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GEOTHERMICA - ERA NET Cofund Geothermal (GEOTHERMICA)

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

Europe is challenged to increase the share of renewable energy for heating and cooling, industrial processes, power generation and energy storage. Geothermal energy is a vastly under-utilized indigenous, clean, low footprint and continuously available energy resource, and thus uniquely positioned to substantially contribute to a safe and secure energy supply of Europe’s Energy Union. Hitherto only ...
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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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ERA-NET for materials research and innovation (M-ERA.NET 2)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

M-ERA.NET 2 aims at coordinating the research efforts of the participating EU Member States, Associated States and Regions as well as of selected global partners in materials research and innovation, including materials for low carbon energy technologies and related production technologies.A large network of 43 national and regional funding organisations from 23 EU Members States and Associated St ...
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Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Support Action (AORAC-SA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Coordination and Support Action (AORAC-SA) is designed to provide scientific, technical and logistical support to the European Commission in developing and implementing trans-Atlantic Marine Research Cooperation between the European Union, the United States of America and Canada. The Coordination and Support Action (CSA) is carried out within the framework of t ...
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HERA Joint Research Programme Uses of the Past (HERA JRP UP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

AbstractThe HERA Joint Research Programme Uses of the Past (HERA JRP UP) consortium will establish a 3rd joint transnational programme for multi-disciplinary research into a topic at the heart of the reflective society: ”Uses of the Past”. The innovative projects funded will fundamentally link past(s), present and future(s) creating valuable new knowledge that gives insights into the forces shapin ...
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Cooperation between NCPs for Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2 on “Food security, Sustainable Agriculture, Marine and Maritime Research and the Bioeconomy” and the Key Enabling Technology ( (BioHorizon)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The overall idea of the BioHorizon proposal is to establish innovative and mutually learning pan-European platform for transnational activities of NCPs involved in the SC2 and KET-B. The aim is also to create a network of NCPs exploiting the synergies of acquired and distributed knowledge, collective development and trainings, in which all NCPs can learn from each other, thus increasing mutual und ...
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National Contact Points for Climate action, Raw materials, Environment and Resource Efficiency (NCPs CaRE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The National Contact Points perform valuable services in guiding and supporting national applicants in preparing proposals for Horizon 2020 funding. We expect that through an enhanced cooperation and networking between these national entities, a higher quality of their consulting services and thus of proposals and projects can be achieved. Therefore, the overall objective of NCPs CaRE is to form a ...
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Transnational network of National Contact Points (NCPs) of Societal Challenge 6 'Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies' (SC6) (NET4SOCIETY4)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

NET4SOCIETY4 will be the transnational network of National Contact Points (NCPs) for Societal Challenge 6 (SC6) “Inclusive, innovative, and reflective societies” in Horizon 2020. NCPs are set up to guide researchers in their quest for securing EU funding. NET4SOCIETY4 will further develop the current NET4SOCIETY network of SC6 NCPs (former NCPs for Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities), which wa ...
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Welfare State Futures (WSF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Welfare states are at a critical turning point. The development of welfare systems was one of the defining characteristics of the 20th century, especially in Europe. However, in times of change, it is important to re-think ‘the welfare state’ with a programme of innovative research designed to ask, and answer, fundamental questions about the design, delivery and experience of welfare in the 21st c ...
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Transnational Cooperation among ICT NCPs (Idealist2018)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The main objective of Idealist2018 is reinforcing the network of National Contact Points (NCP) for LEIT ICT under Horizon2020, by promoting further trans-national cooperation within this network. This cooperation will also include collaboration and networking with similar networks in parallel themes (Security, ENV, Transport, Energy, Health,…etc) especially in the context of joint/coordinated or P ...
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Making European research careers more attractive by developing new services and enhancing the current services of the EURAXESS network – EURAXESS TOPIII (EURAXESS TOP III)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The EURAXESS TOP III consortium includes partners from almost all EURAXESS countries (either as beneficiaries or associated partners, from altogether 39 countries), in order to ensure the widest possible coverage as well as increased impact. The project has been divided into eight work packages. Two WPs are devoted to the development, testing and pilot introduction of new services on career develo ...
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Security Research NCP Network 3 (SEREN 3)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

