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European cities serving as Green Urban Gate towards Leadership in sustainable Energy (EU-GUGLE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The EU-GUGLE project mobilises public / private resources to build showcases of totally around 226,000 m2 of cost-efficient urban Zero Carbon Building Renovation models in AT, FI, DE, IT, SK & ES - together with associated cities in SE&TR. EU-GUGLE is designed to respond to the needs of an effective take-off of the Smart City initiative within the EU SET-plan and in particular by demonstrating dif ...
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Early Prevention of Diabetes Complications in people with Hyperglycaemia in Europe (E-PREDICE)

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

"Background: A significant proportion of pre-diabetics, show macro and micro vascular complications associated with hyperglycaemia. Although many trials have demonstrated the efficacy of lifestyle and pharmaceutical interventions in diabetes prevention, no trial has evaluated the extent to which mid- and long-term complications can be prevented by early interventions on hyperglycaemia.Aims: To ass ...
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Complex wetting phenomena (COWET)

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

Static and dynamic wetting of solid surfaces by liquids is a focus of numerous theoretical, computational and experimental investigations. Most of the research and training activities are focused on the wetting of simple solids by one-component liquids. However, a wide variety of industrial processes mostly include wetting/spreading of complex multiphase liquids over heterogeneous, structured or ( ...
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Risk Analysis of Infrastructure Networks in response to extreme weather (RAIN)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The RAIN vision is to provide an operational analysis framework that identifies critical infrastructure components impacted by extreme weather events and minimise the impact of these events on the EU infrastructure network. The project has a core focus on land based infrastructure with a much wider consideration of the ancillary infrastructure network in order to identify cascading and inter-relat ...
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Modern Shepherds 3

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The youth exchange "Modern Shepherds 3" will take place in Allariz, Ourense province (Spain), between the 5th and the 11th of November 2016, counting on the participation of 33 young people from 6 countries (Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Poland, Lithuania and Macedonia).The project's main mission is promoting the knowledge of nature and the rural environment amongst the participants, as well asthe ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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Modern Shepherds 2

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The youth exchange "Modern Shepherds 2" took place in Allariz, Ourense province (Spain), between the 4th and the 11th of November 2015, counting on the participation of 33 young people from 6 countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta, Croatia and Greece). The project's main mission was promoting the knowledge of nature and the rural environment amongst the participants, as well as their main proble ...
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Linked Open Apps Ecosystem to open up innovation in smart cities (iCity)

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

The iCity project aims at making a step forward in fostering the co-creation of services of public interest by third parties pushing for their space as services provisioners in Smart Cities' urban spaces. This will be done by bootstrapping the involvement of open innovation ecosystems such as Living Labs in bringing the users together in the whole co-creation process using a self-centred methodolo ...
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Modern Shepherds

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2015,

The “Modern Shepherds” Youth Exchange took place between the 18th and the 25th of April 2015 in Allariz (Ourense) and brought together 43 young people from 5 European countries (Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Romania and Greece) around two main issues, environmental awareness and entrepreneurship in rural areas. The exchange was organized by the Ramón González Ferreiro Foundation and participants were ...
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"Aquaculture for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Nutrition" (AFSPAN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"Aquaculture is widely considered as important for enhancing food security, alleviating poverty and improving nutrition. However, little information is available concerning the direct and indirect impacts of aquaculture on food security and poverty alleviation in most developing countries and LIFDCs. Strengthening the knowledge base surrounding aquaculture and food and nutrition security through t ...
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Automated system based on on-line VFA sensors for an optimised control of anaerobic digestion plants (AD-WISE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

Anaerobic digestion is a biological process where the organic matter is degraded to form biogas and a digestate. Biogas can be fired in combined heat and power (CHP) engines or purified and injected into the gas grid. The total primary energy produced from biogas in Europe was 5.9 million toe in 2007, and there is still growing potential, since the white paper objective for 2010 is 15 million toe ...
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Collaboration awareness tool for CSCL users (Euro-CAT-CSCL) (Euro-CAT-CSCL)

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

Awareness collaboration tool for CSCL users (Euro-ACT-CSCL) is a joint research project aiming to advance research knowledge in Computer Supported Collaborative Work and Learning (CSCL) and create interoperable computer tools to add to groupware systems and main Learning Management Systems (LMS) in order to enhance the effectiveness and quality of persons in computer distance work/learning context ...
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Processing plant for theintegral treatment and valorisation of the wasted generated during the olive oil production process (OLIVEWASTE)

Start date: Nov 30, 2005, End date: Mar 30, 2009,

Background Olive production is a significant economic sector in southern Member States, especially in Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal. However, the extraction process involved in olive oil production generates non-biodegradable phytotoxic waste, and therefore poses significant pollution risks. Despite the introduction in the 1990s of improved separation ...
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Dietitians ensuring education, teaching and professional quality

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

The Thematic Network "Dietitians Improving Education and Training Standards" (2006-09) successfully published first cycle competences, influenced education policy change and increased web-based and innovative communication between higher education (HE) and the dietetic profession. But to effectively contribute to policies and practices averting the European health crisis (WHO, 2007) and poor nutri ...
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