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... 4 non-EU countries combines leading academic, communication, SME and stakeholder organisations to ensure a multi-actor approach. It will undertake case study-based quantitative research to measure economic, environmental and social impacts of FQS, PSFP and SFSC. The impact of PSFP policies on balanced nutrition in schools will also be assessed. Primary research will be complemented by advanced ec ...
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...osic waste constitutes one of the most abundant resources without competing with food chain.REHAP’s 16 partners aim at revalorizing agricultural (wheat straw) and forestry (bark) waste through its recovery, and primary (sugars, lignin, tannins) and secondary (sugar acids, carboxylic acids, aromatics and resins) processing to turn them into novel materials, and considering Green Building as busines ...
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"In ZERO-PLUS, a comprehensive, cost-effective system for Net Zero Energy (NZE) settlements will be developed and implemented. The system will be composed of innovative solutions for the building envelope, for building energy generation and management, and for energy management at the settlement level. A reduction of operational energy usage to an average of 0-20 kWh/m2 per year (compared with the ...
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EcoSwing aims at world's first demonstration of a superconducting low-cost, lightweight drive train on a modern 3.6 MW wind turbine.EcoSwing is quantifiable: The generator weight is reduced by 40% compared to commercial permanent magnet direct-drive generators (PMDD). For the nacelle this means a very significant weight reduction of 25%. Assuming series production, cost reduction for the generator ...
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European Values through European Intelligence

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

...pants will benefit directly from the project results.Main result of the project will be an electronically accessible, multilingual guide book to the European Intelligence (EQ) methodology with recommendations, teaching examples and resources, enabling teaching staff, stakeholders and other learning environments like self-directed learning circles to improve their skills and abilities in European v ...
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Horizons Plus

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

...dults. This will be carried out over 24 mobility flows with an average of 10 learners and 4 accompanying adults per group. Description of project activitiesTwo week work placements will take place at Eco Chateau Training Hotel in the vocational areas of catering, horticulture and construction. The placement itinerary will be jointly designed by course tutors from sending partner organisations and ...
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Empowering Agribusiness Training in Emilia 2

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

...inly not from a closing or defensive point of view, but as GLOCAL RESPONSE to the increasing search for quality. This in order to pursue competitiveness and sustainability, fostering the reconfiguration of production systems and giving more negotiation power to farmers and rural groups.We want to enrich our young learners with innovative skills, to support both exploitation policies and SMEs willi ...
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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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"GREEN SURGE will identify, develop and test ways of connecting green spaces, biodiversity, people and the green economy, in order to meet the major urban challenges related to land use conflicts, climate change adaptation, demographic changes, and human health and wellbeing. It will provide a sound evidence base for green infrastructure planning and implementation, exploring the innovation potent ...
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Fostering access to land for a new generation of agroecological farmers

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Context: Preserving land for local, sustainable agriculture is becoming a growing issue in many parts of Europe. Major results on farmland result from: decline of farmland, mostly due to the pressure of non agricultural uses (urban sprawl, infrastructure...) and increasing land concentration on large, intensive farms, while small-scale farming is disappearing. In parallel, the forthcoming retirem ...
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“E.T.HO.S.” – Empowerment in the Tourism and Hospitality Sector

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

...ionships and environmental promotion and stimulating the historical-cultural dialogue between enterprises and customers. The project also intends to devote interest to the assessment, validation and recognition of learning outcomes in vocational training courses and transfer of skills. The project was born from the collaboration of a large working group that has actively involved the transnational ...
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FRENSE PLUS

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

...ults. This will be carried out over 24 mobility flows with an average of 12 learners and 4 accompanying adults per group. Description of project activities:Two-week work placements will take place at Eco Chateau Training Hotel in the vocational areas of catering, horticulture and construction. The placement itinerary will be jointly designed by course tutors from sending partner organisations and ...
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MObility for Vocational and Educational Training 2.0

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

...ess and labor market. The project develops mobility experiences for 90 students and 36 newly graduated/qualified.The level of territorial cooperation in Reggio Emilia is particularly high and lively, economic categories are really interested in actively participating and cooperating in the Vocational Education and Training sector either in transnational projects; fields that in the present proposa ...
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The project aims to deal with the numerous requirements of facade panel retrofitting by developing a light-weight, durable, cost effective and high performance panel. Its layered structure allows for separate but also synergistic function regarding high thermal and acoustic insulation, excellent mechanical properties, up to standards flame retardancy and photocatalytic activity. Employing nanofill ...
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Frense 2015 - 2017

