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Turning waste from steel industry into a valuable low cost feedstock for energy intensive industry (RESLAG)

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

The RESLAG project proposal is aligned with the challenges outlined in the call WASTE-1-2014: Moving towards a circular economy through industrial symbiosis. In 2010, the European steel industry generated, as waste, about 21.8 Mt of steel slag. The 76 % of the slag was recycled in applications such as aggregates for construction or road materials, but these sectors were unable to absorb the total ...
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Strengthening Technology, Research and Innovation Cooperation between Europe and South Africa 2020 (ESASTAP 2020)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The STI cooperation between the EU and South Africa as originally framed by the South Africa-EU Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement and as constantly steered by the JSTCC requires a support mechanism which can translate and facilitate policy decisions, and provide intelligence and information services to various actors and stakeholders. In previous years the ESASTAP project series ( ...
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BiogasAction: Promotion of sustainable biogas production in EU (BiogasAction)

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

BiogasAction aim to serve as vehicle for the development of the European biogas sector and thereby contribute to the EU 2020 targets by focusing on removing non-technical barriers to widespread production of biogas/biomethane from manure and other waste. Central driver is the cooperation between different policy levels at EU, national and regional level. The project will boost biogas development i ...
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ling Energy ACtion plans and Enhancing their implementation in the Alps (PEACE_Alps)

Start date: Dec 16, 2015, End date: Dec 15, 2018,

Description (EN): PEACE-ALPS tackles the problems related to the implementation of Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs) or any other Energy concepts already endorsed by Local Authorities (LAs) in Alpine Space Area (ASA) by supporting LAs, about 100, in developing concrete actions with an inter-municipal approach. This is the core aim of the project and the way for reaching main o ...
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Green Life-Choose your side!

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

The "Green Life Choose your side!" projects proposes to implement a voluntary service for a period of 12 months, in order to promote healthy life style among youth through movement, outdoor activities, sports and environmental education.The "Green Life Choose your side!" project is a follow-up of another volunteer project, implemented by FCASEC in the local community Dragasani, in the period Octob ...
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Gamified Training for Successful Commercialization of Young SMEs’ Innovation

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Europe is gradually becoming a more innovative continent. Innovation has been placed in the centre of Europe 2020 strategy for its key role in business expansion, employment creation and economic growth.Innovation Union Scoreboard (2015) states that EU innovation growth has been increasing at an average annual rate of 1.0% between 2007 and 2014. Still, the growth has not been equally strong across ...
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Instant Gratification for Collective Awareness and Sustainable Consumerism (ASSET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Political consumerism is a bottom up, grass root engagement of concerned citizens. By uniting their individual selves to a collective, the feeling of individual insignificance is transformed into a non-negligible player on the economic market. The diversification of political interests, the intransparent product interrelationships, however, far too often lead to an evaporation of the collective mo ...
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Harnessing the power of Digital Social Platforms to shake up makers and manufacturing entrepreneurs towards a European Open Manufacturing ecosystem (ShakerMaker)

Start date: Jun 20, 2016, End date: Jun 19, 2018,

ShakerMaker brings together mainstream manufacturers and makers (i.e. tech-savvy craftsmen driven by social innovation and open source principles) in an purposely designed ecosystem built to enable cross-boundary partnerships for innovation. The partnerships will be facilitated by a targeted programme piloted in four locations in Europe and curated by experienced facilitators. Combining skills and ...
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ONLINE Platform for Smart Specialisation Policy Advice (ONLINE-S3)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

This project aims to develop an e-policy platform augmented with a toolbox of applications and online services, which will assist national and regional authorities in the EU in elaborating or revising their smart specialisation agenda, in terms of policies and strategy. The platform will leverage existing methodologies, initiatives and tools developed by the EC for the RIS3 strategy, but it will a ...
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INtegrated Spatial PlannIng, land use and soil management Research ActTION (INSPIRATION)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The aim of INSPIRATION is to adopt a funder and end-user demand-driven approach to establish and promote the adoption of the knowledge creation, transfer and implementation agenda for land use, land-use changes and soil management in the light of current and future societal challenges. Main objectives are: • Formulate, consult on and revise an end-user oriented strategic research agenda (SRA), • S ...
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Cracking the Language Barrier: Coordination, Evaluation and Resources for European MT Research (CRACKER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

