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Probing safety of nano-objects by defining immune responses of environmental organisms (PANDORA)

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

PANDORA (Probing safety of nano-objects by defining immune responses of environmental organisms) shall assess the global impact of engineered nanoparticles (NP) on the immune responses of representative organisms covering all evolutionary stages and hierarchical levels from plants to invertebrates and vertebrates. Immunity is a major determinant of the survival and fitness of all living organisms, ...
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European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia Consortium (EPAD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background:The secondary prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) is achievable if we can identify individuals at risk of disease progression defined by biomarker evidence of AD pathology and no or only minimal clinical symptoms and engage them in a standing adaptive clinical trial, of the highest quality, testing multiple interventions. To achieve this, EPAD will also provide the analytical infras ...
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Changing Energy Efficiency Technology Adoption in Households (CHEETAH)

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

Modelling analyses typically suggest that policies accelerating the adoption of energy-efficient technologies (EETs) by overcoming barriers to energy efficiency in the residential sector provide benefits for individual households, the energy system and for society as a whole. Yet, implicit discount rates, employed to reflect households’ decision criteria and response to policy, are disputed in pol ...
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Unlocking European grid local flexibility trough augmented energy conversion capabilities at district-level (PENTAGON)

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

Pentagon is a 3-years research and innovation project that will investigate the potential of wider deployment of energy conversion technologies and strategies at district-level, with the aim to foster flexibility in the low-voltage and medium-voltage grid. The rationale that underlies Pentagon approach is that multi-vector smart districts can be the key enablers of future smart grids, provided the ...
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Culture of Learning

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

The world is changing rapidly and becoming increasingly globalised. Our young people will be facing a very different employment market in the next 10-20 years. Employment opportunities will change as the use of digital skills increases with rapid developments in technology.Our project is based on the evidence that although students are overall improving their results in external tests, when stu ...
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Challenging Extremism

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

...s Europe to inform and contribute to this complex issue. Although we are including partners from only 3 countries they are linking to ELAN the European Local Authority Network established by Cardiff Council in 2015. Partners from this network will join partners in this project in a series of planned events thus broadening access to wider base of expertise. The first planned project meeting will ...
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Raising Achievement Together - a vision for European schools

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

Through this project we aim to discover why STEM subjects are so unattractive to young learners in schools and beyond, particularly amongst girls. We want to investigate primary and secondary practices with a view to radically changing practices in all regions. To achieve this we have set the following objectives:-Design and develop STEM activities that are both innovative and motivational-Utili ...
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Authentication and Authorisation For Research and Collaboration (AARC2)

Start date: May 1, 2017, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The goal of AARC2 is to design an AAI framework to develop interoperable AAI, to enable researchers to access the whole research and infrastructure service portfolio with one login. AARC2's objectives are:1. enable federated access in research communities participating in AARC22. assist research communities to map their requirements to concrete service offerings3. support research (e-)infrastructu ...
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Environmental Research Infrastructures Providing Shared Solutions for Science and Society (ENVRI PLUS)

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

ENVRIPLUS is a cluster of research infrastructures (RIs) for Environmental and Earth System sciences, built around ESFRI roadmap and associating leading e-infrastructures and Integrating Activities together with technical specialist partners. ENVRIPLUS is driven by 3 overarching goals: 1) favoring cross-fertilization between infrastructures, 2) implementing innovative concepts and devices across R ...
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Learning and Teaching Together

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

The partner local authorities aim to take an innovative strategic view to reinforce our education systems and to improve collaboration internally as well as with parents and other external stakeholders. At systemic level, we expect to awaken a modernisation of education. Through this project we will engage and widen the school community and reinforce our response to the main challenges of to ...
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Innovation through Creative Arts

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

In too many projects based on creative arts specialists go into schools, carry out a body of work and then leave without any permanent changes to the curriculum nor the up-skilling of teachers and development of teacher competences. This project aims to provide participating schools with the training and support needed to effect changes to curriculum delivery.We intend to put young people at the ...
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Top of the League

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

PISA surveys show the performance of young learners in Wales in national qualifications demonstrates that Welsh pupils lag behind in science, maths and reading. Wales also fell behind the rest of the UK. This has been the thrust behind the decision by the Welsh Government decision to radically overhaul the entire curriculum and this project aims to investigate why our European partners perform b ...
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Additional Learning Needs in Europe

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

This project will be specifically carried out by members of the SWASSH (South Wales Association of Special School Headteachers) Group. This group is working together with the Welsh Government to develop a curriculum that is innovative and inspirational but fit for purpose in the context of an Additional Needs School. We anticipate that this project is an opportunity for senior leaders and class ...
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ELAN - a vision for European Cooperation

