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Indigenous Communities, Land Use and Tropical Deforestation (INCLUDE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

Tropical deforestation is an important contributor to climate change, through the release of significant amounts of carbon in the atmosphere. The main proximate cause of deforestation in tropical regions is agricultural expansion, followed by timber extraction. The general objective of this research is to understand how the interaction of technological, environmental, economic and social factors i ...
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A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities (Danube:Future)

Start date: Jan 9, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2020,

Danube:Future is a joint contribution of the Danube Rectors’ Conference (DRC) and the Alps-Adriatic Rectors’ Conference (AARC), thus tapping the largest pool of institutionalized knowledge in the Danube River Basin. Based on this network, interdisciplinary research and education in the DRB will be undertaken. Any path towards a sustainable future of the region has to account for the solution of p ...
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EXperimental Computational Hybrid Assessment of Natural Gas pipelines Exposed to Seismic Risk (EXCHANGE-Risk)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

EXCHANGE-Risk is an Intersectoral/International Research and Innovation staff exchange scheme between academia and the industry in Europe and North America focusing on mitigating Seismic Risk of buried steel pipeline Networks that are subjected to ground-imposed permanent deformations. It also aims at developing a Decision Support System for the Rapid Pipeline Recovery to minimize the time require ...
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Tourism Research Innovation And Next Generation Learning Experience

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

The Tourism Research Innovation And Next Generation Learning Experience (TRIANGLE) Programme is a response to a wide range of contemporary sustainability challenges and opportunities highlighted in the global SD Goals 2030 such as climate change and biodiversity loss facing European tourism stakeholders, in particular the need for sustainable consumption and production in the Europe’s Natura 2000 ...
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Population level management and conservation of brown bears in northern Dinaric Mountains and the Alps (LIFE DINALP BEAR)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Background Conflicts between humans and brown bear (Ursus arctos) populations in Slovenia remain an ongoing threat to the conservation status of bears and steps must be taken to improve coexistence. Measures need to tackle such challenges as a lack of understanding of bears’ socio-economic and environmental value, inflated estimations of the risk of bea ...
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Strategic Planning for Alpine River Ecosystems – Integrating protection and development (SPARE)

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

Description (EN): The Alps are Europes WATER-TOWERS, providing MULTIPLE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES such as water for human consumption, agriculture, industry, energy and maintaining tourism, recreation & quality of life not only for the residents but also for surrounding lowlands & big metropolitan areas. Alpine rivers are the BLUE BACKBONES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, but only healthy rive ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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IFA VET mobility+ 2016

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

The funding applied for within the framework of the project will be used to finance stays abroad for a total of 555 individuals and 8 accompanying persons.337 apprentices will complete a 2 to 6 week internship specifically suited to their profession, individual level of training, knowledge and skills at a company active in their professional field. IFA will organize internships in small groups sta ...
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Inspiring CitizeNS Participation for Enhanced Community PoliCing AcTions (INSPEC2T)

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

INSPEC2T projects’ scope is to develop a sustainable framework for Community Policing that effectively addresses and promotes seamless collaboration between the police and the community. INSPEC2T approach bases its conceptual foundations on EU crime prevention and Member States specific Internal Security Policies, validated research results and best practices from cooperation between police and lo ...
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Foresight Tools for Responding to cascading effects in a crisis (FORTRESS)

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

FORTRESS will identify and understand cascading effects by using evidence-based information from a range of previous crisis situations, as well as an in-depth analysis of systems and their mutual interconnectivity and (inter-)dependency. FORTRESS will seek to intervene in current crisis response practices by bridging the gap between the over-reliance on unstructured information collection on one s ...
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Computing Veracity Across Media, Languages, and Social Networks (PHEME)

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

Social media poses three major computational challenges, dubbed by Gartner the 3Vs of big data: volume, velocity, and variety. Content analytics methods have faced additional difficulties, arising from the short, noisy, and strongly contextualised nature of social media. In order to address the 3Vs of social media, new language technologies have emerged, e.g. using locality sensitive hashing to de ...
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Danube Urban Brand - regional network building through tourism and education to strengthen the Danube cultural identity and solidarity (DANUrB)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2016,

The project primarily aims to strengthen the Danube regional cultural identity and brand by fostering transnational cultural ties between the settlements along the Danube, and at the same time, by exploring the unused or hidden cultural and social capital resources of this regional network. The main goal of the project is to create a comprehensive tourism strategy connecting all cities along the D ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating Collective Awareness into Behavioural Change (DecarboNet)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

A lack of collective awareness negatively impacts perceived personal efficacy, which hampers efforts to address societal problems. DecarboNet is a multidisciplinary effort to tackle this problem by identifying determinants of collective awareness, translating awareness into behavioural change, and providing novel methods to analyse and visualise the underlying processes. The project's core innovat ...
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IFA VET mobility+ 2014

