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Synergistic Fouling Control Technologies (SEAFRONT)

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

Marine biofouling, the unwanted colonization of marine organisms on surfaces immersed in seawater has a huge economic and environmental impact in terms of maintenance requirements for marine structures, increased vessel fuel consumption, operating costs, greenhouse gas emissions and spread of non-indigenous species. The SEAFRONT project will aim to significantly advance the control of biofouling a ...
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Enhancing prediction of tropical Atlantic climate and its impacts (PREFACE)

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

Tropical Atlantic climate recently experienced pronounced shifts of great socio-economic importance. The oceanic changes were largest in the eastern boundary upwelling systems. African countries bordering the Atlantic strongly depend upon their ocean - societal development, fisheries, and tourism. They were strongly affected by these climatic changes and will face important adaptation challenges a ...
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OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: FROM CONCEPTS TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS (OPENNESS)

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

Despite improved understanding of the links between ecosystem health, provision of ecosystem services and human well-being, further conceptual and empirical work is needed to make the ideas of ecosystem services (ESS) and natural capital (NC) operational. OpenNESS will therefore develop innovative and practical ways of applying them in land, water and urban management: it will identify how, where ...
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New Medicines for Trypanosomatidic Infections (NMTRYPI)

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

The infectious diseases burden imposed by the parasites of Trypanosomatidae family represents a huge problem on people’s lives in countries where these diseases are endemic. Problems associated with existing drugs include inefficient delivery, insufficient efficacy, excessive toxicity and increasing resistance. New drugs are urgently needed now and in the foreseeable future. The New Medicine for T ...
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"The Singlet Oxygen Strategy: sustainable oxidation procedures for applications in material science, synthesis, wastewater treatment, diagnostics and therapeutics" (SO2S)

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

"The SO2S network seeks to exploit Singlet Oxygen (1O2) as a green and benign oxidant for use in novel synthetic methodologies, crosslinking strategies, bioconjugation procedures and materials production. The chemistry described herein generates the means to both understand and influence biological systems by providing probes and reagents – from analytical methods to new drugs - and to modulate ma ...
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Demonstrating Managed Aquifer Recharge as a Solution to Water Scarcity and Drought (MARSOL)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region are facing the challenge of managing its water resources under conditions of increasing scarcity and concerns about water quality. Already, the availability of fresh water in sufficient quality and quantity is one of the major factors limiting socio economic development. Innovative water management strategies such as the storage of reclaimed water or ex ...
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Advanced light trapping with dielectric micro-particle self-assembled arrays for low-cost and high-performance thin film solar cells (DIELECTRIC PV)

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

"A novel light trapping approach will be developed to enhance the absorption of thin film silicon (Si) solar cells using periodic arrangements of resonant dielectric micro-particles (DMPs) with dimensions on the other of the illuminating wavelengths. The main goal is to construct prototype cells that show enhanced sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency due to the action of DMP arrays incorp ...
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TRADEIT: Traditional Food: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology Transfer (TRADEIT)

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

The TRADEIT project is a multidisciplinary, multi-sectorial collaborative project supporting a Network of Traditional Food SMEs and Food Researchers in the areas of Collaboration, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge and Technology Transfer to increase the competitiveness and inter-regional advantage of Traditional Food Producing SMEs. This will be achieved through focused regional coordination ...
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New tailor-made biopolymers produced from lignocellulosic sugars waste for highly demanding fire-resistant applications (BRIGIT)

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

BRIGIT aims to develop a cost-competitive and environmentally friendly continuous process to produce biopolymers (polyhydroxybutyrate, PHB, and succinate-based biopolyesters, PBS-Poly-Butylene-Succinate) from waste-derived lignocelullosic sugar feedstock liquor of wood sulphite pulping process based on “in-situ” fermentation process and new fermentation culture technology without alteration of the ...
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PERMETTRE LA MOBILITE DES JEUNES PAR UNE VALORISATION DES COMPETENCES ACQUISES GRACE AUX APPRENTISSAGES REALISES AU SEIN DE L’ESPACE EUROPEEN RENFORCER ET ENRICHIR LES PRATIQUES PROFESSIONNELLES DES EQUIPES ENGAGEES DANS UNE OUVERTURE A L'EUROPE

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

ALLOW THE YOUTH MOBILITY BY UPGRADING SKILLS ACQUIRED THROUGH LEARNING MADE WITHIN THE EUROPEAN SPACE The Regional Federation of MFR (FRMFR) in Brittany undertakes, in its mission of facilitating networks, eight MFR located throughout the Breton territory. The 161 young people involved in the Erasmus + program will go to twelve different countries: Switzerland, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Port ...
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MEDiterranean SUpersite Volcanoes (MED-SUV)

