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A Citizen Observatory and Innovation Marketplace for Land Use and Land Cover Monitoring (LANDSENSE)

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

Currently within the EU’s Earth Observation (EO) monitoring framework, there is a need for low-cost methods for acquiring high quality in-situ data to create accurate and well-validated environmental monitoring products. The aim of the LandSense project is to build a far reaching citizen observatory for Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) monitoring that will also function as a technology innovation ma...
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The EU-HEALTH INNOVATION MARKETPLACE, the valorization platform for (FP7 Health and H2020 SC1) research results (UTILE)

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

A recent evaluation of FP7 projects executed by the EC, showed that an estimated 80% of funded Health projects lacks valorisation. The “UTILE” proposal presents the EU-Health Innovation Marketplace, an online tool to better valorise the FP7 Health and Horizon2020 SC1 project results. This marketplace will actively bring together Innovation Providers (i.e. technology push) and the Innovation Develo...
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Novel ALL-IN-ONE machines, robots and systems for affordable, worldwide and lifetime Distributed 3D hybrid manufacturing and repair operations (4D hybrid)

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

From aeronautics to oil&gas, complex metal parts embrace major challenges across their lifecycles from the green field intensive manufacturing to the numerous maintenance and repairing operations worldwide distributed. The synergic combination of additive and subtractive processes could overcome individual shortcomings, going beyond the simple succession of steps. 'Plug and produce' modular approa...
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Development and validation of integrated multiprocess HYbrid PROduction CELLs for rapid individualized laser-based production (HyproCell)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

Individualised production is an emerging trend in manufacturing. Laser-based Additive Manufacturing (LBAM) fits well with this trend, due to its capability of transforming digital designs directly into physical products. LBAM is not yet competitive for a widespread industrial adoption: post-processing operations are necessary and they are not currently integrated, human intervention is needed to o...
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Distributed control and simulAtion platform to support an Ecosystem of DigitAL aUtomation developerS (Daedalus)

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

Daedalus is conceived to enable the full exploitation of the CPS concept of virtualized intelligence, through the adoption of a completely distributed automation platform based on IEC-61499 standard, fostering the creation of a Digital Ecosystem that could go beyond the current limits of manufacturing control systems and propose an ever-growing market of innovative solutions for the design, engine...
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Novel biocontrol agents for insect pests from neuroendocrinology (nEUROSTRESSPEP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

Insects are the most diverse Class of life on earth, and different insects can be essential for, or highly damaging to, agriculture, horticulture and forestry. There is a pressing need, not just for new insecticides to combat resistance, but more specific, “greener” insecticides that target deleterious insects while sparing beneficial ones. This proposal aims to identify such insecticides by turni...
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Solutions for CRitical Raw materials - a European Expert Network (SCRREEN)

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

Since the publication of the first list of Critical Raw Materials (CRM) in 2010 by the Ad-hoc Working Group on CRM, numerous European projects have addressed (part of) the CRMs value and several initiatives have contributed to gather (part of) the related community into clusters and associations. This led to the production of important knowledge, unfortunately disseminated. Numerous databases have...
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Critical Raw Material Closed Loop Recovery (LIFE 2014 CRMRecovery)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Mar 29, 2019,

Background The UK has identified electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) as priority products due to their high embodied carbon and their environmental impact as a waste stream. Each year around 9.9 million tonnes of WEEE is generated in the EU. Only 30% of WEEE generated is reported as properly collected and recycled. Many modern electrical and elect...
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TRUst-Enhancing certified Solutions for SEcurity and protection of Citizens’ rights in digital Europe (TRUESSEC.EU)

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

TRUESSEC.EU is a CSA on certification and labelling of trustworthiness properties from a multidisciplinary SSH-ICT perspective and with emphasis on human rights.The current complexity of ICT products and services makes it difficult to appraise their trustworthiness. Thus, certification becomes a must to restore transparency and trust. TRUESSEC.EU aims at exploring the situation, the barriers, and ...
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Integrated pig manure digestate processing for direct injection of organic liquid fertiliser into irrigation systems (LIFE Smart Fertirrigation)

