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Towards Smart Zero CO2 Cities across Europe (SmartEnCity)

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

SmartEnCity’s main Objective is to develop a highly adaptable and replicable systemic approach towards urban transformation into sustainable, smart and resource-efficient urban environments in Europe through the integrated planning and implementation of measures aimed at improving energy efficiency in main consuming sectors in cities, while increasing their supply of renewable energy, and demonstr ...
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Linking genetic resources, genomes and phenotypes of Solanaceous crops (G2P-SOL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

G2P-SOL is a research alliance bringing together the major European and International repositories of germplasm with public and private institutions active in genomics, phenotyping and breeding in the four major Solanaceous crops: potato, tomato, pepper and eggplant. These four crops constitute 66% of the value of European horticultural production, and over 65,000 accessions are available within t ...
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Internet of Food and Farm 2020 (IoF2020)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The IoF2020 project is dedicated to accelerate adoption of IoT for securing sufficient, safe and healthy food and to strengthen competitiveness of farming and food chains in Europe.It will consolidate Europe’s leading position in the global IoT industry by fostering a symbiotic ecosystem of farmers, food industry, technology providers and research institutes.The IoF2020 consortium of 73 partners, ...
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Protein-based functional nanostructures (ProNANO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The precise synthesis of nano-devices with tailored complex structures and properties is a requisite for their use in nanotechnology and medicine. Nowadays, the technology for the generation of these devices lacks the precision to determine their properties, and is accomplished mostly by “trial and error” experimental approaches. Bottom-up self-assembly that relies on highly specific biomolecular ...
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Scanning probe microscopies for nanoscale fast, tomographic and composition imaging (SPM2.0)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Advanced Microscopy techniques are widely recognized as one of the pillars onto which the research and manufacture of Nanotechnology based products is sustained. At present, the greatest challenge faced by these techniques is the realization of fast and non-destructive tomographic images with chemical composition sensitivity and with sub-10 nm spatial resolution, in both organic and inorganic mate ...
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Tribbles Research and Innovation Network (TRAIN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

This proposal was developed in the context of the medical need to tackle the clinical consequences of obesity-related diseases more holistically. Dysregulation of common molecular pathways that govern the physiological functioning of adipocytes, immune cells and prostate epithelium cells have been reported in immuno-metabolic disease (such as obesity) and several cancers. The individual projects ...
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PET Imaging in Drug Design and Development (PET3D)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

The drug development strategy currently pursued by the pharmaceutical industry worldwide is inefficient and unsustainable for the health care system. To keep the latter affordable, drug development should become more efficient and drug treatment should become more “personalized” and “rationalized”. Molecular imaging can play a pivotal role in changing the landscape of drug design/development and i ...
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Demonstration of innovative integrated biomass logistics centres for the Agro-industry sector in Europe (AGROinLOG)

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

The main goal of AGROinLOG is the demonstration of Integrated Biomass Logistic Centres (IBLC) for food and non-food products, evaluating their technical, environmental and economic feasibility. The project is based on three agro-industries in the fodder (Spain), olive oil production (Greece) and cereal processing (Sweden) sectors that are willing to deploy new business lines in their facilities to ...
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A holistic multi-actor approach towards the design of new tomato varieties and management practices to improve yield and quality in the face of climate change (TomGEM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The world demographic growth and global climate change are major challenges for human society,hence the need to design new strategies for maintaining high crop yield in unprecedented environmental conditions.The objective of TomGEM is to design new strategies aiming to maintain high yields of fruit and vegetables at harsh temperature conditions, using tomato as a reference fleshy fruit crop.As yie ...
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Data-Driven Bioeconomy (DataBio)

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

The data intensive target sector selected for the DataBio project is the Data-Driven Bioeconomy, focusing in production of best possible raw materials from agriculture, forestry and fishery/aquaculture for the bioeconomy industry to produce food, energy and biomaterials taking into account also various responsibility and sustainability issues. DataBio proposes to deploy a state of the art, big dat ...
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Pest Organisms Threatening Europe (POnTE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

