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VisorSurf - A Hardware Platform for Software-driven Functional Metasurfaces (VISORSURF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

Metasurfaces, thin film planar, artificial structures, have recently enabled the realization of novel electromagnetic (EM) and optical components with engineered functionalities. These include total EM radiation absorption, filtering and steering of light and sound, as well as nano-antennas for sensors and implantable devices. Nonetheless, metasurfaces are presently non-adaptive and non-reusable, ...
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Optimization Driven Architectural Design of Structures (OptArch)

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

...for the application of optimization techniques in different design phases of civil structures by developing strong synergies among a multi-disciplinary team of academic experts from Greece, France, Cyprus, Canada, Turkey, Egypt & Jordan and SMEs from France & Greece.A first goal of the project is to exploit the use of shape and topology optimization techniques in computer aided architectural desig ...
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ACTRIS PPP - Aerosols, Clouds and Trace gases Preparatory Phase Project (ACTRIS PPP)

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

The Research Infrastructure (RI) ACTRIS – Aerosols, Clouds and Trace Gases - is the pan-European RI that consolidates activities amongst European partners for observations of aerosols, clouds, and trace gases and for understanding of the related atmospheric processes, to provide RI services to wide user groups. ACTRIS is composed of 8 connected elements: distributed National Facilities (observatio ...
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A NOVEL FRAMEWORK FOR MULTI-CLOUD SERVICES DEVELOPMENT, ORCHESTRATION, DEPLOYMENT AND CONTINUOUS MANAGEMENT FOSTERING CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES UPTAKE FROM DIGITAL SMES AND STARTUPS (UNICORN)

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

Unicorn aims to simplify the design, deployment and management of secure and elastic –by design- multi-cloud services. This will be achieved by a) development and design libraries that will provide security enforcement mechanisms, data privacy restrictions, monitoring metric collection and resource management; b) enabling continuous orchestration and automatic optimization of portable and dynamic ...
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High sensitivity, portable photonic device for pervasive water quality analysis (WaterSpy)

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

Pervasive and on-line water quality monitoring data is critical for detecting environmental pollution. However, it’s not easy to gather such data, at least not for all contaminants. Currently, water utilities rely heavily on frequent sampling and laboratory analysis in order to acquire this information.For this situation to be improved, portable and high-performance devices for pervasive water qua ...
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Revamping organic farming and its products in the context of climate change mitigation strategies (LIFE+ ORGANIKO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Background Cyprus has adopted EU climate change policy. However, more information regarding different agricultural systems is needed in order to assess their impacts on climate change; in particular, comparative data on organic versus conventional farming, in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, efficient use of materials, and regarding childrenâ ...
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An innovative self-improvement approach for the professional development of early educators

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

Quality in ECEC is gaining an increasingly prominent position on European and national policy agendas. One of the most important characteristics that has been associated with high quality of ECEC provision, is the strengthening of the skills (professional development) of ECEC staff. The problem that the partnership has identified stands in the fact that the training procedures of in-service educat ...
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Interfaces in opto-electronic thin film multilayer devices (INFORM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Development of new materials over the past decade paved the way for organic/hybrid electronics into commercial applications. Now, perfection of material interfaces in organic/hybrid thin-film devices is key to drive the technology further and enable new, more advanced applications. INFORM offers a paradigm shift from focusing on materials to focusing on devices by probing, modelling and controllin ...
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Redesigning educational curricula and digitally-afforded collaborations to promote multimodal learning experiences

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

In “The digital world in 2030: what place for Europe,” the European Internet Foundation: Political Leadership for Network Society, and the European e-Competence Framework, which is a component of the European Union’s strategy for the development of e-Skills in the 21st century, there is an explicit call to educators to address through their curricula the growing imperative for the development of e ...
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Bringing together Research and Industry for the Development of Glider Environmental Services (BRIDGES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

BRIDGES (Bringing together Research and Industry for the Development of Glider Environmental Services) will provide a necessary tool for further understanding, improved monitoring, and responsible exploitation of the marine environment while assuring its long-term preservation. This new tool, a robust, cost-effective, re-locatable, versatile and easily-deployed ocean glider, will support autonomo ...
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An innovative toolkit for inclusive decision making policies

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

There is a lot of evidence to support the claim that disadvantaged groups tend to have lower educational attainment, lower participation in early childhood education and lower performance in international assessments. The project iDecide proposes an innovative, forward-looking project, with the aim to support policy makers, school leaders and educators on how to develop inclusive policies and prac ...
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Stimulating scientific excellence through twinning in the quest for sustainable energy (TwinPV) (TwinPV)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

TwinPV aims to achieve enhancement of the research field of photovoltaics (PV) and grid integration in smart grids at the University of Cyprus (UCY) through linking effectively with the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).The objectives, which are directly-related to the defined field, are:to increase the research and innovation (R&I) output of UCY, ...
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Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Children’s health affects the future of Europe – children are citizens, future workers, parents and carers. Children are dependent on society to provide effective health services (UN Convention on the Rights of the Child). Models of child primary health care vary widely across Europe based on two broad alternatives (primary care paediatricians or generic family doctors), and a variety of models of ...
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European quality COurse system for Renewable Energy Development

