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GENERALISED AUTOMATIC EXCHANGE OF PORT INFORMATION AREA (GAIA)

Start date: Feb 10, 2012, End date: Sep 10, 2014,

The project is based on a comprehensive vision of the Adriatic port system, which integrates many actors that operate beetween the two side of Adriatic sea. In this framework, an issue that takes on particular importance is the consolidation and the development of Systems Information that allows the secure exchange of information about security and travelers. This is a key instrument that will all...
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Governance and Agents in Institutional Architecture on Climate and Energy (GAIA)

Start date: Aug 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

"The proposed project is aiming at drawing a clear map of the effectiveness of various ongoing initiatives on climate change and energy issues, within and outside the UN framework, by focusing on governance functions and actors performing the functions, including nation states, business and industry, NGOs, scientific networks and international organizations. It further develops scenarios on mid- t...
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Green Awareness in Action (GAIA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The GAIA project focuses on the educational community; faculty, staff, students and parents at all levels of education: primary/secondary/high schools and universities. Targeting Energy Efficiency in the context of the educational community is clearly very important due to a number of reasons since raising awareness among young people and changing their behaviour and habits concerning energy usage...
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Energising Scientific Endeavour through Science Gateways and e-Infrastructures in Africa (Sci-GaIA)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

In African Communities of Practice (CoPs), international collaboration and the pursuit of scientific endeavour has faced a major barrier with the lack of access to e-Infrastructures and high performance network infrastructure enjoyed by European counterparts. With AfricaConnect, the proposed AfricaConnect2 and regional developments, this situation is changing rapidly. In the project Teaming-up fo...
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Global Alternatives for an Interconnected Arctic (GAIA)

Start date: May 15, 2012, End date: Dec 14, 2013,

"In the wake of climate change and new geopolitical conditions, the Arctic is of great interest to states, not just as a region of competition and cooperation but as one that forces a fundamental reconceptualization of how the modern state system categorizes the world. It is simultaneously a place of land, water, and ice; seen as empty yet containing a vibrant indigenous population; an inaccessibl...
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Gap Analysis for Integrated Atmospheric ECV CLImate Monitoring (GAIA-CLIM)

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

There is a recognised need for establishing sound methods for the characterisation of satellite-based Earth Observation (EO) data by surface-based and sub-orbital measurement platforms - spanning Atmosphere, Ocean and Land observations and the entire radiance spectrum. Robust EO instrument characterisation is about significantly more than simply where and when a given set of EO and ground-based / ...
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The Gaia-ESO Milky Way Survey (Gaia-ESO-MW)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Understanding how galaxies actually form and evolve within our dark matter and dark energy dominated [ɅCDM] universe continues to be an enormous challenge. State of the art simulations of the aggregation of cold dark matter under its own gravitational influence suggest that galaxies grow from very smooth initial conditions through a sequence of merger and accretion events. However, theoretical mod...
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PHOTONICS FRONT-END FOR NEXT-GENERATION SAR APPLICATIONS (GAIA)

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

The evolution of SAR has shown a clear trend towards higher performance at lower cost, less mass, size and power consumption imposing strong requirements in the today’s antenna technology since larger antennas means complex, bulky, difficult to route RF harness, and strong mechanical and thermal requirements for in-orbit deployable antennas. Larger bandwidths associated with larger antennas and sc...
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Green Areas Inner-city Agreement "GAIA" (GAIA)

Start date: Oct 10, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

Background Climate change is one of the most challenging environmental, social and economic threats we face today. The international community is trying to tackle this problem through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. Global warming is a reality and, as confirmed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha...
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UE Traduction Gaia 2015

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Our 2015-2017 project falls within our approach in publishing a high quality literature dedicated to a large audience, and opening French readers to other cultural and sociological aspects.We go further in publishing Nordic authors with 3 new novels : Jonas Gardell, a Swedish writer, and Ola Bauer and Monica Kristensen, both Norwegian.In this project we will go on discovering literatures from the ...
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Gaia-Wind's Advanced Small Wind Turbine FortyForty (GW-FortyForty)

