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An Integrated European ‘Flagship’ Program Driving Mechanism-based Toxicity Testing and Risk Assessment for the 21st Century (EU-ToxRisk)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The vision of EU-ToxRisk is to drive a paradigm shift in toxicology towards an animal-free, mechanism-based integrated approach to chemical safety assessment. The project will unite all relevant disciplines and stakeholders to establish: i) pragmatic, solid read-across procedures incorporating mechanistic and toxicokinetic knowledge; and ii) ab initio hazard and risk assessment strategies of chemi ...
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Solar Heat Integration Network (SHINE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Large solar heating systems are decisive to cover a major part of European low temperature heat demand by solar energy and therewith to meet European policy aims. However, today only a negligible share of solar heating systems installed in Europe are large units due to manifold technical and socio-economic obstacles. The challenge of solar thermal technology and the overall objective of the propos ...
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"Development and demonstration of a dynamic, web-based, renewable energy rating platform" (EAGLE)

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

"In order for the EC to achieve ambitious renewable energy targets there is a strong need to accelerate market penetration of Renewable Energy Systems (RES) in both industrial and domestic sectors. The domestic sector is of major significance, as it will reduce reliance on large centralized energy plants. There are several domestic options including solar thermal, solar electric, heat pump and bio ...
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A Treatment-Oriented Research Project of NCL Disorders as a Major Cause of Dementia in Childhood (DEM-CHILD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"The DEM-CHILD project focusses on the main cause for childhood dementia in Europe, the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs). The NCLs are neurodegenerative diseases characterized by dementia, blindness, epilepsy and physical decline leading to an early death of the patients. Since no cure is currently available, these disorders represent a serious social, medical, and economic challenge.To date, ...
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Evaluating the education of interpreters and their clients through virtual learning activities

Start date: Jan 1, 2013,

EVIVA evaluates the educational opportunities that virtual learning environments (VLEs) offer for future interpreters and their clients. Research into the use of VLEs in interpreter training shows positive results, and their use to educate interpreter clients is emerging. However, these uses have never been evaluated systematically. ICT are now used to provide interpreting in business and communit ...
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Interpreting in Virtual Reality

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

The rise of migration and multilingualism in Europe requires professional interpreters in business, legal, medical and many other settings. Future interpreters therefore need to master an ever broadening range of interpreting scenarios and skills. This is difficult to achieve with traditional teaching methods and in times of reduced teaching contact hours. Also, in many of the emerging interpretin ...
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Corpora for Content & Language Integrated Learning

The Backbone project proposes a pedagogically motivated corpus approach enablingteachers to collect and exploit spoken discourse resources for teaching LWULTlanguages and their regional varieties. Based on the communicative principles of learnerand teacher autonomy, authenticated learning and collaboration, the Backboneapproach combines corpus resources for linguistically and thematically speciali ...
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