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3-O-sulfated heparan sulfate translocation in altered membrane biology: A newstrategy for early population screening and halting Alzheimer’s neurodegeneration (ArrestAD)
Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,
ArrestAD proposes a novel and visionary thinking resulting from the demonstration of the central role of a particular heparan sulfate species at the intracellular level in neurons and in circulating cells in the molecular pathology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). AD is a societal challenge for which there is neither prevention nor possible cure. Research in the field has long been refining classic co ...
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Liaison in Scientific Training for European auditory Neuroscience (LISTEN)
Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,
This ITN will train 10 ESRs to meet the urgent need for translation of Auditory Neuroscience into commercial and pharmaceutical products to treat hearing disorders including tinnitus. Tinnitus is the debilitating perception of imaginary sound that is often associated with hearing loss. This Liaison in Scientific Training for European auditory Neuroscience (LISTEN) is a consortium of top hearing sc ...
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Metal oxide Aided Subsurface Remediation: From Invention to Injection (METAL-AID)
Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2020,
Thousands of sites across Europe are polluted with toxic metals and organic solvents; many more exist worldwide. As EU population grows, clean water will determine the quality of life and economic stability. Most sites remain contaminated because existing technology is costly and disruptive. Society needs an innovative way to decontaminate soil and groundwater directly underground. In METAL-AID, w ...
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netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital society (WYRED)
Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,
The emergence of the young as a distinct social group, and their slowly increasing empowerment through the availability of digital technology, has brought with it an understanding that they have a key role to play in the digital society, as drivers of new behaviours and understandings. However, their active participation in society is not reflected sufficiently in policy and decision-making, espec ...
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Developing new therapies for Batten disease (BATCure)
Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,
The goal of BATCure is to advance the development of new therapeutic options for a group of rare lysosomal diseases - neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) or Batten disease. There are > thousand affected across Europe, with a combined incidence of c.1:100 000. The NCLs are devastating and debilitating genetic disorders that mainly affect children, who suffer progressive dementia and motor decline, ...
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Landowners Club for the conservation of Western Spain (LIFE "Oeste Ibérico")
Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Oct 30, 2018,
Background
This LIFE project could be considered as a continuation of the LIFE project, âCampanarios de Azabaâ (LIFE07 NAT/E/000762), which carried out a series of actions aimed at improving the populations of the black vulture and black stork, and their habitats â temporary ponds, the dehesas with evergreen Quercus spp., gallery forests, etc. This ...
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Evaluation environment for fostering intercultural mentoring tools and practices at school
Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,
Early school leaving (ESL) is an obstacle to the socio-economic growth of the European countries. One of the targets for the EU in 2020, related to education, is to reduce the rates of ESL below 10%. Tackling early school leaving is a stepping stone towards improving the opportunities of young people and for supporting smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Young people with a migration backgrou ...
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E-Learning Novelties towards the Goal of a Universal Acquisition of Foreign and Second Languages
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
...rld of work, or they may represent the social facet of life-long education.
The Participating institutions (one university for each of the languages dealt with in the project) are:
- University of Salamanca (Spanish, 51 million of native speakers in EU): co-ordinating institution.
- University of Bologna (Italian, 60 million of native speakers in EU)
- University of Dublin (English, 67 million of ...
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Quality of Jobs and Innovation Generated Employment Outcomes (QuInnE)
Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,
The EU is facing long-term structural challenges compounded by the recent economic crisis. More and better jobs are needed to lower unemployment, raise the employment participation rates of female, older, migrant, low-skilled and young workers and thus tackle social exclusion and inequality. The EU’s growth strategy, Europe 2020, wants smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, with innovation and j ...
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"Training in neurodegeneration, therapeutics intervention and neurorepair" (TINTIN)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
"Dopamine neurons play a central role in major illnesses, such as anxiety and mood disorders, schizophrenia, autism-spectrum disorders, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and dementia. A multidisciplinary approach must be taken by European researchers to discover the molecular basis of dopamine neurodegeneration and how new technologies will lead to repair and regeneration of neuronal systems in the b ...
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TACCLE3 - Coding
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
The project aims are:
• To encourage and support teachers to introduce coding, programming and / or computational thinking as part of the curriculum in the 4 – 14 classroom to better equip pupils to develop the skills needed by the European labour market.
• To broaden teachers’ digital skills base and enhance their professional competence
• To show how entrepreneurial skills can be developed and ...
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Controlling domain wall dynamics for functional devices (WALL)
Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
"WALL is a training network on the topic of domain walls in nanoscale magnetic structures, which will provide the next generation of researchers in this area of advanced technology. Domain walls (DWs) are the interfaces separating magnetic domains, their high speed manipulation in nanostructures will lead to the next generation of new and low power functional devices for computation and communicat ...
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Impacts of Environmental Conditions on Seed Quality (EcoSeed)
Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,
"Seed quality is of paramount importance to agriculture, food security and the conservation of wild species. Considerable economic losses result from sub-optimal seed performance, undermining food security and livelihoods. Seed quality is strongly influenced by the environmental stresses experienced by the mother plant. Climate change will further exacerbate economic losses and decrease the predic ...
