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International Master in Marine Biological Resources

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

The International Master in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea), is a joint Master programme organized by eight leading European universities in the field of marine sciences; Ghent University (BE), University of Pierre and Marie Curie (FR), University of the Algarve (PT), University of Oviedo (ES), Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (IE), University of the Basque Country (ES), Polytechnic Unive ...
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Tourism Research Innovation And Next Generation Learning Experience

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

The Tourism Research Innovation And Next Generation Learning Experience (TRIANGLE) Programme is a response to a wide range of contemporary sustainability challenges and opportunities highlighted in the global SD Goals 2030 such as climate change and biodiversity loss facing European tourism stakeholders, in particular the need for sustainable consumption and production in the Europe’s Natura 2000 ...
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Innovative training for Smart coastal management and Sustainable blue growth

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

In a context of rapid economic growth impacting its coastal zone, Morocco must organize a marine and coastal management plan as stipulated in the 2015 Moroccan Coastal Act. However, Morocco is facing one main challenge: to found highly qualified personnel at postgraduate level, with technical and transversal skills, fully able to implement this policy. In this purpose, this Erasmus + Capacity b ...
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Improving current barriers for controlling pharmaceutical compounds in urban wastewater treatment plants (LIFE Impetus)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Background Pharmaceutical compounds (PhCs) are emerging contaminants of environmental-health concern that, if not checked, could adversely affect drinking water sources and reuse projects, two key issues of sustainable water management. To develop water reuse and ensure the preservation of drinking water supplies in Europe, it is thus important to elimi ...
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Optimizing and Enhancing the Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing System (AtlantOS)

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

The overarching objective of AtlantOS is to achieve a transition from a loosely-coordinated set of existing ocean observing activities to a sustainable, efficient, and fit-for-purpose Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing System (IAOOS), by defining requirements and systems design, improving the readiness of observing networks and data systems, and engaging stakeholders around the Atlantic; and leav ...
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Code, Content Creation and Culture for Digital Education

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

The general objective is to overcome the lack of Open Educational Resources (OER) to help trainers and teachers to teach the basics of ICT in a way that goes beyond the simple use. The final beneficiaries targeted by the project are adult learners in non-formal education, but also students from formal education, in need of a holistic discovery of new technologies. The starting point, which motivat ...
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A Vocational and Educational Curriculum Design from a Sector Skills Alliance on Tourism

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Tourist destinations are led to adopt behaviours capable of responding to a tourism increasingly oriented toward finding authentic engaging and unique experiences. This project is placed within this framework. It aims to define a professional profile of "Destination Managers" that is capable of proposing strategies aimed at managing, enhancing and promoting destinations in an integrated perspectiv ...
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Developing skills in the field of integrated energy planning in Med Landscapes

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

The ENEPLAN project was conceived to address the lack of interdisciplinary approaches in higher education on energy planning and RES development in Mediterranean areas, by increasing the capacities of future professionals through innovative ICT-based educational approaches, able to integrate different disciplines (spatial planning, environment, engineering, landscape) and foster collaboration with ...
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Validation des compétences-clés européennes

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

Eure.K aims at producing a European Memorandum for validation, recognition and definition of certification modes of the 8 European Key Competences (EKC) from the observation and the certification of devices experiencing their evaluation and validation in partner countries. The 8 EKCs set at the 2002 Lisbon Summit are indeed considered by the EU as "essential for personal fulfillment, active citiz ...
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Interactive Mathematics by implementing a Blended-Learning model with Augmented Reality and Game books