This proposal SFS-03a-2014-aligned focuses to minimize the risk of introduction/impact of emerging pests threatening EU agriculture and forestry. The targets are: 1) Xylella fastidiosa and its vectors in olive, grapevine, citrus, stone fruit, ornamentals and landscape trees of high socio-economic importance; 2) ‘Ca. Liberibacter solanacearum’ and its vectors affecting a number of strategic crops s ...
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A training network for the rational design of the next generation of well-defined glycoconjugate vaccines (GLYCOVAX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

GLYCOVAX is a network for the education of promising young scientists who will learn how to rationally design a next generation of well-defined and innovative glycoconjugate vaccines to improve current preventive therapies and to tackle unmet medical needs. Glycoconjugate vaccines represent the key for success of vaccination in children. The covalent linkage to proteins renders carbohydrates able ...
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AffordabLe LIghtweight Automobiles AlliaNCE (ALLIANCE)

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

6 of the European carmakers (DAIMLER, VW, TME, CRF, VOLVO, Opel), under the coordination of EUCAR, have joined forces to commonly address the high cost issue of innovations in vehicle lightweighting, having identified it as the major bottleneck towards their implementation in vehicle series and mass production. The AffordabLe LIghtweight Automobiles AlliaNCE (ALLIANCE) has the ambition to develop ...
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First Chemoselective Synthesis and Structural Studies of Lasso Peptides (FCSSSLP)

Start date: Jul 5, 2016, End date: Jul 4, 2019,

The main objective of this project is to promote the use of peptides as potential therapeutic agents. We now know that ribosomal peptides, and specifically lasso peptides, which are biosynthesized by bacteria as agents of defense, show a compact and rigid structure, giving a high stability against physical, chemical and proteolytic degradation. The spectrum of biological activities of these peptid ...
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Drones: Experiential Learning and new Training Assets

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

The project aims at:- socializing (with case studies reconstructed for educational purposes) pupils and teachers of VET schools with drone technology, designing its integration with curricular STEM programs as teacher-led approach- co-designing with companies innovative working environments, developing the necessary resources for an open and transferable WBL for the realization of a project work “ ...
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Marine Knowledge Sharing Platform for Federating Responsible Research and Innovation Communities (MARINA)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The Marina proposal overall aim is to create an all-inclusive Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP) catalysing and organising the convergence of already existing networks, communities, on-line platforms and services providing an online socio-technical environment that facilitates and stimulates the direct engagement of researchers, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), citizens, industry stakeholders, po ...
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Saving COOPerative Energy (SCOoPE)

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

SCOoPE project will work directly with energy-intense agro-food industries to implement cross-cutting and collaborative energy management systems addressed to reduce their energy consumption, and will further spread this knowledge within technicians, businesses managers, and energy and agro-food institutions.The project SCOoPE aims at achieving the challenges of the topic EE 16-2014/2015. Regardin ...
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Learning Zone: Strategies of non formal education applied to formal context to facilitate integration of migrants and recent refugees

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

This project is developed in a context where, on the one hand, it increases the need to migrate because of wars, disasters and poverty and on the other hand, increases the hostility of the locals towards foreigners, especially if their religion is Islam (Islamophobia). Refugees and migrants seeking to adapt as soon as possible to the host country through language courses for foreigners, taught by ...
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Science, Technology, and Society Initiative to minimize Unwanted Catches in European Fisheries (MINOUW)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The complexity of the problem of banning discards and bringing all unwanted catches to land makes it necessary to follow a multi-actor approach, whereby scientists, fisheries technologists, fish producers and NGOs work collaboratively to provide the scientific and technical basis to achieve the gradual elimination of discards in European marine fisheries. The project’s overall objective is to mini ...
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Nanomechanics of proteins involved in viral and bacterial infections (InfeMec)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Viruses and bacteria utilize proteins to attach and infect cells and tissues. Viruses have envoloped proteins that especifically recongnize receptors in the surface of the target cells. HIV-1 recognices receptor CD4 in the surface of T cell throghout its envolope glycoprotein gp120. In the case of bacteria, they attach to tissues using long filament called pilus. Bacterial pilus type 1 is composed ...
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Hybrid Drug Delivery Systems upon Mesoporous Materials, Self Assembled Therapeutics and Virosomes (HYMADE)