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

Background Spain is Europe’s second largest producer of pork with 99 561 pig farms and more than 26 million pigs that generate 70 million kg of manure per day (2.7kg/animal per day). Pig manure can have significant benefits for agriculture, if treated correctly and in an environmentally respectful way. It is a valuable fertiliser rich in organic nutrien...
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Innovative fully biodegradable mulching films & fruit protection bags for sustainable agricultural practices (LIFE MULTIBIOSOL)

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

Background For over half a century growers/farmers have been using plastic materials in agriculture, also known as agro-films. Current existing semi-intensive and intensive farming practices require the use of large quantities of mulching film and fruit protection bags (and clips to close them) since they help prevent the growth of weeds, protect crops fr...
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In-depth support for innovation and exploitation in Smart Systems Integration (inSSIght)

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

The objective of the proposed CSA is to support and complement R&I activities in Smart Systems Integration (SSI) by structuring industrial cooperation and facilitating end-user adoption for the next generations of miniaturised smart objects and systems.Previous CSAs have revealed the immense breadth of SSI in its technology demands, its application sectors, its business ramifications, its provider...
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Triggering Sustainable Biogas Energy Communities through Social Innovation (ISABEL)

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

Community energy sits high in the energy policy agenda as an inseparable part of the strategy towards a low-carbon EU economy. Sustainable biogas technologies have been extremely slow in catching up with community energy developments, failing to benefit from their undeniable potential. ISABEL aims to remove the obstacles and to promote community biogas in the EU by bringing out its societal releva...
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Synergic Circular Economy across European Regions (SCREEN)

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

SCREEN aims at the definition of a replicable systemic approach towards a transition to Circular Economy in EU regions within the context of the Smart Specialization Strategy, through the identification and implementation of operational synergies between R&I investments from H2020 and the European Structural and Investment Funds, thus contributing to novel future eco-innovative and horizontal busi...
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Multi-disciplinArY integrated simulAtion and forecasting tools, empowered by digital continuity and continuous real-world synchronization, towards reduced time to production and optimization (MAYA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

MAYA aims at developing simulation methodologies and multidisciplinary tools for the design, engineering and management of CPS-based (Cyber Physical Systems) Factories, in order to strategically support production-related activities during all the phases of the factory life-cycle, from the integrated design of the product-process- production system, through the optimization of the running factory,...
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Human-mimetic approach to the integrated monitoring, management and optimization of a symbiotic cluster of smart production units (SYMBIOPTIMA)

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

Improvements of the overall sustainability of process industries from an economic, environmental and social point of view require the adoption of a new industrial symbiosis paradigm - the human-mimetic symbiosis - where critical resources (materials, energy, waste and by-products) are coordinated among multiple autonomous Production Units organized in industrial clusters.SYMBIOPTIMA will improve E...
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Making European research careers more attractive by developing new services and enhancing the current services of the EURAXESS network – EURAXESS TOPIII (EURAXESS TOP III)

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

The EURAXESS TOP III consortium includes partners from almost all EURAXESS countries (either as beneficiaries or associated partners, from altogether 39 countries), in order to ensure the widest possible coverage as well as increased impact. The project has been divided into eight work packages. Two WPs are devoted to the development, testing and pilot introduction of new services on career develo...
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Movement Assisting Devices: Manufacturing of personalized Kineto-Dynamics parts and products for workers, elderly and children (MovAiD)

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

I - Over forty million workers in the EU are affected by work-place related musculoskeletal disorders, as a result of working in painful or tiring positions and handling heavy loads with repetitive hand or arm movements.II - The aging population is growing fast and approaching the mean age where loss of function and hence loss of mobility is to begin. In addition to diabetic and obesity, in 5 year...
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LIFE Coop 2020: pilot for rural smart grids through optimisation of energy use and innovative renewable biomass sources (LIFE Coop 2020)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Background Over the past decade European agricultural cooperatives have come under increasing financial pressure due to the fall in prices for their products and rising energy costs. Diversification is necessary for survival. Agricultural cooperatives play an important role in ‘binding’ together farmers in order to ensure that they have access to mark...
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THE PEOPLE’S SMART SCULPTURE

