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Innovative Circular Businesses on Energy, Water, Fertilizer & Construction Industries towards a Greener Regional Economy (LIFE iCirBus-4Industries)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Dec 16, 2020,

Background Sewage sludge from water treatment plants is identified as a hazardous waste in the European Union, and its management is a major undertaking. The main environmental problems related to sewage sludge are: Its disposal in controlled landfills, which involves an ever-growing demand for capacity, and which generates emissions; Treatment using en ...
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Sustainable Algae Biorefinery for Agriculture aNd Aquaculture (SABANA)

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

SABANA aims at developing a large-scale integrated microalgae-based biorefinery for the production of biostimulants, biopesticides and feed additives, in addition to biofertilizers and aquafeed, using only marine water and nutrients from wastewaters (sewage, centrate and pig manure). The objective is to achieve a zero-waste process at a demonstration scales up to 5 ha sustainable both environmenta ...
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Microbial Desalination for Low Energy Drinking Water (MIDES)

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

Shortage of fresh water has become one of the major challenges for societies all over the world. Water desalination offers an opportunity to significantly increase the freshwater supply for drinking, industrial use and irrigation. All current desalination technologies require significant electrical or thermal energy, with today's Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination units consuming electric energy of ...
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Nanomaterial FAte and Speciation in the Environment (NanoFASE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Concept: NanoFASE will deliver an integrated Exposure Assessment Framework, including methods, parameter values, model and guidance that will allow Industry to assess the full diversity of industrial nano-enabled products to a standard acceptable in regulatory registrations. Methods to assess how use phases, waste streams and environmental compartments (air, soil, water biota) act as “reactors” in ...
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WASTE STREAMS TREATMENT FOR OBTAINING SAFE RECLAIMED WATER AND BIOMETHANE FOR TRANSPORT SECTOR TO MITIGATE GHG EMISSIONS (LIFE METHAmorphosis)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Background Transport is one of the main causes of diffuse greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, established by the Kyoto Protocol, with about one third of anthropogenic emissions. The study of new technologies to mitigate emissions from the transport sector is of high strategic value to achieving the objectives of the European Union, within the framework of int ...
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Advanced Nutrient Solutions With Electrochemical Recovery (LIFE-ANSWER)

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

Background Contaminants in wastewater from the brewing industry come mainly from equipment cleaning operations and treatment processes. The main pollutants are sulphates (1.2-2.0 Kg/h), bicarbonates (0.2-0.4 kg/hl) and nitrates (30-100 mg/l), which all cause severe environmental problems (especially in water bodies). The best techniques currently used for ...
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Innovative Eco-Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastewater (INCOVER)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Taking into account the current global water scarcity and the expensive operation and maintenance cost of wastewater treatment, INCOVER concept has been designed to move wastewater treatment from being primarily a sanitation technology towards a bio-product recovery industry and a recycled water supplier. A wastewater specific Decision Support System methodology will be tailored to the INCOVER tec ...
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Development and demonstration of an anti-bird strike tubular screen for High Speed Rail lines (LIFE IMPACTO CERO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Background The problem of bird collisions on high speed lines (HSL) has increased significantly in recent years. Along with hazards related to rail infrastructures, high speed trains also pose an additional risk to birds. Both common and more sensitive species are at risk, and as a result of bird collisions on HSL, the populations of certain bird species ...
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MultIcultural Care in European Intensive Care Units

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

...ercultural course for ICU Nurses will be developed in cooperation between all partners and implemented on-line as e-learning course. After through testing, its final version will be recommended by EfCCNa and documentation for accreditation of the course will be submitted by medical partners in all their countries. The third Intellectual Output will be the recommendations for the model of medical d ...
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Innovative Intelligent Rail (IN2RAIL)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

IN2RAIL is to set the foundations for a resilient, consistent, cost-efficient, high capacity European network by delivering important building blocks that unlock the innovation potential that exists in SHIFT2RAIL: innovative technologies will be explored and resulting concepts embedded in a systems framework where infrastructure, information management, maintenance techniques, energy, and engineer ...
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"Umweltspürnasen" - Interkulturelle Bildung und Erlebnispädagogik

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

The project intercultural and outdoor education offers young people the opportunity to do a volunteer service in the city Erfurt/ Thuringia. The projects main task is to educate children und youngster, mainly from low-income families, to topics of environment and sustainability. The educational program focuses to mountain social skills and spread specific knowledge. Through education young people, ...
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Euromed Without Borders in Rabat

