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Ensuring the Integrity of the European food chain (FOODINTEGRITY)

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

Food Integrity “the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished or in perfect condition”.Providing assurance to consumers and other stakeholders about the safety, authenticity and quality of European food (integrity) is of prime importance in adding value to the European Agri-food economy. The integrity of European foods is under constant threat from fraudulently labelled imitations that try to ...
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Operational Potential of Ecosystem Research Applications (OPERAs)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Human use and exploitation of the biosphere is increasing at such a pace and scale that the sustainability of major ecosystems is threatened, and may not be able to continue to function in ways that are vital to the existence of humanity. Re-framing environmental resource use has led to the emergence of the concepts of ecosystem services (ES) and natural capital (NC). This discourse indicates not ...
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PERsonalised ICT Supported Service for Independent Living and Active Ageing (PERSSILAA)

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

Description PERSSILAA (PERsonalised ICT Supported Service for Independent Living and Active Ageing) aims at the development and validation of a new service model that addresses frailty in community dwelling for older adults. PERSSILAA's main focus is to:•          develop remote service modules for screening, monitoring and training. •       ...
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Flexible and on-demand manufacturing of customised spectacles by close-to-optician production clusters (OPTICIAN2020)

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

Optician2020 will develop distributed manufacturing assets in mini-factories clustered in urban areas combining short series manufacturing technologies and ICT tools for design, process automation and on-line real time delivery management of personalised spectacles, a fashionable product combining health prescription, functional performance and aesthetical requirements. The key enabling technologi ...
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INvasive SPecies Evaluation, ConTrol & EDucation.NETwork (INSPECTED.NET)

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

Climate change, soil degradation and the need of alternative energy sources are main challenges at the beginning of the 21st century. Exotic plant species are introduced on purpose for wood production, CO2 sequestration and soil amelioration. Some of these exotics spread out without control and are able to facilitate their invasion into native ecosystems by altering habitat properties. These so-ca ...
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DEvelopment of a System of Indicators for a Resource efficient Europe (DESIRE) (DESIRE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"DESIRE will develop and apply an optimal set of indicators to monitor European progress towards resource-efficiency. We propose a combination of time series of environmentally extended input output data (EE IO) and the DPSIR framework to construct the indicator set. Only this approach will use a single data set that allows for consistent construction of resource efficiency indicators capturing th ...
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Transboundary Water Basin Management (TransBasin)

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

In many parts of the world water resources traverse political boundaries. The sustainable management of these transboundary water resources by necessity requires regional cooperation among riparian states. Coupled with physical water scarcity is increasing demand for water by growing populations and expanding economic sectors. In regions in which political relations are fragile, these tensions can ...
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Multimodal Novel Technique for Breast Cancer Detection and Classification Combining PEM with UWB (BREASTCANCERDETECT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer and the 5th leading cause of death amongst women in developed countries as of 2004, according to the World Health Organisation. X-Ray mammography is the defacto imaging examination used for diagnosis; however there are well-known limitations in terms of sensitivity and specificity, especially in dense breasts common in younger women. This leads to wo ...
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Model Theory and Algebraic Analysis (MODALAN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

"The researcher Dr. Luca Prelli will carry out the interdisciplinary project""MODALAN"": Model Theory and Algebraic Analysis at the University of Lisbon,Portugal. At the host institution there is a scientific expertise that suits theresearcher's needs excellently since it houses young and activeresearchers in model theory plus it is home to some of the best specialists inalgebraic analysis. A con ...
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Enhanced Technology for Open Intelligent Learning Environments (EtoileCascadesIdeas)

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

Complex systems science is highly interdisciplinary. The silo-based education provided by most universities creates scientists expert in one discipline but ignorant of most others. Most PhD programmes require students to learn key ideas from other disciplines relevant to their topic, but knowledge across the community is patchy. This includes basic social science and even the core disciplines of ...
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Role of enzymatic activity in lichen tolerance under nitrogen excess (REAL TUNE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

"Reactive forms of nitrogen (N) from anthropogenic sources led to a doubling of the available N pool worldwide, with harmful consequences for human health and the environment.The solution of the N problem can only comes from an integrated approach, both in relation to the assessment of the biogeochemical and ecological interactions, and in relations to emissions abatement strategies. In this chall ...
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