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High Performance Soft-tissue Navigation (HiPerNav)

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

Primary liver cancer, which consists predominantly of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and the third most common cause of cancer mortality. A successful surgical resection of HCC requires complete removal of the tumour while sparing as much healthy tissue as possible. Due to technical and clinical difficulties relatively low percentage of patients are eligi ...
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European Training Network for Continuous Sonication and Microwave Reactors (COSMIC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

The European chemical industry faces some very serious challenges if it is to retain its competitive position in the global economy. The new industries setting up in Asia and the Near East are based on novel process-intensification concepts, leaving Europe desperately searching for a competitive edge. The transition from batch to continuous micro- and milliflow processing is essential to ensure a ...
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PARAGONE: vaccines for animal parasites (Paragone)

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

Helminth and ectoparasitic infections of ruminants and poultry have a huge impact on the biological efficiency of these vital food sources. Indiscriminate antiparasitic use has led to drug resistance across the globe. The main alternative to the dwindling supply of antiparasitics is vaccines. Here, in the PARAGONE project, findings from previous EU and other-funded projects on parasite vaccine dev ...
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Ensuring the Integrity of the European food chain (FOODINTEGRITY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Food Integrity “the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished or in perfect condition”.Providing assurance to consumers and other stakeholders about the safety, authenticity and quality of European food (integrity) is of prime importance in adding value to the European Agri-food economy. The integrity of European foods is under constant threat from fraudulently labelled imitations that try to ...
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PROVIding smart DElivery of public goods by EU agriculture and forestry (PROVIDE)

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

"The objective of the project is to provide a conceptual basis, evidence, tools and improved incentive and policy options to support the "smart" provision of public goods by the EU agriculture and forestry ecosystems, in the light of trade-offs and conflicts brought about by prospective intensification scenarios, using a transdisciplinary approach. PROVIDE will consider a wide range of public good ...
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MEditerranean MOntainous LAndscapes: an historical approach to cultural heritage based on traditional agrosystems (MEMOLA)

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

"The project is an interdisciplinary approach to cultural landscapes of Mediterranean mountainous areas, taking as a central axis the historical study of two natural resources essential to generate agro-systems: water and soil. The proposal focuses on Sierra Nevada (Spain), Monti di Trapani (Italy), Colli Euganei (Italy) and Vjosa Valley (Albania).Landscapes and their structure are strongly condit ...
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LEGumes for the Agriculture of TOmorrow (LEGATO)

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

The project has been conceived to promote the culture of grain legumes in Europe by identifying priority issues currently limiting grain legume cultivation and devising solutions in term of novel varietal development, culture practices, and food uses. LEGATO will develop tools and resources to enable state of the art breeding methodology and to exploit fully the breadth of genetic resources avail ...
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Sensing and integration of signals governing cell polarity and tropism in fungi (FUNGIBRAIN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"Cell polarity and directed growth (tropism) are fundamental biological processes. Most fungi are dependent on these processes because they grow as polarised filaments called hyphae, whose growth and developmentare governed by physical and chemical cues from the environment. Such cues include surface-contact, light, nutrients, mating partners, host organisms, or ‘self’ hyphae from within the fung ...
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NUTRIENTS AND REGENERATED WATER RECYCLING IN WWTPs THROUGH TWIN-LAYER MICROALGAE CULTURE FOR BIOFERTILIZERS PRODUCTION (LIFE+ TL-BIOFER)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Background Human activities can have a significant negative impact on the environment, particularly by affecting the global biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus. Water supplies to urban areas and subsequent sanitation and wastewater systems – even when conventional treatment occurs –produce enormous punctual loadings (point sources ...
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MODelling vegetation response to EXTREMe Events (MODEXTREME)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The continuous supply of services provided by agricultural systems is increasingly threatened by climate change in association with an estimated increase in the frequency of extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves or heavy precipitation events.MODEXTREME has the overarching goal to help the European and non-European agriculture face extreme climatic events by improving the capability o ...
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Application of new technologies and methods in nutrition research – the example of phenotypic flexibility (NutriTech)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

NutriTech will build on the foundations of traditional human nutrition research using cutting-edge analytical technologies and methods to comprehensively evaluate the diet-health relationship and critically assess their usefulness for the future of nutrition research and human well-being. Technologies include genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, laser scanning cytometry, NMR based ...
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Innovative biological products for soil pest control (INBIOSOIL)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"INBIOSOIL is a timely project that proposes novel eco-efficient environmentally friendly technologies substantially contributing to the reduced input of conventional chemical pesticides for the control of subterranean crop pests of global economic importance. This would be accomplished through the generation of new formulations of biological control agents (BCAs) based on entomopathogenic fungi ...
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Sustainable Mediterranean Old Towns (SMOT)

