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Restoration of sterlet populations in the Austrian Danube (LIFE Sterlet)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Background The sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus) is the smallest species of the Danube sturgeons and resides for its whole lifecycle in freshwater without the need to migrate to the Black Sea. Sterlets are still present in very small quantities in the Upper Danube whereas the large anadromous sturgeon species became extinct in the last century due to overfishi ...
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RECAP: Research on European Children and Adults born Preterm (RECAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

The project’s overall aim is to improve the health, development and quality of life of children and adults born very preterm (VPT, < 32 weeks of gestation) or very low birth weight (VLBW, < 1500g) – approximately 50 000 births each year in Europe – by establishing an ICT platform to integrate, harmonise and exploit the wealth of data from 20 European cohorts of VPT/VLBW children and adults and the ...
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TRANSlating the role of Mitochondria in Tumorigenesis (TRANSMIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The consolidation of the knowledge that cancer is not only a genetic, but also a metabolic disease, has led scientists to investigate the intricate metabolic plasticity that transformed cells must undergo to survive the adverse tumor microenvironment conditions, and the contribution of oncogenes and tumor suppressors in shaping metabolism. In this scenario, genetic, biochemical and clinical eviden ...
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Comorbidity and Synapse Biology in Clinically Overlapping Psychiatric Disorders (COSYN)

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

COSYN integrates outstanding European academic and three large Pharma to exploit genomic findings for intellectual disability (ID), autism, and schizophrenia. We capitalise on comorbidity, from clinic to cells and synapses, and have access to large existing samples. We focus on rare genetic variants of strong effect in patients with clinical comorbidity. Our aims are: (1) Understand comorbidity by ...
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A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities (Danube:Future)

Start date: Jan 9, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2020,

Danube:Future is a joint contribution of the Danube Rectors’ Conference (DRC) and the Alps-Adriatic Rectors’ Conference (AARC), thus tapping the largest pool of institutionalized knowledge in the Danube River Basin. Based on this network, interdisciplinary research and education in the DRB will be undertaken. Any path towards a sustainable future of the region has to account for the solution of p ...
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Restore desertified areas with an innovative tree growing method across the Mediterranean border to increase resilience. (LIFE The Green Link)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

...s that reduce the vulnerability and strengthen the resilience of Mediterranean ecosystems. The idea of replacing irrigation by using ‘water buckets’ to plant trees was tested by an earlier LIFE project, The Green Deserts (LIFE09 ENV/ES/000447). The Green Link project aims to improve the methods trialled by the earlier project in order to lower production and planting costs, thus making the te ...
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ROCKET

Start date: Mar 31, 2016, End date: Mar 30, 2020,

Description (EN): The "ROCKET - Regional Collaboration on Key Enabling Technologies" project is the engine to bring the Comprehensive Economic competencies in the area of KETs in the German-Dutch border area together, to build and to deploy a measurable and future-oriented economic development .KETs enable innovations in various application domains. The combination of technology and ...
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Sustainable adaptation of typical EU farming systems to climate change (LIFE AGRI ADAPT)

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

...gricultural Policy (CAP) and Cohesion Policy can increase the resilience of EU agriculture to climate change. Objectives LIFE AGRI ADAPT aims to increase the resilience of EU agriculture to climate change by demonstrating sustainable best-practice adaptation measures with an ecosystem-based approach at farm level. The r ...
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Advanced Regenerative and REStorative Therapies to combat corneal BLINDNESS (ARREST BLINDNESS)

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

Over 30 million Europeans are blind or visually impaired, leading to reduced quality of life and a tremendous loss of productivity in society. Corneal blindness is the second largest cause of blindness globally and while treatable, millions remain unnecessarily blind due to issues of access to transplantable tissue, lack of standardized treatments, and the lag in translating new regenerative medic ...
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Danube River REsearch And Management…from Basic Research to Knowledge Society (DREAM)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2019,