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

...rs’ competences in order that they might directly contribute to the improvement of life chances and raising achievement by all pupils. The European Local Authority Nework (ELAN) established by Cardiff Council with partners across Europe has collaboratively produced a suite of courses to share with professionals in their respective regions. The 4 identified courses for teaching staff in Wales ar ...
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Meeting our Global Futures

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

...an country of each individual language to maximise the cultural experience and, where possible, allow for visits to schools in the host country. The European Local Authority Network established by Cardiff Council is making these school visits possible and they will be incorporated wherever feasible encouraging a wider network of cooperation between schools. Following an extensive consultation p ...
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Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 (HBP SGA1)

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

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an understanding can provide profound insights into our humanity, leading to fundamentally new computing technologies, and transforming the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders. Modern ICT brings this prospect within reach. The HBP Flagship Initiative (HBP) thus proposes a unique strategy that uses I ...
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Managing Aquatic ecosystems and water Resources under multiple Stress (MARS)

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

"MARS will support managers and policy makers in the practical implementation of the WFD, of related legislation and of the Blueprint to Safeguard Europe’s Water Resources by conducting new research and synthesising existing knowledge concerning effects and management of multiple stressors in surface water and groundwater bodies; by advising the 3rd RMBP cycle and the revision of the WFD; and by d ...
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M4ShaleGas: Measuring, monitoring, mitigating managing the environmental impact of shale gas (M4ShaleGas)

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

The accelerated development of shale gas is accompanied by growing public concern regarding the safety of shale gas extraction and its impact on human health and the environment. For the US, shale gas exploitation proved very successful in changing the energy landscape in terms of security of domestic supply and increased contribution of gas in the energy mix. For Europe, shale gas exploitation co ...
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Portable, Exhaustive, Reliable, Flexible and Optimized appRoach to Monitoring and Evaluation of building eneRgy performance (PERFORMER)

Start date: Sep 2, 2013, End date: Sep 1, 2017,

"The aim of the Performer project is to devise a holistic (total lifecycle,multi-aspects, context-based) building energy monitoring methodology that factors in appropriate energy performance indicators, information models, and simulation tools, to achieve building energy performance targets. The project energy performance simulation and monitoring aspects will rely on an ICT infrastructure that wi ...
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Behavioural Response to Investment Risks in Energy Efficiency (BRISKEE)

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

Investments in energy efficiency in the residential sector (27% of EU final energy demand) may also provide economic benefits at different levels of the economy. These benefits may not be realized because of barriers, which are typically reflected in implied discount rates. BRISKEE (Behavioural Response to Investment Risks in Energy Efficiency) provides evidence-based input to energy efficiency po ...
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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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Inspiring Outdoor Learning - a vision for Schools in South Wales

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

This 2 year ambitious project is the first of its kind to be run across our regions. 15 Schools across 6 local authorities will come together to reach a common goal, improving the quality of teaching methodologies when delivering the Forest Schools programme in Wales. With a focus on ethos, teacher competences and inspirational delivery of cross-curricular subjects including Literacy and Numerac ...
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Water analytics and Intelligent Sensing for Demand Optimised Management (WISDOM)

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

...n a full-scale experimental facility in France (AQUASIM) before being finally installed, monitored and evaluated in two pilot projects (including residential and non residential buildings) in the UK (Cardiff - Wales) and Italy (La Spezia).These demonstrators will be used to assess the societal, environmental and economic benefits of the new integrated concept and also to validate models and techno ...
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Family and Community Engagement in Action

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

Focusing on EU priorities: - improving the attainment of young people, particularly those at risk of early school leaving and with low basic skills - greater understanding and responsiveness to social, linguistic and cultural diversity - more active participation in society - improved competences, linked to their professional profiles (training for the teachers, who work in multicultural classes ...
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coupling REnewable, Storage and ICTs, for Low carbon Intelligent Energy maNagemenT at district level (RESILIENT)

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

Growing investments in distributed energy resources (DER) – renewable distributed energy generation combined with demand response, energy storage, plug-in electric vehicles and active management of distribution networks – will require new business and technology platforms to manage the increased level of diversity and complexity of global energy management. The increasing variability of both gener ...
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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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Far Infra-red Space Intereferometer Critical Assessment: Scientific Definition and Technology Development for the Next Generation THz Space Interferometer (FISICA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

For knowledge to progress in many aspects of astrophysics it is clear that we need to make observations at all wavelengths that at least match the spatial resolution achieved in the optical by the Hubble Space Telescope.This is especially true in the Far Infra-Red waveband (FIR - 30-300 micron - where our atmosphere is opaque) where the necessity of space borne experiments combined with long wavel ...
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AT.BRAND (ATBRAND)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

