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Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe - Molecules against Gram Negative Infections (COMBACTE-MAGNET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health threat, and most troublesome is the rapid emergence and dissemination of multidrug resistant (MDR) Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter species and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. There is an unmet medical need to prevent P. aeruginosa infection in critically ill patients and to develop new antibiotics for infections caused by Gram-negative bacte ...
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REnaissance of Places with Innovative Citizenship and TEchnolgy (REPLICATE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2021,

The objective of REPLICATE is to demonstrate Smart City technologies in energy, transport and ICT in districts in San Sebastia, Florence and Bristol addressing urban complexity and generate replication plans in other districts and in follower cities of Essen,Nilufer and Lausanne.Main challenges for cities are to increase the overall energy efficiency, to exploit better local resources in terms of ...
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SOcial Cognitive Robotics in The European Society (SOCRATES)

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

SOCRATES is a PhD training program for 15 young researchers, created to develop the field of Social Robotics with an application focus on Robotics in Eldercare. The research in Social Robotics has a common theme of Interaction Quality, which is a concept for characterization of how a specific mode of interaction is fit for a given task, situation, and user. Interaction Quality often changes, for i ...
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Citizen Led Air pollution Reduction in Cities (CLAiR-CITY)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

CLAiR-City will apportion air pollution emissions and concentrations, carbon footprints and health outcomes by city citizens’ behaviour and day-to-day activities in order to make these challenges relevant to how people chose to live, behave and interact within their city environment. Through an innovative engagement and quantification toolkit, we will stimulate the public engagement necessary to a ...
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SMart weArable Robotic Teleoperated Surgery (SMARTsurg)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS) offers many advantages when compared to traditional MIS, including improved vision, precision and dexterity. While the popularity of RAMIS is steadily increasing, the potential for improving patient outcomes and penetrating into many procedures is not fully realised, largely because of serious limitations in the current instrumentation, control and ...
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Living Architecture (LIAR)

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

Living Architecture (LIAR) is a modular bioreactor-wall, which is based on the operational principles of microbial fuel cell technology and synthetic ‘consortia’ of microbes. LIAR is conceived as a next-generation selectively-programmable bioreactor and integral component of human dwelling, capable of extracting valuable resources from waste water and air, generation of oxygen and production of p ...
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smart services for calculated impact assessment in open governance (smarticipate)

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

SMARTICIPATE is a data-rich citizen dialogue system, transforming public data into new intelligence, and transposing elements of intelligent ICT development to urban governance. The aim is to integrate bottom-up processes in the realm of city planning, using the full potential of citizens by sharing ideas in the co-production of decision making. smarticipate thereby transforms interaction between ...
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European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development Plus Plus (ECHORD Plus Plus)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Description ECHORD++ will create new opportunities for European robotics researchers to work directly with SME/start-ups and new users/customers to create innovative products. ECHORD++ will continue ECHORD’s two pillars, “experiments” and “structured dialogue”, taking advantage of experience and investment in the infrastructure. In addition, ...
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SPP Regions

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The SPP Regions project is aimed at promoting strong networking and collaboration at both the European and sub-national regional level on sustainable and innovative procurement (SPP/PPI), to help promote and embed capacity building and knowledge transfer. At the regional level networking will be promoted to build capacities and transfer skills in sustainable and innovative procurement implementati ...
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Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 (HBP SGA1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an understanding can provide profound insights into our humanity, leading to fundamentally new computing technologies, and transforming the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders. Modern ICT brings this prospect within reach. The HBP Flagship Initiative (HBP) thus proposes a unique strategy that uses I ...
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Technological Evolution of Synergy Between Physicochemical and Living Systems (EVOBLISS)

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

We will develop artificial, technological evolution and use it to design functional ecosystems consisting of up to three forms of living technology, namely, artificial chemical life, living microorganisms, and complex chemical reaction networks for the purpose of improved treatment and cleanup of wastewater for energy generation. The goals of this project are i) develop a general, robotic platform ...
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Robotics Coordination Action for Europe Two (RockEU2)

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

The FP7 coordination action RockEU has been extremely successful in building a strong European robotics community, leading to the creation of euRobotics aisbl - the private partner of the SPARC PPP and development of the Strategic Research Agenda and the Multi-Annual Roadmap, which are the main guidelines for shaping European robotics R&D&I.RockEU2 builds on and extends this successful community i ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

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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Learning in a New Key. Engaging Vulnerable Young People in School Education.

