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Demonstrating Remote Sensing integration in sustainable forest management (FRESh LIFE)

Start date: Sep 7, 2015, End date: Sep 6, 2019,

Background The compiling of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) indicators is usually accomplished by ground surveys. This approach, based on forest inventory techniques, ensures accurate statistical assessments of forest attributes and how they change over time. However, surveying is generally expensive and time-consuming for medium to large forest manag ...
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LIFE - OLIVE4CLIMATE - LIFE. CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION THROUGH A SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN FOR THE OLIVE OIL SECTOR (OLIVE4CLIMATE)

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

Background The olive tree is one of the most widespread agricultural tree species in the world. Some 70% of the world’s olive harvest comes from the European Union, where almost 5 million ha of land is devoted to cultivating olives.. Agriculture is particularly vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather events and faces the combined challenge of mitig ...
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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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COOPERATION OF RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES TO ADDRESS GLOBAL CHALLENGES IN THE ENVIRONMENT FIELD (COOP_PLUS)

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

The COOP+ project is motivated by the interest of several Research Infrastructures in Europe to benefit from extending international collaboration with other Research Infrastructures in their areas of expertise at global, worldwide level.The general goal of COOP+ is to strengthen the links and coordination of the ESFRI Research Infrastructures related to marine science, Arctic research and biodive ...
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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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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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Realizing the European Network in Biodosimetry (RENEB)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Creating a sustainable network in biological dosimetry that involves a large number of experienced laboratories throughout the EU will significantly improve the accident and emergency response capabilities in case of a large-scale radiological emergency. A well organised cooperated action involving EU laboratories will offer the only chance for a fast and trustworthy dose assessment urgently neede ...
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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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Strengthening the cooperation between the US and the EU in the field of environmental research infrastructures (COOPEUS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Developing world-class research infrastructures for environmental research is one of the top priorities of European authorities. This proposal brings together scientists and users being involved in Europe’s major environmental related research infrastructure projects, i.e. EISCAT, EPOS, LifeWATCH, EMSO, and ICOS, with their US counterparts that are responsible for the NSF funded projects AMISR, EA ...
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Monitoring of Animals for Feed-related Risks in the Long Term (MARLON)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

While there are many European scientific activities for each of the items related to either animal health or the occurrence of GM ingredients in animal feed, the proposed MARLON project will be unique in bringing these widely different fields of scientific expertise together for the cross-disciplinary task of developing an epidemiological model for the case-specific monitoring of potential health ...
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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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Urgent conservation actions of *Posidonia beds of Northern Latium (POSEIDONE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Background Neptune Grass, or Mediterranean tapeweed (Posidonia oceanica) is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea. The priority seagrass species forms large underwater meadows that are an important part of the marine ecosystem. However, there have been declines in its population, especially in the western Mediterranean, due to mechanical damage from trawling a ...
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Under the Etruscan sun - Environmental friendly Transport to RedUce Severe Climate change ANthropic factors (ETRUSCAN)

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

Background Rapid and efficient transportation of people is essential in modern society. However, greenhouse gas emissions from transport have continued to increase in recent years, in contrast to the emission reductions achieved in other sectors. This is largely down to the fact that transport is heavily dependant on oil and other non-renewable sources. I ...
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Sustainable production of forest regeneration materials for protection against climate change (REGEN-FOREST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"Forests play a crucial role in regulating the global climate and are also a vital resource for many countries. Forests are an important global resource that human populations depend on for wood, air quality, recreation and many other usesThe Regen-Forest project objective is to Introduce a new technology for production of forest regeneration materials built on sustainable production in a cost eff ...
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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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"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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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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Urgent conservation measures for biodiversity of Central Mediterranean Sea (Co.Me.Bi.S.)

Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Sep 30, 2009,

Background Many of the Mediterranean coastal and marine habitats of the Lazio region in central Italy and of Calabria in the south are under threat directly, or indirectly, from human activities. The ancient coastal/ marine landscapes boast a “mosaic” of rare and threatened habitats listed in the EU habitats directive. The areas boast eight coastal or ...
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MEDDMAN

Start date: Mar 31, 2006, End date: Mar 30, 2008,

Le projet veut développer un système intégré, capable dévaluer l'état de leau de surface et des ressources de la nappe phréatique dans des régions MEDOCC. Dans le cadre de préserver et améliorer la croissance économique, l'accentuation sera mise sur le développement d'instruments efficaces pour une exploitation durable de ressources d'eau. Une attention spéciale sera portée sur les effets environn ...
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Preservation of Taxus and Ilex Central Appennine beech-wood (Taxus Appennini)

Start date: Sep 1, 2003, End date: Sep 30, 2007,

Background In 2001 the municipality of Morino, a small town located in the mountains of the Abruzzo region, completed a LIFE-nature project aimed at the conservation of mixed beech forest (with common yew and holly) and the brown bear, both listed as priority species in the Habitats Directive. The project, the first to apply management experience of this ...
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Actions to preserve the NATURA 2000 sites in Alta Tuscia Viterbese (Alta Tuscia)

Start date: Sep 1, 2004, End date: Aug 31, 2007,

Background The Alta Tuscia Viterbese, in central Italy, is characterised by a volcanic landscape with a unique mosaic of valuable habitats included in seven proposed SCIs. The Rupicolous grasslands of the Alysso-Sedion albi, the semi-natural grasslands with orchids of the Festuco-Brometalia, the pseudo steppe of the Thero-Brachypodietea and the Apennine b ...
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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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SAFETY FIRST – New Competences for a Competitive European Agricultural Machinery Industry

The Safety First project focusses upon the agriculture mechanisation sector that has coped with a complex range of changes, pertaining to all levels of the agricultural growth process. Project partners will initially undergo an analysis of ‘how much and in which way’ the application of new regulations affects each profession involved in the different stages of the production process, in order to i ...
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LISTENING TO CULTURES

This project had the aim to explore innovative approaches and good practices in the area of teaching listening comprehension skills in the field of foreign language teaching and adult learning. First of all, each partner's team conducted a needs analysis survey and the overall conclusions helped all partners realize the particular expectations they had to take into consideration. The materials pro ...
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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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ALRAKIS II (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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REmoving prison HeAlth Barriers

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

The project proposal REHAB – REmoving prison HeAlth Barriers, in the framework of the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Program Grundtvig multilateral project, intends to foster a safe and rehabilitative 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 o ...
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Findhorn Foundation College - Butterfly Effect 2011

Start date: Jul 1, 2011,

Butterfly Effect 2011 brings together 30 young people and 8 group leaders from 6 countries (Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom) for two weeks (13th - 26th August 2011) to the Findhorn eco-village to experience a light-weight community-like event and to learn about sustainability whilst in close contact to nature.The main theme of the exchange is 'sustainability', a th ...
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