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Exploitation of aromatic plants’ by-products for the development of novel cosmeceuticals and food supplements. (EXANDAS)

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

‘EXANDAS’ project aims to apply emerging and cutting edge technologies in the field of Natural Product Chemistry in order to fully and efficiently exploit the therapeutic potential of medicinal and aromatic processing waste and by-products. New opportunities for the generation of innovative products with high added value in the field of cosmeceuticals and food supplements are expected to be gener ...
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European Gram Negative Antibacterial Engine (ENABLE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The intensive use and misuse of antibiotics has resulted in some level of antibiotic resistance in essentially all human bacterial pathogens. There is a growing concern that the loss of therapeutic options will present us with a post-antibiotic era where present and future medical advances are negated. Resistant bacteria dramatically reduce the possibilities of treating infections effectively, a ...
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DEVICE FOR LARGE SCALE FOG DECONTAMINATION (COUNTERFOG)

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

COUNTERFOG will be a new, rapid response system for collapsing all kinds of dispersed agents (smoke, fog, spores, etc.) by using a fog made of a solution that could eventually contain any kind of neutralizing component. It will be a permanent installation in large public buildings like railway stations but also a portable COUNTERFOG for use outdoors, used to counteract a CBRN attack in its earlies ...
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Increasing Value and Flow in the Marine Biodiscovery Pipeline (PHARMASEA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The PharmaSea project focuses on obstacles in marine biodiscovery research, development and commercialization and brings together a broad interdisciplinary team of academic and industry researchers and specialists to address and overcome these. The partners are ideally placed to demonstrate how to widen the bottlenecks and increase the flow of ideas and products derived from the marine microbiome ...
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Pushing the Envelope of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Paramagnetic Systems. A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Approach (pNMR)

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

A network combining 9 academic research groups and 4 collaborating industrial companies is proposed to train the next generation of PhD students and post-doctoral researchers, in developing and applying novel experimental and theoretical methods in the NMR spectroscopy of systems containing paramagnetic metals. The assembled team, with researchers distributed throughout the EU, will investigate a ...
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Production of Coatings for New Efficient and Clean Coal Power Plant Materials (POEMA)

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

"The overall objective is the development of new coatings for supercritical steam power plants for efficient and clean coal utilization. A significant reduction of emissions is expected by increasing efficiencies to ŋ > 50%. Currently, an efficiencies of 45% have been achieved in the last 30 years from subcritical 180 bar/540ºC to ultra-supercritical 300 bar/600-620ºC corresponding to a specific ...
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New permanent magnets for electric-vehicle drive applications (MAG-DRIVE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"The future of road transport is electric - within the foreseeable future, pure electric vehicles (EVs) will populate our roads. Vital to the success of this transition is improved, next-generation motors based on improved magnetic materials; which provide high levels of flux at elevated temperatures, while retaining resistance to reverse magnetic fields and the corrosion problems associated with ...
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Safety of ACtinide Separation proceSSes (SACSESS)

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

"Nuclear power plays a key role in limiting EU’s greenhouse gases emissions, and makes an important contribution to improve European Union’s independence, security and diversity of energy supply. However, its social acceptance is closely linked to an enhanced safety in the management of long-lived radioactive waste contributing to resource efficiency and cost-effectiveness of this energy and ensur ...
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Waste Heat to Electrical Energy via Sustainable Organic Thermoelectric Devices (H2ESOT)

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

It is estimated that mankind wastes ~20% of the 15 terawatts required annually for global power consumption as low level heat (
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The discovery, development and demonstration of biocatalysts for use in the industrial synthesis of chiral chemicals (KYROBIO)

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

The objective of KYROBIO project is to broaden the toolbox of single enantiomer chiral chemicals that are produced by industry in Europe using biotechnological routes. The main target is applications of lyase enzymes to selectively synthesize molecules with multiple chiral centres applying enzymatic carbon-carbon and carbon-nitrogen bond formation as the key technical platforms. We will then apply ...
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Public healthcare and plastics makers demonstrate how to remove barriers to PVC-free blood bags in the spirit of REACH (PVCFreeBloodBag)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Sep 1, 2015,

