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Biological feedbacks and ecosystem resilience under global change: a new perspective on dryland desertification (BIODESERT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Changes in climate and land use (e.g., increased grazing pressure), are two main global change components that also act as major desertification drivers. Understanding how drylands will respond to these drivers is crucial because they occupy 41% of the terrestrial surface and are home to over 38% of the world’s human population. Land degradation already affects ~250 million people in the developin ...
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Water - Sustainable Point-Of-Use Treatment Technologies (WATERSPOUTT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

The WHO estimates that in 2015 in Africa ~156 million people relied on untreated sources for their drinking water. WATERSPOUTT will design, develop, pilot and field-test a range of, sustainable point-of-use solar disinfection (SODIS) technologies that will provide affordable access to safe water to remote and vulnerable communities in Africa and elsewhere. These novel large-volume water treatment ...
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Glass bottles reuse in southern Europe wine sector (LIFE-reWINE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background Although recycling of packaging waste has been increased in the EU in recent years, the situation varies significantly between Member States; some countries such as Spain still recycle less than a third of their packaging waste. A large part of this waste stream is thus still being disposed in landfills and waste incinerators, causing significa ...
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Tackling international airline catering waste by demonstrating integral and safe recollection, separation & treatment (LIFE Zero Cabin Waste)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background At global level, air passengers generate 0.82 kg to 2.5 kg of waste, depending on distance and flight class, with an average of 1.43 kg (IATA, 2014). According to the Airports Council International (ACI), there were about 6.3 billion plane passengers worldwide in 2013, which equates to an annual estimate of 9 billion kg of waste. To date, mos ...
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Role of European Mobility and its Impacts in Narratives, Debates and EU Reforms (REMINDER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The overarching goal of the project is to understand the economic, social, institutional and policy factors that have shaped the impacts of free movement and public debates about it. It aims to help European policymakers develop policy responses that inspire public trust, ensure the fairness and sustainability of free movement, and maintain inclusive policies that reduce inequalities across the co ...
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ElasTest: an elastic platform for testing complex distributed large software systems (ELASTEST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The demand for larger and more interconnected software systems is constantly increasing, but the ability of developers to satisfy it is not evolving accordingly. The most limiting factor is software validation, which typically requires very costly and complex testing processes. This project aims at significantly improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the testing process and, with it, the ov ...
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L'université latino-américaine, au cœur des enjeux d'innovations techniques et sociales durables dans les systèmes agroalimentaires territoriaux

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

Through INOVIA’s project, the mains actors of the higher and vocational education system in Brazil, Costa Rica and Bolivia, will develop adaptative capacities in the field of agrofood processing, in a context of technological, economic and social changes of the sector. The aim will consist with professionalizing the training system and promoting its integration in the productive sector, to enhance ...
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Regulation of inflammatory response by extracellular ATP and P2X7 receptor signalling: through and beyond the inflammasome (Danger ATP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Inflammatory diseases affect over 80 million people worldwide and accompany many diseases of industrialized countries, being the majority of them infection-free conditions. There are few efficient anti-inflammatory drugs to treat chronic inflammation and thus, there is an urgent need to validate novel targets. We now know that innate immunity is the main coordinator and driver of inflammation. Rec ...
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Climatic and temporal control on microbial diversity-ecosystem functioning: insights from a novel conceptual model (CLIMIFUN). (CLIMIFUN)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

