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Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sustainable Transportation and Electrical Power Systems

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

The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sustainable Transportation and Electrical Power Systems –STEPS offers a highly specialized education in Electrical Engineering, focusing on two areas of the highest technological content and professional requirements in the energy sector.The STEPS JMD is promoted by a partnership led by the University of Oviedo (ES), together with the University of Notting ...
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COLLECTIVE ACTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF THE EU SEA TURTLE POPULATIONS (LIFE EUROTURTLES)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

Background The project focuses on areas that are pivotal for the conservation of the two sea turtle species occurring in the EU and listed as priority species in Annex II of the Habitats Directive, the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) and the green turtle (Chelonia mydas). In the EU, the loggerhead turtle has major nesting sites in Greece and Cyprus, a ...
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Innovative Dermatology Healthcare based on Label-Free Spectral Optoacoustic Mesoscopy (INNODERM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT) brings a revolution to bio-optical imaging. Being insensitive to photon scattering, MSOT dramatically improves upon conventional bio-optic barriers by enabling (1) three-dimensional high-resolution optical imaging deep inside tissues (several millimetres to centimetres), by (2) high-scalability, ranging from optical-resolution microscopy to acoustic-res ...
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integrated Smart GRID Cross-Functional Solutions for Optimized Synergetic Energy Distribution, Utilization Storage Technologies (inteGRIDy)

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

inteGRIDy aims to integrate cutting-edge technologies, solutions and mechanisms in a scalable Cross-Functional Platform connecting energy networks with diverse stakeholders, facilitating optimal and dynamic operation of the Distribution Grid (DG), fostering the stability and coordination of distributed energy resources and enabling collaborative storage schemes within an increasing share of renewa ...
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virtual Factories: Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovaTion (FIRST)

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

The manufacturing industry is entering a new era in which new ICT technologies and collaboration applications are integrated with traditional manufacturing practices and processes, which brings virtual organisations to factories, i.e. Manufacturing 2.0. Virtual factory to future manufacturing slows the flexible amalgamation of manufacturing resources in multiple organisations to create timely, dem ...
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Advanced materials solutions for next generation high efficiency concentrated solar power (CSP) tower systems (NEXTOWER)

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

NEXTOWER shall introduce a set of innovative materials to boost the performance of atmospheric air-based concentrated solar power (CSP) systems to make them commercially viable. In particular, tower systems are appealing for the great environmental compatibility and offer tremendous potential for efficient (electrical and thermal) power generation. Yet, their industrial exploitation has been so fa ...
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circular RNA Biology Training Network: from biogenesis to biomarkers (circRTrain)

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

CircRTrain focuses on circular RNAs (circRNAs), a new large class of single-stranded RNAs with covalently closed ends. CircRNAs have only very recently attracted high general interest and become the focus of an increasing number of publications: recent discoveries through sequencing technology and computational analyses have revealed the widespread existence of circRNAs in animal cells. Particular ...
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Blood Biomarker-based Diagnostic Tools for Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease (BBDiag)

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

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects more than 7 million people in Europe and this figure is expected to double every 20 years. Despite intensive efforts, no disease-modifying treatments or preventive strategies are available. The lack of specific, sensitive and minimally invasive diagnostics to identify people with early-stage AD to be included in clinical drug intervention trials is among the main r ...
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Innovative approaches to turn agricultural waste into ecological and economic assets (NoAW)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

NoAW : No Agro-Waste.Innovative approaches to turn agricultural waste into ecological and economic assets.Driven by a “near zero-waste” society requirement, the goal of NoAW project is to generate innovative efficient approaches to convert growing agricultural waste issues into eco-efficient bio-based products opportunities with direct benefits for both environment, economy and EU consumer. To ach ...
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An e-infrastructure for software, training and consultancy in simulation and modelling (E-CAM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

