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Soil Care for profitable and sustainable crop production in Europe (SOILCARE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

European crop production is to remain competitive while reducing environmental impacts, requiring development and uptake of effective soil improvingcropping systems. The overall aim of SOILCARE is to identify and evaluate promising soil-improving cropping systems and agronomictechniques increasing profitability and sustainability across scales in Europe. A trans-disciplinary approach will be used ...
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Plasma Antenna Technologies (PATH)

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

PATH is intended to promote a collaborative researches focused in the development of high density plasma sources implemented with the Exchange of staff personnel between the partners of the network. The research will also address transfer of knowledge and training of the researchers in the specific field of plasma sources and its applications in the telecommunication sector.High density plasma sou ...
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Promoting awareness of wildlife crime prosecution and liability for biodiversity damage in NATURA 2000 areas in Crete. (LIFE Natura Themis)

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

Background In Crete there is a lack of prosecution of wildlife crime and measures for remediation of damage to biodiversity in Natura 2000 sites. The EU, however, introduced the Environmental Liability Directive in 2014 to remediate biodiversity damage and establish wildlife crime as a separate area of prosecution. Local communities have a role to play in ...
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CIVITAS DESTINATIONS (DESTINATIONS)

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

Within the EU, and particularly following the economic crisis; tourism will be, the ‘engine for economic growth’, particularly in the underperforming Mediterranean economies; where tourism has traditionally been a dominant economic sector. The world market of tourists continues to grow and Europe has unique selling points for further tourist growth from within and outside the EU (including China). ...
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HARMONIzation and integrative analysis of regional, national and international Cohorts on primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (pSS) towards improved stratification, treatment and health policy making (HarmonicSS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

HarmonicSS vision is to create an International Network and Alliance of partners and cohorts, entrusted with the mission of addressing the unmet needs in primary Sjogren Syndrome; working together to create and maintain a platform with open standards and tools, designed to enable secure storage, governance, analytics, access control and controlled sharing of information at multiple levels along wi ...
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DevelopMent AnD application of integrated technological and management solutions FOR wasteWATER treatment and efficient reuse in agriculture tailored to the needs of Mediterranean African Countries (MADFORWATER)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

Climate change and population growth are expected to exacerbate the water crisis of Mediterranean African Countries (MACs), where agriculture accounts for 80-85% of freshwater consumption. The aim of MADFORWATER is to develop a set of integrated technological and management solutions to enhance wastewater treatment, reuse for irrigation and water efficiency in agriculture in three MACs (Tunisia, M ...
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Chemicals Regulations Enforcement & Inspections - Building Authority Capacity for REACH/CLP and SEVESO III Compliance (LIFE CHEREE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Background The SEVESO-III directive (2012/18/EU), which is aimed at preventing major accidents involving dangerous substances, entered into force in October 2015 in Cyprus and in February 2016 in Greece. However, there is still a lack of concise knowledge and information on the uses and hazardous properties of many chemicals. In addition, market surveilla ...
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Development of an Integrated Exposure – Dose Management Tool for Reduction of Particulate Matter in Air (LIFE Index-Air)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Background The health effects of air pollution have been subject of intense study in recent years. Exposure to pollutants such as airborne particulate matter (PM) has been associated with increases in mortality and hospital admissions due to respiratory and cardiovascular disease. PM is a complex mixture of microscopic particles derived from anthropogenic ...
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Food for Feed: An Innovative Process for Transforming Hotels’ Food Wastes into Animal Feed (LIFE-F4F (Food for Feed))

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2020,

Background The European Union food and drink value chain causes 17% of the EU’s direct greenhouse gas emissions and 28% of material resource use. European consumption patterns have global impacts, especially related to the consumption of animal protein and water use. In the EU, it is estimated that 90 million tonnes of food waste is produced every year, ...
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Metal Recovery from Low Grade Ores and Wastes Plus (METGROW PLUS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

METGROW+ will address and solve bottlenecks in the European raw materials supply by developing innovative metallurgical technologies for unlocking the use of potential domestic raw materials. The METGROW+ consortium has received an EIP RM Commitment status. The consortium is supported by internationally respected research institutes and universities. Many of the partners (9) are members of EIT KIC ...
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Development of a multi-stakeholder dialogue platform and Think tank to promote innovation with Nature based solutions (ThinkNature)

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

Nature-based solutions (NBS) aim to help societies to address a variety of environmental, social and economic challenges in sustainable ways. They are actions which are inspired by and supported by nature. Some involve using and enhancing existing natural solutions to challenges, while others are exploring more novel solutions, for example, based on how non-human organisms and communities cope wit ...
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Geothermal & Solar Skills in Continuous Vocational Education and Training

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

The EU's strategy for sustainable growth, Europe 2020, puts innovation and green growth at the heart of its blueprint for competitiveness. Indeed, it has set clear objectives in terms of energy sustainability, the 20-20-20 targets . Moreover, according to the EU Directive 2010/31/EU on the Energy Performance Buildings, all new buildings by the year 2020 will have to be nearly zero energy buildings ...
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Development of master curricula for natural disasters risk management in Western Balkan countries