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

HYMADE focuses on the development of capsules and engineered colloidal particles for drug delivery combining mesoporous colloids, the Layer by Layer (LbL) technique and virosomes. The capsules and particles have potential applications in cancer and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and uveitis. The project is based on the secondments of Early Stage Researchers and Experienced Rese ...
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Synthetic Optical Holography (SYNTOH)

Start date: Jan 11, 2016, End date: Jan 10, 2019,

Holography has paved the way for phase imaging in a variety of wide-field techniques such as optical microscopy. In scanning optical microscopy, however, the serial fashion of image acquisition seems to challenge a direct implementation of traditional holography. Recently, the applicant and supervisors have jointly invented synthetic optical holography (SOH), which is a new holographic modality fo ...
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Development of Selective Carbohydrate Immunomodulators Targeting C-type Lectin Receptors on Antigen Presenting Cells (IMMUNOSHAPE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

IMMUNOSHAPE aims at training a new generation of scientists that will be capable of combining state of the art synthesis and screening technology to develop new lead structures for highly selective glycan based multivalent immunotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune diseases and allergy. To this end, we have set up a training program in a unique academic-industrial environment that ...
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Redesigning 2D Materials for the Formulation of Semiconducting Inks (2D-INK)

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

2D-INK is targeted at developing inks of novel 2D semiconducting materials for low-cost large-area fabrication processes on insulating substrates through a new methodology, which will exceed the properties of state-of-the-art graphene- and graphene oxide based inks. Achieving this would represent an important step forward in the processing of 2D semiconducting materials and will provide the key pa ...
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Toll-Like Receptor 4 activation and function in diseases: an integrated chemical-biology approach. (TOLLerant)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Based on an international team derived from the COST action BM1003 (www.cost-bm1003.info, 2011-2014) and thus relying on consolidated group interactions and synergies and on a unique combination of chemistry, biology, biophysics, biochemistry and pharmacology expertise, the TOLLerant project aims to gain information on molecular aspects of TLR4 activation and signaling by using synthetic and natur ...
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Switching graphene-plasmon with phase-change materials (SGPCM)

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

Graphene plasmons (GPs) enable the transport and control of light on an extreme subwavelength scale as well as the dynamic tunability via electric-gate voltage, which can be exploited for numerous applications such as for strong light-matter interactions, tunable infrared biosensing and absorption spectroscopy, subwavelength optical imaging, as well as for the development of tunable transformation ...
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Diversity in Adult Education

Start date: Dec 31, 2016, End date: Dec 30, 2018,

The European societies are increasingly diverse in terms of social, cultural and linguistic background. Adult education reflects this diversity, posing challenges to all included: learners, trainers, and administrative staff. Coping successfully with diversity is a demanding task, as a clash of cultures and values is usually involved. The lack of awareness and sensitization on the issue causes oft ...
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Anti-tick Vaccines to Prevent Tick-borne Diseases in Europe (ANTIDotE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Background Ixodes ricinus transmits bacterial, protozoal and viral pathogens that cause Lyme borreliosis, babesiosis and tick-borne encephalitis respectively and exceedingly affect Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). During feeding, ticks introduce salivary proteins in the skin that interfere with host defense mechanisms. However, in animals repeated tick infestations as well as vaccination against ...
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ELABORATION D’UN REFERENTIEL DE FORMATION POUR AIDANTS ET ACCUEILLANTS FAMILIAUX DE PERSONNES ÂGEES ET/OU VIVANT AVEC UN HANDICAP

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

In France, according to the INSEE, the number of people over 60 will increase by more than 10.4 million between 2007 and 2060. It is estimated that 6-7% of people over 60 lose their autonomy. Furthermore, the life expectancy of people with disabilities tends to get closer to the one of the general population.This French demographic study is totally transposable in the countries of the other partne ...
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NEW ERA - New Expertises for Workers in European Refugees Assistance

