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Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3 (GETM3)

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

GETM3 – Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3 - focuses on young talent as a key driver of future development, developed through co-operation of 3 stakeholders: employers (inc MNC & SME’s), universities and students/graduates. Despite a widely recognized importance of young talent (e.g. Europe 2020), its potential remains largely untapped. They are educated and entrepreneurial and yet exper...
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NOVEL, SUSTAINABLE MARINE BIO-SURFACTANT / BIO-EMULSIFIERS FOR COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION (MARISURF)

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

Surfactants and emulsifiers constitute an important class of chemical agents that are widely used in almost every sector of modern industry. The huge market demand is currently met almost exclusively by synthetic, mainly petroleum-based, chemical products, which are usually non-biodegradable and mostly toxic or GM plant based products (used in foods), which are undesirable by some end-users. Their...
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Innovative Micro Solar Heat and Power System for Domestic and Small Business Residential Buildings (Innova MicroSolar)

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

Rapid expansion of utilisation of solar thermal energy for increasing energy efficiency of buildings have been adopted in short/medium- and long-term Energy Strategies of EU countries in line with regional actions with the European climate energy objectives as defined in the European Union’s “20-20-20” targets and in the European Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050.The overall objective of this proje...
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Microorganisms in Warming Arctic Environments (MicroArctic)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

The Arctic plays a key role in the Earth’s climate system and is an area of growing strategic importance for European policy. In this ETN, we will train the next generation of Arctic microbiology and biogeochemistry experts who, through their unique understanding of the Arctic environment and the factors that impact ecosystem and organism response to the warming Arctic, will be able to respond to ...
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Sharing LearnIng from Practice to improve Patient Safety

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

Health care is a significant area of employment across Europe, and good quality health care is essential to the wellbeing of its population. Around one in ten patients suffers harm during their care, yet most adverse events are preventable. The Shared LearnIng from Practice to improve Patient Safety (SLIPPS) project aims to improve the key skills of student healthcare professionals in relation to ...
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“Empowerment of Basketball players through a sustainable dual career and a good governance training supporting programme”

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

TIME-OUT Project: "Empowerment of basketball players through a sustainable dual career and good governance training supporting programme"FIBA Europe and its member federations, following the recommendations of the European Commission on dual careers and reintegration of professional sports persons into the labor market, are embarking on the TIME-OUT project aiming to help players across Europe in ...
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High Performance Seasonal Solar Energy Latent Heat Thermal Storage Using Low Grade, Low Melting Temperature Metallic Alloys (THERMOSTALL)

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

Energy storage technologies have long been a subject of great interest to both academia and industry. The aim of this project is to develop a novel, cost effective and high performance Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage System (LHTESS) for seasonal accumulation of solar energy in increased quantities. The major barrier for currently used Phase Change Materials (PCMs, organic and hydrated salts) is...
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EU Quality Standards Aligned Modernisation of Renewable Energy Engineering Curriculum for Bachelor and Master students and Improving Skills Development of PhD students in Universities of Latin America

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

The Renewable Energy industrial sectors in Brazil and Colombia are going through a rapid modernization and expansion period as a result of intensive investments from national and global international companies. Similar processes are expected to take place in Cuba in coming years. There is a sharply growing demand for a new type of qualified graduates in this sector in Latin American countries wi...
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European Speakers of Other Languages: Teaching Adult Immigrants and Training their Teachers (EU-Speak 3)

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

Adult immigrants require literacy and numeracy in the language of the community to participate in the economic and social life of that community. While many post-industrialized countries fund programmes to actively support the development of immigrants’ basic and more advanced literacy skills, in most of these countries, there is no specific training and development for teachers who work with the ...
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ACANTO: A CyberphysicAl social NeTwOrk using robot friends (ACANTO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

"Despite its recognised benefits, most older adults do not engage in a regular physical activity. The ACANTO project proposes a friendly robot walker (the FriWalk) that will abate a some of the most important barriers to this healthy behaviour.The FriWalk revisits the notion of robotic walking assistants and evolves it towards an activity vehicle. The execution of a programme of physical training ...
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L'Europe, source d'enrichissement pédagogique pour les professionnels de la formation et d'acquisition de compétences techniques et linguistiques pour les apprentis

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

This candidacy to the Erasmus+ 2016 mobility programme carried by the CFA régional des MFR Rhône-Alpes gathers a consortium of 7 MFR. Two types of actions are concerned and destined to apprentices and vocational training professionals. Since 2012, the CFA des MFR Rhône-Alpes promotes, coordinates and runs European Mobility Programmes. This fifteenth candidacy is set down according to the instigato...
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Flare Likelihood and Region Eruption Forecasting (FLARECAST)

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

Space weather can have detrimental, and in some cases catastrophic, effects upon a multitude of technologies on which we depend as part our daily lives. Adverse space weather is now known to result from solar flares and coronal mass ejections released from the turbulent and highly complex magnetic fields of active regions. Understanding how active region magnetic fields evolve and produce these ev...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Coaching schOols to fAce Change aHead

