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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF REGIME CHANGE: SICILY IN TRANSITION (SICTRANSIT)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2021,

This project will throw new light on human experience during changes of political regime, selecting medieval Sicily as the primary area of study. Between the 6th century and the 13th century, this island experienced four radical changes in regime: from Byzantine to Aghlabid to Fatimid to Norman to Swabian. Potentially, each of these transitions saw new groups of migrants, new forms of agriculture ...
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ECOPOTENTIAL: IMPROVING FUTURE ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS THROUGH EARTH OBSERVATIONS (ECOPOTENTIAL)

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

Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential services to human societies. Anthropogenic pressures, however, cause serious threat to ecosystems, leading to habitat degradation, increased risk of collapse and loss of ecosystem services. Knowledge-based conservation, management and restoration policies are needed to improve ecosystem benefits in face of increasing pressures. ECOPOTENTIAL makes ...
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Environmental Research Infrastructures Providing Shared Solutions for Science and Society (ENVRI PLUS)

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

ENVRIPLUS is a cluster of research infrastructures (RIs) for Environmental and Earth System sciences, built around ESFRI roadmap and associating leading e-infrastructures and Integrating Activities together with technical specialist partners. ENVRIPLUS is driven by 3 overarching goals: 1) favoring cross-fertilization between infrastructures, 2) implementing innovative concepts and devices across R ...
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System for detection of Threat Agents in Maritime Border Environment (SafeShore)

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

The main objective of the SafeShore project is to cover existing gaps in coastal border surveillance, increasing internal security by preventing cross-border crime such trafficking in human beings and the smuggling of drugs. It is designed to be integrated with existing systems and create a continuous detection line along the border. One of the treats to the maritime coast are small Remotely Pilot ...
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Elderly-friendly City services for active and healthy ageing (City4Age)

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

The first and core objective of City4Age is to enable Ambient Assisted Cities or Age-friendly Cities, where the urban communities of elderly people living in Smart Cities are provided with a range of ICT tools and services that - in a completely unobtrusive manner - will improve the early detection of risks related to cognitive impairments and frailty while they are at home or in the move within t ...
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FUEL FLEXIBLE, NEAR -ZERO EMISSIONS, ADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE MARINE ENGINE (HERCULES-2)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

The project HERCULES-2 is targeting at a fuel-flexible large marine engine, optimally adaptive to its operating environment. The objectives of the HERCULES-2 project are associated to 4 areas of engine integrated R&D:• Improving fuel flexibility for seamless switching between different fuel types, including non-conventional fuels.• Formulating new materials to support high temperature component ap ...
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Between the representation of the crisis and the crisis of representation. How crisis changed the symbolic background of European societies and identities. Implication for policies and policy making (Re.Cri.Re.)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

This project aims to understand what kind of social identity change is going on within European societies. For policy-making, the analysis of social identity is highly valuable because the social identity moderates the impact of policies. And this is particularly true in times of crisis. In particular, the project aims: A) to verify whether the symbolic universes grounding the social identity ha ...
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We the young people of Europe

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Promoting democracy and the democratic process are central to the purpose of the European Union (EU). The project “We the young people of Europe” uses simulation and role play to mirror the workings of the European Union Parliament allowing the project's participants the opportunity to gain an insight into the challenges of representative democracy within today's EU, whilst developing valuable ski ...
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Monitoring air pollution effects on children for supporting Public Health Policy (MAPEC_LIFE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Background Several epidemiological studies have demonstrated the association between exposure to air pollution and mortality and morbidity in humans. In 2005, an estimated 5 million years of life were lost due to fine particle pollution in 32 European countries (European Environment Agency Technical report no. 12/2011, Air quality in Europe). Urban pollut ...
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PRACTICE: Privacy-Preserving Computation in the Cloud (PRACTICE)

