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GENetic diversity exploitation for Innovative macro-ALGal biorefinery (GENIALG)

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

The GENIALG project aims to boost the Blue Biotechnology Economy (BBE) by increasing the production and sustainable exploitation of two high-yielding species of the EU seaweed biomass: the brown alga Saccharina latissima and the green algae Ulva spp. GENIALG will demonstrate the economic feasibility and environmental sustainability of cultivating and refining seaweed biomass in multiple use deman ...
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The Role of Universities in Innovation and Regional Development (RUNIN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

...ontribute to innovation and economic growth in their regions through research seeking to examine how universities fulfill their third mission in relation to regional industry and explore the range of university engagement with regional firms and institutions. The project operationalises the main research question of how universities can contribute to innovation and regional development through fou ...
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Citizen Led Air pollution Reduction in Cities (CLAiR-CITY)

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

CLAiR-City will apportion air pollution emissions and concentrations, carbon footprints and health outcomes by city citizens’ behaviour and day-to-day activities in order to make these challenges relevant to how people chose to live, behave and interact within their city environment. Through an innovative engagement and quantification toolkit, we will stimulate the public engagement necessary to a ...
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Development of an Integrated Exposure – Dose Management Tool for Reduction of Particulate Matter in Air (LIFE Index-Air)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Background The health effects of air pollution have been subject of intense study in recent years. Exposure to pollutants such as airborne particulate matter (PM) has been associated with increases in mortality and hospital admissions due to respiratory and cardiovascular disease. PM is a complex mixture of microscopic particles derived from anthropogenic ...
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Long Lasting Reinforced Concrete for Energy Infrastructure under Severe Operating Conditions (LORCENIS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

The main goal of the LORCENIS project is to develop long reinforced concrete for energy infrastructures with lifetime extended up to a 100% under extreme operating conditions. The concept is based on an optimal combination of novel technologies involving customized methodologies for cost-efficient operation. 4 scenarios of severe operating conditions are considered:1. Concrete infrastructure in d ...
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Green Integrated Structural Elements for Retrofitting and New Construction of Buildings (GREEN INSTRUCT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

The Green INSTRUCT project will develop a prefabricated modular structural building block that is superior to conventional precast reinforced concrete panels by virtue of its reduced weight, improved acoustic and thermal performance and multiple functionalities. The Green INSTRUCT block consists of over 70% of CDW in weight. The Green INSTRUCT project will: (i) achieve sustainability and cost sav ...
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PAYT - Tool to Reduce Waste in South Europe (LIFE PAYT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background Municipal waste management practices are failing to achieve high recycling rates in several southern European countries, making it difficult to achieve EU targets. The Waste Framework Directive requires Member States to increase the re-use and recycling of waste materials, such as paper, metal, plastic and glass from households, to a minimum of ...
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Strong Gravity and High-Energy Physics (StronGrHEP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

This project explores strong-gravity phenomena involving black holes in the context of high-energy physics applications and astrophysical observations including gravitational waves. The proposed studies can be loosely classified into four groups with considerable overlap.(i) Fundamental fields in strong gravity.Fundamental fields coupled to curvature are essential for cosmological models, for expl ...
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Vietnamese-European Knowledge and Technology Transfer Education Consortium

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

...twork - Develop innovative course materials on Vietnamese KTT The VETEC Consortium consists of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Lead, BE), Universidad de Aveiro (PT), TU Dresden (DE), Hanoi University of Sciences and Technology (VN), Hué University (VN) and Can Tho University (VN) as well as a 6 Associated Partners and 1 Supporting Partner.
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MASS Spectrometry TRaining network for Protein Lipid adduct ANalysis (MASSTRPLAN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

MASSTRPLAN will train the next generation of interdisciplinary research leaders in advanced molecular analytical techniques to detect oxidized phospholipids & proteins in biological & clinical samples, evaluate their biochemical roles in inflammation, and translate these findings to develop new diagnostic tools. Chronic inflammatory diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD) & cancer ...
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SUSPLACE

