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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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Cloud for Europe (C4E)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Cloud for Europe (C4E) addresses the objectives of the European Cloud Partnership program. It gives a clear view on the public sector requirements and usage scenarios for Cloud Computing in Europe. The main objectives of C4E are to remove the obstacles for Cloud adoption and to harmonize the requirements from different public organisations beyond national borders. Stakeholders from industry, purch ...
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Personalised Centralized Authentication System (PCAS)

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

PCAS aims at providing an innovative, trustworthy, handheld device. The Secured Personal Device (SPD) will allow users to securely store their data, to share it with trusted applications, and to easily and securely authenticate him. The SPD will recognize its user using multiple biometric sensors, including a stress level sensor to detect coercion. Using the same biometric authentication, the SPD ...
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Multimodal analysis of MR data using Bayesian methods (BAYESIANMULTIMODALMR)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Apr 8, 2016,

Through the development of this training-through-research project, the fellow expects to acquire new skills, knowledge and perspectives, as well as to develop and widen her competences significantly, all contributing to her career development. The purpose of this proposal is to acquire new research expertise in Bayesian methodologies applied to source identification in blind signal separation and ...
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Fullerene-based systems for oxidative inactivation of airborne microbial pathogens (NANO_GUARD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The main goal of this project is to establish a long-lasting collaboration and create a network of the research centres of excellence from Europe and Third Countries aiming at development of the Fullerene-based systems for oxidative inactivation of airborne microbial pathogens.This goal will be achieved by undertaken of joint research activities via collaboration of a multidisciplinary consortium ...
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Complex Liquids At Structured Surfaces (CLASS)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

The topography and surface chemistry of substrates is now recognised to significantly impact on the feasibility and quality of many industrial processes where wetting and self-assembly phenomena play a major role. In the emerging lab-on-a-chip technologies based on integrated microfluidic devices, surface forces dominate, and inertial plays only a secondary role. Therefore, tailoring the solid-liq ...
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Development, integration and dissemination of animal-based welfare indicators, including pain, in commercially important husbandry species, with special emphasis on small ruminants, equidae & turkeys (WELFARE INDICATORS)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Animal welfare is one of the topics that has consistently ranked on the top of items brought to the attention of governmental organizations and politicians across European countries. Concerns about animal welfare among European citizens are founded in well thought expectations from governments, industry and other stakeholders. The tremendous public scrutiny on animal welfare related issues put exc ...
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Digital Preservation for Timeless Business Processes and Services (TIMBUS)

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

Description TIMBUS extends traditional digital preservation approaches by introducing the need to analyse and preserve services, and by aligning preservation actions with business continuity management.A primary motivation for TIMBUS is the declining use of centralised in-house business processes. Based on the concept of software as a ser ...
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SOLUTIONS for ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRASTS in COASTAL AREAS (SECOA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"Urban settlements, following the economic crisis of the 70s, entered in a process of regional and urban restructuring to gain a new image at the international level. As a result of the renewed economic success new flows of permanent, semi-permanent, temporary and daily “human mobility” followed: (i) for consumption (leisure and tourism), (ii) for production (economic migration). The world competi ...
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How will life be in 2020? (Future2020)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

This proposal aims to raise awareness of the prominent role researchers and how their work plays in our currently every day and for the future. Bearing in mind Horizon 2020 Societal Challenges, the ERN2013 will promote and disseminate what in terms of science and innovation is being done in Portugal.The extensive and nationwide range of activities already planned and being prepared have one major ...
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New Halogenated Ionic Liquids as novel task-specific fluids (HALOGENILS)

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

"Organohalogen compounds are key materials in chemical, medicinal, agrochemical, and material sciences. They can also be used as basis for alternative reaction or extraction schemes due to their poor miscibility with both hydrocarbons and water. Hence, it is of great importance to develop environmentally benign selective halogenated systems. One of the key-issues concerning the current importance ...
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EUROPEAN UNION & THE WORLD SEEN FROM ABROAD (EUROBROADMAP)

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

Geographers are the most critical social scientists when it comes to the delimitation of borders of the so-called European continent. Continents as Huntington’s civilisation are ideological productions that are certainly not based on natural facts. But they are deeply enhanced in the mind of European citizens and policy makers because they were historically produced by Europeans as a tool of world ...
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Generating Interethnic Tolerance and Neighborhood Integration in European Urban Spaces (GEITONIES)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

"In the context of the growth of diversification within European nation states there has been much debate in public and policy discourse regarding the cultural specifics of immigrant groups and their descendents. As global processes and events have stressed cultural differences concerns about the cohesion of society, related often to a perceived cultural mismatch between immigrant and indigenous g ...
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Setting the Stage in Portugal: researchers and the public come together through theatre (SettingTheStage)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2009,

Through the medium of theatre and visual arts, SettingTheStage brings together research centres, universities, an SME, a science museum and theatre groups from four major cities in Portugal, to create multiple spaces where scientists and the public can actively engage in the reality of being a scientist and in the two big scientific celebrations of 2009: the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first us ...
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BE MUNDUS - Brazil Europe Mundus

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

The main objective of the BE MUNDUS project is to foster inter-institutional cooperation between European and Brazilian higher education institutions (HEI) so to make the EU a privileged region for Brazilian cooperation. BE MUNDUS is built on the Institute for Brazil Europe (IBE)’s existing network of universities and is composed of 20 HEI (9 EU and 11 Brazilian HEI) and 14 associates (including m ...
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Improve Yourself and the World!

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

The "IMPROVE YOURSELF ANQ THE WORLDJ",wilĮ take place in Portugal and in São Tomé and Príncipe and has as main themes: European Awareness and Youth UnemploymentThe main objectives are: promotes young people's active citizenship in general and' their European citizenship in particular; develops solidarity and promote tolerance among young people, in particular in order to foster social cohesion in ...
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