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An Integrated European ‘Flagship’ Program Driving Mechanism-based Toxicity Testing and Risk Assessment for the 21st Century (EU-ToxRisk)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The vision of EU-ToxRisk is to drive a paradigm shift in toxicology towards an animal-free, mechanism-based integrated approach to chemical safety assessment. The project will unite all relevant disciplines and stakeholders to establish: i) pragmatic, solid read-across procedures incorporating mechanistic and toxicokinetic knowledge; and ii) ab initio hazard and risk assessment strategies of chemi ...
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Comorbidity and Synapse Biology in Clinically Overlapping Psychiatric Disorders (COSYN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

COSYN integrates outstanding European academic and three large Pharma to exploit genomic findings for intellectual disability (ID), autism, and schizophrenia. We capitalise on comorbidity, from clinic to cells and synapses, and have access to large existing samples. We focus on rare genetic variants of strong effect in patients with clinical comorbidity. Our aims are: (1) Understand comorbidity by ...
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Plastic nanocomposite insulation material enabling reliable integration of renewables and DC storage technologies in the AC energy grid (GRIDABLE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

In the GRIDABLE project we will introduce novel thermoplastic polymer composite materials to enhance performance of essential components of smart grid infrastructure. We have proven in laboratory scale that the polypropylene-silica nanocomposite brings considerable improvements especially in dielectric breakdown strength.When applied as insulator in high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable and in ...
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Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR)

Start date: Dec 31, 2000, End date: Dec 30, 2020,

Intelligent traffic systems in the air transport sector contribute to reduce airports' environmental footprint and to minimise nuisances like noise and air pollution. Technological tools can contribute to a more efficient management of flights both on the ground (airport management systems) and in the air (Functional Airspace Blocks).Air transport contributes significantly to European economic gro ...
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Supporting Urban Integrated Transport Systems: Transferable tools for authorities (SUITS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

SUITS takes a sociotechnical approach to capacity building in Local Authorities and transport stakeholder organisations with special emphasis on the transfer of learning to smaller sized cities, making them more effective and resilient to change in the judicious implementation of sustainable transport measures. Key outputs will be a validated capacity building program for transport departments, an ...
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The Integration and demonstration of Large Stationary Fuel Cell Systems for Distributed Generation (CLEARGEN DEMO)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

Certain industries, such as chemical production or petroleum refining have been identified as producing quantities of by-product hydrogen that can be used to produce clean, load-following power on a distributed basis, reducing reliance on fossil fuels. While the chemical production industry generally acknowledges the potential value of stationary fuel cell applications, the lack of multiple megawa ...
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Restoring Trust in the cyber space: a Systems Security Proposal (PROTASIS)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

Fueled by a string of high profile attacks and recent revelations about unprecedented cyber surveillance, interest in systems security is rising-not just among industry and governments, but even among individual citizens across Europe. Corporate organizations worry about the viability of their businesses, nation states about cyber attacks by other nation states or terrorist groups, and citizens ab ...
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Co-creating a decision support framework to ensure sustainable fish production in Europe under climate change (ClimeFish)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

The overall goal of ClimeFish is to help ensure that the increase in seafood production comes in areas and for species where there is a potential for sustainable growth, given the expected developments in climate, thus contributing to robust employment and sustainable development of rural and coastal communities. The underlying biological models are based on single species distribution and product ...
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health-i-care

Start date: Mar 31, 2016, End date: Mar 30, 2020,

Description (EN): Themes Health-i-care: innovations for safer healthcareAll health-i-care project activities are devoted to the highly actual thematic focus of prevention and control of hospital infections and antibiotic resistance and the associated risks for patients and public health.Health-i-care focuses on developing innovative products and technologies that protect the populat ...
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Calcium-Sensing Receptor (CaSR): Therapeutics for Non-Communicable Diseases (CaSR Biomedicine)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The calcium sensing receptor (CaSR) is a class C Gprotein-coupled receptor that plays a pivotal role in systemic calcium metabolism by regulating parathyroid hormone secretion and urinary Ca excretion. Abnormal CaSR function is implicated in calciotropic disorders, and in non-calciotropic disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes (DM), sarcopenia and cancer ...
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Translating neuroimaging findings from research into clinical practice (PSYSCAN)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

