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Navigating the Roadmap for Clean, Secure and Efficient Energy Innovation (SET-Nav)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

SET-Nav will support strategic decision making in Europe’s energy sector, enhancing innovation towards a clean, secure and efficient energy system. Our research will enable the EC, national governments and regulators to facilitate the development of optimal technology portfolios by market actors. We will comprehensively address critical uncertainties and derive appropriate policy and market respon ...
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Realising Value from Electricity Markets with Local Smart Electric Thermal Storage Technology (RealValue)

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

RealValue aims to demonstrate how local small-scale energy storage, optimised with advanced ICT, could bring benefits to market participants throughout the EU. Smart Electric Thermal Storage (SETS) will be deployed in physical demonstration trials in 1250 homes in Germany, Latvia and Ireland but the analysis will also consider other storage technologies and energy vectors, including integration wi ...
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Peers in ECEC centres: who are they and do they matter? An empirical analysis on ECEC group composition, its drivers and its effects (PEARLE)

Start date: May 16, 2016, End date: May 15, 2018,

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) services are increasingly seen as holding the promise of promoting more equal life chances for children by supporting their development and encouraging parental employment. Research shows that ECEC can fulfil such potential, as long as provision is of high quality and reaches the most disadvantaged children. Yet there is ample evidence that disadvantaged c ...
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Carbon emission mitigation by Consumption-based Accounting and Policy (CARBON CAP)

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

Climate change mitigation now focus on production, where upward drivers of GHG emissions come from consumption. Demand side oriented policies hence can complement domestic GHG reduction efforts. The core aim of this project is to1. Stimulate innovative demand side oriented climate policies by improved shared insight in consumption emissions.2. Realize a more effective policy mix for achieving the ...
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Smart Public Intangibles (SPINTAN)

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

The SPINTAN project aims at discovering the theoretical and empirical underpins of public intangible policies. It widens previous work carried out by Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2005, 2009) including the public sector in their analytical framework in different complementary directions that can be summarized in the following three objectives: (1) to build a public intangible database for a wide set ...
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Investors' expectations: Measuring their nature and effect (InvExpectations)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The funded research investigates the role of expectations in financial decisions by asking two separate empirical questions. First, what systematic patterns appear in the expectations that the investor holds about relevant random variables? Second, can we establish that her expectations play a causal role for choices? The main tool in addressing these questions is the collection of data from labo ...
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Employment 2025: How will multiple transitions affect the European labour market (NEUJOBS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The objective of NEUJOBS is to imagine future, or rather various possible futures, under the conditions of the socioecological transition (and incorporating other key influences), map the implications for employment overall, but also in key sectors and relevant groups and integrate all of this together under a single intellectual framework. It will do so by combining EU-wide studies based on exist ...
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Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC)

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

Mass violent conflict affects millions of individuals and households in developing countries. The EU attempts to advance a coordinated approach to end these conflicts and to mitigate the negative effects for survivors. Nevertheless, a clear challenge is that 40% of violent conflicts reignite within 10 years of ending. As outlined in the Commission’s “Instrument for Stability Strategy Paper 2007-20 ...
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Regulated Expansion of Electricity Transmission Networks: the Effects of Fluctuating Demand and RES Generation (RES Grid Integration)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

Various electricity systems around the world are currently facing a major challenge on the way to sustainable energy systems: the integration of large amounts of renewable energy sources (RES) into the electricity network. In particular, the European Union (EU) is currently undergoing a transformation of its energy system towards a sustainable and highly renewable-based system. Together with an im ...
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Growth And Sustainability Policies for Europe (GRASP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"Growth And Sustainability Policies for Europe (GRASP) addresses European policy concerns associated with growth within a comprehensive yet coherent analytical framework. This framework is built on Aghion’s version of the Schumpeterian growth approach. It emphasizes quality-improving innovation in imperfectly competitive markets, but suggests optimal growth policy may depend as well on levels of t ...
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Indicators for evaluating international performance in service sectors (INDICSER)

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

"The objective of the INDICSER project is to develop indicators which provide information on the performance of service sectors in the EU. At the heart of the project are concerns that such indicators should be valid in terms of concepts, measurement methods and feasibility but should also have value in terms of their usefulness for policy. Therefore the approach adopted is to include both an EU-w ...
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Assessing Needs of Care In European Nations (ANCIEN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"The large post-war baby boom is now turning into a grandparent boom, putting a triple stress on long-term care (LTC) provisions: increased numbers of elderly, increased survival of these elderly and increased survival of frail, disabled elderly through improved care and health care. Increasing body weights, through increasing disability and care dependence among the obese, further add to numbers ...
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A New Agenda for European Security Economics (EUSECON)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"EUSECON analyses the newly emerging field of European security economics by identifying the nature and scope of this research field, by bringing together the leading European research players in this field and by building new analytical and conceptual insights on the most pressing research needs in this field. By implementing these research activities, EUSECON will establish an operational networ ...
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Intangible Capital and Innovations: Drivers of Growth and Location in the EU (INNODRIVE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

"It is widely recognised that intellectual assets are major determinants of the generation of innovation and thus in the enhancement of growth, employment and competitiveness of the EU. The importance of R&D and innovation is also explicitly acknowledged in the “Lisbon process”. However, our knowledge of the contribution of intangibles to economic performance is still incomplete. While firms undou ...
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Intangible Assets and Regional Economic Growth (IAREG)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

"The objective of IAREG is to analyse the role played by intangible assets (IA) in the generation of innovation, competitiveness and consequently economic growth and increases in productivity at regional level with a special emphasis on the geographical space in which such processes occur. The specific objectives of the project will be: To develop new indicators for improving the measuring of som ...
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"Financial systems, efficiency and stimulation of sustainable growth" (FINESS)

Start date: Feb 15, 2008, End date: May 14, 2010,

"The main purpose of FINESS is to get a clear understanding of the implications of ongoing financial market integration in Europe on economic growth, employment and competitiveness, to identify likely future paths of the development and to draw policy relevant conclusions. Several main breakthroughs will be achieved throughout the project. On the macroeconomic level, the role of financial systems ...
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