Despite the importance of soil microbial communities for ecosystem functioning and human welfare, little is known about the mechanisms controlling the composition and diversity of these communities, and the role of their attributes in providing multiple ecosystem functions and services such as nutrient cycling and decomposition (i.e. multifunctionality). Many studies have identified climate, stage ...
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CONnecting EXcellence to UC3M (CONEX)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) proposes a new fellowship programme for incoming mobility, called CONEX - CONnecting EXcellence to UC3M. The main objective of CONEX is to provide excellent training and career development opportunities to researchers, so that funded researchers can make significant steps in their scientific careers.Through CONEX, researchers who are not resident in Spai ...
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Advanced Nutrient Solutions With Electrochemical Recovery (LIFE-ANSWER)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Background Contaminants in wastewater from the brewing industry come mainly from equipment cleaning operations and treatment processes. The main pollutants are sulphates (1.2-2.0 Kg/h), bicarbonates (0.2-0.4 kg/hl) and nitrates (30-100 mg/l), which all cause severe environmental problems (especially in water bodies). The best techniques currently used for ...
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ESCUELA DE NIÑOS/AS - ESCUELA DE FAMILIAS: EDUCACIÓN Y FORMACIÓN INCLUSIVAS A TRAVÉS DEL ARTE TRABAJO CON DOCENTES MENORES Y FAMILIAS EN RIESGO DE EXCLUSIÓN SOCIAL

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The "School of children – School of families" project aims to respond to several basic priorities:1. reduce school absenteeism. 2 address situations of disadvantage with children and their families, and that’s why it is so important the development of the “School of parents“. 3. enhance the skills of educational professionals to overcome situations of disadvantage and absenteeism.The project fores ...
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Investigating the causes and consequences of replication stress in mammalian health (RSHEALTH)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

"DNA damage (DD) is the cause of several diseases, including cancer, and it is also linked to the organ decline that arises in ageing. Yet, the contribution of different sources of DD to these processes is not understood. Sources of DD such as chromosome breaks, eroded telomeres or oxidative stress are been heavily investigated. For establishing my group, I decided to focus on a source of DD that ...
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DIabetes REsearCh on patient sTratification (DIRECT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The overarching aims of the DIRECT consortium, consisting of 20 leading academic groups in diabetes and 5 EFPIA companies, are to identify biomarkers that address current bottlenecks in diabetes drug development and to develop a stratified medicines approach to treatment of type 2 diabetes with either existing or novel therapies.There is heterogeneity in who develops diabetes, the rate at which th ...
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Building body representations: An investigation of the formation and maintenance of body representations (BODYBUILDING)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"The body is ubiquitous in perceptual experience and is central to our sense of self and personal identity. Disordered body representations are central to several serious psychiatric and neurological disorders. Thus, identifying factors which contribute to the formation and maintenance of body representations is crucial for understanding how body representation goes awry in disease, and how it mig ...
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Software ENgineering in Enterprise Cloud Applications systems (SENECA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The growth of cloud computing is phenomenal, with vendors experiencing yearly growth over 90%. This reflects the rate at which organizations and individuals are leaving the comfort of tried and tested solutions to move into promising but uncharted territory.The aim of SENECA is no less than to address key issues in the software engineering of cloud-based systems, including a disciplined approach t ...
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Brillouin Distributed sensor for Aeronautical Structures (BRIDAS)

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

The proposal is addressed to the development of a prototype for distributed strain measurements in optical fibers for industrial aeronautical contexts: composite manufacturing plants, structural test platforms and airborne conditions. The prototype will be based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), and will be aimed to the structural health monitoring of composite parts employed in the aerona ...
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SUSTAINABLE AND LOW ENERGY WASTEWATER TREATMENT FOR WARM CLIMATES (LIFE CELSIUS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Background Two of the main environmental problems caused by water pollution are eutrophication (excessive nutrients) and hypoxia (oxygen starvation), which result from nutrient pollution of water bodies. They promote excessive plant growth and decay, favouring certain weedy species, and cause severe reductions in water quality. The EU Water Framework Dire ...
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PhotoCloth: A framework to synthesize real-time photorealistic cloth animation from video input. (PhotoCloth)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Computer Graphics is the area of computer science that studies methods for digitally synthesizing and animating visual content. Among all the potential contexts where computer graphics techniques can be used, cloth animation is a particularly interesting case since, in the real world, clothing is far more than just the physical objects that we wear; clothing is a key element to show someone’s expr ...
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Facing Old and New Challenges for Europe

