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Establishing the European Geological Surveys Research Area to deliver a Geological Service for Europe (GeoERA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The GeoERA proposal is put forward by the national and regional Geological Survey Organisations (GSO) of Europe. Its overall goal is to integrate the GSO’s information and knowledge on subsurface energy, water and raw material resources, to support sustainable use of the subsurface in addressing Europe’s grand challenges. The GeoERA consortium will organise and co-fund together with the EC a joint ...
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ERA-NET ON ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES (MANUNET III)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

Europe is facing major economic challenges that require an ambitious economic policy for the 21st century. The EU has set out its vision for Europe's social market economy in the Europe 2020 strategy, which aims at confronting our structural weaknesses through progress in three mutually reinforcing priorities:• smart growth, based on knowledge and innovation,• sustainable growth, promoting a more ...
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Photonics based sensing (PhotonicSensing)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

According to the final report of the High-Level Expert Group on Key Enabling Technologies photonics has with 480 billion $ by far the biggest market of all key enabling technologies in 2015.If we take a closer look on the various markets within photonics, we see that the sensor market is with 44% by far the biggest individual market (followed by the lighting market with 19%). The ERANET Cofound ac ...
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Noise Efficiently REduced by recycleD pavEments (LIFE NEREiDE)

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

Background Noise pollution is a growing environmental concern. The Environmental Noise Directive requires the adoption of action plans to prevent and reduce environmental noise. Urban noise is, in fact, one of the main problems reported by citizens, and the World Health Organisation has repeatedly pointed out the health risks associated with exposure to n ...
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sustainable WATer management in the lower Cornia valley through demand REduction, aquifer REcharge and river REstoration (LIFE REWAT)

Start date: Sep 15, 2015, End date: Sep 15, 2019,

Background The Cornia River (Val di Cornia) is one of the three main hydrographic systems of the region’s water basin, part of the Northern Apennines river basin district. Due to an intensive civil and agricultural use of local water resources, the lower part of the river’s alluvial plain is characterised by a severe quantitative hydrological imbalanc ...
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Urban strategies for Waste Management in Tourist Cities (UrBAN-WASTE)

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

Europe’s cities are some of the world’s greatest tourism destinations. The socio-economic impact of tourism is extraordinary and urban tourism, but it brings at the same time a range of negative externalities, including high levels of unsustainable resource consumption and waste production. In comparison with other cities, tourist cities have to face additional challenges related to waste preventi ...
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SIMPLA - Sustainable Integrated Multi-sector PLAnning (SIMPLA)

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

SIMPLA responds to topic EE 7 ‘Enhancing the capacity of public authorities to plan and implement sustainable energy policies and measures’ and its ultimate goal is empowering public authorities to develop, implement and finance sustainable energy policies and actions by creating the conditions for a smart integration between SEAPs (Sustainable Energy Action Plans) and SUMPs (Sustainable Urban Mob ...
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Innovative Methods for Residual Landfill Gas Emissions Mitigation in Mediterranean Regions (LIFE RE Mida)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Background The generation of LandFill Gases (LFG), produced by the anaerobic decomposition of the organic waste fraction in landfills, is one of the main environmental challenges facing climate change mitigation. The waste management sector is the fourth largest sector in the EU-15 in terms of its contribution to total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; desp ...
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A Vocational and Educational Curriculum Design from a Sector Skills Alliance on Tourism

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Tourist destinations are led to adopt behaviours capable of responding to a tourism increasingly oriented toward finding authentic engaging and unique experiences. This project is placed within this framework. It aims to define a professional profile of "Destination Managers" that is capable of proposing strategies aimed at managing, enhancing and promoting destinations in an integrated perspectiv ...
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Developing Enterprise and Employability during Mobilities

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The applicant has devised and piloted an Enterprise and Employability programme which is complementary to KA1 VET work placements in foreign organisations. We now wish to share and improve the programme with the help of a network of European VET partners, working together towards achieving transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications to facilitate learning, employability and labour mo ...
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Innovation and Commercialisation in the NMP thematic area (INCOMERA)

