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Alternative models and robust decision-making for future forest management (ALTERFOR)

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

European forests are expected to provide a broad range of ecosystem services (ES). This capacity is however threatened by the uncertainties of climate change, the complex dynamics of evolving global markets and the pressures for increased use of bioenergy. Such challenges cannot be effectively addressed with an uncritical regional or national commitment to traditional forest management models (FMM ...
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International Mobility Including NEETs In Training activities

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

Early school leaving as well as youth unemployment are two of the most significant issues in education and training: the lack of dialogue between school and work and the lack of appropriate training and employment opportunities are the main causes.To combat this phenomenon, regional educational policies have identified on work-based learning approach a suitable response to fulfill training and ...
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Plasament pentru un invatamant economic modern - conditie de acces pe piata muncii europene

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

...ing to a united Europe.O6. Developing the European Dimension in our school education.O7. Developing a training tradition at European standards of quality .The partners involved in the project are:LDA SOUSA -ARMANDO Metallurgy and Mendanha & Sousa, S.A Construções, host organization from Barcelos, Portugal, together with the intermediary organization Associação Amigos da Intercultural Mobilidade fr ...
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Enhancing of legumes growing in Europe through sustainable cropping for protein supply for food and feed (EUROLEGUME)

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

Long term S&T objective: The project is aimed to sustainable use of Leguminous plants and soil resources in order to ensure European citizens with balanced and safe food, ensuring the high quality protein sources in their daily diet by increasing competitiveness and cultivation of legumes for food and feed. Short-term S&T objectives: 1. Evaluation of pea, faba bean and cowpea/black-eye-bean local ...
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BIOMETAL DEMONSTRATION PLANT FOR THE BIOLOGICAL REHABILITATION OF METAL BEARING-WASTEWATERS (BIOMETAL DEMO)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

"Heavy metal pollution is one of the most important environmental problems today even threatening human life. A large number of industries produce and discharge wastes containing different heavy metals into the environment and do not comply with current EU directives. BIOMETAL DEMO project aims at demonstrating the feasibility of the application of novel biotechnologies for the treatment of metal ...
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Mobility (+) III

Start date: Sep 5, 2016, End date: Nov 4, 2017,

The Agency for Local Development and Employment of the municipality of Cartagena, in their interest to further promote quality vocational training bet again by + Erasmus program. Aimed to give added value to the training, we would like to supplement the training programs with the completion of internships abroad. The beneficiaries of the mobility program are: 1.- Students of the MIXED PROGRAM FOR ...
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Innovation Ecosystems for VET

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The challenges and opportunities of globalisation and technological development have led to a strengthened emphasis on innovation as a key driver for sustainable economic development. Innovation is essential for the growth of modern societies and it is also central to achieving economic and social development. While innovation is generally recognized as critical to the continuous improvement of ed ...
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Triggerable nanomaterials to modulate cell activity (NanoTrigger)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The advent of molecular reprogramming and the associated opportunities for personalised and therapeutic medicine requires the development of novel systems for on-demand delivery of reprogramming factors into cells in order to modulate their activity/identity. Such triggerable systems should allow precise control of the timing, duration, magnitude and spatial release of the reprogramming factors. F ...
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European School Web TV

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

The European School Web TV project aims at establishing web-TV broadcasting of self-produced film clips as a means of exchange and education in a European school network. The European School Web TV is thus a pioneering project which serves the need of international educational partnerships to share film materials and to lively visualize their international cooperation through web TV displays in th ...
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Un jardin sans frontière. Que notre esprit fleurisse dans le jardin de l’Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The partnership project entitled " Un jardin residue frontiers. Fleurisse que notre esprit dans le jardin de l'Europe " involves Italian, Rumanian, Portuguese, Spanish and Bulgarian schools. It is aimed at teachers and pupils in secondary schools of the partner countries (pupils aged 11 to 14 years.) This project was born from the need to meet the needs emerging with regard to youth problems, l ...
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Benznidazol and Triazol REsearch group for Nanomedicine and Innovation on Chagas diseasE (BERENICE)

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

The BERENICE consortium is aiming at providing a new and cost-effective solution to a better treatment for Chagas chronic patients. Please see its objectives below :Main objective• Obtain a more effective, better tolerated and cheaper formulation of a drug with trypanocidal activity to cure Chagas diseaseSpecific Objectives• Obtain results of pharmacokinetics of new formulations• Assess trypanocid ...
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Adristorical Lands: promoting mobility for achieving excellence in Tourism and Culture

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

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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Combining innovation in vineyard management and genetic diversity for a sustainable European viticulture (INNOVINE)

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

"The strategic goal of the project is to help the European vineyard sector facing the increasingly global competition by meeting:* Consumer demands for diversified high quality wines and concerns for food safety* Citizens’ requests for environment-friendly production systems involving decreased or no use of pesticides and spare of not renewable natural resources* Producers’ needs of plant material ...
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Coordinated Integrated Pest Management in Europe (C-IPM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Europe faces the challenge of responding to the mandatory implementation of the principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) as called for by Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides. Most European countries are investing in research and extension to face this challenge, reduce reliance on pesticides, and reduce risks associated with their use. Added value and synergies can be ...
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Cancer Associated Fibroblasts (CAF) Function in Tumor Expansion and Invasion (CAFFEIN)

