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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 ...
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CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN FORMAL AND INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE BALKANS (INFORM)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

"Southeast Europe has seen a century of continuous transformation and “transition” – the disappearance and emergence of states, political and legal systems, ideologies, institutions, and social classes. This has been accompanied by a stability of social practices resistant to change. Shaken by radically changing ideological and legal structures, citizens rely on customary and informal social netwo ...
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COmmunity Nurse Supporting Elderly iN a changing SOciety (CO.N.S.E.N.SO)

Start date: Dec 16, 2015, End date: Dec 15, 2018,

Description (EN): European population’s ageing challenges health and social services. Cooperation in several welfare sectors is required, since the demographic change involves both health and social issues. CO.N.S.E.N.SO project accepts the challenge by developing a care model that puts the elderly at the centre of health and social services. It builds on the pivotal role of the Fam ...
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Social Protection Innovative Investment in Long Term Care (SPRINT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

SPRINT project intends to give meaning to the concept of social investment as applied to long-term care provision. Its objective is to articulate in more detail the aspirations of the Social Investment Programme, to provide a means for assessing the social costs and benefits of various ways of providing long-term care for the frail elderly, and to present examples of approaches that do indeed, fa ...
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Come in!

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Our non-profit organization is located in Třinec and was founded in 2003. The town of Třinec is situated on borders with Poland, in the north-eastern part of the Czech Republic. Our region is multicultural and it is influenced by heavy manufacturing and rich history.We work in three different towns of this region.Bunkr o.p.s. focuses on chidren and young people and their families. We concentrate e ...
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Serve. Experience. Learn

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

People living in social exclusion, children living at risk or foster houses, social isolation of people and children with mental disabilities, limited possibilities of old people’s communities, intolerance among different national minorities, stray animals – these are some of the many severe and painful social problems in a nowadays Lithuanian society. Modern society of ours has created many forms ...
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European Research Infrastructures for Poverty Related Diseases (EURIPRED)

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

HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria alone account for more than six million deaths worldwide every year. Despite substantial efforts made in recent years, Poverty Related Diseases are still spreading. New therapeutic interventions are therefore urgently required to combat Poverty Related Diseases. The existence of a well-developed HIV/TB/Malaria infrastructure presents a prime opportunity to a ...
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Social & Sustainable Fashion Entrepreneurs

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

‘SoFE’ stands for ‘Social and Sustainable Fashion Entrepreneurs’ it is a pedagogical training programme in the fashion industry addressing the biggest challenges of the sector and some of the most burning issues of societies today. These being the protection of the environment, the work integration of young unemployed people and the return of the production of the fashion industry back to Europe. ...
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GENDERED - Pour une approche intégrée de l'égalité dans les projets et organisations de jeunesse

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

The GENDERED project (Gather - Explore - Nurture - Deconstruct - Experiment - Raise awareness - Empower - Disseminate) has been developed in the framework of a Partnership Building Activity that took place in October 2015 in Armenia. Besides ParticipAction, a number of non-profit organisations have expressed their interest in engaging themselves in a global reflection on gender equality within the ...
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LEACHE – Europa más cerca

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

The Department for Education of the Government of Navarra is responsible for establishing the general conditions and developing general aspects of education in this Spanish autonomous region. In this context, a new structure has been created in the Vocational Training Service in order to provide assistance for the internationalization of VET institutions. These measures try to reach the following ...
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Social Enterprise as Force for more Inclusive and Innovative Societies (seforïs) (seforis)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The “seforïs” research project seeks to understand the potential of social enterprise in the EU and beyond to improve social inclusiveness of society through greater stakeholder engagement, promotion of civic capitalism and changes to social service provision through a) investigation of key processes within social enterprises for delivering inclusion and innovation, including organisation and gove ...
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EVS NEW GENERATION

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

TRANSIn this project we will host youngsters from diferent countries as Greece, Turkey or Palestine, for a period of 3 months to work with youth. people. WE would like to give them the opportunity due to geographical obstacles because they are not from an European Union country.TRANS Association aims, from the most absolute political and religious independence, to develop programs and activities ...
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Youth Exchange in International Volunteer for Educational Project

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The Project "Youth Exchange in International Volunteer for Educational Project" (YEINVEP2.0) is the second phase of the long-term INVEP 2.0 aims to promote youth volunteering in educational activities . As part of the project will take place in Cosenza experience of youth exchange from August 26 to September 3, 2016 with the participation of 36 young volunteers from 6 different Countries: Spain, I ...
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“Social Diplomacy –mind mapping opportunities”

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Historically, young people have faced social exclusion, and the recent economic downturn has prompted high unemployment, which particularly affects the younger generation. However, some disadvantaged groups of young people face exclusion in the longer term for reasons beyond the current crisis. Remaining outside the global labor market has far-reaching consequences – not solely economic. These inc ...
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Euro Youth Citizenship

