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Synergising International Research Studies into the Environmental Fate and Behaviour of Toxic Organic Chemicals in the Waste Stream (INTERWASTE)

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

The overall vision of INTERWASTE is to develop scientific understanding of issues related to environmental contamination with toxic organic chemicals (specifically flame retardants (FRs) and pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs)) arising from their presence in the waste stream. Specific research objectives include: (a) exchange of knowledge of and best practice in methods for rapid and ...
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Innovative Ecological on-site Sanitation System for Water and Resource Savings (INNOQUA)

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

INNOQUA will accelerate the path to market of a modular set of innovative, patent protected, award winning and scalable fully ecological sanitation solutions that address wide market needs in rural communities, for agricultural industries, for sustainable home-builders or collective housing owners and for developing countries worldwide. The modular system is based on the purification capacity of b ...
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RESCCUE - RESilience to cope with Climate Change in Urban arEas - a multisectorial approach focusing on water (RESCCUE)

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

RESCCUE aims to deliver a framework enabling city resilience assessment, planning and management by integrating into software tools new knowledge related to the detailed water-centred modelling of strategic urban services performance into a comprehensive resilience platform. These tools will assess urban resilience from a multisectorial approach, for current and future climate change scenarios and ...
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Energetic Algae (EnAlgae)

Start date: Oct 31, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Aim Energetic Algae aims to reduce CO2 emissions and dependency on unsustainable energy sources in NWE. by accelerating the development of sustainable technologies for algal biomass production. bioenergy and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation from pilot phase to application and marketable products. processes and services. This is achieved by bundling know-how. finance and political support. The plan ...
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Prediction of the Effects of Radiation FOr reactor pressure vessel and in-core Materials using multi-scale modelling - 60 years foreseen plant lifetime (PERFORM 60)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"In nuclear power plants, materials may undergo degradation due to severe irradiation conditions that may limit their operational life. Utilities that operate these reactors need to quantify the ageing and the potential degradations of some essential structures of the power plant to ensure safe and reliable plant operation. So far, the material databases needed to take account of these degradation ...
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Coordinating European Strategies on Sustainable Materials, Processes and Emerging Technologies Development in Chemical Process and Water Industry across Technology Platforms (ChemWater)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

Europe must use water more efficiently to avoid the anticipated impacts of water shortage driven by a range of dynamics incl. climate change. Nanotechnologies, materials and process innovations (NMP) are key enabling technologies for efficient industrial water management. The chemical industry has a unique role as major water user AND a key solution provider for the development of future water tec ...
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@qua Innovation Network for Water Efficiency (@qua)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

Description @qua Innovation Network gathers ICT and water services leading actors from SME to majors, research entities developing competences in both sectors, local and regional authorities directly responsible for water policy and water management. Partners have developed significant expertise about the interface of ICT and water and at th ...
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Severe Accident Research Network of Excellence 2 (SARNET2)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Most of the actors involved in severe accident research in Europe, plus Canada, Korea and the United States (41 partners), will network in SARNET2 (Severe Accident Research NETwork of Excellence - Phase 2) their capacities of research in order to resolve important pending issues on postulated severe accidents of existing and future Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). The project has been defined in order ...
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"Climate Change, Hydro-conflicts and Human Security" (CLICO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"Media headlines are dominated by the prospect of regional water wars. Clearly, climate change poses several threats to human security; in particular, hydro-climatic hazards such as droughts and floods have a considerable capacity to exacerbate social tensions, intra- and inter-state conflict. Still, cooperation often trumps conflict. There are surprisingly few peer-reviewed studies rigorously add ...
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INTELLIGENT COORDINATION OF OPERATION AND EMERGENCY CONTROL OF EU AND RUSSIAN POWER GRIDS (ICOEUR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2012,

"The interstate integration of power grids provides multiple advantages concerning operation security, integration of renewable energy as well as energy trading. Due to this fact the UCTE interconnection expands continually since its establishment. Consideration is given to different scenarios of joint operation of UCTE and NORDEL with power grids on the territory of the former USSR. Due to the fa ...
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Development of intensified water treatment concepts by integrating nano- and membrane technologies (Nametech)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2012,

The Nametech project harnesses benefits of nanotechnology to bring about improvements in membrane filtration for advanced water treatment. The general objective is to strengthen the European membrane market by making nanotechnology available to large scale European membrane manufacturers. A unique feature of the project is the knowledge transfer between the experienced membrane manufacturer Norit ...
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Joint mAster of Mediterranean Initiatives on renewabLe and sustAinable energy