Abstract 9Neuroimaging (NI) has enormous potential to improve the clinical care of patients with psychiatric disorders, but has yet to deliver. The PSYSCAN project will address this issue directly by developing a NI-based tool that will help clinicians resolve key clinical issues in the management of patients with psychotic disorders. Clinicians will use the tool to assess patients with a standard ...
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Antimicrobial FLEXible POLymers for its use in hospital environments (FLEXPOL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

FLEXPOL aims to develop a pilot line for the production of a cost effective antimicrobial (AM) adhesive film for its use in hospitals. The obtained adhesive film will inhibit growth of a wide range of microbes and will be suitable for high-touch surfaces, providing a durable protection with good resistance. It will assure the highest level of hygiene and patient safety, reducing the use of disinfe ...
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CHIMERA – CHIckens Manure Exploitation and RevAluation (LIFE-CHIMERA)

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

Background Over the past decades, the poultry sector’s move towards intensification and geographical concentration has given rise to various environmental concerns at national and EU level. Poultry manure contains considerable amounts of nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and other excreted substances including hormones, antibiotics, pathogens and ...
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Reintroduction of burning in Boreal western taiga woodlands (LifeTaiga)

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

Background Controlled burning can support the conservation of many sites of priority habitat type 9010 (*Western Taïga) and, to some extent, habitat 9060 (Coniferous forests on, or connected to, glaciofluvial eskers) Up until 150 years ago, 1% of the wooded area burned annually. Today less than 0.016% burns annually. The reduction in the frequency of fir ...
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Cancer treatment and monitoring through identification of circulating tumour cells and tumour related nucleic acids in blood (CANCER-ID)

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

Blood-based biomarkers such as Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs), circulating free tumor DNA (cfDNA) and microRNAs (miRNAs) have the potential to improve the development of personalized medicines for cancer patients. This is of particular importance when biopsies of the primary tumor or metastases are not accessible (e.g. at early disease stages or in minimal residual disease) or possible and the ass ...
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REsources from URban BIo-waSte (RES URBIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

RES URBIS aims at making it possible to convert several types of urban bio-waste into valuable bio-based products, in an integrated single biowaste biorefinery and by using one main technology chain. This goal will be pursued through: - collection and analysis of data on urban bio-waste production and present management systems in four territorial clusters that have been selected in different cou ...
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FROM TRADITION TO INNOVATION IN TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTIONS

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

Although Latin American society has gained greater access to education at all levels, government officials in education, schoolteachers, trainers and researchers are calling into question the ability of their higher education institutions (HEIs) to address education professionals' needs. Typically, such groups criticize the bureaucracy of HEI training programmes, their failure to address practice ...
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Deutschland in EU: Geschichte des beiderseitigen Erfolges

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

This project should deepen the knowledge about EU at the regional level. On the one hand, a single country and its European integration should be in the focus, and the causes and results of the EU involvement and the effects of this process for the EU on the other hand. The project should promote existing EU studies at the Dostoevsky Omsk State University. The basic objective of the project is to ...
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Arts and Traditions(Promoting Awareness of Cultural Traditions in Modern Settings)

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

The main themes of the Partnership are to develop pupils' awareness of local, national and European traditions and cultures through the medium of the Arts and to utilize the Arts across the curriculum. The Partnership will bring about both a collaborative curriculum development programme created, promoted and shared by the Partner Institutions and which has wide cross-cultural parameters and a col ...
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Enquiry based learning at school

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

SKILL BASED and LIFE LONG learning, including 21st century skills, are becoming more and more important in European educational systems. RESEARCH is done in many schools, but not often is the research TRANSNATIONAL IN EXECUTION. Traditions regarding the execution of research and teaching research skills at schools vary. Sharing best practice between schools from DIFFERENT COUNTRIES will contribut ...
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Co-creation - A method to develop sustainable welfare solutions

