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Adaptation of FORest management to CLIMATE variability: an ecological approach - AForClimate (LIFE AFORCLIMATE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2022,

Background Climate change is known to influence forest tree growth response and the CO2 cycle. Dendroclimatological research has shown that the climate signal, species composition, and growth trends have changed in different types of forest ecosystems during the last century. Under current and demonstrated changes in climate variability at geographic, reg ...
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European Training Network on Sustainable Multi-functional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructures. (SMARTI ETN)

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

Sustainable Multi-functional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructures ETN, will bring together a stimulating platform where the stakeholders of the transport infrastructure sector will work alongside world-wide experts in smartening of systems (developers of high-tech sensors, advanced monitoring equipment, automated structures, etc.,) with direct support from the roads, railways and airport ...
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Integrating National Research Agendas on Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (INSHIP)

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

Despite process heat is recognized as the application with highest potential among solar heating and cooling applications, Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP) still presents a modest share of about 0.3% of total installed solar thermal capacity. As of today’s technology development stage – economic competitiveness restricted to low temperature applications; technology implementation requiri ...
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Low energy solution for drinking water production by a REvival of ElectroDialysis systems (REvivED water)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

The REvivED water project will establish electrodialysis (ED) as the new standard providing a source of safe, affordable, and cost-competitive drinking water, using less than half the energy required by state-of-the-art Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants.The innovations of the project constitute a technology platform with a very wide field of potential applications. All components and systems have reache ...
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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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Modelling the PRocesses leading to Organised crime and TerrOrist Networks (PROTON)

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

PROTON aims at improving existing knowledge on the processes of recruitment to organised crime and terrorist networks (OCTN) through an innovative integration between social and computational sciences. Moving beyond the state of the art, this integration will support evidence-based policies at the international, national and local level. To achieve its aim, PROTON will complete three specific obje ...
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Ressource recovery from industrial waste water by cutting edge membrane technologies (ReWaCEM)

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

The ReWaCEM project aims at reducing water use, wastewater production, energy use, valuable metal resource recovery and water footprint by between 30-90% in the metal plating, galvanizing and printed circuit board industry. In order to achieve these goals, ReWaCem will adopt two cutting edge membrane technologies suitable for the requirements of closed material cycles approaches and recovery conce ...
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Lehrkompetenzentwicklung für extensiven Leseunterricht

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

Major aims of the ERASMUS+ project Developing Teaching Competencies for Extensive Reading Programs (LEELU) are to raise foreign language reading competencies of high-schools students and to test and improve a model of experience-based, cooperative and encompassing foreign language teacher education. LEELU’s starting point for pursuing these goals in innovative teacher education are the rather unsa ...
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European Master Programme in System Dynamics

Start date: Aug 15, 2015, End date: Aug 14, 2019,

...hains to the social effects of shale gas extraction, and so on.An international experienceAfter the first semester in Bergen that lays down the foundations of system dynamics, students choose between Palermo and Lisbon for their second semester (applications in either public/private management or sustainability science, respectively). The third semester is in Nijmegen deals with participatory mode ...
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LIFE - OLIVE4CLIMATE - LIFE. CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION THROUGH A SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN FOR THE OLIVE OIL SECTOR (OLIVE4CLIMATE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Background The olive tree is one of the most widespread agricultural tree species in the world. Some 70% of the world’s olive harvest comes from the European Union, where almost 5 million ha of land is devoted to cultivating olives.. Agriculture is particularly vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather events and faces the combined challenge of mitig ...
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Advancing Smart Optical Imaging and Sensing for Health (ASTONISH)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

The ageing population and related increase in chronic diseases put considerable pressure on both the healthcare system and the society, resulting in an unsustainable rise of healthcare costs. As a result there is an urgent need to improve efficiency of care and reduce hospitalisation time in order to control cost and increase quality of life. Addressing this need, medical applications need to beco ...
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Conversion of Low Grade Heat to Power through closed loop Reverse Electro-Dialysis (RED-Heat-to-Power)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The concept is based on the generation of electricity from salinity gradient using Reverse Electrodialysis with artificial saline solutions operating in a closed-loop. The original salinity gradient is regenerated by a separation step that uses heat at 40 - 100 C. The regenerated solutions can be stored at very low costs and the stack can react within seconds, providing flexibility to the power sy ...
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Using Profiling and Publishing for the upping of Scientific Approaches

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

UPPScience falls squarely within EU strategies for fostering research, better quality education and a stronger European Research Area. It will build on a Community of Practice (CoP) for managers, teachers and trainers of STEM and IT subjects in Vocational Education and Training (VET) that has been successfully initiated in a previous Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnership for VET called VISConti. UP ...
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Integrated Activities for the High Energy Astrophysics Domain (AHEAD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

