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Development and Epilepsy - Strategies for Innovative Research to improve diagnosis, prevention and treatment in children with difficult to treat Epilepsy (DESIRE)

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

DESIRE will focus on epileptogenic developmental disorders EDD, i.e. early onset epilepsies whose origin is closely related to developmental brain processes. A major cause of EDD are malformations of cortical development (MCD), either macroscopic or subtle. EDD are often manifested as epileptic encephalopathies (EE), i.e. conditions in which epileptic activity itself may contribute to severe cogni ...
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Waste Heat Recovery for Power Valorisation with Organic Rankine Cycle Technology in Energy Intensive Industries (TASIO)

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

... involvement in the project is significant and the project addresses the implementation of a full demonstration of the WHRS for electrical energy generation in one of the industrial partners (CEMENTI ROSSI) and a semi-validation of the WHRS for air compressors energy supply system at pilot scale.
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ASSYST BULLMER BİLGİSAYARLI KALIP SİSTEMİ ÜZERİNE STAJ ÇALIŞMASI

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

Turkish garment sector is the world’s 6th largest garment sector. The part in value of 20 billion dollars of the production in the worth of about 30 billion dollars is exported. There are around 18.500 manufacturing/exporting companies 90% of which is small and medium sized enterprise and which manufacture export-oriented in Turkey. 11.000 of these companies are active in the garment field. The nu ...
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Tekstilcilerimiz Avrupa'da

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

The textile and ready-made clothing sector is an important branch of industry in the process of economic development thanks to its employment opportunities, added value in the production process and the place in the international trade. Recent years the competition in the textile sector has increased all over the world. Turkish Textile Industry needs to produce the products with high added value a ...
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Beneficial effects of dietary bioactive peptides and polyphenols on cardiovascular health in humans (BACCHUS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"The main objective of the BACCHUS project is to develop tools and resources that will facilitate the generation of robust and exploitable scientific evidence that can be used to support claims of a cause and effect relationship between consumption of bioactive peptides and polyphenols, and beneficial physiological effects related to cardiovascular health in humans. To achieve this, the BACCHUS c ...
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Advanced Gratting for Thin Films Solar Cell (AGATHA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"The minority carrier diffusion lengths are small in polycrystalline or amorphous materials used in thin film solar cells, requiring thin layers to maximize charge collection. This is contradictory for the requirement to maximize solar energy absorption. The optical design consisting in increasing solar cell’s light-trapping capability is of prime importance. In order to provide total internal ref ...
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Automotive Mechatronic Baseline for Electric Resilient Ultra Light Vehicle (AMBER-ULV)

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

"Ultra Light Vehicles (ULV) intrinsically have a better efficiency due to their improved transport capability per vehicle mass. Additionally improved driving dynamics performance can more easily be achieved because of the reduced mass.However, the design of ULV sharing the same road with heavier cars represents a complex technical challenge for achieving acceptable safety levels. Furthermore, at p ...
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Çok XL Giyim Stajı

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

The aim of our project is to raise well-educated, certified and qualified personnel who have technological and practical infrastructure on the specialization of oversize clothing increasing every day in line with the rapidly changing conditions in textile and clothing sector. A consortium has been formed to achieve this aim under the coordinatorship of Zeynep Gülin Öngör Vocational and Technical A ...
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MEDiterranean SUpersite Volcanoes (MED-SUV)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

This project will improve the consortium capacity of assessment of volcanic hazards in Supersites of Southern Italy by optimising and integrating existing and new observation/monitoring systems, by a breakthrough in understanding of volcanic processes and by increasing the effectiveness of the coordination between the scientific and end-user communities. More than 3 million of people are exposed t ...
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New Directions in Seismic Hazard assessment through Focused Earth Observation in the Marmara Supersite (MARSITE)

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

The recent devastating earthquakes and associated tsunamis in Japan, Indonesia, and Haiti, which killed more than half a million people, highlighted how mankind is still far away from a satisfactory level of seismic risk mitigation. Among the regions around the Mediterranean Sea for which earthquakes represent a major threat to their social and economic development, the area around the Marmara Se ...
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Optimising Subsidiary Crop Applications in Rotations (OSCAR)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

There is a need to improve sustainability in farming systems particularly through soil care and improvement, but not at the expense of productivity. One approach is to focus on a comprehensive advance in conservation tillage. This will be developed from improved ways of integrating subsidiary crops (SC) as living or dead mulches or cover crops with the main crops in rotations so as to simultaneous ...
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Logistics for Energy Crops' Biomass (LOGISTEC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Cost-efficient, environmental-friendly and socially sustainable biomass supply chains are urgently needed to achieve the 2020 targets of the Strategic Energy Technologies-Plan of the European Union, which are likely to be impeded by the potential scarcity of lignocellulosic biomass from agriculture. Innovative techniques for crop management, biomass harvesting and pre-treatment, storage and transp ...
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EUROPE Design

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

... will be carried out by 3 partner institutions: Liceul Tehnologic Petricani (a VET highschool from Petricani, Romania, as sending organization), SubMeet Assocaition (as intermediary organisation) and Rossi Camiceria (as host organization). The beneficiary institution, Liceul Tehnologic Petricani is a rural technical high-school offering professional training for the students from Petricani, Bois ...
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High thermal insulating window frames for energy efficient buildings (THINFRAME)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The heat loss per area through windows (U-value) is still much greater (around 1.0 W/m2K) than through the building’s walls and roofs. Reduction of window heat loss is essential to reduce the energy use of buildings and their environmental impact as required by the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), Directive 2010/31/EU.While substantial effort has been made to improve glazin ...
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ONLINE ANALYSIS TOOL FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS (OPTIMIZR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

