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Early-life stressors and LifeCycle health (LIFECYCLE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Early life is an important window of opportunity to improve health across the full lifecycle. European pregnancy and child cohort studies together offer an unique opportunity to identify a wide range of early life stressors linked with individual biological, developmental and health trajectory variations, and to the onset and evolution of non-communicable diseases. LIFECYCLE will establish the Eur ...
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European AIDS Vaccine Initiative 2020 (EAVI2020)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

HIV-1 is responsible for a global pandemic of 35 million people, and continues to spread at a rate of >2 million new infections/year. It is widely acknowledged that a protective vaccine would be the most effective means to reduce HIV-1 spread and ultimately eliminate the pandemic, while a therapeutic vaccine may help mitigate the clinical course of disease and lead to strategies of viral eradicati ...
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Common Good First - digital storytelling for Social Innovation

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

In order to support and grow the emerging South African social innovation sector, we will a create a digital network – Common Good First - to capture and showcase social impact projects in South Africa, connecting them to each other, academics and HEIs around the world. In doing so, we will also address the issue of the ‘digital divide’, as identified by the country’s National Development Plan 20 ...
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Caring Society: Building Communities, Social Inclusion and Health Development

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Faced with a so-called ‘quadruple burden of disease’, the South Africans’ health situation is challenged in various aspects. For this reason, SA President Jacob Zuma announced in his state of the Nation that health, and more specifically building a high quality caring capacity and promoting a healthy lifestyle, is one of the principal priorities of the government to work on in the coming 5 years. ...
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KidVenture – increasing the entrepreneurial culture of children through gaming

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

As referred in a recent document - Entrepreneurship Education at School in Europe (EACEA, 2012) – “Europe faces a number of challenges that can only be met if it has innovative, well-educated, and entrepreneurial citizens who, whatever their walk of life, have the spirit and inquisitiveness to think in new ways, and the courage to meet and adapt to the challenges facing them. Moreover, a dynamic e ...
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Critical Thinking Across the European Higher Education Curricula

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

CRITHINKEDU derives from the experiences of partners’ institutions and from the need to link higher education institutions with the labor market and society, meeting the needs and challenges of the 21st century in the development of critical thinking skills in students. It aims to: 1) connect Higher Education Institutions (HEI), NGO’s and companies in order to identify curricular goals and outcome ...
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Teacher Well-Being and Diversity: Managing language and social diversity in classrooms

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...d linking schools (primary and secondary) as partners from four countries: Limerick University and Mary Immaculate College in Ireland, Professionshøjskolen UCC in Denmark, the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences in Norway. The HEI partners have contributed to teaching, learning and research in the fields of multilingualism, in ...
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Open Source Multilingual Teaching Materials Forum for Migrant Pupils in Europe

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

BackgroundSchools across Europe are seeing an increasing number of children who are either born in another country or whose parents are immigrants and who do not speak the school language at home. This presents a challenge as schools are expected to deliver quality education for all children, regardless of their ethnic background or linguistic abilities. Especially with the recent arrival of thous ...
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A novel approach for accounting & monitoring carbon sequestration of tree crops and their potential as carbon sink areas (LIFE CLIMATREE)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Jun 28, 2019,

Background Climate change mitigation is a crucial objective of the Kyoto Convention, and is oriented towards reducing GHG emissions. By 2013, the EU reduced its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 11%, a progress achieved through multidisciplinary strategic planning and applying measures in numerous EU policies. However, only forests’ capacity as carbon s ...
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A people-centred approach through Self-Management and Reciprocal learning for the prevention and management of Type-2-Diabetes (SMART2D)

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

Background:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and pre-diabetes contribute increasingly to the global burden of disease with the health systems struggling to effectively manage prevention and control. This necessitates contextually appropriate, policy relevant solutions with high scale-up potential. The study is built on a consortium experienced in implementation and cross-cultural translation of dise ...
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Platform foR European Preparedness Against (Re-)emerging Epidemics (PREPARE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

Far from receding, the threats posed by infections with epidemic potential grow ever greater. Although Europe has amongst the best healthcare systems in the world, and also the world’s supreme researchers in this field, we lack co-ordination and linkage between networks that is required to respond fast to new threats. This consortium of consortia will streamline our response, using primary and sec ...
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Funding Resources for innovation in Energy Enterprise Development (FREED)

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

Description (EN): FREED will develop a new service, by the means of which SME’s in the region can access innovation in energy technologies otherwise not be available within the NPA region. FREED will also facilitate the transfer of technology innovations to SME’s across the area, so that the outputs of the project will widely benefit the region. It will achieve this because it provi ...
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Professional Action and Practice for Youth Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...tners (CESIE an NGO from Italy; Kopin, an NGO from Malta; the University of Applied Science, Finland and Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), along with an NGO from a third country partner, the Western Balkans Institute from Serbia, who bring added value to the team. We will harness the combined expertise and youth networks in our strategic partnership, to create innovative online training and ...
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Transnational Holistic Ecosystem 4 Better Energy Efficiency through Social innovation (THE4BEES)