Start date: Sep 19, 2015, End date: Sep 18, 2017,

This strategic partnership takes cogniscance of the power of therapeutic music and arts centred experiences to alter emotional states and engender the positive engagement of self with the world. Through the planned activities and experiences of the project, we will apply this observation to support teachers in extending their professional capacities as classroom-based therapeutic practitioners wh ...
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Peer ethnography for the promotion of patient and public involvement: young people and sexual health service development. (PE4PPI)

Start date: Sep 8, 2015, End date: Sep 7, 2017,

...ew skills in training and conducting research with YP. Dr White’s employability will be significantly enhanced through the tailored mentoring provided by her supervisor and other experts at the University of West of England (UWE) and the practical skills she acquires working on the proposed project. By the end of the Fellowship she will be equipped with the expertise and experience necessary to pu ...
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Adaptation of the LEARNING-BY-DOING Methodology for the Development of Entrepreneurial Competencies for unemployed people formed in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in the sector of buildings and new constructions

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

CONTEXT The European Union (EU) is committed to boosting entrepreneurship as part of its strategy to transform its economy and build its future economic and competitive strength, no matter the sector it is. The LBD-DECR3E goals are directly related with the entrepreneurship ones defined by the European Commission: - Promote personal skills: creativity, risk taking and responsibility - Problem sol ...
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IHEM: Improving the long-term outcomes in children with congenital anomalies by implementing an Innovative Health Educational Module for staff in health care and NGO settings.

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

There is a substantial need for the development of high quality work-based VET in the healthcare sector that works with congenital anomalies. In Europe, 1 one out of 40 pregnancies is affected by a congenital anomalies that can result in medical, social and/or psychological disabilities throughout the lifespan for the affected individuals and their families. When it come to children with disabilit ...
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Children's Identities and Citizenship - Best Practice Guides

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

This proposal has focus on European Integration promoting active citizenship in young people through guidance for the training of education professionals and young researchers. It links 25 institutions from 17 states that are involved in training education professionals and concerned with citizenship education (CE) and the development of identities in young people. We emphasise that our concern is ...
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Fordypning i Dyrepleie og kultur på engelsk og Fordypning i Hest og kultur på engelsk

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

EQUINE The participants of this project are Upper Secondary school year two students on the Equine and Farrier course of studies. The equine industry in Norway is relatively new in comparison to other countries. In order to help professionalize this industry it is vital to obtain impulses and expertise from abroad. One of the countries that has a long standing tradition in the equine is England. M ...
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Remote Medical Diagnostician (ReMeDi)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Description The ReMeDi project addresses telediagnostics in clinical environments. A successful medical treatment depends on a timely and correct diagnosis. In the ReMeDi project we develop a multifuntional robotic device, which will allow performing a real remote physical and ultrasonographic (USG) examination. Working as a multidisciplinar ...
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Learning Layers - Scaling up Technologies for Informal Learning in SME Clusters (Layers)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Learning Layers develops a set of modular and flexible technological layers for supporting workplace practices in SMEs that unlock peer production and scaffold learning in networks of SMEs, thereby bridging the gap between scaling and adaptation to personal needs. By building on recent advances in contextualized learning, these layers provide a meaningful learning context when people interact with ...
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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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When Looks Get in the Way: Optimising patient outcomes through the training of health care professionals

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...often lack the necessary expertise to help and therefore patient access to expert support is inadequate. A consortium led by the internationally renowned Centre for Appearance Research in the UK with university partners in IT, LT, SE and TK and the European Cleft Organisation (NGO) in NL, who have collaborations with health professionals and patients in various healthcare settings, will execute a ...
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Face Value: Optimising the psychosocial care for individuals with birth defects in Europe by implementing an innovative training method for staff in health care and NGO settings.

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The rational of the project was shaped at the European parliament meeting “The challenges of health inequalities in the treatment and prevention of birth defects in Europe” in Brussels (9/10/2012) since it was identified that the psychosocial aspects for individuals with disfigurement is less than optimal in many instances across Europe. The validity of idea was further strengthening by the approv ...
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Be Positive: A positive psychological approach to enhancing resilience and utilising strengths in European unemployed youth.

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The rationale for the project was derived from the combined experience of health psychology researchers and practitioners who work for organisations providing vocational training and/or guidance counselling at national and European levels. The youth unemployment in Europe had reached a staggering 23.5% in the EU27. In this unemployed youth group, there is also a subgroup named NEETs – Young people ...
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Intelligent Active MObility Aid RoBOT integrating Multimodal Communication (MOBOT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Description Mobility disabilities are prevalent in our ageing society and impede activities important for the independent living of elderly people and their quality of life. The MOBOT project aims at supporting mobility and thus enforcing fitness and vitality by developing intelligent active mobility assistance robots for indoor environments ...
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DEVELOPMENT AND CONSOLIDATON OF GEOSPATIAL SUSTAINIBILITY SERVICES FOR ADAPTATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE URBAN IMPACTS (DECUMANUS)

Start date: Sep 27, 2013, End date: Jun 1, 2016,

The goal of DECUMANUS is the development and consolidation of a set of sustainable services that allows city managers to include geo-spatial products into their climate change strategies.The selected application areas are based on related state-of-the-art Earth Observation techniques, methodologies and products, and user requirements related to urban climate change adaptation and attribution: asse ...
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CRISTAL-ISE: Discovering and managing eBusiness collaborations (CRISTAL-ISE)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