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

Education & Training 2020 and the Communication Rethinking Education highlight the need of continuous professional development for teachers . Standards and levels of achievement in education should increasingly match the present ever rising demands of society, and transversal skills are to be encouraged to ensure the capacity to face increasing inevitable changes. The project, C.O.A.C.H.(COACHING ...
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FOOD QUALITY AND CONSUMER STUDIES

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Project " Quality Food & Consumer Studies" thematically follows the " European Consumer Agenda - Boosting confidence and growth for 2012 - 2020 " that identifies the key measures needed to empower consumer and boost their trust. In the field of research and innovation it pays attention to deeper scientific understanding of consumer behavior and the health , safety and sustainability aspects of the...
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Inclusive Education in Early Childhood: Developing Good Practices

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

European Union Commission puts emphasis on education and training policy that enables all citizens, irrespective of their personal, social or economic circumstances, to acquire, update and develop over a lifetime both job‐specific skills and the key competences needed for their employability and to foster further learning, active citizenship and intercultural dialogue. It is also believed that ear...
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Apprentis et professionnels de la formation vivent une expérience professionnelle, linguistique et culturelle en Europe

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

The consortium of the MFR Rhône-Alpes involved in the programme Erasmus + 2015 is composed of thirteen branches of Regional Training Centres for apprentices. This is in keeping with two types of action aimed at apprentices and teaching and training professionals. We, the promoter, encouraged the branches to take up the challenge of mobility. Once the programme launched, the Regional Training Centr...
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EUROPEAN FORENSIC GENETICS Network of Excellence (EUROFORGEN-NOE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The EUROFORGEN-NoE proposal aims to develop a network of excellence for the creation of a European Virtual Centre of Forensic Genetic Research. Forensic genetics is a highly innovative field of applied science with a strong impact on the security of citizens. However, the genetic methods to identify offenders as well as the creation of national DNA databases have caused concerns to the possible vi...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Sugar and Oxalate Free Beetroot Juice: Production and Assessment of its Human Health Benefits (SOFBJ_ProdHumHealth)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The beetroot and beetroot juice consumption has been found to confer a number of short terms human health benefits due to naturally occurring actives. Unfortunately beetroot is also naturally rich in oxalate a known anti-nutrient that could cause adverse health effects ranging from mild stomach irritation up to kidney failure in long terms consumption and severe cases of poisoning. Furthermore, be...
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Training for sustainable low cost PV technologies: development of kesterite based efficient solar cells (KESTCELLS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"The overall objective of this project is the creation of an ITN network for the structured interdisciplinary training of researchers in advanced thin film photovoltaic (PV) technologies.The project proposes the development of new technologies compatible with the cost, efficiency, sustainability and mass production requirements that are needed to become areliable and future alternative to conventi...
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Les professionnels et les apprentis du CFA des MFR s’enrichissent d’une expérience unique en Europe.

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Since 2002, the « Maisons Familiales Rurales” secondary school for vocational training of Rhône-Alps hatutors been promoting mobility projects for its apprentices, staff and internship tutors/mentors. It wishes it could offer them the opportunity to get opened up to other cultures and to enrich their professional practices. In 2014, 11 schools will be involved in our project: Bonne sur Menoge, La...
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Europäische Moblitäten in Laboren

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

Project background Lise-Meitner-Schule is a vocational school/technical college in Berlin, Germany. We are specialized in the training of people who are going to work in laboratories and science orientated industry (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Pharmacy, Micro Technology). Since more than 20 years the school is conducting EU projects (Leonardo da Vinci Mobilities, Pilot Projects and Innovation Tra...
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Enhancing Thermal Properties of PCM Using Nano Materials (ENTAS)

Start date: May 19, 2014, End date: May 18, 2016,

Energy Storage Technologies have long been a subject of great interest from both academia and industry and are crucial for achieving the European climate energy objectives as defined in the European Union’s (EU) “20-20-20” targets and in the European Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050. The focus of this proposal is on Latent Heat Storage which is currently a key international priority and is ba...
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Tools, methods And training for CommuniTIes and Society to better prepare for a Crisis (TACTIC)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The overall aim of the TACTIC project is to increase preparedness to large-scale and cross-border disasters amongst communities and societies in Europe. To achieve this, TACTIC will consider studies on risk perception and preparedness (including good practices and preparedness programmes) in order to develop a participatory community preparedness audit enabling communities to assess, impacts in a ...
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Novel multizone thermodynamic model and specialised software for rapid optimisation of working process strategies and design parameters of Internal Combustion Engines run on advanced biofuels (Bio-Green-IC-Engine)

Start date: Dec 2, 2013, End date: Dec 1, 2015,

International Energy Agency envisages that advanced biofuels will contribute significantly to reducing emissions by increasing from 2-3% of total transport energy supply today to 27% by 2050. Transportation experts propose that R & D of next-generation biofuels must be carried out in conjunction with the development of advanced combustion engines.At present very intensive R & D works are being c...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

2014/15 saw a new challenge for Northumbria University as this was the first exchange year following a significant restructure of the University and its departments - many of the Faculty exchange teams had changed, and there were staff changes in the International Development Office too. The University now has 4 Faculties (Business & Law, Engineering & Environment, Arts, Design & Social Sciences,...
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Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe (EMBRACE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

