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PORT-Cities: Integrating Sustainability (PORTIS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Port Cities can be seen as multidimensional laboratories where challenges connected with urban mobility are more complex due to the dual system of gravity centre: the city, the port, not to mention their shared hinterland.These peculiarities are at once a challenge and an opportunity, as they provide scope for planning, researching and implementing integrated mobility solutions in distinctively co ...
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Comparing the effectiveness and safety of additional low-dose glucocorticoid in treatment strategies for elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis (GLORIA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

GLORIA aims to prove that the addition of chronic low dose glucocorticoids (GC) to current antirheumatic therapy is highly cost-effective and safe in elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RA is a frequent (affecting > 2% of the elderly population), painful and disabling chronic disease with high societal costs. RA is associated with multiple comorbidities, polypharmacy and adverse event ...
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Storage4Grid

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Future energy systems will be characterized by growing shares of intermittent power generation from Renewable Energy Sources (RES) while facing increasing diffusion of Electrical Vehicles (EVs). Such scenarios are creating new challenges for efficient management and grid stability. Energy Storage Systems (ESS) will provide a valuable solutions to such challenges. The Storage4Grid (S4G) vision i ...
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Renewables in a Stable Electric Grid (RE-SERVE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Future energy systems will use renewable energy sources to minimise CO2 emissions. Currently large generators powered by fossil fuel turbines maintain the stability and quality of energy supplies through their inertia. The inertia of these generator-turbine groups gives providers a significant time window in which to react to network events. We urgently need to find ways to stabilise energy sys ...
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European Joint Doctorate in Teacher Education (EDiTE-EJD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The EDiTE joint research programme is a response to the current challenges in the complex processes of transformation of education professionals' career development. Particularly in focus is the teaching profession as central to all education systems. In the research area it is essential that typical national or regional perspective found in TE programmes are extended to include transnational pers ...
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Setting the trends in IoT education

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

In the last couple of years, the impact of the Internet has led to the development of a new sub-area of the continuously developing domain of IT: Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT refers to a structure where the Internet is connected to the physical world via ubiquitous sensors. Although it is a system still under technical and standardization development, due to its forecasted impact, it has rece ...
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Teaching Partnership Addressed to Refugees' Instances Strengthening

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

PARIS project is a Strategic Partnership made up by seven organizations located in 3 different EU countries: IT, RO, and ES. Three Universities, together with 3 no profit making organizations active in the Refugees sector will be engaged, for 36 months, in the realization of a series of innovative tools addressed to University students learning outcomes. Transversally, a profit organization locate ...
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Enhancing quality in innovative higher education about consumer awareness

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

Background of the project. Based on in-depth analysis of relevant documents and statistical data it was observed that European Union(EU) faces a major challenge in higher education and lack of innovative, interactive, stimulating and open education which develops both teachers and learners’ skills. On the other hand it can be observed, that EU priority is to increase the awareness of consumers wit ...
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ECOPOTENTIAL: IMPROVING FUTURE ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS THROUGH EARTH OBSERVATIONS (ECOPOTENTIAL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential services to human societies. Anthropogenic pressures, however, cause serious threat to ecosystems, leading to habitat degradation, increased risk of collapse and loss of ecosystem services. Knowledge-based conservation, management and restoration policies are needed to improve ecosystem benefits in face of increasing pressures. ECOPOTENTIAL makes ...
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Researches on the potential conversion of conventional fish farms into organic by establishing a model and good practice guide (ECOFISH)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

The conversion of conventional aquaculture farms in sustainable aquaculture farms help aquaculture businesses to achieve economic viability and competitiveness. Sustainable aquaculture is undoubtedly the management technique that has most contributed to support aquaculture businesses to adopt aqua-environmental measures for protection of the environment, natural resources and landscape.Aquaponics ...
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European Long-Term Ecosystem and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure (eLTER)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

A collective effort is needed to create the environmental research infrastructure for answering pressing questions in a world of rapid social, economic and environmental change.The overall aim of the eLTER project is to advance the European network of Long-Term Ecosystem Research sites and socio-ecological research platforms to provide highest quality services for multiple use of a distributed res ...
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Redesigning educational curricula and digitally-afforded collaborations to promote multimodal learning experiences

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

In “The digital world in 2030: what place for Europe,” the European Internet Foundation: Political Leadership for Network Society, and the European e-Competence Framework, which is a component of the European Union’s strategy for the development of e-Skills in the 21st century, there is an explicit call to educators to address through their curricula the growing imperative for the development of e ...
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Networked Labs for Training in Sciences and Technologies for Information and Communication (NEWTON)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