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

...lts. This will be carried out over 16 mobility flows with an average of 12 learners and 4 accompanying adults per group. Description of project activities Two week work placements will take place at Eco Chateau Training Hotel in the vocational areas of catering, horticulture and construction. The placement itinerary will be jointly designed by course tutors from sending partner organisations and ...
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Empowering Agribusiness Training in Emilia

Start date: Dec 15, 2015, End date: Dec 14, 2016,

...ues and methods of integrated production environment and health friendly. The action of protection and promotion of Reggio Emilia culinary excellences is of strategic importance for the Province. The Economic Development, Agriculture and Promotion of the Territory Department is committed to promote awareness and diffusion of the specialties of our land. The beautiful products of Reggio Emilia agri ...
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Citizen Observatory Web (COBWEB)

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

COBWEB will leverage the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR). Concentrating initially on the Welsh Dyfi Biosphere Reserve, we will develop a citizens’ observatory framework, and then validate the work within the context of the UK National Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and internationally, within the WNBR; specifically, within Greek and German Reserves. The infrastructure we devel ...
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Water Efficiency in European Urban Areas (WE@EU)

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

...t that over 80% of the population is expected to be living in urban areas in EU countries by 2050, pressures on the availability of water, also under the effects of the climate change phenomenon, is becoming a major challenge at European and global level. WE@EU has been conceived to coordinate european innovation in the water efficiency market of products and services through high-levelcooperation ...
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...g process. The current carbon filler materials have high emissions associated with their production processes. This will ultimately lead to a reduction in stockpiling of tyres as they will now become valuable raw materials for the production of these products. It will also offer an alternative to burning end of life tyres to produce tyre-derived fuel. The project aims to design, plan and construc ...
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"Modular construction is used in housing and residential buildings because it is fast to construct and of high quality. This proposal provides the research necessary to extend two types of modular building systems into high-rise building applications where means of providing stability and in some areas, seismic resistance are very important. In addition, the proposal will lead to quantification o ...
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Advanced Cyber Defence Centre (ACDC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

... for controlling cyber security problems, particularly botnets.The proposed pilot addresses the identification, measurement, and analysis of botnets as well as the prevention, detection, mitigation, recovery, and evaluation of their impact. We present an end-to-end approach from detection to protection, manifested as five powerful services, operated by our member states.Service #1, the centralized ...
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GREEN RENOVATION CLUSTER (GREENOV)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The project aims at developing the economic sector of sustainable renovation mainly by stimulating the innovation capacity of SMEs working in this field. The project will contribute to the transition to low-carbon cities and sustainable economy and will improve the knowledge and expertise on sustainable renovation of existing buildings. Partners of this project are key stakeholders involved in ...
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From strategies to activities (Bioenergy Promotion2)

Start date: Sep 28, 2011, End date: Dec 27, 2013,

...Cohesion Funds, • created a dialogue with public and private utility companies with the aim of encouraging them to integrate sustainability principles in their corporate strategies, • provided recommendations and thematic input to relevant transnational organizations and networks in the Baltic Sea Region, such as the Expert Group for Sustainable Development Baltic 21 under the Council of Baltic Se ...
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Mushroom growers are struggling to maintain benefit margins due to the globalization of agricultural markets, the increasing cost of raw materials/utilities and often the use of outdated and inefficient cultivation methods; it is no surprise that fresh mushrooms are often delivered under cost price, as manifested by SME participants. The consortium understands that technological innovation is the ...
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Valorisation of food waste to biogas (VALORGAS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

...of waste audit, feasibility study, laboratory scientific investigation, technical-scale trials, plant monitoring, process modelling, life cycle assessment and energy footprinting in order to deliver recommendations for the valorisation with maximum benefit of this energy source as a second-generation biofuel."
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... stems are left to weather in the fields – has been identified as being the weak point in fibre processing in the as a result of variable weather conditions during the retting period. Mechanical decortication – the removal of the outer layers – is often damaging to the fibres. UltraFibre will develop a clean processing technology called ‘hydroacoutstic decorticaton’ to extract the fibre from the p ...
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The project aims at reducing green house gas (GHG) emissions caused by the uncontrolled exhausting of coal mine methane (CMM) to atmosphere and to explore suitable economically interesting schemes for its energetic use by the development of an universal decision guidance for optimal use of CMM under varying conditions, an analysis and comparison of the current legal and administrative situation in ...
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Environmental Policy Support Tool for Recycling in Islands (R.E.P.T.)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

... population and land area and they generate a relatively limited volume of waste. These characteristics make waste management relatively expensive and can render the implementation of specific waste recovery and recycling schemes economically unfeasible. Small islands often rely more on exporting waste for recycling. However, this also comes with accompanying transport-related costs and environmen ...
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