E-CAM will create, develop and sustain a European infrastructure for computational science applied to simulation and modelling of materials and of biological processes of industrial and societal importance. Building on the already significant network of 15 CECAM centres across Europe and the PRACE initiative, it will create a distributed, sustainable centre for simulation and modelling at and acro ...
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ENabling Onshore CO2 Storage in Europe (ENOS)

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

To meet the ambitious EC target of an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) needs to move rapidly towards full scale implementation with geological storage solutions both on and offshore. Onshore storage offers increased flexibility and reduced infrastructure and monitoring costs. Enabling onshore storage will support management of decarbonisation strateg ...
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HARMONIzation and integrative analysis of regional, national and international Cohorts on primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (pSS) towards improved stratification, treatment and health policy making (HarmonicSS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

HarmonicSS vision is to create an International Network and Alliance of partners and cohorts, entrusted with the mission of addressing the unmet needs in primary Sjogren Syndrome; working together to create and maintain a platform with open standards and tools, designed to enable secure storage, governance, analytics, access control and controlled sharing of information at multiple levels along wi ...
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Scale-up of low-carbon footprint material recovery techniques in existing wastewater treatment plants (SMART-Plant)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

SMART-Plant will scale-up in real environment eco-innovative and energy-efficient solutions to renovate existing wastewater treatment plants and close the circular value chain by applying low-carbon techniques to recover materials that are otherwise lost. 7+2 pilot systems will be optimized fore > 2 years in real environment in 5 municipal water treatment plants, inclunding also 2 post-processing ...
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SecondHands: A Robot Assistant For Industrial Maintenance Tasks (SecondHands)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

The subject of this proposal is a robot assistant that is trained to understand maintenance tasks so that it can either pro-actively or as a result of prompting, offer assistance to maintenance technicians performing routine and preventative maintenance. Conceptually the robot's task is to provide a second pair of hands to the maintenance engineer, such that once the robot has been trained it can ...
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Adaptive ADAS to support incapacitated drivers Mitigate Effectively risks through tailor made HMI under automation (ADASANDME)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

ADAS&ME (“Adaptive ADAS to support incapacitated drivers &Mitigate Effectively risks through tailor made HMI under automation”) will develop adapted Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, that incorporate driver/rider state, situational/environmental context, and adaptive interaction to automatically transfer control between vehicle and driver/rider and thus ensure safer and more efficient road usage ...
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Strong Gravity and High-Energy Physics (StronGrHEP)

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

This project explores strong-gravity phenomena involving black holes in the context of high-energy physics applications and astrophysical observations including gravitational waves. The proposed studies can be loosely classified into four groups with considerable overlap.(i) Fundamental fields in strong gravity.Fundamental fields coupled to curvature are essential for cosmological models, for expl ...
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Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Network for Safety, Efficacy, Treatment and Quality improvement of care (PIBD-SETQuality)

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

"The incidence of paediatric onset Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (PIBD) has risen dramatically in recent decades. Compared to adult forms, PIBD reflects a more severe disease, more often requiring aggressive treatment with immunomodulators, and thereby exposing children to a life-long risk of serious disease and treatment-related adverse events, such as infections and malignancies. Therefore, there ...
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Up to University - Bridging the gap between schools and universities through informal education (Up2U)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The key objective of our project is to bridge the gap between secondary schools and higher education and research by better integrating formal and informal learning scenarios and adapting both the technology and the methodology that students will most likely be facing in universities.We are focusing on the context of secondary schools, often referred to as high schools, which provide secondary edu ...
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REsources from URban BIo-waSte (RES URBIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

RES URBIS aims at making it possible to convert several types of urban bio-waste into valuable bio-based products, in an integrated single biowaste biorefinery and by using one main technology chain. This goal will be pursued through: - collection and analysis of data on urban bio-waste production and present management systems in four territorial clusters that have been selected in different cou ...
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Proposal for a Horizon 2020 Design Study on the “European Plasma Research Accelerator with eXcellence In Applications“ (EuPRAXIA) (EuPRAXIA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

