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Integrative Mechanisms for Addressing Spatial Justice and Territorial Inequalities in Europe (IMAJINE)

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

IMAJINE aims to formulate new integrative policy mechanisms to enable European, national and regional government agencies to more effectively address territorial inequalities within the European Union. It responds to evidence that spatial inequalities within the EU are increasing, contrary to the principle of territorial cohesion embedded as a third dimension of the European Social Model in the Tr ...
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Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sustainable Transportation and Electrical Power Systems

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

...cation in Electrical Engineering, focusing on two areas of the highest technological content and professional requirements in the energy sector.The STEPS JMD is promoted by a partnership led by the University of Oviedo (ES), together with the University of Nottingham (UK), the University of Rome (IT) and the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (PT). Prestigious international universities: the Univer ...
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EMMC Mechatronic Engineering

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

...optics, bionics and robotics.Course durationTwo years (120 ECTS credits).Brief descriptionThe EU4M EMJMD is promoted by a well-integrated partnership fully supported by five partner Universities (the University of Oviedo, Spain, the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany, the National Engineering Institute in Mechanics and Microtechniques, France, the Ivanovo State Power Engineering Uni ...
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Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers (AMBER)

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

Rivers rank among some of the most threatened ecosystems in the world, and are the focus of costly restoration programmes that cost billions to taxpayers. Much of Europe depends on water from rivers for drinking, food production, and the generation of hydropower, which is essential for meeting the EU renewable energy target. Yet only half the EU surface waters have met the WFD’s 2015 target of goo ...
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GRACE: Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe (GRACE)

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

The aim of the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project is to systematically investigate the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe. Extending the success of GEMMA, the Erasmus Mundus ‘Masters of Excellence’ in Women’s and Gender Studies, the central objective of GRACE is to become the programme of reference for innovative interdisciplinary doctoral training for ea ...
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Accessible Resources for Cultural Heritage EcoSystems (ARCHES)

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

The popularisation of digitisation techniques has boosted the generation of digital cultural heritage assets in recent years. However, such techniques should not be regarded as an end in and of themselves, but as a means for enabling European citizens to engage with cultural heritage more closely and in different ways. ARCHES aims to create more inclusive cultural environments particularly for tho ...
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AQUAtic INVAders: Early Detection, Control and Management (AQUAINVAD-ED)

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

Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) are on the rise due to the synergistic effects of climate change and habitat destruction. The impacts of AIS on Biodiversity, human health, and loss of ecosystem services are well known, but their control and management has now become a worldwide priority. Successful management of AIS is challenging because it requires several steps in succession: (1) early detectio ...
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Smart Control Systems for Energy Management: New Master Degree

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

The Middle East countries are going through a period of change where governments are forced to address the need for greater access to economic opportunity. With a challenging economic environment and a growing social demand, governments believe that subsidy reform especially in energy and food might help reconcile social protection and secure fiscal positions. With almost $17 billion spending ever ...
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Integrating Blended Entrepreneurial and Manufacturing Technology Competency into Socioeconomic Development in Egypt

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

...urish in different business size models, particularly in micro/small domains, which are most suitable in heavily populated countries with economic hierarchy similar to the one in Egypt. Hence, a post-university continuous learning program is developed targeting graduates with mechanical/industrial engineering background, which blends manufacturing technology expertise and business- and technology- ...
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Silicon Carbide Power Technology for Energy Eficient Devices (SPEED)

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

"Highly efficient Power Electronics (PE) employed in power generation, transmission, and distribution is the prerequisite for the Europe-wide penetration of renewable energies; improves the energy efficiency; increases the power quality and enables continuous voltage regulation, reactive power compensation and automated distribution. It also facilitates the integration of distributed resources lik ...
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EUROEMPLÉATE III

