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Readiness of ICOS for Necessities of integrated Global Observations (RINGO)

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

The proposed project “Readiness of ICOS for Necessities of integrated Global Observations” (RINGO) aims to further development of ICOS RI and ICOS ERIC and foster its sustainability. The challenges are to further develop the readiness of ICOS RI along five principal objectives: 1. Scientific readiness. To support the further consolidation of the observational networks and enhance their quality. Th ...
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Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management (STORM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Starting from previous research experiences and tangible outcomes, STORM proposes a set of novel predictive models and improved non-invasive and non-destructive methods of survey and diagnosis, for effective prediction of environmental changes and for revealing threats and conditions that could damage cultural heritage sites. Moreover, STORM will determine how different vulnerable materials, struc ...
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Environmental Research Infrastructures Providing Shared Solutions for Science and Society (ENVRI PLUS)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

ENVRIPLUS is a cluster of research infrastructures (RIs) for Environmental and Earth System sciences, built around ESFRI roadmap and associating leading e-infrastructures and Integrating Activities together with technical specialist partners. ENVRIPLUS is driven by 3 overarching goals: 1) favoring cross-fertilization between infrastructures, 2) implementing innovative concepts and devices across R ...
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Detecting changes in essential ecosystem and biodiversity properties – towards a Biosphere Atmosphere Change Index: BACI (BACI)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The alarming rate of biodiversity loss and ecosystem transitions make it clear that new strategies are required to sustain functioning of the coupled ecological-societal system. Existing space data archives and data streams from the ESA Sentinels, offer unprecedented opportunities to provide rapid, high quality indicators necessary for informed management of key ecosystem services. Yet, it remains ...
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Development of improved perennial non-food biomass and bioproduct crops for water stressed environments (WATBIO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"The goal of WATBIO is to use the power of next generation sequencing to develop an accelerated route for producing new germplasm with enhanced drought tolerance whilst maintaining biomass productivity and quality in water scarce, marginal environments unsuitable for food crops.This will be achieved for three non-food crops (Populus, Miscanthus and Arundo), suitable for growth on water scarce, mar ...
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Targeted disease prophylaxis in European fish farming (TargetFish)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

European aquaculture production provides direct employment to 65.000 people with a turnover of 3 billion €. However, the lack of authorised veterinary medicinal products and the consequent disease outbreaks in farmed fish species costs the sector 20% of the production value. The most appropriate method for disease control, both on economical and ethical grounds, is disease prevention by vaccinatio ...
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Optimising Subsidiary Crop Applications in Rotations (OSCAR)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

There is a need to improve sustainability in farming systems particularly through soil care and improvement, but not at the expense of productivity. One approach is to focus on a comprehensive advance in conservation tillage. This will be developed from improved ways of integrating subsidiary crops (SC) as living or dead mulches or cover crops with the main crops in rotations so as to simultaneous ...
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Parasite risk assesment with integrated tools in EU fish production value chains (PARASITE)

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

Despite many efforts to ensure that only high-quality and safe products are put on the market, fish-borne parasites continue to pose risks to human health, with zoonotic infections and allergic reactions mainly following consumption of raw, lightly cooked, or marinated seafood.The PARASITE proposal is presented by a multidisciplinary consortium of 12 European and 3 Asian research institutions and ...
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Integrated non-CO2 Greenhouse gas Observing System (INGOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

InGOS will support and integrate the observing capacity of Europe for non-CO2 greenhouse gases (NCGHG: CH4, N2O, SF6, H2 and halocarbons). The emissions of these gases are very uncertain and it is unknown how future climate change will feedback into the land use coupled emissions of CH4 and N2O. The NCGHG atmospheric abundances will increase further in the future and the emissions of these gases a ...
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Zero-impact innovative technology in forest plant production (ZEPHYR)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The UN General Assembly has proclaimed 2011 as the International Year of Forests, since they play a crucial role in regulating the global climate and are also a vital resource for many countriesBy the European side, the Commission Green Paper “On forest protection and information in the EU: preparing forests for climate change” [COM(2010)66] underlines that forests serve multiple and interrelated ...
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Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network for Emerging Energy Technologies (MARINET)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Offshore Renewable Conversion systems are mostly at the pre-commercial stage of development. They comprise wave energy and tidal stream converters as well as offshore wind turbines for electrical generation. These devices require research to be undertaken at a series of scales along the path to commercialization. Each technology type is currently at a different stage of development but each one al ...
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Reinforcing Capacity Building for Defending Biodiversity in the Palestinian Territories (DEBPAL2)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The objective of DEBPAL is to reinforce the cooperation capacities of Al-Quds University, to improve its researches activities in defence and recovery of Biodiversity (including Agro-Biodiversity), in the interlinked fields of conservation and restoration as requested by the international Convention on Biological Diversity, a major commitment in the European Union main politics.The Palestinian Te ...
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Operational Global Carbon Observing System (GEOCARBON)