Aims of the projecta) An important aim is to enable research on hydrodynamic, sediment transport, morphodynamic, and ecological processes in the various reaches of the Danube River by means of adequate hydraulic laboratories that provide a significant discharge (up to 10 m³/s without pumping) and space (large scale models).b) On the basis of an improved understanding of the processes, derive ...
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Development of an Easy-to-use Metagenomics Platform for Agricultural Science (MetaPlat)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

The aim of this project is to bring together experts from the academic and non-academic sectors and to create an easy-to-use integrated hardware and software platform. This will enable the rapid analysis of large metagenomic datasets. It will provide actionable insights into probiotic supplement usage, methane production and feed conversion efficiency in cattle. In the recent years, the number of ...
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Short supply chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (SKIN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

SKIN is an ambitious initiative of 20 partners in 14 countries in the area of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs). It intends to systematise and bring knowledge to practitioners, promote collaboration within a demand-driven innovation logic and provide inputs to policymaking through links to the EIP-AGRI. SKIN will build and animate a community of about 500 stakeholders, with the strategic objective ...
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MOdel based coNtrol framework for Site-wide OptmizatiON of data-intensive processes (MONSOON)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The MONSOON vision is to provide Process Industries with dependable tools to help achieving improvements in the efficient use and re-use of raw resources and energy.MONSOON aims at establishing a data-driven methodology supporting the exploitation of optimization potentials by applying multi-scale model based predictive controls in production processes.MONSOON features harmonized site-wide dynamic ...
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Restoration of Estonian alvar grasslands (LIFE to alvars)

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

Background Alvar grasslands are semi-natural grasslands with thin lime-rich soil on limestone bedrock. One third of all the alvar grasslands in Europe are found in Estonia. However, currently less than 30% of these are being managed annually (i.e. by animal grazing), which is necessary for the long-term survival of this habitat type. Unmanaged sites have ...
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EU Environmental Policy and Law

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

...tudy thoroughly and learn from experience of the European Union Member States, and to prepare a new generation of public officials being able to effectively implement EU environmental policy into the life of Ukrainian society. Environmental problems are very complicated in Ukraine and have accumulated over many years, starting in the Soviet past. Ukraine really needs better environmental governanc ...
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Developing and implementing a community-based intervention to create a more supportive social and physical environment for lifestyle changes to prevent diabetes in vulnerable families across Europe (Feel4Diabetes)

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

...ent of type 2 diabetes”. The aim of this project is to develop, implement and evaluate a community-based intervention aiming to create a more supportive social and physical environment to promote lifestyle and behaviour change to prevent type 2 diabetes among families from low and middle income countries and from vulnerable groups in high income countries in Europe. Methods: The PRECEDE-PROCEED Mo ...
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Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMVs) from “Vaccinobacter”: A Synthetic Biology approach for effective vaccines against infectious diseases and cancer (OMVAC)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2019,

This proposal intends to apply Synthetic Biology to create a new bacterial species, Vaccinobacter, devoted to the production of multivalent, highly effective vaccines. The project originates from the evidence that Outer membrane Vesicles (OMVs) naturally produced by all Gram-negative bacteria can induce remarkable protective immunity, a property already exploited to develop anti-Neisseria vaccines ...
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Energy consumption and CO2 and NOx emissions Minimised in an Intermittent Ceramic Kiln (LIFE ECONOMICK)

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

...intensive industries. The sector is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, producing an estimated 1.84 million tonnes of CO2 globally, including 400 000 tonnes of CO2 in the EU. The LIFE ECONOMICK project fully contributes to the European Union’s climate and energy targets related to reducing emissions from energy-intensive industries. Furthermore, it has been designed to respo ...
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CO.Create 2016- CO.Design education and training for creative professionals

