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The Sign Hub: preserving, researching and fostering the linguistic, historical and cultural heritage of European Deaf signing communities with an integral resource (SIGN-HUB)

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

SIGN-HUB aims to provide the first comprehensive response to the societal and scientific challenge resulting from generalized neglect of the cultural and linguistic identity of signing Deaf communities in Europe. It will provide an innovative and inclusive resource hub for the linguistic, historical and cultural documentation of the Deaf communities' heritage and for sign language assessment in cl ...
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REsources from URban BIo-waSte (RES URBIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

RES URBIS aims at making it possible to convert several types of urban bio-waste into valuable bio-based products, in an integrated single biowaste biorefinery and by using one main technology chain. This goal will be pursued through: - collection and analysis of data on urban bio-waste production and present management systems in four territorial clusters that have been selected in different cou ...
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Evaluation des compétences en intercompréhension: réception et interactions plurilingues

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

The development of multilingualism is one of the priorities repeatedly reaffirmed by the European Union. In connection with this language policy, many works and achievements have emerged around the notion of plurilingual and intercultural competence. The development of this competence is one of the first objectives of the Common European Framework for Languages, which is currently the basis for th ...
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Gender Equality Plans for Information Sciences and Technology Research Institutions (EQUAL-IST)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

EQUAL-IST aims at introducing structural changes to enhance gender equality within Information Systems and Technology Research institutions, which have been demonstrated to be among the research sectors most affected by gender inequalities at all levels. The project aims at supporting seven RPOs from Northern, Southern and Central European countries plus a CSI country, in developing and implementi ...
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Smart Manufacturing for EU Growth and Prosperity (MAKERS)

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

MAKERS will bring together leaders from business, academia and policy to study issues related to the drivers and dynamics of sustaining the competitiveness of EU manufacturing sectors. The project’s innovative research, training and mobility activities will address key concerns related to the historic opportunity for the EU to lead a manufacturing renaissance that not only upgrades existing manufa ...
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NANOmaterials for the REStoration of works of ART (NANORESTART)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Currently there is a lack of methodologies for the conservation of modern and contemporary artworks, many of which will not be accessible in very short time due to extremely fast degradation processes. The challenge of NANORESTART (NANOmaterials for the REStoration of works of ART) will be to address this issue within a new framework with respect to the state of the art of conservation science. NA ...
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Boosting entrepreneuriship through intergenerational exchange

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

BE THE CHANGE wants to develop a methodology capable to promote entrepreneurship competences and skills, through intergenerational learning, based on non-formal and informal education approach, with the goal to trigger entrepreneurial attitude among NEETs by the sharing of knowledge with older people. Moreover the project wants to provide guidelines and recommendation on how to valorize, evaluate ...
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Habitat 1150* (Coastal lagoon) recovery by SEagrass RESTOration. A new strategic approach to meet HD & WFD objectives (LIFE-SeResto)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Background The project will be implemented in the Venetian Lagoon, which is the biggest transitional environment in Europe. Priority habitat no. 1150* (Coastal lagoons) covers an area of around 3 660 ha in the northern part of the lagoon and sea grass meadows play a crucial role in its preservation, supporting numerous biologic communities that characteri ...
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Development of Systemic Packages for Deep Energy Renovation of Residential and Tertiary Buildings including Envelope and Systems (INSPIRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Most of the energy consumption in Europe is due to heating and cooling used for domestic, tertiary and industrial purposes; This energy is largely produced by directly burning fossil fuels with a negative environmental impact. RES directive and the SET Plan focuses its attention on the use of RES to drive systems for heating and cooling in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the dependenc ...
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SYstemic Risk TOmography: Signals, Measurements, Transmission Channels, and Policy Interventions (SYRTO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

During the second half of 2011 sovereign and banking risks increased in the Eurozone in an environment of weakening macroeconomic growth prospects. Contagion effects have become substantial also accelerated by the interplay between vulnerability of public finances and financial sector. Furthermore, bank funding pressures increased markedly thus feeding the fear of the Euro crash.The SYRTO project ...
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Managing Risks of Nanoparticles (MARINA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

While there are standard procedures for product life cycle analysis, exposure, hazard, and risk assessment for traditional chemicals, is not yet clear how these procedures need to be modified to address all the novel properties of nanomaterials. There is a need to develop specific reference methods for all the main steps in managing the potential risk of ENM. The aim of MARINA is to develop such ...
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Evaluating Policies for Sustainable Energy Investments: towards an integrated approach on national and international stage (EPSEI)

