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STARTS Prize - Grand prize of the European Commission honoring innovation in technology, industry and society stimulated by the arts (STARTS Prize)

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

Science, technology and arts limn a nexus at which observers have identified extraordinarily high potential for innovation. And innovation is precisely what’s called for if we’re to master the social, ecological and economic challenges that Europe will be facing in the future. The STARTS Prize initiative will focus on the most forward looking collaborations at the crossings of art, science, techno ...
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Decentralised Citizens Owned Data Ecosystem (DECODE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Today’s Internet is becoming increasingly centralised, slowing innovation and challenging its potential to revolutionise society and the economy in a pluralistic manner. DECODE will develop practical alternatives through the creation, evaluation and demonstration of a distributed and open architecture for managing online identity, personal and other data, and collective governance in a citizen-fri ...
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TCBL – Textile and Clothing Business LabsTransformative Business Models for the Textile Clothing Sector (TCBL)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

TCBL uses Europe’s Textiles & Clothing (T&C) industry as test beds for evolutionary-driven co-design, dynamic optimisation and deployment of business models. It aims to increase the performance of a sector that, over the past two decades, upheld three main strategies to handle global competitive pressure: cost-oriented, product/service-oriented and productivity-oriented. TCBL provides a business e ...
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Doing It Together science (DITOs) (DITOs)

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

Our project, 'Doing-It-Together Science', DITOs, represents a step change in European public engagement with science and innovation. We propose moving from a model in which scientific research, innovation, and problem-solving is mainly driven by scientific/professional institutions to one based on active public participation and capacity building with various levels and strategies of engagement in ...
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Big Picnic:Big Questions - engaging the public with Responsible Research and Innovation on FoodSecurity (BigPicnic)

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

Ensuring the availability of and access to sufficient safe and nutritious food is a key priority that impacts all EU citizens and Horizon 2020 has therefore identified food security as one of the major challenges to be addressed. BGCI, an international network organisation will work with botanic gardens, experienced informal science centres with research expertise in food and food plants, alongsid ...
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Grey and green in Europe: elderly living in urban areas (GRAGE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

The EU has to face many challenges in achieving a more balanced regional development and sustainable economic recovery. Many of those challenges have to do with the ageing population trend, urbanization and environment under distress. More liveable and efficient communities is a target to be reached in Europe, where the “silver hair” trends can become a challenging opportunity, from a social, econ ...
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Champion e-government appLications to increAse tRust, accountabIlity and TransparencY in public services (CLARITY)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The CLARITY project seeks to support European Member States in their pursuit for greater trust, transparency and efficiency within government via the increase take-up of open government initiatives. CLARITY is a small-scale coordination and support action designed to: 1) mobilise a multidisciplinary network of stakeholders across the open government ecosystem in order to support and encourage the ...
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BrainHack: Bringing the arts and sciences of brain and neural computer interface together (BrainHack)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

We witness a rapid development of Brain/Neural Computer Interaction (BNCI) research including hyperscanning and collaborative BNCIs. Several recent BNCI community driven CSAs have addressed this topic (Future BNCI, BNCI Horizon 2020 ) with the BCI Society being in progress of establishing. At the same time, a growing community of international artists is exploring the boundaries of brain physiolog ...
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Making Sense

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The raise of Fab Labs and maker spaces are creating new opportunities for citizen-driven innovation in a myriad domains ranging from open hardware to digital fabrication, community informatics, and participatory sensing. In the past five years, the broad availability of open hardware tools, the creation of online data sharing platforms, and access to maker spaces have fostered the design of low c ...
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Future and Emerging Art and Technology (FEAT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The aim of FEAT is to stimulate take-up of FET research results and create internationally significant new forms of impact and innovation by embedding and supporting high profile international artists to develop innovative artworks through deep engagements with FET projects. The project will embed six artists within FET projects where they will collaborate to develop and create new artworks that w ...
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Trust me, I'm an artist

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

The aim of our project is to investigate how artists and cultural institutions can best engage with biotechnology and biomedicine in order to drive innovation in artistic production, ways of presenting artworks, and developing new audiences in Europe. Our goal is to provide artists, cultural institutions and audiences with the skills to understand the ethical issues that arise in the creation and ...
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Digital Social Innovation for Europe (DSI4EU)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The DSI4EU project will support, grow and scale the current Digital Social Innovation network of projects and organisations, bringing together social entrepreneurs, hackers, communities and academics working on key DSI fields such as the makers movement, the collaborative economy, open democracy and digital rights.DSI4EU will foster digital innovations for the social good, helping communities shar ...
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Spaces of possibility for the creative re-use of Europeana's content (Europeana Space)

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

The objective of Europeana Space is to increase and enhance the creative industries' use of Europeana by delivering a range of resources to support their engagement. The use of Europeana by the creative industries is still limited by factors including issues around the IPR status of content and the need for business models demonstrating the potential for exploitation of available content. In addr ...
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A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating Collective Awareness into Behavioural Change (DecarboNet)