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

Description (EN): THE4BEES builds on the hypothesis: Energy is consumed by people rather than by buildings. Although most of the strategies to achieve energy efficiency in buildings focus on technical mitigation measures, to reach the ambitious goals on Low Carbon set by EU and Alpine Strategy, both structural and soft approaches shall be considered in a complementary way across the ...
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ChangeMakers | Nurturing the design thinking mindset of children through gaming

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

In the Future of Learning, published by the EU, the authors highlighted three key concepts that should guide learning in the future: personalisation, collaboration and informalisation. And despite the terms are not new, the urgency of placing them at the centre of the learning design and facilitation still lacks priority and action.As the OECD reported in 2015 (Schooling Redesigned: Towards Innova ...
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RD-CONNECT: An integrated platform connecting registries, biobanks and clinical bioinformatics for rare disease research (RD-CONNECT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Despite examples of excellent practice, rare disease (RD) research is still mainly fragmented by data and disease types. Individual efforts have little interoperability and almost no systematic connection between detailed clinical and genetic information, biomaterial availability or research/trial datasets. By developing robust mechanisms and standards for linking and exploiting these data, RD-Con ...
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Enhancing Postgraduate Environments

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The Higher Education sector in South Africa is going through a fundamental transformation process, addressing several challenges such as inequality of representation amongst existing staff, high student : staff ratios, low throughput rates, limited qualifications of existing staff and an inadequate postgraduate pipeline. Therefore, the government aims to identify and nurture academic talent, supp ...
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Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys (HEALS)

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

Assessing individual exposure to environmental stressors and predicting health outcomes implies that both environmental exposures and epi/genetic variations are reliably measured simultaneously. HEALS (Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys) brings together in an innovative approach a comprehensive array of novel technologies, data analysis and modeling tools th ...
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WeAreEurope – Creating a Cohesive Europe

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

“2013 has been designated the ‘European Year of Citizens’. It marks the twentieth anniversary of the entry into force of the Maastricht Treaty, which first introduced European Union citizenship into the Treaties. In the midst of the socio economic crisis that Europe finds itself in and in the face of solid trends of declining support for the European integration process and of a resurgence of divi ...
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How to wIN the challenGE: internationalising EQF Level 5

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

The general objectives of the project are to strengthen cooperation between the world of education and training and the world of work, to foster quality, innovation and internationalization of partner institutions and to establish transnational cooperation between education providers and regional/local authorities in charge of accreditation of training bodies, development of LLL and recognition o ...
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Artful Leadership: developing the new generation of servant leaders through arts

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

Artful Leadership, developing a new generation of workers and leaders through arts is a collaborative effort, joining HEI, Research and SMEs, in an effort to challenge the business and leadership education in Europe. The word is in turmoil. Globalization, technology, profound demographic changes, financial crisis, ethic dilemmas lead us to question the validity of our educational and management pa ...
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Managing the refugee and migrant flows through the development of educational and vocational frames for children and adults

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The present project aims to alter the ways and modes that specific stakeholders such as the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece,the Faculty of Education, as well as the School of Modern Greek Language in Thessaloniki and the Cartographic Heritage Archives, in collaboration with the Municipalities of Peonia (Idomeni) and Delta (Diavata) pedagogically cope with the refugee flow in the are ...
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Generating Renewable Energy Business Enterprise (GREBE)

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

Description (EN): GREBE will focus on the challenges of peripheral and arctic regions as places for doing business and help develop renewable energy (RE) business opportunities provided by extreme conditions. It will support successful development of SMEs and start-ups in this sector through analysis of advanced RE options, expert business mentoring, transnational models of successf ...
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Exchange of knowledge and good practice to enhance the education of refugee and sylum seeking youth.

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

The SIRIUS Network with the ‘Multi-country Partnership to Enhance the Education of Refugee and Asylum-seeking Youth in Europe’ (PERAE) propose a partnership between eight countries to address inadequate access to quality education for asylum-seeking and refugee youth throughout the European Union. The recent drastic rise in asylum applicants has placed increased pressure on Member States to develo ...
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Bridging Biobanking and Biomedical Research across Europe and Africa (B3Africa)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

B3Africa - Bridging Biobanking and Biomedical Research across Europe and Africa will dramatically improve and facilitate the development of better predictive, preventive and personalized healthcare worldwide. The rapidly evolving African biobanks are an invaluable resource: The African population has the greatest genomic diversity on the planet and represents an incredible resource of information ...
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Cruising Oceans On Latitudes above 51º North (Cool Route)

Start date: Jun 2, 2015, End date: Jun 1, 2018,

...nd business potential to establish a bi-directional yacht cruising route along the offshore areas of the Northern Periphery Area, stretching from the South of Ireland, to the UK (Northern Ireland and Western Scotland) on onwards to Norway. As an eco-tourism product, exploiting the natural resources of the zone in a  manner that is sustainable and environmentally viable; this new sea route will be ...
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Smart Peripheral and Remote Airports 2020 (SPARA2020)

