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Improvement of conservation status of habitat types and species of European importance at abandoned military areas (Military LIFE for Nature)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2022,

Background Following the collapse of the Soviet bloc, many army firing ranges and training sites in former Warsaw Pact members such as the Czech Republic fell into disuse. The cessation of military training, abandonment of sites and succession processes have resulted in biodiversity loss. The impact of this trend has become more and more apparent in recen ...
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Adapting to the impacts of Climate Change in the Vipava Valley (LIFE ViVaCCAdapt)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

Background Agriculture is an important element of the regional economy of the Vipava valley. However, agricultural production has been substantially affected by climate change in the past decades, with higher temperatures, decreased precipitation, increased solar radiation and increased drought intensity all apparent. In particular, there has been an incr ...
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Directed Protein Evolution for Synthetic Biology and Biocatalysis (ES-Cat)

Start date: Mar 1, 2017, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

ES-Cat will use directed evolution as a tool to reproduce Nature's remarkable ability to generate molecular machines - in particular enzymes – that perform at levels near perfection. Instead of seeing rational and combinatorial approaches as alternatives, we combine them in this network to achieve a ‘smarter’ and more efficient exploration of protein sequence space. By harnessing the forces of Dar ...
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SENSors and Intelligence in BuLt Environment (SENSIBLE)

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

The goal of this project is to develop novel information sensing research and innovation approaches for acquiring, communicating and processing a large volume of heterogeneous datasets in the context of smart buildings, by building an international, inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral collaboration network through research and innovation staff exchanges and seamless exchange of ideas, expertise, ...
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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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Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3 (GETM3)

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

GETM3 – Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3 - focuses on young talent as a key driver of future development, developed through co-operation of 3 stakeholders: employers (inc MNC & SME’s), universities and students/graduates. Despite a widely recognized importance of young talent (e.g. Europe 2020), its potential remains largely untapped. They are educated and entrepreneurial and yet exper ...
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Adaptation to climate change through sustainable management of water of the urban area in Radom City (LIFERADOMKLIMA-PL)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Background Cities in the EU are extremely vulnerable to climate change. They are facing growing climate change impacts such as increased precipitation and extreme floods, more frequent and stronger storms, and periods of more extreme heat and cold. Climate change also negatively affects infrastructure, impedes access to basic urban services, and reduces q ...
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Synthetic bacterial lipid rafts to optimize industrial bioprocesses (Rafts4Biotech)

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

Genetic tractability of bacterial cells allows generating synthetic microbial chassis platforms (SMCPs) with remarkable biotechnological applications but their functionality currently faces important off-genome limitations due to deficient protein-protein interactions, unfavorable protein stoichiometry or generation of toxic intermediates that ultimately compromise the industrial production proces ...
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GOVERNANCE OF WASTE EEE (WEEE) AND WASTE PBA (WPBA) FLOW AND CUNSUMER FRINDLY COLLECTION AND AWARENESS RAISING (LIFE E-WASTE GOVERNANCE)

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

Background Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), and waste arising from these appliances, including waste portable batteries and accumulators (PBA), have environmental impacts throughout their life cycle. This is due to the fact that in recent years, EEE has increased in technological complexity, with new product innovations and ever-shortening produ ...
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A Phase Ib/II study of MEK1/2 inhibitor PD-0325901 or MEK-162 with cMET inhibitor PF-02341066 in RASMT and RASWT (with aberrant c-MET) Colorectal Cancer Patients (MERCURIC)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the 3rd most common cancer in Europe, and with approximately 200,000 deaths per year, it remains the 2nd most common cause of cancer death. More than half of all CRC patients develop distant metastases and have 5-year overall survival (OS) of less than 5% because of ineffective treatments. Increased understanding of cancer biology, coupled with the implementation of “omi ...
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Reliable Bio-based Refinery Intermediates (BioMates)

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

The EU targets at replacing 10% of all transport fossil fuels with biofuels by 2020 to reduce the dependence on petroleum through the use of nationally, regionally or locally produced biofuels, while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, the EU is concerned with the questionable sustainability of the conventional biofuels and the unattractive production costs of second and thi ...
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CIVITAS DESTINATIONS (DESTINATIONS)

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

Within the EU, and particularly following the economic crisis; tourism will be, the ‘engine for economic growth’, particularly in the underperforming Mediterranean economies; where tourism has traditionally been a dominant economic sector. The world market of tourists continues to grow and Europe has unique selling points for further tourist growth from within and outside the EU (including China). ...
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Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions (LIFE LINES)

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2020,

Background There is a good knowledge of the existing fauna and flora in the Portuguese region of Alentejo. However one of the main transport and energy corridors linking Portugal to Spain lies in this region. This puts significant pressure on the area’s wildlife, as the mortality data for the linear infrastructure (roads and power lines) shows. Within t ...
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iABC Programme (IABC PROGRAMME)