SEREN3 is a 36-month Coordination and Support Action with the overall aim of facilitating trans-national co-operation among NCPs for Secure Societies, identifying and sharing good practices, and raising the general standard of the support to programme applicants across the EU, Associated and Third countries. To reach the objective above, the project will develop three main activity axes, correspon ...
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Slow Adventure In Northern Territories (SAINT)

Start date: Apr 13, 2015, End date: Apr 12, 2018,

Description (EN): Slow Adventures in Northern Territories (SAINT) will work with SMEs to make them more aware of how to capitalise on the business opportunities in guided slow adventure experiences, offering simple nature-based, immersive journeys, living and travelling in wild places, through marketing to new, distant customer markets.  Nothern Europes wide-open, wild spaces provid ...
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Demonstration Of New Qualitative Innovative Concept of Hydrogen Out of windTurbine Electricity (DON QUICHOTE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The project “Don Quichote” aims at the long-term demonstration of the readiness of the technology of the combination of renewable electricity and hydrogen; facts-based data generated in this project is the base for analysis for further deployment and implementation of combined systems “renewable electricity – hydrogen”. Linked to the technical demonstration emphasis will be put on analysis of regu ...
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Net4Mobility: Network of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions National Contact Points (Net4Mobility)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

The objective of the Net4Mobility project is to facilitate the transnational cooperation between the National Contact Points (NCPs) of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). The project aims to achieve the following two goals: 1) mutual support and thus raising the general standard of applicants (taking into account the diversity of the different actors) 2) to better inform the research and in ...
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Cooperation Of Space NCPs as a Means to Optimise Services under Horizon 2020 (COSMOS2020)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

National Contact Points (NCPs) for Space provide support on Space funding under EU Framework programmes. In 2007 under FP7 the EU started funding an NCP Space network which was named COSMOS. This enabled the NCPs to benefit from each other’s experience and thus raise the level of the overall quality of their services. Additional services were established like a joint website and news service provi ...
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Marine Biotechnology ERA-NET (ERA-MBT)

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

"The ERA-NET MarineBiotech (ERA-MBT) recognises that Europe’s marine ecosystems and organisms are largely unexplored, understudied and underutilized, in spite of Europe’s access to an extensive and diverse set of marine ecosystems, supporting an enormous marine biodiversity. This resource, through the coordinated application of marine biotechnology, has the potential to provide a major contributio ...
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Network of Science with and for Society National Contact Points (SiS.net2)

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Science with and for Society has a vital role to play in bringing together a wide range of stakeholders in order to build capacities and develop innovative ways to connect science to society through Responsible Research and Innovation measures. This demands that the Science with and for Society National Contact Points (NCPs) are able to orientate in the wide area of policy behind the programme, it ...
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Youth in Europe – Evidence-based drug prevention

