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Conservation of priority forests and forest openings in "Ethnikos Drymos Oitis” and “Oros Kallidromo” of Sterea Ellada (FOROPENFORESTS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Background The project area comprises two mountainous Natura 2000 sites in central Greece: the National Forest Park of Oiti, "Ethnikos Drymos Oitis” (GR2440004), and “Oros Kallidromo” (GR2440006). The main threats to the target habitats and species include: reduced grazing and the abandonment of traditional farm practices; the intensification of for ...
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Advanced spectroscopic hemogram for personalized care against live threatening infections using an integrated chip-assisted bio-photonic system (HEMOSPEC)

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

Life threatening infectious diseases and sepsis are worldwide problems with high mortalities. In order to select optimal treatments for the highly heterogeneous group of sepsis patients and to reduce costs, novel multiplexed tools that better characterize the patient and its specific immune response are highly desired.In the novel project "HemoSpec" a multidisciplinary team develops - driven by th ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

... for collaboration that links the partners under strong scientific leadership and professional project management, providing a coherent European approach and ensuring effective alignment of regional, national and European research and programmes. The project work plan is organized in the form of thirteen subprojects, each dedicated to a specific area of activity.A significant part of the budget wi ...
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Semantic Infostructure interlinking an open source Finite Element tool and libraries with a model repository for the multi-scale Modelling and 3d visualization of the inner-ear (SIFEM)

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

The clinical evidence indicates that the number of people with all levels of hearing impairment and hearing loss is rising mainly due to a growing global population and longer life expectancies. Hearing loss caused by pathology in the cochlea or the cochlear nerve is classified as sensorineural hearing loss. The study of the normal function and pathology of the inner ear has unique difficulties as ...
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Open Semantically-enabled, Social-aware Access to Scientific Data (OpenScienceLink)

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

OpenScienceLink will introduce and pilot a holistic approach to the publication, sharing, linking, review and evaluation of research results, based on the open access to scientific information. OpenScienceLink will pilot a range of novel services that could alleviate the lack of structured data journals and associated data models, the weaknesses of the review process, the poor linking of scientifi ...
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Linked Open Earth Observation Data for Precision Farming (LEO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

A lot of remotely sensed data coming from satellites has become available at no charge in Europe and the US recently, and there is a strong push for more open Earth Observation data. Open Earth Observation data that are currently made available by space agencies (e.g., ESA and NASA) are not following the linked data paradigm. ICT STREP project TELEIOS recently introduced the linked data paradigm t ...
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Nanostructured materials and RF-MEMS RFIC/MMIC technologies for highly adaptive and reliable RF systems (NANOTEC)

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

RF communication and remote sensing (radar/radiometric) systems are facing the demands ofincreasing complexity/number of frequency bands, increased bandwidths and higher frequencies forhigher data throughput, while at the same time the power consumption, the form factor of the systems,and the overall system costs need to be reduced. Smart micro-/mm-wave systems will have to achieveself-reconfigura ...
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Usable and Efficient Secure Multiparty Computation (UaESMC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

In this project, we will bring the techniques and tools for Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) to a level where they can be applied to decisional and computational problems of practical size in several different social and economic sectors. To achieve this, we will apply a multi-pronged research effort to build the theoretical foundations for the practical aspects of SMC application. Our project ...
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Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

The goal of EINS is coordinating and integrating European research aimed at achieving a deeper multidisciplinary understanding of the development of the Internet as a societal and technological artefact, whose evolution is increasingly interwined with that of human societies. Its main objective is to allow an open and productive dialogue between all the disciplines which study Internet systems und ...
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Compact uLtrA-efficient mid-infRared photonIc sysTems based on low noise quantum cascade laser sources, wide band frequencY converters and near-infrared photodetectors (CLARITY)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The mid-infrared spectral region is emerging as the wavelength region of preference for a number of applications including free space communications, absorption spectroscopy, chemical and biological sensing and LIDAR applications. For all the classes of different applications, the key elements of the mid-infrared system are the optical source and the detector.The optical source need is adequately ...
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Live Video-to-Video Supporting Interactive City Infrastructure (LiveCity)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The aim of LiveCity is to empower the citizens of a city to interact with each other in a more productive, efficient and socially useful way by using high quality video-to-video (v2v) over the Internet. Video-to-video can be used to save patients' lives, improve city administration, reduce fuel costs, reduce carbon footprint, enhance education and improve city experiences for tourists and cultural ...
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2nd-Generation Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIREplus)

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

OpenAIREplus will build a 2nd-Generation Open Access Infrastructure by significantly expanding in several directions the outcomes of the OpenAIRE project, which implements the EC Open Access (OA) pilot. Capitalizing on the OpenAIRE infrastructure, built for managing FP7 and ERC funded articles, and the associated supporting mechanism of the European Helpdesk System, OpenAIREplus will "develop an o ...
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duction of biodiesel from Algae in selected Mediterranean Countries (MED-ALGAE)