Start date: Apr 15, 2011, End date: Apr 14, 2015,

Fundamental trends in the European Union and the world at large provide an increasingly important policy agenda for financing sustainable energy in terms of energy efficiency, innovation in energy exploitation and development of renewable resources. The long-range forecasts for investments and energy market are determined by highly interconnected environmental, geological and technological researc ...
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Multinational Advancement of Research Infrastructures on Ageing (SHARE_M4)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

This proposal includes all tasks that are essential to maintain the European added value of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and to keep the 16 national surveys well integrated. It complements the national financing mode of data collection as result of the ESFRI process by keeping its centrifugal forces in bounds. It will keep up our excellence in service provision as ...
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TRANS2CARE - Transregional Network for Innovation and Technology Transfer to Improve Health Care (TRANS2CARE)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The project Trans2Care involves and integrates the expertise of 13 institutes of research, training, health care and technology transfer. It seeks to establish a permanent two-way flow of knowledge transfer between the partners, industrial companies and other stakeholders, aimed at establishing a system that can generate innovative products and services to public health, in particular for the prev ...
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Raised to be diverse (EDUKA)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The project aims to promote intercultural values ​​as a foundation to establish and develop relations in multi-ethnic and multi-lingual society Expected Results: 80 cross-border workshops; 110 informative lectures, 1 web site; ...
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North EAst Researchers’ Night - NEAR (NEAR)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"The NEAR (Noth EAst Researchers’ Night) project aims to bring the researchers closer to the public at large.The overall concept of the project is based on the idea of researchers as storytellers giving them the unique opportunity to disclose to everybody the benefits of research, but also themselves and their own story. The storytelling will directly involve the public in a creative and informal ...
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Valorisation of food waste to biogas (VALORGAS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"Food waste constitutes around 20% of the domestic waste stream in the EU, with approximately equal quantities arising from food manufacture and catering outlets: if food wastes from agro- and food industries are included an estimated total of 200 Mtonnes/year is available, at around 30% organic dry matter (ODM). Because of the high water content of this material, energy can only effectively be ga ...
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Knowledge-based Sustainable Management for Europe's Seas (KnowSeas)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Europe’s four regional seas (Baltic, Black, Mediterranean and NE Atlantic) have suffered severe environmental degradation due to human pressure. Existing measures to manage pressures have proven inadequate and the EC has responded by proposing a new policy (Maritime Strategy Blue Book) and environmental legislation (Marine Strategy Directive), both currently close to adoption. These instruments re ...
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Co-generation of competitive knowledge among universities and SMEs (KNOW US)

Start date: Jun 30, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

The project KNOW US plans to increase the competitiveness of SMEs in strategic field on the cross-border area between Italy and Slovenia, supporting the new knowledge generation, also in synergic collaboration with enterprises associations, science and technology parks, universities and local authorities, in order to start a way of innovation in sustainability. ...
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Veneto Researchers' Night 2012 (VenetoNight 2012)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

Built on the successful experiences of Researchers’Night in Venice 2010 and Researchers’Night in Veneto 2011, VenetoNight 2012 will ensure a continuity of the event in Veneto Region, in order to reinforce the impact of the past two editions. 2010 and 2011 Researchers’ Nights created an expectation in the public that science is fun and accessible to everyone, regardless of age and scientific backgr ...
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Action for the Science of complex SYtems for Socially intelligent icT (ASSYST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Description ASSYST will coordinate research around the call Science of complex systems for socially intelligent ICT (COSI-ICT) in the context of the wider science of complex systems (CS).ASSYST will make Complex Systems science and the potential of COSI-ICT better understood by scientific policy makers and funders at national and internation ...
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Veneto Researchers' Night (VENight 2)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

On the wave of the success of the 2010 “Researchers’ Night in Venice”, other two extraordinary cities of the Veneto region, Padua and Verona, will join the 2011 “Veneto Researchers’ Night”. Venice, Padua and Verona host four of the most prestigious Italian universities together with the research centres, companies and local institutions that will be part of the project’s consortium.On 23rd Septemb ...
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Beyond Features: Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition (SIMBAD)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

Traditional pattern recognition techniques are centered around the notion of "feature". According to this view, the objects to be classified are represented in terms of properties that are intrinsic to the object itself. Hence, a typical pattern recognition system makes its decisions by simply looking at one or more feature vectors provided as input. The strength of this approach is that it can le ...
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Longitudinal Enhancement and Access imProvement of the SHARE infrastructure (SHARE_LEAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

Population ageing is among the most pressing challenges of the 21st century in Europe. Addressing this challenge scientifically demands an infrastructure of micro data of the changing health, economic and social living conditions of individuals as they go through the ageing process. SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, is an infrastructure of multidisciplinary, longitudina ...
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Venice Researchers' Night (VENIGHT)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2010,