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

The funding applied for within the framework of the project will be used to finance stays abroad for a total of 559 individuals and 37 accompanying persons. 321 apprentices will complete a 4 to 6 week internship specifically suited to their profession, individual level of training, knowledge and skills at a company active in their professional field. IFA will organize internships in small groups f ...
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Creating an Agenda for Research ON Transportation sEcuity (CARONTE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Easy, efficient, safe and secure transportation is a core factor for European growth, collaboration and employment and therefor an item in the Europe 2020 strategy. Land transportation has two main challenges concerning security: avoiding interrupts of transport itself to assure the flow of freight and passengers to guarantee supply of the population and avoiding that transportation modes themselv ...
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EUROPEAN NETWORK for CANCER research in CHILDREN and ADOLESCENTS (ENCCA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"ENCCA aims to establish a durable, European Virtual Institute clinical and translational research in childhood and adolescent cancers that will define and implement an integrated research strategy and will facilitate the necessary investigator-driven clinical trials to introduce the new generation of biologically targeted drugs into standard of care for children and adolescents with cancer. This ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Development of a Next Generation European Inland Waterway Ship and Logistics System (NEWS)

Start date: Feb 28, 2013, End date: Aug 30, 2015,

At the moment, waterways as a transport mode are not used to their full potential; hence cargo transported on the Danube is only 10-20% of that transported on the Rhine (cf. DG REGIO leaflet "The EU Strategy for the Danube Region", December 2010). The NEWS project will be able to contribute to the Danube Region Strategy's (EUSDR) aim to increase cargo transport on the river by 20% by 2020 compared ...
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SedAlp - Sediment management in Alpine basins: integrating sediment continuum, risk mitigation and hydropower (SedAlp)

Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

SedAlp contributes to integrated management of sediment transport in Alpine basins directed to an effective reduction of sediment-related risk while promoting the enhancement of riverine ecosystems and reducing the impacts of hydropower plants (balancing the implementation of EU Directives e.g. RES, Floods and WFD). The project includes piloting actions in various representative Alpine river basin ...
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Reconciling Renewable Energy Production and Nature in the Alps (recharge green)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The growing demand for renewable energy (RE) will increase the pressure on the Alpine environment. It will strongly impact land use patterns, ecological connectivity and biodiversity. Both the demand for renewable energy and the need for the conservation of biodiversity, soil, and connectivity transcend national borders. A transnational dialogue to address multiple environmental objectives, interd ...
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Television Linked To The Web (LinkedTV)

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

Description Web and TV seamlessly interlinked = LinkedTVOur vision of future Television Linked To The Web (LinkedTV) is of a ubiquitously online cloud of video content decoupled from place, device or source.Television existing in the same ecosystem as the Web means that TV and Web content should and can be seamlessly connected, and browsi ...
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African Programme for Advanced Research Epidemiology Training (APARET)

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

...rm independent scientific activities at their host institutes.- Embedding the fellows in a network of African and European epidemiologistsAPARET can be credited towards a PhD degree of the respective university. EU-funding covers 3 successive cohorts of fellows. APARET will support the fellows in meeting the following objectives:I) Main objective: Prepare, write and submit a proposal for a major ...
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Climate Neutral Urban Districts in Europe (CLUE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...es, innovations and strategies. Best practices identified within the project will be used as reference points for European cities and regions. The project partnership involves local, regional and university actors from various European countries, who are proactive in the development of climate neutral urban districts.CLUE will deliver:- International conferences, work meetings and expert workshops ...
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Joint Disaster Management risk assessment and preparedness in the Danube macro-region (SEERISK)

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

The main purpose of this project is to improve coherence and consistency among risk assessments undertaken by the countries at national and local level, and especially in case of disasters intensified by climate change. The project builds on the EU Council conclusions on "Further Developing Risk Assessment for Disaster Management within the European Union" adopted in March 2011, that aims for a co ...
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Mitigating Vulnerability of Water Resources under Climate Change  (CC-WARE)

Start date: Nov 30, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

Water resources are under increasing pressure originating from land use and climate change. Accompanied with economic changes in the SEE region the land use pattern is expected to change, too. Both processes will have severe impacts on water resources in general and drinking water resources in particular. CC-WARE aims at developing an integrated transnational strategy for water protection and miti ...
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Valorizing connectivity and sustainable use of resources for successful ecosystem management policies in the Alps (GreenAlps)