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

The “Co-creating Welfare” project is motivated by a broadly political acknowledged need for re-organisation within the welfare sector in order to obtain a more sustainability and cost effectiveness. Local authorities are currently struggling with budget cut-downs in the welfare sector, mainly due to consequenses of the hardly ended worldwide financial crisis. As a response to the need for re-organ ...
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LE PAYSAGE SONORE DANS LEQUEL NOUS VIVONS

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

Soundscapes European research projectThe project is part of the continuation and extension of the discussions held within the Grundtvig program 2011/13 and already followed by 3 partners sought in this case.The project is organized on three years (2016/2019) and is about "Soundscape Attentive Listening."The aim is to address specific problematics that are not answered in traditional education or t ...
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Constructing an Alliance for Value-driven Cybersecurity (CANVAS)

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

The growing complexity of the digital ecosystem in combination with increasing global risks entail the danger that enforcing cybersecurity may bypass other fundamental values like equality, fairness or privacy, whereas downplaying cybersecurity would undermine citizens’ trust and confidence in the digital infrastructure. Technology developers as well as legal and philosophical scholars and empiric ...
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Further Quality Improvement for VET, guiding teacher Teams in Europe in strategic planning

Start date: Nov 11, 2016, End date: May 10, 2019,

After the successful implementation of the QUAL4T project, that focused on quality awareness by individual teachers, it deemed only a small step to a follow-up project named: Further Quality Improvement in European VET, guiding teacher Teams in their strategic planning (QUAL4T2). The value of the first project but also the needs for the follow-up project were clearly expressed in the final feedbac ...
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An Innovative Modular Dual System Based on Business Processes Modeling and Simulation for Company Oriented Vocational Education and Training

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The significance of vocational education varies considerably throughout the states of the European Union. The situation in Greece e.g. can be considered as an example of occupational selection behaviour by adolescents graduating from secondary education that is influenced primarily by the aim to attain the highest possible educational level: In favour of presumed better career perspectives, the pa ...
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Exploring the combined role of genetic and non-genetic factors for developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A systems level analysis of disease subgroups, risk factors, and pathways (EYE-RISK)

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

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the world’s most important age-related blinding disorder. The current proposal utilises epidemiological data describing clinical phenotype, molecular genetics, lifestyle, nutrition, and in-depth retinal imaging derived from existing longitudinal European epidemiological cohorts and biobanks to provide three major insights needed for long-lasting prevention ...
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Eco-aware Persuasive Networked Data Devices for User Engagement in Energy Efficiency (GREENSOUL)

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

GreenSoul pursues higher energy efficiency in public buildings by altering the way people use energy consuming shared devices (lights, printers) and personal devices (personal pluggable appliances). For that, it applies a twofold strategy: 1)persuades users to increase their energy-awareness and change their e-consumption habits and 2)embeds intelligence in the devices to let them autonomously dec ...
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Developing Innovative Market Orientated Prediction Toolbox to Strengthen the Economic Sustainability and Competitiveness of European Seafood on Local and Global markets (PrimeFish)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The overall aim of PrimeFish is to improve the economic sustainability of European fisheries and aquaculture sectors. PrimeFish will gather data from individual production companies, industry and sales organisations, consumers and public sources. The data will be related to the competitiveness and economic performance of companies in the sector; this includes data on price development, supply chai ...
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Intelligent Assessment of Pharmaceutical in the Environment (IPIE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can be released to the natural environment during the manufacturing process, following use by patients or when unused medicines are disposed of. As APIs are biologically active compounds concerns have been raised about the potential effects of APIs in the environment on human and environmental health. Over the past 15 years, a substantial amount of work has ...
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Transformar XV