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European Clinical trials in Rare Sarcomas within an integrated translational trial network (EUROSARC)
Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2016,
Sarcomas are rare malignant tumors, with an overall incidence of 6/105/year. Bone and soft tissue connective tissue tumours encompass more than 50 different rare histotypes and more than 150 different molecular subtypes. The incidence of individual rare sarcomas subtypes is often less than 0.5/105/year. Given sarcoma rarity as a group, but even more as individual entities, few prospective clinical ...
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Individual CAReer Development
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
The need for a better skilled and creative workforce for the European labour market has been identified as one of the strategic goals in EU policy statements and recommendations. The aim is to raise the level of education throughout Europe and to foster forward-looking and innovative citizens with ability for divergent and visionary thinking. The best result for enhancing these skills would be pro ...
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Reconstructing Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange during the Miocene (MEDGATE)
Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,
"MEDGATE combines the expertise of 29 geoscientists from both the oil industry and academia in the training of 10 researchers. It aims to equip these researchers for successful careers in either sector through interdisciplinary projects focussing on an intriguing problem which has implications for both environmental change and hydrocarbon exploration. The research aim of MEDGATE is to reconstruc ...
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Mobilité européenne pour tous
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2015,
...and therefore have better work opportunities as well in France as in other european countries.
For the 2014/2015 academic year we are planning to send 23 students abroad : 15 in London (UK) and 8 in Salamanca (Spain). Their mobility will take place during the last year of their three year course in order for them to have enough time to enrich their skills and work on their social and professionnal ...
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New European Crimes and Trust-based Policy (FIDUCIA)
Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,
"The FIDUCIA project will shed light on a number of distinctively ""new European” criminal acts that have emerged in the last decade as a consequence of technological developments and the increased mobility of populations across Europe.The objective of the project is to develop policy responses to “new” forms of deviant behaviours that are also highly relevant to responding to “conventional” forms ...
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Multiscale Modelling of Hydrogen Embrittlement (MultiHy)
Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,
The proposed project aims to advance the state-of-the-art of numerical modelling of hydrogen embrittlement (HE). The primary focus and novelty of the project is the description of H transport in modern advanced materials with complex microstructures. This goal will be achieved through development of a multiscale modelling framework, which will enable the extraction and propagation of information p ...
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An Adaptive Learning System for Reasoning about Stories with Poor Comprehenders and their Educators (TERENCE)
Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,
Developing the capabilities of children to comprehend written texts is key to their development as young adults. Text comprehension skills and strategies develop enormously from the age of 7-8 until the age of 11, when children develop as independent readers. Nowadays, more and more young children turn out to be poor (text) comprehenders: they demonstrate text comprehension difficulties, related t ...
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Proteomics Standards International Molecular Exchange - Systematic Capture of Published Molecular Interaction Data (PSIMEx)
Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,
The aim of the PSIMEx proposal is to systematically make published molecular interaction data computationally accessible. We plan to further develop the existing standard for molecular interactions developed by the HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative, and to promote its implementation in the entire chain from experiment planning via data formatting and analysis to data representation in journal p ...
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Advanced Magnetic nanoparticles deliver smart Processes and Products for Life (MagPro²Life)
Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,
Biotechnologically derived substances for large scale feed, food and pharma applications represent one of the most important sources of new products due to their precisely controlled structural and functional properties, potential for economic and responsible production and overall broad benefits to society through biocompatibility and sustainability. The costs of producing biomaterials are in man ...
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Semiconductor Nanodevices for Room temperature THz Emission and Detection (ROOTHz)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,
ROOTHz project addresses the bottleneck of Terahertz Science and Technology, where the fabrica-tion of room temperature, continuous wave, compact, tunable and powerful sources (at low cost, if possible) is the prime challenge.THz radiation (also called T-rays), whose frequency range lies between microwaves and infrared light in the electromagnetic spectrum, opens the possibility for a new imaging ...
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Biodiversity conservation in western Iberia (Campanarios de Azaba)
Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Oct 1, 2012,
Background
The project site is located in a biodiversity hotspot in the Iberian Peninsula, which represents one of the best examples of Mediterranean ranges and foothills to be found in Spain and Portugal. The site includes well-preserved forests of holm oak, cork oak and Mediterranean scrub with a low density of human presence. It is home to important po ...
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Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI)
Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,
The Preparatory Phase for a pan-European Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) will focus on technical, legal, governance, and financial issues to • prepare to construct BBMRI, building on existing biobanks, resources and technologies, specifically complemented with innovative components and properly embedded into European scientific, ethical, legal and societal fra ...