EuPRAXIA will produce a conceptual design report for the worldwide first 5 GeV plasma-based accelerator with industrial beam quality and user areas. EuPRAXIA is the required intermediate step between proof-of-principle experiments and ground-breaking, ultra-compact accelerators for science, industry, medicine or the energy frontier (“plasma linear collider”). The study will design accelerator tech ...
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Refugees Education Support in mena CoUntriEs

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

The partner countries involved in this proposal, namely Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq (but also some of the Programme Countries involved, such as Turkey and Germany) are experiencing a very critical situation due to the high number of refugees present on their territory: most of these are Syrian citizens, and include a high percentage of former University students who had to interrupt their academic ...
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EuNIT – European project desigN and management In the South MediTerranean region

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

EuNIT targets the management and operation of HEIs in Jordan, Lebanon and Libya by focusing on increasing their international activity. In order for HEIs in these countries to increase their participation in international cooperation projects and benefit from opportunities available to them through programmes such as Erasmus+, H2020 and ENI, they require greater expertise in project design and man ...
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Euro-African Network of excellence for entrepreneurship and innovation

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

The Euro-African Network of Excellence for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - INSTART – aims at improving the knowledge triangle by promoting an effective Innovation culture in Higher Education, and starting up Innovative modes of association and interaction between Universities, Businesses and Society in order to enhance the socio-economic environment across the South Mediterranean Region (MED).Th ...
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Innovating dialogue and problems appraisal for a safer Africa (SaferAfrica)

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

SaferAfrica project aims at establishing a Dialogue Platform between Africa and Europe focused on road safety and traffic management issues. It will represent a high-level body with the main objective of providing recommendations to update the African Road Safety Action Plan and the African Road Safety Charter, as well as fostering the adoption of specific initiatives, properly funded. The involve ...
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Multidisciplinary Approach to Plan Smart Specialisation Strategies for Local Economic Development (MAPS-LED)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The joint Exchange programme is based on a research proposal finalized to examine how smart specialization strategies (S3) to regenerate local economic areas can be implemented, according to the new agenda of Europe 2020. This can be largely achieved by incorporating a place-based dimension. The main aim is to identify and prescribe the implementation S3 in terms of spatial, social and environmen ...
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Accelerate co-creation by setting up a multi-actor platform for impact from Social Sciences and Humanities (ACCOMPLISSH)

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

Traditional valorisation approaches focus on linear processes: from academia to society. In order to bring valorisation to a higher level, all relevant actors need to cooperate in an equal setting: co-creation. Co-creation transcends boundaries, but it does not happen naturally. Therefore, the ACCOMPLISSH consortium, consisting of 14 universities from 12 countries (representing all the sub discipl ...
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Diagnostic Imaging Strategies for Patients with Stable Chest Pain and Intermediate Risk of Coronary Artery Disease: Comparative Effectiveness Research of Existing Technologies (DISCHARGE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in high-income countries. Invasive coronary angiography (ICA) is the reference standard for the diagnosis of CAD and allows immediate therapy. However, only 40% of patients undergoing ICA actually have obstructive CAD and ICA has relatively rare but considerable risks. Coronary computed tomography (CT) is the most accurate diagnostic test ...
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Knowledge Alliance for Urban Challenges

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

This Knowledge Alliance aims at creating an international educational programme, the Urban Challenge Programme (KAUC), as we have identified a need to create a foundational unit for students, teachers, municipalities and businesses across disciplinary backgrounds and national borders to cooperate on addressing urgent challenges and sustainability issues in different European urban settings. The fu ...
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Ensuring the Integrity of the European food chain (FOODINTEGRITY)

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

Food Integrity “the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished or in perfect condition”.Providing assurance to consumers and other stakeholders about the safety, authenticity and quality of European food (integrity) is of prime importance in adding value to the European Agri-food economy. The integrity of European foods is under constant threat from fraudulently labelled imitations that try to ...
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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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MinWaterCSP - Minimized water consumption in CSP plants (MinWaterCSP)