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

The severity of natural disasters significantly affect environment, causing extensive damage. The countries of Western Balkan are exposed to a variety of natural hazards including floods, droughts, forest fires, earthquakes, and landslides. The general situation in WB countries is inadequate professional qualification and technological disciplines for education of human resources, the lack of spec ...
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IMproving PRedictions and management of hydrological EXtremes (IMPREX)

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

IMproving PRedictions and management of hydrological EXtremesFor a better anticipation on future high impact hydrological extremes disrupting safety of citizens, agricultural production, transportation, energy production and urban water supply, and overall economic productivity, prediction and foresighting capabilities and their intake in these strategic sectors need to be improved. IMPREX will im ...
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Achieving near Zero and Positive Energy Settlements in Europe using Advanced Energy Technology (ZERO-PLUS)

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

"In ZERO-PLUS, a comprehensive, cost-effective system for Net Zero Energy (NZE) settlements will be developed and implemented. The system will be composed of innovative solutions for the building envelope, for building energy generation and management, and for energy management at the settlement level. A reduction of operational energy usage to an average of 0-20 kWh/m2 per year (compared with the ...
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Next gEneration netwoRked mEdia over 4G+ infrastrUctureS

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

.... Although parts of this new S/T domain have been included within a few HEIs’ postgraduate degree curricula, they are absent from the undergraduate curricula in the majority of the respective University Departments (Informatics, Networks & Telecommunications, Computer Science, Media and Social Media, ICTs, etc.). TEI of Crete has identified this gap since 2012, taking the appropriate actions towar ...
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Smart Grids Energy management Staff (SMART GEMS)

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

Smart grid is a dynamically interactive real-time infrastructure concept that encompasses the many visions of diverse energy system stakeholders. The Smart Grid is integrating the electrical and information technologies in between any point of generation and any point of consumption. The main objective of the project is to fully analyze all aspects of smart grids targeting in the improvement of re ...
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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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Adaptation to Climate change Impacts on the Mediterranean islands' Agriculture (LIFE ADAPT2CLIMA)

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

Background Climate change constitutes one of the main global threats we have to face this century, with significant impacts expected on many sectors of society. Agriculture is one of the economic sectors that will likely be hit hardest by climate change, since it directly depends on climatic factors such as temperature, sunlight, and precipitation. In sou ...
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Industrial Applications of Marine Enzymes: Innovative screening and expression platforms to discover and use the functional protein diversity from the sea (INMARE)

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

INMARE stands for “Industrial Applications of Marine Enzymes: Innovative screening and expression platforms to discover and use the functional protein diversity from the sea”. It is a collaborative Innovation Action to streamline the pathways of discovery and industrial applications of new marine enzymes and bioactives for targeted production of fine chemicals, drugs and in environmental clean-up ...
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CARAVAN NEXT - Feed the Future: Art moving cities

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

Caravan NEXT is a European project of Social and Community Theatre (SCT) developed by a partnership of 13 interdisciplinary organizations in 11 EU countries. Caravan NEXT utilizes the work done by the previous European project Caravan Artists on the Road in order to transform it into a lasting reality with a strong EU identity starting from the research of a new type of relationship with the audie ...
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REScoop Plus

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

REScoop Plus built on the knowledge and network of the REScoop 20-20-20 project. An interesting additional observation made in the project was that members of supplying REScoops change their behaviour reducing final energy consumption and investing money to produce RESenergy. The aim of the REScoop PLUS is therefore to get a better understanding and foster this behavioural change. It will identify ...
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Optimised Energy Efficient Design Platform for Refurbishment at District Level (OptEEmAL)

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

OptEEmAL aims to develop an Optimised Energy Efficient Design Platform for refurbishment at district level, which will deliver an optimised, integrated and systemic design based on an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach for building and district retrofitting projects, reducing time delivery and uncertainties, resulting in improved solutions when compared to business-as-usual practices. This ...
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Strategic Partnership in the field of Mechatronics for innovative and smart growth of European manufacturing SMEs

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

Relevance on EU level:Manufacturing is a central pillar of the European economy – the EU manufacturing sector accounts for 2 million companies and 33 million jobs. Our challenge is to ensure that all industrial sectors make the best use of new mechatronics technologies & solutions and manage their transition towards higher value digitized products and processes. MechMate project addresses the prob ...
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International Assisted Communication for Education

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

CONTEXTInter-personal communication and international cooperation play a key role in education and, in a broader sense, in active citizenship. These opportunities should be equally available to all, promoting social inclusion. This is a concern of modern society and a key issue in European Education.However, the access to these opportunities by disabled people is constrained, in particular for dea ...
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Preventing and Remediating degradation of soils in Europe through Land Care (RECARE)