In an interdisciplinary, socially inclusive and collaborative context, emBRACE aims to improve the framing of resilience in the context of disasters in Europe. It will develop a conceptual and methodological approach to clarify how the resilience capacity of a society confronted with natural hazards and disasters can be characterized, defined and measured. On the basis of a systematic evaluation o...
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Integrated biomolecular methods to control mosquito-borne diseases (MOSQUITOBLOCK)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Mosquitoes transmit some of the world's most serious diseases. The most important disease vectors are members of the subfamilies Anophelinae and Culicinae. Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria, filarial parasites , and a few arboviruses. There are 30 genera in the Culicidae subfamily, but the medically important mosquitoes are Culex, Aedes, Mansonia, and Annigeres (Culex would be important in Eur...
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Devices for Assisted Living (DALi)

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

Description Robot walker for elderly people in public spacesShopping centres, airports, museums and hospitals are the kind of complex and confusing environments where elderly people on the verge of cognitive decline could have difficulties walking around without help. The walking frames they may currently use do not have the flexibility t...
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North Sea Region Electric Mobility Network (E-Mobility NSR) (E-Mobility NSR)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The project North Sea Region Electric Mobility Network (E-Mobility NSR) provides state of the art information which may help policy development in e-mobility in the NSR. It also provides insight into the gaps and needs in respect of infrastructure, logistics and preliminary standards for multi charging techniques. Ultimately, the project will deliver a long-term basis upon which regional and local...
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Binuclear Non-Coupled Copper Enzymes in Neurobiology: An Integrated Computational/Spectroscopic Investigation (ITCSCEN)

Start date: May 16, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

"Every third protein contains metal as cofactor. Cu-enzymes plays crucial rules in key processes in bioenergetics, mitochondrial respiration, neurotransmitter biosynthesis, antioxidation and pigmentation Therefore they are intensive targets for discovering new drugs and the understanding of their structure-functions relationships will provide new insight in translational and biomedical research.In...
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An Integrated Computational and Spectroscopic Investigation of the Enzyme Mechanism of Tryptophan Hydroxylase (ICSTH)

Start date: May 16, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

"Metalloenzymes play crucial role in neurobiology and therefore they are very important target for drug design for treatment neuropathological processes. In order to make new specific and effective drugs it is crucially important to understand the structure and functions of their drug targets. In this Outgoing Marie Curie Fellowship application we propose combined computational/spectroscopic inves...
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Models for Ageing and Technological Solutions for Improving and Enhancing the Quality of Life (MATSIQEL)

Start date: Jan 20, 2011, End date: Jan 19, 2014,

"The aim of the project is to accumulate the expertise for mathematical and computer modelling of ageing processes, including forecasting models for prevention and rehabilitation, and implementation into technological solutions (monitors, telecare, recreational games) and instruments (surveys, assessment tools), which could contribute to the improvement and enhancement of the quality of life in l...
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DEMONSTRATION OF HIGH PERFORMANCE PROCESSES AND EQUIPMENTS FOR THIN FILM SILICON PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES PRODUCED WITH LOWER ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND REDUCED COST AND MATERIAL USE (PEPPER)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Improving the cost-competitiveness and approaching grid-parity are the major challenges for micromorph thin-film photovoltaics. This project tackles major factors relating to micromorph module efficiency and production cost by assessing the influences of glass, TCO and silicon deposition (including in-situ cleaning). The project bridges the gap between research and industrial application by execut...
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Development of SnS Based Solar Cells (SnS PV Cells)

Start date: Feb 2, 2011, End date: Feb 1, 2013,

Most solar cells manufactured are made using crystalline or multicrystalline silicon. However producing power with these cells remains expensive compared to conventional power generation. In order to reduce production costs thin film solar cells have been developed especially those based on the use of the compounds, cadmium telluride and copper gallium indium diselenide. Despite the excellent succ...
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Policies and Research for an Integrated Management of Urban Sustainability (PRIMUS)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The PRIMUS project has been designed to bridge the gap between research on the European level on one hand, and policy-making at (and for) the local level on the other hand. The theme chosen for this 36-months coordination action is 'sustainable urban management', thus covering the way how the various policy areas of urban development (energy/water/waste, transport, planning and design, social inc...
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Waste Training Tool - An interactive Waste Training Tool for the Management and Minimisation of Non-Domestic Solid and Aqueous Wastes

The Waste Training Tool project will develop a flexible, interactive, waste management training tool on CD-Rom for use primarily by SMEs in the planning and implementation of effective waste management.Tighter control on environmental impacts and growing recognition of the inherent value of waste requires companies to have a more detailed understanding of their resource consumption, process effici...
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EUROPEAN CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION NETWORK

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

This TN project brings together within a single network all actors in HE in chemistry and chemical engineering in Europe. There are schools, universities, industries, national chemical societies, and accreditation bodies. The project brings all these actors together to collaborate in the development of a knowledge based economy, specifically in chemistry and chemical engineering. The project:- wil...
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