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

The increasing of the use of fossil fuels to meet growing Vietnamese energy demand (by 10% per year) goes against the need to prevent dangerous climate change. Renewable Energy Systems (RES) are a key solution. Vietnamese HEIs aren't offering a training program specialized on RES in both undergraduate and graduate level and their main goal is to become leading universities, looking forward to stan ...
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Smart Control Systems for Energy Management: New Master Degree

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

The Middle East countries are going through a period of change where governments are forced to address the need for greater access to economic opportunity. With a challenging economic environment and a growing social demand, governments believe that subsidy reform especially in energy and food might help reconcile social protection and secure fiscal positions. With almost $17 billion spending ever ...
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Promotion of Innovation Culture in the Higher Education in Jordan

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

INVENT project responds to one of Jordan’s priorities in promoting innovation and R&D to boost economy. It responds to the need for a professional profile able to work with an interdisciplinary approach that integrates knowledge and expertise in R&D on one hand, and in innovation-driven business on the other hand. The basic results of the project activities are the establishment of Centers for tr ...
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European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development Plus Plus (ECHORD Plus Plus)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Description ECHORD++ will create new opportunities for European robotics researchers to work directly with SME/start-ups and new users/customers to create innovative products. ECHORD++ will continue ECHORD’s two pillars, “experiments” and “structured dialogue”, taking advantage of experience and investment in the infrastructure. In addition, ...
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Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe 2020 (OpenAIRE2020)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

OpenAIRE2020 represents a pivotal phase in the long-term effort to implement and strengthen the impact of the Open Access (OA) policies of the European Commission (EC), building on the achievements of the OpenAIRE projects. OpenAIRE2020 will expand and leverage its focus from (1) the agents and resources of scholarly communication to workflows and processes, (2) from publications to data, software ...
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Geometric Reconstruction And noVel semantIc reunificaTion of culturAl heriTage objEcts (GRAVITATE)

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

... of 3-D objects, semantic analysis and ICT integration. The project is driven by the needs of the archaeological institutes, exemplified by a pertinent use case, the Salamis collection shared between Cyprus and the British Museum. Expertise in 3-D scanning from previous project experience enables the partners to embark on a programme of geometrical feature extraction and matching on the one hand, ...
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A panEuropean framework for strengthening Critical Infrastructure resilience to climate change (EU-CIRCLE)

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

It is presently acknowledged and scientifically proven than climate related hazards have the potential to substantially affect the lifespan and effectiveness or even destroy of European Critical Infrastructures (CI), particularly the energy, transportation sectors, buildings, marine and water management infrastructure with devastating impacts in EU appraising the social and economic losses. The ma ...
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EUropean test bed for the maritime Common Information Sharing Environment in the 2020 perspective (EU CISE 2020)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

EU CISE 2020 is an important step towards the accomplishment of the European roadmap for CISE; the project attains the widest possible experimental environment of innovative and collaborative processes between European maritime institutions.EU CISE 2020 takes as reference a broad spectrum of factors in the field of European Integrated Maritime Surveillance, arising from the European legal framewor ...
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Innovation Ecosystems for VET

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The challenges and opportunities of globalisation and technological development have led to a strengthened emphasis on innovation as a key driver for sustainable economic development. Innovation is essential for the growth of modern societies and it is also central to achieving economic and social development. While innovation is generally recognized as critical to the continuous improvement of ed ...
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A Toolkit for Developing, Implementing and Monitoring Adult Education Strategies

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth acknowledges lifelong learning and skills development as key elements in response to the current economic crisis, to demographic ageing and to the broader economic and social strategy of the EU. The crisis has highlighted the major role which adult learning can play in achieving the Europe 2020 goals, by enabling adults - in part ...
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Training health care teams in intercultural communication and patient safety

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...ication, Working in multicultural teams and Patient safety. Partners from five European countries, Universities (Middlesex University of London, UK , University College Lillebaelt, Denmark, Cyprus University of Technology, Nursing School Edunet, Romania and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Italy bring relevant and complementary skills and human resources to create an innovative Eu ...
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Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research & Innovation Gateway (MED-SPRING)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

The main aim of the Project is to contribute to the quality of the Euro-Mediterranean research area, with a particular focus on the bi-regional Euro-Mediterranean S&T cooperation, research & innovation, policy dialogue and cooperation monitoring. The proposal aims at tackling the key issues and policy objectives outlined in the Work Programme by creating a dialogue and coordination platform of gov ...
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To promote and enable the long term conservation of High Nature Value Farmlands in Cyprus (AgroLIFE)

Start date: Jun 2, 2014, End date: Jun 1, 2017,

...n the concept of high nature value farming (HNVF). In the Mediterranean in particular, HNVF includes some of the most traditional agricultural crops such as cork oaks, olives, carob and vineyards. In Cyprus, carob groves and vineyards are among the crops that are inextricably linked with the economic and cultural character of the island. At the same time these crop systems, when farmed at low-inte ...
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IMproving Preparedness and Response of HEalth Services in major criseS (IMPRESS)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

