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Aggiornarsi in Europa

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

In a rapidly changing society schools must undertake a necessary and constant updating process, meeting the challenges of increasingly complex management, teaching, and communication tools, while preserving the traditional educational and training values. The use of new technologies in teaching and management activities is not always supported by suitable training opportunities which would allow ...
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High-End cLimate Impacts and eXtremes (HELIX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"With the target of limiting global warming to 2ºC increasingly difficult to achieve, policymakers, businesses and other decision-makers need to plan to adapt to changes in climate under higher levels of global warming. This requires coherent information on the future climate conditions, and the consequences of different adaptation actions. International negotiations on limiting global warming a ...
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Danube Region INCO-NET (DANUBE-INCO.NET)

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

Danube-INCO.NET understands itself as strategic high-level coordination and support action. Its background is the macro-regional approach of the European Union, in particular the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) and its Priority Areas for Knowledge Society (PA7) and for Competitiveness (PA8). Based on strong institutionaliszed links with the PA Coordinators and the PA Steering Groups, a c ...
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Impact of Research on EU Agriculture (IMPRESA)

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

"The project will:• describe the contemporary evolution of traditional public and private agricultural research, particularly as its boundaries with food processing, biotechnology and bioeconomy activities (for example, renewable energy) are becoming increasingly blurred, and its objectives are broadening, using on-going structured interaction with an expert stakeholder panel• survey the trends, s ...
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Exploring the potential for agricultural and biomass trade in the Commonwealth of Independent States (AGRICISTRADE)

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

"The on-going negotiations on Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements between the EU, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, the accession of Russia to the World Trade Organisation in 2012 and the establishment of a Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in 2011 are expected to boost trade relations between the European Union and its Eastern Neighbours. The aim of AGRICISTRADE i ...
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Carbon emission mitigation by Consumption-based Accounting and Policy (CARBON CAP)

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

Climate change mitigation now focus on production, where upward drivers of GHG emissions come from consumption. Demand side oriented policies hence can complement domestic GHG reduction efforts. The core aim of this project is to1. Stimulate innovative demand side oriented climate policies by improved shared insight in consumption emissions.2. Realize a more effective policy mix for achieving the ...
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Advanced Model Development and Validation for Improved Analysis of Costs and Impacts of Mitigation Policies (ADVANCE)

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

Integrated assessment and energy-economy models have become central tools for informing long-term global and regional climate mitigation strategies. There is a large demand for improved representations of complex system interactions and thorough validation of model behaviour in order to increase user confidence in climate policy assessments. ADVANCE aims to respond to this demand by facilitating t ...
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Economics of climate change adaptation in Europe (ECONADAPT)

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

The aim of the ECONADAPT project is to provide user-orientated methodologies and evidence relating to economic appraisal criteria to inform the choice of adaptation actions using analysis that incorporates cross-scale governance under conditions of uncertainty. A critical theme of the proposal is therefore to support the application of adaptation economics in the period following the publication o ...
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Industrial Research and Innovation Monitoring and Analysis (IRIMA)

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

"The IRIMA project, as its IRMA predecessor, will serve as a reference source of economic intelligence, based on monitoring, data gathering and analysis in the field of private research and innovation. It will focus on the economic and policy analysis of patterns and trends in industrial R&D and innovation and their contribution to the competitiveness position of the EU industry by benchmarking it ...
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Sustainable Organic and Low-input Dairying (SOLID) (SOLID)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"Organic and low-input dairy farming systems are increasingly noted as delivering multifunctional benefits to the agricultural industry and society but technical and economic constraints prevent widespread adoption. SOLID will deliver an innovative toolbox of novel methodologies that will contribute to the competitiveness of the dairy industry and increase the effectiveness with which these benefi ...
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Understanding and coping with food markets voLatilitY towards more Stable World and EU food SystEmS (ULYSSES)

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

The literature published in the last 3 years trying to explain agricultural markets instability during 2007-2009 offers inconclusive results about its causes and impacts. On balance, available scientific evidence gives insufficient guidance for prioritizing policy initiatives, and for effectively averting and mitigating new food crises. Based on an integrated approach, Project ULYSSES seeks to pro ...
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Mapping European regional Transport Research and Innovation Capacities (METRIC) (METRIC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

METRIC will map regional transport innovation capacity and identify the competitive advantage of identified regions. Based on their strengths, guidelines for the preparation of regional innovation roadmaps (strategy plans) will be developed. METRIC will also explore the regional innovation potential and make recommendations on how to support weak regions. The project will ultimately contribute to ...
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Pesticide Use-and-risk Reduction in European farming systems with Integrated Pest Management (PURE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"To meet both the worldwide demand for food security and new environmental needs, agriculture must increase food production and quality while decreasing its ecological footprint. Ensuring sustainability and competitiveness with reduced pesticide inputs is a major challenge.PURE will provide integrated pest management (IPM) solutions and a practical toolbox for their implementation in key European ...
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PRactical Implementation of Coexistence in Europe (PRICE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"Coexistence is still a controversial topic within the EU. Member States, farmers, and participants within the food chain have expressed an interest on the implications of different coexistence polices on costs, feasibility of achieving segregated supply chains, as well as implications for labeling and traceability. While a number of issues have already been addressed in previous projects, informa ...
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Forward Visions on the European Research Area (VERA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The VERA project aims to provide relevant strategic intelligence for the future governance and priority-setting of the research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) system in Europe and for better adapting science, technology and innovation policy to the shifting global environment and upcoming socio-economic challenges. For this purpose VERA carries out an in-depth stocktaking of RTDI r ...
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Supporting the role of the Common agricultural policy in LAndscape valorisation: Improving the knowledge base of the contribution of landscape Management to the rural economy (CLAIM)

