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Phthalates and bisphenol A biomonitoring in Italian mother-child pairs: link between exposure and juvenile diseases (LIFE PERSUADED)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Background Bisphenol A (BPA) and di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) are two environmental endocrine disruptors (EDs) which – despite being non-persistent chemicals - are regularly detected in the environment, in food and, as a consequence, in humans. This is due to their continuous release from manufacturing or processing facilities, despite restrictions ...
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Demonstration of an innovative ORC module to improve the efficiency of European fishing vessels (LIFE+ EfficientShip)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Background Nowadays, European Member States are facing important environmental problems due to climate change. Global warming has been investigated by many scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), created by the United Nations Organisation, concludes that climate change is due to greenhouse gases (GHG) created by humans. Acco ...
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MERMAIDS - Mitigation of microplastics impact caused by textile washing processes (LIFE)

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

Background European oceans are contaminated by marine litter, especially plastics. Currently, it is estimated that global plastic production is increasing by 10% per year. Microplastics are particularly worrying, because wastewater plant treatments do not take them into account in their management processes and they are deposited in waterways and sewage s ...
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Risk Monitoring, Modelling and Mitigation of benthic Harmful Algal Blooms along Mediterranean coasts (M3-HABs)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

Project in brief Blooms of Ostreopsis in coastal areas are a topic of increasing interest, mainly in the Mediterranean Sea, due to the potential hazards that this species of algae might cause to human health and the consequent negative effects on tourism, fishery and aquaculture businesses. In the last 15 years, blooms of toxic dinoflagellates (harmful water microorganisms) belonging to the genus ...
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Energetic Recovery of Waste (VEDER)

Start date: Feb 19, 2013, End date: Aug 18, 2015,

Development of a sustainable energy sector in perspective of a sustainable use of energy resources, through the implementation of a system for electricity and heat production from biomass, municipal, agricultural and industrial waste. Expect ...
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OLLUTION MONITORING OF SHIP EMISSIONS: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR HARBOURS OF THE ADRIATIC BASIN (POSEIDON)

Start date: May 31, 2014, End date: May 30, 2015,

Harbours are important hubs for economic growth in both tourism and commercial activities. They are also an environmental burden being a source of atmospheric pollution often localized near cities and industrial complexes. The POSEIDON project investigates the impact on air quality of four major harbours in the Adriatic/Ionian Seas, using a common state-of-the-art methodology based on emission inv ...
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Development of innovative interventions on indigenous grape varieties - Vines for the Italian-Tunisian Integration (DIVIN)

Start date: Nov 21, 2013, End date: May 21, 2015,

The project aims at supporting the integration of supply chains in the food industry, in the field of Vine and Wine, promoting innovative strategies of analysis and genetic improvement of native grapes. To achieve this overall objective, the project has the following specific objectives:• the mutual promotion of local products through the application of consistent and comparable technologies for t ...
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Environmental quality and pressures assessment across Europe: the LTER network as an integrated and shared system for ecosystem monitoring (EnvEurope)

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

Background A vast amount environmental data is currently collected across Europe, both at national and international level, generating valuable information for policy makers and citizens. However, much of this information is not readily comparable, posing a major obstacle to the development of well-informed environmental policies and strategies at Europea ...
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Tracking Oil Spills and Coastal Awareness Network (TOSCA)

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

TOSCA project aims at developing a long-lasting network of local authorities, policy makers & scientists to improve environment policies and appropriate decision making in case of marine accidents (oil pollution, Search And Rescue (SAR) operations) in the Mediterranean Sea. TOSCA will supply monitoring of ocean currents based on state of the art technology (HF radars and drifters), together with r ...
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TEMA: Tecnology-based Environmental enterprises Market Approach (TEMA)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 29, 2012,

TEMA (Technology-based Environmental Enterprises Market Approach) seeks to encourage Environmental Technology based SMEs (ET-SMEs) to surpass the regional dimension and develop more internationalised activities. The project, developed by a participative-sector approach, will produce, through regional pilot tests, a methodology for the internationalisation and valorisation of ET-SMEs, based on a re ...
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Demographic and Migratory Flows Affecting European Regions and Cities (DEMIFER)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

Overall predictions indicate labour shortages in the EU after 2010. The Commission Staff Working Document on Europe’s demographic future points out that from around 2017 on the shrinking population in working age will lead to stagnation and, subsequently, reduction of total employment. Against this backdrop, the EU Commission acknowledges the necessity of immigration from outside the EU to meet th ...
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Advanced techniques for SEismic RISK reduction in Mediterranean Archipelago Regions (SE RISK)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: May 29, 2008,

In the last years there has been a growing concern in the scientific community working on seismic hazard regarding the need for widening the scope of hazard studies, in order to achieve a better understanding not only of the physical direct damage due to earthquakes, but also of the comprehensive response of a geosystem at different scales. Another important issue should be to improve the communic ...
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AGRO-JRP : Piloting Job Rotation Programme for Employment Development in Agriculture Sector

In the frame of fighting unemployment and enhancing life-long learning in the pilot implementation countries Turkey and Italy. Agro-JRP can offer an effective solution giving the opportunity to firms of the primary sector and unemployed as well, to satisfy their needs in the most effective way. In regard to the agriculture firms the job rotation enhances on one hand the upgrade of their existing h ...
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Connect the TEachers to reach and teach the NEt GENeration

Prompt Education – the initiator of Tenegen project – accredited in 2005 a three module training program in Hungary to develop teachers’ e-learning competencies. The course was delivered in typical e-learning 1.0 approach implemented in Moodle LMS with “traditional” online course components.Hundreds of Hungarian teachers took part in the training during the years, and gained basic competences in d ...
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Mediterranean Decision Support System for Marine Safety (MEDESS-4MS)

MEDESS-4MS service is dedicated to the maritime risks prevention and strengthening of maritime safety related to oil spill pollution in the Mediterranean. The main goal of MEDESS-4MS is to deliver an integrated operational multi model oil spill prediction service in the Mediterranean, connected to existing oil spill monitoring platforms (EMSA-CSN, REMPEC and AIS data), using well established oil s ...
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Technological tools for the promotion of Transadriatic Archaeological Heritage (T.He.T.A)

The project aims to improve and promote cultural heritage, to make it more usable to the general European and global tourism through the promotion of archaeological sites. The project starts from the idea of developing innovative technological and management tools to promote the archaeological heritage of the trans-regions. Archaeological and historical values of the sites are combined with the na ...
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