Start date: Dec 19, 2013, End date: Dec 28, 2015,

Project in brief Due to their age and heritage, many cities in the Mediterranean basin have historical districts similar to open-air museums and the preservation of these values for future generations is a key issue to be addressed. However, this responsibility should not only concern the conservation of monuments but also the adoption of measures for the protection of the environment, introducing ...
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"Technologies for Water Recycling and Reuse in Latin American Context: Assessment, Decision Tools and Implementable Strategies under an Uncertain Future" (COROADO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"In order to be able to maximize the benefits from reuse and recycling technologies projects a larger systemic analysis of the environment is needed, an enlargement of the traditional narrow planning and management approaches, and a growing sensitivity to decision-making associated with multi-objective, multi-purpose actions and multi uses parameters. However, the problem is not centered on the la ...
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Vaccines against helminth infections (PARAVAC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Livestock production efficiency is impaired by helminth infection which is ubiquitous in cattle, sheep and goats world-wide. It causes severely debilitating gastro-intestinal, respiratory and hepatic disorders, dependent on the infecting species. The treatment and prevention of helminth parasitism in livestock continues to rely almost exclusively on the use of anthelmintic drugs, an approach thre ...
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Compatibility of Agricultural Management Practices and Types of Farming in the EU to enhance Climate Change Mitigation and Soil Health (CATCH-C)

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

The Catch-C project assesses the farm-compatibility of ‘Best Management Practices’ (BMPs) that aim to promote productivity, climate change mitigation, and soil quality. These are the three overall goals of sustainable soil management. Catch-C will first (WP2) set up a typology of the main farm types and agro-ecological zones across Europe. This frame, coupled to a pan-European database of socio-ec ...
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Systems biology towards novel chronic kidney disease diagnosis and treatment (SysKID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects up to 10% of the population. Besides eventual progression towards end stage renal disease CKD impacts the patient’s quality of life by causing serious comorbidities including cardiovascular complications and bone metabolism disorders. On the everyday clinical level early stage diagnosis and tailored treatment of CKD are still inadequate. In addition, CKD seems ...
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Signaling circuitry controlling fungal virulence: identification and characterization of conserved and specific fungal virulence genes as common antifungal targets (ARIADNE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

"Fungi are heterotrophic microorganisms with devastating impact on agriculture and human health. Agricultural production worth billions of € is destroyed annually by fungal diseases. Human fungal infections have severe consequences on the growing number of immuno-compromised patients, with high mortality rates associated with Aspergillus and Candida infections. There is a critical need to further ...
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SUSTAINABLE USE OF IRRGATION WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION (SIRRIMED)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

"SIRRIMED project will address issues related to sustainable use of water in Mediterranean irrigated agricultural systems, with the overall aim of optimizing irrigation water use. The approach proposed in SIRRIMED for reaching this goal will be based in an Integrated Water Irrigation Management (IWIM) where the improving water use efficiency will be considered at farm, irrigation district and wate ...
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Legume-supported cropping systems for Europe (Legume-Futures)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

This research will deliver knowledge and technology for the optimisation of the use of legumes in European agricultural systems and promote the partnerships needed to support the public policy outcomes sought. By integrating the Consortiums extensive set of existing field case studies, modelling and knowledge base, the project will test, validate and deliver novel cropping systems. This network of ...
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Selection and improving of fit-for-purpose sampling procedures for specific foods and risks (BASELINE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"Food Safety Objectives (FSO) and Performance Objectives (PO) are new criteria complementing the existing concepts of microbiological criteria and MRL for many chemical contaminants. However, to achieve these objectives it is critically important a harmonisation of food safety control procedures.BASELINE project intends to obtain the following objectives: 1) To review the sampling schemes currentl ...
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Strengthening the implementation of durable integration of EADGENE (EADGENE_S)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2013,

By integrating the key European teams in genomics, bioinformatics, animal health and animal models, EADGENE has enabled:- the gathering of a critical mass of scientists and a unique access of complementary resources across host and pathogen models- the development of innovative functional genomics so that it has become a powerful tool in veterinary molecular medicine and has contributed to a bette ...
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Developmental effects of environment on reproductive health (DEER)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The multidisciplinary research teams in this consortium have played lead roles in establishing that fetal and childhood periods are vulnerable to environmental disruption leading to common reproductive disorders. This proposal will investigate: (1) connections between normal/abnormal perinatal reproductive development and maturation of reproductive function at puberty and in adulthood; (2) system ...
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Assessing the multiple Impacts of the Common Agricultural Policies (CAP) on Rural Economies (CAP-IRE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

"European rural areas are undergoing major changes, including the impacts of migration, changes in settlement patterns, demographic ageing, changes in the nature of rural-urban interactions, a decreasing role of agriculture in terms of income and employment, and changes in governance systems. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the main expenditure chapter of the EU and is directly affecting t ...
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Developing advanced Biorefinery schemes for integration into existing oil production/transesterification plants (SUSTOIL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2010,