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2020,

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a common fatal inherited disease with a frequency of 1 in 2500 live births, affecting approximately 36,000 (0.737/10,000) people in the EU. Chronic bacterial pulmonary infection leading to an irreversible decline in lung structure and function is the main cause of mortality and morbidity in patients with CF, with more than 95% of deaths due to respiratory failure. Pseudomon ...
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HARMONIzation and integrative analysis of regional, national and international Cohorts on primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (pSS) towards improved stratification, treatment and health policy making (HarmonicSS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

HarmonicSS vision is to create an International Network and Alliance of partners and cohorts, entrusted with the mission of addressing the unmet needs in primary Sjogren Syndrome; working together to create and maintain a platform with open standards and tools, designed to enable secure storage, governance, analytics, access control and controlled sharing of information at multiple levels along wi ...
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Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice (GLOBUS)

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

GLOBUS critically assesses the EU’s impact on justice in a global system characterised by uncertainty, risk and ambiguity. GLOBUS defines a new research agenda for the study of the EU’s global role. This agenda directs attention to underlying political and structural challenges to global justice that are prior to the distributive problem, as well as to the fact that what is just is contested both ...
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EUROPAVOX

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

7 Partners from 7 different countries were gathered in order to design and manage the cooperation project EUROPAVOX: Europavox Festival (France), Estragon (Italy), Loftas Fest (Lithuania), WUK (Austria), Le Botanique (Belgium), INmusic Festival (Croatia), Fuzz Productions (Greece).To carry out our cooperation project we gather many other partners around:- Over 40 European media- Over 200 music p ...
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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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The evolutionary ecology of cognition across a heterogeneous landscape (EVOLECOCOG)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

"Why do individuals vary in their cognitive abilities? This proposal takes the disciplines of cognition and evolutionary biology into a natural setting to answer this question by investigating a variety of proximate causes and population-level consequences of individual variation in cognitive ability. It represents the first large-scale integrative study of cognitive ability on any wild population ...
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Bioinformatics Services for Data-Driven Design of Cell Factories and Communities (DD-DeCaF)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

Omics data is not leveraged effectively in the biotechnology industry due to lack of tools to rapidly access public and private data and to design cellular manipulations or interventions based on the data. With this project we aim to make a broad spectrum of omics data useful to the biotechnology industry covering application areas ranging from industrial biotechnology to human health. We will dev ...
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Muscle Stress Relief: An integrated research program linking together basic research on secondary myopathies in stress states to innovative translation in applied myology. (Muscle stress relief)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

A diverse variety of medical or lifestyle conditions lead to a progressive loss of muscle force by functionally impairing myofibril contractility and causing ultimately myofibril loss. Major underlying risk factors of chronic muscle force loss are ageing, inactive lifestyles, and unbalanced nutrition. Together, these factors are predicted to lead to an endemic incidence of muscle weakness both in ...
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Zorg verbindt

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2020,

Description (EN): On the one hand, the project Versorgung Verbindet focuses on the search for solutions regarding problems faced by citizens, the insured and patients. On the other hand, it concentrates on the effective and economic use of care facilities.Developments, such as the fast increase of chronic illnesses, the growing interest in health and wellness, the expecting labor sh ...
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CHIMERA – CHIckens Manure Exploitation and RevAluation (LIFE-CHIMERA)

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

Background Over the past decades, the poultry sector’s move towards intensification and geographical concentration has given rise to various environmental concerns at national and EU level. Poultry manure contains considerable amounts of nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and other excreted substances including hormones, antibiotics, pathogens and ...
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Sustainable land use management for the conservation of the freshwater pearl mussel (LIFE Kerry)

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

Background The catchments of the rivers Caragh and Blackwater in Kerry are important for a number of habitats and species, including the endangered freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera). The conservation status of this species has, over the years, declined due to land mismanagement, with diffuse sediment and nutrient losses being the main ...
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Energy for Smart Objects (EnSO)

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

The goal of EnSO is to develop and consolidate a unique European ecosystem in the field of autonomous micro energy sources (AMES) supporting Electronic European industry to develop innovative products, in particular in IoT markets. In summary, EnSO multi-KET objectives are:• Objective 1: demonstrate the competitiveness of EnSO energy solutions of the targeted Smart Society, Smart Health, and Smart ...
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NANOMATERIALS-BASED INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING SOLUTION TO ENSURE SUSTAINABLE SAFEGUARD TO INDOOR AIR (NANOGUARD2AR)

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

The overall project idea is on contribution to European culture and creativity through developing technological readiness of the breakthrough engineering solution for indoor air safeguard via inter-sectoral European and international cooperation, knowledge sharing, broad skills development and mobility of researchers and innovation staff. Under NANOGUARD2AR it is expected to build new and enhance ...
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Advanced Humidity to Electricity Converter (HUNTER)