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

...ictoria (Malta), Istanbul (Turkey), Vaison la Romaine (France), Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal), Tarragona (Spain), Dobele (Latvia), Santa Severina (Italy) and Thessaloniki (Greece). In addition, the Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analysis at Reykjavik University (Iceland) will lead the professional/methodological part of the project and build on the centre's experience from applying the ...
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Strengthening cooperation in European research on sustainable exploitation of marine resources in the seafood chains- ERANET (COFASP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Research and innovation are central elements in the Europe 2020 Strategy and it is recognised that bioeconomy is an important element of the Strategy. DG RTD has issued a European Strategy “Innovating for sustainable growth: a bioeconomy for Europe” paving the way to a more innovative, resource efficient and competitive society that reconciles food security with the sustainable use of renewable re ...
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HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters (HERA JRP CE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters (HERA JRP CE) consortium will establish a single joint transnational programme for multi-disciplinary research into the causes and consequences of cultural encounters. To understand cultural encounters is to understand the history and meaning of Europe itself, from the earliest periods of human settlement to the present day. Its effects impact ...
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Geothermal ERA NET (GEOTHERMAL ERA NET)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The proposed ERA-NET will deepen the cooperation of national program owners and administrators and thus be an enabler for the integration of national research and development agendas into a coherent European geothermal R&D program. Countries participating in the first instance in this ERA NET are chosen on the basis of their ambitions to include geothermal energy into their goals for 2020 and 2050 ...
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EUROpean network for transnational collaborative RTD projects in the field of NANOMEDicine (EURONANOMED II)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Nanomedicine, the application of nanotechnology to health, is a fast-growing field with a large potential for improving diagnostics and therapeutic solutions in many diseases. The EuroNanoMed II (ENM II) consortium, with 20 partners from 17 countries and regions, aims to foster the competitiveness of European nanomedicine actors through the support of translational research projects enhancing tran ...
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Supporting SMEs towards a new phase to European Research Area on new processes, adaptive manufacturing systems and the factory of the future (MANUNET II)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The aim of MANUNET II is to cooperate among regions and countries around Europe with fruitful calls in the field of Manufacturing, to ensure that MANUNET II suits perfectly in ERA and, finally, to propose a sustainable cooperation structure for a very long term frame.In order to enhance this impact, the extension that will cover MANUNET II is going to be longer than MANUNET CA, having included mor ...
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From materials science and engineering to innovation for Europe (M-ERA.NET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

M-ERA.NET will be a real tool for developing a strong European RTD community on materials science and engineering and for supporting the European economy with respect to the challenges of the 21st century.M-ERA.NET will be a highly ambitious network involving a majority of European key players in national funding of materials science and engineering.M-ERA.NET will replace a number of smaller previ ...
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ERASysAPP - Systems Biology Applications (ERASYSAPP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The main objective of the ERANET proposal “Systems Biology Applications – ERASysAPP” (app = application = translational systems biology) is to promote multidimensional and complementary European systems biology projects, programmes, and research initiatives on a number of selected research topics. Inter alia, ERASysAPP will initiate, execute and monitor a number of joint transnational calls on sys ...
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Network of European funding for Neuroscience research (ERA-NET NEURON II)

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

Research into the human brain and its diseases is one of the key challenges of our century, since among the many diseases affecting health, disorders of the brain are major causes for impaired quality of life. Despite some progress in understanding the molecular mechanisms of the various neurological and psychiatric disorders, research is far from being able to offer solutions how to conquer them ...
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Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points for Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities (SSH NCPs) (NET4SOCIETY3)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

NET4SOCIETY3 is the continuation of the international network of National Contact Points for Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH NCPs). NCPs are set up to guide researchers in their quest for securing EU funding. NET4SOCIETY was established in 2008 and includes almost 60 SSH NCPs from Europe and beyond.Facing the transition from FP7 to Horizon 2020, NET4SOCIETY3 will help researchers prepa ...
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Support for Transnational Mobility and Research Training (START)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

...ransnational mobility of researchers. The scheme will be open to applicants from all over of the world within five years after receiving their doctorates. Eligible researchers must identify either an Icelandic host or co-host in their application and their training must include one of the following mobility elements: a) incoming, b) outgoing c) reintegration. Applicants can otherwise select their ...
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Continuation Of the cooperation of Space NCPs as a Means to Optimise Services (COSMOS+)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

In June 2008 the Space National Contact Points (NCPs) from 33 EU member states and FP7 associated countries started COSMOS, the “Cooperation Of Space NCPs as a Means to Optimise Services”. NCP networks had been established in other themes already, like IDEALIST, and proved a suitable instrument to interlink according NCPs. This led to added benefit e. g. through new services like specific partner ...
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NORFACE Transnational Programme on Migration in Europe (NORFACE PLUS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