Background The presence of PVC in blood bags causes exposure to DEHP plasticiser and PVC plastics during blood transfusions. In an oligopolistic market structure, suppliers have limited incentives to improve their environmental performance. This is particularly true when new innovations compete with their existing products and represent a marginal percent ...
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Single-molecule magnets based on the orbitally-degenerate spin centers and stable organic radicals complexes (VoLuRad)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The finding some polynuclear complexes can behave like magnets on the molecular level attracted much attention, opening perspectives for their applications in processing devices or for high density information storage carriers. To manifest single-molecule magnet (SMM) behaviour a polynuclear complex should have a high-spin ground-state and strong negative anisotropy (D). The energy barrier, U, sep ...
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A Modular Nanosystems Platform for Advanced Cancer Management: Nano-vehicles; Tumor Targeting and Penetration Agents; Molecular Imaging, Degradome based Therapy (SAVEME)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

SaveMe project will address current urgent needs for pancreatic cancer diagnosis and treatment by exploiting partners’ expertise and most recent research achievements for the design and development of novel modular nanosystems platform integrating new functionalized nano-core particles and active agents. The modular platform will enable the design of diverse active nanosystems per diagnostic or th ...
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FUnctional Nitrides for Energy Applications (FUNEA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

...ropean science and technology. Specifically, FUNEA aims to train 11 ESRs and 2 ERs with an overall target of 40% women researchers, and (iii) to establish a European network of scientists in academic institutes and industry in the field of inorganic nitrides, that will continue to grow and enhance European competitiveness over the next years.
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European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (EGI-InSPIRE)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Scientific research is no longer conducted within national boundaries and is becoming increasing dependent on the large-scale analysis of data, generated from instruments or computer simulations housed in trans-national facilities, by using e Infrastructure (distributed computing and storage resources linked by high-performance networks).The 48 month EGI-InSPIRE project will continue the transitio ...
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Sharing Collectively the Competences of the Researchers To The Farmers For A Sustainable And Ecological Exploitation Of The Agricultural and Environment Protection (ECO-AGRI)

Start date: Dec 27, 2012, End date: Dec 26, 2014,

The overall objective of the project is to bring a contribution through commune effort of the partner for a sustainable development in the project areas, through actions for improving the agricultural practices and awareness on reducing chemical fertilizers uses. Achievements: ...
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Development of novel antiviral drugs against Influenza (FLUCURE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"Influenza viruses cause a highly contagious respiratory disease in both humans and animals. Typically, influenza spreads worldwide in seasonal epidemics resulting in an estimated 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths annually. In addition to these seasonal epidemics there have been several pandemics since the early 1900’s, where highly virulent strains emerged, the ...
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Networking of materials laboratories and innovation actors in various industrial sectors for product or process innovation (InnoMatNet)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

InnoMatNet aims to advance the goal of an innovation society by developing a flexible approach that establishes teams of innovators, which link materials labs with industry, (particularly the creative industry) as well as other innovation actors providing support to help them bring new products and processes to market. Through conducting a needs assessment and mapping support required against supp ...
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Co-operation of SEE science parks for the promotion of transnational market uptake of R&D results and technologies by SMEs  (SEETechnology)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

...aff of the PPs and the targeted SMEs. Led by the University of Maribor a strong and balanced partnership from 6 members states and 1 IPA country has been composed of leading universities and research institutes with already operational technology transfer offices and SME-support activities and regional/national level policy makers (some of them as ASPs) ensuring that project results will be sustai ...
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Carbon Dioxide Mitigation from Greenhouse Gases in Algal Photosynthetic Systems (ALGAE-GHG)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Background Fossil fuel power plants are responsible for some 24% of total EU-27 CO2 emissions and 48% of Romanian emissions. The plants producing electricity in a combined schedule are included on the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), which is the largest multinational, emissions trading scheme in the world and a major pillar of EU climat ...
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Housing and Home-care for the Elderly and vulnerable people and Local Partnership Strategies in Central European cities (HELPS)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Europe is witnessing deep socio-demographic changes, namely the progressive ageing of its population. Elderly and vulnerable persons are increasingly at risk of social exclusion in urban areas due to the impoverishment of family and social linkages and significant infrastructure constraints. At present, the institutionalization of elderly and persons with disabilities presents some critical aspect ...
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Integrated system for protect and analyse the status and trends of water threatened by nitrogen pollution (CLEANWATER)