Start date: Dec 31, 2016, End date: Dec 30, 2017,

Oviedo City Council and the Consortium schools promote this project with the aim of providing young VET students with qualifications required by the productive system, increasing the chance of employment when their qualification is insufficient or inadequate. The unemployment rate in the city is around 20% this year, and it is essential to support young people of these profiles so that they can a ...
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Increasing yield on Tungsten and Tantalum ore production by means of advanced and flexible control on crushing, milling and separation process (OptimOre)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

...re efficient and flexible Tantalum and Tungsten ores processing from crushing to separation process, with the participation of relevant international players in the mining field on research (Chalmers University- Dr. Magnus Evertsson, Exeter University with Dr. Richard Pascoe, Freiburg University with Dr. Holberg Lieberwirth, among others). The project proposes a 3 years collaboration among 8 partn ...
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Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (STYLE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The overriding aim of this project is to conduct a comparative EU wide analysis on youth unemployment that is sensitive to gender, ethnic and class differences and the historical legacies of multi-level institutions shaping relevant policies.This aim will be achieved through 10 objectives organized around 12 research, management, dissemination and scientific coordination work packages.There are th ...
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Teaching biotechnology for human health: from the bench to the market

Start date: Dec 22, 2014, End date: Jun 21, 2017,

...on with partners from industry and other non-academic partners, all with missions in higher education. This innovative project will offer European-wide degrees, capturing the best of both traditional university courseworks and also providing solid cross-training contents for successful achievements in business or corporate environments.These degrees should supply academic biomedical training with ...
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All Rights Reserved? Barriers towards EUropean CITIZENship (BEUCITIZEN)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

...mplains that these remain underused. Therefore, it has included in FP7 a call for a large-scale IP, identifying and analyzing ‘barriers’ to exercising such European citizenship rights.Utrecht University is initiating a response to this call. In its project proposal it identifies research questions and several categories of potential hindrances as answers to some of them: contradictions between dif ...
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Geologic Carbon Storage (CO2-REACT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The CO2-REACT ITN has been created to address twin objectives: (1) to provide urgently needed training in CO2 storage preparing candidates for critical roles in the coming years and (2) to significantly advance our understanding of the fate and consequences of CO2 injection into the subsurface during carbon storage efforts. The CO2-REACT ITN addresses these objectives through a balanced combinat ...
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Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning (ECO)

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

Open Educational Resources (OER) has the potential to widen access to education and to improve the quality and cost-efficiency of teaching and learning in Europe. The most successful way to achieve a practical implementation of OERs are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). MOOCs are large-scale online courses and represent one of the latest developments in open education in its continuous e ...
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The changing nature of employment in Europe in the context of challenges, threats and opportunities for employees and employers (ChangingEmployment)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Europe is today facing several major challenges. These go beyond the future of the euro and the instability of the financial system to some of the underlying issues concerned with the work activities that underpin the European economy. How can Europe retain manufacturing and production as restructuring and relocation towards lower-wage costs economies gathers pace? As demographic change lifts the ...
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Innovative and Demonstrative Arsenic Remediation Technologies for Soils (I+DARTS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Background In recent decades, industrial restructuring has led to the closure of many mining and industrial facilities in various parts of Europe, and particularly in Spain. This has left a large number of contaminated sites. In Asturias, the situation is striking, with a multitude of degraded areas remaining both from old mining (coal and metal) activiti ...
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Development of a wind-wave power open-sea platform equipped for hydrogen generation with support for multiple users of energy (H2OCEAN)

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

The rational exploitation of oceans’ space and resources is increasingly seen as crucial to enhance European competitiveness in key areas such as Renewable Energy and Aquaculture. The H2OCEAN consortium aims at developing an innovative design for an economically and environmentally sustainable multi-use open-sea platform. The H2OCEAN platform will harvest wind and wave power, using part of the ene ...
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Self–Alerting Safety Jacket (SASJACKET)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The goal of our project is to develop and integrate an appropriate personal alert and locating beacon (PLB) solution within a life-jacket/PFD so that it becomes integral to the purchase, supply and use of PFDs as Personal Protection Equipment (PPE). These ‘self-alerting’ safety jackets (SASJackets) would be used for local alerting and rescue by maritime and inland waterway employees, passengers, a ...
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Developing the Next Generation of Biocatalysts for Industrial Chemical Synthesis (BIONEXGEN)

