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European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU)

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

The overarching goal of the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) is to generate knowledge to inform the safe management of chemicals and so protect human health. We will use human biomonitoring to understand human exposure to chemicals and resulting health impacts and will communicate with policy makers to ensure that our results are exploited in the design of new chemicals policies an ...
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Pre-commercial lines for production of surface nanostructured antimicrobial and anti-biofilm textiles, medical devices and water treatment membranes (PROTECT)

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

PROTECT aims to introduce to the market One step antimicrobial finish processes for polymeric materials used in i) specialty textiles for public areas and hospitals, ii) water treatment membranes, and iii) implantable medical devices. Compared to main existing manufacturing routes, the proposed one-step coating technologies are simple, fast, and reproducible. For this, PROTECT uses as a starting p ...
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The nanoparticle-scope : a new integrated instrument for accurate and reproducible physico-chemical characterisation of nanoparticles (npSCOPE) (npSCOPE)

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

The npSCOPE project aims at developing a new integrated instrument (the nanoparticle-scope) optimised for providing a complete physico-chemical characterisation of nanoparticles both in their pristine form or embedded in complex matrices such as biological tissues. Using sophisticated correlative data processing methodologies and algorithms based on statistical methods in conjunction with appropri ...
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Big data against childhood Obesity (BigO)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

Childhood and adolescent obesity is a major global and European public health problem. Currently, public actions are detached from local needs, mostly including indiscriminate blanket policies and single-element strategies, limiting their efficacy and effectiveness. The need for community-targeted actions has long been obvious, but the lack of monitoring and evaluation framework and the methodolog ...
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Biowaste derived volatile fatty acid platform for biopolymers, bioactive compounds and chemical building blocks (VOLATILE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

VOLATILE aims in the development of an innovative Volatile Fatty Acids Platform for the bioconversion of municipal solid bio-waste fraction and sludgy biowaste from other industries. The platform will be integrated in anaerobic digestion. The volatile fatty acids will be recovered continuously using sophisticated membrane technology and will be provided as feedstock / carbon source for value added ...
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effiCient mineral processing and Hydrometallurgical RecOvery of by-product Metals from low-grade metal contaIning seCondary raw materials (CHROMIC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

Europe is faced with the challenge of sustaining a secure supply of by-product metals, which play a fundamental role in the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector and innovations in high-tech sectors. To loosen the growth restrictions imposed by the inflexible supply from primary mining, alternative sources for these metals must be explored. At the same time a wealth of metals is entrapped wi ...
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PLATInum group metals Recovery Using Secondary raw materials (PLATIRUS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

The PLATIRUS project aims at reducing the European deficit of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs), by upscaling to industrial relevant levels a novel cost-efficient and miniaturised PGMs recovery and raw material production process. The targeted secondary raw materials will be autocatalysts, electronic waste (WEEE) and tailings and slags from nickel and copper smelters, opening-up an important range of a ...
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Agri and food waste valorisation co-ops based on flexible multi-feedstocks biorefinery processing technologies for new high added value applications (AgriMax)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Approximately one third of all food produced globally is wasted every year throughout the whole value chain-from farmers to consumers. To extract the significant amounts of valuable compounds contained in these wastes, AgriMax will combine affordable and flexible processing technologies (ultrasound assisted and solvent extraction, filtration, thermal and enzymatic treatments) for the valorization ...
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Training on Remote Sensing for Ecosystem modElling (TRuStEE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Understanding and predicting ecosystem functions remains a major challenge in evaluating ecosystem services and biophysical controls on biosphere-atmosphere interactions, as current dynamic vegetation models are still not capable of grasping the spatial and temporal variability in ecosystem processes. Remote sensing (RS) data at a range of scales from proximal observations to global extent samplin ...
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4x4, demonstrating a flexible value chain to utilize biomass functionalities in the processing industry (Bio4Products)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Biomass is a valuable, sustainable feedstock for the production of high added value chemicals and materials, and will play an important role in the transition of the European Process Industry to a Sustainable Process Industry. However, for the optimal utilization of these bio-resources the fractionation of the biomass on basis of functionalities is required. The innovative approach of BIO4PRODUCTS ...
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European Training Network for the sustainable, zero-waste valorisation of (critical) metal containing industrial process residues (SOCRATES)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Unlike China, Russia or South Africa, the EU-28 Member States are not in the fortunate position of having vast, easily accessible ore deposits containing valuable metals. However, Europe does have large quantities of secondary industrial residues (tailings, sludges, slags and ashes) that contain sig¬nificant concentrations of both critical and economically important metals. The Euro¬pean Training ...
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Electric Vehicle Enhanced Range, Lifetime And Safety Through INGenious battery management (EVERLASTING)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Batteries are not yet the ideal energy container they were promised to be. They are expensive, fragile and potentially dangerous. Moreover the current EV cannot compete yet with traditional vehicles when it comes to driving range and flexibility. EVERLASTING intends to bring Li-ion batteries closer to this ideal by focusing on the following technology areas.• Predicting the behavior of battery ...
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Demonstration of solvent and resin production from lignocellulosic biomass via the platform chemical levulinic acid (GreenSolRes)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