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

This project will improve the consortium capacity of assessment of volcanic hazards in Supersites of Southern Italy by optimising and integrating existing and new observation/monitoring systems, by a breakthrough in understanding of volcanic processes and by increasing the effectiveness of the coordination between the scientific and end-user communities. More than 3 million of people are exposed t ...
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Extended shelf-life biopolymers for sustainable and multifunctional food packaging solutions (NANOBARRIER)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The overall concept of NanoBarrier is to develop a new nanotechnology platform based on inorganic-organic hybrid polymers, microfibrillated cellulose, nanocapsules with controlled permeability and additive technology and combine this with resource-efficient processing technologies to realize safe and extended shelf-life and multifunctional biopolymer food packaging solutions. These solutions based ...
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Design, construction and demonstration of solar biofuel production using novel (photo)synthetic cell factories (CYANOFACTORY)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

CyanoFactory brings together ten selected leading, highly complementary European partners with the aim to carry out integrated, fundamental research aiming at applying synthetic biology principles towards a cell factory notion in microbial biotechnology. The vision is to build on recent progress in synthetic biology and develop novel photosynthetic cyanobacteria as chassis to be used as self-susta ...
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Global Mercury Observation System (GMOS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The overall goal of the proposed project is to develop a coordinated global observation system for mercury able to provide temporal and spatial distributions of mercury concentrations in ambient air and precipitation over land and over surface waters at different altitudes and latitudes around the world. This will then provide high quality data for the validation and application of regional and g ...
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Cognitive Radio Experimentation World (CREW)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The main target of CREW is to establish an open federated test platform, which facilitates experimentally-driven research on advanced spectrum sensing, cognitive radio and cognitive networking strategies in view of horizontal and vertical spectrum sharing in licensed and unlicensed bands.The CREW platform incorporates 5 individual wireless testbeds (heterogeneous ISM @ iMinds-Gent, heterogeneous l ...
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Life Cycle perspective for Low Impact Winemaking and Application in EU of Eco-innovative Technologies (ECO-PROWINE)

Start date: Sep 3, 2012, End date: Sep 2, 2015,

The proposed solution lies on getting user friendly LCA-LCC methodology specialized for the wine chain production. Thereby it is to make available a simplified LCA-LCC on-line available tool that enables wine makers (not expert in LCA methodology) to perform a self-assessment of its wine making process, in order to detect environmental charges, impacts and costs, for each process stage. Afterwards ...
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Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structures (SARISTU)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The project proposal concerns the challenges posed by the physical integration of smart intelligentstructural concepts. It addresses aircraft weight and operational cost reductions as well as animprovement in the flight profile specific aerodynamic performance.This concerns material concepts enabling a conformal, controlled distortion of aerodynamicallyimportant surfaces, material concepts enablin ...
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Advanced Cyber Defence Centre (ACDC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

In ACDC, we bring together partners from 14 European countries, including public administrations, private sector organizations and academia, in order to achieve a sustainable victory over a powerful cyber threat commonly known as botnet. We integrate the matured knowledge of our consortium into an integrated strategy ranging from adoption to governance, supported by a full service offer for contro ...
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Multi-Gigabit European Research and Education Network and Associated Services (GN3plus)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

This proposal details activities that will ensure the continued enhancement and ongoing operation of the leading-edge GÉANT network, supporting a range of network and added-value services, targeted at users across the GÉANT service area.In the area of multi-domain network service operation, GN3plus plans to deliver fast, efficient provisioning of advanced services, develop operational support acro ...
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Saving Energy in Europe's Public Buildings Using ICT (SMARTSPACES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

To substantially reduce peak and overall demand for energy and water across EU public buildings, the project will develop a service comprising innovative ICT-based energy decision support, awareness and management service components. Decision support is provided directly to city energy managers and other professionals responsible for building performance, and to building users, both staff and visi ...
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Functional ordered NANomaterials via ELectrochemical routes in non-aqueous electrolytes (NANEL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"The NANEL joint exchange project aims to establish long-lasting research cooperation between Portuguese, Bulgarian, Belgian, Belarusian and Russian scientists in the field of electrochemical synthesis of advanced nanostructured materials. The collaborative consortium joins together a critical mass of the expertise available in the involved groups. The partners bring the complementary experiences ...
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Oxygenation by efficient air diffusion system for aquaculture farms (cages and earthen ponds) (AirX)

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

The AirX Research for SMEs project will develop a novel efficient air diffusion system for oxygenation in aquaculture farms. The target market are cage and earthen pond farmers (seabass and seabream) in Mediterranean, which periodically experience problems with reduced growth rate, increased feed conversion factor (FCR), stress and mortality of stock due to low oxygen content in the water (usually ...
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EUROPEANA INSIDE (EU-INSIDE)

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

The primary objective of the EUROPEANA INSIDE Best Practice Network is to support the Digital Agenda for Europe by achieving a lasting transformation in the quantity, scope and usability of the content available to Europeana from European cultural institutions.Within this overall ambition, the main objectives of EUROPEANA INSIDE are:- To open up a significant critical-mass of new digital cultural ...
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Enhancing the capacities of the ELIRI Research Institute in applied research to enable the integration of Moldova in the European Research Area on the basis of scientific excellence (MOLD-NANONET)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2014,