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

Today, countries use a wide variety of methods to monitor the carbon cycle and it is difficult to compare datafromcountry to country and to get a clear global picture. The current global observational and modelling capabilitiesallow us to produce estimates of carbon budget at different level (from local to global) but many uncertainties stillremain. Decision makers need now more than ever systemat ...
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Increasing Sustainability of European Forests: Modelling for Security Against Invasive Pests and Pathogens under Climate Change (ISEFOR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

"European forests are under unprecedented threat from the combined forces of climate change and large increases in the numbers of alien invasive pests and pathogens resulting from changes in patterns of global trade. Interactions between climate change, including likely changes in both mean temperatures and precipitation, will have serious impacts on the susceptibility of forest ecosystems to dama ...
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Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world (FUME)

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

Fire regimes result from interactions between climate, land-use and land-cover (LULC), and socioeconomic factors, among other. These changed during the last decades, particularly around the Mediterranean. Our understanding of how they affected fire regime in the past is limited. During this century temperatures, drought and heat waves will very likely increase, and rainfall decrease. These and fur ...
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An Integrated Network on Climate Change REsearch Activities on Shrubland Ecosystems (INCREASE)

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

"The network INCREASE consists of 6 infrastructures (large-scale field sites) with experimental manipulation of climate e.g night time warming and extended summer drought. Within INCREASE we will improve the technology and methodology for studies of climate change effects on European shrublands. The main objectives of INCREASE are: 1. To optimize technologies and methodologies for non-intrusive fi ...
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Greenhouse gas management in European land use systems (GHG Europe)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

The GHG-Europe project aims to improve our understanding and capacity for predicting the European terrestrial carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) budget by applying a systematic, comprehensive and integrative approach. GHG-Europe quantifies the annual to decadal variability of the carbon and GHG budgets of terrestrial ecosystems in EU27 plus Switzerland and in six data-rich European regions via data-m ...
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The terrestrial Carbon cycle under Climate Variability and Extremes – a Pan-European synthesis (CARBO-Extreme)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

The aim of this project is to achieve an improved knowledge of the terrestrial carbon cycle in response to climate variability and extremes, to represent and apply this knowledge over Europe with predictive terrestrial carbon cycle modelling, to interpret the model predictions in terms of vulnerability of the terrestrial – in particular soil – carbon pools and give according advice to EU climate a ...
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Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The ICOS project will build an infrastructure for co-ordinated, integrated, long-term high-quality observational data of the greenhouse balance of Europe and of adjacent key regions of Siberia and Africa. Consisting of a centre for co-ordination, calibration and data in conjunction with networks of atmospheric and ecosystem observations, ICOS is designed to create the scientific backbone for a bet ...
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"Biodiversity And Climate Change, A Risk Analysis" (BACCARA)

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

"1. The effect of climate change on forest biodiversity will be evaluated through better understanding of the ecological processes that shape species composition and are particularly sensitive to climate conditions. Forest species composition will correspond to the assemblage of tree species and both symbiotic and antagonistic species that can drive tree species composition. Climate conditions wil ...
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geoland2 - towards an operational GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (geoland2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

geoland2 intends to constitute a major step forward in the implementation of the GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS). The three components (Local, Continental and Global) of the LMCS are addressed. The goal of geoland2 is (i) to prepare, validate and demonstrate pre-operational service chains and products that will underpin the LMCS, and (ii) to propose and demonstrate a concrete functional o ...
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Novel tree breeding strategies (NOVELTREE)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"The challenges facing forest geneticists and tree breeders include recognition of changing demands on forests for a wider range of high value forest products and sustainability of forest ecosystems under climate change. NOVELTREE is designed to enable significant genetic improvement of tree characteristics and forest products properties to satisfy the needs (quality, quantity, sustainability, vul ...
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Coordination Action Carbon Observation System (COCOS)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