Start date: Jan 15, 2014, End date: Jan 14, 2018,

Towards Europe 2020, European Commission adopted a comprehensive innovation strategy to enhance Europe's capacity to deliver smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. This strategy concerns the so called concept of Smart Specialization Strategy.By itself, sounds a challenging task, but it is of crucial importance, especially for less advanced regions. According to this concept, each region must set ...
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Designing and Testing new management skills for the development of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Recycling and Re-use System in Europe

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

EWASTER Project will develop and establish a new high-quality interdisciplinary curriculum in E-Waste Recycling and Re-Use management sector in Europe creating the link between the production phase and the waste phase of a product and increasing the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship as well as the quality and potential of employability and mobility. EWASTER Consortium, supported by the Dir ...
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Sediment ElectroKinetic REmediation Technology for heavy metal pollution removal (SEKRET Life)

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

Background Ports host companies that deal with transport, manufacturing, chemicals and oil refining, and the storage of chemicals, solvents, mineral oils, pulp and paper and food. Port areas also manage toxic waste and non-ferrous material. Consequently, harbours and coastal areas throughout Europe have deposits of sediment that are contaminated with heav ...
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FREE and open source software tools for WATer resource management (FREEWAT)

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

"FREEWAT aims at promoting water management and planning by simplifying the application of the Water Framework Directive and other EU water related Directives. FREEWAT will be an open source and public domain GIS integrated modelling environment for the simulation of water quantity and quality in surface water and groundwater with an integrated water management and planning module.Specific objecti ...
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ERANET Plus on "Photonic appliances for life sciences and health" (BiophotonicsPlus)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Biophotonic applications offer a broad range of innovative solutions, e. g. for the ageing society in industrialised countries, for improved health care in third world countries, for surveilling and safeguarding the environment, and for controlling food and drinking water quality. Such biophotonic solutions may relate to analytics, screening, imaging, therapy or surgery techniques.This ERANET-PLUS ...
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Space for Agricultural Innovation (AGRISPIN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

AgriSPIN: creating SPace for INnovationThe project name reflects the overall aim of this project: to strengthen support systems in creating space for innovating farmers. Innovative farmers are everywhere, but their environment determines the rate of success. The project aims to create more space for innovations, through amplifying good examples of innovation support systems and through multi-acto ...
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OPEN-UP. Istituzioni e giovani per idee innovative

Start date: Apr 4, 2016, End date: Feb 3, 2017,

...ese, visits to local realities, storytelling paths, workshops, exchange of practices, meetings and online focus group discussions.The partnership is composed by a strong network of public bodies (Regione Toscana, Regione Puglia, Fondazione Toscana) and no profit organizations (associazione WIP, soc.cooperativa Puntodock, Ceis). These realities work since many years in the area of youth policies, w ...
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Integrated coastal area Management Application implementing GMES, INspire and sEis data policies (LIFE + IMAGINE)

Start date: Jul 2, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Background Coastal areas are characterised by intense human activity and a complex interchange of physical, biological, social, cultural and economic processes. Changes at any point in any part of the systems can generate chain reactions far from their point of origin, and possibly in a totally different system, which subsequently experience changes in en ...
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Improved flux Prototypes for N2O emission reduction from Agriculture (IPNOA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Background In order to implement the European Strategy on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 20-30% by 2020, an important decrease in the output of all these gases from their main sources is needed. In Italy, agriculture was responsible for about 7% of total emissions in 2009, with the main gas being nitrous oxide released from soil (70% of tota ...
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RECOGNIZE AND VALIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS GAINED BY ALTERNATING SCHOOL AND WORK EXPERIENCE AT NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LEVEL

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

CONTEXT VET@WORK project looks at one of the main challenge of the Europe 2020 Strategy: to reduce Early School Leaving (ESL) to less than 10% and contribute to increasing attainment in tertiary education to at least 40% by 2020. Completing upper secondary education is recommended as the minimum entrance qualification when making the crucial transition from education to the labour market. ESL is a ...
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VEtrina Toscana in EUropa: Azioni di mobilità per lo sviluppo delle competenze nel settore enogastronomico