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

Small onshore wind turbines have become increasingly accepted as an alternative to powering many homes, farms and businesses offering on-site electricity generation and increased security of energy supply. However, a number of barriers are preventing wide spread uptake: high cost; performance predictability issues; small wind currently fails to compete with low usage high retail electricity pricin...
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A Gaia and Herschel Study of the Density Distribution and Evolution of Young Massive Star Clusters (StarFormMapper)

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

We propose to use a combination of data from the ESA space missions GAIA and Herschel, alongside other satellite and European-led ground-based observations, to map the density distribution of star formation regions. This will allow us to identify the mechanisms that underlie both how massive stars themselves form, but more fundamentally, how their natal clusters evolve around them. Our work wi...
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GAIA

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

“GAIA” is a E+ project that contains 3 youth mobility’s of EVS type with hosting stages in Craiova/RO with a 6 month length: - A1: Nov2015-May2016;SO “VCS SKOPJIE” from MK (www.vcs.org.mk) & “GEORGIAN YOUTH FOR EUROPE” from GE (www.gye.ge) - A2: May2016-Nov.2016; SO: “SCAMBIEUROPEI” from IT (www.scambieuropei.info) &“YOUTH INITIATIVE CENTER” from AM (www.yic.am) - A3:Nov2016-May2017;SO: “SYSTEM AN...
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Advanced stellar spectroscopy in the Gaia era (GAIASPECTROSCOPY)

Start date: Mar 13, 2014, End date: Mar 12, 2016,

A new generation of surveys has begun the collection of high-resolution spectra for millions of individual stars in the Milky-Way Galaxy. In the frameworks of the Gaia-ESO and HERMES surveys, international research teams will decipher the information and derive precise chemical abundances and stellar parameters with unprecedently large statistics. In a year’s time, the Gaia satellite will begin it...
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Gaia European Network for Improved data User Services (GENIUS)

Start date: Sep 20, 2013, End date: Apr 1, 2017,

GENIUS is designed to boost the impact of the next European breakthrough in astrophysics, the Gaia astrometric mission. Gaia is an ESA Cornerstone mission scheduled for launch in October 2013 and aims at producing the most accurate andcomplete 3D map of the Milky Way to date. A pan-European consortium named DPAC is working on the implementation of the Gaia data processing, of which the final resul...
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GAIA

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

„GAIA” Project is applied under Erasmus+ Program, „Youth Mobility”, under the coordination of „Terra Nobillis” Association from Arad, Romania in partnership with „Jump In” Association from Poggiardo, Italy and forseese 2 youth exchanges: The first Youth Exchange of „GAIA” Project will take place in Poggiardo-Italy between 10.02.2015 and 25.02.2015, and the second Youth Exchange will take place in ...
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Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training - ITN (GREAT)

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

Gaia is the ESA cornerstone mission set to revolutionise our understanding of the Milky Way. This proposal will shape a critical mass of new expertise with the fundamental skills required to power the scientific exploitation of Gaia over the coming decade and beyond.The GREAT-ITN research theme is 'Unravelling the Milky Way' focused on four fundamental problems: unravelling the origin and history ...
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"Measuring Eta_Earth: Characterization of Terrestrial Planetary Systems with Kepler, HARPS-N, and Gaia" (ETAEARTH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"We propose to carry out an FP7 collaborative project to provide the first ever quantitative answer to one fundamental age-old question of mankind: ‘How common are Earth analogs in our Galaxy?’. We will achieve our goal by combining the unprecedented photometric precision of NASA’s Kepler mission, the unrivalled precision of ground-based radial-velocities from the HARPS-N spectrograph, and ESA’s G...
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NEw Science from the phase space of old stellar SYstems (NESSY)

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

In the last few years our traditional interpretative paradigm of the internal dynamics of globular star clusters (GCs) has been revolutionized by a series of discoveries about their chemical, structural, and kinematic properties. The existence of multiple stellar populations is now regarded as a ubiquitous phenomenon, while for decades GCs have been viewed as the epitome of a “simple ste...
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Knowledge and Excellence in European Nanotechnology - Regions (KEEN-REGIONS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2012,

EU Commissioner Janez Potonik stated that “nanotechnology is an area which has highly promising prospects for turning fundamental research into successful innovations.” The potential applications of nanotechnology are wide-ranging and rapidly increasing, demonstrating a field that has the potential to act as a powerful catalyst for economic development. To gain a competitive position in this exci...
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Head in the Clouds: Digital Learning to Overcome School Failure