Start date: Sep 12, 2016, End date: Sep 11, 2018,

Europe has to face new challenges while older problems remain still unresolved. For some countries, Europe seems to be nothing more than an option. We want to show by our project that Europe is not an option but the only possible solution to our problems.50 apprentices will spend a five weeks internship in Malta, improving their professional and language skills and experience the variety of Europ ...
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Fairytales – Fiction – Friendship Bertie the bookworm finds friends all over Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

During our three year project we want to develop our pupils’ reading competence which is one of the key skills in their education. Our five primary schools in England, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain will offer their children of all age groups different creative and child-friendly methods to motivate them to read more. We want them to realize that reading is a life skill that can inspire, help de ...
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Learning and Teaching Together

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The partner local authorities aim to take an innovative strategic view to reinforce our education systems and to improve collaboration internally as well as with parents and other external stakeholders. At systemic level, we expect to awaken a modernisation of education. Through this project we will engage and widen the school community and reinforce our response to the main challenges of to ...
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Teaching in the digital age

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The general objective of our project “Teaching in the Digital Age” is to increase the quality of VET education by motivating teachers of maths and vocational subjects to use modern methods of teaching with a strong support of digital media. In our project we want to initiate a process of continuing professional development of teachers and independent learning by joint work among teachers of partne ...
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Youth to Business Enterprise

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Context and rationale Youth unemployment in Europe is arguably one of the most pressing socio-economic issues most member states have been grappling with in the last few years. There is growing evidence that without further action we risk a lost generation of young people, shut out of the labour market and increasingly disconnected from work and learning. Youth unemployment is now above 1 million; ...
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On a journey with the ARTist

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Our project involves 6 European preprimary and primary schools from different countries: Belgium, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Romania and Spain. This project aims to develop a framework for arts education to strengthen the (inter)personal development of each child. That is why the partner organisations will perform activities that will contribute to the creation of a manual with arts education base ...
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HELP THE EARTH: REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The project "HELP THE EARTH: REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE" was conceived with the idea of creating a motivating and challenging enterprise with reference to all students. It is alternative to traditional ways of learning. The participant schools want to emphasize not only the idea of global thinking and acting, but also the necessity of taking responsibility and care for our planet. The project is addre ...
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International ICT Competitions for Increasing the Quality of Secondary Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

In total six secondary schools would be involved into the project named "International ICT competitions for increasing the quality of secondary education". The main objective of the project is to increase the level of ICT skills and good command of office pack in English environment (for our students strange, unoriginal environment) which help increase their qualification and facilitate their labo ...
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Leicester College Construction Project

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

This project will target learners from Leicester Colleges construction department, who are studying one of the following Level 3 qualifications:- Electrical Installation- Plumbing- Construction and the Built EnvironmentThe participants will complete a 4 week Mobility in Seville, Spain where they will work within several construction companies, improving their work based knowledge and skills and in ...
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Employability & Vocationally Focused Work Based Learning

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

This project will provide participants with a Mobility lasting for 6 weeks, located in Spain, Croatia or Greece, offering meaningful work experience that will be credit bearing and contribute to the participants' Level 2 Certificate in Employability. The project has been developed to respond to the growing challenge of youth unemployment in the UK, providing each participant with an opportunity t ...
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NUEVOS ENFOQUES METODOLÓGICOS, INNOVACIÓN CURRICULAR EUROPEO EN EL CEIP JUAN ARMARIO.

