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A holistic multi-actor approach towards the design of new tomato varieties and management practices to improve yield and quality in the face of climate change (TomGEM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The world demographic growth and global climate change are major challenges for human society,hence the need to design new strategies for maintaining high crop yield in unprecedented environmental conditions.The objective of TomGEM is to design new strategies aiming to maintain high yields of fruit and vegetables at harsh temperature conditions, using tomato as a reference fleshy fruit crop.As yie ...
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Giving focus to the Cultural, Scientific and Social Dimension of EU – CELAC Relations (EULAC Focus)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

EULAC Focus addresses the whole set of topics included in the Call. It delivers a significant contribution to the improvement of EU–CELAC relations through a better understanding of the three dimensions selected by the call: cultural, scientific and social. The main objective is that of “giving focus” to these three dimensions of EU–CELAC relations, with a view to determining synergies and cross- ...
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Professionalization on Result-based Healthcare Management through Distance Education and Simulation-Based Training

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Although in Europe and North America health management has evolved together with a greater complexity and higher costs of healthcare services, in LA healthcare management has not developed accordingly. In LA, generally, those who have managerial responsibilities, do not understand that ‘managing’ means that the mission entrusted to said organizations should be fulfilled and that accounts should be ...
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Advanced Particle Phenomenology in the LHC era (LHCPHENONET)

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

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the largest and most complex single experiment ever performed in the history of mankind. The physics program of the LHC is motivated by fundamental questions about the laws of nature, such as explaining the origin of mass, understanding the early universe and the structure of space and time, unravelling the nature of dark matter and providing glimpses of ...
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PLANT food supplements: Levels of Intake, Benefit and Risk Assessment (PlantLIBRA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

Plant food supplements, or botanicals, have high acceptance by European consumers. Potentially, they can deliver significant health benefits, safely, and at relatively low costs. New regulations and EFSA guidance are also now in. However, concerns about safety, quality and efficacy of these products remain, and bottle-necks in risk and benefit assessments need to be solved. PlantLIBRA (PLANT food ...
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A network for supporting the coordination of Supercomputing research between Europe and Latin America (RISC)

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

The RISC project aims at deepening strategic R&D cooperation between Europe (EU) and Latin America (LA) in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC) by building a multinational and multi-stakeholder community that will involve a significant representation of the relevant HPC R&D EU and LA actors (researchers, policy makers, users). RISC will identify common needs, research issues and opportuni ...
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The Production of Sustainable Diesel-Miscible-Biofuels from the Residues and Wastes of Europe and Latin America (DIBANET)

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

The increasing reliance on imported diesel fuels, in addition to annual increases in the quantities of organic wastes are threats to the EU and Latin America. This project (DIBANET) will combat these threats and help to eliminate diesel imports by developing novel technologies that will allow the sustainable production of diesel miscible biofuels from wastes. It will build on the key, complementar ...
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Development of the circuits in the locust brain for the early detection and avoidance of looming objects (neural development)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Nov 29, 2012,

Looming detection is crucial for animals to efficiently respond to approaching stimuli. Extensive research has been done to characterise and understand the neural circuits underlying such capacity. The locust has been established as a preferred model because it has a pair of large and uniquely identified visual neurons, the lobula giant movement detector (LGMD) and the postsynaptic descending cont ...
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Carbon Nanotube Confinement Strategies to Develop Novel Polymer Matrix Composites (POCO)

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

Light composite materials for load bearing applications can be made using different type reinforcements and polymer matrices. Carbon nanotubes (CNT) have been studied extensively because of their exceptional mechanical and electrical properties, yet their practical and extensive use in commercial materials is missing. The utilization of CNTs as reinforcement to design novel composites is a quite o ...
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A Europe-South America Network for Climate Change Assessment and Impact Studies in La Plata Basin (CLARIS LPB)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The CLARIS LPB Project aims at predicting the regional climate change impacts on La Plata Basin (LPB) in South America, and at designing adaptation strategies for land-use, agriculture, rural development, hydropower production, river transportation, water resources and ecological systems in wetlands. In order to reach such a goal, the project has been built on the following four major thrusts. F ...
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Unraveling the molecular mechanism of nitrosative stress resistance in tuberculosis (NOstress)

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

Tuberculosis is today amongst the major worldwide health threats. Treatment failure is unfortunately becoming more usual, especially in countries lacking the long and costly treatment adapted to patients. Thus, tuberculosis causes 2 million deaths every year and latently persists in over 1 billion individuals worldwide. Current treatments are challenged by multidrug resistant strains, drug side ef ...
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Stimulate Sustainable Freight Transport Systems with Latin American countries (ENABLE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