NEWTON is a large scale initiative to develop, integrate and disseminate innovative technology-enhanced learning (TEL) methods and tools, to create new or inter-connect existing state-of-the art teaching labs and to build a pan-European learning network platform that supports fast dissemination of learning content to a wide audience in a ubiquitous manner. NEWTON focuses on employing novel technol ...
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EU Fruit Network (EUFRUIT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The European Fruit Network (EUFRUIT) includes 12 countries focussed on 4 thematic areas of critical for the competiveness and innovation potential of the European Fruit sector: i) new cultivar development and evaluation; ii) minimise residues on fruit and the environment; iii) optimising storage and fruit quality; iv) sustainable production systems. EUFRUIT will coordinate and support innovation t ...
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Data Driven Dairy Decisions 4 Farmers (4D4F)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The Data Driven Dairy Decisions for Farmers (4D4F) thematic network will focus on the role which dairy animal and environmental sensors can play in collecting real time information to help make more informed decisions in dairy farming.The network will develop a Community of Practice comprised of farmers, farm advisors, technology suppliers, knowledge exchange professionals and researchers who will ...
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Drivers of Pontocaspian biodiversity RIse and DEmise (PRIDE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Since the 1930s, the unique endemic aquatic biota of the Caspian-Black Sea region is facing a biodiversity crisis as it is severely affected by anthropogenic activities such as habitat destruction, invasive species and pollution. Understanding long-term natural biotic and abiotic drivers of lake system change and biotic response to perturbations in the past 2 Ma – i.e. gradual, rapid and/or thresh ...
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Cultural Opposition: Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries (COURAGE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The project proposes both to create an electronic registry of representative online and offline, private and public collections of cultural opposition in all former socialist countries in Europe and to study the origins, uses and changing roles of these collections in their social, political and cultural contexts. We seek to further an understanding of how these (private and public, alternative an ...
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Realising an Applied Gaming Eco-system (RAGE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The EU based industry for non-leisure games (applied games) is an emerging business. As such, it´s still fragmented and needs critical mass to compete globally. Nevertheless its growth potential is widely recognised and even suggested to exceed the growth potential of the leisure games market.RAGE will help to seize these opportunities by making available 1) an interoperable set of advanced techno ...
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A New Way for New Talents in Teaching

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

Our consortium members - 15 partners from the public, academic and non-government sectors from 7 EU countries - believe there are shared structural challenges related to the teaching profession in school systems across the EU. Unless adequately addressed, these challenges might jeopardize the achievement of the ambitious EU 2020 strategy education goals. These threats include: incipient teacher sh ...
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MicroElectronics Cloud Alliance

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

mCloud Alliance brings together 18 higher education institutions (HEIs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to develop Cloud-based European infrastructure and organisation for education in microelectronics providing a range of open educational resources (OERs), remote access and sharing of educational and professional software, remote and practice-based learning facilities. Neither university ...
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Excellence in Smart Data and Services for Supporting Water Management (DATA4WATER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The objective is to enhance the S&T abilities in the field of smart, data driven e-services in water management, with focus on the widening organization. The complexity of research related to water management is extremely high and requires deep expertise in several ICT-related research domains. The dynamics of water and the role of humans in the water cycle are not well understood largely because ...
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Building an Excellency Network for Heightening Agricultural ecoNomic researChand Education in Romania (ENHANCE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The project coordinator is among Romania’s most competitive agricultural universities, yet at international level and in the agricultural economics discipline still struggles to become fully competitive. Three extremely innovative and well-known Western institutions of agricultural economics research have agreed to deliver the necessary know-how to improve this situation. Mainly four important bri ...
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Innovative Solution for enhancing social responsibility education and civic skills in creating sustainable businesses

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The 2015 Joint Report for ET 2020, {COM (2015) 408 final}, roughly underlines the needs to recalibrate the education systems to enhance social cohesions by promoting equity, active citizenship and intercultural competence within European borders. There is a strongly need to deliver innovation and entrepreneurship competences to recent graduates by making the cooperation between universities and b ...
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Radio wave propagation in heterogeneous media: implications on the electronics of Cosmic Neutrino Detectors (CosNeD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Detection of cosmic neutrinos can answer very important questions related to some extremely energetic yet unexplained astrophysical sources such as: compact binary stars, accreting black holes, supernovae etc., key elements in understanding the evolution and fate of the Universe. Moreover, these particles carry the highestenergies per particle known to man, impossible to achieve in any present or ...
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Strategic support on strengthening the quality assurance structures at the private higher education institutions in Albania

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

Considering the problems identified in the project rationale, and including data from primary research from the Albanian partners, the project concept was conceived with sufficient scope to target real needs gaps identified, without being un-attainable. It is quite obvious that private HEIs in Albania are seeking to improve their quality assurance system and processes. And also the rest of the sta ...
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Circular €conomy Digital Training Toolbox to Foster Innovative Green Entrepreneurs

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Oct 2, 2018,

Context/background of project; The Eng@ge project is motivated by the problem that the vast use of resources used by mankind is growing due to global population growth and increasing living standards. Although Europe leads the world in recycling, from 2.6 billion tonnes of end-of-life waste, only 40% is recycled, composted or reused. This can be improved through a 'Circular Economy (CE)' approa ...
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Preparing Primary Teachers to Lead Inclusive Learning