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

The main aim of the project is to implement a blended model, explore and develop innovative approaches, student centered, for all students, including also the share of low and top achievers students, supported by ICT tools, to teaching and learning mathematics for the upper secondary education (10th to 12th grade). At the same time, teachers and students will also develop skills in information tec ...
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MIME - MOBILITY AND INCLUSION IN MULTILINGUAL EUROPE (MIME)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Using an innovative interdisciplinary approach, MIME will generate an organised body of policy-relevant propositions addressing the full range of questions raised in the call. Our aim is to identify the language policies and strategies that best combine “mobility” and “inclusion”.MIME emphasises complementarity between disciplines, and brings together researchers from sociolinguistics, political s ...
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INtegrated Spatial PlannIng, land use and soil management Research ActTION (INSPIRATION)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The aim of INSPIRATION is to adopt a funder and end-user demand-driven approach to establish and promote the adoption of the knowledge creation, transfer and implementation agenda for land use, land-use changes and soil management in the light of current and future societal challenges. Main objectives are: • Formulate, consult on and revise an end-user oriented strategic research agenda (SRA), • S ...
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Conservation of Temporary Ponds in the Southwest Coast of Portugal (LIFE Charcos)

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

Background Mediterranean temporary ponds (CTMs) are seasonal wetland habitats, subjected to extreme and unstable ecological conditions. Due to their uniqueness and scientific value, they are listed as a priority habitat for conservation in Annex I of the EU Habitats Directive. The coastal plain of southwest Portugal is a Natura 2000 (N2000) site (Costa Su ...
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Innovative ultra-BROadband ubiquitous Wireless communications through terahertz transceivers (iBROW)

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

The demand for broadband content and services has been growing at tremendous rates, and predictions indicate that wireless data-rates of multiple tens of Gbps will be required by the year 2020, essentially for short-range connectivity. Currently available wireless technology cannot support these future demands, and so there is an urgent need to develop new technology platforms that are cost and en ...
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Enhancing the employability of non-traditional students in HE

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

EMPLOY promotes the enhancement of the employability of students in higher education from a non-traditional background (both younger and adult) through improving the efficiency of transitions into the graduate labour market. With the development of a mass higher education system across Europe the student population has become more diverse by age, gender, class, ethnicity and disability. The issue ...
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E-RESPLAN - Innovative Educational Tools for Energy Planning

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

E-RESPLAN is a Strategic Partnership for Higher Education, aiming at providing young professional and experts with innovative tools in order to reinforce their interdisciplinar skills in the field of energy planning, RES development and spatial planning. Architecture and planning traditions are often not well-integrated with the recent development of new technologies in the energy field. And, on ...
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Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coasts - toolKIT (RISC-KIT)

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

"Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coasts – toolKIT (RISC-KIT) will deliver ready-to-use methods, tools and management approaches to reduce risk and increase resilience to low-frequency, high-impact hydro-meteorological events. The open-source and free-ware RISC-KIT tool kit will consist of ● a Coastal Risk Assessment Framework (CRAF) which - at the regional scale (100’s km) - can quickly asses ...
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Innovative Sustainable Business Growth at Global Level (In-Business Growth)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

"The business networks involved in the present partnership from Bulgaria, Finland, Portugal and Spain, represent mainly SMEs, with a clear prominence of the very small, so-called microenterprises, which have less than ten workers, and autonomous entrepreneurship. These micro businesses have strong growth & innovation potential as they often populate the regional RIS3 of the partner areas. The inno ...
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Demonstrating Managed Aquifer Recharge as a Solution to Water Scarcity and Drought (MARSOL)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region are facing the challenge of managing its water resources under conditions of increasing scarcity and concerns about water quality. Already, the availability of fresh water in sufficient quality and quantity is one of the major factors limiting socio economic development. Innovative water management strategies such as the storage of reclaimed water or ex ...
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Managing Impacts of Deep-seA reSource exploitation (MIDAS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The MIDAS project addresses fundamental environmental issues relating to the exploitation of deep-sea mineral and energy resources; specifically polymetallic sulphides, manganese nodules, cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts, methane hydrates and the potential mining of rare earth elements. These new industries will have significant impacts on deep-sea ecosystems, in some cases extending over hundre ...
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EH-CMap: Advanced Training on Energy Efficiency in Historic Heritage

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The proposal is for the preparation of a knowledge tool and start-up of an advanced training path on the subject of energy efficiency in historic buildings. The training process envisaged focuses on a specific question of the complex subject matter dealt with: up to what point is it possible to preserve historic-cultural characteristics while, at the same time, improving the buildings involved fro ...
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Imagine the marine bio-resources' sector for 2014-2020 (AtlanticBlueTech)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