...ills to develop semantically rich, open, scalable and flexible systems whose descriptions can be discovered by other cooperating systems so that they can coexist and inter-operate. Researchers at the University of the West of England (UWE) have been developing such skills and have implemented the CRISTAL system, based on data and meta-data descriptions that enable systems to dynamically reconfigur ...
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Sustainable Water ActioN: building research links between EU and US (SWAN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"The project promises to strengthen European research capacity in the USA, promote competitiveness of European research and industry while informing and involving policy-makers and the general public.Opening the UMI to European partners responds to the need for 21st Century interdisciplinary and multiregional collaboration regarding water sustainability. We have exhausted the 20th century paradigm ...
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Global and Local food chain Assessment: a MUltidimensional performance-based approach (GLAMUR)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

General objective of the project is to integrate advancement in scientific knowledge about the impact of food chains with application of knowledge to practice to increase food chains sustainability through public policies and private strategies. This general objective will be pursued through the following specific objectives:• To develop and validate a ‘performance criteria matrix’ for assessment ...
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Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-Embodiment (VERE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

VERE aims to carry out research on the fusion of the human body with virtual or physical surrogates. By fuse we mean that human participants would operate under the illusion that the virtual body is their own, or that they are actually in the physical space of the real world in a robotic body that they perceive as their own. As well as providing a radical extension of traditional virtual reality ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

This project has been successful, with a high number of mobilities in all categories, and very high satisfaction rates from all who took part. This has significantly contributed to the meeting of institutional targets and objectives related to internationalisation. Furthermore, this has been a year of significant development, with major changes and expansions in international activity in progress. ...
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Towards sustainable modes of urban and peri-urban food provisioning (SUPURBFOOD)

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

Short food supply chains have been advocated as a means of rural development, as they improve the position of primary producers in the value chain. In this proposal we look at short supply chains from the perspective of urban rather than rural development. Short supply chains can play a role in addressing urban problems such as climate change, obesity, storm water control, etc.Short food supply ch ...
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Bristol Bright Night (BGCN)

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

Bristol’s proposal for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researchers’ Night programme takes part across 2014 and 2015. Bristol’s programme for Researchers’ Night has an ambition to involve a wide cross-section of researchers across the city’s two universities centred on the theme ‘Bristol Bright Night’ highlighting the innovative research undertaken by Bristol-based researchers addressing local and globa ...
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Colour Printing 7.0: Next Generation Multi-Channel Printing (CP7.0)

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

We propose a training and research project within the Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) call, led by Gjøvik University College (HIG), in collaboration with five full network partners and six associated partners from academia and industry throughout Europe. The project is entitled “Colour Printing 7.0: Next Generation Multi-Channel Printing” and addresses a significant need for research, t ...
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NeuGRID for you: expansion of NeuGRID services and outreach to new user communities (N4U)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Unprecedented growth in the accessibility of imaging data of persons with brain diseases has led to the development of computational infrastructures offering scientists access to image databases and e-Science services. FP7 neuGRID is the leading e-Infrastructure where neuroscientists can find core services and resources for brain image analysis. "neuGRID for Users" (N4U) will provide an e-Science ...
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A framework for musculoskeletal robot development (MYOROBOTICS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Description Musculoskeletal robotic systems enhance safety, dexterity and adaptivity in uncertain environments, especially in situations where human and robot work in close proximity. A musculoskeletal design allows reducing body weight and developmental cost, while at the same time increasing design flexibility. The MYOROBOTICS project aims ...
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EXCELMEAT:an international research network for the genetic improvement of pigmeat quality and the development of biosensing technologies as rapid and cost-effective tools for meat quality evaluation (EXCELMEAT)

Start date: Feb 8, 2011, End date: Feb 7, 2015,

"EXCELMEAT puts forward the collaboration between 8 research groups (from Belgium, China, Italy, Spain, UK, Ukraine and USA) with international projection in the field of pig genetics. EXCELMEAT aims at creating an International Pig Genetics and Meat Quality Network to (i) increase worldwide cooperation in the area of pigmeat quality; (ii) provide long-term training schemes for scientists; (iii) s ...
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Small and medium-sized TOWNs (TOWN)

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

Balanced and polycentric development of the European territory is a key challenge of territorial development and cohesion policy. ESPON has already paid considerable attention to the geographical spread of urban and economic activity throughout the European territory. This includes among else the applied research projects on cities and urban agglomerations, the roles of cities in territorial devel ...
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Interactive Analysis, Simulation and Visualisation Tools for Urban Agile Policy Implementation (urbanAPI)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

In the context of European initiatives to improve policy as a more transparent and understandable process, the urbanAPI project aims to support activities such as issue identification, policy analysis, consultation, decision and evaluation in urban planning and land management policy. For this purpose, a policy metamodel, a formalised vocabulary, a set of rule languages to define data integration ...
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