professional educators, pedagogues and experts in the art field.Using an holistic approach taking care of the whole person, the Cosquillas approac ...
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AUTOmatic tutor for lifelong language LEARNing

This project has been conceived to define, carry out and evaluate a set of exploitationand dissemination activities - in connection with previously existing techniques andmethodologies - that should help develop a new ICT-based paradigm for the field ofForeign Language Training targeted at different audiences. Through the projectactivities, the consortium will gain experience and knowledge regardi ...
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Mobile Learning for the young people at risk groups

The present project involves the implementation of mobile learning (m-learning) technologies in foreign language teaching to enhance language learning facilities of students coming from lower socioeconomic backgrounds (ages 16-17) in vocational high schools. Thus, this project is both innovative – e.g., use of technology in foreign language education, and inclusive – i.e., designed for young peopl ...
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Improving Competitive Intelligence Abilities of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Primary aim of the I-CIA of SMEs Project is improving the competitiveness of SMEs in Lithuania, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia and Turkey by supporting staff in competitive intelligence and strategy.In general the Project aims at raising awareness about the importance of CI and strategy in SMEs and increasing the number of people who are skilled in CI in the job market.The objective of the Project is ...
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Enabling VET teachers & trainers to better reach adult learners and improve learning outcomes

According to the European Commission (Supporting the Teaching Professions for Better Learning Outcomes, 20.11.2012), the role of teachers and trainers is crucial in the modernization of VET with special focus on their professional development and status in society. The future dominated by change presents news challenges for both teachers and trainers in VET, involving new pedagogical, curriculum d ...
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