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

The provision of public goods (including landscape services) in rural areas is recognized as one of the key topics for the future of agriculture and rural policy. Agriculture plays a major role in landscape management through its complex interlinkages with landscape features. In turn, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) remains an important driver of landscape management due to its importance as ...
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ERAWATCH Monitoring and Analysis (ERAWATCH2)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

ERAWATCH is a public web based platform that presents information and analysis on European, national and regional research policies, actors, organisations and support measures. The service currently covers the 27 Member States of the European Union, countries associated to the European Community's Research Framework Programme and, for comparative purposes, several non EU countries. ERAWATCH also p ...
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FUture prospects on TRansport evolution and innovation challenges for the competitiveness of Europe (FUTRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The project will highlight which future challenges and demand drivers can have a considerable impact on the global demand patterns in the passenger and the freight transport and how this might affect the competitiveness of related industries and service providers. In doing so, it aims at bridging the gap between the manifold studies on the future of the European transport system and its subsection ...
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NETWATCH - Development of a Central Information Platform on Transnational R&D Programme Collaboration (Netwatch Operational Phase)

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

The objective of the NETWATCH project is to create a central information platform on European trans-national RTD programme cooperation. The aim is to support national researchers and research policy makers in Member States and the European Commission's Research Directorate-General by facilitating mutual learning among programme actors and providing research policy makers and administrations with ...
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Integrating Econometric and Mathematical Programming Models into an Amendable Policy and Market Analysis Tool using FADN Database (FADNTOOL)

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

"The design of effective and targeted CAP measures relies on a proper assessment of the impacts of EU policy changes and market developments on farmers and the whole economy. Uncertainty, instability and price volatility that relentlessly reshape agricultural markets today, call upon the development of new modelling tools able to scrutinise all relevant dynamics while also remaining easy to use an ...
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Compiling and Refining Environmental and Economic Accounts (CREEA) (CREEA)

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

The main idea behind this project is to refine and elaborate economic and environmental accounting principles as discussed in the London Group and consolidated in the future SEEA 2012, to test them in practical data gathering, to troubleshoot and refine approaches, and show added value of having such harmonized data available via case studies. This will be done in priority areas mentioned in the c ...
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Climate Local Information in the Mediterranean region: Responding to User Needs (CLIM-RUN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

"CLIM-RUN aims at developing a protocol for applying new methodologies and improved modeling and downscaling tools for the provision of adequate climate information at regional to local scale that is relevant to and usable by different sectors of society (policymakers, industry, cities, etc.). Differently from current approaches, CLIM-RUN will develop a bottom-up protocol directly involving stakeh ...
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Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation Pathways and Evaluation of the Robustness of Mitigation Cost Estimates (AMPERE)

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

"Climate policy needs to aim at ambitious long-term climate stabilization. This will require managing the transition from carbon intensive to low carbon economies within this century. Research on mitigation pathways to a low carbon society and the associated mitigation costs is indispensable for informing policy makers. The project AMPERE is aiming for a broad exploration of mitigation pathways an ...
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Optimising Passenger Transport Information to Materialize Insights for Sustainable Mobility (OPTIMISM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"OPTIMISM's main outcomes is the creation and development of different sets of strategies and methodologies for optimising passenger transport systems based on co-modality ICT solutions. OPTIMISM also takes into consideration the passenger needs and the carbon-neutral objective. The main scope is to provide a scientifically documented insight of the transport system and people’s travel choices v ...
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Bridging Communities for Next Generation Policy-Making (CROSSOVER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

In an increasingly interdependent, unstable and complex world, as the financial crisis has shown, policy-makers lack the tools to anticipate emerging problems and the impact of possible solutions. At the same time, citizens are becoming more vocal in monitoring and influencing policy decisions. Emerging ICT tools for governance and policy modelling show great opportunities for decision-making in a ...
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Coordinated approacH to the EurOpean effoRt on aUdio-visual Search engines (CHORUS +)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

CHORUS+ creates the conditions for mutual information exchange and cross fertilization between the FP7 projects in the Search Engine domain and the national and international initiatives running in this area. The CHORUS+ project aims to foster timely discussion and avoid fragmentation. Discussion groups with selected experts and representatives from industry, academia, and research organizations ...
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World Input-Output Database: Construction and Applications (WIOD)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

How has the increase in Chinese exports of textile products affected the employment of low skilled workers in German retail trade? What would be the effects of a change in the European Union’s agricultural policy on global CO2 emissions? Economic and environmental policies are designed at a detailed level of industries and products, while production is characterized by an interdependent structure. ...
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IMS2020: Supporting global research for IMS 2020 Vision (IMS2020)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

IMS2020 aims at strengthening international co-operation and supporting global European-centric research under the IMS initiative, providing an effective interface to ongoing European roadmapping activities (such as European Technology Platform, etc.) and creating research synergies at international level through establishment of inter-regional manufacturing communities in the five Key Areas of Ac ...
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Scanning for Emerging Science and Technology Issues (SESTI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

Today’s societal developments are often influenced by improbable events with high impact. Recent examples are the “cartoon quarrel” and developments impacting energy security. These events are preceded by “weak signals” which are only partially discussed in policy, if at all, and rarely acted upon. The increasing complexity and uncertainty is reflected in the growing demand for tools for anticipat ...
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