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

Starting in September 2015 the Technical University of Vienna together with six partners in five countries will implement a 36-months project called "Head in the Clouds: Digital Learning to Overcome School Failure". This strategic partnership in the field of school education deals with the prevention of early school leaving, the development of basic and transversal skills and the enhancement of di...
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“EducArt: The use of wallpainting in education processes”

Start date: Aug 3, 2015, End date: Feb 2, 2016,

Since 2009 a group of European organizations have been working on various international projects, seting up an informal network. From 2009 to 2013 we were engaged in a training process that allowed us to investigate the introduction of artistic methodologies in our educational processes. A few years later and after having continued working together on many projects (EVS, Youth Initiatives, Youth E...
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Business Transformation towards Digitalization and Smart Systems

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

The idea of Business Transformation towards digitization and smart systems – BITTMAS is to prepare SMEs’ processes and their managers’ and employees’ competencies to deal with the challenges of the “Internet of things” and the opportunities from technological change. Their realization requires the commitment of each enterprise to identify its individual potential and develop a roadmap for implemen...
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HANDS ON SHARING - Voluntary Cooperation between Portugal and East Timor towards Environment Friendly Development

Start date: Mar 1, 2012,

HANDS ON SHARING project involves 4 Portuguese EVS volunteers, sent by GAIA Alentejo, who will be hosted in East Timor by NaTerra - Association of Education for Sustainable Development. Two volunteers will be hosted for 9 months, whereas the other two, original from a small rural village in Portugal, thus volunteers with fewer opportunities, will stay for 2 months in East Timor. All volunteers wil...
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Count Me In

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

Project "Count Me In" is designed as further education for those who work with people with special needs in the art and cultural sector. The project is going to be held in Gaia Museum of Outsider Art in Denmark. The organization has been a strong advocate for outsider art and for integrating people with special needs into the work field. They think that in spite of some social and individual disab...
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Using the Magellanic Clouds to Understand the Interaction of Galaxies (INTERCLOUDS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

The Magellanic Clouds are the nearest gas-rich dwarf satellites of the Milky Way and illustrate a typical example of an early phase of a minor merger event, the collision of galaxies that differ in mass by at least a factor of ten. In spite of their important role in supplementing material to the Milky Way halo and the numerous investigations made in the last decade, there remain several uncertain...
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Variable Stars in Current and Future Large Scale Observing Surveys (VARSTARS)

Start date: Mar 16, 2009, End date: Jul 15, 2011,

"Observing and analysing changes in the brightness of stars is one of the oldest means of studying them, their populations and underlying laws of physics. Variable stars give insight into stellar life and death and can act as rulers for determining distances in the Universe, allowing us to decipher spatial shapes of galaxies, including our own. In this project I propose to study various aspects o...
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LØS on the move!

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

The Danish Association of Ecovillages (LØS) is an umbrella organisation for the Danish ecovillages. The association turned 20 years in 2013 and is the first national network of ecovillages, globally. LØS experiences a growing focus among its members to create business in the ecovillages, focused on developing more qualitative educational activities, which are in high demand. Recent phenomena lik...
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Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool Objects (PARSEC)

Start date: Apr 14, 2010, End date: Jun 13, 2012,

"We request an Incoming International Fellowship for Dr Alexandre Andrei from the Observatório Nacional (ON) in Brazil to work at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino (OATo) on a research program to measure the parallaxes, hence distances, of nearby sub-stellar objects. The project plan requires data treatment and analysis, the development of astrometric methods, and the astrophysical exploitati...
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Seed Guardians / Support for agroecological Production and Implementation of Seed Centres in Ecuador

Start date: Mar 1, 2011,

The group EVS project "SEED GUARDIANS Support for Agroecological Production and .Implementation of Seed Centres in Ecuador" results from the cooperation between the Portuguese environmental NGO GAIA and the Ecuatorian Seed Guardians Network. Eight Portuguese young volunteers will be hosted for 12 months by Seed Guardians Network. The project includes four different activities, taking place in diff...
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Do intermediate-mass black holes exist? (imbh)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