There exists a huge variety in the occurrence and characteristics of major incidents. Incident management stakeholders and in particular emergency health service providers have to deal with two basic challenges: The disproportion between the needs and the available human/material resources in the response capacity and the inherent time constraints of an emergency. These critical factors play a sem ...
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iSocial: Decentralized Online Social Networks (ISOCIAL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The rapid proliferation of Online Social Networking (OSN) sites, like Facebook and MySpace, is expected to reshape the Internet’s structure, design, and utility. Industry experts believe that OSNs create a potentially transformational change in consumer behavior and will bring a far-reaching impact on traditional industries of content, media, and communications. Nevertheless, at a European level, ...
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Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe (ARIADNE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

ARIADNE is a proposal to bring together and integrate the existing archaeological research data infrastructures so that researchers can use the various distributed datasets and new and powerful technologies as an integral component of the archaeological research methodology. There is now a large availability of archaeological digital datasets that altogether span different periods, domains and reg ...
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Spaces of possibility for the creative re-use of Europeana's content (Europeana Space)

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

The objective of Europeana Space is to increase and enhance the creative industries' use of Europeana by delivering a range of resources to support their engagement. The use of Europeana by the creative industries is still limited by factors including issues around the IPR status of content and the need for business models demonstrating the potential for exploitation of available content. In addr ...
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Miraculous-Life for Elderly Independent Living (Miraculous-Life)

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

Description The main aim of the project is to design, develop and evaluate an innovative user-centric technological solution, the Virtual Support Partner (VSP), attending to the elder (65+) daily activity and safety needs, while the elder goes about his normal daily life. At the heart of the project is an avatar interface: an electronic and ...
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New Generation of orthopaedic Biomaterials (NEWBIOGEN)

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

Biomaterials industry and especially the orthopaedics sector represent a large market globally with growth rates of 7-15%. Unfortunately current biomaterials are not optimal and cause pain and distress to a large number of patients. Particularly their life cycle is very small compared to the average starting age of musculoskeletal disorders. The raw materials used can cause neurological problems a ...
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Sustainable management of livestock waste for the removal/recovery of nutrients (LIFE LIVE-WASTE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...nure management practices or biogas collection. Biogas production from anaerobic digestion of animal manure and slurries is an effective way of reducing GHG emissions. Livestock waste management in Cyprus is particularly important since several piggeries, poultry and other livestock farms are in operation. However, management practices are inadequate and uncontrolled waste disposal is common. Th ...
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Strengthening the nurses and health care professionals’ capacity to deliver culturally competent and compassionate care

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

... for knowledge share and co-creation of knowledge. Institutions from seven countries will participate in this project: a) Middlesex University London, UK (co-ordinator), b) Edunet, Romania, c)Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus, d) Marmara University Pendik Research and Training Hospital, e) Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Italy, f) University College Lillebaelt, Denmark, g) Universi ...
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Student innovation labs - a way to sustainable and socially responsible growth

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

...forms which address sustainable and social issues in society, such as in the Netherlands, and Denmark. The other partners who represent countries with lower innovation capacities (Latvia, Estonia and Cyprus) want to learn from this experience, test the approaches and establish similar labs in their countries, making long-term, interesting and innovative projects and businesses which are sustainabl ...
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ALTernative to Indium Tin Oxide materials for sustainable growth of displays, solar and automobile industries (ALTITUDE)

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

The electronics/displays and photovoltaic (PV) sectors are massively growing industries with sales worth > €3 trillion and €100 billion, respectively. Of strategic importance, they are major contributors to EU GDP. Despite their many positive impacts, these industries face threats of: (i) sustainability of growth in terms of raw materials, energy and environment and (ii) competitive threat from As ...
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Building Enterprises – Wireless and Internet Security in European Regions (BE WISER)

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

Be Wiser examines organisation and technical research challenges in some of Europe’s best known RTD regions. The technology focus is on wireless internet security; while the organisational challenge is to more effectively utilise Triple Helix clusters in regional innovation processes. This approach will strengthen Europe’s position in wireless rollout and address the challenges set out in the Digi ...
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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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KIOS Research Center of Excellence for Intelligent Systems and Networks (KIOS)

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

...ng basic and applied research and innovation in the area of intelligent monitoring, management and security of critical infrastructure systems. The proposal is a team effort between the University of Cyprus and Imperial College London. The technical focus of the proposed Center of Excellence is a key technological area of significant growth potential. The strong background and individual experienc ...
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Improving skills for Smartfarming as an innovative tool for rural development and economic growth

End date: Apr 21, 2016,

...titive advantages comparing to other bio-products.The SmartFarmer project aimed to improve the skills and competences of people in the agricultural sector by introducing a training programme in Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Spain and Portugal while at the same time encouraging rural development in project countries in particular and Europe in general. The project was based on the transfer of the results ...
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