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The refugee emergency appeared in the last two years is a new fact that has found unprepared many European countries. The extent of the phenomenon has created an emergency situation that inevitably reflects on the political and social balance between citizens, public institutions and refugee welcoming organizations. In fact, institutional and private actors that deal with this issue, reveal the ne ...
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Metabolic requirements for prostate cancer cell fitness (CancerMetab)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The actual view of cellular transformation and cancer progression supports the notion that cancer cells must undergo metabolic reprogramming in order to survive in a hostile environment. This field has experienced a renaissance in recent years, with the discovery of cancer genes regulating metabolic homeostasis, in turn being accepted as an emergent hallmark of cancer. Prostate cancer presents one ...
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Chiral Plasmons in Protein-Nanoparticle Hybrid Materials for Application as Biosensors (CINMAB)

Start date: Oct 20, 2016, End date: Oct 19, 2018,

The real challenge in the field of nanomaterials is to fabricate hybrid systems that can function as smart materials in a wide variety of applications. Hybrid systems possessing protein templates can be potential candidates in this direction due to the wide variety of applications possible in biological systems. The project outlined below aims at the synthesis of novel hybrid conjugates based on p ...
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Transforming higher education to strengthen links between universities and the livestock sector in Argentina and Peru

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

In Argentina and Peru the livestock sector is important for the national economies as job provider in rural areas and major contributor to the GDP. Currently the sector is facing many challenges and limitations, but also big opportunities as the demand for products of animal origin is growing. These dynamics make the need for better trained livestock professionals, able to respond to needs and dem ...
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Reduction of sea turtle mortality in commercial fisheries (TARTALIFE)

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

Background The conservation of the sea turtle (Caretta caretta) – an EU priority species, listed in annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive, and protected under various international conventions – is of strategic importance for the whole Mediterranean basin. Fishing represents the main threat to the species’ survival. Researchers (Casale, 2011) ...
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Iniciativas Transnacionais para AcTivar o meio rural

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The requirement to which it is addressed the mobility concern the acquisition by students of specialist knowledge and skills related to the following areas: - Restoration technician, variant Kitchen / Confectionery- Technical Management and Programming Information Systems- Technical Agricultural Production, variant of Plant Production- Industrial Maintenance Technician - Electromechanical- Techni ...
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From Marginalized Communities Towards Social Unity

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

...in the period of 01/10/2016 – 31/07/2017 in Palermo.A1→ CESIE office;A2 → Ubuntu - multicultural playground that involves 30 children of migrant families;A3→ Cooperativa La Fraternità – local social center for persons with physical and mental disabilities;A4→ Edificando - local social center for persons with physical and mental disabilities. A5→ Casa di tutte le genti – a multicultural playground ...
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Hacia una formación sin límites

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

The Secondary Education School, IES Politécnico Hermenegildo Lanz, of Granada, wishes to take part in an Erasmus+ project for VET learners in order to increase the quality of training, expand their career opportunities and strengthen a network of collaboration between different countries of the European Union to fulfil the principle of Unity in Diversity. The project plans the mobility of 10 pa ...
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ERASMUS + - Un levier pour l'emploi III

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

Pôle emploi wants to carry an Erasmus+ project for the 2016-2018 period in order to offer to jobseekers a European mobility opportunity. The purpose of the project is to allow them to gain work experience and complementary job skills in order to facilitate their inclusion in the labour market, both in France and Europe.After implementing the Leonardo da Vinci programme for several years and with t ...
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Unravelling the Nascent Code: Signals sensed and transmitted by the nascent chain to acquire its functional state or reprogram gene expression (THE NASCENT CODE)

Start date: Jul 14, 2014, End date: Jul 13, 2018,

"Emerging biochemical and biophysical data strongly suggest that the transformation of the potential set of proteins, encrypted in the genome, into its actual vital functional set, is a manifestation not just of the genetic code, but of an additional layer of information encoded within the newly synthesized polypeptide nascent chain. To date, we know that immediately upon the first steps of protei ...
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MOSAIC: Making Opportunities to Strengthen Amity and InterCulturality

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

MOSAIC (Making Opportunities to Strengthen Amity and InterCulturality) is an EVS project coordinated by InCo with the participation of 7 volunteers from 6 different countries (Spain, Germany, Ukraine, Georgia, Russia and Tunisia), 6 of them have already been identified and 2 of them are male volunteers and 3 can be considered as young people with fewer opportunities. Volunteers, sending and receiv ...
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