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

“The People’s Smart Sculpture" – Social Art in European Spaces fosters participative art and collaborative urban art&culture processes in Europe´s cross-cultural city spaces. It´s constituted through 11 sub-projects in eight European countries and concomitant exhibitions and workshops. The approach is on two levels: the implementation of cultural participation projects and the evaluation of these ...
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Teenagers : the Road with Autism to Independant Living

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

Nowadays autism affects 3.3 million people in the European Union – about 1 person out of 150 is diagnosed with this handicap in Europe. Although specific efforts have been made by the autism plans with regards to diagnose, specialized education and access to ordinary life, the teenager phase leading towards independent life, a particularly critical phase, is very inadequately covered and funded. F...
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AFTERMATCH - Life Beyond Sport

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

The AFTERMATCH project is a cooperation initiative implementing a pre-emptive approach for the promotion of “second careers” among athletes (young and ex) based on the valorisation of “sport-related transversal skills” which can facilitate the integration of ex-athletes in the labour market. The AFTERMATCH Modelis targeted to teachers (sport schools/academies), sport trainers, sport association/fe...
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Implementing the European Photonics21 PPP strategy (EuroPho21)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

EuroPho21 provides the decisive support to Photonics21 for strategy development and implementation and paves the way for the re-industrialization of Europe. The networking and coordination among Photonics21 stakeholders and the end user industry in the strategy development and implementation will speed up the innovation process and time to market for new products. This is a critical step to overco...
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PROs GRowing Europe through best practice SolutionS for Technology Transfer (PROGRESS-TT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Innovation is at the heart of Europe’s growth strategy. However, Europe lags behind its international competitors in converting investment in Public Research Organisation PRO research into commercial returns via innovation. The solution lies in improving the transfer of technology from PROs to industry but there are many barriers to effective technology transfer, including: Most Technology Transfe...
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Regional, National and European Support for Photonics Innovation Clusters enhancing SMEs Innovative Potential (RespiceSME)

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

RespiceSME will reinforce the innovative capacity of Europe’s photonics SMEs, clusters and national platforms by stimulating increased collaborations in and beyond photonics. RespiceSME proposes new approaches for stronger innovative effectiveness using a 3-dimensional approach, led by an experienced, representative, interdisciplinary team. In the 1st dimension, the project will develop a measure ...
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Camouflage and Safety in the Virtual World

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

The aim of “Camouflage and Safety in the Virtual World” is to create awareness about cyberbullying and the need of Internet safety which are the major issues of digital age. We are watching as in our school increases the number of cases of bullying ,especially cyberbullying and we would like to develop a training guide for all teachers and students to help to solve this problem .We are going to p...
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Entrepreneurship as a tool of integration

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

Unemployment is still seen as a problem in most European countries. According to Eurostat, the EU-27 unemployment rate for low-qualified adults is considerably higher than for higher-skilled adults. In this context, becoming an entrepreneur in one of the partner countries represents a quite difficult thing to do especially if you are also an adult over 45 years old, unemployed and with low financi...
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High-End cLimate Impacts and eXtremes (HELIX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"With the target of limiting global warming to 2ºC increasingly difficult to achieve, policymakers, businesses and other decision-makers need to plan to adapt to changes in climate under higher levels of global warming. This requires coherent information on the future climate conditions, and the consequences of different adaptation actions. International negotiations on limiting global warming a...
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Supporting sustainable participation of industry, in particular high-technology, research-intensive SMEs in EU-funded research in the Health Sector (Fit for Health 2.0)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Fit for Health 2.0 aims to promote and enhance a sustainable participation of European industry in the Health-related sector of Horizon 2020 (H2020). Focusing on research-intensive, high technology SMEs the project offers targeted support measures, covering the entire innovation cycle of research projects. Key assets are highly qualified advice and support including a mentoring and coaching approa...
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Global Innovative Leadership Module