Start date: Dec 7, 2011, End date: Dec 7, 2014,

The potential of producing bio-fuel from microalgae has been recognized as an alternative to fossil fuels, especially under the form of liquid fuel (diesel, ethanol), which can be used in the transport sector. The use of microalgae as a biomass resource for production of biodiesel has drawn a lot of attention from researchers, governments and the private sector. To foster the development of microa ...
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Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources (iMarine)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

...ure that all forms of marine life remain sustainable. However, efforts in this direction are severely hindered by extreme compartmentalization and heterogeneity at all levels and sectors: the global, national, and local organizations active in the field; the different scientific disciplines involved; the methodologies used to acquire, format and present data; the procedures used to analyze the dat ...
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Fostering Evaluation Competencies in Research, Technology and Innovation in the SEE Region (EVAL-INNO)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2014,

In front of more and more differentiating innovation policy and funding mixes in SEE, which increasingly leverage national budgets and bridge between different policy fields, the absence of sufficient endogenous RTDI evaluation capacities causes a serious bottleneck for the entire innovation management cycle. Thus, the key objective of EVAL-INNO is to strengthen regional as well as national evalua ...
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Cultural Heritage Experiences through Socio-personal interactions and Storytelling (CHESS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

... cultural heritage sites, most notably two world-renowned museums, the New Acropolis Museum, and the Cité de l'Espace in France. Access to end-users is further enhanced through the international User Group, a diverse body of cultural institutions and organisations. 
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UniverSelf

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

The internet of today is fragmented into loosely interacting domains. Future Networks will be pervasive: people, machines and the surrounding spaces will form decentralized and dynamic networks of networks of as-yet unseen scales. Future Networks will challenge Service and Network Operators to find the right ways to embed intelligence into networks in order to ensure their autonomic management an ...
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Computational Geometric Learning (CG Learning)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

High dimensional geometric data are ubiquitous in science and engineering, and thus processing and analyzing them is a core task in these disciplines. The Computational Geometric Learning project (CG Learning) aims at extending the success story of geometric algorithms with guarantees, as achieved in the CGAL library and the related EU funded research projects, to spaces of high dimensions. This ...
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Wireless Hybrid Enhanced Mobile Radio Estimators - Phase 2 (WHERE2)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The availability of position information plays an increasing role in wireless communications networks already today and will be an integral part of future systems. They inherently can offer the ability for stand-alone positioning especially in situations where conventional satellite based positioning systems such as GPS fail (e.g., indoor). In this framework, positioning information is an importan ...
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Relevance and cognition for self-awareness in a content-centric Internet (RECOGNITION)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

RECOGNITION will develop a radically new approach for embedding self-awareness in ICT systems. This will be based on the cognitive processes that the human species exhibits for self-awareness, seeking to exploit the fact that humans are ultimately the fundamental basis for high performance autonomic processes. This is due to the cognitive ability of the brain to efficiently assert relevance (or ir ...
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Actions for the conservation of coastal dunes with Juniperus spp. in Crete and the South Aegean (Greece) (JUNICOAST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

...per species enhanced the exchange of know-how and best practices. The long term sustainability of the project results will be ensured through the creation of European, national and local networks, as well as through the after-LIFE conservation and communication plans. These will ensure the continual updating of the habitat knowledge base, the maintenance of infrastructure and litter removal to m ...
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Particles size and composition in Mediterranean countries: geographical variability and short-term health effects. (MED-PARTICLES)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Background Knowledge of the effects of air pollution on human health has grown in recent decades as a result of the enormous scientific effort to design and conduct large epidemiological studies. At present, most scientists agree that airborne particles with a diameter of less than 10 micrometre (μm) have the most significant short-term effects on human ...
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Musical Interaction Relying On Reflexion (MIROR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Description MIROR develops an innovative adaptive system for music learning and teaching based on the reflexive interaction paradigm in the context of early childhood music education.The MIROR project deals with the development of an innovative adaptive system for music learning and teaching based on the reflexive interaction paradigm. Th ...
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Learning to learn together: A visual language for social orchestration of educational activities (Metafora)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Description Current pedagogy increasingly fails to engage young people with the study of Science and Math (S&M) in a way that threatens the future of Europe. Without basic S&M knowledge it is not possible to understand many of the important issues that confront us, such as global warming or genetic modification. A general lack of S&M literac ...
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Virtual Observatory Infrastructure for Earth Observation Data (TELEIOS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Description Building a Virtual Observatory: a powerful information system for managing very large amounts of satellite earth observation data. Earth observation data has increased considerably over the last decades as satellite sensors collect and transmit back to Earth many gigabytes of data per ...
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Establishment of a Plant Micro-reserve Network in Cyprus for the Conservation of Priority Species and Habitats. (PLANT-NET CY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

...s than 20 ha each based on an initial inventory of the target species and habitats in four Natura 2000 locations. Meanwhile, environmental scientists in Cyprus engaged in international visits and training to familiarise themselves with how PMR has been used effectively in other EU countries. GPS devices and GIS software were used to provide more detailed mapping of the PMRs and an assessment of t ...
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European Middleware Initiative (EMI)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The European Middleware Initiative is a collaboration of the three major middleware providers in Europe, ARC, gLite and UNICORE, and other consortia. EMI aims to deliver a consolidated set of middleware components for deployment in EGI, PRACE and other DCIs; extend the interoperability between grids and other computing infrastructures; strengthen the reliability of the services; and establish a su ...
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Smart Food and Agribusiness: Future Internet for Safe and Healthy Food from Farm to Fork (SmartAgriFood)