During recent years persistent rates of international migration have generated a very high level social, economic and policy concern in Europe. Migration has become a multi-faceted phenomenon, transcending traditional explanations. There is much still to be understood about the causes, actualities and effects of these movements of people. The NORFACE transnational programme “Migration in Europe: S ...
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Network of Science in Society National Contact Points (SiS.net)

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

The range of the FP7 Science in Society (SiS) programme as well as the range of its stakeholders is extremely diverse. This demands that the SiS National Contact Points (NCPs) are able to orientate in the wide area of policy and policy papers behind the SiS programme, programme topics and research areas as well as in FP7 rules and regulations and in addition, they need to have extensive knowledge ...
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Towards integrated European marine research strategy and programmes (SEAS ERA)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

This proposal is intended to take into account the ongoing and previous integrating initiatives (AMPERA, marinERA, Marifish,...) so as to constitute a stable and durable structure for coordination and integration of national and regional marine and maritime research programmes with the major goal of providing a clear reply to the need for developing and implementing common research strategies and ...
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Snow, Ice and Avalanche applications (SNAPS)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

...yses on weather leading up to avalanches on the target roads.• SM4 snow sensor: Testing the SM4 automatic snow sensors in three different countries.• Run-out indices: Calculation and utility of Icelandic run-out indices for all avalanche target roads.• Avalanche Services: Avalanche services for road authorities and road users developed within SNAPS.• Snow maps based on satellite data.• Snowdrift m ...
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Environment NCPs cooperating to improve their effectiveness (ENV-NCP-TOGETHER)

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

"National Contact Points (NCPs) hold a key role in communication with the European Commission concerning executive matters and the scientific community. The quality of proposals submitted, for example, relies partially on an effective NCP network. This project is a set of coherent activities and tasks that will foster further cooperation between Environment NCPs from EU member States and Associate ...
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Connecting Energy NCPs Plus A Pro-Active Network of National Contact Points in the Seventh Framework Programme under the Energy Theme (C-ENERGY +)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

C-ENERGY+ has the overall objective to reinforce the National Contact Points - NCPs network, broadening NCPs expertises and improving the quality of their services. C-ENERGY+ will involve 21 Energy NCPs as partner from 21 countries plus 29 Energy NCPs as associated partners from 23 countries. Associated partners will be invited and receive financial support to attend all initiatives. C-ENERGY+ is ...
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HERA Joint Research Programme (HERAJRP)

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

The HERA Joint Research Programme (HERA JRP) partners will launch a joint call for multilateral projects in two humanities research areas: “Cultural Dynamics” and “Creativity and Innovation”. By setting up a HERA JRP, the 13 national funding partners want to create collaborative, trans-national research opportunities that will derive new insights from humanities research in order to address major ...
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ERA-NET Plus on Materials Research (MATERA+)

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

The objective of MATERA+ is the launching, management and follow-up of a Joint Call in the field of materials. The project is a direct outcome of the coordination work initiated within ERA-NET on Materials (MATERA 016102) in FP6. MATERA+ takes advantage of the experience gained along the last 3 years in the previous transnational calls carried out in MATERA (MATERA Calls 2006, 2007 and 2008).Mater ...
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Producing a shared vision on how to harness Research & Development for Sustainable Development (VISION RD4SD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

The main objective of VISION RD4SD is to ensure that Europe is able to contribute to a Sustainable Development of the world by formulating policies and decisions based on robust, up to date knowledge of highest scientific quality.The project focuses on a dialogue among European science policy-makers, administrators and those funding-policy makers in general who demand and need solutions from VISIO ...
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ARCTIC EDGE (Arctic Edge)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

The Arctic area presents some of the main societal challenges that currently face Europe and the world and has come to represent the critical environmental changes that are affecting our planet, from the forces of nature and questions about future food security to technology and innovation, as well as the socioeconomic alterations that are affecting our global community.In order to tackle these ch ...
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