...andardisation, agreed major challenges and comprehensive success metrics – has led to breakthroughs that would have been impossible otherwise. The nucleus of this new research, development, and innovation strategy towards high-quality MT is the group of projects funded through H2020-ICT-17a/b (partly extending to relevant FP7 actions such as QTLeap, LIDER and MLi), that will be supported by CRACKE ...
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Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change (SI-DRIVE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

SI-DRIVE extends knowledge about social innovation (SI) in three major directions:- Integrating theories and research methodologies to advance understanding of SI leading to a comprehensive new paradigm of innovation.- Undertaking European and global mapping of SI, thereby addressing different social, economic, cultural, historical and religious contexts in eight major world regions.- Ensuring rel ...
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Information and Communication Technologies and Robotics for Sustainable Agriculture (ICT-AGRI 2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Information and Communication technologies (ICT) and robotics for sustainable agriculture
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Local Electricity retail Markets for Prosumer smart grid pOWER services (EMPOWER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The aim is to explore and develop an integrated ICT solution to support the development of an electricity local market place and innovative business models, including operational methods to encourage micro-generation with renewable resources and participation of consumers and prosumers. The creation of incentives for all players would allow for exploiting the latent flexibility of the user-side of ...
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EURO-MEDITERRANEAN COOPERATION ON RESEARCH & TRAINING IN SUN BASED RENEWABLE ENERGIES (EUROSUNMED)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The scientific targets of the EUROSUNMED project are the development of new technologies in three energy field areas, namely photovoltaics (PV), concentrated solar power (CSP) and grid integration (GI), in strong collaboration with research institutes, universities and SMEs from Europe in the north side of the Mediterranean sea and from Morocco and Egypt from the south of the sea. The focus in PV ...
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Additive Manufacturing Aiming Towards Zero Waste & Efficient Production of High-Tech Metal Products (AMAZE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The overarching goal of AMAZE is to rapidly produce large defect-free additively-manufactured (AM) metallic components up to 2 metres in size, ideally with close to zero waste, for use in the following high-tech sectors namely: aeronautics, space, automotive, nuclear fusion and tooling.Four pilot-scale industrial AM factories will be established and enhanced, thereby giving EU manufacturers and en ...
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MObility for Vocational and Educational Training 2.0

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

...ause it is composed mostly by micro and small companies. Those companies, in the framework of a DEVELOPMENT which should be INCLUSIVE (Europe 2020), need new competences in order to stimulate further innovation, to benefit of opportunities from the single market, to translate the environmental challenges in opportunities and to take advantage from the market development. (see 10 principles of Smal ...
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SUPER LIGHT-WEIGHT THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR SPACE APPLICATION (LIGHT-TPS)

Start date: Apr 25, 2014, End date: May 1, 2017,

LIGHT-TPS will develop a new super-light Thermal Protection System (TPS) for various space applications, above all for Reusable Space Systems (RSS), capable of operating within the entire range of working temperatures. The project aims at radical properties improvements in the TPS used existing and under-development RSS. The main disadvantage of existing TPS based on metallic frames is the signifi ...
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SEA-EU-NET 2 - EU-ASEAN S&T cooperation to jointly tackle societal challenges (SEA-EU-NET II)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

...nships developed through past support and coordination actions, to deepen engagement and build momentum in S&T cooperation. It broadens the scope of EU-SEA cooperation through stimulating sustainable innovation collaborations. SEA-EU-NET 2 will focus on three societal challenges: Health, Food security and safety, and Water management, where the greatest opportunities can be leveraged from joint EU ...
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Greening our Future