The objective of MOLD-NANONET is to assist the ELIRI Research Institute to develop and implement a research strategy that will expand its activities and increase its level of excellence in micro-nano-electronics related to the development of intelligent systems, so that it can compete and collaborate with leading research institutions in Europe. MOLD-NANONET will create a unified infrastructure in ...
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Enhancing Scanning Ion-Selective Electrode Technique (SISET)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"The SISET joint exchange programme aims to establish long-term research cooperation between Portuguese, Belgian, Belarusian and Chinese scientists in the field of instrumental techniques for corrosion science. Collaboration brings together the experts from conventional and localized electro analytical techniques, electro chemical modeling, corrosion science and protective coatings in order to dev ...
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SOLUTIONS for ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRASTS in COASTAL AREAS (SECOA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"Urban settlements, following the economic crisis of the 70s, entered in a process of regional and urban restructuring to gain a new image at the international level. As a result of the renewed economic success new flows of permanent, semi-permanent, temporary and daily “human mobility” followed: (i) for consumption (leisure and tourism), (ii) for production (economic migration). The world competi ...
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Spatial earth observation monitoring for planning and water allocation in the international Incomati Basin (WatPLAN)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

This project proposal focuses on water resources allocation and the identification of historical and current water use and high resolution monitoring of several water resource indicators on a weekly basis. For this purpose an operational earth observation system will be developed which includes a website with weekly updates of water resource data on water use. This system can be linked to GEOSS (G ...
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EUROPEAN OPEN PLATFORM FOR SMART CARD TICKETING, PAYMENT AND MULTISERVICES IN INTEROPERABLE MASS TRANSIT APPLICATIONS (EUROPTIMA)

Start date: Jan 3, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

EUROPTIMAChanging the paradigm in data and fare collection systemsEUROPTIMA addresses the need for implementing data and fare collection systems adapted to the requirements of mass transit operators in terms of cost of implementation, cost of operation, modularity of the system and flexibility in terms of fare evolutions, interoperability and customer relationship. In particular, EUROPTIMA targets ...
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Knowledge-based Sustainable Management for Europe's Seas (KnowSeas)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Europe’s four regional seas (Baltic, Black, Mediterranean and NE Atlantic) have suffered severe environmental degradation due to human pressure. Existing measures to manage pressures have proven inadequate and the EC has responded by proposing a new policy (Maritime Strategy Blue Book) and environmental legislation (Marine Strategy Directive), both currently close to adoption. These instruments re ...
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The Production of Sustainable Diesel-Miscible-Biofuels from the Residues and Wastes of Europe and Latin America (DIBANET)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The increasing reliance on imported diesel fuels, in addition to annual increases in the quantities of organic wastes are threats to the EU and Latin America. This project (DIBANET) will combat these threats and help to eliminate diesel imports by developing novel technologies that will allow the sustainable production of diesel miscible biofuels from wastes. It will build on the key, complementar ...
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Improved Novel Eco-Friendly Bleaching System for Cotton Using Enzyme and Ultrasound Processes (COTTONBLEACH)

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

"Cotton textiles --the main natural-fibre textile used worldwide-- undergo a toxic and costly bleaching process that weighs heavily on the quality, cost and environmental impact of textile manufacture. CottonBleach proposes the development of an improved cotton bleaching technology, more respectful with the textiles and the environment, to improve the competitive edge of European textile SMEs. Cur ...
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Integrated Approaches for Sustainable European Wine Production (SUSTAVINO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

"About 65% of the world’s wine production is managed by European winegrowers. Wine production in Europe is traditionally performed by small and medium sized, family owned companies and co-operatives. Solid and liquid residues are not treated in an appropriate way what has a serious impact on the environment. Wine production is known to produce high amounts of wastewater with sometimes extremely hi ...
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Exploring and understanding adverse drug reactions by integrative mining of clinical records and biomedical knowledge (EU-ADR)

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

Serious adverse effects resulting from the treatment with thalidomide prompted modern drug legislation more than 40 years ago. Post-marketing spontaneous reporting systems for suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) have been a cornerstone to detect safety signals in pharmacovigilance. It has become evident that adverse effects of drugs may be detected too late, when millions of persons have alrea ...
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Advanced Infrastructure for Knowledge Based Services for Buildings Restoring (H-KNOW)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"Increasing number of complex works in buildings restoration/maintenance urgently requests an advanced and systematic access to the relevant knowledge. A highly promising approach to enable such an access and to foster advancing of construction industry SMEs toward the knowledge organisations are innovative forms of collaborative knowledge&business networks of SMEs and RTD partners. The innovative ...
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Biotechnological recycle of olive mills washing water by microalgae (ALGATEC)

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

"The EU is the most important producer of olives in the world, from 2001-2007, 2,2 million tonnes of olive oil were produced in about 12.000 olive mills, which accounts for the 80% of the world production. These producers are mainly SMEs placed in the basin of the Mediterranean Sea, being Spain, Italy and Greece the biggest producers. Olive oil consumption is growing worldwide thanks to the ackno ...
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Secure Widespread Identities for Federated Telecommunications (SWIFT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

Identity Management is considered key to private, legal and business transactions as in the European eIDM2010. IdM frameworks are however currently confined to the web services domain. SWIFT goes beyond this by including user centricity and network operators as additional interdependent domains with IdM at the core.This new view of user centricity provides a novel perspective: Identity as central ...
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