Search for European Projects

Over 40 European Projects Found

Searched on 125080 European Projects

 FINISHED 

Scaling-up Packages of Interventions for Cardiovascular disease prevention in selected sites in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa: An implementation research (SPICES Project) (SPICES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The overall research objective of the SPICES project is to implement and evaluate a comprehensive CVD prevention and control program in five settings: a rural & semi-urban community in a low-income country (Uganda), middle income (South Africa) and vulnerable groups in three high-income countries (Belgium, France and United Kingdom) as well as to identify and compare the barriers and facilitators ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe - Molecules against Gram Negative Infections (COMBACTE-MAGNET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health threat, and most troublesome is the rapid emergence and dissemination of multidrug resistant (MDR) Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter species and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. There is an unmet medical need to prevent P. aeruginosa infection in critically ill patients and to develop new antibiotics for infections caused by Gram-negative bacte ...
Read Project

 44

 FINISHED 

Translational and Transdisciplinary research in Modeling Infectious Diseases (TransMID)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

TransMID focuses on the development of novel methods to estimate key epidemiological parameters from both serological and social contact data, with the aim to significantly expand the range of public health questions that can be adequately addressed using such data. Using new statistical and mathematical theory and newly collected as well as readily available serological and social contact data (m ...
Read Project

 2

 FINISHED 

Order in one dimension: Functional hybrids of chirality-sorted carbon nanotubes (ORDERin1D)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

The hollow structure of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with a wide range of diameters forms an ideal one-dimensional host system to study restricted diameter-dependent molecular transport and to achieve unique polar molecular order. For the ORDERin1D project, I will capitalize on my recent breakthroughs in the processing, filling, chiral sorting and high-resolution spectroscopic characterization of empty ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

RECAP: Research on European Children and Adults born Preterm (RECAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

The project’s overall aim is to improve the health, development and quality of life of children and adults born very preterm (VPT, < 32 weeks of gestation) or very low birth weight (VLBW, < 1500g) – approximately 50 000 births each year in Europe – by establishing an ICT platform to integrate, harmonise and exploit the wealth of data from 20 European cohorts of VPT/VLBW children and adults and the ...
Read Project

 21

 FINISHED 

Synergising International Research Studies into the Environmental Fate and Behaviour of Toxic Organic Chemicals in the Waste Stream (INTERWASTE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The overall vision of INTERWASTE is to develop scientific understanding of issues related to environmental contamination with toxic organic chemicals (specifically flame retardants (FRs) and pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs)) arising from their presence in the waste stream. Specific research objectives include: (a) exchange of knowledge of and best practice in methods for rapid and ...
Read Project

 12

 FINISHED 

Readiness of ICOS for Necessities of integrated Global Observations (RINGO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The proposed project “Readiness of ICOS for Necessities of integrated Global Observations” (RINGO) aims to further development of ICOS RI and ICOS ERIC and foster its sustainability. The challenges are to further develop the readiness of ICOS RI along five principal objectives: 1. Scientific readiness. To support the further consolidation of the observational networks and enhance their quality. Th ...
Read Project

 26

 FINISHED 

Multidisciplinary European training network for development of personalized anti-infective medical devices combining printing technologies and antimicrobial functionality (PRINT-AID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

According to ECDC, over 4 million healthcare-associated infections in the EU cause 37,000 deaths and cost EUR 7 billion/year. Half of them are related to medical devices (i.e., catheters, implants) and 80% of these are related to bacterial biofilms. A recent EC report highlighted the medical device sector’s role in driving EU economic growth, employing 500k people in 25k companies (80% are SMEs) w ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

The Post-crisis Legitimacy of the European UnionEuropean Training Network (PLATO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Is there a crisis in the legitimacy of the European Union? That research question is timely and important. Investigating it is also an ideal way of training research leaders of tomorrow to rethink our assumptions about the study of legitimate political order. Whilst, however, the financial crisis has raised new questions about the legitimacy of the EU, existing theories of legitimacy crises are la ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Nodding Syndrome: a trans-disciplinary approach to identify the cause and decrease the incidence of river epilepsy (NSETHIO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Nodding syndrome (NS) is a neurological, incurable syndrome, currently affecting mainly children between 5 and 15 years of age in South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Since 1950, when NS was first described, its cause has remained a mystery. NS is characterized by head-nodding (an atonic form of epilepsy), often followed by clonic - tonic seizures, developmental retardation and faltering growth. In t ...
Read Project