Start date: May 31, 2016, End date: Feb 27, 2017,

" Greening our Future " attempts to provide a platform and exposure to youth, whereby they could appreciate the environmental, socioeconomic and life-support values of the nature. The project aims to bring together youth workers of diverse regions from Europe and beyond. Youth with diverse socio-economic and geographical backgrounds, in order to understand and interact on various environmental is ...
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Strengthening cooperation in European research on sustainable exploitation of marine resources in the seafood chains- ERANET (COFASP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Research and innovation are central elements in the Europe 2020 Strategy and it is recognised that bioeconomy is an important element of the Strategy. DG RTD has issued a European Strategy “Innovating for sustainable growth: a bioeconomy for Europe” paving the way to a more innovative, resource efficient and competitive society that reconciles food security with the sustainable use of renewable re ...
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Special care for special needs

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The main motto of the project activities can be described as: we do care for disabled children and youth, no matter what nationality we are, what culture we come from. The project activities link young people’s motivation to learn and gain new experiences with activities of 5 special education institutions for children and youth with disabilities. Project activities will bring together volunteer ...
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European Learning for Youth in Social Entrepreneurship

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

EU countries today face varying social and economic challenges, from unemployment and an aging population with associated social problems, to economic inequality and scarcity of resources. This presents unseen challenges and opportunities. However there is an interesting trend occurring: the rise of social entrepreneurship as a solution to many of the social problems, and the youth population’s in ...
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SUSTAIN EU-ASEAN: Sustain and enhance cooperation on sustainable development between Europe and Southeast Asia (SUSTAIN EU-ASEAN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

... a wealth of knowledge has been generated by EU-funded projects and other initiatives relevant for the ASEAN region. However, the exploitation and uptake of these research results and potential joint innovations can still be improved and so can the collaboration between researchers from the EU and the ASEAN region. To facilitate this, but also to advance research initiated by Europe, SUSTAIN EU-AS ...
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Federation for FIRE (Fed4FIRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

A federation of experimentation facilities will significantly accelerate Future Internet research. Fed4FIRE will deliver open and easily accessible facilities to the FIRE experimentation communities, which focus on fixed and wireless infrastructures, services and applications, and combinations thereof. The project will develop a demand-driven common federation framework, based on an open architect ...
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STI International Cooperation Network for Central Asian Countries (INCONET CA)

Start date: Sep 11, 2013, End date: Sep 10, 2016,

...cal evidence and monitoring to feed the dialogue and to support joint agenda setting. A policy mix review will be implemented along with capacity building activities with emphasis on the promotion of Innovation. More specifically, links with the EU technology platforms will be established allowing mutual learning and exchange of best practices for enhanced public-private partnerships between the t ...
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Physical processing of molten light alloys under the influence of external fields (EXOMET)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

The ExoMet proposal revolves around innovative liquid metal engineering and the application of external physical fields, in order to significantly influence the microstructures and properties of light alloys, such as aluminium and magnesium. Three types of external fields will be explored, namely: electromagnetic, ultrasonic and intensive mechanical shearing.To meet the future EU challenges of lig ...
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Creation of feasibility study for improvement of wastewater treatment facilities in Ukraine (CleanRiver)

Start date: Jan 31, 2016, End date: Jul 30, 2016,

Aim of the overall project: improvement of the waste water facilities in cities of Uzhgorod, Mukachevo and Beregovo leading to improved water quality in the river basins and Danube region.
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User-driven Participatory Solutions for Innovation in Digitally-centred Ecosystems (UPSIDE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The project UPSIDE aims at delivering economic and societal benefits by fostering the emergence and development of User-driven Participatory Solutions for Innovation in Digitally-centered Ecosystems.The project aims at promoting the development of cooperation frameworks and synergy linkages between research, innovation activities within the companies, urban development policies and open user-drive ...
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"FrontierCities - European Cities driving the Future Internet" (frontierCities)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

... cities w.r.t smart mobility uptake, it brings together an innovative dual approach of a pan-European focus in parallel with four local geographical focal points in B, I, SI, and UK. The consortium's innovation support has the capacity to deliver pan-European reach through the involvement of Europe's largest innovation and commercialisation support network (EBN Network), combined with a range of ...
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TAKE TECH

