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Transformations to Sustainability (T2S)

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

...ted in the context of a Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action in cooperation with the NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe) network and the International Social Science Council (ISSC). A comprehensive and concerted research initiative is needed that can boost research on transformations to sustainability, that can catalyse new kinds of solutions to env ...
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Eranet Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (EN-SUGI)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

Cities around the globe are struggling to meet the needs of their citizens with respect to food, energy and water. These three sectors are inextricably linked and actions in one sector more often have impacts in one or both of the others; these interacting sectors can therefore be seen as a Food-Energy-Water Nexus (FEW Nexus) of systems. The ERANET Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (EN-SU ...
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Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-Course: structures and processes (DIAL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

Existing and rising inequalities pose fundamental challenges to European societies and economies. Large disparities in human and social capacities are counterproductive to a sustainable and creative economy and participatory governance and inclusion. The increasing gulf between rich and poor, exacerbated by the recent financial and economic crises, is a key concern. The sources of inequalities in ...
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Late Glacial and Postglacial Population History and Cultural Transmission in Iberia (c.15,000-8,000 cal BP) (PALEODEM)

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

...enian to the Late Mesolithic (c.15,000-8,000 cal BP) in South-western Europe. This period witnessed major environmental changes and cultural transformations on settlement distribution, technology and social organisation. Our project specifically addresses two major inter-related research topics: Firstly, to what extent demographic behaviour was driven by environmental factors; and secondly, how di ...
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ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures (ENSUF)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

...d innovation alignment. - To scale up and translate best practices. - To develop, analyse and test new strategies and technologies of urban governance and urban living in order to shape the economic, social and environmental needs of citizens for sustainable urban development.ENSUF will call for transnational research and innovation projects that operationalise and translate a framework of three m ...
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The use of computational techniques to Improve compliance to reminders within smartenvironments (REMIND)

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

The aim of this Project is to create an International and Intersectoral network to facilitate the exchange of staff to progress developments in reminding technologies for persons with dementia which can be deployed in smart environments. The focus will be on developing staff and partner skills in the areas of user centered design and behavioral science coupled with improved computational technique ...
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A Phase Ib/II study of MEK1/2 inhibitor PD-0325901 or MEK-162 with cMET inhibitor PF-02341066 in RASMT and RASWT (with aberrant c-MET) Colorectal Cancer Patients (MERCURIC)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the 3rd most common cancer in Europe, and with approximately 200,000 deaths per year, it remains the 2nd most common cause of cancer death. More than half of all CRC patients develop distant metastases and have 5-year overall survival (OS) of less than 5% because of ineffective treatments. Increased understanding of cancer biology, coupled with the implementation of “omi ...
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RISE Women with disabilities In Social Engagement (RISEWISE)

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

Women with disabilities have more difficulties to find an employment and to integrate in social day life activities than men with disabilities.This project focuses on the collective of women with disabilities from different perspectives, trying to identify needs and best practices in several EU countries, representing different cultural and socio-economic environments, for the integration and impr ...
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iABC Programme (IABC PROGRAMME)

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2020,

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a common fatal inherited disease with a frequency of 1 in 2500 live births, affecting approximately 36,000 (0.737/10,000) people in the EU. Chronic bacterial pulmonary infection leading to an irreversible decline in lung structure and function is the main cause of mortality and morbidity in patients with CF, with more than 95% of deaths due to respiratory failure. Pseudomon ...
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RISK CHANGE

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

RISK CHANGE is related to contemporary migrations and continuous social and cultural change in 21th Century the geopolitical focus on EU and neighboring countries.RC aims to research, create, connect, compare, disseminate and promote contemporary interdisciplinary art related to science, especially social and applied sciences, and ICT. RC will highlight the importance of connectivity and interdisc ...
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Community-Based Policing and Post-Conflict Police Reform (ICT4COP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2020,

...ased policing (COP) holds promise, however evaluations have pointed to a lack of in-depth understanding of police-community relations in police reform assistance. This project will conduct integrated social and technical research on COP in post-conflict countries in S.E. Europe, Asia, Africa and Central America. New knowledge, reflection on lessons learnt and “best practices” will support both nat ...
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Mobile Assistance for Groups Individuals within the Community - STROKE REHABILITATION (MAGIC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

MAGIC Post Stroke Project Team has united members from across Europe, dedicated to enable significant change in the delivery of health & social care (H&SC) services for patients post stroke. The consortium has recognised a significant gap in care associated with the recovery of such patients & we need a new way of meeting the needs of 508,000 new post stroke EU citizens/ year. Demographic changes ...
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Chemicals Regulations Enforcement & Inspections - Building Authority Capacity for REACH/CLP and SEVESO III Compliance (LIFE CHEREE)

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

Background The SEVESO-III directive (2012/18/EU), which is aimed at preventing major accidents involving dangerous substances, entered into force in October 2015 in Cyprus and in February 2016 in Greece. However, there is still a lack of concise knowledge and information on the uses and hazardous properties of many chemicals. In addition, market surveilla ...
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Meaningful Integration of Data, Analytics and Services (MIDAS)

