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European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

... migration studies with intersecting fields, such as gender studies, cultural studies, education and development studies, the programme is fully accredited since 2013.The two-year programme begins in Oldenburg. In the second semester, all students move to Stavanger. In the third semester, students attend the partner university of their choice, linked to their project-based internship. Before the f ...
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Micro/Nano Robotics for Single Cancer Cells (MNR4SCell)

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

Cancer is considered as the second leading cause of death worldwide. It is important to develop methodologies that improve understanding of the disease condition and progression. Over the past few years, single cell biology has been performed using micro/nano robotics for exploration of the nanomechanical and electrophysiological properties of cells. However, most of the research so far has been e ...
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Enriched communication across the lifespan (ENRICH)

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

"Speech is a hugely efficient means of communication: a reduced capacity in listening or speaking creates a significant barrier to social inclusion at all points through the lifespan, in education, work and at home. Hearing aids and speech synthesis can help address this reduced capacity but their use imposes greater listener effort. The fundamental objective of the ETN "Enriched communication acr ...
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In the eye of the observer: Visual processing at the heart of the retina (switchBoard)

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

All visual information is broadcasted by an intra-retinal pathway formed by a group of neurons called bipolar cells. They collect photoreceptor signals in the outer retina and relay the signals to the inner retinal neurons. This transfer of visual information is far from passive: Each of the at least 10 bipolar cell types transforms the photoreceptor signals in a unique and highly specific way. As ...
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Strategic Partnership for Marine Spatial Planning

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

...opic into the education landscape properly.Five partner organization from four European countries joint to strengthen the implementation of MSP which is driven by European policies. The University of Oldenburg (D, lead partner), the University of Liverpool (U.K.), the University of Nantes (F), the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (D) and the University of Applied Science Breda (NL) consit ...
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Advanced Wind Energy Systems Operation and Maintenance Expertise (AWESOME)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

AWESOME network aims to educate eleven young researchers in the wind power operation and maintenance (O&M) field by constructing a sustainable training network gathering the whole innovation value chain. The main EU actors in the field of wind O&M have worked together, under the umbrella of the European Wind Energy Academy (EAWE), in order to design a training program coping with the principal R&D ...
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Design and Fabrication of Functional Surfaces with Controllable Wettability, Adhesion and Reflectivity (FabSurfWAR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The project “Design and Fabrication of Functional Surfaces with Controllable Wettability, Adhesion and Reflectivity (FabSurfWAR)” focuses on the staff exchange between the partners of EU and Asia, and the development of key enabling techniques of designing and generating micro/nano surface topology with better control of bacterial growth, adhesion, friction and other tribological properties for po ...
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Solutions for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management (SOLUTIONS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

"SOLUTIONS will deliver a conceptual framework for the evidence-based development of environmental and water policies. This will integrate innovative chemical and effect-based monitoring tools with a full set of exposure, effect and risk models and assessment options. Uniquely, SOLUTIONS taps (i) expertise of leading European scientists of major FP6/FP7 projects on chemicals in the water cycle, (i ...
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Tools for Teaching Quantitative Thinking

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

Quantitative thinking is at the heart of modern societies. Skills and programming competences related to quantitative thinking increase a student's employability and allow an enlightened citizen to make informed decisions. Every day we are bombarded and challenged by quantitative information: How long will a journey be delayed due to traffic? What are the chances of a change in weather conditio ...
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Maritime English Language Training Standards

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

The shipping industry is a key component of the global economy, carrying nearly 90% of world trade. The industry is regulated by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), the UN specialised agency for maritime affairs. IMO is aware that over 80% of the reported accidents and incidents at sea and in ports are due to human errors (IMO, 2012, Horner, 2014) and over 30% of these accidents are du ...
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Integrated Research Programme on Wind Energy (IRPWIND)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