Start date: Oct 15, 2010, End date: Jul 1, 2014,

Background The Barlad river basin represents 17% of the surface of the Siret river basin - the largest in Romania and a major affluent of the Danube from the Eastern Romanian Carpathians. It is characterised by a high number of nitrate sources from agriculture and villages and has many ‘nitrate vulnerable’ zones. Along the 207 km of the Barlad river ...
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Innovative polymer materials and quality control to improve the cross-border development strategies (POLYMEDA)

Start date: Nov 6, 2011, End date: May 6, 2014,

The project aims to promote the technologic exchange in the productive processes of agro-food and fisheries processing and packaging, in order to constitute specialised competences through training initiatives (Training course on mediation of innovation) and activation of competences for the creation of specific tools supporting the innovation of the enterprises system in the Ariana region, with t ...
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Innovative value chain development for sustainable plastics in Central Europe (PLASTiCE)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

Capability for the diffusion of innovative biodegradable solutions among producers of packaging and other plastic products is dependent on the expectations of end-user industries (food sector, retail, medical and health sector). As long as these players are not convinced of the economic and environmental benefits of introducing biodegradable packaging and half products in their production systems, ...
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Attracting investments in plasma-based air and water cleaning technologies (PlasTEP+)

Start date: Nov 30, 2012, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

The most efficient method to attract investments from public bodies and private companies towards innovative air and water cleaning technologies is to demonstrate the results and efficiency of the technology's practical application. Within the main stage project PlasTEP, different demonstration models in DK, SE, DE and PL were realised and used for demonstration activities. Unfortunately, it was n ...
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ChemCatSusDe: Chemical Catalysis towards a Sustainable Development: Transformation of Bio-Resources and Atom-Efficient Reactions Catalyzed by Bio-Metals (ChemCatSusDe)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

ChemCatSusDe addresses some of the industrial and economical issues of our society: fossil fuel depletion, use of renewable resources derived from the biomass, environmentally friendly chemistry for a sustainable future. At its core lies the versatility of complexes of zinc, magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium (the so-called bio-metals): green catalysts able to perform both the polymerisation ...
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Nanotechnology for Chemical Enterprises – how to link scientific knowledge to the business in the Central Europe space (NANOFORCE)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Oct 30, 2013,

It is worth pointing out that the word "nanotechnology" has become very popular and rightly so as if by rearranging atoms we can produce something completely different, number of possibilities is endless. Nanotechnology currently underpins many practical applications (medical, Information and communication technologies, energy production, food-water, security, broad range of materials etc..) and ...
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How could the logistics and the safety of the transports of chemicals be improved in the Mediterranean area (LOSAMEDCHEM)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 30, 2013,

The project originates from the development of the traffic of chemicals in the Mediterranean and aims to reach these main objectives: 1) promote cooperation among chemical districts and between them and the main harbours 2) improve integration between harbours/hinterlands 3) sustain intermodality 4)reinforce the railways/waterways transportation for chemical products 5) promote a transfer o ...
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Urban Soil Management Strategy (URBAN-SMS)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Mar 30, 2013,

Central Europe is characterised by a relatively high population density. In some of the countries a quarter of the total national population lives in the capital agglomeration, in the other countries urban networks of larger towns exist. These urban areas have a high economic potential, but they are facing a concentration of environmental, social and economic problems often triggered by increasing ...
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Aromatic Foldamers for Single Molecule Electronics (FOSIMEL)