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

SUSPLACE will train 15 ESRs in sustainable place-shaping by 1) its cutting edge scientific knowledge and methodologies 2) enhancing transferable skills 3) supporting a career development plan and 4) expose ESRs to science, public administration and governance, private businesses, NGOs and citizens initiatives. This will create career prospects for ESRs as an academic, policy-maker or policy-adviso ...
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Nanomaterial FAte and Speciation in the Environment (NanoFASE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Concept: NanoFASE will deliver an integrated Exposure Assessment Framework, including methods, parameter values, model and guidance that will allow Industry to assess the full diversity of industrial nano-enabled products to a standard acceptable in regulatory registrations. Methods to assess how use phases, waste streams and environmental compartments (air, soil, water biota) act as “reactors” in ...
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Minerals Policy Guidance for Europe (MIN-GUIDE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

MIN-GUIDE is a project addressing the need for a secure and sustainable supply of minerals in Europe by developing a ‘Minerals Policy Guide’. The key objectives of the project are (1) providing guidance for EU and MS minerals policy, (2) facilitating minerals policy decision making through knowledge co-production for transferability of best practice minerals policy, and (3) fostering community and ...
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Redesigning 2D Materials for the Formulation of Semiconducting Inks (2D-INK)

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

2D-INK is targeted at developing inks of novel 2D semiconducting materials for low-cost large-area fabrication processes on insulating substrates through a new methodology, which will exceed the properties of state-of-the-art graphene- and graphene oxide based inks. Achieving this would represent an important step forward in the processing of 2D semiconducting materials and will provide the key pa ...
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Enabling precision chemical methodologies applied to natural-based systems for the development of multifunctional biomedical devices (CHEM2NATURE)

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

CHEM2NATURE addresses current limitations of UMINHO in the Chemistry field regarding its scientific know-how and partnerships with world-leading institutions. UMINHO seeks to improve the multifunctionality of natural-origin polymers, often with limited bioactivity and stimuli-responsiveness, and increase the performance of cell-based therapies. Introducing such properties by precision chemical mod ...
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Knowledge, Assessment, and Management for AQUAtic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services aCROSS EU policies (AQUACROSS) (AQUACROSS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

AQUACROSS aims to support EU efforts to enhance the resilience and stop the loss of biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems as well as to ensure the ongoing and future provision of aquatic ecosystem services. It focuses on advancing the knowledge base and application of the ecosystem-based management concept for aquatic ecosystems by developing cost effective measures and integrated management practice ...
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Preventing and Remediating degradation of soils in Europe through Land Care (RECARE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Although there is a large body of knowledge available on soil threats in Europe, this knowledge is fragmented and incomplete, in particular regarding the complexity and functioning of soil systems and their interaction with human activities. The main aim of RECARE is to develop effective prevention, remediation and restoration measures using an innovative trans-disciplinary approach, actively inte ...
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RD-CONNECT: An integrated platform connecting registries, biobanks and clinical bioinformatics for rare disease research (RD-CONNECT)

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

Despite examples of excellent practice, rare disease (RD) research is still mainly fragmented by data and disease types. Individual efforts have little interoperability and almost no systematic connection between detailed clinical and genetic information, biomaterial availability or research/trial datasets. By developing robust mechanisms and standards for linking and exploiting these data, RD-Con ...
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EUropean CERamic MATerials

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

The aim the European Ceramic Materials (EUCERMAT) project is to significantly contribute to changing the general opinion about ceramics materials in Europe. As a matter of fact, ceramic materials are too often simply associated to great diffusion materials mainly employed as building materials (covering plates factories, glasses for windows... etc.). This narrow and negative image is the main reas ...
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Strategy For Change

