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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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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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ACTION PLAN ON SIS RELATED ISSUES IN EPIDEMICS AND TOTAL PANDEMICS (ASSET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

ASSET (Action plan in Science in Society in Epidemics and Total pandemics) is a 48 month Mobilisation and Mutual Learning Action Plan (MMLAP), which aims to 1) forge a partnership with complementary perspectives, knowledge and experiences to address effectively scientific and societal challenges raised by pandemics and associated crisis management; 2) explore and map SiS-related issues in global ...
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Collaborative learning for enhancing practical skills for patient-focused interventions in gait rehabilitation after orthopedic surgery

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

The Recommendation of the EU Parliament and of the Council of the Establishment of ECVET are taking place in a framework in which there is a serious need of complementarity between vocational training and higher education. Although in many specialties, computer assisted education has long been integrated into educational curriculum, in medical education, this happens sporadically, despite the g ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Youth Community-based Oral Health Learning Model

Start date: Feb 2, 2015, End date: Feb 1, 2017,

Poor oral health has a detrimental effect on youth’s quality of life, their performance at school and their success in later life. Youth who suffer from poor oral health are 12 times more likely to have restricted-activity days than those who do not. European Ministers have asserted that the needs of EU citizens must be the centre of attention in the development of high quality health related inf ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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European collaborative project on Targeted therapy in renal cell cancer: genetic and tumor-related biomarkers for response and toxicity (EuroTARGET)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Each year more than 63,000 new cases of kidney cancer are diagnosed in the European Union. Approx. 50% of all patients have metastasized renal cell cancer (mRCC) at presentation or develop metastases during follow-up. 5-year relative survival of mRCC has been extremely poor: between 5 and 10%. In the past few years, so-called targeted therapies that suppress angiogenesis have changed the clinical ...
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Genetic and environmental factors of insulin resistance syndrome and its long-term complications in immigrant Mediterranean populations (MEDIGENE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

MEDIGENE project will study genetic and environmental (G x E) determinants of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in recent immigrants in Europe by a novel approach integrating ancestry of Mediterranean populations in epidemiology, locus refining and Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS). West Mediterranean shores are place of pre-historical termini of population expansion from Southern Europe and Nort ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Project 2014-1-RO01-KA103-000195 allowed a total of 39 students to be the beneficiaries of Erasmus study mobility and a teacher to be the beneficiary of a teaching mobility corresponding to the main objectives of the project. The study mobilities allowed students to know other medical education system, to be exposed to other cultures and social conditions which contributed to both their profession ...
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Future Internet Social and Technological Alignment Research (FI-STAR)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

FI-STAR will establish early trials in the Health Care domain building on Future Internet (FI) technology leveraging on the outcomes of FI-PPP Phase 1. It will become self-sufficient after the end of the project and will continue on a sustainable business model by several partners. In order to meet the requirements of a global Health industry FI-STAR will use a fundamentally different, "reverse" c ...
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Advanced Studies on Improving Sheep Fertility by Using Artificial Means of Reproduction (SheepRep)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

Artificial insemination (AI) in livestock has made it possible to optimize reproduction efficiency. AI is undoubtedly the management technique that has most contributed to the genetic improvement of livestock in modern animal production. By comparison to the other currently available preservation methods of semen, cryopreservation is an established industry used worldwide for performing AI, as it ...
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Genetic prostate cancer variants as biomarkers of disease progression (PROMARK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in males in Europe, causing over 87,000 deaths in 2006. Early diagnosis and treatment are key factors in determining survival but screening methods based on the commonly-used PSA blood test have low specificity and result in excessive treatment of localized lesions that might never progress to symptomatic cancer. Biomarkers that help determine which of the ...
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"JOIN PHYSICISTS IN FESTIVAL (My Physics, My World)" (MYPHY)

Start date: Jun 8, 2009, End date: Jan 7, 2010,

"This project aims to reveal to the Romanian public various aspects of physicist’s life: his work, his successes, his interests, his hobbies, his serious and funny moments, and to reinforce the bond between research and civil society. By using non-formal means like exhibitions, thematic games and competitions, documentaries and movies, and by involving in these process scientists, students, childr ...
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