The objective of the action is to strengthen the capacity of private owners of heritage houses and equip them with innovative business models. The preparatory action will map the existing business models used by family-owned heritage houses in the EU, compare them, identify and share best practices and potential innovations. It will also quantify and qualify the economic value of family-owned heri ...

INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL COOPERATION   1. INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL COOPERATION  1.1 Background  The Partnership Instrument (PI) is one of the key innovations in Heading 4 of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 package of instruments for financing external action. Designed to advance and promote EU and mutual interests abroad, the PI supports the external dimension of EU policies ra ...

1. Introduction This Call is being conducted as a follow-up of the Joint Action under the framework of JPI *Oceans*, and making use of the availability of RV SONNE in the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCZ), subequatorial eastern Pacific. JPI *Oceans* is an intergovernmental strategic process initiated by the European Parliament that focuses on solving the societal challenges related to o ...

1 About SoftFire SoftFIRE integrates European independent testbeds that are made available with a set of basic functionalities related to Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking. The project is aiming at assessing three major characteristics that an NFV/SDN platform should support: interoperability with various functional elements, programmability of the offered function ...

1. Introduction The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to strengthen economic and social cohesion in the European Union by correcting imbalances between its regions. The European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) strand is central to the construction of a common European space, and a cornerstone of European integration. It has clear European added value: helping to ensure that borders a ...

1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 1.1.Introduction Small and medium-sized enterprises (henceforth called "SMEs") play a crucial role in reaching the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy1. Whereas they are considered as crucial engines for growth and job creation, their competitiveness is affected by a limited exploitation of international opportunities and innovation prospects in the Single M ...

In the digital, data-driven era, technology is disrupting faster than ever. However, why do communities have difficulties to solve challenges, even when they are replicated all over the world and the means seem to be at their disposal? Building upon the scope of NIST’s Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) to establish replicable, scalable and sustainable models with measurable benefits for the socie ...

1. CONTEXT 1.1. Introduction The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) provides an augmentation signal to the Global Positioning System (GPS) Standard Positioning Service. Presently EGNOS provides correction data and integrity information using the GPS L1 (1575.42 MHz) frequency band. The next generation of EGNOS (EGNOS v3) will continue to offer this legacy service an ...

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Legal base This call for proposals for the establishment of four year Framework Partnership Agreements and the first annual operating grant for 2018 is published under Regulation (EU) No 1296/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on a European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation ("EaSI")1 and amending Decision No 283/2010 ...

INTRODUCTION – Background Legal basis: Pilot project within the meaning of Article 54.2(a) of the Financial Regulation This open Call for Proposals implements the pilot project on mapping and assessing the state of ecosystems and their services in the outermost regions and overseas countries and territories: establishing links and pooling resources. Action 5 of the EU Biodiversity Strateg ...

Objectives ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. Size of ERC Starting Grants Starting Grants may be awarded up to a maxi ...

Objectives ERC Synergy Grants are intended to enable minimum two to maximum four Principal Investigatorsand their teams to bring together complementary skills, knowledge, and resources in new ways, in order to jointly address ambitious research problems. The aim is to promote substantial advances at the frontiers of knowledge, to cross-fertilize scientific fields, and to encourage new produc ...