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

A lack of collective awareness negatively impacts perceived personal efficacy, which hampers efforts to address societal problems. DecarboNet is a multidisciplinary effort to tackle this problem by identifying determinants of collective awareness, translating awareness into behavioural change, and providing novel methods to analyse and visualise the underlying processes. The project's core innovat ...
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Renewal, Innovation and Change: Heritage and European Society (RICHES)

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

For many in 21st century Europe, Cultural Heritage (CH) is more about what it is than who we are: though enormously rich, this treasure is often locked away, or crumbling, or in a foreign language, or about a past which to many people - young , old, newcomers to Europe and settled inhabitants - seems of little relevance. But this is changing. As digital technologies permeate all of society, compe ...
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Creativity in learning through Social Computing and Game Mechanics in the Enterprise (COLLAGE)

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

Description Social creativity in learningMuch social creativity involves human collaboration through and about artefacts that embody collective knowledge resulting from the collaboration. It can be a catalyst to enable European SMEs and large organizations to adopt and sustain new approaches to learning by fostering non-linear and non-sta ...
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Apps 4 Europe - Turning Data into Business (Apps4EU)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Apps for Europe - turning Data into Business will create a thematic network to organise competitions for using open data, stimulate the winners to start business ventures, and maximise the socio-economic impact and overall benefits of open data. It will contribute to the open data policy of the Commission and stimulate the reuse of public sector information from governmental, scientific and cultur ...
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KiiCS - Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science (KiiCS)

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

KiiCS – Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science – stems from the belief that territoriality nourishes creativity and that local strengths and assets in relation to innovation and creativity should be mobilized to strengthen interactions potential across sectors and disciplines. The aim is to break silos between disciplines and business sectors. KiiCS is a project to experiment ...
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FI-WARE: Future Internet Core Platform (FI-WARE)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The goal of the FI-WARE project is to advance the global competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing an innovative infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, providing high QoS and security guarantees. FI-WARE is designed to meet the demands of key market stakeholders across many different sectors, e.g., healthcare, telecommunications, and environmental services. FI- ...
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Commons for Europe (Commons4EU)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Cities face a scenario characterized by shrinking budgets, increasing demands of services from their citizens and the need to reinvent themselves in their quest to become Smart Cities.Simultaneously, the Internet brought new opportunities to orchestrate collaboration, fostering the creation of a large base of commons in code, user generated contents and even telecom infrastructures with the emerge ...
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Smart City Service Development Kit and its Application Pilots (CitySDK)

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

We will produce three large-scale pan-European smart city service pilots in the eight partner cities. The pilots are in the domains of smart mobility, smart participation and smart tourism. A combination of city organisations' leadership, collaboration between the cities, and a large amount of partners' relevant existing services, interfaces, software, practices and standards in these domains are ...
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Connecting ICT and Art communities: new research avenues, challenges, and expected impact (FET-ART)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2014,

The FET-ART project stems from the "ICT & ART Connect" event that took place in Brussels in April 2012 under the aegis of the FET Unit, with an important support and contribution of several FET-ART partners.This event clearly confirmed that a great potential exists in fostering dialogue between ICT and Art practitioners, and this is the right time to efficiently support such dialogue in order to c ...
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OPEN INNOVATION Mechanisms in Smart Cities (Open Cities)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The success of cities is linked to their efficiency, in reducing transaction costs and providing services. However, in order to maintain this success, cities have reinvented themselves many times through history.Today, Information Technologies are doomed to be the key driver of a new wave of innovation in cities that will lead, one more time, to their reinvention.However, public procurement and ma ...
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ECLECTIS : European Citizens'Laboratory for Empowerment : CiTies Shared

Start date: May 1, 2013,

Within the ECLECTIS project, Prostoroz, SL; Expeditio, ME; Transforma, PT; Waag, NL; Idensitat, ES; Dedale, FR and EFAP, BE aim at implementing an innovative structuring European process to favour citizens’ integration in the urban making, valuing European diversity, intercultural dialogue and new technologies as sources to stimulate creativity and new practices.6 Laboratories will be implemented ...
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WEAVING EUROPE: ARTEFACTS, VALUES & EXCHANGES Cycles of cultural events and ateliers to discover Culture and Art through Textiles and Fibre Artefacts in Europe

Start date: Aug 1, 2013,

WEAVING EUROPE: ARTEFACTS, VALUES & EXCHANGES Cycles of cultural events and ateliers to discover Culture and Art through Textiles and Fibre Artefacts in Europe aims to meet children (3-12 years old), families, schools, teachers, museums operators, University researchers, designers, fibre artists and students to promote Cultural Heritage through an innovative and non formal approach, learning by d ...
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