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

Overall Objectives are to contribute:- Promoting the modernisation of higher education;- Enhancing the quality and relevance of higher education;- Building up the capacity of higher education institutions, for mutual understanding between peoples and cultures, for international cooperation and for a permanent modernisation process, assisting them in opening themselves up to society and to the labo ...
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Development of an Interdisciplinary Programme on Climate Change and Sustainability Policy

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

Higher Education plays a critical role in making a healthy, just, climate-neutral and sustainable society. It prepares most of the professionals who develop, lead, manage, teach, work in, and influence society’s institutions. HEIs in Middle East, while recognising that their region’s contribution to the damage of the global climate is less when compared to developed regions, they do recognise the ...
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Tuning Middle East and North Africa

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

Tuning MEDA project is aimed at the implementation of the Bologna tools in Southern Neighbouring Area universities through building of a framework of comparable, compatible and transparent programmes of studies. In order to achieve this, four specific objectives have been identified: to apply the Tuning methodology in universities of SNA in four subject areas – Law and Good Governance including Hu ...
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UNetBA - University Network for Business and Administration (EU - Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia)

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

UNetBA will enable and organize mobility of 234 Maghreb nationals (Unidergraduate, Master, Doctorate, post-Doc and staff) to EU universities and 20 European Post doctorates and Staff to universities. Each of the 13 Maghreb partner-universities will send to EU partner-universities undegraduate, masters, doctoral and post-doctoral students and staff members – academic/administrative. This mobility ...
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Building Capacity for University Management in the ENPI South region

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

This is a regional JEP in Governance Reform involving ten universities in Libya, Morocco, Egypt and Lebanon satisfying the regional priority ‘ University Management and Student Services’ . The wider objective of the project is to demonstrate that good management practices can build sustainable HE cooperation between nations. The project does this by addressing the challenges facing the management ...
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PRO-GREEN: Joint/Dual Professional Graduate Diploma and Professional Degree in Green Technologies

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

According OCED FORUM 2009, the Green technology job sector is expecting to see substantial increases in employment in the upcoming years and will also begin to see significant changes in the composition of its workforce. Some of the key indications of a growing and changing workforce include:• Three out of every four clean technology employers will increase their number of permanent employees and ...
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Erasmus Mundus for Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Lybia

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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EMII A2 S1L2-Flow by flow EU-EGYPT BRIDGE BUILDING (FFEEBB)

Start date: Nov 30, 2010,

The overall aim of this proposal is to contribute to the sustainable development of Egypt in the field of Higher Education by using mobility flows to improve the career prospects of students and promoting intercultural understanding through institutional cooperation. The development of teaching and learning will occur through the student mobilities. The great variety of thematic fields offered by ...
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Reorient University Curricula to Address Sustainability

Start date: Oct 15, 2010,

Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in the Arab region face challenges related to the slow progress regarding the implementation of the UN Decade (2004-2015) of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This is due to a number of barriers such, limited staff awareness and expertise and lack of appropriate curricula, new teaching methods and courses to address ESD. Some HEI in Europe have develo ...
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Education for Sustainable Development beyond the Campus

Start date: Oct 15, 2010,

In line with the EC strategy for sustainable development (2008), the UN Decade Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), and the Egyptian Education Reform Policy (2008-2010), this project aims to promote the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the Egyptian society. The project is the first initiative in Egypt that brings universities and schools together in a structured mechani ...
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Establishing A New Master Degree in Sustainable Crop Protection

Start date: Jan 15, 2010,

The principal aim of the project is to establish a new joint master Degree in Sustainable Crop Protection (SCP) by collaborative efforts of universities from EU ( Italy, Greece and Spain) and different universities in Egypt in the agriculture field. The new MSc degree complies with the higher education objectives in partner countries in particular with the strategic priorities of the agricultural ...
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L02- Egypt

Start date: Jul 15, 2009,

The FFEEBB project has a long term socio-economical dimension: besides ensuring equal opportunity to all the candidates (gender issue, students from vulnerable groups) it will assist Egyptian Universities to create course on entrepreneurship, to create professionalized curricula and to develop work placements. One of the projects objective's is to develop the Egyptian students employability in the ...
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