We propose a set of integrated Activities in the High Energy Astrophysics Domain (AHEAD) in response to the INFRAIA-2014-2015 call Research Infrastructures for High EnergyAstrophysics.The overall objective of AHEAD is to integrate national efforts in high-energy Astrophysics and to promote the domain at the European level, to keep its community at the cutting edge of science and technology in this ...
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Impact of invasive alien true bug species in native tropich webs (INVASIoN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Insects can be accidentally introduced into non-native ecosystems by humans, or expand their geographical range toward the poles as a consequence of global warming. As they invade new environments, exotic species interact with local species, modifying the structure of local food webs. New associations arising from with biological invasions can impact the strength of existing links with effects cas ...
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Rostrum+

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

Rostrum+ is a project that aims to promote contemporary classical music and strengthen this sector in Europe and beyond. It will do so by exploring innovative strategies to develop audiences, promote new music, enhance the capacity and skills of radio professionals and inspire cooperation between musicians, higher music education institutions and broadcasting companies throughout Europe and across ...
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Clinical Translation of Patient-Specific Planning and Conduction of FUS Treatment in Moving Organs (TRANS-FUSIMO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) combines high intensity focused ultrasound for thermal ablation of diseased tissue with MR imaging to visualise the tumour and surrounding anatomy and to provide MR thermal feedback.However, MRgFUS treatment of the liver and other abdominal organs present tremendous technological challenges, including motion due to breathing and shielding of the target ...
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Eliciting Mucosal Immunity to Tuberculosis (EMI-TB)

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

Tuberculosis (TB) is a global health problem, killing 1.5 million of people every year. The only currently available vaccine, Mycobacterium bovis BCG, is effective against severe childhood forms, but it demonstrates a variable efficacy against the pulmonary form of TB in adults. Many of these adult TB cases result from the reactivation of an initially controlled, latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...
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Wheat and barley Legacy for Breeding Improvement (WHEALBI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

WHEALBI will combine genomics, genetics and agronomy to improve European wheat and barley production in competitive and sustainable cropping systems. Germplasm representing the species diversity will be selected and characterised in unprecedented detail by next-generation-sequencing. Life history and adaptive traits will be evaluated in both transnational field experiments and a state-of-the-art p ...
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TBVAC2020; Advancing novel and promising TB vaccine candidates from discovery to preclinical and early clinical development (TBVAC2020)

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

The TBVAC2020 proposal builds on the highly successful and long-standing collaborations in subsequent EC-FP5-, FP6- and FP7-funded TB vaccine and biomarker projects, but also brings in a large number of new key partners from excellent laboratories from Europe, USA, Asia, Africa and Australia, many of which are global leaders in the TB field. This was initiated by launching an open call for Express ...
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Wczesne wsparcie uczniów potencjalnie zagrożonych, po ukończeniu edukacji szkolnej, bezrobociem.

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

When we analyze the phenomenon of unemployment of the young and the phenomenon of early school leaving three paradoxes are revealed: 1.Among young people in Europe, we see high unemployment, but at the same time in certain professions there are still shortages of workers 2.It is clear that education provides more competitiveness in the labor market and at the same time maintains the phenomenon of ...
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Mobility, Security and the New Media

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

Globalization is a distinctive feature of our contemporary world: circulation, of both people and information, is one of the hallmarks of contemporaneity. The increasing accessibility of means of transport, the worldwide set of communication established through the internet, the relentless creation of global social networks: all these possibilities do provide people today with an unprecedented amo ...
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Talking About Language and EmotionS at Home

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...semination will be provided throughout the project and in May 2018 we plan a conference in Brussels.Partners:Soros International House (Vilnius, Lithuania), EURAC Bolzano (Bolzano, Italy), UNIPA (Palermo, Italy), Double Helix Recourses (London, England), Foyer vzw (Brussels, Belgium): are the partners that will provide the theoretical background and elaborate the constant involvement of the stakeh ...
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AspiRing enTrepreneurIaI families to perpetuate cultural buSiness Across geNerations

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...nge, and complementarities amongst the group. The project partners include the following organisations: UCLan Cyprus, GrantXpert, Castilla La Mancha, University of Beira Interior, University of Palermo, EDHEC and ISOB. Prof. Panikkos Poutziouris from UCLan Cyprus will be the Project Coordinator of the project. A Project Management Team (PMT) will be responsible for the proper implementation of th ...
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Hybrid cars specialization, maintenance and repair - a chance for a successful career in a green and healthy world

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The world auto industry is one of the most important economy branches, with auto vehicule production having a growth rate similar to the one of the world population. Global warmth, mineral resources extinction and the polution of urban agglomerations are problems which have to be solved in the new century, imposing, in the same time, new standards for the automobiles' propulsion systems. The world ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Più Europa a scuola

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

A survey for the detection of the training needs of the teachers has shown that the school needs radical teacher training action aimed at triggering meaningful curricular changes and school innovation. The analysis of the survey results indicates that the teacher training areas that need most urgent intervention are three: 1. English language competence improvement aimed at the subsequent introdu ...
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Visually impaired youths' empowerment