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The World Organization of Travel and Tourism, WTTC , recently stated that tourism is one of the largest industries of the world, because employs 265 million people (with an expected growth of 337 million people in 2023 ) and that, currently generates about 9.4 % of world GDP with a growth forecast to exceed 10 % over the next 10 years. In particular, "gourmet" tourism, food and culinary art, in It ...
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Development Of RegiOnal clusTers for researcH and implementation of environmental friendlY urban logistics (DOROTHY)

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

Dorothy Project is targeted to develop the potential of innovation and research in the four Regions Tuscany (Italy),Valencia (Spain),Lisbon and Tagus (Portugal) and Oltenia (Romania) composing the Consortium in the field of Urban Logistics, one of the main focus of attention of the Flagship Initiative. In fact UL could reach 40% of the total cost of transportation and has great relevancy for ener ...
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Broadband in EU Regions via satellite (BRESAT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Project BRESAT will define guidelines for the successful deployment of high speed broadband via satellite across regions of Europe to assist with the objective of 100% EU broadband coverage. It will support the objectives of the EU Digital Agenda and assist national regional initiatives. Project BRESAT will include following objectives:1.\tLeveraging previous experience, it will identify the cond ...
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ORTS ET IDENTITE (PORTI)

Start date: Jan 14, 2013, End date: Jan 14, 2016,

Les villes portuaires de lespace de coopération du Programme Italie/France Maritime présentent la même problématique de déstructuration et absence de fluidité du point de vue urbain et économique entre lhinterland e linterface ville-port. Afin de transformer le désagrément causé par linteraction des fonctions urbaines et portuaires en un atout pour le développement économique des territoires, le p ...
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Fusepool Publish-Process-Perform Platform for Linked Data (Fusepool P3)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

To make publishing and processing of linked data easy, the proposed project develops a set of integrated software components based on open-source Linked Data Platform best practices. The tightly integrated components support the multilingual data value chain from data exploration (e.g. identifying structured and unstructured data sources), extraction (e.g. using named entity recognition, RDF conv ...
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Azioni di mobilità per lo sviluppo delle competenze e la promozione della competitività e creatività dell’industria culturale e del turismo

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

One of the central ideas underlying European Lifelong Learning policies is that international mobility should become a natural part of education and training schemes. This helps learners to achieve higher qualification levels which are crucial for a successful first step into the labour market or for career improvements. The EU Member States are fully committed to helping young people take advanta ...
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LEarning Outcome-oriented quality Mobility placements to gain transparency and recognition of qualifications within the Tourism and Catering fields

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

One of the central ideas underlying European Lifelong Learning policies is that international mobility should become a natural part of education and training schemes. This helps learners to achieve higher qualification levels which are crucial for a successful first step into the labour market or for career improvements. The EU Member States are fully committed to helping young people take advanta ...
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INFRASTRUCTURES ET INSTRUMENTS DE LINNOVATION ET DU DEVELOPPEMENT DE LA GOUVERNANCE TERRITORIALE (INNOLABS +)

Start date: May 31, 2013, End date: May 31, 2015,

Innolabs + concerne le thème du développement et de la promotion des modèles innovants de gouvernance territoriales et de la compétitivité dans le domaine socio-économique, notamment en ce qui concerne le tissu entrepreneurial, selon les principes énoncés par les stratégies de Lisbonne, Göteborg et Europe 2020.L'objectif général du projet est de réaliser des infrastructures et des instruments perm ...
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SYSTÈME DE CONTROL MARITIME (SICOMAR)

Start date: May 30, 2013, End date: May 30, 2015,

Le projet SICOMAR veut affronter la thématique de la sécurité et de la qualité de lenvironnement en ce qui concerne lenvironnement maritime transfrontalier.Lobjectif général à atteindre est celui de construire un système de contrôle maritime durable pour la zone transfrontalière, à travers un ensemble intégré dinvestissements matérielles et non matérielles des institutions régionales acteurs publi ...
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Ecological courtyards united for resources saving through smart technologies and life style (ECO Courts)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

