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Innovation for Sustainable Sheep and Goat Production in Europe (iSAGE)

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

iSAGE will enhance the sustainability, competitiveness and resilience of the European Sheep and Goat sectors through collaboration between industry and research. iSAGE have a powerful consortium with 18 industry representatives from various EU production systems and socio-economic contexts. The sheep and goat sector will be investigated because it is sensitive to general socio-economic, demographi ...
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Empowering Woman Farmers with Agricultural Business Management Training

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

Farming is the principal economic activity in most rural areas of the EU. About half of the population of the EU lives in rural areas. Without farming there would be little to keep many communities alive and hold them together. If farming were to disappear, in many areas there would be a problem of land abandonment. Therefore, EU’s Common Agricultural Policy supports farmers in many aspects. Many ...
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ORganic waste management by a small-scale Innovative automated system of anaerobic digestION (ORION)

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

Restaurants, hotels, markets, fisheries and other small to medium size agro-food industries have to manage 239 million tonnes of organic waste in Europe per year. The specific management of such waste, with respect to the legislative regulations of EU, involves costly treatment for SMEs and potential hygiene issues on site. ORION aims at allowing a vast majority of SMEs to manage their organic was ...
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Novel algae-based solution for CO2 capture and biomass production (ALGADISK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The aim of the ALGADISK project is to develop a modular, scalable, and automatic biofilmreactor for Algae biomass production, with low operational and installation costs. Thereactor will be designed to capture CO2 from industrial emissions to produce high valueorganic products. In this system, algae will be grown both in an aqueous environment andon biocompatible surfaces, allowing for CO2 absorpt ...
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Sustainable Coating for Food Packaging based on Starch and Seaweed Extracts (PlantPack)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

Food packaging coatings (on paper wraps, cartons and cardboard) are essential to providing a physical barrier to protect food products in the packaging container during storage and transportation. Current packaging coatings are based on petrochemical derived waxes and polymers. However, with increasing petroleum costs and recent instability and volatility in some oil producing countries, the food ...
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"Developing European standards for bee pollen and royal jelly: quality, safety and authenticity" (APIFRESH)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"The competitiveness of the European beekeeping sector is progressively falling due to the reduction of beekeepers’ production as a direct consequence of decrease in bee population, implying lower economies of scale, underutilised resources and higher relative production costs. In addition, beekeeping products produced in countries with much lower quality standards, even sometimes adulterated with ...
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Captain Culture - Creativity in ICL

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

Who is Captain Culture?Did you know that 2008 was the year of Intercultural Dialogue? Of course you did!Do you know that 2009 is the year of Creativity and Innovation? Of course you do!So this is the perfect opportunity to join those 2 years together and bring some fresh ideas and approaches to the field of Intercultural Learning and Youth Work.An international team of trainers is preparing a trai ...
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