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

BIONEXGEN will develop the next generation of biocatalysts to be used for eco-efficient manufacturing processes in the chemical industry. A collaboration by industrial and academic partners have identified the key technology fields of amine synthesis, polymers from renewable resources, glycoscience and wider oxidase application as four key areas where the next generation of biocatalysts that will ...
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Marketable sludge derivatives from sustainable processing of wastewater in a highly integrated treatment plant (END-O-SLUDG)

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

This project researches, develops and demonstrates a toolkit of novel processes together with market development for advanced sludge-derived products and integration methodologies that can be applied to a range of wastewater treatment plants based on a typical municipal scenario. Supporting economic and life cycle assessment of the resulting gains in energy efficiency and conversion of renewable c ...
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A EUROPEAN BIOTECHNOLOGY TRAINING NETWORK FOR THE SUPPORT OF CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING (BIOTRAINS)

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

The objective of BIOTRAINS is to deliver a trans-European network of industrially oriented white biotechnologists fully trained in the application of biocatalysis to sustainable chemical manufacturing. Their skills will be developed through a joint research programme at leading national CoE’s (Centre of Excellence) with research projects identified by internationally leading Principal Investigator ...
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Atlantic Aquatic Resource Conservation Project (AARC)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Aug 30, 2012,

The AARC project partnership will cooperate intensively to deliver a strategy for Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM), which will be demonstrated across the Atlantic Area, in targeted river basins, networked by regional/river observatories in each Member State. The actions demonstrated will continue and expand after the project is complete because a central theme of the project is concerne ...
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Advancing the Multilingual Web, Thematic Network (MultilingualWeb)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Given the importance of the World Wide Web to communication in all walks of life, and as the share of English Web pages decreases and that of languages spoken in the European Union increases, the importance of ensuring the multilingual viability of the World Wide Web is paramount.In order to build on current internationalization of the Web and move it forward, it is important to raise awareness of ...
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Advancing understanding of Atlantic Salmon at Sea: Merging Genetics and Ecology to resolve Stock-specific Migration and Distribution patterns (SALSEA-Merge)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

Over the past two decades, an increasing proportion of North Atlantic salmon are dying at sea during their oceanic feeding migration. The specific reasons for the decline in this important species are as yet unknown, however, climate change is likely to be an important factor. In some rivers in the southern part of the salmons range, wild salmon now face extinction. This is in spite of unprecedent ...
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Off-shore Renewable Energy Conversion platforms – Coordination Action (ORECCA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

"The objectives are to create a framework for knowledge sharing and to develop a research roadmap for activities in the context of offshore renewable energy (RE). In particular, the project will stimulate collaboration in research activities leading towards innovative, cost efficient and environmentally benign offshore RE conversion platforms for wind, wave and other ocean energy resources, for th ...
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Atlantic Salmon Arc Project 2 (ASAP 2)

Start date: Oct 31, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

ASAP 2 is an international project, which will focus on the protection of habitats specifically to preserve biodiversity, restore degraded landscaped, protect ecological networks and rehabilitate land. The project will use methods developed in the project 040 ASAP 1 to deliver targeted land management, wetland management and river management. Protection and improvement measures for salmonid enhanc ...
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Atlantic Salmon Arc Project (ASAP)

Start date: May 31, 2003, End date: Jan 21, 2008,

The ASAP project proposes an innovatory approach to the conservation of the salmon by the utilisation of genetic analyses and data-bases to respond to well-defined challenges, such as the maintenance of genetic diversity to ensure the species’ capacity for adaptation, the understanding of genetic differentiation, which may be linked to the needs of adaptation to local conditions, as well as the co ...
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Reclamation and Utilisation of Brown Coal mining areas in Europe (ReRegions)