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

CO. Design is an approach to design attempting to actively involve all stakeholders (e.g. employees, partners, customers, citizens, end users) in the design process to help ensure the result meets their needs and is usable. CO. Design is focused on processes and procedures of design and not a design style. As more creative professionals use Co. Design, the need for students and graduates to be edu ...
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Metrics, Models and Foresight for European Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security (SUSFANS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Strengthening food and nutrition security (FNS) in the EU requires a move towards a diet that supports sustainable food consumption and production. To gauge the policy reforms needed for this major societal challenge, the SUSFANS-consortium will identify how food production and nutritional health in the EU can be aligned. The multidisciplinary research agenda of SUSFANS will build the conceptual f ...
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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,

...project aims at an innovative organizational steel by-products management model able to reach high levels of resource and energy efficiency, which considers a cascade of upgrading processes and a life cycle perspective.All these demonstrations will be lead by the industries involved in the RESLAG consortium. The RESLAG project is supported by the main organizations representing energy-intensive in ...
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International Partners Sharing Skills (iPass)

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

The Homeless World Cup Foundation is a charity registered in Scotland. Our main work involves the facilitation and growth of a network of social organisations around the world that use football to help improve the lives of people who have been excluded from society. Often this exclusion results in an individual experiencing a period of homelessness.We currently have 74 official national partner or ...
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Improving professionals training in Ornithological tourism, in islands of Southern Europe

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

...project arises with the main objectives: Improve training of professional adult bird tourism in islands of southern Europe (islands in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian). Enhance training throughout life, accessible to all professionals through the use of ICT. Provide training to youth and other disadvantaged groups, to broaden their job prospects without leaving their territories.The main produc ...
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A simple blood test for prognosis and monitoring of patients undergoing cancer therapy. (ONCOCHECK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The objective of the ONCOCHECK project is to bring to the healthcare market a unique solution for cancer prognosis and monitoring which is a simple and inexpensive (
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Strategic Planning for Alpine River Ecosystems – Integrating protection and development (SPARE)

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

... The Alps are Europes WATER-TOWERS, providing MULTIPLE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES such as water for human consumption, agriculture, industry, energy and maintaining tourism, recreation & quality of life not only for the residents but also for surrounding lowlands & big metropolitan areas. Alpine rivers are the BLUE BACKBONES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, but only healthy rivers can provide such es ...
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Integrated planning tool to ensure viability of grasslands (LIFE Viva Grass)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

...rds economically viable and area-specific management models for the multifunctional use of grasslands. Objectives The LIFE Viva Grass project aims to contribute to the improvement of land use and nature conservation policies and to the legal framework for the long-term maintenance of grassland biodiversity and the ec ...
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Ecology from Farm to Fork Of microbial drug Resistance and Transmission (EFFORT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

...chnologies. EFFORT will include an exposure assessment of humans from animal/environmental sources. The ecological studies on isolates will be verified by in vitro and in vivo studies. Moreover, real-life intervention studies will be conducted aiming at reducing the use of antimicrobials in veterinary practice. Focus will be on understanding the eco-epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance from an ...
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FORMACION EN CENTROS DE TRABAJO EUROPEO

Start date: Nov 7, 2016, End date: Nov 6, 2018,

...the European Credit system for VET, although in Spain dosn't work yet wew will follow the procedures like MOU, learning agreement, etc. The project works in particular to realise an European area for Lifelong Learning.The whole activities are implemented by regarding a strong European perspective which is reflected in all project activities and results. The project aims to increase the knowledge o ...
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AGROVEGA+

Start date: Nov 7, 2016, End date: Nov 6, 2018,

...the European Credit system for VET, although in Spain dosn't work yet wew will follow the procedures like MOU, learning agreement, etc. The project works in particular to realise an European area for Lifelong Learning in the agricultural, agro-industrial, auxiliar sector and environmental sectors.The whole activities are implemented by regarding a strong European perspective which is reflected in ...
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CÁDIZ JÓVENES EUROPEOS II