Start date: May 31, 2016, End date: May 30, 2018,

...with fewer opportunities. The consortium consists of 2 social enterprise organizations DialogMuseum Frankfurt and International Council for Cultural Centers (I3C) in BG, an institute for the v.i. in Palermo (applicant) and the union of the blind in Cagliari, training and arts organisations in Sardinia (Isogea) and Sicily (Music'Arte), Royal charity enterprise using drama for training of visually ...
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Open Discovery of STEM Laboratories

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

...ll be created. At least 300 teachers will be trained during eight local and national multiplier workshops. Thirty five teachers of best micro-MOOCs scenarios will participate in Teacher School (Palermo) contributing to design of MOOC concept implementation in school classroom. The ODL outputs will be tested with school teachers and students from five countries (Estonia, Greece, Italy, Lithuania ...
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Investigation of Novel biomarkers and Definition of the role of the microbiome In Graves’ Orbitopathy (INDIGO) (INDIGO)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

"Graves' orbitopathy (GO), also known as thyroid eye disease, affects approximately 3 million people in Europe with an estimated socioeconomic burden of 6.4 billion euros per annum. GO is a complication of Graves' disease which is an autoimmune disease and the commonest cause of an overactive thyroid gland. The treatment of GO remains unsatisfactory and the majority of patients report long-term im ...
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Strategic Use of Competitiveness towards Consolidating the Economic Sustainability of the european Seafood sector (SUCCESS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

SUCCESS is bringing together an integrated team of scientists from all fields of fisheries and aquaculture science with industry partners and key stakeholders to work on solutions which shall improve the competitiveness of the European fisheries and aquaculture sector. The supply-side of seafood markets is limited from both sea fisheries and aquaculture. At the same time demand for seafood product ...
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Size effects in fracture and plasticity (SIZEFFECTS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Understanding how materials respond to external mechanical perturbation is a central problem of science and engineering. While for most practical purposes it is useful to idealize the mechanical response of a material as a deterministic function of the externally applied perturbation, disorder and fluctuations are unavoidable, leading to sample-to-sample variations and non-trivial size effects. Th ...
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Roadmaps for Energy (R4E)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Within the Roadmaps for Energy (R4E) project the partners will work together to develop a new type of energy strategy through visions and roadmaps for the 8 partner cities, in co-creation with local stakeholders. The stakeholders include the benefactors of the strategy, such as citizens, as well as relevant research and industry partners, to offer a clear picture of the future potential of the cit ...
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Scientific and Technological Alliance for Guaranteeing the European Excellence in Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy (STAGE-STE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy encompasses Solar Thermal Electricity (STE), Solar Fuels, Solar Process Heat and Solar Desalination that are called to play a major role in attaining energy sustainability in our modern societies due to their unique features: 1) Solar energy offers the highest renewable energy potential to our planet; 2) STE can provide dispatchable power in a technically and eco ...
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Conservation of the main European population of Calonectris d. diomedea and other pelagic birds on Pelagic Islands (Pelagic Birds)

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

Background In Europe, Cory’s shearwater (Calonectris diomedea ) has an 'unfavourable' conservation status (vulnerable); it is listed as 'vulnerable' in the IUCN Red List and is also included in Annex I of the Birds Directive and the Berne Convention. The predation of eggs and nestlings by the black rat (Rattus rattus ) has reduced Cory’s shearwater’ ...
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MEditerranean MOntainous LAndscapes: an historical approach to cultural heritage based on traditional agrosystems (MEMOLA)

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

"The project is an interdisciplinary approach to cultural landscapes of Mediterranean mountainous areas, taking as a central axis the historical study of two natural resources essential to generate agro-systems: water and soil. The proposal focuses on Sierra Nevada (Spain), Monti di Trapani (Italy), Colli Euganei (Italy) and Vjosa Valley (Albania).Landscapes and their structure are strongly condit ...
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SHAring Researchers’ Passion for Engagement and Responsibility (SHARPER)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

...chers’ Night in the Centre and South of Italy that will take place on the 30th of September 2016 and on the 29th of September 2017 simultaneously in five cities: Perugia, L’Aquila, Ancona and Palermo – the four capital cities of the regions Marche, Umbria, Abruzzo, Sicily and in Cascina the city hosting the European Gravitational Observatory one of the cutting edge European research facilities. Th ...
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Skills for the creative economy

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

ArtS project will exploit the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) potential for creating growth and jobs and enhance cultural economy at regional and transnational levels. It shall define and forecast labour market needs in the CCS in Greece, Italy and Spain; design appropriate teaching and training methodologies and deliver a joint training programme that will respond to these needs. These object ...
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Joint innovative training and teaching/learning program in enhancing development and transfer knowledge of application of ionizing radiation in materials processing

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Improving competences and quality of the learning offer is important factor affecting on level of education in every country. In Poland knowledge about radiation technology and possibility of using radiation is still insufficient. To answer for industry needs in terms of close cooperation between science and industry this type of action is necessary. Only with highly qualified, experienced and mot ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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