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

... which will inform risk stratification and long term policy-making decisions, demonstrating a positive impact across the EU and beyond. MIDAS will:• Provide a data mapping solution• Use open, social media and citizen data for high level policy analysis• Use technology to exploit the value of big data for actionable information• Disseminate best practice on privacy by design, ethics and governance ...
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European Research Infrastructures in the International Landscape (RISCAPE)

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

RISCAPE will provide systematic, focused, high quality, comprehensive, consistent and peer-reviewed international landscape analysis report on the position and complementarities of the major European research infrastructures in the international research infrastructure landscape. To achieve this, RISCAPE will establish a close links with a stakeholder panel representing the main user groups of the ...
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Computer Vision Enabled Multimedia Forensics and People Identification (IDENTITY)

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

Forensics is a well-established science that aims at applying various disciplines to the law, both civil and criminal, in order to solve questions related to crime. It is mainly concerned with proving and investigating infringements, identifying perpetrators and describing modus operandi. Biometrics, on the other hand, is a relatively new science that aims at measuring and analysing a person's uni ...
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Transfer of Organisational innovations for Resilient, Effective, equitable, Accessible, sustainable and Comprehnsive Health Services and Systems. (TO-REACH)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

In order to strengthen the sustainability and resilience of health services and systems a unique consortium of governmental and funding organizations plus research institutes, has expressed the ambition to systematically learn from the organisation of care in other settings. Overall objective of TO-REACH is to provide groundwork for an ERA-NET that will contribute to the resilience, effectiveness, ...
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SYSTEMIC - SAY YES TO STEM IN THE CLASSROOM

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

...ion of STEM teaching). SYSTEMIC is a joint initiative of both Ministries of Education (via EUN Partnership) and industry (through CSR Europe, the leading European business network for corporate social responsibility). SYSTEMIC will be coordinated by EUN Partnership, in Belgium. Since 2007, STEM (Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Maths) has been one of its major thematic areas. The SYSTEMIC pro ...
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Tobacco cessation within TB programmes: A ‘real world’ solution for countries with dual burden of disease (TB and Tobacco)

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

We aim to reduce the burden of tobacco-related lung diseases. Our approach is to integrate inexpensive tobacco cessation strategies of proven efficacy into TB control programmes. This has three advantages: a) Preventing non-communicable diseases as well as reducing TB-related deaths; b) TB patients are more likely to quit tobacco than healthy smokers – ‘teachable moments’; and c) in the absence of ...
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TRANSITION FROM LINEAR 2 CIRCULAR: POLICY AND INNOVATION (R2PI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

... goal of the project is to see the widespread implementation of the CE based on successful Business Models to ensure sustained economic development, to minimize environmental impact and to maximize social welfare. The goal of the R²π project is therefore to develop sustainable business models that would facilitate the circular economy and to propose "Policy Package" that will support these busines ...
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Common Good First - digital storytelling for Social Innovation

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

In order to support and grow the emerging South African social innovation sector, we will a create a digital network – Common Good First - to capture and showcase social impact projects in South Africa, connecting them to each other, academics and HEIs around the world. In doing so, we will also address the issue of the ‘digital divide’, as identified by the country’s National Development Plan 20 ...
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Development of novel, high Performance hybrid TWV/GPF Automotive afteR treatment systems by raTIonAL design: substitution of PGMs and Rare earth materials (PARTIAL-PGMs)

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

To date, three way catalytic converters (TWCs) have been established as the most effective engine exhaust after-treatment system. However, TWCs not only fail to address the issue of particulate matter (PM) emissions but are also the main industrial consumer of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) mainly Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) and Rare Earth elements (REEs), with the automotive industry accounting f ...
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Innovative multi-functional Vacuum-Insulation-Panels (VIPs) for use in the building sector (INNOVIP)

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

INNOVIP Consortium will reinvent the top-of-the-line insulating material vacuum-insulation-panels (VIP) by improving their thermal performance over the entire lifetime by at least 25 % and making VIPs adjustable, mountable and machineable. By reducing the density of the core material and/or using an alternative core material together with less expensive VIP-envelopes as gas barrier, it will be po ...
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Social Action for Life Quality Training and Tools

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The "SALTO – Social Action for Life Quality Training & Tools" project is based on adapting social worker training to improve the quality of life of the elderly and/or the disabled, especially by reducing the effects of behaviour-related disorders linked to illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s, as well as mental and psychiatric disorders, like autism.Medico-social structures are ‘’social’' because they t ...
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Art of Inclusion

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...progress for inclusion of persons with disabilities in several fields, but there are still grave problems and obstacles. Inclusion is an “art” in each society as well for people responsible for social and political developments as well for the individuals who need a certain “art of life” to overcome obstacles. Our partnership – organizations responsible for day centers and leisure time activities ...
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Action Plan EU STEM Coalition

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

... potential for innovation and economic development in a Knowledge Society lies in a more prominent role for educational institutions, industry and government to generate new institutional and social formats for the production, transfer and application of knowledge. An example of a successful triple helix initiative is Jet-Net (Youth and Technology Network) in the Netherlands. Jet-Net is a joint in ...
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Empublic - Enhancing employment and self-entrepreneurship of disadvantaged people throught better relationship between the public and private sectors

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...al improvement of operations design and accompanying training programs, self employment and job placement of disadvantaged persons by the local services that deal, with different rights, training and social and work inclusion- the expansion of the contexts and opportunities for training and employment of disadvantaged persons as part of the contracted services, conventions, and / or assigned by th ...
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MobiAbility: A European standard on support measures in the EHEA for international students with disabilities.