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

... although young, is composed by skilled and mature elements, and we all aim to promote social development and youth empowerment. Taking into account our community, multiculturalism is only visible in university life, in specific times and without social structure and proximity. So, youth outside superior studies are isolated from this potential intercultural dialogue and tend to promote xenophobic ...
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A Basic Approach for Disabled Students (Temel Engelli Yaklaşımı 101)

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Jun 29, 2016,

We, as Ankara University EU youth programme office assistant willing to run a project, based on ‘approaching disadvantaged young’s problems’. By being awared of many difficulties they face in their lives that we can’t even realize what they are. Besides, to provide enough knowledge for youth when they meet with any disabled person in the daily life a youth exchange will be done. Working on decr ...
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Development of NEXT GENeration cost efficient automotive CATalysts (NEXT-GEN-CAT)

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

The main objective of NEXTGENCAT proposal is the development of novel eco-friendly nano-structured automotive catalysts utilizing transition metal nanoparticles (Cu, Ni, Co Zn, Fe etc) that can partially or completely replace the PGMs. Based on nanotechnology, low cost nanoparticles will be incorporated into different substrates, including advanced ceramics (SiO2, perovskite etc) and silicon carbi ...
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INVEP 2.0 taking off seminar

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The INVEP 2.0 project( INternational Volunteer in Educational Projects) is a long term project that consists of different stages. The first step starts with the INVEP 2.0 training seminar that will gather together 26 young people from Turkey, Spain, Jordan, Palestine, Italy and Greece to learn how to act as trainers for fostering and promoting volunteering in educational projects with children and ...
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CRossborder INventory of Degraded Land - CRING

Start date: Dec 2, 2013, End date: Oct 1, 2015,

Creating premises for improving the environmental quality in cross-border area by making available the technical support for ecological reconstruction of degraded lands. Expected Results: A complete cross border inventory of t ...
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ICT Transfer Concept for Adaptation, Dissemination and Local Exploitation of European Research Results in Central Asia"s Countries (eINTERASIA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The eINTERASIA project is aimed at supporting an international cooperation with Developing Economies of Central Asia by creating an innovative ICT Transfer Concept and business modelfor adaptation, dissemination and local exploitation of EU research results.Geographical region of Central Asia which is of great importance to the EU as a bridge to China, Afganistan, Vietnam and the Middle East is s ...
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Genetic and Epigenetic Networks in Cognitive Dysfunction (GENCODYS)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Mutations in about 400 different genes have been associated with Cognitive Disorders (CD), such as mental retardation, autism, neurodegenerative disorders, and psychiatric disorders. Whereas CD impose a major medical and socio-economical problem, there are no systematic studies that aim to provide insight into common mechanisms in CD. We propose a systems biology approach to gain insight into comm ...
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Sustainable Urbanisation in China : Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mega-trends towards 2050 (URBACHINA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"""Sustainable Urbanisation in China : Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mega-trends towards 2050 (URBACHINA) combines the knowledge and expertise from a number of different disciplines to provide new and innovative insights and scenarios that can be used guide urbanization in China over the next 40 years. A key strength of the proposal is the use of 'thematic pairs' of European and Chine ...
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Learning Lab for Accessibility in Built Environment

Start date: Jan 18, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Objective of the projectThe objective of the project was to improve accessibility in built environment increasing the possibilities for disabled and elderly people to manage in their daily activities and opportunities for social participation. Main activities• Survey of the accessibility competence in target areas.• Planning and implementing education modules for accessibility in built environment ...
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Development of disease prevention and health promotion in two Karelias 2013-2014 (HEALTH IN FOCUS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Objective of the projectOverall objective of the action is to increase health and well-being of people and to narrow the health gap between socioeconomic groups in the Republic of Karelia and in North Karelia, Finland.Main activities• Improvement of health communication and an increase of health knowledge among people through printed press, television, radio, websites and social media.• Models for ...
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Making Migration Work for Development - Policy tools for strategic planning in SEE regions and cities (MMWD)

Start date: Apr 30, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

The focus of the project is to enhance policy-making, reinforcing the capacity of public administrations to understand, anticipate and strategically manage the implications of demographic change for the growth and cohesion of European regions and cities, and for the overall integration of the SEE area. Local and regional authorities are at the forefront in facing the effects of current demographic ...
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Regional potential for a Greener Economy (GREECO)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The Europe 2020 Strategy indicates that moving towards a greener economy allows for addressing environmental challenges, social inequalities as well as to create economic growth and jobs. Within the green economy approach, growth is especially expected in areas such as renewable energy, agriculture, water management and waste management. Transport, tourism and forestry are examples for other secto ...
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Improving quality and safety in the hospital: The link between organisational culture, burnout, and quality of care (ORCAB)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

To date, relatively little evidence has been published as to what represents an effective and efficient way to improve quality of care and safety in hospitals. This vacuum in the research means there is a significant opportunity to design quality of care and safety interventions in collaboration with the relevant stakeholders, which address the relevant organisational and individual factors in a h ...
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Empowerment of Families with Children