"The 2010 Researchers' night VENIGHT aims to bring researchers face-to-face with the public at large, stressing the ""human face"" of the researchers and their common interests, passions, hobbies problems with the ordinary peopleIn the most beautiful city of Venice, in the historical centre, a broad and varied programme of activities will be offered, addressing all categories of public at large re ...
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Upgrading the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe – preparatory phase (SHARE-PREP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) has been selected by the ESFRI roadmap process as one of the 35 crucial pillars of the European Research Area. This project will prepare a major upgrade of SHARE for all 27 EU members plus associated Switzerland and Israel during the decade 2010-2020. SHARE builds an infrastructure of micro data necessary to understand individual and so ...
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Filtering of Asbestos fibres in Leachate from hazardous waste Landfills (FALL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2003, End date: Jan 1, 2007,

Background Since July 2002, all waste containing asbestos has been classified as dangerous material. In 2005 this category of mineral was banned entirely across the European Union. This has resulted in an increased load of dangerous waste containing asbestos. The appropriate disposal of asbestos is problematic, and at the time of the project, there was no ...
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Whole Europe beyond Borders (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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Eurodoctorate - a Framework for a Third Cycle Qualification in Chemistry

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

In order to be fully aligned with the European Higher Education Area overarching framework for qualifications, third cycle degree programmes need to be stuctured and transparent, while avoiding overregulation. The European Chemistry Thematic Network Association, a non-profit body including over 120 member institutions coming from thirty different European countries, has been successful in implemen ...
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Institutionalising EU-Korea Cooperation

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

This Project implements exchange and joint academic programmes that will both enrich scholarly activity at consortium institutions and contribute to strengthening EU-Korea relations. Emphasis is on forging a close relationship with research institutions and major businesses through the establishment of internship programmes, special lectures by high-level invited guests, and on-site visitation at ...
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EUROPEAN CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION NETWORK

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

This TN project brings together within a single network all actors in HE in chemistry and chemical engineering in Europe. There are schools, universities, industries, national chemical societies, and accreditation bodies. The project brings all these actors together to collaborate in the development of a knowledge based economy, specifically in chemistry and chemical engineering. The project:- wil ...
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Multicultural Interdisciplinary Handbook: tools for learning history and geography in a multicultural perspective.

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

Despite official educational guidelines, improved linguistic skills have been limited in all partner countries due to cuts in their national budgets. As a consequence CLIL experiences have been lessened, to the sole benefit of those involving English. Another reason for this project resides in the difficulty in modifying the guidelines of national programmes, that are often short-sighted as far a ...
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Dual Undergraduate Degree in International Economics and Modern Languages / Economics and Management

Start date: Sep 1, 2009,

This project proposes a dual degree program in International Economics and Modem Languages -Economics and Managementbetween the College of Economics of the University of Venice-Са' Fosean and the College of Arts and Sciences and the AndrewYoung School of Policy Studies of the Georgia State University, The project also ¡nvoives another consortium partner {theUniversité de Versailles-San Quentin), w ...
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European Master for European Teacher Training

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

The EMETT project is designed to provide a structured and systematic contribution to the growing need of innovative teacher training as well as professionalisation of the existing teacher workforce by updating their skills and competences and bringing them in line with our society learning, skills and competence needs in the different areas of their professional activities like ICT, and the teache ...
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European CLil in Development: A Primary Phase Consortium

Research into second language learning indicates the benefits of introducing languagesto children at an early age. Adopting a CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning)approach has the potential to deepen children’s cultural understanding and offer themauthentic language learning opportunities.An initial needs assessment in five countries identified support for teacher educatorsworking with colle ...
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I-MOVE (Impacts Monitoring Of Vocational training in Europe) - Impact of Continuing Training on Companies and Workers concerning Training Needs Analysis, Resource Management, Training Process and Certification

The project will study and analyse four key factors relating to the impact and effectiveness of continuing learning, namely, the structure and role of training needs analysis; models of resource management for continuing training; practical approaches and conditions of learning & training and the certification of skills & recognition of non-formal learning. The four key factors are recognised as i ...
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Building CLIMate change ADAPTation capacity in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia-CLIMADAPT

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

Climate change is one of the most important issues facing society today in the Mediterranean, and in many parts of the world. Given the trans-boundary nature of this phenomenon, a regional approach is necessary to holistically address the issue. Training of local professionals in the field of climate change management is therefore a priority for the countries so that they can continue to meet the ...
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