End date: Jun 25, 2016,

The project TAKE TECH aimed at spreading the method TAKETECH - awareness raising of young people for technical professions - all over Europe and partly to enhance the already existing TAKE TECH method. The target of TAKE TECH has been to link schools and technical companies through systematic matchmaking and to raise the awareness for technical issues among youngsters through school visits to such ...
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Collaborating for the excellence of public entities for business promotion. An example of policies aimed at the improvement of the competitiveness of the regional enterprises throughout the EFQM (CooExcell2015)

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

"The objective consists on using the "EFQM Framework for Innovation Agencies" as a tool for self-assessment by ADER (Spain), with a peer learning approach in which 2 other European Innovation or Economic Agencies participate.The project will end achieving the deliverable 'Recognised for Excellence EFQM assessment' that provides training and learning for all bodies involved in the process.This prop ...
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Out of a cultural box

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

This Training Course is tailored for youth project, “Out of Cultural Box” which was implemented in the frame of Erasmus+ under the Key action 1, learning mobility of individuals. This project was partnership between 12 represented by 30 youth workers. In order to ensure diversity on every level partners from program and partner countries were involved. The project activity was implemented in Vrn ...
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Transnational Network for Social Innovation Incubation (TRANSITION)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Transnational Network for Social Innovation Incubation – TRANSITION – is a 30-month project that supports the scaling-up of social innovations across Europe by developing a network of incubators which brings together established partners within the fields of social innovation (SI) and innovation-based incubation (IBI). TRANSITION will also provide learning output on which scaling methodologies are ...
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Local content in a Europeana cloud (LoCloud)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

LoCloud aims to build on the achievements of CARARE in establishing a repository-based aggregator for Archaeological and Architectural heritage and of Europeana Local in its work with local institutions and their regional and national aggregators, which resulted in the contribution to date of well over 5 million items to Europeana.The main goals of LoCloud are: to continue to ease the task of ena ...
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Broadband in EU Regions via satellite (BRESAT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Project BRESAT will define guidelines for the successful deployment of high speed broadband via satellite across regions of Europe to assist with the objective of 100% EU broadband coverage. It will support the objectives of the EU Digital Agenda and assist national regional initiatives. Project BRESAT will include following objectives:1.\tLeveraging previous experience, it will identify the cond ...
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INNOVATIVE THERMAL MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS FOR THERMAL PROTECTION OF FUTURE SPACE VEHICLES (THOR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

There are key space technologies existing at European level and during the last space calls many European projects are framed on space re-entry, but none of them dealing with radically new technologies, able to compete with technologies from other leading countries or allowing collaboration with them. The THOR project will provide knowledge in key space technologies for accessing space, through th ...
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Small scale thermal solar district units for Mediterranean communities (STS-Med)

Start date: Nov 16, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

The project in brief In the Mediterranean area, a large share of energy is consumed by households and in buildings. In addition to the dependence on fossil fuel, oil and natural gas, the primary energy demand is growing at a regular pace. Increasing the share of solar energy sources in the overall energy mix is a crucial goal for the Mediterranean area, as the exploitation of a sustainable renewab ...
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Euro-mediterranean GREen JOBs (EGREJOB)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

Project in brief Unemployment has been rising sharply in the Mediterranean area over the last years, affecting in particular young people and women. At the same time, the transition to a green economy represents a huge potential for job creation which requires new professional skills. To seize the opportunities offered by business growth related to environmental sustainability in sectors such as r ...
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MEDiterranean DEvelopment of Support schemes for solar Initiatives and Renewable Energies (MED DESIRE)

Start date: Jan 30, 2013, End date: Dec 29, 2015,

The project in brief Solar technology markets have experienced a steady growth in the last decade on the northern shore of the Mediterranean basin while the situation is still at a premature stage in Southern Partner Countries. Notwithstanding the shared political commitment and a common recognition of the huge solar potential of the Mediterranean region, some barriers to solar energy deployment a ...
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