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

The SmartAgriFood project addresses the food and agribusiness as a use case for the Future Internet. The intelligence, efficiency, sustainability and performance of the agri-food sector can be radically enhanced by using information & decision support systems that are tightly integrated with advanced internet-based networks & services. Concurrently, the sector provides extremely demanding use case ...
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Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy (MODAP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

With the advance and wide usage of GPS enabled devices and other positioning systems, mobility behaviour of individuals can now be captured and streamed into a data warehouse for online or historical data analysis. We refer to such data as mobility data. Mobility data mining comes into picture as an emerging field which aims to extract knowledge from mobility data with a lot of opportunities as we ...
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Efficient Patient Recruitment for Innovative Clinical Trials of Existing Drugs to other Indications (PONTE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

Description PONTE is a European project standing for Efficient Patient Recruitment for Innovative Clinical Trials of Existing Drugs to other Indications.PONTE provides a platform following a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach that offers intelligent automatic identification of individuals eligible to participate in clinical trials ...
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Spectrum and energy efficiency through multi-band Cognitive Radio (SACRA)

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

As highlighted in the Work Programme, energy efficiency and flexibility in the use of spectrum resources are two major research challenges for the development of future wireless communications technologies.To address these challenges, SACRA project proposes to develop a multi-band cognitive radio technology. In SACRA, new techniques for the global efficiency of wireless systems will be developed i ...
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ENVIronmental Services Infrastructure with ONtologies (ENVISION)

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

The ENVISION project provides an ENVIronmental Services Infrastructure with Ontologies that aims to support non ICT-skilled users in the process of semantic discovery and adaptive chaining and composition of environmental services. Innovations in ENVISION are: on-the-Web enabling and packaging of technologies for their use by non ICT-skilled users, support for migrating environmental models to be ...
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Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

The proposed project will deliver "an electronic infrastructure and supporting mechanisms for the identification, deposition, access, and monitoring of FP7 and ERC funded articles", where the main supporting mechanism will be the establishment and operation of the European Helpdesk System. Additionally, the project will offer "a special repository for articles that can be stored neither in institu ...
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Hyper Interaction Viability Experiments (HIVE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

Could computers someday interact directly with the human brain? The vision of this four-year project is that in the next 50 years we will witness the coming of age of technologies for fluent brain-computer and computer-mediated brain-to-brain interaction. While recent BCI research has delivered important breakthroughs in brain-to-computer transmission, little has been achieved in the other directi ...
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Cooperative and Self growing Energy aware Networks (CONSERN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

CONSERN is introducing a novel paradigm for dedicated, purpose-driven small scale wireless networks characterized by a service-centric evolutionary approach, referred here as an energy-aware self-growing network and system.In the context of CONSERN, the Self-Growing network paradigm considers (i) mechanisms for energy efficient interaction of the wireless network elements and (ii) mechanisms for t ...
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European eInfrastructures Observatory (eNVENTORY)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

...RY project will extend prior benchmarking by including all core components of eInfrastructures (i.e., computing, communication and services) and will build the indicator databases from various international repositories. It will carry out extensive consultation with eInfrastructures stakeholders and research and innovation indicator experts, and will eventually deploy a prototype web platform deal ...
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COMPACT ULTRAFAST LASER SOURCES BASED ON NOVEL QUANTUM DOT STRUCTURES (FAST-DOT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

...ve widespread impact in uptake by making many applications more affordable and opening up new application areas. The project unites 18 complementary European research groups and companies with international reputations in the development of semiconductor materials and their use in efficient ultra-fast lasers, related applications and marketing. All of the groups have record of collaboration and a ...
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Long Lasting Memories (LongLastingMemories)

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

...solution. Testing will be conducted in accordance with relevant regulations for the protection of the participants; all test protocols will utilise good ethical practices and comply with European and national legislation.
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Techno-Environmental Platform for the Agro-food Sector in the Mediterranean (AGRO-ENVIRONMED)

Start date: Jun 14, 2009, End date: Dec 14, 2011,

...al guide for the Action Plan - 90 assessment in SMEs carried out - 90 action plans completed - Revision of the design of the webtoolLatest project activities and outputs- Identification of international best practices and approach to the international review of BAT/BEP - Development of Catalogue of BAT and BEP of the Olive Sector together with Arti partner - Development of Prospective Studies - Me ...
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Data Infrastructure Ecosystem for Science (D4Science-II)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

...system. This will support several critical scientific scenarios that are distinct but also feed into and enrich each other in nontrivial ways. Finally, possibly in collaboration with appropriate international bodies and initiatives, D4Science will take steps to ensure sustainability of the Ecosystem, some of them based on and synchronized with the dissemination, training and standardization activi ...
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