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

The traditional computing paradigm is experiencing a fundamental shift: organizations no longer completely control their own data, but instead hand it to external untrusted parties - cloud service providers, for processing and storage. There currently exist no satisfactory approach to protect data during computation from cloud providers and from other users of the cloud.PRACTICE has assembled the ...
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Technology Transfer in Computing Systems (TETRACOM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The mission of the TETRACOM Coordination Action is to boost European academia-to-industry technology transfer (TT) in all domains of Computing Systems. While many other European and national initiatives focus on training of entrepreneurs and support for start-up companies, the key differentiator of TETRACOM is a novel instrument called Technology Transfer Project (TTP). TTPs help to lower the barr ...
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European Exascale Software Initiative 2\nTowards exascale roadmap implementation (EESI2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

The use of High Performance Computing (HPC) is commonly recognized a key strategic element both in research and industry for an improvement of the understanding of complex phenomena. The constant growth of generated data - Big Data - and computing capabilities of extreme systems lead to a new generation of computers composed of millions of heterogeneous cores which will provide Exaflop performance ...
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Social Network for Tourism Operators (SONETTO)

Start date: Feb 6, 2012, End date: Feb 6, 2014,

The project aims to improve SMEs productivity and competitiveness, strengthening cross-border cooperation among Tourism Industry Operators (TIOs), research/innovation institutions and public authorities on sustainable tourism through the development of an Internet social network named SONETTO. We adopt a wide definition of TIOs including professionals working in: Accommodation, Air or Surface Tran ...
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Elaboration of a tool for the inclusion of religious-related cultural values in the planning and development processes of urban centres, systems of settlements and surrounding rural areas (RECULTIVATUR)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

The project aims to use the religious thematic cultural value within the SEE territories jointly with local assets, human resources, infrastructures and services to develop a religious tourism able to create new job positions and generate additional income. The project elaborates a tool for decision-makers and stakeholders called the SEE Religious Tourism Model, that provides step by step guidance ...
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Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts Vernacular Literature and Learning in the Rhineland and the Low Countries (ca. 1300-1550) (MITT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts is a joint PhD programme (2009-2013) that studies the medieval transmission of learning from the ecclesiastical and academic elites of the professional intellectuals to the wider readership that could be reached through the vernacular. The programme focuses on the medieval dynamics of intellectual life in the Rhineland and the Low Countries, nowadays div ...
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Collaborative & Robust Engineering using Simulation Capability Enabling Next Design Optimisation (CRESCENDO)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"The IMG4 project CRESCENDO addresses the Vision 2020 objectives for the aeronautical industry by contributing significantly to the fulfilment of three specific targets of the aeronautical industry’s Strategic Research Agenda. CRESCENDO will develop the foundations for the Behavioural Digital Aircraft (BDA), taking experience and results from VIVACE, and integrating these into a federative system ...
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BIOELECTRONIC OLFACTORY NEURON DEVICE (BOND)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Recently, the use of smell in different fields has been rediscovered due to major advances in odour sensing technology and artificial intelligence. However, current electronic noses, based on electronic sensors, have significant limitations concerning sensitivity, reliability and selectivity, amongst others. These limitations are at the basis of recurrent troubles of this technology to reach essen ...
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RFID from Farm to Fork (RFID-F2F)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

The pilot aims at showcasing to SMEs in the food sector what is needed in terms of technology, business processes, skills and management for an RFID implementation delivering in-house business value and identifying which food information is required to fulfil society's, citizens and/ or organisations needs.Related to this call for pilot projects, the European Commission funds through the FP7 RTD p ...
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Governmental Social Responsibility Model: An Innovative Approach of Quality in Governmental Operations and Outcomes (G.S.R. Model)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Mar 30, 2012,

G.S.R. aims to contribute substantially to sustainable socio-economic development of SEE regions, through effectively tackling one of the most crucial issues: The quality and sustainability of the Public Sector and of its outcomes. Specifically G.S.R. focuses on the dynamic enhancement of the competences and the capacity of the governmental agencies, with the aim not only to improve productivity a ...
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Water bodies in Europe: Integrative Systems to assess Ecological status and Recovery (WISER)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

"WISER will support the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) by developing tools for the integrated assessment of the ecological status of European surface waters (with a focus on lakes and coastal/transitional waters), and by evaluating recovery processes in rivers, lakes and coastal/transitional waters under global change constraints. The project will (1) analyse existing data ...
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Cooperative Cognitive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (Co3 AUVs)