 3

 FINISHED 

Leading International Vaccinology Education

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

REFERENCE: 566748-EPP-1-2015-1-FR-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB_LIVETITLE: Leading International Vaccinology Education, LIVEObjectiveThe Joint Master Degree Leading International Vaccinology Education (LIVE) is a master of science in Biomedical Sciences with an emphasis on employability of the graduated international students and dedicated to train the next generation of vaccinologists to fill a gap in global po ...
Read Project

 5

 FINISHED 

Mind-Bending Grammars: The dynamics of correlated multiple grammatical changes in Early Modern English writers (MindBendingGrammars)

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

Mind-Bending Grammars examines change in mental grammars of 17th century individuals across their lifespan as attested in their writings. The project treats grammar as a self-organizing network of form-meaning schemas continuously fine-tuning itself, where activating one schema may prime formally or functionally associated ones. In analyzing multiple grammar changes in healthy adults it aspires to ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Effects of phosphorus limitations on Life, Earth system and Society (IMBALANCE-P)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

P is an earthbound and finite element and the prospect of constrained access to mineable P resources has already triggered geopolitical disputes. In contrast to P, availabilities of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) to ecosystems are rapidly increasing in most areas of the globe. The resulting imminent change in the stoichiometry of available elements will have no equivalent in the Earth’s history and w ...
Read Project

 5

 FINISHED 

iABC Programme (IABC PROGRAMME)

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

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a common fatal inherited disease with a frequency of 1 in 2500 live births, affecting approximately 36,000 (0.737/10,000) people in the EU. Chronic bacterial pulmonary infection leading to an irreversible decline in lung structure and function is the main cause of mortality and morbidity in patients with CF, with more than 95% of deaths due to respiratory failure. Pseudomon ...
Read Project

 21

 FINISHED 

New Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases: “ND4ID” (ND4ID)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

Infectious diseases are a major burden to public health and the global economy, not in the least due to antimicrobial resistance. Rapid point of care (POC) in vitro diagnostics (IVD) are key tools in the effective clinical management of patients with infectious diseases. Yet there is still a large unmet clinical need for more rapid POC IVDs generating more clinically relevant, actionable informati ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe - Carbapenem Resistance (COMBACTE-CARE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2020,

Multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB): the ultimate challenge!Antibiotic resistance is a global public health concern recently elevated to the top three threats identified by the WHO, and subject of numerous national and international government activities. Although focused strategies have beneficially influenced infection rates due to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (M ...
Read Project

 23

 FINISHED 

Novel natural products for healthy ageing from Mediterranean diet and food plants of other global sources (MediHealth)

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

The main goal of the MediHealth project is to introduce a novel approach for the discovery of active agents of food plants from Mediterranean diet and other global sources to promote healthy ageing. This will be achieved through an extended and well-balanced scheme of researcher’s secondments between 5 universities and 4 enterprises from EU & Associated countries as well as 4 universities from Thi ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe (COMBACTE-NET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The emergence of Antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) is a global problem, having recently been elevated to the top three threats identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO), and subject of numerous national and international government activities, including the Trans-Atlantic Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance established by the US and EU presidencies. The estimated costs of ARB are aro ...
Read Project

 38

 FINISHED 

COllaborative Management Platform for detection and Analyses of (Re-)emerging and foodborne outbreaks in Europe (COMPARE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

COMPARE aims to harness the rapid advances in molecular technology to improve identification and mitigation of emerging infectious diseases and foodborne outbreaks. To this purpose COMPARE will establish a “One serves all” analytical framework and data exchange platform that will allow real time analysis and interpretation of sequence-based pathogen data in combination with associated data (e.g. c ...
Read Project

 32

 FINISHED 

LAND Management: Assessment, Research, Knowledge base (LANDMARK)

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

LANDMARK is a pan-European multi-actor consortium of leading academic and applied research institutes, chambers of agriculture and policy makers that will develop a coherent framework for soil management aimed at sustainable food production across Europe.The LANDMARK proposal builds on the concept that soils are a finite resource that provides a range of ecosystem services known as “soil functions ...
Read Project