The GreenSolRes-Project demonstrates the levulinic acid value chain of lignocellulosic feedstocks to high-value products in a 3-step approach on TRL 6 to 7: First, the feedstock of GFBs existing demo plant in Caserta is shifted to lignocellulosic residues or wastes by implementation of a char separation unit and a boiler to cover the process energy demand. A new product separation unit enables mor ...
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Next Generation GEOSS for Innovation Business (NextGEOSS)

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

The NextGEOSS project will implement a federated data hub for access and exploitation of Earth Observation data, including user-friendly tools for data mining, discovery, access and exploitation. This data hub will be supported by a strong commitment to the engagement of Earth Observation and related communities, with the view of supporting the creation of innovative and business oriented applicat ...
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STORY- Added value of STORage in distribution sYstems (STORY)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

The main objective of STORY is to show the added value storage can bring for a flexible, secure and sustainable energy system. This will be achieved by showing the inter-relations between technologies and stakeholders as well as the potential and impact of policy and regulation.The future European grid has to serve a diverse and mixed landscape of users in a situation of mixed rules and responsibi ...
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Balancing Human and Automation Levels for the Manufacturing Workplaces of the Future (MANUWORK)

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

Future manufacturing will be characterized by the complementarity between humans and automation, especially regarding the production of highly customizable products. This requires new methods and tools for the design and operation of optimized manufacturing workplaces in terms of ergonomics, safety, efficiency, complexity management and work satisfaction. MANUWORK aims to focus on the development ...
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Managing soil and groundwater impacts from agriculture for sustainable intensification (INSPIRATION)

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

"Agricultural production in Europe has significantly damaged soil and water resources, ecosystem biodiversity, socio-economic well-being and contributed to climate change. Expected further intensification of production to ensure food safety for population growth must be sustainable to minimise future impacts and negative externalities. This ETN addresses these challenges by training 15 early stage ...
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health-i-care

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

Description (EN): Themes Health-i-care: innovations for safer healthcareAll health-i-care project activities are devoted to the highly actual thematic focus of prevention and control of hospital infections and antibiotic resistance and the associated risks for patients and public health.Health-i-care focuses on developing innovative products and technologies that protect the populat ...
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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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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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Sustainable CellulAr networks harVEstiNG ambient Energy (SCAVENGE)

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

Energy sustainability is key to future mobile networks due to their foreseen capacity upsurge. The objective of the ETN SCAVENGE (Sustainable CellulAr networks harVEstiNG ambient Energy) is to create a training network for early-stage researchers (ESRs) who will contribute to the design and implementation of eco-friendly and sustainable next-generation (5G) networks and become leaders in the relat ...
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Metal Recovery from Low Grade Ores and Wastes Plus (METGROW PLUS)