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Joblessness and underemployment among youth are two of the most challenging economic and social problems that policymakers face in developing countries. One of the primary reasons of the young unemployment and failure to satisfy the expectations of the newly graduate professionals in the European scale where Turkey takes places within is insufficient cross-cutting capabilities based on ICT such a...
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Narrative educational resources for socio professionnal inclusion

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The project falls within the framework for the fight against unemployment and exclusion. It is based on the principle that a lever, of a more equitable and effective social and occupational integration, is based on a better understanding of socio-economic environments by people responsible for socioprofessional inclusion (SPI), but also on a better knowledge of psychosocial phenomena in connection...
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Social Entrepreneurship Training via ICT Learning Environments

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

If it is to make a success of the Lisbon strategy for growth and employment, Europe needs to stimulate the entrepreneurial mindsets of young people, encourage innovative business start-ups, and foster a culture that is friendlier to entrepreneurship and to the growth of SMEs. The important role of education in promoting more entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviours has become widely recognised. Th...
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Developing a validated technology platform for the application of oxygen dependent enzymes in synthesis and transformation of alcohols (BIOOX)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Currently the aerobic bio-catalytic oxidation reaction is the one that would have the biggest impact on the future uptake of industrial biotechnology in Europe. Chemical oxidation is both hazardous and has high environment impacts. Many oxidative bio-catalytic reactions and transformations have been identified in academic laboratories but only a very small number have been applied by industry to o...
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Meeting of Energy Professional Skills (MEnS)

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

MENS is a project conceived in order to provide an enhance the NZEB skills of building managers such as engineers and architect through a series of accredited training activities developed by 9 universities and 3 market players. MENS aims: - To increase the knowledre and skills of at least 1800 building managers (engineers, architects) in NZEB design and construction, out of which 50% would be wom...
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"Operation CO2": Integrated agroforestry practices and nature conservation against climate change (OPERATION CO2)

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

Background Climate change is a well-known and urgent challenge for international, national, regional and local environment policies and actions. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions has been identified as a vital and shared worldwide aim to mitigate the effects of climate change. LIFE projects and many other initiatives across Europe have looked at ways to r...
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LIFE Fresh Box: a sustainable transport solution conserving quality of fresh produce, reducing waste & fuel consumption (LIFE Fresh Box)

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

Background Fresh products, such as fruits and vegetables, are highly perishable. They therefore require rapid transportation and good storage after being harvested in order to maintain their physical, chemical and organoleptic properties. Enhancing the shelf life of fresh produce, however, can help avoid food waste during transportation/distribution and...
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LIFE Zero Residues: towards a sustainable production and supply chain for stone fruit (LIFE Zero Residues)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Background Pesticide residues in the local environment - air, soil and surface water - affect the lives of birds, wildlife, domestic animals, fish, livestock and humans. Human health hazards vary with the type of pesticide and also with the extent of exposure. Moderate human health hazards from pesticides include mild headaches, flu, skin rashes, blurred ...
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Position and Personalize Advanced Human Body Models for Injury Prediction (PIPER)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"In passive safety, human variability is currently difficult to account for using crash test dummies and regulatory procedures. However, vulnerable populations such as children and elderly need to be considered in the design of safety systems in order to further reduce the fatalities by protecting all users and not only so called averages.Based on the finite element method, advanced Human Body Mod...
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Sustainable Technology for Older People – Get Organised (STOPandGO)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Description The rapidly ageing population across the EU is placing relentless pressure on increasingly scarce health and social care resources. More people live with multiple co-morbidities, and there are fewer people to care for them. The Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) showed that incorporating telehealth and telecare technology into care ...
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Supporting Transnational Start-up Ecosystems (TransUP)

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

Although EU programmes and policy makers have been encouraging the potential for cooperation between different startup ecosystems - including within the Alpe Adria region-, still no strong coordination mechanisms yet exist that would ensure a streamlining between regional, national and EU initiatives in support of innovative businesses. The basic TransUP concept is to tackle the challenge of maki...
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