Start date: Sep 15, 2016, End date: Sep 14, 2017,

Life is bringing more and more challenges for young people, such as unemployment, terrorist attacks, refugee crisis, violation of human rights, intercultural misunderstanding in a very diverse world, and these are only the major challenges that young people have. This project aims at bringing solutions to this need for self-empowerment, self-expression and youth and women inclusion and participati ...
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Footprints across Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The term “footprints” has several meanings: the “carbon footprint” reflects the impact of men’s activities on earth and makes it possible for us to become aware of the ressources which we need. However, footprints may also be considered as the literal traces left by students and teachers as they meet and cooperate together. This project aims at increasing the students' awareness of environmental ...
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United Welsh Voice

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

This project, based in Wales, UK; has been developed and informed by young people who have direct experience of the care system. These young people have informed us that they wish to enter into structured dialogue with decision makers responsible for the development, design and implementation for public services which seek to support those who are, or have been in the care system to achieve physic ...
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V.Y.P. Volunteering as an engine for Young People

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

V.Y.P. Volunteering as an engine for Young People is a group EVS with three volunteers, involving one Hosting Organization (Portugal) and three Sending Organisations (Turkey, Morocco and Egypt). The EVS volunteers will be placed for a 12 month period in the Southern Portuguese city of Ohão, where they´ll have the opportunity to experience a totally different culture and way of living, to learn and ...
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Community Champions Youth Exchange Nijmegen

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Football and sports in general are increasingly used and recognised as a tool for community development. These football for development programmes are providing people from different backgrounds with valuable tools to actively make a difference in their own lives. By addressing the most pressing issues in each community, the programmes are contributing to positive social change on a European scal ...
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IntegrArtMus

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

This contact seminar aims to develop networking between organizations SEE, MEDA, EECA and Europe and strengthen the European project Erasmus +, utlizando such key issues as art and music as tools of integration. It is important to generate new prospects encouraging participation, planning and implementation of projects from start to finish and provide a space for participants to know each other as ...
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Culture of Democracy

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The project was aimed at promoting a culture of pluralism, active citizenship and young people’s participation in civic and political structures. The project consisted of two activities: Activity 1 was a 10-day training course in the Republic of Moldova offering 24 youth leaders tools to promote active citizenship and transform that into active participation in civic and political structures. The ...
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Industrial scale demonstration of sustainable algae cultures for biofuel production (ALL-GAS)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

This project will demonstrate on large scale the sustainable production of bio-fuels based on low-cost microalgae cultures. The full chain of processes from algal ponds to biomass separation, processing for oil and other chemicals extraction, and downstream biofuel production, as well as the use in vehicles, will be implemented on a 10 ha site.Depending on the methodology chosen during the researc ...
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Youman rights

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

APPLICANT ORGANISATION: The association Agisco dealing with human rights and legality since 2010. We carried out several projects to engagem involve and motivate young people to form a positive awareness of human rights. Born from the experience of the youth leader of the napolitan movement antimafia, Agisco growth in the adovocacy and representation of youth policy specializing in education and t ...
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Change management in youth NGOs

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Low youth participation has recently become more and more evident. Usually, as an indicator of the low youth participation, the young voters’ turnout is used (which indeed becomes worse every year). However, low youth participation does not appear only when voting. Low youth participation becomes part of all aspects of the democratic life and especially in the everyday life of the youth organizati ...
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Recovery of reverse osmosis membranes at its end of life (REMEMBRANE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

Background Seawater is the world’s main water resource and the process of desalination provides a way of tapping into it. The main technologies employed are thermal evaporation (distillation) and use of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes. The world market for RO water treatment systems is growing quickly – from an estimated $1.4 billion in 2000 to $3.8 bi ...
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Intelligent Urban Water Management System (UrbanWater)

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

Improving the efficiency of water management in Europe was recognised by the EC as essential for overcoming the growing exposure of European countries to Water Scarcity and Droughts. UrbanWater proposes a platform that will enable a better end-to-end water management in urban areas, accounting for 17% of freshwater consumption in the EU.The project will undertake the development, demonstration, an ...
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MOJU YOU(th)NIVERSITY