IRPWIND is an integrated research programme that combines strategic research projects and support activities within the field of Wind Energy, with the aim of leveraging the long term European research potential. The concept behind this programme is built on the success of existing initiatives supporting the SET Plan Agenda such as the European Energy Research Alliance Joint Programme on Wind Ener ...
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Demonstration of Small 4-Wheel fuel cell passenger vehicle Applications in Regional and Municipal transport (SWARM)

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

This project will establish a demonstration fleet of small passenger vehicles that builds on and expands existing hydrogen refuelling infrastructure. Three European regions will be participating in this effort: the UK (the Midlands and Plymouth), the Brussels area and Wallonia, and the Weser-Ems region in NorthWest Germany. Each of these regions will deploy a new hydrogen refuelling site to close ...
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Biomedical Robotics and Applications (BioRA)

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

The project “Biomedical Robotics and Applications (BioRA)” focuses on the staff exchange between the partners of EU and China, and on the development of new technologies and applications in the field of biomedical robotics on the macro, micro and nano scales for biological cell detection, manipulation, test and injection. It meets the objectives and requirements of the Marie Curie Action: Internat ...
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Innovative Wind Conversion Systems (10-20MW) for Offshore Applications (INNWIND.EU)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The overall objectives of the INNWIND.EU project are the high performance innovative design of a beyond-state-of-the-art 10-20MW offshore wind turbine and hardware demonstrators of some of the critical components. These ambitious primary objectives lead to a set of secondary objectives, which are the specific innovations, new concepts, new technologies and proof of concepts at the sub system and t ...
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AdVanced Aerodynamic Tools for lArge Rotors (AVATAR)

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

The motivation for the AVATAR project lies in the fact that upscaling wind turbine designs towards 10-20 MW requires radical innovations to make this feasible. Many of these innovationshave a strong aerodynamic component and can be considered as unconventional from an aerodynamic point of view. As such the analysis of the resulting rotor designs falls outside the validated range of applicability o ...
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Wirtschaftsunterricht international und handlungsorientiert gestalten

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

...Schule Nikoaleva), Poland (Publiczne Gimnazjum nr 3 in Biała Podlaska and Zespół Szkół Ogólnokształcących nr 2 im. Adama Mickiewicza in Biała Podlaska) and Germany (Oberschule Osternburg in Oldenburg), focusing in particular on action-orientation and internationalisation linked to the subject of economic education and entrepreneurship education. Introducing school companies is one possible instrum ...
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BBA Oldenburg - Let's go Europe!

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

BBA Oldenburg (an initial vocational school in Germany) wants to convey new inspirations and experiences to its students and lecturers. Students and lecturers shall be able to establish ties with European colleagues and participate in European networks. Necessities for the planned experiences are generated by changes in society (Europe 2020 strategy) and health systems (Health 2020 strategy) all o ...
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Focus on Automatic Institutional Recognition

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The objective of the Focus on Automatic Institutional Recognition (FAIR) project is to improve European recognition as practiced by higher education institutions by implementing elements of automatic recognition.Experimentation measureThe measure to be tested is the introduction of automatic recognition in institutional recognition procedures. Automatic recognition is a fairly new concept that is ...
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European High-performance Infrastructures in Turbulence (EUHIT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Advances in key economical and societal issues facing Europe, like transport, energy generation, climate change, or industrial, environmental and geophysical mixing processes are obstructed by the lack of understanding of turbulence. To date, models fail to explain many fundamental features of turbulence, from boundary layers and particle transport, to heat transport and turbulence in complex and ...
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Adaptive Brain Computations (ABC)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

Adaptive interactions with the environment depend on sophisticated brain plasticity mechanisms at multiple levels: from single neurons to large-scale brain networks. Traditionally, the study of plasticity has been fragmented into sensory, motor or decision-related circuits. However, translating brain plasticity findings to brain repair requires an understanding of the interactions between these ci ...
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Advancing Binaural Cochlear Implant Technology (ABCIT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

