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"Bordering, Political Landscapes and Social Arenas: Potentials and Challenges of Evolving Border Concepts in a post-Cold War World" (EUBORDERSCAPES)

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

"In order to gauge its significance, conceptual change in the study of borders must be seen in relation to fundamental social, economic and geopolitical transformations that have taken place in the past decades. In addition, major paradigmatic shifts in scientific debate, and in the social sciences in particular, must also be considered. Recognising the close interrelationships between social chan ...
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Addictions and Lifestyles In Contemporary Europe – Reframing Addictions Project (ALICE RAP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

ALICE RAP is a Europe wide project of 43 partner research institutions involving 107 researchers from 25 European countries providing 1000 months of a plurality of scientific endeavour to analyse the place and challenges of addictions and lifestyles to the cohesion, organization and functioning of contemporary European society. Through integrated multidisciplinary research, a wide range of factors ...
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Developing methodologies to reduce inequalities in the determinants of health (DEMETRIQ)

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

RationaleSocial inequalities in health are a major challenge to public health in Europe and hence a priority topic for the EU. While the average level of health in EU countries has continued to improve over the last decades, differences in health between advantaged and disadvantaged sections of the population within each country remain substantial. A broad spectrum of policies influences the deter ...
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Speech synthesis that improves through adaptive learning (SIMPLE4ALL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The Simple4All project will create speech synthesis technology that learns from data with little or no expert supervision and continually improves itself, simply by being used.In order to be accepted by users, the voice of a spoken interaction system must be natural and appropriate for the content. Using the same voice for every application is not acceptable to users.But creating a speech synthesi ...
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Opening up the Natural History Heritage for Europeana (OpenUp!)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

European natural history collections manage and give access to over 1.5 bn objects from the world's biodiversity heritage, covering most of the species described worldwide. These are reference objects for all the common and famous species in the world, incl. those of high economic importance and even those that have already gone extinct. Many have great cultural value as they were collected during ...
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Multilingual On-Line Translation (MOLTO)

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

MOLTO's goal is to develop a set of tools for translatingtexts between multiple languages in real time with highquality. Languages are separate modules in the tool andcan be varied; prototypes covering a majority of the EU's23 official languages will be built.As its main technique, MOLTO uses domain-specific semanticgrammars and ontology-based interlinguas. These componentsare implemented in GF (G ...
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Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact - The Rural Development Dimension (CAPRI-RD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"The Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact – the Rural Development Dimension (CAPRI-RD) aims to develop and apply an operational, Pan-European tool including all Candidate and Potential Candidate countries to analyse the regional impacts of all policy measures under CAP Pillar I and II across a wide range of economic, social and environmental indicators, aligned with the CMEF. CAPRI-RD’s ...
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"Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe. Access, coping and relevance of education for young people in European knowledge societies in comparative perspective" (GOETE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"The GOETE project will analyse the role of school in re-conceptualising education in terms of lifelong learning by combining a life course and a governance perspective. In European knowledge societies adequacy of education means a balance of individual, social and economic aspects. This is operationalised by exploring how educational institutions conceptualise and organise individual educational ...
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Baltic and Nordic Parts of the European Open Linguistic Infrastructure (META-NORD)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

The META-NORD project aims to establish an open linguistic infrastructure in the Baltic and Nordic countries.Thus the main objectives of the META-NORD project as established under Objective 6.1 are:• provide a description of the national landscape in terms of language use; language-savvy products and services, language technologies and resources; main actors; public policies and programmes; prevai ...
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Implementation of a Transeuropean Knowledge Voucher System (KVoucher)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2011,

KVoucher aims at implementing a transregional Knowledge Voucher System that will facilitate contact making and initiating first projects between SMEs from one region and so called Knowledge Institutes (KIs) from other regions in different countries. A Knowledge Voucher is a coupon that entitles SMEs to receive a certain amount of consultancy or research from knowledge-intensive organisations, so-c ...
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A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

PESI provides standardised and authoritative taxonomic information by integrating and securing Europe's taxonomically authoritative species name registers and nomenclators (name databases) that underpin the management of biodiversity in Europe.PESI defines and coordinates strategies to enhance the quality and reliability of European biodiversity information by integrating the infrastructural compo ...
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All 3D Imaging Phone (3DPHONE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

The 3DPHONE project aims to develop technologies and core applications enabling a new level of mobile 3D experience, by developing an all-3D imaging mobile phone. The aim of the project is to realise all fundamental functions of the phone i.e. media display, user interface (UI), and personal information management (PIM) applications in 3D but usable without any stereo glasses. Users will be able t ...
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Audio Visual Science Audiences (AVSA). A comparative study (AVSA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

It is proposed to analyse use and gratifications concerning science programmes in Europe comparatively by using already existing data of a collection of European Countries. Additionally focus group discussion are proposed to clarify which factors lead recipients in their judgements concerning different types of science programmes. Such a comparative analysis is only possible by ordering systematic ...
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