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Cooperation and Valorization of the Rural Patrimony (AGRO)
Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Aug 30, 2006,
...n of forest mushroom cultivation: 10 seminars and visits with discussions (518 participants). Drafting of a guide to mushrooms in Avila (1000 copies). ✔ Drafting of a guide to mushrooms in Salamanca (2,400 copies). A guide to best practices (500 copies). An interactive CD-Rom on mycology (300 copies). ✔ Study of the potentials for environmentally friendly agriculture: 10 seminars organised (456pa ...
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Excellence Centers of Materials to the economic development of the Atlantic space (MNAA)
Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2006,
...ublications have been produced (78). About 70 industrial visits have been made during the project's lifetime. - 84 jobs created, 45 jobs saved, 300 brochures at three meetings (Limerick, Toulouse and Salamanca), 12,300 leaflets, 16 articles in newspapers and scientific journals, 23 major events with 2,746 participants, 64 workshops with 2,068 participants, four types of CD and two types of posters ...
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The project has the main aim to improve the quality level of mathematics education and application of mathematics in practice in eight European countries. The target groups are university and school teachers of mathematics. To achieve the project aim, a European Virtual Laboratory of Mathematics EVLM is to be created, further developed in national sub-portals and supported by assembling a common e ...
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Intercultural Mentoring tools to support migrant integration at school
Start date: Nov 1, 2013,
Within the scope of European policies and to combat educational disadvantages for migrant children, numerous actions have been taken to improve the position of migrant children in education. In secondary education the emphasis lies on diversification of the offered teaching methods and extra guidance of the pupils. Some schools in Europe have set up measures to increase the continuity of the educa ...
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The e-MEDICINimage project enabled the creation of a remote continuing education scheme in the health sector (medical biology) related to parasitology and medical mycology. These two training schemes are built exclusively on e-Learning techniques and each of them offers a unique curriculum available in 5 languages (English, Spanish, French, Polish and Portuguese). This scheme, associated with the ...
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The aim of the REDINTER network – Rede Europeia de Intercompreensão - is tofederate the majority of European institutions either currently or previously working inthe field of mutual understanding, with the following objectives:a. developing and fostering the consideration of policies to promote mutualunderstanding (within and between the different families of languages, andbetween unrelated langu ...
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The target group will be trainers specialized in systems of company management. The potential users are: human resources managers, the professionals in charge of training, the directors of R&D departments and managers. The target sectors to which the CRISIS PROJECT is direct are education, management, human resources and research and development. As to the potential beneficiaries that will be thos ...
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The project PESCALEX aims at creating CLIL (content and language integrated learning) courses in fish health/disease. Target languages are EL, ES, EN, FR, PL, NO. The project targets areas where aquaculture is important (Greece, Ireland, Norway, Spain, Poland, France. Target groups are vocational and tertiary students and trainers, fish farm workers. Potential users are training institutions and S ...
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The project objectives focus on the improvement of know-how transfer processes and the development of innovative learning and teaching methods in the field of fracture mechanics and structural integrity (with particular reference to concrete and ceramic materials) by means of teaching materials using e-learning and new technologies. Target groups are managers, technicians and engineers involved in ...
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The project addresses the medical sector and intends to develop a multilingual e-learning tool for the medical staff in charge of doing laboratory blood examinations. Main target groups are the laboratory staff, biologists and technicians, and the training organisations. In three phases, a platform and content for the training of basic haematology in several languages (EN, NL, DE, PL, IT, ES, PT, ...
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In view of the more demanding requirements of European consumers, the partners involved in this project will disseminate already identified experiences and established needs in the field of Food Hygiene in European agro-food SMEs. The project will validate actual needs and skill requirements in terms of training, mostly in quality management, and provide an integrated approach through a transnat ...
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OPTIMISING PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR TRAINING IN A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
OPTIMALE addresses one of the key challenges of a multilingual and multicultural Europe: how to ensure that Its universities continue to produce the high-level professionals that the Community translation services and the translation Industry need, to adapt to rapidly changing societal and market conditions. As recent reports have highlighted, the rapid technological changes of the past decade, fa ...
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As is well-known mathematics is an abstract lecture. So it is hard to understand easily. The project aims to understand mathematics more easily using animations, interactive tests and ect.
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Multicultural Interdisciplinary Handbook: tools for learning history and geography in a multicultural perspective.
Start date: Oct 1, 2009,
Despite official educational guidelines, improved linguistic skills have been limited in all partner countries due to cuts in their national budgets. As a consequence CLIL experiences have been lessened, to the sole benefit of those involving English. Another reason for this project resides in the difficulty in modifying the guidelines of national programmes, that are often short-sighted as far a ...
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INTERACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA FOR INTEGRATION, SKILLS BARTERING, EMPOWERMENT, INFORMAL LEARNING
Start date: Dec 1, 2010,
The project ISABEL aims at using ICT innovative practices such as Citizen Journalism for empowerment of groups and communities at social and territorial level by strengthening inter-personal & intercultural links, by getting communities to talk to each other as well as by promoting personal/collective growth. The objective of the Empowerment is to ensure that people's voices are heard. An ICT inte ...
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