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

Description (EN): Main ObjectivesThis project will deliver increased innovation within public service provision of these airports which are supported directly and indirectly (i.e. publically owned, capital and recurrent grants, public service obligations routes, enabling infrastructure) by local, regional and national governments.Expected Change/OutputsBy applying a triple helix mod ...
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Creative Momentum

Start date: May 11, 2015, End date: May 10, 2018,

Description (EN): Creative Momentum (CM) tackles the peripherality and distance to market challenges experienced by entrepreneurs in the creative and cultural industries across the Northern Periphery and Arctic area, as well as low economic diversity in these regions.  It provides enterprise development and market expansion spaces, services and supports with a transnational focus.  ...
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Involving the coMmunity to co-PROduce public serVicEs (IMPROVE)

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

Description (EN): IMPROVE aims to increase the level of innovation in six NPA peripheral regions in the field of technology-driven public service solutions. It adapts a novel living labs-driven approach to maximise knowledge transfers between regions and stakeholders. Real communities will  demonstrate the approach by using it to co-produce six services, and develop tools and method ...
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Remote support of Aged people (RemoAge)

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

Description (EN): The RemoAge project will tackle the challenge of supporting people with dementia and other frail older people to age in place in remote and sparsely populated areas of the northern periphery of Europe, where there are long distances and limited resource to meet the challenge. It will build on and roll out tested and evaluated service packages that will meet this ch ...
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Slow Adventure In Northern Territories (SAINT)

Start date: Apr 13, 2015, End date: Apr 12, 2018,

Description (EN): Slow Adventures in Northern Territories (SAINT) will work with SMEs to make them more aware of how to capitalise on the business opportunities in guided slow adventure experiences, offering simple nature-based, immersive journeys, living and travelling in wild places, through marketing to new, distant customer markets.  Nothern Europes wide-open, wild spaces provid ...
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Ecosystem Approach to making Space for Aquaculture (AquaSpace)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The AquaSpace project has the goal of providing increased space for aquaculture to allow increased production. Following the call, we will achieve this by identifying the key constraints experienced by aquaculture development in a wide range of contexts and aquaculture types, taking into account all relevant factors and advised by a Reference User Group. We will then map these constraints against ...
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Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP)

Start date: Dec 19, 2013, End date: Jan 1, 2018,

Understanding the evolution of galaxies across cosmic time is one of the great challenges of astrophysics. At the present day, galaxies found in different environments are very different from each other. To understand how this came to be we need to map a wide range of environments in the early Universe using telescopes that probe the different physical processes. Many astronomical facilities have ...
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Co-creating Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Solutions (MareFrame)

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

"MareFrame seeks to remove barriers preventing a more widespread use of an Ecosystem-based Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM). It will develop assessment methods and a Decision Support Framework (DSF) for management of marine resources and thereby enhance the capacity to provide integrated assessment, advice and decision support for an EAFM. Enabling comparisons between relevant ""what-if"" s ...
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Long-term effects of early nutrition on later health (EARLYNUTRITION)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Nutrition during early development has an important impact on later health, particularly through greater obesity risk, as demonstrated by FP6 EARNEST. EarlyNutrition explores the current key hypotheses on likely causes and pathways to prevention of early life origins of obesity (specifically adiposity) and associated disorders. We bring extraordinary expertise and study populations of 470,000 indi ...
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Boosting Adult System Education in Agriculture

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2017,

Adult education addresses three distinct sets of priorities in socio economic development: the needs and goals of individuals, the needs and goals of the institution, and the needs and goals of the society. Adult education program in agriculture has reached a significant level of importance. Local academic systems should accept responsibility for offering adult education programs that meet the nee ...
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Entrepreneurship, Modernization and Innovation in SoutH Africa

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2017,

Based on a previous EU project on innovation in South Africa we realized there was a need for a capacity building project in the region. As previous projects had focused on mobility of students and staff, we wanted to create a project that would train and support the university staff in developing innovation in their universities.We put together a set of models which would affect employment of gra ...
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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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Integrated European –omics research project for diagnosis and therapy in rare neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases (Neuromics)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Neurodegenerative (ND) and neuromuscular (NM) disease is one of the most frequent classes of rare diseases, affecting life and mobility of 500,000 patients in Europe and millions of their caregivers, family members and employers. This NEUROMICS project brings together the leading research groups in Europe, five highly innovative SMEs and relevant oversea experts using the most sophisticated Omics ...
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Development of an open access remote photovoltaics laboratory and associated open educational resources for online training and education.

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

This project suggests the development of an open access remote PV laboratory for educational purposes. The remote PV laboratory will be installed outdoors at the facilities of the TEI of Athens - Greece, which is in a geographical region characterized by a large number of annual sunshine hours, allowing the users to perform real-world tests and experiments with photovoltaic panels over the interne ...
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