Start date: Apr 28, 2011, End date: Apr 27, 2014,

To improve the welfare of families in Finnish-Russian border area, to ensure high quality and easy access services in multicultural society both in Finland and Russia. To increase understanding of each others’ social service system and family culture.Specific objectives: To enhance the competence of social and health care professionals working in a multicultural environment and improve the compete ...
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Rural Youth Entrepreneurship (RYE)

Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

RYE aims to contribute to local, regional, national and transnational rural economic development by stimulating latent entrepreneurial abilities among young people in Northern Ireland, Faroe Islands, Finland and Greenland. This will be achieved through transferring and adopting a successful urban enterprise programme, the Young Entrepreneurs Programme (YEP), into the rural communities of the above ...
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Health in Times of Transition: Trends in Population Health and Health Policies in CIS Countries (HITT-2008)

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

"Goal: To understand long-term trends of population health as a consequence of socio-economic transitions, with a focus on lifestyle-related issues. Overviews: A unique team with extensive expertise in health effects of transition will generate new knowledge on health determinants in 11 CIS countries: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan and G ...
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Virtual Elderly Care Services on the Baltic Islands (VIRTU)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The Baltic Islands are facing many challenges on the social, political and economical level. The social and health care sector is strongly influenced by the demographic changes, struggling with the challenge of ensuring equal services for rural and urban areas with limited budgetary conditions. The ageing population, long distances and the possible lack of qualified work force are common challenge ...
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Privacy - Appraising Challenges to Technologies and Ethics (PRACTIS)

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

The vision that motivates PRACTIS is of a society that is aware of the evolving challenges to privacy posed by emerging technologies and is equipped to respond to them. PRACTIS will assess the potential impacts on privacy from emerging technologies and new scientific knowledge. It will propose ethical frameworks and legal procedures for coping with potential risks to privacy. It will explore novel ...
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Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points for Socio-economic sciences and the Humanities (SSH NCPs) (NET4SOCIETY2)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

"A strong and efficient Network of National Contact Points (NCPs) is not only elementary to the success of the Socioeconomic Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) Programme of the 7th EU Framework Programme but also to the realization of the European Research Area.The trans-national SSH NCP cooperation project NET4SOCIETY² strives to increase the awareness for and the visibility of the SSH Programme a ...
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SMEs and Cooperative Economy for Local Development (ICS)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The main project objectives are to strengthen the potential of innovation of the cooperative enterprises in fishery, agriculture, tourism and environmental sectors and to promote them on the international markets. The main activities are: survey on regional policies supporting the cooperative entrepreneurship common action plan for the integration of cooperative systems feasibility study for the ...
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Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards (AEGIS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

The ÆGIS project seeks to determine whether 3rd generation access techniques will provide a more accessible, more exploitable and deeply embeddable approach in mainstream ICT (desktop, rich Internet and mobile applications). We develop and explore this approach with the Open Accessibility Framework (OAF) through which we address aspects of the design, development and deployment of accessible mains ...
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Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation (ACCURAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Lack of sufficient linguistic resources for many languages and domains currently is one of the major obstacle in further advancement of automated translation. The main goal of the ACCURAT research is to find, analyze and evaluate novel methods how comparable corpora can compensate for this shortage of linguistic resources to improve MT quality significantly for under-resourced languages and narrow ...
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Copy number variations conferring risk of psychiatric disorders in children (PsychCNVs)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

The recent technical improvements for the study of the cytogenetic basis of disease have led to the identification of many microdeletion and microduplication syndromes. De novo copy number variants (CNVs) are seen more often than expected in autistic patients, and rare chromosomal aberrations are known to account for a small fraction of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Recurrent spontaneous mut ...
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Spatial-economic-ecological model for the assessment of sustainability policies of Russia (SUST-RUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"The objective of the study is to develop and implement for Russia an integrated spatial-economic-ecological modelling approach, which represents the state-of-the-art in different areas of economic, transport, resource-use and environmental modelling, and can be used to assist policy makers in their choice of medium and long-term sustainability policies. This implies the following interrelated a ...
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Preparing for the construction of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (PREPARINGDARIAH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

The grand vision for the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) is to facilitate access to research material for the humanities and for supporting the preservation of digital heritage material in Europe. DARIAH connects information users (researchers), information managers and information providers. It gives them a technical framework that enables enhanced data sharin ...
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Developing the evidence base for Mental Health promotion and prevention in Europe: a database of programmes and the production of guidelines for policy and practice (DATAPREV)

Start date: Sep 1, 2007, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

A high level of mental health will support the EU in becoming more knowledge-based, competitive and socially cohesive. However, the EU is far from such a position, with mental disorders accounting for 20% of all European ill-health and premature death, at a cost of some 3%-4% of GDP. The WHO Helsinki Action Plan for mental health called for an integrated set of databases to provide the evidence fo ...
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