Start date: Mar 5, 2012, End date: Mar 4, 2013,

"Recent work has demonstrated 1°) the synthetic accessibility of rigid, rod-like, helically folded aromatic amide oligomers of very large size – up to 48 units, over 12 kDa, and 7 nm long; and 2) the ability of short segments of the same oligomers to transport electrons at very fast rates via a super exchange mechanism. This project plans to investigate the potential of such unusual synthetic obje ...
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BEES IN EUROPE AND THE DECLINE OF HONEYBEE COLONIES (BEE DOC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"The BEE DOC comprises a network of eleven partners from honeybee pathology, chemistry, genetics and apicultural extension aiming to improve colony helath of honeybees. The BEE DOC will empirically and experimentally fill knowledge gaps in honey bee pest and diseases, including the 'colony collapse disorder' and quantify the impact of ineractions between parasites, pathogens and pesticides on hone ...
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Enhancing Access and Services To East European users towards an efficient and coordinated panEuropean pool of NMR capacities to enable global collaborative research & boost technological advancements (EAST-NMR)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

"Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a key technology for research in the modern Life Sciences, with an increasing impact on human health. This technology is unique in new areas of molecular systems biology providing detailed insight into protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions. NMR Research Infrastructures (RIs) are of primary importance here; they offer the resources necessa ...
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Fast Rechargeable Zinc-Polymer Battery based on Ionic Liquids (PolyZion)

Start date: Aug 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

Current battery technologies for hybrid (HEVs) and small electric vehicles (EVs) have technological, cost or environmental limitations. Despite this, the global market for HEVs and EVs is growing rapidly and is expected to top $2billion by 2015. The PolyZion project will create a new class of fast rechargeable zinc-polymer battery for hybrid and small electric vehicle applications. The research p ...
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Monitoring Soil Biological Activity by using a novel tool: EDAPHOLOG-System - system building and field testing (MEDAPHON)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Background Soil is defined as the top layer of the earth’s crust. It is formed by mineral particles, organic matter, water, air and living organisms. It is a complex, variable and living medium. As well as providing a habitat for many species it performs many vital ecosystem functions including production of food and biomass, filtration of water and tra ...
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Dissemination and fostering of plasma based technological innovation for environment protection in BSR (PlasTEP)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

...st several contacts to service providers could... be initiated. They were informed about possibilities and new trends in plasma technologies and access to new technologies (e.g. by licenses from the institutes).Furthermore, the project supports the establishing of contacts to potential customers, who were also informed by the project about e.g. possible solutions for existing pollution problems. ...
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Actinide reCycling by SEParation and Transmutation (ACSEPT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"Actinide recycling by separation and transmutation is considered worldwide and particularly in several European countries as one of the most promising strategies to reduce the inventory of radioactive waste, thus contributing to make nuclear energy sustainable. Consistently with potentially viable recycling strategies, the Collaborative Project ACSEPT will provide a structured R&D framework to de ...
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Development of carbohydrate array technology to systematically explore the functional role of glycans in healthy and diseased states (EuroGlycoArrays)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

The development and production of glycoarrays will provide the foreground knowledge necessary to lead to a step change in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases ranging from cancers to autoimmune diseases. Carbohydrates play a pivotal role in the molecular interactions that govern biological events at the centre of health and disease. This has become more evident as the characterisation and ident ...
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Neurotransmitter Cys-loop receptors: structure, function and disease (NeuroCypres)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

Cys-loop receptors (CLRs) form a superfamily of structurally related neurotransmitter-gated ion channels, comprising nicotinic acetylcholine, glycine, GABA-A/C and serotonin (5HT3) receptors, crucial to function of the peripheral and central nervous system. CLRs cover a wide spectrum of functions, ranging from muscle contraction to cognitive functions. CLR (mal)function is linked to various disord ...
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Management, recycling and recovery of wastes of recreational boat scrapping (BOATCYCLE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jul 1, 2012,

Background The leisure sailing sector has grown in recent years in Mediterranean countries. At the beginning of 2007, 43 774 boats were registered in Spain, but by the end of the year a further 11 667 (2 432 in Catalonia) were registered. These boats have a significant environmental impact because after their useful life they become a ‘waste product’ ...
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Integrating Nanomaterials in Formulations (InForm)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

A coordination action is proposed to reinforce the international dimension of EU research on nanomaterials in formulations in the Asia-Pasific region. Three mechanism will be implemented to reach the widest possible audience in the appropriate formats that are convenient to the different stakeholders: (1) yearly major events, that will introduce a new concept to scientific gatherings and a departu ...
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