Background As European society has grown wealthier, it has increased its consumption of resources, especially in urban centres. The quantity of water, energy and other resources used by an average urban family has steadily increased. This in turn has increased the dependence of urban areas on outside regions for these resources as well as to serve as wast ...
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Policy and Protection of Sporadic tree species in Tuscany forest (P.Pro.SPO.T.)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Background In Mediterranean and Apennine woodlands a simplification of forestry structure/patterns can be easily and progressively recognised. This trend negatively affects mainly deciduous species, and it is caused by a wide series of factors, including the ageing of traditional coppice woodlands and limited knowledge of innovative management patterns. ...
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ITINÉRAIRE DES PATRIMOINES ACCESSIBLES (ACCESSIT)

Start date: May 18, 2011, End date: May 18, 2014,

The project wants to elaborate a network of cultural heritage as part of an integrated management of shared resources in the "maritime" space. Specifically, the project will result in structuring a great itinerary and in the ability to integrate the actions the Tyrrhenian area by relying on a network consisting of the four regions and by a series of "laboratories of tangible and intangible heritag ...
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Cooperative Cities extend and validate mobility services (Co Cities)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

Current EU cooperative systems projects like CVIS, SAFESPOT & COOPERS have demonstrated technical feasibility and positive user acceptance of cooperative mobility services.In the In-Time project common traveller information services based on distributed regional data sources accessible via one commonly agreed data interface have been developed.These common mobility services include dynamic navigat ...
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IATTAFORMA ITS PER L’INFOMOBILITÀ INTERMODALE INTERREGIONALE (3iPLUS)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

The strategic project "3i plus" promotes the accessibility of local areas affected by the traffic service for inter-modal transport of all persons (citizens / general users), the real-time management of information and mobility services. The information infrastructure in the project will encompass the entire area covered by the OP Italy-France "Maritime" 2007-2013. There will also be project-speci ...
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Regional ICT based Clusters for Healthcare Applications and R&D Integration (RICHARD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

Chronic diseases represent for healthcare systems the heaviest cost burden. Aside from the social costs in terms of suffering, they account for 70% on European average of public healthcare systems in the EU. A plethora of ICT based applications have been developed in the last years, allowing to tackle at least partially problems related to specific pathologies. However, even advanced experiences h ...
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Development of a quick monitoring index as a tool to assess environmental impacts of transgenic crops (DEMETRA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Background The protection of human health and the environment requires that due attention be given to controlling risks from the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Outcomes from an EC working group on guidance notes for monitoring GMOs indicates that: there is no guidance as to how existing monitoring progra ...
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TEXTILE AT THE CROSS ROADS OF NEW APPLICATIONS (CROSSTEXNET)

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

"Fibre materials and textiles can be a material of choice for the future. The realisation of this potential depends on Europe’s ability to achieve a critical mass of investments in RTD and on our ability to transfer research into innovations. Here Europe faces great challenges and therefore, there is a need to bridge the good intentions of the European Technology Platforms, the Lead Market Initiat ...
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RESEAU POUR LENVIRONNEMENT DANS LESPACE MARITIME (RES-MAR)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The Strategic Project RES - MAR is aimed at improving monitoring systems, risk prevention, management of environmental and emergency management, mitigation of pollution related to the environmental compartments water and soil in the area of ​​cooperation.RES MAR is composed of 7 sub-projects and actions of the system from which you intend to bring out the best strategies for cross-border environme ...
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Electronic Participation Tools for Spatial Planning and Territorial Development (PARTERRE)

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

Among the lessons learnt from the eParticipation Preparatory Actions a particularly relevant one refers to the long-term sustainability of the undergone trials: permanent adoption of electronic tools for civic participation by public sector organisations is more likely to occur when there is a convincing business model showing financial savings or at least organisational and political advantages i ...
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ROGETTO PER L'ACCESSIBILITÀ, LA FRUIBILITÀ E LA SICUREZZA DELLA FASCIA COSTIERA DELLE REGIONI TRANSFRONTALIERE (P.E.R.L.A.)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The project PERLA seeks to develop accessibility, usability and security of coastal areas in the border region. The joint actions are planned by the project to increase and standardize the range of services dedicated to tourism, including through the use of innovative and advanced technologies. It also aims to promote cultural exchanges and the creation and / or 'network implementation and intangi ...
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