 23

 FINISHED 

Empowering Citizens to TrAnsform European PubLic Administrations (CITADEL)

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

High quality public services constitute the backbone of citizens’ social welfare and are also essential to a region’s competitiveness and business entrepreneurship. Delivery of high quality public services is instrumental so that society and its economy can function. Despite this, the future provision of public services faces significant social challenges, as stated in H2020 “Understanding Europe ...
Read Project

 14

 FINISHED 

Integrated tool for empowering public authorities in the development of sustainable plans for low carbon heating and cooling (Planheat)

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

Public bodies face the lack of appropriate easy-to-use tools to support them in the definition, simulation and evaluation of suitable strategies for sustainable heating and cooling tailored to local conditions for achieving the ambitious targets set-up in their local plans. In light of this, PLANHEAT main objective is to develop and demonstrate an integrated and easy-to-use tool which will support ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 

Development of novel, high Performance hybrid TWV/GPF Automotive afteR treatment systems by raTIonAL design: substitution of PGMs and Rare earth materials (PARTIAL-PGMs)

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

To date, three way catalytic converters (TWCs) have been established as the most effective engine exhaust after-treatment system. However, TWCs not only fail to address the issue of particulate matter (PM) emissions but are also the main industrial consumer of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) mainly Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) and Rare Earth elements (REEs), with the automotive industry accounting f ...
Read Project

 14

 FINISHED 

TeCoLa - Pedagogical differentiation through telecollaboration and gaming for intercultural and content integrated language teaching

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

The TeCoLa project brings together experts in the fields of foreign language education, intercultural telecollaboration, teacher education, and technology mediated pedagogy from six countries (Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and UK). Focus is on developing and testing innovative gamified telecollaboration approaches for secondary schools that address issues of learning diversity i ...
Read Project

 7

 FINISHED 

Antwerp Consortium on the Organization of Rulemaking and Multilevel Governance in Europe

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

The establishment of the Centre of Excellence ACTORE (Antwerp Consortium on the Organization of Rulemaking and Multi-level Governance in Europe) is an excellent vehicle to support the consortium’s objectives in the area of research, teaching and outreach to the broader public. The core research, teaching and outreach revolves around the theme of rulemaking and multilevel governance in the EU. The ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Infectious Diseases teaching Europe/Africa Learning

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

ObjectivesIDEAL project will develop a joint international curriculum in Infectious Diseases in English for European undergraduate students and African students from Uganda. ContextCurrent worldwide spreading of multi-resistant bacteria, along with major recent outbreaks and massive immigration underline the need for strong updated skills in the field for all physicians involved in patients’ care. ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

Re-use of modernist buildings - Design tools for sustainable transformations.

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

The project, Re-use of modernist buildings. RMB wants to initiate an educational framework of common definitions, approaches and methodologies on a European level. It is based on existing research, educational practices and reference projects in the program countries and associated states.Demographic and climate chance has resulted in huge qualitative and quantitative challenges and demands for th ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

Audio Description: A Laboratory for the Development of a new Professional Profile

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

Despite the incessant advocacy of an inclusive society and the growing need for accessible audiovisual (AV) products, the professional figures working in the field of audio description (AD) are still few, often untrained and not well defined. Furthermore, the provision of AD – i.e. verbal descriptions illustrating the visual elements of an AV product for the blind and visually impaired community – ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

SENSE in transnational transport in the EU

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

SENSE makes transport more Social, rules better ENforceable, the sector of international transport more Sustainable and, because of the Legal Navigation App, all of this will be made Easy. The EU transport sector is a genuine transnational sector. It involves many countries, each having its own different economic, social and legal systems. If goods are transported from the Netherlands to Poland an ...
Read Project

 5

 FINISHED 

Understanding contemporary interest group politics: mobilization and strategies in multi-layered systems (iBias)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

