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Privacy - Appraising Challenges to Technologies and Ethics (PRACTIS)

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

The vision that motivates PRACTIS is of a society that is aware of the evolving challenges to privacy posed by emerging technologies and is equipped to respond to them. PRACTIS will assess the potential impacts on privacy from emerging technologies and new scientific knowledge. It will propose ethical frameworks and legal procedures for coping with potential risks to privacy. It will explore novel ...
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Health Matters: A Social Science and Ethnographic Study of Patient and Professional Involvement in the Governance of Converging Technologies in Medicine (HealthGovMatters)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

"HealthGovMatters explores patients' and professionals' formal and informal involvement in governing the production and mediation of health and medical knowledge. We use rich social science and ethnographic methods, including interviews and participant observation, to address forms of engagement with predictive, diagnostic and therapeutic technologies. Our interest is in exploring interactions bet ...
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"How to achieve sustainable water ecosystems management connecting research, people and policy makers in Europe" (AWARE)

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

"The issue of concern of the AWARE project is the anthropogenic deterioration of water ecosystems, in particular in coastal areas. The new approach proposed by the AWARE project to enhance connectivity between research and policy-making exploit the concept of integrated adaptive ecosystem management, engaging scientists, policy makers and the public (the latter including both stakeholders and lay ...
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Art Festivals and the European Public Culture (EURO-FESTIVAL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

"This research is a contribution to the comparative cultural sociology of contemporary European society. The aim of the research is to examine the role of festivals as sites of trans-national identifications and democratic debate. Analytically, the project objectives are to: (1) Explore how festivals use aesthetic forms to symbolize, represent and communicate social and political life (European, n ...
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Study of the Impacts of the Transport RTD Projects in FP5 and FP6 (SITPRO Plus)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

The main objectives of the SITPRO Plus project are to use the results and findings from FP5 and FP6 projects in the transport programme to contribute to a. the definition of new research policy objectives and b. intermediate performance targets for FP7. Regarding the first objective, in the context of European transport research, policy objectives are determined by several factors; the specific ...
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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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Specific support action for the advancement and the implementation of the eco-building concept (ECO-BUILD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2007, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

The overall objectives of the ECO-BUILD project are to provide policy makers and stakeholders with an overview of the internationally most advanced concepts and technologies for Eco-buildings, best practice solutions for implementing those concepts and an assessment of the potential of and problems faced by different sets of policy measures adopted at the European and national levels. The latter p ...
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Raising citizens awareness and appreciation of EU research on sustainable transport in the urban environment (MOVE TOGETHER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

"The aim of the supporting action titled "Raising citizens awareness and appreciation of EU research on sustainable transport in the urban environment", MOVE TOGETHER project, is to build an awareness raising exercise to let people become fully: 1conscious of the sustainability implications of transport in the urban context, 2 aware of what EU transport research is doing and how research results c ...
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