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Impacts and risks from higher-end scenarios: Strategies for innovative solutions (IMPRESSIONS)

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

IMPRESSIONS will provide empirically-grounded, transformative science that quantifies and explains the consequences of high-end climate scenarios for both decision-makers and society. IMPRESSIONS will develop and apply a novel participatory methodology that explicitly deals with uncertainties and strong non-linear changes focussing on high-end climate change, but also including intermediate warmin ...
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SC-square - Satisfiability Checking and Symbolic Computation: uniting two communities to solve real problems (SC-square)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The use of advanced methods to solve practical and industrially relevant problems by computers has a long history. Whereas Symbolic Computation is concerned with the algorithmic determination of exact solutions to complex mathematical problems, more recent developments in the area of Satisfiability Checking tackle similar problems but with different algorithmic and technological solutions. Though ...
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Rydberg Quantum Simulators (RYSQ)

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

Quantum Simulators provide new levels of understanding of equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium properties of many-body quantum systems, one of the most challenging problems in physics. The main objective of the RYSQ project is to use Rydberg atoms for quantum simulations, because their outstanding versatility will allow us to perform a great variety of useful quantum simulations, by exploiting diffe ...
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Solar Heat Integration Network (SHINE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Large solar heating systems are decisive to cover a major part of European low temperature heat demand by solar energy and therewith to meet European policy aims. However, today only a negligible share of solar heating systems installed in Europe are large units due to manifold technical and socio-economic obstacles. The challenge of solar thermal technology and the overall objective of the propos ...
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DOKONARA

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

The aim of DOKONARA - doctoral colloquium in sustainable spatial planning - is to provide scientific debates and an interdisciplinary dialogue on ongoing dissertations, including their research questions, theoretical backgrounds and empirical designs. Submissions from PhD candidates working in sustainability dimensions of Regional Development and Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Urban and Reg ...
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Meeting of Energy Professional Skills (MEnS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

MENS is a project conceived in order to provide an enhance the NZEB skills of building managers such as engineers and architect through a series of accredited training activities developed by 9 universities and 3 market players. MENS aims: - To increase the knowledre and skills of at least 1800 building managers (engineers, architects) in NZEB design and construction, out of which 50% would be wom ...
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"Ultra thin glass membranes for advanced, adjustable and affordable quadruple glazing windows for zero-energy buildings" (MEM4WIN)

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

"Windows are critical elements to control the energy performance of buildings especially for zero-energy buildings. It is of paramount importance to develop windows which show reduced U-value, weight and costs and certain features to control and harvest energy. Such a window will have a high impact in the window industry and will reduce green house gas emissions as long as the window is affordable ...
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COMBINE: Converting Organic Matters from European urban and natural areas into storable bio-Energy (COMBINE)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The utilisation and development of environmentally friendly technologies are key factors for the achievement of the ambitious aims of EU to increase the share of renewable energies. The ener-getic utilisation of biomass has an important role. as in contrast to other renewables (wind/PV). biomass is storable and it is possible to produce storable bio-fuels. However. at present the energy productio ...
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Protein Binders for Characterisation of Human Proteome Function: Generation, Validation, Application (AFFINOMICS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The Affinomics programme aims to leverage existing efforts in Europe to generate large-scale resources of validated protein-binding molecules (‘binders’) as affinity reagents for characterisation of the human proteome and to apply them in comprehensive structural and functional analyses of protein expression, interactions and complexes. Proteome targets will be focused on five categories of inter- ...
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Sustainable Energy mAnageMent for Underground Stations (SEAM4US)

Start date: Oct 3, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Underground transportation systems are big energy consumers (e.g. 63,1 millions of kWh / year), and have significant impacts on energy consumption at a regional scale. One third of the networks' energy is required for operating the subsystems of metro stations and surroundings, such as ventilation, vertical transportation and lightning. Although a relatively small percentage of energy can be saved ...
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Sustainable Integrated Tram-Based Transport Options for Peripheral European Regions (SINTROPHER)

Start date: Oct 2, 2007, End date: Apr 29, 2014,

Develop sustainable. cost-effective solutions to improve accessibility to/from/ within low-density semi-rural peripheral regions (defined as holes within the EU Pentagon and areas outside the Pentagon. peripheral to national territories. and/or disadvantaged by poor access through rail and air hubs to central EU regions) by regional tram systems linking to high-quality multimodal interchanges at n ...
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Sustainable technologies and combined community approaches take off (STACCATO)

Start date: Nov 7, 2007, End date: Nov 6, 2012,

With the STACCATO project the three European capital cities Amsterdam, Budapest and Sofia, will demonstrate sustainable energy concepts in representative existing residential areas. Presently, the urban areas all facing technical arrears and a lack of social cohesion. Redevelopment is a unique opportunity to implement energy efficiency measures and renewable energy sources. STACCATO will result in ...
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Architectures, Materials, and One-dimensional Nanowires for Photovoltaics - Research and Applications (AMON-RA)

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

The proposed project AMON-RA (Architectures, Materials, and One-dimensional Nanowires for Photovoltaics – Research and Applications) is intended to result in a new type of solar cell, combining advanced hetero- and nano-structures with silicon photovoltaic technology. By ap-plying state-of-the-art photovoltaics design to semiconductor nanowires and nanotrees and assisted by tailor-made theoretical ...
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Smart Nanostructured Semiconductors for Energy-Saving Light Solutions (SMASH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Solid state light sources based on compound semiconductors are opening a new era in general lighting and will contribute significantly to a sustainable energy saving. For a successful and broad penetration of LEDs into the general lighting market two key factors are required: high efficiency and low cost. Two new disruptive technologies based on nanostructured semiconductors are proposed to addres ...
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Advanced affinity tools and technologies for high throughput studies of the human proteome (AffinityProteome)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