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

"Aim of the CAFFEIN network is to provide 10 early stage researchers (ESRs) and 2 exprerienced researchers (ERs) with excellent training in an industry relevant area of cancer research, complementary skills required for pharmaceutical industry, and knowledge in setting up biomedical start-up companies. To this end, the network comprises two full industrial partners: the established pharmaceutical ...
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Personalised Centralized Authentication System (PCAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

PCAS aims at providing an innovative, trustworthy, handheld device. The Secured Personal Device (SPD) will allow users to securely store their data, to share it with trusted applications, and to easily and securely authenticate him. The SPD will recognize its user using multiple biometric sensors, including a stress level sensor to detect coercion. Using the same biometric authentication, the SPD ...
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MAKING WAVES

Start date: Sep 20, 2014, End date: Sep 19, 2016,

What we seek to achieve through this project is mainly to support improvements in pedagogical approaches and school management. We want to work on the issue of staff development so to encourage teachers to enhance pedagogical skills and knowledge of subject matter together with their language skills. This would also mean providing occasions for teachers to reflect critically on their practice focu ...
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PERMETTRE LA MOBILITE DES JEUNES PAR UNE VALORISATION DES COMPETENCES ACQUISES GRACE AUX APPRENTISSAGES REALISES AU SEIN DE L’ESPACE EUROPEEN RENFORCER ET ENRICHIR LES PRATIQUES PROFESSIONNELLES DES EQUIPES ENGAGEES DANS UNE OUVERTURE A L'EUROPE

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

ALLOW THE YOUTH MOBILITY BY UPGRADING SKILLS ACQUIRED THROUGH LEARNING MADE WITHIN THE EUROPEAN SPACE The Regional Federation of MFR (FRMFR) in Brittany undertakes, in its mission of facilitating networks, eight MFR located throughout the Breton territory. The 161 young people involved in the Erasmus + program will go to twelve different countries: Switzerland, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Port ...
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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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New Eyes & Toys

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Sometimes children do not appreciate their toys because, being used to see them everyday, they get easily fed up. But, once a new child wants to take their toys, they become jealous and the love for their toys reappears. Likewise it often happens that people do not appreciate the place where they live and things they have until when another person come and let them understand the real value of the ...
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IST-Africa Initiative 2014 - 2015 (IST-Africa 2014-2015)

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

The main objectives of IST-Africa (2014 – 2015) are to· Support implementation of Information Society, ICT and Innovation related aspects of the Africa – EU Strategic Partnership and associated dialogues between the European Commission (EC) and EU Member States with the African Union Commission (AUC), African Member States and other Key Regional Organisations· Foster partnerships between EU and Af ...
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Training for functional soil microorganism biodiversity (TRAINBIODIVERSE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The TRAINBIODIVERSE ITN will provide professional skills and training for young scientists covering multi-disciplinary aspects of soil biodiversity, ecosystem services, their economic significance and practical implications and implementation.The researchers will gain access to European educational and network facilities and training aimed at ensuring the wellbeing of human populations and the con ...
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Advanced Network Coding for Video Surveillance (CodeLance)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

CodeLance is about an industry-academia cooperation that will exploit the know-how on ICT of both academic and commercial companies, in order to provide an efficient product for video surveillance over wireless multihop networks to support services like, traffic monitoring, fire detection and real-time events (such as natural disasters) broadcasting for the societies of the smart cities.Video surv ...
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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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“MFC4Sludge”: Microbial fuel cell technologies for combined wastewater sludge treatment and energy production (MFC4SLUDGE)

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

“MFC4Sludge” is a research project that aims to develop, according to participating SME needs, an innovative solution consisting of a MFC coupled to a hydrolytic-acidogenic anaerobic digestion (HA-AD) to treat sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The technologies to be developed herein will not only improve existing sludge treatments in environmental terms (even avoiding sludge ...
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Create and Preserve

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Project Create and Preserve is a Youth Exchange program founded on the theme Culture and Sustainable development. It serves as a springboard to better intercultural comprehension and cooperation where the common interest in sustainable living becomes a fundamental means to support the European rapprochement. The project carried out in a playful style, located at a House of Nature (place solidly co ...
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autoNomous, self-Learning, OPTImal and compLete Underwater Systems (NOPTILUS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Description Current multi-AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle) systems are far from being capable of fully autonomously taking over real-life complex situation-awareness operations. As such operations require advanced reasoning and decision-making abilities the existing designs have to heavily rely on human operators. But humans can easily be ...
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Person of the year: THE ENTREPRENEUR!