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...nsortium. First year of the project is to perform a diagnostic analysis of the situation, by reading and analyzing literature (reports, books, legislation, etc.) as well as by consulting academic and social entities through a survey. During the second year the standard of basic measures of attention to diversity that must be guaranteed by the university institutions will be outlined. Furthermore, ...
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Positive Engagement for a Transition towards Employment

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...Eurostat).The economic cost of not integrating NEETS is estimated at over €150 billion, or 1.2% GDP in 2011 figures (Eurofound Mar 15). Evidence shows that time spent as NEET can lead to a range of social disadvantages, including; poor future employment opportunities, mental & physical health problems, disaffection, lack of social activation & involvement in youth offending.Our project directly re ...
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Developing an open online course in European social pedagogy

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...nd adults in educational and care settings from early years, school support, foster care, youth justice, residential child care, family support, support for people with disabilities and elderly care, social pedagogy is well established in many European countries. Given the inadequate educational and well-being outcomes for many of the most disadvantaged groups in British society (particularly look ...
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Disabled Employability Signaling

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...egation, or have been deprived of educational and employment opportunities altogether.DESIGN stands up to create a quality employment inclusive methodology: a learning network platform to support Social Services providers, specialised in disabled persons job placement. It was designed taking into account The Education and Training 2020 Strategic Framework, the United Nations Convention on The Righ ...
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CAP sur l'Ecole Inclusive en Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...pecial Educational Needs (SEN), whereas the means used to meet the challenge of inclusion, while important, were inefficient due to a lack of synergy between education stakeholders and the medico-social sector.But everywhere in Europe or elsewhere, initiatives or experiments showed that satisfactory results could be achieved by using differentiated pedagogies, an interdisciplinary approach to lear ...
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e-Skills for e-inclusion

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...llar). In this context, increasing attention has been paid to e-inclusion policies at European level, including improving the EU e-skills as the main prerequisite for development, active citizenship, social inclusion and employability. However, improving the level of e-skills to reduce digital divide at European level requires a transnational effort. The countries involved in this partnership have ...
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New Skills for Customized Accessible Tourism

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

...ri Lombardi (Italy), the European Association of Service Providers for Disability (EASPD) and the European Network of Accessible Tourism (ENAT) from Belgium, the National Association for Social Responsibility (Bulgaria), the Latvian Movement for Independent Living (Latvia) and the NHTV University of Applied Science of Breda (The Netherlands).In order to tackle this challenge, partners will develop ...
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Development and Demonstration of Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Prevention and Reuse Paradigms (LIFE RE-WEEE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

...onation and repair) and reuse (i.e. acceptance of second hand markets); Promote WEEE prevention culture in Greece; and Monitor and highlight the link between environmental, economic and social benefits associated with WEEE reuse and preparation for reuse. Expected results: The main expected results of the LIFE RE-WEEE project are the following: The development and operation of two WEEE sorti ...
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Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (SERISS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

...change with its pressures to redesign energy, transport and housing patterns, just to name some of the most urgent “Grand Challenges”. SERISS brings together three research infrastructures in the social sciences: the European Social Survey (ESS), the Survey for Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe and the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). Also involved in SERISS are n ...
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School of Active Citizens

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

...ils a more integrated education and allow more adequate strategies to integrate young people in the society. The partners are coming from disadvantaged areas of their countries, where geographical, social and economic obstacles are conditioning the development of young people and the mobility experience for learning, especially for young girls. The three topics chosen by the partners for the local ...
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EU COLLECTIVE PLAYS!

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

THE COLLECTIVE PLAY! aims promoting the creation of plays which are the result of a collaboration of playwrights of different nationalities. Playwrights meet and cooperate to create a narrative structure which is organic but at the same time incorporates different perspectives, styles, languages and idioms. In each playwrights collective the assembling of the final draft of the play is normally en ...
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PROMoting youth Involvement and Social Engagement: Opportunities and challenges for 'conflicted' young people across Europe (PROMISE)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

...allenges faced by young people across Europe have been the focus of public, political and academic debates at local, national and international levels. Young people face tough choices in key areas of social life that affect their participation in society, and their potential marginalisation from it: from structural issues of unemployment, lack of access to affordable housing and debt problems, to ...
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Novel Stromal Cell Therapy for Diabetic Kidney Disease (NEPHSTROM)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Type 2 diabetes will affect >500 million adults by 2040 and its secondary complications will generate enormous socioeconomic costs - in particular, diabetic kidney disease (DKD), which is already the most common cause of chronic kidney disease. DKD is associated with greatly increased mortality and frequently progresses to end stage renal failure. Pharmacotherapy, dialysis and transplantation repr ...
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