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

Description Development of an advanced multi-robot system for underwater environments Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) represent one of the most challenging frontiers for robotics research. AUVs work in an unstructured environment and face unique perception, decision, control and communicatio ...
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Control of Heterogeneous Automation Systems:\nTechnologies for scalability, reconfigurability and security (CHAT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

Scalability, reconfigurability, and security are three aspects of paramount importance in developing efficient, predictable and safe control architectures for large-scale networked industrial automation. CHAT is about developing core components (algorithms, protocols and procedures) of the next-generation of distributed control systems, able to tackle the supervision and control of larger and mor ...
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Human Resources and Development Planning on both sides of Ionian Sea (HuReDePIS)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Feb 27, 2008,

The project HUREDEPIS evaluates the existing and planning regional capabilities, identifies the common problems of the involved regions related to the sustainable growth, analyzes best approaches and practices to these problems and provides specific solutions utilizing in the best way existing human resources with the important and difficult constrain of immigration movements. This project examine ...
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Stations Network on the Ionian Islands and Southern Italy (DEMSNIISI)

Start date: Jan 22, 2012,

This project proposes the development of a network of 11 meteorological ground based stations. Apart from the 11 stations the project outputs include: • Two monitoring centers able to control stations' functions and retrieve data automatically . • Monthly reports on the mathematical treatment of incoming data. • Two reports on climatic trends in critical environmental parameters (such as precipita ...
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Structural Monitoring of ARTistic and historical BUILding Testimonies (S.M.ART. BUIL.T.)

Start date: Jan 26, 2012,

The core idea of the project is risk prevention, which concerns not only prevention of the loss of lives and property but also the preservation of artistic and historical buildings from natural hazards. Main project objectives: • Encoding and implementation of procedures for the structural monitoring • Seismic vulnerability assessment • Development of guidelines for strengthening and repair of the ...
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AESOP - A European and South African Partnership on Heritage and Past

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

The AESOP multidisciplinary and intersectorial Erasmus Mundus consortium co-coordinated by the University Paul Sabatier-Toulouse 3 (France) and the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) is composed of 11 European and 9 South African university partners, as well as six additional associate members. AESOP involves 8 thematic fields and encourages the collaboration between different sectors a ...
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STRATEGIC PLANS FOR RESTORATION, PROTECTION & ECO TOURISM PROMOTION IN NATURA 2000 SITES WHICH DEVASTATED BY NATURAL DISASTERS (NAT - PRO)

Start date: Feb 27, 2012,

The main objective of the project is the post-fire conservation of the protected partner areas through a combination of integrated areas management and promotion of ecotouristic development. The expected outputs include: • forest and wetlands habitats maps • studies on post-fire effects in biodiversity • management plans on the restoration and improvement of biodiversity • a Geo-database and a spe ...
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A cross-border microsurgery center of excellence for the promotion of research, training and education (MICRO)

Start date: Jul 3, 2013,

The overall goal is the establishment of a virtual surgical education and training center that will enable experts to obtain a customizable, distant learning solution for training their students at anytime and anywhere with a minimum cost. This is achieved through the following objectives:R&D in virtual reality (VR) based surgical simulators.A web-based training application inspired by the e-Learn ...
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INNOVATIVE SERVICES TO STREGTHEN COOPERATION AND INTERNATIONALISATION BETWEEN SMES IN THE FIELD OF AGROFOOD INDUSTRY (ISCI)

The projects overall objective is to strengthen and develop strategic innovative marketing and cooperation services among the SMEs and between SMEs, Universities and the public authorities by providing the agri-food SMEs of the targeted areas with innovative marketing and management services that are able to ease the internationalization process. The project intends to reach the following sub-obje ...
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Integrated Accessibility & Routing Guidance Platform for Safe Multimodal Transport in Sustainable Smart Ports & Regions (GUIDEPORT)

Start date: Jul 28, 2013,

GUIDEPORT's general aim is to render the involved ports more appealing to passengers and logistic companies, increasing their competitiveness as well as offer a better quality of life for the residents of urban areas near ports. In this framework, the specific objectives of the project comprise:• Providing improved information and guidance.• Improving access and increasing security for passengers ...
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Greece – Italy Facilities for Transport 2.0 (GIFT 2.0)