In context of global crisis of the economy, the blue economy represents an essential stake for the future development of our maritime territories. Often considered as a resource, the ocean has also to be envisaged as a source of innovation, of growth and jobs. In this sense, marine bio-resources constitute a sector with high growth potential but still largely unexploited by businesses. These latte ...
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Showcase Technology Applicable to Maritime SMEs in the Atlantic Area (STAMAR)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The 'STAMAR' project - Showcase Technology Applicable to Maritime SMEs in the Atlantic Area - will contribute to improving the competitiveness and innovation capacity of maritime SMEs of the Atlantic Area through giving priority to technology transfer processes, particularly solutions which encourage sustainable business development and the protection of the environment. ...
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Implantable Organic Nano-Electronics (iONE-FP7)

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

The vision of iONE-FP7 is to exploit for the first time flexible organic electronics for the development and testing of Active Multifunctional Implantable Devices (AMIDs) to treat Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). The devices will (a) have long-term stability associated to high biocompatibility and safety, (b) have reduced risk of a host versus graft immune response, (c) mimic the local microenvironment f ...
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Electrokinetics across disciplines and continents: an integrated approach to finding new strategies to sustainable development (ELECTROACROSS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The socio-economic activities due to world development are promoting increasing pressures on land, creating competition and conflicts, resulting in suboptimal use of resources. Integrated planning and management of land resources is a top subject of Agenda 21 (managed by FAO), which deals with the cross-sectoral aspects of decision-making for the sustainable use and development of natural resource ...
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Technology & Design Kits for Printed-Electronics (TDK4PE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The goal of Technology & Design Kit for Printed Electronics (TDK4PE) is to set a fundamental change in the way printed electronics (PE) are designed and manufactured in Europe, with the aim of reducing costs and time-to-market by more than an order of magnitude for more complex designs than ever before by addressing thousands of transistors on a substrate.The key is to develop a methodology to ena ...
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Marine Renewable Integrated Application Platform (MARINA Platform)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

MARINA is a European project dedicated to bringing offshore renewable energy applications closer to the market by creating new infrastructures for both offshore wind and ocean energy converters. It addresses the need for creating a cost-efficient technology development basis to kick-start growth of the nascent European marine renewable energy (MRE) industry in the deep offshore – a major future gl ...
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HARVESTAtlantic

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

Identification of sustainable solutions and exchange of experiences in the development and promotion of innovation initiatives, diversification and marketing for the marine economy and resources in order to improve competitiveness in the sectors: biotechnology and nutrition, RDT of navigation and gliding technologies, halieutic industry and green maritime energy. ...
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Use of genomic and proteomic tools for the development of contaminant specific biomarkers for the environmental risk assessment of aquatic ecosystems (GENERA)

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

"The use of genomic tools is rapidly increasing in ecotoxicology, and results from transcriptomic and proteomic studies of the effects of environmental pollutants are becoming more and more available. Apart from the knowledge of the mechanisms involved in toxic processes, the aim of conducting research on genomic and proteomic level is the development of contaminant specific biomarkers for the ris ...
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MARMED

Start date: Feb 29, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Promotion and enhancement of marine residues and sub-products of several companies from the marine sector, with demonstrations of real cases (collaboration with industries as proof-of-concept) of added value and high potential of applicability of those materials (marine origin biopolymers and ceramics) in biomedical applications. also with close industrial collaboration. ...
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How will life be in 2020? (Future2020)

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

This proposal aims to raise awareness of the prominent role researchers and how their work plays in our currently every day and for the future. Bearing in mind Horizon 2020 Societal Challenges, the ERN2013 will promote and disseminate what in terms of science and innovation is being done in Portugal.The extensive and nationwide range of activities already planned and being prepared have one major ...
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NoE FlexNet - Network of Excellence for building up Knowledge for improved Systems Integration for Flexible Organic and Large Area Electronics (FOLAE) and its exploitation (FlexNet)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