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

A) Socio – educational context.We are an Infant and Primary School, located in a small rural town in the interior of the Cadiz province. Our educational offer includes infant education, primary education and special education (3-11 years). Our social and educational context is diverse and accentuated by its rural nature. The socioeconomic status of the families is quite low and unequal. A high per ...
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Dezvoltare durabila prin formare de specialisti in protectia mediului

Start date: Aug 31, 2016, End date: Aug 30, 2018,

The need to apply for a mobility project for vocational training students in partnership with companies came as the results of the analysis made by the Board of observation and study of the labor market (PSO), that has been functioning in school since 2012. This board has the mission to observe the employment at local and regional level, collect and process information (analysis and forecasts) c ...
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La apertura europea al servicio de la movilidad profesional de los jóvenes

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

Our project comes from the need our school has of providing our students the possibility of opening to Europe, its languages, its working, social world, so that they can increase their competence in these aspects: linguistic, professional and social. This project will take place with six students of the vocational training course of auxiliary nurse, that will do a training course in a French schoo ...
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Movilidad FCT Juan XXIII 2016

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

The project will be managed between CFP Juan XXII, the BSZ (Germany), OGEC Saint Louis Saint Bruno - Lycee Jamet Buffereau , Basingstoke College (UK ) and Camara de Comercio Italiana per la Spagna (Italy). The four partners will find companies to host exchange students. The three Intermediation partners will get in touch with local companies to find training possibilities for the Spanish stud ...
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LA MALLE EUROPEENNE

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

"THE EUROPEAN TRUNK"The Lycée des Métiers d'Art Design-Mobilier-Décoration of Coarraze is a public establishment of professional formation located in the Pyrénées Atlantiques, on the mountains foothills. Between Pau and Lourdes in the plain of Nay, it sits within a semi-rural region of cabinet making tradition. It hosts young people between 15 and 22 years old, who graduated from Year 3 (Year 10 i ...
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Pași spre competențe profesionale sporite și principii europene de mediu în industria mobilei

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

...em regulations and do not have highly qualified specialists. The transnational partnership consists of:“Toma N. Socolescu” Technical College Ploiesti - beneficiary-Carpinteria Los Tres Juanes from Granada- Spain and MIG IRMAOS GOMES Barcelos-Portugal- host organizations- MEP Europrojects Granada, Spain and Amigos de Mobilidade Barcelos, Portugalia – intermediary organisations.Project objectives:O ...
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Weiterentwicklung der Europäisierung der Schulcurricula am Lloyd Gymnasium

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

With this project we plan to continue our idea of a European and international orientated school curriculum. We see a unique possibility to continue the development of our school development plan. This project is an important part in our entire school development process. The aims of this project is to deliver an important part to improve our defined needs: improvement of teaching quaility and imp ...
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Relación entre la calidad tonal percibida del violín y las características intrínsecas, geométricas y acústicas de los materiales de la caja armónica.

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

BACKGROUNDWhat is taught in different violin making schools and has reached to our times comes from a few treaties, documents, measurements made in the nineteenth century in the best instruments and some molds made by those who were the biggest Cremonese violin makers of the XVI-XVIII centuries. Thanks to the new technology and the efforts of luthiers interested in science and scientists fully inv ...
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V.A.L.L.E.Y. - Vocational Alliance: from Learning to Labour for European Young

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

“VALLEY - Vocational Alliance: from Learning to Labour for the European Young" is a mobility project aiming at promoting the employability of young people coming from Tourism and Agribusiness sector and at facilitating their entrance into the labour market. This should also have a positive effect in terms of the national economy revitalization, especially in the South of Italy. Tourism and Agrib ...
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Vulnerability of soil organic carbon to climate change in permafrost and dryland ecosystems (VULCAN)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Soil organic matter provides essential ecosystem services and is one of the largest C reservoirs on Earth, holding more than three-fold as much C as does the atmosphere. Over 75% of the global soil organic C pool is stored in permafrost and dryland regions, both under high pressure due to climate change. In particular, global warming may accelerate soil organic matter decomposition in these ecosys ...
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Computer-Aided Fashion with Yarn-Level Fabric Models (FabricMetrics)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

The Animetrics ERC Starting Grant has led to the invention of the first computer models capable of simulating in an accurate, efficient and robust manner the behavior of full textiles using a yarn-level representation. The proposed models handle frictional yarn interactions at the small scale, yet they naturally produce the rich large-scale nonlinearity of textiles. In contrast, models used in the ...
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