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

METGROW+ will address and solve bottlenecks in the European raw materials supply by developing innovative metallurgical technologies for unlocking the use of potential domestic raw materials. The METGROW+ consortium has received an EIP RM Commitment status. The consortium is supported by internationally respected research institutes and universities. Many of the partners (9) are members of EIT KIC ...
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Automated diagnostic platform, data management system and innovative communication tool, for improving the impact of malaria vector control interventions (DMC-MALVEC)

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

Malaria is a life-threatening disease causing more than 500,000 deaths every year in sub-Saharan Africa. Prevention of the disease is best achieved by vector control which relies on the use of insecticides. Monitoring mosquito vector populations is an integral component of control programmes and a prerequisite for effective interventions. Several individual methods are used for this task, However, ...
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Development of innovative lightweight and highly insulating energy efficient components and associated enabling materials for cost-effective retrofitting and new construction of curtain wall facades (EENSULATE)

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

We will validate an affordable (28% reduction of total costs) and lightweight (35% weight reduction) solution for envelope insulation to bring existing curtain wall buildings to “nearly zero energy” standards while complying with the structural limits of the original building structure and national building codes. Two key commercial insulating products:• Highly insulating mono-component and enviro ...
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Next generation of superhard non-CRM materials and solutions in tooling (Flintstone2020)

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

Flintstone2020 aims to provide a perspective for the replacement of two important CRMs – tungsten (W) and cobalt (Co) – which are the main constituents for two important classes of hard materials (cemented carbides/WC-Co, and PCD/diamond-Co), by developing innovative alternative solutions for tooling operating under extreme conditions. Fundamental knowledge on mechanical properties and wear of dif ...
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Environmentally Friendly, Efficient Electric Motion (3EMOTION)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The 3EMOTION project will provide policymakers and financing institutions with the necessary arguments to invest in Fuel Cell Buses (FCB) as a cost effective strategy to accelerate the reduction of harmful local emissions while offering attractive co-modality options for commuters. By leveraging the experiences of earlier FCB demonstrations in overcoming the last technical and economic barriers, a ...
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Data-Driven Bioeconomy (DataBio)

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

The data intensive target sector selected for the DataBio project is the Data-Driven Bioeconomy, focusing in production of best possible raw materials from agriculture, forestry and fishery/aquaculture for the bioeconomy industry to produce food, energy and biomaterials taking into account also various responsibility and sustainability issues. DataBio proposes to deploy a state of the art, big dat ...
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PrEstoCloud - Proactive Cloud Resources Management at the Edge for Efficient Real-Time Big Data Processing (PrEstoCloud)

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

PrEstoCloud project will make substantial research contributions in the cloud computing and real-time data intensive applications domains, in order to provide a dynamic, distributed, self-adaptive and proactively configurable architecture for processing Big Data streams. In particular, PrEstoCloud aims to combine real-time Big Data, mobile processing and cloud computing research in a unique way th ...
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Muon campus in US and Europe contribution (MUSE)

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

The Muon Campus at FNAL, USA, will host in the next few years two world class experiments dedicated to the search for signals of new physics. Muon g-2 will determine with unprecedented precision the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon while Mu2e will improve by four orders of magnitude the sensitivity on the search for the as-yet unobserved Charged Lepton Flavour Violating process of a neutrinol ...
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Innovative controls for renewable sources Integration into smart energy systems (INCITE)

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

The continuous increase of the share of renewable energy sources is redefining the electrical networks. In future infrastructures, an important number of agents (sources, storage devices and consumers) will have intelligent interfaces allowing the regulation of the injection and extraction of power into the grid. This context will create multiple alternatives to increase the efficiency in electric ...
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Smart Integration of Energy Storages in Local Multi Energy Systems for maximising the Share of Renewables in Europe’s Energy Mix (SmILES)