"COCOS will assess the status of harmonization of key carbon cycle variables with international partners. It will improve the interoperability of data sets that are used in global scale carbon cycle studies through joint activities between ecosystem, atmospheric and ocean bottom-up and top down observation communities. COCOS will also perform integrated regional-scale multiple constraint assessmen ...
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Environmental rehabilitation of the Natural Reserve of Tarquinia Salt-works (Tarquinia)

Start date: Jan 1, 2003, End date: Jun 30, 2006,

...oordination among the different institutions involved in the management of the protected area is further ensured by an agreement signed by the two above institutions and the University of Tuscia, which carried out the scientific studies and helped draw up the management plan. Owing to their closeness to Rome, the Tarquinia salt-marshes could become a very important place not only for migratory ...
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Bioinnovation and Entrepreneurship: a Knowledge Alliance for biotech entrepreneurship education

Start date: Oct 1, 2013,

The goal of BIOINNO - a Knowledge Alliance in biotechnology - is to develop an effective route to entrepreneurship education to ready the next generation of talents to turn ideas into action and to develop entrepreneurial capacities and mindsets.BIOINNO proposes new learning and teaching methods that rely on structured programmes to improve mobility between its partners from Industry and Academia ...
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REmoving prison HeAlth Barriers

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

...ive prison environment, through more effective communication and health education trainings among inmates and prison staff. Proposed and drafted in partnership by the SIMSPE and the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), the REHAB project aims to improve the general quality of life in prison and reduce recidivism behaviors through multi-disciplinary and cross-method trainings, where more trust and ...
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HUMERIA - Cooperation on - HUManities, Education, Research, International relations and Arts (EU / ENPI East)

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

The project HUMERIA aims at stimulating institutional cooperation and collaboration among partner members and, in particular, decision and policy-makers on strategies to enhance internationalization between EU and ENPI HEIs in the fields of HUManities, Education, Regional and International Relations, Arts and Design. The present proposal was conceived by the coordinator, Tallinn University and jo ...
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Education for Care

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

"EDU.CARE" (Education for Care / Education for Care) aims to develop an innovative model of training for adults intended for a professional who is becoming one of the main forms of assistance for the elderly: the elderly caregivers/carers/ home health aides. This phenomenon is appering mainly in Italy but also in other European countries like Spain and France. The central objective of this pilot t ...
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Strengthening the Lifelong Learning in Environmental Sciences in Russia

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

The project “Strengthening the Lifelong Learning in Environmental Sciences in Russia – STREAM” will strictly address its wider objective – contribute to the development of a national framework for lifelong learning in line with the needs of a knowledge-based society in Russia. The project strives to achieve three specific objectives:1. Setting-up a horizontally & regionally distributed network for ...
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ALRAKIS II (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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S1-L07 Align Research And Knowledge-based Innovation Systems

Start date: Jul 15, 2011,

This project places an emphasis on research and innovation, bringing opportunities to all countries in the Caucasus. The implementation of individual mobilities, with special emphasis to research initiatives, is expected to close some existing gaps in education. The overall aim of the proposal is to implement student and teaching staff exchanges respecting quality indicators while introducing a pr ...
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Creating a platform for communication between science and practice in organic food system

Title: Creating a platform for communication between science and practice in organic food system.Introduction: Organic agriculture is a system of farm management based on natural substances and processes and, therefore, contributing to environment protection, animal welfare and rural development. Since 1990 the market for organic products has been growing rapidly. Increasing demand for organic foo ...
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Improvement and Establishment of Biotechnology in Higher Education

The objective of the project is to improve Biotechnology education in the Western Balkans at bachelor and master degree level and to develop a regional network of HE institutions in this area. The specific project objectives are to restructure the curricula for new BSc/MSc studies and to establish these curricula in strategic fields covering technical, economical and managerial specialisation and ...
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European Music Archaeology Project

Start date: Jun 3, 2013,

EMAP will develop a free-to-enter multimedia touring exhibition and accompanying programme of workshops and performances which will visit ten venues in eight countries between May 2015 and November 2017. The exhibition covers the origins and evolution of European music from Prehistory to still-surviving music traditions and will be supported by a website, TV documentary, recordings and other acti ...
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