Start date: Mar 31, 2005, End date: Mar 30, 2007,

In the past, brown coal deposits were of great economic value since they constituted a cheap and easily accessible energy source. Coal mining was an important source of development and employment. After the 1970s, however, many brown coal regions started to decline due to depletion of coalfields, environmental restrictions, and economic and technological change. These areas, many of which are Obje ...
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EUR ING - Development of ICT supported, flexible training to enable designers to apply Eurocodes in accordance with the national regulations of different Member States

The project aims to produce case studies of structural design to the new Eurocodes (focused on standardization and mobility) based on re-design of a real recent building construction project and incorporating the requirements of the National Annexes (adaptation of Eurocodes to national requirements), Health and Security-related issues and construction practices of each partner country. Target grou ...
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Academic-Industry Partnership towards Development of Trainers and Educators for Technicians in Egypt

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

This project aims at creating a solid academia-industry integrated diploma for the development and training of technical teachers in Egypt targeting most needed areas, namely mechanical, industrial, electrical and mechatronics to produce a new generation of technical teachers equipped with international standard and industry-oriented technical knowledge, who shall be capable to fulfill Egypt’s imm ...
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Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences: New Postgraduate Programs

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

This aim of the project is to develop and implement new curricula of Masters of Engineering in 4 different fields of concentrations of industrial engineering (IE) each adopted by a PC university. Target concentrations include operations management,logistics and supply chain,human factors engineering and Quality.The project aims at establishing and equipping different labs at PC universities to be ...
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ECVET Profile for the European Expert in Energy Management

Start date: Nov 1, 2013,

...ved in formal, informal and non formal contexts. 4. Guidelines for the accreditation of organizations carrying out Expertise Checkup and training addressed to EXEMs The consortium is composed by one University, one Chamber of Commerce, two VET providers, three organizations of public interest promoting energy efficiency, one consultancy.
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PUEDES - University Engagement in Economic and Social Development in Latin America (Participación Universitaria para El Desarrollo Económico y Social en Latinoamérica)

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

The PUEDES acronym reads for the Spanish translation of University Engagement in Economic and Social Development (Participación Universitaria para El Desarrollo Económico y Social en Latinoamérica). The project is promoted by a partnership of HEI that are strongly engaged (University Engagement is the motto of the project) in the scientific, economic and social development of their regions and cou ...
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SAT - SWAP AND TRANSFER (EU - Asia)

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

The project aims at promoting knowledge transfer, research and innovation as means of steady and sustainable development in both EU and Asian countries involved and key factors in global competitiveness. Most of industrialised countries recognize the relevance of knowledge circulation and transfer for sustained and sustainable economic growth. Mobility is a rising way of investing in education ...
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Acknowledging and Developing Entrepreneurial Practice in Teacher Training

As in many other aspects of education, teachers are expected to play a pivotal role in the delivery and promotion of enterprise in schools, but more often than not, they bear the brunt of translating policies into practice. Hence greater efforts should be made to build up teachers’ confidence and skills to promote creative and entrepreneurial learning skills and abilities and active-learner centre ...
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SCIENCE AND THE TREATMENT OF AUTISM: A multimedia package for parents and professionals

The project addressed the acute shortage of suitably qualified professionals in behaviour analysis in Europe who could design, implement, and monitor interventions to address individual needs of children with autism through the science of Applied Behaviour Analysis. Parents of these children also needed training to help maximise the potential benefits of the treatment. In addition, there was a nee ...
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NFATEC - A New and Flexible Approach to Training for Engineers in Construction

The NFATEC project will develop a two-part training programme, for Engineers in the Construction industry, involving a combination of self-learning and web-based tutor interaction. The programme will be aimed both at existing employees and recent graduates considering entry to the sector.Existing materials, developed through the previously funded Leonardo da Vinci project 'SSEDTA', will be adapted ...
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