"Cochlear implants (CI) are the most successful sensory prosthetic devices developed to date, as judged by their ability to restore sensory and motor function (i.e. hearing and normal speech patterns) in the profoundly deaf. With 1 in 7 of the population affected by hearing impairment, and an increasingly ageing population Europe-wide, sensory therapies for hearing are critical for the future phys ...
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EERA Design Tools for Offshore Wind Farm Cluster (EERA-DTOC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

The European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) together with some high-impact industry partners addresses the call proposing an integrated and validated design tool combining the state-of-the-art wake, yield and electrical models available in the consortium, as a plug-in architecture with possibility for third party models. To decrease uncertainties around wind farm wake predictions, a small measur ...
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Mapping and communicating marine energy potentials (MAP-MEP)

Start date: Jan 6, 2014, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

MAP-MEP campaigns for a broader societal awareness and dialogue on energy potentials in the North Sea Region. The awareness marketing is designed to increase future energy partnership capacities and to found decision making. Results from energy-sector related INTERREG IVB NSR projects are compiled for the regional audience and beyond.MAP-MEP aims at feeding the mainstream energy debate with topica ...
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Combating Poverty in Europe: Re-organising Active Inclusion through Participatory and Integrated Modes of Multilevel Governance (COPE)

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

"To combat poverty, European strategies propose implementing active inclusion policies. However, these policies face serious conceptual questions and governance challenges. Practical implementation is problematic in that social exclusion is a multidimensional problem that goes far beyond financial poverty, necessitating the participatory co-production of individual opportunities. In addition, the ...
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Local Worlds of Social Cohesion. The Local Dimension of Integrated Social and Employment Policies (LOCALISE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"Radical changes in the local governance of social cohesion in many Member States of the European Union are the focus of LOCALISE’s research on the organisational challenges of an integrated social and employment policy. The multiple needs of the most vulnerable groups in society require the integration of formerly separate policy fields. This creates positive dynamics for reducing social inequali ...
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European Science and Technology in Action Building Links with Industry, Schools and Home (ESTABLISH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

The aim of ESTABLISH is to facilitate and implement an inquiry based approach in the teaching and learning of science and technology across Europe, mainly focussed, through the collaborative actions of the consortium, on appropriate teacher education and support using trialled and tested resource material particularly suited to inquiry based teaching. Inquiry based teaching methodologies are encou ...
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Wind Resource Assessment Audit and Standardization (WAUDIT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"The objective of WAUDIT is the generation of a pool of researchers, in the field of wind resource assessment, in order to support the technological development of wind energy as one of the fastest growing industries worldwide (annual increase rate of 20%). The scientific motivation of the project is grounded on current state-of-the-art at industrial level. A technical audit to industry provides t ...
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Build with CaRe - Mainstreaming Energy efficiency in the built environment (BwC)

Start date: Jul 31, 2008, End date: Mar 30, 2013,

The aim of the Build with Care project is to mainstream energy-efficient building design by raising the awareness and increasing the knowledge of the potential of energy savings. In collaboration with the building sector, a transnational strategy for increasing energy efficiency in buildings will be developed. Within the project, an education and information programme will be carried out to change ...
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A cluster Project on Water management in a changing Climate, Adaptation to new conditions, and Promotion of new strategies (WaterCAP)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2013,

As historical hydrological patterns can no longer be solely relied upon to forecast future water conditions, a new paradigm for water management is needed. The WaterCAP cluster connects six INTERREG IVB funded projects (CPA, Aquarius, SAWA, C2C-islands and CLIWAT) working with issues relating to water. It will focus on recommendations relevant to policy-makers on: 1) Water quantity/quality issues, ...
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Creative City Challenge (CCC)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Nov 29, 2012,

CCC aims to build and implement an integrated evidence-based strategy for cities to strengthen their innovative capacity by means of a methodology of joint development and pilot testing of new tools and instruments in the fields of skills development, business cooperation and the development of urban creative clusters. CCC focuses on the catalyst role of creative industries in building and strengt ...
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BlueGreen Coastal Energy Community (enercoast)