"An ambitious and achievable vision for 2030 is that up to 25% of the EU’s transport fuel needs could be meet by clean and CO2-efficient biofuel. To achieve this, it will be necessary to promote the transition towards “second generation biofuels” (e.g. lignocellulosic ethanol, syngas gas based fuels, pyrolysis oil based biofuels) but also support the implementation of currently available biofuels ...
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MOnitoring Network of ALlergens by Immuno-SAmpling (MONALISA)

Start date: Jan 15, 2005, End date: Apr 15, 2008,

Background According to the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), allergic disease is the most common chronic disease of childhood in EU countries and seasonal allergic rhinitis caused by pollen affects up to 35% of the entire population. Having an accurate picture of the allergens in the air is of crucial importance. The curren ...
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"CORE - CLIL Objectives and ResourceKit in Education"

Start date: Nov 1, 2011,

CORE Project SummaryThe project uses systematic, qualitative methods of action-research to investigate the implementation of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) “on the ground” in primary and secondary schools within a variety of socio-linguisitic contexts in 5 European countries. We give a particular emphasis to multi-lingual and officially bi-lingual regions. We complement current ...
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European Literacy and Citizenship Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

This Comenius multilateral project is devised to provide:-a Reference Framework of the competences (knowledge and skills) necessary to teach European Citizenship Literacy-a Database of existing resources necessary to implement European Citizenship education in schools -primary and secondary-, and in Higher Education, including Initial Teacher Training-a Portfolio of the European Citizen indicating ...
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Advanced, Edutainment based, VET / eVET products, destined to the large amount of farmers and to disadvantaged: slow learners, poor people, and focused to the innovative training content, procedures, best practice & equipment, for irrigation.

(A.) THE REASON. (a) In RO, the irrigations (noted: irrig.) were destroyed, even with 90%, with the diminishment of irrigation surfaces from 3 200 000 ha to 300 000 ha. The country becomes 70% foods importer. The skills, qualified in irrig. people where lost. Incredible: irrig. is “ forgotten“. The food crisis is created. (b) The training in innovative, very required technologies in irrig.: d ...
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e-Learning Virtual Center for People with Physical Disabilities

Due to booming technology and IT phenomena, distant learning and e-employment are growing in an exponential manner. This field requires optimum production rate, which is combination of time and cost. The parameter is being the level of depth of the output detail. Considering the current globalization and market conditions and resulting competition in almost all different fields of service sectors ...
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S1-L13B-MoE-A Move on Education (ARGENTINA)

Start date: Jul 15, 2010,

Seven universities from Argentina and six from Europe have committed to this project with the principal objective of hosting graduate students from the third country universities in order to train new Doctors in the area of Education Sciences as well as offer post-Doctoral studies and research to Doctors. Argentina, as well as mot of Latin American countries, has been suffering a shortage of Unive ...
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Transatlantic Degree Cinema and Language

Start date: Sep 16, 2010,

The University of Messina, the Universidad de Cordoba and Virginia Commonwealth University, founding members of the Centre for Integrative Mediterranean Studies, have established a Transatlantic Degree in Cinema and Language (TDC&L), weaving existing graduate courses in specific areas of expertise at each university into an innovative, interdisciplinary curriculum in cinema studies that explores i ...
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S1-L16A EuroTANGO II

Start date: Jul 15, 2011,

The main objective of EuroTANGO II is to foster the cooperation between EU and Argentina in Higher Education, focusing on the internationalization of argentinian HEIs bearing in mind economic criteria. The focus will be on applied research and technology transfer. EuroTANGO II aims to promote economic and social development in Argentina, through the academic development of high quality human resou ...
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S1-L16A Argentina Cooperation for International Research and Study

Start date: Jul 15, 2011,

The Partnership is submitting a proposal for a project named ARCOIRIS (ARgentina COoperation for International Research and Study) the main objective of which is to promote higher education cooperation between EU and Argentina in coherence with the EU general goal of improving the bilateral cooperation in the field of education. The specific activities aiming at the objective will be: • mobility ...
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Language and Pedagogical Innovation in Schools

Start date: Oct 15, 2011,

Wider Objective:Project LAPIS aims to build the capacity for effective modern European language teaching at schools in Turkmenistan, and to raise the quality of training of foreign language teachers in the sector (English, German, French). Specific Objectives: • To establish a National Resource Centre to support the training of foreign language teachers under the aegis of the Ministry of Educatio ...
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Forage for later-life learning - building on European experience

Start date: Jan 1, 2012,

There is a rich tapestry of provision of education for older people across all of Europe, supported by a range of agencies, government departments, NGOs, and by older people themselves. There is as yet no effective and ongoing communication process to best share and learn from these experiences. Networks, which tend to be thematic, have emerged but they do not always communicate outside their sph ...
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Trans-European Mobility Projet On Education for Subtainable Development (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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Programme of Exchange and Coorperation for International Studies between Europe and South America (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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Latin American Engineering and Information Technologies Network (Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Argentine, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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European Union - Latin America Academic Links (Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemal, Nicaragua, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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