High specificity affinity reagents (‘binders’) are essential probes for proteome research, enabling the detection and localisation of multiple proteins in tissues and fluids in health and disease, through the application of binder-based technologies (affinity proteomics). This proposal links the high throughput production of quality-controlled, recombinant binding molecules of different types (ant ...
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Governing the speed of light (GOSPEL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

The GOSPEL project aims at developing new, highly effective technologies for enabling slow and fast light propagation as a tunable feature in photonic devices. In fact, controlling the speed of light offers a solution to a necessary, and often missing, functionality in broadband ICT systems: a time-delay/phase-shift line. The proposed research will address three slow and fast light device platform ...
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Landscape Education:New Opportunities for Teaching and Research in Europe III

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

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Making European Policy Popular through Challenge, Learning, Innovation, Cooperation: An experiment on the Landscape Convention

Start date: Jan 1, 2013,

E-CLIC aims to bring European policy making closer to European citizens by helping schools, universities and communities to engage in a dialogue about these policies and how they influence people’s lives. The European Landscape Convention is taken as an example, linked directly to local development issues while affecting the environment and quality of life of all Europeans. A CLIC competition will ...
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Climate-Friendly Management in European Schools

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

CLIMES is a practical learning project aiming at climate-friendly management in European Schools.By combining innovative learning approaches and instruments on curricular and extracurricular levels with state of the art management techniques the project contributes to promote transversal key competences in European school education.CLIMES is consisting of a multi-stakeholder partnership of organis ...
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Implementation of relevant European teaching contents in the studies of landscape architecture

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

Although European regulations (e.g. concerning environment, competition, or standard) have an impact on the professional work of landscape architects across Europe there are still no standards regarding the content of the European higher education of landscape architects. To assure the quality of university teaching regarding relevant European teaching contents for universities and to enhance the ...
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Partnership for the Education and Research about Responsible Living

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

PERL (Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living) is a partnership of researchers and educators, aware of the urgent need for individuals and society to significantly rethink and reorient the choices they make and the manner in which they live their lives in order to reduce the negative impacts of climate change and financial instability, ensure more just distribution of resou ...
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Good Practices in University - Enterprise Partnerships (GOODUEP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

The aim of this project is to support European universities in the development of effective and efficient UEP governance structures and practices aligned with their particular strategic plans and responsive to the knowledge-based economy requirements. The project will map different types of UEPs, develop national reports, create a set of indicators to assess and benchmark UEPs, create an analytic ...
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Motivation of elderly persons who are not used to education for an informal search for information

Mostly the persons used to education participate on a by far higher level than the average in education activities. This tendency led the partnertship to the following question: How can seniors not used to education be motivated for learning and for self contained searching for information?In this partnership experiences were gathered and exchanged with the organisation of courses in which older p ...
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COOPERATION BETWEEN HIGHER EDUCATION AND ENTERPRISES Good Practices in University - Enterprise Partnerships (GOODUEP)

Universities are playing a key role in generating the knowledge, innovation and human capital required to increase European international competitiveness in a knowledge-based economy. In order to tackle the involved challenges, universities require modern approaches towards research, innovation and knowledge transfer. One of the core strategies to increase their performance is university-enterpris ...
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Active Citizen Training Network

Informal, lifelong and everyday learning is valued as increasingly important in Europeansocieties. Informal learning is dependent on the life contexts of the learners and it isoften individualised. This means that a standardisation in terms of contents (topics),learning objectives and envisaged outcomes (competences) is nearly impossible due tothe very varied life situations and needs of the benef ...
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ENTLEARN – Research on Entrepreneurial Learning, Comparing Results with Survey of Formal and Informal Entrepreneurship Training Programmes

The ENTLEARN project aims at enhancing existing understanding of the preferred and most efficient ways of learning to be entrepreneurial. The project will further address how existing programmes are able to meet current learning needs, thus highlighting gaps in the training supply in this area. The project will result in a model European Vocational Entrepreneurship Examination Programme, supported ...
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Defining European Standards of security Staff Qualification

The project is planned for a duration of 24 months starting probably in October 2004. Main target of the project is to develop a set of criteria and a rating scale for security staff qualification (including training and experience) to provide transparency and comparability on an international level. The rating is foreseen to be the basis for reciprocal acknowledgement of national qualification un ...
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VoCTE (ICT based Vocational Communication for SMEs in Europe)

Bilingual contacts between European companies : The key to communication, the practice of language skills is a valuable business tool for companies. Aware of this challenge, the VoCTE project partners have developed distance learning modules focused on business correspondence and contacts. Available on an Internet site, the modules are currently offered in the three main European languages: Engli ...
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DUKOM - Promotion of horizontal and vertical transferability of skills for care, support and counseling in nursing, social and health formation in Europe

The project implementation was carried out in several steps. First, the field of action was described in detail and demarketed. In the next step, the target groups were defined. It has to be noted that in the elderly care sector very different professions are involved. The partners chose according to their disciplines those professionals whose curricula they knew exactly and where the implementati ...
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