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

The HUNTER project will develop revolutionary power devices that convert humidity into electrical charge (hygroelectricity), thereby contributing to the European technology and creativity through joint R&D and R&I multisectorial and international cooperation activities supported by knowledge sharing. The devices will harvest electricity from atmospheric humidity and supply a current, such as solar ...
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Anticipatory Skills for Adapting the Publishing sector

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

The Digital Agenda for Europe estimates that the publishing industries employ around 750,000 jobs in more than 64,000 companies in EU. Technology has had an unusual impact and a massive economic change on publishing: it’s changing the traditional business model and it’s giving a key role to new distribution channels such as aggregation platforms. The technological evolutions affect the consumptio ...
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GREEN WHEELS - Operation, repair and service of hybrid and electric cars

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

Project Green Wheels addresses some of the long-term strategic objectives of EU education and training policies objectives defined by The Education and Training 2020 work programme, namely improving the quality of education and enhancing innovation in education. The project aims to create blended learning materials in the emerging field of Operation, repair and service of hybrid and electric vehic ...
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Generalized Operational FLEXibility for Integrating Renewables in the Distribution Grid (GOFLEX)

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

The GOFLEX project will innovate, integrate, further develop and demonstrate a group of electricity smart-grid technologies, enabling the cost-effective use of demand response in distribution grids, increasing the grids’ available adaptation capacity and safely supporting an increasing share of renewable electricity generation. The GOFLEX smart grid solution will deliver flexibility that is both g ...
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Storage capacity sharing over virtual neighbourhoods of energy ecosystems (SHAR-Q)

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

Storages are unavoidable components of the future smart grid with large share of variable renewable generation. However, the unit-cost of energy, that is retrieved from storages, is several times higher than the cost of energy consumed upon its output from RES. Therefore, there is a strong requirement on the optimisation of storage capacities deployed in the grid. This is especially true for the s ...
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Sustainable Smart Mobile Devices Lifecycles through Advanced Re-design, Reliability, and Re-use and Remanufacturing Technologies (sustainablySMART)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

sustainablySMART will make a change to the life cycle of mobile information and communication devices by developing new product design approaches (including enhanced end-of-life performance, re-use and re-manufacturing aspects; i.e. implementing “Design for a Circular Economy”) for smartphones and tablet computers on the product and printed circuit board level, and by new re-/de-manufacturing proc ...
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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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Boosting Regulatory Advantages Vis à vis Emas Registration (LIFE B.R.A.V.E.R.)

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

Background EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) is an EU-level management tool designed to help registered organisations enhance their environmental performance and credibility. The EMAS scheme operates through incentives that reward organisations that make commitments to sustainability. The European Commission has initiated a process to improve and sim ...
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CONNECTING Early Medieval European COLLECTIONS

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

This project aims to provide a new business model for durable collaboration between museums on an exchange basis. In order to establish this network, CEMEC will create a mobile exhibition (at 3 venues) and 5 national presentations with generic curatorial content, together with technical partners and the associated scientific partners, who will be able to create on-going spin-off research. This int ...
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Smart Automation of Rail Transport (SMART)

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

SMART main goal is to increase the quality of rail freight, as well as its effectiveness and capacity, through the contribution to automation of railway cargo haul at European railways.In order to achieve the main goal, SMART will deliver the following measurable objectives:• complete, safe and reliable prototype solution for obstacle detection and initiation of long distance forward-looking braki ...
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GoSAFE RAIL – Global Safety Management Framework for RAIL Operations (GoSAFE RAIL)

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

The GoSAFE RAIL project will be transformative for asset safety in the rail sector. It will bring together inter-disciplinary experts from Risk based asset assessment of infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence (AI), object detection and data management sectors with leaders in network micro-simulation modelling to deliver a Decision Support Tool that will allow a step change for infrastructure safe ...
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ANtibioticS and mobile resistance elements in WastEwater Reuse applications: risks and innovative solutions (ANSWER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

In response to the increasing problem of water shortage, the reuse of treated urban wastewater is considered the most suitable and reliable alternative for sustainable water management and agricultural development. In spite of the benefits associated with this practice, major concerns currently exist, related to the adverse effects regarding chemical and biological contaminants of emerging concern ...
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Homelessness as unfairness (HOME_EU)

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

Empirically informing a European theory of justice is a complex and challenging endeavour, however the emergence of current social crisis, and the resulting inequalities and unfairness, bring about the need to revise the premises that facilitate translation of the theory into concrete guidance to effective social policies and coherent programs and practices.To respond to this challenge, a trans-di ...
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Bio-scaffold engineered device for brown adipose tissue regeneration (SCAFFY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Obesity and cardio-metabolic disease represent major health problems with vast impacts on the European healthcare systems. Recent advances in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine can be used to design novel techniques aiming to boost human metabolism; thus being promising candidates for human metabolic disease treatment. However, the development of these techniques requires the creation of ...
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