This ERC program addresses an unsettled political science problem, namely how does the shifting of policymaking competencies to higher levels of government affect the opportunities of societal interests to seek representation. On this issue two completely different theoretical expectations exist. One the one hand, the Madisonian view entails that shifting competencies upwards is a healthy antidote ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Modulation of glycolytic flux as a new approach for treatment of atherosclerosis and plaque stabilization: a multidisciplinary study (MOGLYNET)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The mission of MoGlyNet is to define a joint doctorate educational training model in Drug Discovery and Development where Academia and Industry join their forces for:- creating a common platform of knowledge and language for early stage researchers (ESR) working in the Drug Discovery and Development area aiming to convey complementary pharma-skills- exploiting this platform to train a new generati ...
Read Project

 5

 FINISHED 

Development and Demonstration of monitoring strategies and technologies for geological disposal (Modern2020)

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

The Modern2020 project aims at providing the means for developing and implementing an effective and efficient repository operational monitoring programme, taking into account the requirements of specific national programmes. The work allows advanced national radioactive waste disposal programmes to design monitoring systems suitable for deployment when repositories start operating in the next deca ...
Read Project

 28

 FINISHED 

Between saints and celebrities. The devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe, c.1800-1950 (STIGMATICS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

By far most of the historical studies on the 'golden age' of the stigmatics have focused on medical debates and religious treatises. This project wants to move beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis in at least three ways. First of all, it will focus on the popular perception of stigmatics in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and examine how they became symbolic figures of poli ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Platform foR European Preparedness Against (Re-)emerging Epidemics (PREPARE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

Far from receding, the threats posed by infections with epidemic potential grow ever greater. Although Europe has amongst the best healthcare systems in the world, and also the world’s supreme researchers in this field, we lack co-ordination and linkage between networks that is required to respond fast to new threats. This consortium of consortia will streamline our response, using primary and sec ...
Read Project

 27

 FINISHED 

Interdisciplinary Training Network for Validation of Gram-Negative Antibacterial Targets (INTEGRATE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Antimicrobial resistance is posing a continuously-rising threat to global health. Indeed, one key recommendation from the recent “Action plan against the rising threats from Antimicrobial Resistance” report (submitted by the Commission to the European Parliament and Council (15.11.2011)) is the development of effective antimicrobials or alternatives for treatment of human and animal infections. T ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

MASSTWIN – Spreading excellence and widening participation in support of mass spectrometry and related techniques in Health, the Environment, and Food Analysis (MASSTWIN)

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

The Department of Environmental Sciences at Jožef Stefan Institute has invested in new state-of-the-the-art mass spectrometry instrumentation and related laboratory infrastructure, an important and essential technique in modern science, but must now bolster its knowledge capacity and raise its research profile through taking practical steps in training and knowledge transfer and networking activit ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

The Extracellular Matrix in Epileptogenesis (ECMED)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Over 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy and 30% are resistant to our present therapies. Epilepsy, therefore, comprises a major burden to society and so there is a pressing need for new approaches to treatment. The brain extracellular matrix (ECM) plays a critical role in governing brain excitability and function. Although research into the role of the ECM in neuronal signalling and network ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

Effects of Institutional Change on Participatory Democracy and the Involvement of Civil Society Organisations (DemocInChange)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

"DemocInChange understands the current challenges to EU integration as an opportunity to rethink the interface of civil society organisations (CSOs) and EU institutions as a basis for supranational participatory democracy. It does so by focusing on CSOs that aim to improve citizenship rights and participation for groups often marginalized in the policy-making process, more precisely by studying th ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Colouring Atoms in 3 Dimensions (COLOURATOM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

"Matter is a three dimensional (3D) agglomeration of atoms. The properties of materials are determined by the positions of the atoms, their chemical nature and the bonding between them. If we are able to determine these parameters in 3D, we will be able to provide the necessary input for predicting the properties and we can guide the synthesis and development of new nanomaterials.The aim of this p ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Understanding Nitrous Oxide Production from The Mainstream Partial Nitritation and Anammox Process (N2OPNA)

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

Sustainable nitrogen removal from wastewater is of increasing significance in the future, aiming to achieve savings of energy consumption and operational cost as well as minimized emission of greenhouse gases. Under such a context, the proposal of N2OPNA is developed to give first insights into nitrous oxide (N2O) production, a potent greenhouse gas, from the mainstream partial nitritation and Ana ...
Read Project

 1