Start date: Feb 10, 2015, End date: Jun 9, 2015,

Entrepreneurial experiences – such as making mistakes, trying a concept, developing ideas, actually building, managing, and growing organizations, raising real funds, failing, trying again, building intellectual capital and managing it, and translating intellectual value into economic and social value – should be the acid test in being able to develop an educated opinion about entrepreneurship. Th ...
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Unification of Fundamental Forces and Applications (UNIFY)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

The UNIFY exchange programme has two main scientific objectives. One objective is to gain new insights on the quantum mechanical description of the gravitational interaction, an outstanding fundamental problem in theoretical physics, of crucial importance to our understanding of the Universe and of the forces between its basic constituents. The other main objective is to explore recent development ...
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Advanced Technologies for the Production of Cement and Clean Aggregates from Construction and Demolition Waste (C2CA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"The recycling of end-of-life concrete into new concrete is one of the most interesting options for reducing worldwide natural resources use and emissions associated with the building materials sector. The production of the cement used in concrete, for example, is responsible for at least 5% of worldwide CO2 emissions. On-site reuse of clean silica aggregate from old concrete saves natural resourc ...
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TreatPolyQ – Industrial Academic Initial Training Network towards treatment of Polyglutamine Diseases (TREATPOLYQ)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Protein aggregation is a hallmark of many late onset neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson’s Disease (PD), Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), prion diseases as well as the group of polyglutamine diseases (polyQ). The aim of this proposal is to create a network of European partners bridging important basic mechanisms involved in proteinopathies, research of mod ...
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Network for the Market uptake of ICT for Ageing Well (AgeingWell)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Description The aim of the AgeingWell Network is to build and animate a European network focused on improving the quality of life of Elderly People by promoting the market uptake of ICT solutions for Ageing Well.\\n\\nTo achieve its aim, the following five main objectives of the AgeingWell project are:\\n\\n\\nDevelop Guidelines for deployme ...
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Cultural Routes Entrepreneurship and Technologies Enhancement (e-CREATE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The idea of the e-CREATE project was born among European regions who are partly members of the Transromanica and CrossCulTour transnational project network. Together, the partners have identified shortcomings in public policies that on the one hand use significant resources to promote cultural, natural and historic tourism routes but fail on the other hand to enhance the competitiveness of SME to ...
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The interplay between astrocytes and neurons in the progression of stress-induced cognitive disorders (STRESSEDASTROCYTES)

Start date: Dec 3, 2012, End date: Dec 29, 2014,

"Stress exposure sets primarily a response to restore physiological homeostasis and promote behavioural adaptation. However, prolonged stressful experience may trigger maladaptive responses that lead to severe manifestations such as depressive-like behaviour, learning and memory deficits. Indeed, advances in neurobiology reported clear morphological deficits in neurons of both hippocampus and pref ...
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Development of improved methods for detection, control and eradication of pine wood nematode in support of EU Plant Health policy (REPHRAME)

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

Europe’s pine forests are a valuable economic, social and environmental resource under threat from the introduction of the pine wood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. Although not a pest in its native North America, PWN has devastated forests in Asia. Since the arrival of PWN in Portugal, the native maritime pine, Pinus pinaster, has proved to be extremely susceptible, with PWN being s ...
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New solar collector concept for high temperature operation in CSP applications (HITECO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

"In order to accelerate the implementation of the CSP technology, the electricity cost has to be reduced by increasing the plants’ efficiency. The HITECO Project aims at doing so by increasing the operating temperature of the heat transfer fluid (HTF) up to 600ºC and therefore raising the overall efficiency of the process. The current state-of-the-art designs are prevented to reach such temperatur ...
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Demonstration of the WindFloat Technology (DEMOWFLOAT)

Start date: Jul 15, 2011, End date: Jul 14, 2014,

Consistent with industrial initiative of the SET Plan this project addresses the objective of a grid-connected multi-megawatt fully integrated offshore wind turbine hosted on a floating support structure. The Proposed Project is in the unique position to leverage significant pre-existing financial and intellectual capital invested by the project coordinator, WindPlus in a PILOT unit installation ...
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Smart Open Services - Open eHealth Initiative for a European Large Scale Pilot of Patient Summary and Electronic Prescription (epSOS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Description SOS project becomes Smart Open Services for European Patients (epSOS) to better reflect the focus on patient needs.Patient summaries and ePrescriptionsPatient summaries and electronic prescriptions (ePrescriptions) are two key services that enable high quality medical care. Such health records provide health professionals with ...
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Virtual Integrated Partnering (VIP) for SME service, technology and information providers in the European maritime sector (EuroVIP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2014,

EuroVIP aims to co-ordinate European maritime SMEs, associations, larger companies, and research institutions to promote the application of research results and innovative technologies in SMEs, by service, technology and information (STI) transfer in terms of operational and technical collaboration support. It will provide a viable and sustainable means for the exploitation of outputs from past, p ...
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Supporting the Use of Research Evidence (SURE) for Policy in African Health Systems (SURE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2014,

Inadequate access to and use of research evidence to inform health policy limits the achievement of universal and equitable access to healthcare, hinders quality improvement and makes it difficult to use healthcare resources wisely. Poorly informed decision-making about health policies and systems is one of the reasons why services fail to reach those most in need, health indicators are off track, ...
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