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

...tner universities’ experiences in networks such as ASHOKA - http://ashokau.org - and DESIS- http://www.desis-network.org. Five Universities will take part in the project – Glasgow Caledonian University, Dublin City University, Technology University Eindhoven, University of Aveiro and Interactive Institute Swedish ICT and will also count on the participation of two of the Universities’ Student Ass ...
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Engineer for the Future

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

The partnership of this project, composed of 10 partners, from 6 different countries, is a well balanced and strong one, as it involves schools, vet schools, universities, SMEs and Order/association of Engineers. All partners are well aware of the respective responsibility in accepting working together in this project and knows what their role is, during the 3 years of project development. The pre ...
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European Medical Information Framework (EMIF)

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

In response to the need to tackle increasingly complex medical research questions, a growing amount of human health data is being collected, either in routine Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) databases, through research-driven cohort studies, in biobanks or related efforts. However, data sources are typically fragmented and contain information gaps which prevent their full exploitation. EMIF aim ...
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IRIS: Towards Natural Interaction and Communication (IRIS)

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

"The overall goal of IRIS is to provide a natural interaction communication platform accessible and adapted for all users, particularly for people with speech impairments and elderly in indoor scenarios. Human-Computer interaction with this platform will adopt the principles of universal design and natural user interfaces such as speech, silent speech, gestures, tactile and haptic devices, pictogr ...
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Let the Hopes Blossom

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

European Commission published a report concerning early school leaving in November 2014. According to this report, the EU average rate of early leavers from education and training is now 11.9%, the EU average rate among boys is 13.6% whereas it is 10.2% among girls (Eurostat). Turkish Confederation of Employer Association has interpreted the average rate of early school dropout in Turkey as 37% (3 ...
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Learning Agreement Online System

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

...ing up time for the staff members to work on other international relation activities or improve the quality of credit mobility. The partnership will be based on a prototype developed by the European University Foundation – Campus Europae, hence the activities of the partnership will be based on testing cycles for assessment purpose to best fit the needs of higher education institutions and comply ...
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EU Youth: From theory to action

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The main aim of the project is to foster the employability and innovative potential of young people /students & graduates by upgrading and developing their competencies for entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial attitudes and other transversal competencies necessary for successful entering the labour market. This aim is to respond to the educational challenges of the higher education in Europe and all ...
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#EuropeHome

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

...ncrete actions in order to address the identified challenges. The #EuropeHome project is based on a pilot project carried out by EUF-CE network and introduces significant innovations. Firstly, close University and Business collaboration on the basis of Local Hubs established at each partner University to ensure dynamic cooperation, coordinated interventions in the academic curricual and knowledge ...
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Eco-innovative, Safe and Energy Efficient wall panels and materials for a healthier indoor environment (ECO-SEE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The ECO-SEE project aims to develop new eco-materials and components for the purpose of creating both healthier and more energy efficient buildings. We will create and symbiotically use natural eco-materials for healthier indoor environments through hygrothermal (heat and moisture) regulation and the removal airborne contaminants through both chemical capture and photocatalysis. Our objectives inc ...
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CAtastrophic Shifts in drylands: how CAn we prevent ecosystem DEgradation? (CASCADE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The aim of CASCADE is to obtain a better understanding of sudden ecosystem shifts that may lead to major losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services, and to define measures that can be used to prevent such shifts. The focus of CASCADE is explicitly on drylands as being one of the most fragile and threatened ecosystems in Europe. CASCADE will investigate the historical evolution of dryland ecosys ...
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Social Enterprise as Force for more Inclusive and Innovative Societies (seforïs) (seforis)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The “seforïs” research project seeks to understand the potential of social enterprise in the EU and beyond to improve social inclusiveness of society through greater stakeholder engagement, promotion of civic capitalism and changes to social service provision through a) investigation of key processes within social enterprises for delivering inclusion and innovation, including organisation and gove ...
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SUSTAINABLE NANOTECHNOLOGIES (SUN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