"The primary aim of the proposed project ENABLE is to contribute to the external relations of EU with Latin American countries, specifically Argentina and Brazil, in the area of co-modal and intermodal freight transport. The project will stimulate sustainable freight transport systems with Latin American countries.In order to achieve this aim, the work plan of ENABLE entails inventories and surve ...
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COntinuous MOnitoring of Medication Overuse Headache in Europe and Latin America: development and STAndardization of an Alert and decision support System (COMOESTAS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

Appropriate delivery of quality healthcare requires constant monitoring of the patient during follow up, particularly in the presence of chronic diseases. This approach can be further improved if leading edge tools supporting diagnosis, as well as prediction, identification and monitoring of adverse events are available. COMOESTAS aims to develop an innovative ICT system that allows patients with ...
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CSO Engagement with Ecological Economics (CEECEC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

"Ecological economics (EE) and, in general, sustainability sciences make important contributions to the analyses of sustainability policies in Europe and worldwide. EE develops physical indicators and indices, provides economic valuation of environmental services and negative externalities, applies tools of multi-criteria evaluation to resource use, and promotes environmental policy instruments su ...
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International Cooperative Action on Grid Computing and Biomedical Informatics between the European Union, Latin America, the Western Balkans and North Africa (ACTION-Grid)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2010,

Topic: ACTION-Grid is a Specific International Cooperation Project on healthcare information systems based on Grid capabilities and Biomedical Informatics (BMI) between Latin America, the Western Balkans and the European Union (EU).Background: Members of the consortium have published pioneering scientific papers in Grid and BMI. They participated in the BIOINFOMED and SYMBIOMATICS studies that con ...
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E-SCIENCE GRID FACILITY FOR EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA (EELA-2)

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

EELA-2 aims to build, on the current EELA e-Infrastructure, a high capacity, production-quality, scalable Grid Facility providing round-the-clock, worldwide access to distributed computing, storage and network resources for a wide spectrum of applications from European and Latin American scientific communities. The project will provide an empowered Grid Facility with versatile services fulfilling ...
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Application of photochromic compounds to improve resolution in fluorescence microscopy up to molecular scale (PC-NANOSCOPY)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2009,

New techniques in far-field fluorescence microscopy have improved optical resolution down to several times the diffraction limit. The resolution currently achieved with these techniques is 28nm. Recently it was proposed that fluorescent reversible molecular compounds ("photoswitches") could be utilized in fluorescence microscopy, allowing, in principle, to improve the resolution up to molecular di ...
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Project for European - Latin American Cooperation and Exchange (Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Uruguay)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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S1-L16A Argentina Cooperation for International Research and Study

Start date: Jul 15, 2011,

The Partnership is submitting a proposal for a project named ARCOIRIS (ARgentina COoperation for International Research and Study) the main objective of which is to promote higher education cooperation between EU and Argentina in coherence with the EU general goal of improving the bilateral cooperation in the field of education. The specific activities aiming at the objective will be: • mobility ...
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S1-L16A EuroTANGO II

Start date: Jul 15, 2011,

The main objective of EuroTANGO II is to foster the cooperation between EU and Argentina in Higher Education, focusing on the internationalization of argentinian HEIs bearing in mind economic criteria. The focus will be on applied research and technology transfer. EuroTANGO II aims to promote economic and social development in Argentina, through the academic development of high quality human resou ...
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S1-L13A-EADICII (ARGENTINA)

Start date: Jul 15, 2010,

EADICII, counting on the sound collaboration and wide experience of its large partnership, plans 70 mobility flows from Argentina to ten EU partner universities at Doctorate, Post-Doc and Academic Staff level. The foreseen mobility flows are from Argentina to Europe only. Scholars at PhD level will move on a sandwich base or will enrol in a full doctoral programme, participating in a set of Doctor ...
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S1-L13A-EUROTANGO (ARGENTINA)

Start date: Jul 15, 2010,

The main objective of EUROTANGO is to promote higher education between EU and Argentina, through students, researches and staff mobility for the purpose of studying, teaching, training and researching, EUROTANGO's proposal strongly relies on the recognized knowledge and expertise of partners and associates in the scientific and technological fields. The foreseen activities will focus on the intern ...
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S1-L13B-MoE-A Move on Education (ARGENTINA)

Start date: Jul 15, 2010,

Seven universities from Argentina and six from Europe have committed to this project with the principal objective of hosting graduate students from the third country universities in order to train new Doctors in the area of Education Sciences as well as offer post-Doctoral studies and research to Doctors. Argentina, as well as mot of Latin American countries, has been suffering a shortage of Unive ...
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