Start date: Aug 31, 2013, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

GreenALPS shapes the framework for a sustainable and efficient European nature and biodiversity conservation policy for the Alps. It relies on two key projects covering essential issues how to best conserve alpine biodiversity (ECONNECT) and how to deal with the huge demand for renewable energy related impacts on nature (recharge.green). Both projects are linked and deliver(ed) essential outcomes ...
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SUSTAINABLE NETWORKS FOR THE ENERGETIC USE OF LIGNUCELLULOSIC BIOMASS IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE  (FOROPA)

Start date: Nov 30, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

Biomass constitutes a sector of the highest energy potentials both, in South East Europe and in the EU27. It covers more than half of the renewable energy sources for heat applications, and as heat covers more than half of the final energy consumption in Europe, biomass obviously is a key domain to meet the ambitious 2020 targets of the Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC). The project FOROPA a ...
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Managing Migration and its Effects in SEE - Transnational Actions Towards (SEEMIG)

Start date: May 31, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

The SEE region faces a complex, nationally and regionally diverse set of demographic, migratory and labour market challenges (low or declining fertility, large scale out-migration, brain and care drain, ageing, low labour force participation rate). Together with further aspects like gender, age and the given territorial heterogeneity of the programme area, they are creating a complex challenge to ...
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latform to Form Opinions Related to Mobility (PLAT.F.O.R.M.)

Start date: Aug 31, 2013, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

PLATFORM aims at integrating social sustainability into infrastructure planning decision making, considering community needs, equitable accessibility and polycentric design that enhances social participation. As EU policies underline, social impacts and interests of local authorities and civil society affected by a common project should be taken into account to prevent conflicts. In this policy fr ...
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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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Transnational cooperation for the improvement of buildings energy performance and efficiency  (TRACE)

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

The building sector, responsible for about 40% of the EU's total final energy consumption and CO2 emissions, provides many cost-efficient opportunities for action, while contributing at the same time to the welfare of EU citizens. The EU is making a real effort to improve the energy efficiency of Europe's buildings and recently revised its legislation to prompt faster improvements. The Energy Perf ...
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PlanetData

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Description The PlanetData project aims to establish an interdisciplinary, sustainable European community of researchers, helping organizations to expose their data on the Web PlanetData will push forward the state-of-the-art in large-scale data management and its application to the creation of us ...
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South East Europe improved virtual accessibility through joint initiatives facilitating the rollout of broadband networks  (SIVA)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

1. Background and objectives Access to information, broadband connectivity and financing of virtual accessibility are key components necessary for the development, adoption and use of ICT in the economy and society. Inadequacies in the telecommunication infrastructure and accessibility to services among the individual countries and regions of the programme area hamper significantly competitiveness ...
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Extension of the Danube Limes - UNESCO World Heritage in the Lower Danube  (Danube Limes Brand)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The former frontiers of the Roman Empire are set to become the world´s biggest single archaeological site. UNESCO World Heritage Site status is now in prospect for the frontiers as a whole. The enlargement of the existing World Heritage property - already inscribed are three Limes sections in UK and DE plus the prospective new SK and HU candidates for 2012/2013 - with new nominations in the Lower ...
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NEWFOR - NEW technologies for a better mountain FORest timber mobilization (NEWFOR)

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

The role played by mountain forests is extremely varied. Their contributions to the stability and overall development of life and economic factors in mountainous regions are highly significant. Due mainly to topographic conditions, managing mountain forests is significantly more cost intensive than in plain ones. A good knowledge of forest biomass location, characteristics, mobilization conditions ...
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lycentric Planning Models for Local Development in Territories interested by Corridor 5 and its TEN-T ramifications (POLY5)

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

The main problem addressed is the marginalization that a major transport infrastructure (MTI) can cause to alpine areas. The project aims at making mountain areas catch the opportunities of MTIs, rather than just suffer their environmental and social impact, targeting the phases of piloting and policy implementation.The project foresees the elaboration of an unbiased method to measure the value of ...
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Pharmaceutical Medicine Training Programme (PHARMATRAIN)

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

"The proposed Pharmaceutical Medicine Training Programme provides a comprehensive solution for the complex needs of integrated drug development for all professionals involved, incl. physicians, pharmaceutical scientists,biologists, biometricians, health economists, and safety and regulatory scientists from universities, regulatory agencies, large, middle-sized and small pharmaceutical enterprises, ...
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Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon (UHI)

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

As population of our cities grow, so does land area and this result in increase of an average temperature. The buildings and roads absorb temperature produced during the day, like giant heaters, and store it. The energy is then released during the night time. This often means a big difference in the temperature between city and its surrounding areas.This phenomenon is called the Urban Heat Island ...
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moting the ecological network in the European Green Belt (Greennet)

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

During the last century and over decades Central Europe was divided by an insuperable border called the Iron Curtain. Especially the eastern side of the former border was extremely sparsely populated and the border zone itself was left completely unsettled. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s and the reunion of Eastern and Western Europe this former border area now runs like a Gre ...
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