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Oct 2, 2018,

"Preparing primary teachers to lead inclusive learning" (PRETTi) is planned as a 24 months project that combines the efforts of 7 organizations from 4 European countries with the aim to equip primary education school teachers to participate actively in fostering inclusive education and decreasing learning outcomes' disparities. Our main objective is to equip the target group with skills and compet ...
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Business and Competitive Intelligence for Entrepreneurship

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The project “Business and Competitive Intelligence for Entrepreneurship” (CIEN) creates a network of universities in Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and France, aimed at developing knowledge, skills and competences in the field of business and competitive intelligence (BI and CI). The project develops curricula for short-term and long-term programmes in this field, to be implemented in partner universit ...
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European Training Platform for Continuing Professional Development of Dental Hygienists

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

1. Background Oral health is a determinant factor for quality of life, essential for well-being, and an integral part of general health. According to the Council of European Chief Dental Officers, in the EU, the socio-economic burden of oral diseases is considerable: they affect the majority of school-aged children and adults and account for 5% of public health spending. Costs of traditional curat ...
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VOX early MUS

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

VOX early MUS aims to improve the quality and relevance of higher music education through creating a joint master program on vocal early music small ensembles, at the excellency level. Under this frame, prestigious teachers, students and professionals from European conservatories and potential employment institutions will gather in order to exchange good practices on innovative methods and approa ...
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Improving the protection and wellbeing of children in Europe: enhancing the curriculum

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

... represent key institutions for teaching and research in child welfare and protection in the respective partner organisations: Chisinau Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University Univerzitet U Beogradu Universitatea Din Bucuresti University of Tirana University of Prishtina Nov Bulgarski Universitet Description of activities The project will achieve the goal of creating a suite of core modules for ...
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Electronics for the Beyond Silicon Era

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

The last 20 years the scientific and the business community have launched a gigantic effort towards the introduction of new materials and technologies that are envisioned to replace silicon technologies in many daily life’s applications. This global effort has been inspired by: (1) the demonstrated and recently published saturation of Moore’s law. This has set a limit in the number of transistors ...
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Laboratory for Policies and Practices of Social Development in Higher Education

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

Context-background: The financial and economic crisis is currently directly or indirectly affecting the middle and lower classes, with controversial policies for reducing the fiscal deficit, which have meant, for example, a rise in the cost of access to higher levels of training, creating in some European countries, newly excluded groups from Higher Education (HE). Inequalities in training for rea ...
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Environmental learning innovation for more knowledge and better jobs

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

At the global level it is already known our dependence on a healthy environment and the fact that environmental problems go over national and regional borders. To achieve this aim we need adequate training and access to higher and actual skills through better education and training systems. Mutual learning in field of environmental engineering between important and experimented actors in European ...
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TecCOMFrame – A Joint European Academic Competence Framework and Curricula for the Training of Technical Communicators

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

What is Technical Communication (TC) and why is it important? For the safe and efficient use of products – whether devices, machines, software, entire production plants or service provider products – users require information. The manufacturers or providers of the products are obligated to make this information available across the entire product life cycle in a suitable media format. The creation ...
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A Digital Training Toolbox for Fostering European Experts in Welding Technologies

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

The main objective of the eu-WELD project is to develop a qualification according to the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) based on the continuous requirements on the labor market. The project aims at identifying the needs of the fields that use welded structures concerning the expert welder’s skills and knowledge that are necessary to meet the requirements related to the execution of welde ...
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Training in 3D Printing To Foster EU Innovation & Creativity

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

3D printing (3D-P) has a large effect on creativity and innovation and it has identified by EU as one of the technologies that will boost the development of future products and services. The use of 3D printing in the European industry is growing rapidly, creating new jobs that requires new skills and qualifications. As the development of these skills is not commonly supported by VET programs, ther ...
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Agropuzzle 3.

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

The project called Agropuzzle 3 is a successor of the two successful projects in the branch of farming. This project has been aimed to small family farms having a story. It allows us to enter in between the fields of rural development, agro-business, management of agriculture and environmental education. This project is aimed at exchange of experiences as well as increase of practical self-confide ...
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Enhancing ecoSysteM sERvices mApping for poLicy and Decision mAking (ESMERALDA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

Mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services (ES) are core to the EU Biodiversity (BD) Strategy. They are essential if we are to make informed decisions. Action 5 sets the requirement for an EU-wide knowledge base designed to be: a primary data source for developing Europe’s green infrastructure; resource to identify areas for ecosystem restoration; and, a baseline against which the goa ...
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LV DC microgrids for evolved energy communities (DCNextEve)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Microgrids are an important concept in the emerging power industry field. They are widely recognized as an innovative eco-system when it comes to a flexible and reliable option for the integration of distributed energy renewable resources (DER). The research on direct current (DC) power distribution systems is taking ground especially for applications where the end-use loads are natively DC (e.g. ...
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