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Early Prevention of Diabetes Complications in people with Hyperglycaemia in Europe (E-PREDICE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"Background: A significant proportion of pre-diabetics, show macro and micro vascular complications associated with hyperglycaemia. Although many trials have demonstrated the efficacy of lifestyle and pharmaceutical interventions in diabetes prevention, no trial has evaluated the extent to which mid- and long-term complications can be prevented by early interventions on hyperglycaemia.Aims: To ass ...
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SOCIAL ECOSYSTEM FOR ANTI-AGING, CAPACITATION AND WELLBEING (SEACW)

Start date: Feb 4, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Description The objective of the project is to create an ecosystem including tools for the provision of training, literacy, information and awareness in the area of ICT for active and healthy aging. There are two main target groups: agents for social inclusion, and the elderly and the general population. For the first target group, agents of ...
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Recovery of riparian habitats of the Ter river (Riparia-Ter)

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

Background The quantity and quality of riparian habitats along the River Ter in Catalonia (Spain) has decreased in most areas of the river basin. In many places, only impoverished woodland habitats remain in a narrow belt along the river’s course. A key factor has been the loss of natural river dynamics following agricultural, urban or industrial develo ...
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Smart Food and Agribusiness: Future Internet for Safe and Healthy Food from Farm to Fork (SmartAgriFood)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The SmartAgriFood project addresses the food and agribusiness as a use case for the Future Internet. The intelligence, efficiency, sustainability and performance of the agri-food sector can be radically enhanced by using information & decision support systems that are tightly integrated with advanced internet-based networks & services. Concurrently, the sector provides extremely demanding use case ...
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Development of the Cephalochordate amphioxus, Branchiostoma lanceolatum, as a new model for regeneration (AmphiREG)

Start date: Apr 15, 2009, End date: Apr 14, 2011,

While the ability to regenerate lost body parts or organs is legendary in invertebrates like echinoderms, chordates-and mammals in particular-have quite limited regenerative ability. The exceptions par excellence are salamanders, which can regenerate lens, limbs and tails. Unfortunately, vertebrate models of regeneration are costly to maintain, suffer from necessary ethical considerations, and are ...
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RTD-based Cluster iniciative to target future challenges of the Valencia plastic processing industry (PLASTIVAL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

"The plastic processing industry faces many challenges, although the use of plastics grows with new opportunities and applications To take advantage, SMEs have to innovate and diversify their business offer. Clusters assist this process by joining technical centres to monitor technological development, and suppliers of equipment and materials to improve competitiveness. The plastic processing indu ...
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Young people and the images of science on websites (YOSCIWEB)

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

To face the issue of the declining interest of young people for studying and working in science and more generally to reduce the doubt in the population regarding the link progress/science, the public authorities as well as large companies and professional associations have developed initiatives and tools. Scientific websites play an important role as it is a new media, well adopted by the young ...
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