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Professional training and human resources development are key elements for the enhancement of tourism quality in Portugal.The “TRANSFORMAR” project - Trans-European Training in Tourism was implemented 13 years ago to meet the training needs in an European context of the students belonging to the Hospitality Schools network of Turismo de Portugal, I.P..The experience of undergoing an internship in ...
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Trash-2-Cash: Designed high-value products from zero-value waste textiles and fibres via design driven technologies (Trash-2-Cash)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Within Trash-2-Cash, growing problems with paper fibre waste from the paper industry and textile fibre waste, originating from a continuously increasing textile consumption, will be solved through design-driven innovation. This will be performed by using the wastes to regenerate fibres that will be included into fashion, interior and other products. The cotton production suffers from non-sustainab ...
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EUROLABORA III

Start date: Nov 7, 2016, End date: Nov 6, 2018,

The project arises in a context of crisis and unemployment especially high among young people. Many of them, although they have completed their vocational educational studies and they are able to perform a job, don't have enough foreign language skills, or other professional and personal skills that make them less competitive in a labor market increasingly demanding.The project's main objective is ...
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Sharing and Collaboration Offering Practice Exchange - Strategic Partnership Supporting the Exchange of Good Practices

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The Council of the European Union (2009) has as a key strategic objective the promotion of equity, social cohesion and active citizenship. It outlines that 'education and training policy should enable all citizens, irrespective of their personal, social or economic circumstances to acquire, update and develop over a lifetime both job-specific skills and the key competencies needed for their employ ...
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Hey! Teachers, don’t leave the kids alone

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

HEY project refers to the adequacy of training approaches used by primary school’s teachers with relation to the main trends of social change in progress. These trends apply to:• Family changes and the arrival of new type of families, more complex and with more members;• Evolution of educational and existential styles;• Diversification of cultural context;• Extension of the gap between rich and po ...
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Instruire practica de calitate la standarde europene pentru tinerii cu dizabilitati de vedere - sansa pentru o viata mai buna

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

In Bucharest, only a few clinical hospitals have balneofiziokinetotherapy cabinets that allow internships, and most of them are poorly equipped and lack modern technologies for remedial intervention.Because of the low number of specialized clinics, we have difficulty in contracting specialized institutions for internships for post-secondary level students, given that the profession of balneofiziok ...
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Iniciativas Transnacionais para AcTivar o meio rural

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

The requirement to which it is addressed the mobility concern the acquisition by students of specialist knowledge and skills related to the following areas: - Restoration technician, variant Kitchen / Confectionery- Technical Management and Programming Information Systems- Technical Agricultural Production, variant of Plant Production- Industrial Maintenance Technician - Electromechanical- Techni ...
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Hepatic and Cardiac Toxicity Systems modelling (HECATOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

HeCaToS aims at developing integrative in silico tools for predicting human liver and heart toxicity. The objective is to develop an integrated modeling framework, by combining advances in computational chemistry and systems toxicology, for modelling toxic perturbations in liver and heart across multiple scales. This framework will include vertical integrations of representations from drug(metabol ...
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COLLAB ARTS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME: Art in social and community contexts

Start date: Nov 12, 2014, End date: Sep 15, 2018,

The COLLAB Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) will support the training and development of artists working in social and community contexts throughout Europe, encouraging a growth in support structures for this sector, mainstreaming the profile of this dynamic form of artistic practice in the process, with the aim of increasing access and participation in the arts, placing art at the heart of all l ...
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Education Material, Planning, Strategy and Tools for CLIL Education

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

The project called "Education Material, Planning, Strategy and Tools for CLIL Education" was designed after the current analysis of needs at partners schools - which all have integrated language learning/teaching as a priority in its school strategy. The involved partners from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Spain and Turkey plan to implement interdisciplinary approaches towards traditional e ...
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European Dual System

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

The EU-DualS project is based on the idea to arise Europe from the job crises, starting from the educational system. Europe is facing a complicated situation because manufacturing companies need specialized workers, but they don't have the time to teach them, and it's difficult to find them. At the same time, youth unemployment rate in Europe, especially in the southern regions, is increasing. Th ...
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