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

SmILES zooms in simulation and optimisation of smart storage in local energy systems for increasing the understanding and transparency of innovative multi-energy projects. Setting up a shared data and information platform and effective dissemination of related results will contribute to competence building.The objective is to obtain fundamental knowledge about linking and optimising heterogeneous ...
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Flexible Heat and Power, Connecting heat and power networks by harnessing the complexity in distributed thermal flexibility. (FHP)

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

The annual space heating and cooling energy consumption in Europe is almost 3,500TWh. In 2012, in EU28 the electricity consumption ratio was around the 20% of the total energy consumption, from which 30% was consumed in the residential and 30% in the services sectors. From these proportions, air conditioning represents 17% of the total electricity consumption in the EU27 residential buildings. In ...
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Direct and indirect biorefinery technologies for conversion of organic side-streams into multiple marketable products (InDIRECT)

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

The aim of the proposal is to develop biorefinery processes as part of new value chains to convert under-spent side streams/residues from the agro-sector and processing sector into useful marketable products. Cascading processes (recovery of multiple compounds from the same feedstock) are envisioned to increase the conversion efficiency (product/ton biomass input) and maximise the values of the fe ...
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European Centre for Risk Management and Safe Innovation in Nanomaterials Nanotechnologies (EC4SafeNano)

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

A significant challenge to ensuring sustainable production and use of nanotechnologies is to understand safety and health risks of the technology and its end-products, and to implement practical strategies to manage these risks. Knowledge is growing rapidly, but effective use of this knowledge for risk management is lagging behind. We therefore need to bridge the gap between knowledge on hazard an ...
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European Human Rights Law for Universities of Ukraine and Moldova

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

Wider objective is to enable Ukraine and Moldova to face the challenges of dealing with Human Rights policies in accordance with EU and international standards through capacity and institutional building measures. By developing and introducing new Bologna-compliant case-oriented master and doctoral curricula, intensive capacity building mechanism and establishing Offices of Student Ombudsman suppo ...
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INternationaliSation of master Programs In Russia and China in Electrical engineering

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

Nowadays Russian and Chinese universities have to offer programs which facilitate graduates’ adaptation to the real manufacturing and business environment and raise their competitiveness at the labor market. In order to develop a qualitative program is necessary to establish close links with business community as well as European universities which have rich experience in development of similar pr ...
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REady for BUSiness - Integrating and validating practical entrepreneurship skills in engineering and ICT studies

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

European business sector pays an ever more increasing attention to competences such as sense of initiative and entrepreneurship. The recommendation 2006/962/EC on key competences for lifelong learning highlights paramount importance of these key competences for employability. These competences related to entrepreneurship play a paramount role in EU neighbouring countries in their development proc ...
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Conservation of Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) population in Romania (LIFE FOR BEAR)

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

Background The Romanian Carpathians are the home to a stable population of brown bear (Ursus arctos), which represents around 35% of the total number of brown bears in Europe. With more than 6 000 individuals, this area supports nearly the entire bear population in Romania – only the Apuseni Mountains is home to another bear group with 250-300 individua ...
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Strategic and Targeted Support for Europe-Ukraine Collaboration in Aviation Research (AERO-UA)

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

The overall aim of the AERO-UA project is to stimulate aviation research collaboration between the EU and Ukraine through strategic and targeted support. AERO-UA is focused solely on Ukraine, because the country has a huge aerospace potential but a low level of aviation research collaboration with the EU. Ukraine’s aerospace sector spans the full spectrum of systems and components development and ...
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Facilitating Collaboration in ReseArch and Development to Foster Further Innovation in European AeroNautics (RADIAN)

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

Aviation is a vital industrial sector of Europe’s society and economy. For several historical reasons the economic activities in this field are unevenly distributed across Europe. Statistics show that also the R&D effort, which always comes along with the aviation, mirrors this allocation. On one hand, there are countries and regions featuring low involvement in aviation research and also low part ...
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