Start date: May 31, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2012,

The project focuses on strengthening the regional production of biomass as a source of bio energy. A substantiated and consolidated investment plan based on commercially viable bio-energy supply chains will be presented and implemented. The business model will be applied in parallel to differentiated blue-green energy clusters in the Region and ensure transfer of management expertise between the c ...
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Multi-scale data assimilation, advanced wind modeling and forecasting with emphasis to extreme weather situations for a secure large-scale wind power integration (SafeWind)

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

The integration of wind generation into power systems is affected by uncertainties in the forecasting of expected power output. Misestimating of meteorological conditions or large forecasting errors (phase errors, near cut-off speeds etc), are very costly for infrastructures (i.e. unexpected loads on turbines) and reduce the value of wind energy for end-users. The state of the art in wind power fo ...
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North Sea Sustainable Energy Planning (North Sea - SEP)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Aug 30, 2012,

During the last years the costs for fossil energy resources are heavily increasing. A possibility to absorb rising costs is to critically question the status quo of energy consumption in order to be able to use existing energy saving potentials. Rising energy costs are contributing to a steadily increasing financial pressure for public utilities. This leads to a negative cycle: the public bodies h ...
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Advanced first response respiratory protection (FRESP)

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

"In the current state of technology, individual respiratory protection for first responders consists primarily in a gas mask and an activated carbon filter. Filters protect either against chemical warfare agents, either against (a part of the) toxic industrial chemicals. Combined filters exist, but with limited efficiency and a high burden for the wearer (breathing resistance, canister weight,…). ...
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acoustic SCene ANalysis for Detecting Living Entities (SCANDLE)

Start date: Mar 2, 2009, End date: Mar 1, 2012,

Description An acoustic system which can recognise human or animal movement.Living beings constantly give sonic clues about their presence as they move, breathe and interact with the world around them. Sounds also bounce off other objects in the environment; a source of further contextual information. In SCANDLE we propose to develop a co ...
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Climate Proof Areas (CPA)

Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

CPA aims to create a portfolio of climate adoption strategies for the North Sea region. This will be done by carrying out multi-focused pilot projects across the North Sea Region in order to analyse the impacts of climate changes as a first step. Subsequently, diverse climate adoption strategies will be developed, implemented and tested in order to compile and analyse the findings on a transnation ...
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Smart Cities (Smart Cities)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Oct 30, 2011,

Smart Cities aims to create an innovation network between governments and academia in six countries to promote excellence in the domain of e-services (development and take-up) in order to set a new standard for e-service delivery in the whole NSR. The transnational working method (pooling expertise, joint model development) is proposed to equip decision-makers to achieve further innovation in the ...
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Nano-Actuators and Nano-Sensors for Medical Applications (NANOMA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

The NANOMA project aims at proposing novel controlled nanorobotic delivery systems which will be designed to improve the administration of drugs in the treatment and diagnosis of breast cancer. Breast cancer is diagnosed in 1.2 million men and women globally every year and kills 500,000. The NANOMA project proposes a magnetic nanocapsule steering approach that relies on improved gradient coils for ...
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Developing the North Sea Offshore Wind Power Cluster (POWER cluster)

Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2011,

As a direct successor of NSR Interreg IIIBs POWER project, it is centred on the development of a strong Offshore Wind Industry (OWI) cluster in the NSR. Core activities include a strengthened stakeholder and business-to-business network, leading to knowledge transfer and bringing together complementary expertise to create more innovation in the sector, energy grid reinforcement across the NSR, dev ...
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History and Philosophy in Science Teaching (HIPST)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

In order to develop a better integration of science in society and society in science the promotion of young people’s interest in science, to encourage their critical and creative ways of thinking and to improve science education, and the uptake of scientific careers in general is of vital importance. Sustained learning of science implies many different dimensions. One often ignored, but important ...
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