Start date: Jan 15, 2015, End date: Sep 15, 2015,

"MOJU YOU(th)NIVERSITY" was a space for debate, networking, training and exchange of experiences of youth workers and leaders. 6 days Training Course, 50 young people from 25 different countries, including Programme Countries, South East Europe, Eastern Europe and Caucasus and Mediterrean Partner Countries, gathered in 2 simultaneous training courses in Olhão, Portugal from 16th to 21st March 2015 ...
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Development of an active film for smart windows with inkjet method. Application to a building envelope component: autonomous smart device (SMARTBLIND)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The SMARTBLIND project aims at developing an Energy Efficient Smart Window including a hybrid film constituted of an electrochromic LC film and a photovoltaic film both printed on the same long-lasting flexible substrate. The realization process will be implemented thanks to electrochromic and photovoltaic inks especially formulated to be ink-jet printed.A reduction of the windows U-value down to ...
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Buildsmart – energy efficient solutions ready for the market (BUILDSMART)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The Objective of the Builtsmart-project is to demonstrate and mainstream innovative and cost effective techniques and methods for constructing very low energy buildings in various climates.Residential and non residential new buildings in Sweden, Ireland and Spain will participate in the project. The total gross floor space of the buildings will be 81 300 m2.New forms of incentives will be develope ...
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LET’S ACT: Culture of Peace and Social Entrepreneurship in EUROMED

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Project title LET’S ACT: culture of peace and social entrepreneurship in EUROMED Funding programme ERASMUS+ Mobility of youth workers with Partner countries: Training Course Dates 4-10 November 2014 Venue Caltanissetta, Italy Country involved Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkey, Morocco, Jordan, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, UK, Egypt, Palestine, Romania, Lithuania Themes - Culture of peace and nonviolen ...
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Stop Gender Based Violence Now!

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

It is widely considered that Europe has managed great achievements in the context of gender equity last decades. The high education level and the financial development might have contributed a lot to fill the gap between genders. Yet, between 1/5 and 1/ 4 of all women in EU have been violence victims at least once in their life after the age of 18 while more than 1/10 of them have been sexually ab ...
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Innovative YE(U)!

Start date: Jun 17, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Innovation is a key factor in the work of youth organizations. Youth are constantly in change and young people are looking for new ways to learn and develop themselves, especially under the spectrum of the financial crisis in Europe. New approaches are needed to address these changes and YEU envisions being at the front of these innovations. YEU intends to inspire, dream, take chances and support ...
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Sharing Identities

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Nov 25, 2014,

The youth exchange entitled “Sharing identities” has been developed in partnership with the Egyptian Association “Waseela For Training and Development”, the Spanish association “AJ Intercambia” and the “Forum Connecting Cultures ” an organization based in Morocco. It will take place in Palermo (Sicily) and it will last six days. We foresee to involve 24 young people between 18-25 years old (6 for ...
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Cost-Effective Tools for Better Indoor Environment in Retrofitted Energy Efficient Buildings (CETIEB)

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

The refurbishing to an energy efficient standard leads to tight buildings (whole envelope: windows, walls, etc.) and affects the indoor climate. In case of refurbishing the inhabitants or users are not adapted to this new situation. Therefore the air exchange rates could be lower than required if no mechanical ventilation is installed or the system performance is not optimised. Then, in trying to ...
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High algal recovery using a Salsnes Water to Algae Treatment (SWAT) filter technology (Operation SWAT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

Microalgae has been researched and cultivated commercially for human and animal nutrition, for cosmetics and pharmaceutical applications, for biofuels and biomass production, for wastewater treatment and to some extent for greenhouse gas abatement. The production for the microalgal biomass market today alone generates a turnover of 1.25 billion US$ per year (0.94 billion €/yr) while the total alga ...
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Reduced Certification Costs for Trusted Multi-core Platforms (RECOMP)

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

"The proposed RECOMP (Reduced certification cost for trusted multi-core platforms) research project will establish methods, tools and platforms for enabling cost-efficient certification and re-certification of safety-critical systems and mixed-criticality systems, i.e. systems containing safety-critical and non-safety-critical components.RECOMP recognizes the fact that the increasing processing po ...
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Biomethanisation expertise improvement by pilot and full scale follow-ups (METHAPI-EXPERTISE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2003, End date: Jul 31, 2007,

Background Methanisation technology has been used as a waste management treatment in bio-methanisation plants for many years. The methanisation process transforms organic carbon to methane, which can then be used to produce electrical and/or thermal energy as a substitute for fossil fuels. By-products from the methanisation process also offer carbon sink ...
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