Start date: Nov 25, 2013,

The project identifies 27 hubs among ports, airports, bus and railway stations and merge the different existing services or optimize the ones in order to establish a unique interface able to give information, data, tickets and transit times in real time. The project achieves its objectives in the following ways:• Creating a step-change in existing infrastructures, trying to exploit all the mobilit ...
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EURICA - EURope and latin ameRICA: Enhancing University Relationships by Investing in Cooperative Actions

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

EURICA: EUrope and ameRICA – Enhancing University Relations by Investing in Cooperative Actions, is an EU-Latin American network for the advancement of Higher Education coordinated by the University of Groningen (NL) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (MX). It consists of 20 full member HEIs targeting a total of 15 countries: 7 in Europe and 8 in Latin America. These are: Czech Repub ...
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Research_Game The European scientific research game

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

NeedsEurope needs to adapt to a rapidly changing business and learning environment and it is critical that secondary students understand how science and technology provide the basis for the advances in education and the workplace and how they will affect their careers. The inductive and hypothetico-deductive reasoning of scientific research methodologies require logical reasoning and critical thin ...
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Contribution of Emission Sources on the Air quality of the POrt-cities in Greece and Italy (CESAPO)

Start date: Jan 26, 2012,

The general objective of the project is to study the emission sources of air pollution in port cities. The project outputs comprise: • Operation of a mobile air quality monitoring station • Training of the staff on the operation of the mobile air monitoring station • Creation of two emission inventory databases • Assessment reports using data from experimental campaigns and the application of phot ...
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Improving governance, management and sustainability of rural and coastal protected areas and contributing to the implementation of the Natura 2000 provisions in IT and GR (BIG)

Start date: Dec 10, 2013,

• BIG general objective is to improve governance, management and sustainable valorization of coastal and rural protected areas and contributing to the implementation of the Natura 2000 provisions in Greece and Italy. The sub-objectives are:• Strengthening and improving cooperation among regional administrations to further monitor Natura 2000 species and habitats and to set environmental measures f ...
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INTERDISCIPLINARY AQUARIA FOR THE PROMOTION OF ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY (APREH)

Start date: Feb 2, 2012,

The specific project aims at the creation of museums for the promotion of the marine environment and the cultural heritage. The idea of the project is to prepare a show of archaeological remains with a reproduction of the relicts on the sea bottom covered and modified by the sea and its living organisms. The above objective will be achieved through the realization of: • A detailed collection of in ...
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Strengthening Innovation Strategy and Improving the Technology Transfer in Water Technology Sector

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

Overall objective: To increase capacities of the Moroccan universities in contributing to the technology transfer in the water technology sector by mobilizing their potential as key players in the Moroccan innovation system. Specific project objectives are: To strengthen strategic, managerial and administrative capacities of 7 Moroccan universities by enhancing participation in cooperative resear ...
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H.O.S.T.- Hospitality, Otherness, Society, Theatre

Start date: May 1, 2012,

The project is related to the need of facilitating the encounter of artists and people from different countries, backgrounds, cultures in order to foster reflections, debates, common artistic work about diversity and migration in the context of European communities,where theatre and arts are called to play their function of critical and civil awareness.The Project supports a cultural network of ar ...
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ROAD AND DESIRES - theatre overpasses frontiers

Start date: Nov 1, 2009,

The project aims to improve mutual knowledge, recognition, respect of cultures as a way to overpass frontiers and separations. It aims to create a real encounter, for common work between artists, intellectuals, youth, between people that suffer the effects of war and people who are sensitive to the issues of peace through culture. The expected results concern the elaboration of innovative intercul ...
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WALLS-SEPARATE WORLDS

Start date: Aug 1, 2013,

Our history is marked by walls, some of them have fallen down, some others are still standing, even in Europe. Are new walls under construction? The question is strong, but not unfounded. Walls may take different shapes connected to nationalisms, xenophobia, racism. New frontiers can be built despite the big efforts made to the advancement of reconciliation and inclusiveness. Culture, indeed, play ...
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