SUN (Sustainable Nanotechnologies) is the first project addressing the entire lifecycle of nanotechnologies to ensure holistic nanosafety evaluation and incorporate the results into tools and guidelines for sustainable manufacturing, easily accessible by industries, regulators and other stakeholders. The project will incorporate scientific findings from over 30 European projects, national and inte ...
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Multifunctional facades of reduced thickness for fast and cost-effective retrofitting (MF-RETROFIT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The project aims to deal with the numerous requirements of facade panel retrofitting by developing a light-weight, durable, cost effective and high performance panel. Its layered structure allows for separate but also synergistic function regarding high thermal and acoustic insulation, excellent mechanical properties, up to standards flame retardancy and photocatalytic activity. Employing nanofill ...
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Community Participation in Planning: Learning and Skills Framework

Start date: Dec 31, 2014, End date: Feb 27, 2017,

The British Isles are passing through a significant period of local government modernisation and public service reform. In each of the relevant jurisdictions there are evolving interpretations of how this transformation occurs, and the constitution of ‘community planning’. Nevertheless, all these definitions of "community planning" share a set of common principles revolving around the concepts of ...
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Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning (ECO)

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

Open Educational Resources (OER) has the potential to widen access to education and to improve the quality and cost-efficiency of teaching and learning in Europe. The most successful way to achieve a practical implementation of OERs are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). MOOCs are large-scale online courses and represent one of the latest developments in open education in its continuous e ...
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Generalizing Truth-Functionality (GETFUN)

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

The Fregean-inspired Principle of Compositionality of Meaning (PoC), for formal languages, may be construed as asserting that the meaning of a compound expression is deterministically (and often recursively) analysable in terms of the meaning of its constituents, taking into account the mode in which these constituents are combined so as to form the compound expression. From a logical point of vi ...
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Foundational Research on MULTIlevel comPLEX networks and systems (MULTIPLEX)

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

Future advancements in ICT domain are closely linked to the understanding about how multi-level complex systems function. Indeed, multi-level dependencies may amplify cascade failures or make more sudden the collapse of the entire system. Recent large-scale blackouts resulting from cascades in the power-grid coupled to the control communication system witness this point very clearly. A better unde ...
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Stable Interfaces for Rechargeable Batteries (SIRBATT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

SIRBATT (Stable Interfaces for Rechargeable Batteries) is a multisite collaborative project consisting of 12 full partners from the European Area (6 Universities, 1 Research Institute and 5 industrial partners). Collaboration with leading battery research groups in the USA and Japan is also considered. The diversity of the research organisations in the partnership has been chosen to provide a wide ...
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Euro Youth Citizenship

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

... although young, is composed by skilled and mature elements, and we all aim to promote social development and youth empowerment. Taking into account our community, multiculturalism is only visible in university life, in specific times and without social structure and proximity. So, youth outside superior studies are isolated from this potential intercultural dialogue and tend to promote xenophobic ...
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Development of a Business Plan for establishment of The Discoveries Centre for Regenerative and Precision Medicine, a new Centre of Excellence in Portugal (THE DISCOVERIES CTR)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

...Excellence in Portugal – The Discoveries Centre for Regenerative and Precision Medicine. It is an initiative of the Portuguese Foundation for Science & Technology, scientifically coordinated by the University of Minho and involving a national partnership formed by the 6 top-ranked Portuguese universities. The new Centre will result from a teaming process with the University College London, an inst ...
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Carbon-based Nanomaterials and Nanostructures for Advanced Sensing Applications (CarbonNASA)

Start date: Mar 15, 2012, End date: Mar 14, 2016,

We are proposing a 4-year program of knowledge transfer and networking between Aston University, UK (Aston), the University of Aveiro, Portugal (UAvr), University of Rochester, USA (URoc), Old Dominion University, USA (ODU), National Institute for Materials Science, Japan (NIMS), Chinese Academy of Science, China (CAS), and Changshu Institute of Technology, China (CIT).The objective of the propose ...
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