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

The “CÁDIZ European Youths” Project is fixed in a city particularly affected by unemployment and lack of opportunities, which concerns the way the youths face their immediate environment and therefore negative personal growth and professional development. In this regard, from the Cádiz City Council manage this project nowadays supporting the educational centers of the city in the mobility and ...
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Targets and biomarkers for antiepileptogenesis (EPITARGET)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Epilepsy is a devastating condition affecting over 50 million people worldwide. This multidisciplinary project is focused on the process leading to epilepsy, epileptogenesis, in adults. Our main hypothesis is that there are combinations of various causes, acting in parallel and/or in succession, that lead to epileptogenesis and development of seizures. Our central premise and vision is that a comb ...
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Empowering Teachers and Pupils for a Better Life through Nature

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

...ality of early years environmental education in order to develop children’s interest in and connection to nature and to achieve high quality learning outcomes that support basic core curriculum and lifelong learning skills. Teaching about nature is an excellent opportunity to develop a set of children's skills and competences important for achieving better effects of learning in different fields ...
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Silver Learners

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

...ched, in particular those that are not so well educated? How can the communication skills of older people be intensified (use of ICT, social networks, language, etc.)?- Further education for everyday life – How can the older generation be supported in their ICT-influenced daily lives (using a PC, online banking/shopping/booking)? How can new tools be made appropriate for elderly people?- Further e ...
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“Jóvenes de Almendralejo en Europa”

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

The Consortium that we present today has been promoted at a local level by Almendralejo Town Hall together with the following Vocational Schools of this town: IES Carolina Coronado, IES Santiago Apostol and IES Arroyo Harnina. This proposal is the result of our concern for the actual situtation of our youngsters, either students or recent graduates, who face a difficult working situation increase ...
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THE NEW EDUCATIONS IN PROMOTING TRANSVERSAL SKILLS

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

The project proposes a new approach in the development of transversal competences,by implementation the concept of “New Educations” concept through the acquisition of knowledge and skills relating to some of one of the New Educations: Education for the environment, peace, health, democracy, communication and mass-media, entrepreneurship, civic,leisure, personal development.The concept of New Educa ...
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Dobutamine for NEOnatal CIRCulatory failure defined by novel biomarkers (NEO-CIRC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Dobutamine and adrenaline are widely used as second line therapy for systemic hypotension in infants. Dopamine is currently the most widely used first line drug. In neonates, sustained hypotension may, and impaired organ perfusion will, cause brain injury and poor neurodevelopmental outcomes. All three catecholamines are currently used off-label and have different modes of action which may result ...
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Diagnostic and Drug Discovery Initiative for Alzheimer’s Disease (D3i4AD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the major cause of dementia which has no cure at the moment. The overall aim of the work described in this proposal is to create a long-term strategic partnership between Sheffield University (UK), Lisbon University (Portugal), Eli Lilly (UK) and Biofordrug (Italy) in order to develop chemical biology tools for better understanding the role of PrPC in AD and harnessing ...
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Landscape Education for Democracy

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

... ‘landscape democracy labs’ at three of the partner universities. These labs are supposed to become local incubators for community-based projects and will sustain beyond the lifetime of the EU grant; • Development of an online platform that can visualize the project’s impact and assess who is changing their approaches and where. This would be hosted at the Centre for Landscape Democracy; • Conduct ...
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“ACHIEVE” - innovative methods for training and development of youth workers

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

... and education and eco-centric development) in professionalization of youth workers and to adapt this approaches for better services of disadvantaged youth.4. To increase the on-going support and lifelong learning for the personal and professional development of the youth workers.)By different activities in the project – short term learning activities, multipliers events, online platform and disse ...
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NeoCraft Transfer

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

PURPOSEThe purpose of the project is to transfer an existing successful concept to inform adults in Europe about existing cross-border training opportunities. For this purpose the project partners use the web based tool geocaching.The project partners collect and prepare information on a total of 180 professional education and training establishments (30 per participating country) and in these occ ...
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