In the NoE FlexNet, 17 participants from eleven European countries work together in order to support Europe in becoming a world leader in Flexible, Organic and Large Area Electronics (FOLAE). FlexNet aims at interlinking Europe's FOLAE-expertise in the domains of science, technology development, components, devices and systems integration technologies. A special emphasis will be set on the subsequ ...
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Comunidad Virtual para la generación de ideas de negocio y la consolidación empresarial a través de la creatividad (CREA NET 2 0)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

El objetivo del proyecto CREA NET 2.0 es la puesta en marcha de un sistema transnacional de apoyo a la creatividad y al trabajo en red de los emprendedores y empresas de las regiones socias que se traduzca en la identificación y el desarrollo de proyectos innovadores, así como en la creación de empresas y la generación de empleos de calidad. Este proyecto supone la continuación del proyecto CREA B ...
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CREACIÓN DE EBT E IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE FACTORES DE COMPETITIVIDAD PARA EL FORTALECIMIENTO Y CONSOLIDACIÓN DE LAS EMPRESAS (0506_TRANSEBT_5_E)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

OBJETIVOS: La creación de Empresas de Base Tecnológica a partir de la transferencia de tecnología desde los centros de investigación con la participación activa de dichos centros y de sus integrantes. Implementación de factores de competitividad en las empresas para su consolidación. Fomento de la cooperación transfronteriza como un factor de competitividad en EBT y empresas. ACCIONES: Colaboració ...
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COOPERACIÓN TRANSFRONTERIZA PARA EL DESARROLLO DE BUENAS PRÁCTICAS SANITARIAS EN ACUICULTURA MARINA (0433_BONAQUA_5_E)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

OBJETIVOS: Establecimiento de una red de cooperación científica y técnica transfronteriza Algarve-Andalucía para el desarrollo de buenas prácticas sanitarias e indicadores de calidad en acuicultura marina ACCIONES: Cooperación científico técnica para caracterizar las principales patologías presentes en la acuicultura en la región sur atlántica investigar sobre los factores que influyen en su apari ...
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Investigación y Transferencia Transfronteriza España-Portugal (0432_I2TEP_5_E)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

OBJETIVOS: Incentivar la investigación y transferencia del conocimiento a las empresas y sociedad en general en el marco transfronterizo de la Cuenca del Guadiana. Promover hábitos saludables y educación ambiental, contribuyendo a la mejora del bienestar de los ciudadanos del ámbito transfronterizo. Implantar nuevas tecnologías de comunicación de la investigación basadas en www2. ACCIONES: Colabor ...
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Knowledge Transfer Network for Prevention of Mental Diseases and Cancer in the Atlantic Area (PHARMATLANTIC)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

Marine research in the EU ranks second in the world, using remarkable state-of-the-art equipment and techniques. However, the companies that require the outcome of the research carried out by research institutions, such as pharmaceutical industry, in order to become much more competitive and productive in the EU and even on the global level are often unaware of the results of these investigations. ...
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Inter-regional network to promote sustainable development in the marine algal industry (NETALGAE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The macroalgae industry is mainly based on harvesting of natural resources of macroalgae. Worldwide macroalgae production increases by 5.7% every year, in 2008 nearly 14 mill tons of macroalgae was produced from capture and aquaculture. In Europe the production has decreased in the last 10 years. The further expansion of the industry depends on sustainable increased access to raw material, develop ...
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Mapping Atlantic Area seabed habitats for better marine management (MeshAtlantic)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

MeshAtlantic wants to promote harmonised production and use of marine habitat maps covering the Atlantic Area. To reach this goal, intends to adapt and enhance previous achievements to the area, hence bringing the region onto equal footing with northern Europe. Achievements: ...
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Science in the Streets (SiS)

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

This proposal aims to raise awareness of the prominent role researchers and their work play in our everyday life. The extensive and nationwide range of activities already planned and being prepared have one major aim: to show that researchers are ordinary people with extraordinary jobs! This will be done through direct engagement of both the general public and researchers in science awareness acti ...
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