AT.Brand focuses on innovation and management in integrated city branding. Looking beyond individual city branding, it will also explore the feasibility of a long-term strategy to co-brand the Atlantic area, building on recent developments in the Nordic countries and the Baltic Sea region. It will capitalize on best practice developments in place branding as well as and learning from past initiati ...
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Supporting Public Service Innovation using Design in European Regions (SPIDER)

Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

SPIDER aims to deliver innovation in public services by putting citizens at the heart of the development process using service design. Service design is above all a problem-solving process that places the user at the centre of the methodology. By engaging both service users and service providers in developing and testing solutions. the new services are citizen-focused. desirable to use and inclusi ...
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On Our Doorstep

Start date: Jun 19, 2014, End date: May 18, 2015,

North Ely and Stammhiem JH have had a long relationship of working and have provided cultural learning opportunities for over 600 young people in their communities in this time. The project 'On Our Doorstep' was designed after identification from various Health Surveys and Community Consultations, that young people are becoming less active and spending more and more time indoors. We identified dif ...
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Nanoparticle Fate Assessment and Toxicity in the Environment (NanoFATE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Concept: NanoFATE has been conceived to fill knowledge and methodological gaps currently impeding sound assessment of environmental risks posed by engineered nanoparticles (ENPs). Our vision is to assess environmental fate and risk of ENPs from high-volume products for which recycling is not an option; namely; fuel additive, personal care and antibacterial products. Two market ENPs from each produ ...
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Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European seas (HERMIONE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The HERMIONE project is designed to make a major advance in our knowledge of the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems and their contribution to the production of goods and services. This will be achieved through a highly interdisciplinary approach (including biologists, ecologists, microbiologists, biogeochemists, sedimentologists, physical oceanographers, modelers and socio-economists) that will in ...
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Innovative Management for Europes Changing Coastal Resource (IMCORE)

Start date: May 31, 2007, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

Aim: To promote a transnational. innovative and sustainable approach to reducing the Ecological Social and Economic impacts of climate change on the coastal resources of NWE. To achieve: A demonstration of how the innovative expert couplet approach (i.e. collaboration between coastal practitioners and scientists using the principles of sustainability science). can help with the effective implem ...
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Developing Economic Clusters of Cultural and Creative Enterprises in the Innovation Process (ECCE Innovation)

Start date: Jul 31, 2007, End date: Mar 30, 2012,

The aim of the Project is “to foster the innovation capacity of Creative Industries (CI) in order to access new markets”. The creative sector is the most dynamic sector in the economy. It is a key driver of economic and social development and leads to innovation in various other industries and sectors. Turning creative ideas into businesses is the key aim of the project. It will focus on the excha ...
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Building Sustainable Public Services in the Atlantic Arc (AAPUBLICSERV)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Nov 29, 2011,

...nly for tax management, but also as a complete tool for the management of ports in which the collection of taxes is the final stage.The project has also established a contact centre for companies in Cardiff to boost new business collaboration opportunities and promote online their products and services, taking advantage of the ICT tools.Through its results, AAPUBLICSERV contributes towards the red ...
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KNOWLEDGE CITIES (KNOWCITIES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Nov 29, 2011,

The aim of the project is to carry out a methodology to facilitate the access and transition to a knowledge economy, as a way to achieve cooperation on transnational issues related to common urban development as a factor of attraction and marketing in urban Atlantic Cities medium size ...
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Life Watch (LIFEWATCH)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

"The Life Watch e-Science and Technology Infrastructure for biodiversity data and observatories will be a large-scale European research infrastructure bringing together: -a system of marine, terrestrial and freshwater observatories; -common access to a huge amount of interlinked, distributed data from databases and monitoring sites; -computational facilities in virtual laboratories with analytic ...
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Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

The Preparatory Phase for a pan-European Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) will focus on technical, legal, governance, and financial issues to • prepare to construct BBMRI, building on existing biobanks, resources and technologies, specifically complemented with innovative components and properly embedded into European scientific, ethical, legal and societal fra ...
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COREPOINT - Creating a Sustainable Framework for ICZM (COREPOINT)

Start date: Jan 9, 2004, End date: Dec 31, 2007,

All North West European countries share concerns about coastal problems, such as flooding resulting from coastal change. The objective of Corepoint is to establish NW Europe as an internationally recognised region of excellence in coastal management. This goal can only be achieved by co-operating on a transnational basis to build capacity at both a European and local level to implement an integrat ...
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Futures for Regional Development (FUTURREG)

Start date: Jun 30, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Regions and their public authorities can use futures tools to deal with important challenges and trends in an intelligent and strategic way. However, to date, relatively little use has been made of futures tools within regional policy-making. The FUTURREG partnership aims to provide regional authorities with access to these tools and build upon previous successful projects to improve the impact of ...
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