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Synthetic biology – Engaging with New and Emerging Science and Technology in Responsible Governance of the Science and Society Relationship (SYN-ENERGENE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Synthetic biology (SynBio) offers huge potential for applications in energy, health and the environment. It also brings with it various challenges such as regulatory issues of biosafety, biosecurity and intellectual property rights, as well as potential environmental and socio-economic risks in developing countries. As yet, however, there is scant public knowledge about the technology. It is thus ...
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RRI TOOLS, a project to foster Responsible Research and Innovation for society, with society (RRI TOOLS)

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

This project will develop and use a Training and Dissemination Toolkit on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). It will be addressed and designed by all the stakeholders of the Research and Innovation (RI) chain of value, including Researchers, Civil Society, Industry and Education but will specially focus on Policy Makers in order to impact significantly in the future governance of RI.The Co ...
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Thematic Network Innovation for age-friendly environments in the European Union (AFE-INNOVNET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

The overarching goal of AFE-INNOVNET is to set up a large EU wide community of local and regional authorities (LRAs) and other relevant stakeholders who want to work together to find smart and innovative evidence based solutions to support active and healthy ageing and develop age-friendly environments (AFE).Many innovative solutions supporting active and healthy ageing have been developed as pilo ...
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MultidomaiN plAtform for iNtegrated MOre-tHan-MoorE/Beyond CMOS systems charActerisation & diagnosTics (NANOHEAT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Description Develop, deliver and validate a miniaturized and integrated platform for advanced thermal, electrical and chemical analysis at the nanoscale.The principle goal of the NANOHEAT project is to develop, deliver and validate a miniaturized and integrated platform which provides a multidimensional nanoprobing platform for advanced t ...
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Sea For Society (SFS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Sea for Society (SFS) has brought together a multidisciplinary partnership of 21 partners from 11 countries representing marine research institutes, funding agencies, science museums and aquaria, CSO’s, NGO’s, higher education institutes, business networks, to implement a MMLAP to address Specific Challenge 3: Marine Resources, inland activities & sustainable development. SFS will mobilise researc ...
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KiiCS - Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science (KiiCS)

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

KiiCS – Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science – stems from the belief that territoriality nourishes creativity and that local strengths and assets in relation to innovation and creativity should be mobilized to strengthen interactions potential across sectors and disciplines. The aim is to break silos between disciplines and business sectors. KiiCS is a project to experiment ...
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FI-WARE: Future Internet Core Platform (FI-WARE)

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

The goal of the FI-WARE project is to advance the global competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing an innovative infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, providing high QoS and security guarantees. FI-WARE is designed to meet the demands of key market stakeholders across many different sectors, e.g., healthcare, telecommunications, and environmental services. FI- ...
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Towards inclusive research programming for sustainable food innovations (INPROFOOD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

Over the past decade, most EU Member States have identified food and health as key priorities. This is in response to increases in obesity and diet-related chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases amongst their populations. Also an insufficient nutrient supply in subgroups of the populations and special demands in ageing societies are identified as abiding challenges. Attempts ...
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brEaking New Ground IN the sciencE Education Realm (ENGINEER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

ENGINEER will support the widespread adoption in Europe of innovative methods of science teaching and provide extensive teacher training on inquiry-based methods. It will be based on the proven “Engineering is Elementary” (EiE) program developed by Boston’s Museum of Science (BMOS) since 2003-04 and now widely used in primary schools throughout the U.S. Evaluations of EiE have found that incorpora ...
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VOICES

Start date: Jan 16, 2013, End date: Jul 15, 2014,

"VOICES is a Europe-wide public consultation process in the area of urban waste to pilot a methodology and process to involve European citizens in the definition of research priorities.The Ecsite network will host 99 focus groups, involving a total of 990 citizens in all European countries to provide ideas, values, needs and expectations about the theme “Urban waste and innovation”. The results of ...
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Platform of Local Authorities and Cities Engaged in Science (PLACES)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

PLACES Networks partners are developing a common platform for a wide and diverse community of actors to promote the cooperation in their science communication activities, at city/regional level. Over four years, 67 science communication institutions (science centres, museum, festivals) are supported to work with their local authority administrators and policy makers to plan and implement their lon ...
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Towards Women In Science and Technology (TWIST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The gender dimension of research implicates that the share of women in research is extremely low in all European countries and associated countries. Throughout Europe there is a fear that interest in science and technology is declining, at the same time as demands for science and technology graduates grows. The TWIST project will address this challenge with an ambitious programme of coordinated ac ...
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A European gateway to the science and research of health, through online and offline innovative activities aimed at citizens, patients, pupils and teachers (Xplore Health)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Xplore Health is a joint initiative to build and promote an online and offline interactive environment – with multimedia tools and attending activities – that will nurture active engagement of society with state-of-the-art science and research around health and its wider ethical, legal and social aspects (ELSA) by facilitating an effective dissemination of attractive, accessible and rigorous resou ...
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Real Researchers for Real meetings (RRRM)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

"Promoting cross and complementary projects, Real Researchers for Real meetings (RRRM) part of a dynamic coaching and preparation of meetings between researchers and the public at the European event of 23 September 2011 favoring atmosphere of conviviality and exhange.11 partners, including universities, science centers, associations, located throughout the country, from East to West, from North to ...
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Nanosciences Live in Science Centres and Museums (NANOTOTOUCH)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

"The NANOTOTOUCH proposal aims to create innovative environments for the broad public to learn about and to discuss nano research by directly involving the actors of research themselves. We propose to do this by taking the laboratory environment and the research work out of enclosed academic campuses and relocating them right in the midst of the public in science museums and science centres. Three ...
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TIME for Nano - Tools to Increase Mass Engagement for Nanotechnology (TIME for Nano)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

The TIME for Nano Project aims at engaging the general public, with a special attention to young people, on benefits and risks related to nanoscale research, engineering and technology, through specific informal education products, namely the nano-kit and the organisation of a web contest each year that will be the basis for the realisation of events and debates for the public and collecting opini ...
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"Action on Climate Change through Engagement, Networks and Tools" (ACCENT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

"Fifteen relevant organisations among science centres, science museums and aquariums will be engaged by this proposal ACCENT in a coordination action aimed at rationalising their two-way communication practices and at strengthening their collaborations with the scientific community on climate change issues. Climate change issues are clearly a growing concern for the public today. In recent years, ...
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Facilitators' Units Network for Debates (FUND)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

"FUND is a platform to enable active players in the cities to network and create opportunities for dialogue and engagement with science. We propose to create an online, open source support system to combine the willingness of the local actors to engage in dialogue and participatory activities with training, best practice and a knowledge transfer desk. Information, guidelines, materials, direct co ...
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Researchers and Citizens Night (RaCEN)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2009,

RaCeN results on the work develop between 12 French partners that for the second time work on only one project to have a bigger impact on the public. It is not only an event, is a preparation, discussion with all partners before the venue, and it is an observation, an analysis of the different proposition after the 25th September. The aim is to offer large public and researchers an unique opportun ...
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European French Resarcher's Night 2008 (EFReNi)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2008,

For the fourth year of the European demonstration the Night of the Researchers, 13 French partners met to propose projects having to bring the citizen and the researcher to be met.
The diversity of the operators will offer to the visitors a diversity of proposal, participant in a discovery of this individual who is the researcher. We will find ourselves in the cities like Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Bes ...
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