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

Although there is a large body of knowledge available on soil threats in Europe, this knowledge is fragmented and incomplete, in particular regarding the complexity and functioning of soil systems and their interaction with human activities. The main aim of RECARE is to develop effective prevention, remediation and restoration measures using an innovative trans-disciplinary approach, actively inte ...
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Waste management curricula development in partnership with public and private sector

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

The WaMPPP project wishes to address the slow progress in environment protection (Chapter 27), especially in the field of waste management. Serbia still produces excessive amounts of all kind of waste (mostly dumped in landfills) and manages hazardous waste by inappropriate means. Insufficient efforts have been made to tackle the problem, possibly hindering the Serbian accession to the EU. Low app ...
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Blended Academic International Mobility

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

International exposure during studies has a significant impact on personal and inter-personal development of students and on their employability but there are several obstacles of different kind to international mobility. Innovative teaching paradigms are required in order to facilitate international exposure and to develop transversal skills required by the labour market. Blended mobility overcom ...
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Knowledge Platform for Transferring Research and Innovation in Footwear Manufacturing

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

Knowledge 4Foot (K4F) project aims to contribute at fostering the excellence in training for footwear manufacturing by linking the three areas of education, research and business oriented innovation in order to demonstrate good practices of cooperation and to bridge the worlds of education and work. In order to achieve this aim, the project has following objectives: 1) to set-up a new Knowledge P ...
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Promoting Cultural Heritage as a Generator of Sustainable Development

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

Context / background. Over the last decades, in an era of holistic and integrative thinking for sustainable development, Cultural Heritage is gaining attention of scholars and policy makers alike as an instrument for sustainable development. Critics consider use as a threat to heritage, leading to commercialization, exploitation and destruction. The view, however, that heritage preservation occur ...
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ARTinED online: A new approach to education using the arts

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

The development of creative abilities is vital to survive. Teaching in a creative way is essential to make learning a process that all students can enjoy and benefit from. European education has a critical need to find a way to weave creativity within education settings. Teaching and learning by embedding the arts into school curriculum is the answer. As more teachers use motivation and communi ...
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The Multilingual Library for Children in Europe

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

More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis, as countries struggled to cope with the influx. Just to mention one country, Sweden, in 2015, received asylum applications in the ratio of 1,667 per 100,000 in proportion to its population (BBC news/world-europe-3413).How to deal with not only migrants’ immediate primary needs, but with integration into Eur ...
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"The ecological services, social benefits and economic value of the Ecosystem Services in Natura 2000 sites in Crete" (LIFE Natura2000ValueCrete)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Background The main threats to the Natura 2000 network sites in Crete are the destruction of coastal habitats by the development of tourism, the degradation of mountain landscape and the loss of biodiversity due to intense agriculture, abandonment of traditional farming practices and the human-related mortality of certain species. Most of these problems a ...
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Graphene-based disruptive technologies (GrapheneCore1)

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

This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CS ...
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Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 (HBP SGA1)

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

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an understanding can provide profound insights into our humanity, leading to fundamentally new computing technologies, and transforming the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders. Modern ICT brings this prospect within reach. The HBP Flagship Initiative (HBP) thus proposes a unique strategy that uses I ...
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Traffic Management for the 21st Century (TRAMAN21)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Traffic congestion on motorways is a serious threat for the economic and social life of modern societies and for the environment, which calls for drastic and radical solutions. Conventional traffic management faces limitations. During the last decade, there has been an enormous effort to develop a variety of Vehicle Automation and Communication Systems (VACS) that are expected to revolutionise the ...
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nExt generation eMergencY commuNicatiOnS (EMYNOS)

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

Current emergency systems and 112 services are based on legacy telecommunication technologies, which cannot cope with IP-based services that European citizens use every day. Some of the related limitations are the partial media support (so far, only voice calls and SMS are accepted), the lack of integration of social media, and the use of an analog modem for providing eCall services with limited d ...
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Building TRUST in Energy Performance Contracting for tertiary sector energy efficiency and sustainable energy projects in Southern European Countries (TRUST-EPC-SOUTH)

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

The overall objective of TRUST-EPC-SOUTH is to scale up investments on Energy Efficiency (EE) and other Sustainable Energy (SE) in the tertiary sector of southern European countries, with particular focus on Energy Performance Contracts (EPC) projects. This objective will be achieved through the development of an ad hoc investment standardization and benchmarking framework and supported with the o ...
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Advancing the European Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure towards ESFRI (Advance_eLTER)

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

Advance_eLTER marks a crucial step in building the distributed European Research Infrastructure of Long-Term Ecosystem Research sites and socio-ecological research platforms (eLTER RI) to provide highest quality data and services complementary to the European and global environmental RIs. The project will conduct important conceptual work and preparatory steps towards enabling European-scale inves ...
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High-End cLimate Impacts and eXtremes (HELIX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"With the target of limiting global warming to 2ºC increasingly difficult to achieve, policymakers, businesses and other decision-makers need to plan to adapt to changes in climate under higher levels of global warming. This requires coherent information on the future climate conditions, and the consequences of different adaptation actions. International negotiations on limiting global warming a ...
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