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European Sepsis Academy: towards new biomarkers to improve sepsis management (ESA -ITN)

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

...ng 3 diagnostics firms, 1 bioinformatics company and a business school). Interactions within the network are strengthened by meaningful secondments, which take place at private beneficiary or partner institutes.The training programme covers:1. Specialist training in an international, interdisciplinary and intersectorial sepsis-orientated research project;2. Advanced technology training in pathogen ...
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Triggering Sustainable Biogas Energy Communities through Social Innovation (ISABEL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Community energy sits high in the energy policy agenda as an inseparable part of the strategy towards a low-carbon EU economy. Sustainable biogas technologies have been extremely slow in catching up with community energy developments, failing to benefit from their undeniable potential. ISABEL aims to remove the obstacles and to promote community biogas in the EU by bringing out its societal releva ...
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Resource Conservative Manufacturing- transforming waste into high value resource through closed-loop product systems (ResCoM)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

In a world with growing pressures on resources and the environment, the EU has no choice but to go for the transition to a resource-efficient and ultimately regenerative circular economy. The main objective of the ResCoM project is to develop an innovative framework and a collaborative software platform for the industrial implementation of closed-loop manufacturing systems.In ResCoM, four manufact ...
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The CONsumer COmpetence Research Training (CONCORT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Consumer science is touching the lives of 493 million EU Consumers with their consumption representing 58% of the EU GDP, yet the insights of consumer research typically fail to have a substantial impact on consumer welfare. The EC acknowledges the problem and places it high on its policy priorities. Consumer research is scattered across several disciplines in the social sciences with little commu ...
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Creativity in learning through Social Computing and Game Mechanics in the Enterprise (COLLAGE)

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

Description Social creativity in learningMuch social creativity involves human collaboration through and about artefacts that embody collective knowledge resulting from the collaboration. It can be a catalyst to enable European SMEs and large organizations to adopt and sustain new approaches to learning by fostering non-linear and non-sta ...
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Towards Zero Waste in Industrial Networks (ZeroWIN)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The first work package will define a common vision on zero-waste entrepreneurship within the first 6 months. The mythos Individual Producer Responsibility will be investigated if it can become the all-healing-solution in electronics industry as well as how this concept can be applied to other industrial sectors. WP2 concentrates on new technological developments, WP3 on waste prevention methodolog ...
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Impact Measurement and Performance Analysis of CSR (IMPACT)

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

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) assumes greater practical significance and political relevance in the EU. A central concern is the extent to which CSR delivers benefits for economies, societies and the environment, providing a business contribution to the EU’s policies for growth, competitiveness, better jobs (Lisbon Strategy) and sustainable development (Gothenburg strategy). By contrast th ...
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Cradle-to-gate and efficiency studies of major materials used in electrical and electronic equipment (C2GE3E)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Jul 21, 2013,

"Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) are made of hundreds of components using thousand of materials in their lifespan. The complexity of material flows, coupled with the uncertainty of their sustainable use, makes it evident that a sound method of quantification and assessment is in order. The project aims to quantify the cradle-to-gate of the plastics and metals used in EEE in order to asse ...
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The Foundation of Organization Design (ORGDESIGN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"Organization design refers to choices about the formal structure of organizations. While the study of organization design is not new, it is not current either. This proposal describes a series of theory development projects I aim to undertake over the next three years towards strengthening the foundations of organization design as an area of academic enquiry. The projects focus on a) interactions ...
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The selves we could have been: the impact of alternative professional identities on career choices and work-life balance (API)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"In 2000, Monster.com launched a TV commercial campaign based on an adaptation of Robert Frost’s poem, “The road not taken”. The company website explained: “We’ve created a spot which we hope will really get you thinking about the career choices you’ve made and more importantly, about the ones you haven’t.” Why does a prominent career management company try to make us wonder about the road not tak ...
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Strengthening the role that Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) have on the ERA development (PLATONPLUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

PLATON+ aims to catalyze dissemination of the European research in Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) as well as to capitalize SSH research results and assets across non-SSH research areas / themes. The proposed project will operate as a central hub for the dissemination of SSH research so as to (a) facilitate integration and coordination of SSH (-related) research under FP7 and to (b) e ...
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Introspective journey and change: is adult development possible? (Human Development)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2010,

For all of the time, effort, and money invested in attempts to help individuals develop through education, training and coaching, there are few studies that really assess the real impact of the change process. Reasons for this paucity are lack of convenience and practicality of longitudinal designs to study demonstrable results at the individual level. Additionally, the intricacies of adult develo ...
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Low Carbon Integrated Manufacturing Parks (LOCIMAP)

The project team anticipates substantial advantage through migration towards highly integrated manufacturing on industry parks. Key features include:1) Profile matching of energy, by-products, waste streams (etc) across multiple manufacturing operations2) High performance energy supply utilisation & recovery systems, maximising efficiency by operating in conjunction with local community energy n ...
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Rural Social Networking for Lifelong Learning

...munities, building up of new partnerships), consolidating thus an evidence base onthe added-value and impact of social networking tools and platforms for rural learning,with a particular attention to institutional as well as pedagogical innovation and change.Several technological solutions will be tried including weblogs, wikis, podcasts, socialsoftware, virtual social sites, as well as tools such ...
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