With this proposed project I will determine whether intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) exist. I propose to use ESA's new Gaia mission, the rich Hubble Space Telescope data archive, and state-of-the-art techniques to investigate systems predicted to exist but not yet found hitherto, such as recoiled hyper-compact stellar systems, red-supergiant mass donors to ultra-luminous X-ray sources, and wh...
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JUVENTUDE AMBIENTE E AVENTURA

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Taking into of the community of Avintes and Vila Nova de Gaia, the second largest district of Portugal, it is very important to draw children's and young people's attention to the importance of preserving and protecting the nature. The volunteers will help us in various activities related to the environmental and "non-formal" education by practicing radical sports and organizing many outdoor activ...
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Technoforum TIC Aquitaine-Navarre

Le projet "Technoforum TIC Aquitaine Navarre" a lobjectif de :Développer la connaissance mutuelle et la coopération transfrontaliere, individuelle et collective, entre les entreprises et les centres de recherche du secteur TIC dAquitaine et de Navarre.Favoriser lintégration et la promotion conjointe du secteur TIC interrégional, lobjectif final étant la création dun futur Cluster TIC Navarre-Aquit...
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Small Bodies: Near and Far (SBNAF)

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

We propose a benchmark study that will address critical points in reconstructing physical and thermal properties of near-Earth, main-belt, and trans-Neptunian objects. The combination of the visual and thermal data from the ground and from astrophysics missions (like Herschel, Spitzer and Akari) is key to improving the scientific understanding of these objects. The development of new tools will be...
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Modeling Milky Way History (MMWH)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"One of the biggest promises of astrophysics in the coming decades is to understand the history of our Galaxy and that of its immediate galactic vicinity. The European Union will play a key role in this effort through its cornerstone Gaia mission, which will map the Milky Way in unprecedented detail. Recovering the history of the Galaxy, however, will only be possible in concert with suitable theo...
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Cidadania ativa após lesão cerebral

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The project "Active citizenship after brain injury” is related with the qualification and socio-professional inclusion of people with disabilities, particularly those persons who after an acquired brain injury (ABI) require support to adapt to a new way of functioning and to reorganize their life project, namely professional. The specificity of this functioning condition justifies the need for re...
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Energiahatékony, Alternatív Technológiákat Felvonultató Multifunkcionális Bemutatóközpont Pár Létesítése A Magyar És Szlovák Határközeli Térségben / Zriadenie dvojice multifunkčných demonštračných centier predvádzajúcich energeticky úsporné alternatívne (Alternatív Technológiákat Bemutató Központ Pár / Dvojica demonštračných centier alternatívnych technológií)

Start date: May 19, 2010, End date: May 18, 2012,

The project is justified by the long-time complex signs of crisis in the rural- population, economy and the global environment. The UNO reports on climate change made the public aware of the dangers of the issue.In the rural areas of the co-operating countries, the population is experiencing economical break-away, senescence, the lowering of job opportunities and the mass migration of the youth. ...
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Galaxy formation through the eyes of globular clusters (CLUSTERS)

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

"Globular clusters (GCs) are among the first baryonic structures to form at a redshift of 10 and they witnessed the earliest phases of galaxy formation. Despite their ubiquity and importance for our understanding of the stellar initial mass function, star formation and chemical evolution in the early Universe, their origin is shrouded in mystery. They could have formed in gas rich discs, similarl...
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Stellar HYdrodynamics Nucleosynthesis and Evolution (SHYNE)

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

Stars, massive stars in particular, play a key role through the light they shine, all the chemical elements they produce and the supernova explosions that mark their death. Stars are complex 3D laboratories that relate to many scientific disciplines: nuclear & astro-physics, applied mathematics and computer science. Unfortunately stars cannot be modelled fully in 3D. The best way to model them is ...
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Cluster-based Innovation through Embedded Systems technology (CLINES)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

To master increasingly complex and multidisciplinary technology and business chains in ICT, partnering, risk-sharing and mobilisation of critical mass across the Union are needed. CLINES cluster partnership will address many of the difficulties facing innovative research and business actors.The CLINES partnership builds on the cooperation and experience of four European Research Driven Regional cl...
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