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

MinWaterCSP addresses the challenge of significantly reducing the water consumption of CSP plants while maintaining their overall efficiency. Its objective is to reduce evaporation losses and mirror cleaning water usage for small- and large-scale CSP plants through a holistic combination of next generation technologies in the fields of i) hybrid dry/wet cooling systems ii) wire structure heat tran ...
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Postgraduate Research on Dilute Metamorphic Nanostructures and Metamaterials in Semiconductor Photonics (PROMIS)

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

Photonics, nanotechnology, advanced materials, and advanced manufacturing technologies have been identified as key enabling technologies (KETs) for the EU. Today the photonics global market alone is around €300 billion and Europe has established a strong position with a total share of 20%, directly employing about 290,000 people. However, the shortage of sufficient skilled labour and entrepreneurs ...
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Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders: from synapses to networks (SynaNet)

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

...arch practices, and the mobility of early stage researchers between the Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM) at the University of Lisbon, the University of Eastern Finland, the University of Rome La Sapienza, and the Lancaster University at UK.IMM has widely recognized research groups in basic or clinical neuroscience but aims to foster translation. SynaNet partners are strong in translational ap ...
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Hybrid Colloidal Systems with Designed Response (COLLDENSE)

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

The etymology of the word colloid stems from the Greek word for glue. The systematic study of colloids (as we perceive them nowadays) is considered to have begun in the middle of the 19th century. However, the word colloid itself had been mentioned before in very different senses. The development of the physics and chemistry of colloids really took off in the 20th century. Colloids found different ...
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Multidisciplinary tools for improving the efficacy of public prevention measures against smoking (SmokeFreeBrain)

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

Smoking is the largest avoidable cause of preventable morbidity worldwide. It causes most of the cases of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and contributes to the development of other lung diseases. The control of smoking is considered as a highly important intervention for the prevention of lung diseases. Tobacco consumption is highly influenced by socioeconomic factors ...
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Flight safety and airworthiness - a masters programme

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The international aviation industry understandably devotes much attention to the question of Flight safety and airworthiness, stressing the need for a holistic understanding between the machines, people who use them and the environment in which they operate throughout the aircraft’s life cycle. This project addresses the issue by developing an educational programme that assists in bringing the ap ...
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European quality COurse system for Renewable Energy Development

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The increasing of the use of fossil fuels to meet growing Vietnamese energy demand (by 10% per year) goes against the need to prevent dangerous climate change. Renewable Energy Systems (RES) are a key solution. Vietnamese HEIs aren't offering a training program specialized on RES in both undergraduate and graduate level and their main goal is to become leading universities, looking forward to stan ...
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Development of higher Education teaching modules on the Socio-economic Impacts of the Renewable Energy implementation

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Better understanding of the socio-economic impacts of implementing renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) technologies enables faster and more sustainable development of the REEE market. However, this knowledge field is underrepresented in the existing technically overwhelmed teaching curricula at universities and hence, is considered a deficit that should be reduced. By doing this, a prope ...
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Modernisation of Institutional Management of Innovation and Research in South Neighbouring Countries

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

MIMIr is primarly designed to aid, assist and soccour partner universities in South Neighbouring Countries to understand the status quo of their innovation and research, performance, efficacy, and practices and devise pathways to overcome impediments, hindrances, fiascos and pitfalls that prevent them from achieving recognised stature in the international landscape. The core tread to accomplish th ...
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Development of approaches to harmonization of a comprehensive internationalization strategies in higher education, research and innovation at EU and Partner Countries

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Harmony project aims to contribute to development of a comprehensive internationalization strategies and their harmonization at EU and Partner Countries (Armenia, Belarus, Russia) within the framework of HEA in accordance with the main provisions of the Bologna Process through modernization of international relation management of the partner countries universities, promoting the academic mobility ...
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