For the first time in history, spending on Internet advertising surpassed newspaper spending, a trend that will increase in the future. The large bulk of this spending was invested in non-traditional social media marketing programmes, involving multiple channels such as Twitter, social networks, blogs and more. Alongside the growth of social networks the birth of a new methodology of analysis: Soc ...
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Lectra Operatörlük Eğitimi

Start date: Aug 11, 2014, End date: Aug 10, 2015,

The fast developments and innovations in the field of electronics and computer technology have accelerated the transition from labour intensive system to the machine and technology intensive system in the international competitive environment of developed countries. As this effect of the use of electronics and computer technology is obvious in many areas, its effect can also be clearly seen in the ...
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Accelerated development and prototyping of nano-technology-based high-efficiency thin-film silicon solar modules (Fast Track)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

In recent years, the effort in thin-film silicon (TFSi) was made at solving industrialization issues. In 2010, several companies demonstrated 10% stable modules (> 1 m²). The major “bricks” for efficient production are now in place. Next challenges are linked to the fact that TFSi multi-junction devices, allowing for higher efficiency, are complex devices, in which the substrate geometry and each ...
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Urban Sensing through User Generated Contents (URBAN SENSING)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The project aims at bringing a new product to the urban design, city planning and urban management market: a platform extracting patterns of use and citizens' perceptions related or concerning city spaces, through robust analysis of User Generated Content (UGC) shared by the city users and inhabitants over social networks and digital media.Traditional data collection methods - such as surveys, int ...
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Internet Connected Objects for Reconfigurable Ecosystems (iCore)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The iCore initiative addresses two key issues in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), namely: (a) how to abstract the technological heterogeneity that derives from the vast amounts of heterogeneous objects, while enhancing context-awareness, reliability and energy-efficiency. (b) to consider the views of different users/stakeholders (owners of objects & communication means) for ensuring pr ...
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THE INTERMODAL BIKE - Multi-modal integration of cycling mobility through product and process innovations in bicycle design (BIKE INTERMODAL)

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

"Goals • Object of this work is to provide -by means of product and process innovations- an advanced compactable bicycle, making it practical to carry along a bicycle aboard public transportation, easily, safely and for a large number of passengers. The ultimate goal is a synergic, intermodal integration of public transport and cycling, expanding the share of both modalities in the urban mobility. ...
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Research capacity for the implementation of genetic control of mosquitoes (INFRAVEC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

Mosquitoes transmit a variety of infectious diseases that cause a tremendous burden to public health. Due to climate changes and to the increase in international trade and tourism the threats posed by mosquitoes are increasingly affecting large parts of Europe, causing understandable concerns among the populations of many Member States. Control methods, mainly based on insecticide usage, are strug ...
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A pilot line of antibacterial and antifungal medical textiles based on a sonochemical process (SONO)

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

Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections are a major financial issue in the European healthcare system. The financial impact of these infections counteract medical advances and expensive medical treatments by increasing the length of hospital stay by at least 8 days on average per affected patient, hence adding more than 10 millions patient days in hospitals in Europe per year. The statistics on ...
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A web-based system for real-time Monitoring and Decision Making for Integrated Vineyard Management (MoDeM_IVM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The aim of the MoDeM_IVM project is to develop a new, interactive, web-based Decision Support System (DSS) for integrated management of the vineyard. The SME participants are strongly confident that the project results will improve their competitiveness in a very important and highly profitable market (i.e., grapevine in EU27), because of: i) the DSS is highly innovative and focused to solve pract ...
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Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations - Digital Earth Community (GENESI-DEC)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Digital Earth is a visionary concept for the virtual representation of the Earth that is spatially referenced, interconnected with the world's digital data repositories, and encompassing all its systems and forms, including Earth Sciences, Natural Resources Management, Environmental Monitoring system and human society dimensions. The project will establish open data and services access, allowing E ...
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Development of a Non-destructive Sensor to Determine Density Gradient of Ceramic Tiles During Pressing (Novapress)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

The occurence of density gradients in ceramic tiles during pressing is believed to be the main cause of defects during processing. Problems such as differential shrinkage and warpage typically arise leading to losses or down-grading of final products. Density gradients are caused by poor die design, bad practice and/or unsuitable particulate materials, with the resultant poor flow ability impactin ...
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Living with landslide risk in Europe: Assessment, effects of global change, and risk management strategies (SAFELAND)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

SafeLand will develop generic quantitative risk assessment and management tools and strategies for landslides at local, regional, European and societal scales and establish the baseline for the risk associated with landslides in Europe, to improve our ability to forecast landslide hazard and detect hazard and risk zones. The scientific work packages in SafeLand are organised in five Areas: Area 1 ...
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Resilient Multi-Plant Networks (REMPLANET)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The main concept of this proposal is the development of methods, guidelines and tools for the implementation of the Resilient Multi-Plant Networks Model in non-hierarchical manufacturing networks, characterised by non-centralised decision making. A resilient organization effectively aligns its strategy, operations, management systems, governance structure, and decision-support capabilities so tha ...
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New biocontrol agents for powdery mildew on grapevine (BCA_grape)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

The main goal of the BCA_grape project is to develop prototypes of new commercial Biological Control Agents (BCAs) against Erysiphe necator, the fungus causing the powdery mildew of grapevine. The interest of the participating SMEs rises from the fact that this disease matches with their strategic need to increase the offer for crops and diseases not targeted by their currently available products: ...
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C.E.S.E. - Commercial English for SME Employees

The C.E.S.E. project aims at identifying both tools and methodologies for English teaching and self-learning to SME employees. These identified tools and methodologies should be flexible, tailored, transferable to other languages/target groups and aimed particularly at the cross-cultural aspects of communication. All tools and methodologies should also be strongly linked with the working environme ...
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