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"In every disaster and crisis, incident time is the enemy, and getting accurate information about the scope, extent, and impact of the disaster is critical to creating and orchestrating an effective disaster response and recovery effort. The main goal of beAWARE is to provide support in all the phases of an emergency incident. More specifically, we propose an integrated solution to support forecas ...
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Ceramic Sustainable Urban Drainage System (LIFE CERSUDS)

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

Background Combined sewers are those that, in addition to industrial and domestic wastewater, also collect surface runoff. Widely used throughout Europe, they pose the risk of combined sewer overflow spills, incidents that challenge the capacity of Member States to meet the water quality goals of EU legislation, including the Urban Waste Water Treatment D ...
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Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks (OC/TN) are a major challenge for the European Union and many different stakeholder groups are involved in creating awareness, preventing, identifying and intervene in case of risk or threat. But in order to develop better strategies and instruments, we still need a deeper understanding of these phenomena.TAKEDOWN therefore aims at generating such novel insig ...
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Remotely Operated CBRNe Scene Assessment Forensic Examination (ROCSAFE)

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

The overall goal of ROCSAFE is to fundamentally change how CBRNe events are assessed, in order to and ensure the safety of crime scene investigators by reducing the need for them to enter high-risk scenes when they have to determine the nature of threats and gather forensics. For this, ROCSAFE will make use of cost-effective modern remotely-controlled robotic air and ground vehicles (RAVs/RGVs) th ...
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Background The European mink (Mustela lutreola) is listed in Annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive as a priority species for conservation. During the last 15 years, the expansion of American mink (Neovison vison) has been confirmed as the main threat to the conservation of European mink in Spain. Control actions for American mink to date have not st ...
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MEDI@4SEC focuses upon enhancing understanding of the opportunities, challenges and ethical consideration of social media use for public security: the good, the bad and the ugly. The good comprises using social media for problem solving, fighting crime, decreasing fear of crime and increasing the quality of life. The bad is the increase of digitised criminality and terrorism with new phenomena eme ...
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A major obstacle to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of education in Europe is the lack of widely available, accessible, multilingual, timely, engaging and high-quality educational material (i.e. OpenCourseWare). The creation of comprehensive OpenCourseWare (OCW) is tedious, time-consuming and expensive, with the effect, that often courseware employed by teachers, instructors and ...
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Fostering Apprenticeships sharing Ideas and Resources

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

FAIR means Fostering Apprenticeships sharing Ideas and Resources both at transnational level, allowing the cooperation and the exchange of practices/models/results among partners, and at local level, through the creation of synergies with the active involvement of key actors. FAIR means also that apprenticeship is something "good", with a power in stimulating companies towards a social responsibil ...
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As risks are not “objective” but socially and culturally constructed, disaster management which is aware, respects, and makes use of local cultural aspects will be not only more effective but, at the same time, also improve the community’s disaster coping capacities. CARISMAND is setting out to identify these factors, to explore existing gaps and opportunities for improvement of disaster policies ...
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FOREnsic evidence gathering autonomous seNSOR (FORENSOR)

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

Covert evidence gathering has not seen major changes in decades. Law enforcement Agencies (LEAs) are still using conventional, manpower based techniques to gather forensic evidence. Concealed surveillance devices can provide irrefutable evidences, but current video surveillance systems are usually bulky and complicated, are often used as simple video recorders, and require complex, expensive infra ...
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INTEGR-ART (Integration & Arts) is aimed to create a strong network of educational cooperation between the 4 European municipalities of Rome, Badajoz, Évora and Paterna, enabling the exchange of good practices and improve the professional competencies of teachers who work with Gypsy-Roma children and families (but also of immigrant origin) at risk of exclusion. The project applies a methodology of ...
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INSPEC2T projects’ scope is to develop a sustainable framework for Community Policing that effectively addresses and promotes seamless collaboration between the police and the community. INSPEC2T approach bases its conceptual foundations on EU crime prevention and Member States specific Internal Security Policies, validated research results and best practices from cooperation between police and lo ...
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My smart school

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

For several years, ICTs are used by ecologists associations as an additional support to existing learning methodologies (eg, tablet games, interactive whiteboards, etc.). For example, the Surfrider association uses ICT as information support and awareness for the general public (waste collection aquatic diving broadcast live on a giant screen, etc.). It is now necessary to change the learning met ...
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100% Youth City

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

100% Youth City is KA2 Strategic partnership to develop an innovative approach to new generation of City Youth friendly Policies.The project aims to create and develop a quality label "100% Youth City", on Youth Friendly policies city and the all certification process to implement it.Project will combine the Structured Dialogue methodology and a new and innovative tool defined by the European Unio ...
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asSIsted MobIlity for Older aNd impaired users (SIMON)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

SIMON is a demonstration project with four large scale pilots in Madrid, Parma, Lisbon and Reading aiming to use ICT services to promote the independent living and societal participation of mobility impaired people in the context of public parking areas and multiple transport modes.The project will tackle two main challenges:- Reduction of fraud in the pre-ICT implementation of the European Disabl ...
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The objective of CAP4Access is to develop and pilot-test methods and tools for collectively gathering and sharing spatial information for improving accessibility. The aim is to exploit the power of online maps and mobile devices for fostering awareness of barriers for individuals with limited mobility and for removing such barriers. CAP4Access helps integrating disabled communities into society (s ...
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Dorothy Project is targeted to develop the potential of innovation and research in the four Regions Tuscany (Italy),Valencia (Spain),Lisbon and Tagus (Portugal) and Oltenia (Romania) composing the Consortium in the field of Urban Logistics, one of the main focus of attention of the Flagship Initiative. In fact UL could reach 40% of the total cost of transportation and has great relevancy for ener ...
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SEcure Cloud computing for CRitical infrastructure IT (SECCRIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"Cloud Computing is a style of computing where elastic IT-related capabilities are provided as optimized, cost-effective, and on-demand utility-like services to customers using Internet technologies. Being one of the major trends in the IT industry recently, it has gained tremendous momentum and started to revolutionize the way enterprises create and deliver IT solutions. As more sectors adopt clo ...
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The goal of Light2CAT is to develop new, highly efficient visible-light-activated titanium dioxide for inclusion in concretes to be used in structures across the whole of Europe to improve ambient air quality independent, for the first time, of local climate conditions. The need to improve air quality in European Countries has been identified as a major requirement to be achieved within the next d ...
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"Today, attackers are using more sophisticated technologies, making existing “add-on” security solutions obsolete or insufficient, and the number of stakeholders involved –both human and machines– is always increasing. Thus, design and embedding of new security mechanisms directly into the systems is needed to drastically increase reliability and security levels, and provide higher levels of resil ...
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Mastering the Value Function of Security Measures (VALUESEC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

"The Task of VALUESEC is defining, context modeling, weighting and quantifying attributes of costs and benefits, advantages and disadvantages of security measures, and demonstration of an application tool evaluating the different effects and the aggregated value of security measures.It will generate a knowledge base of the status and trends in theory and in practical applications of methods of eco ...
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ENERMED - Mediterranean Renewable Energies (ENERMED)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 30, 2013,

Enermed aims to coordinate and improve the regional policies of renewable energies (RE), through: -shared instruments for the analysis of projects and policies RE -development of common policies in the RE -common experiences in the RE We will develop and implement: -a transnational (common) methodological and strategic framework -a database of good practices on regional policies -concrete p ...
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Background One of the last wetlands in the area, the Albufera Natural Park in Valencia has a very high ecological value. It acts as a stopover on the Euro-African migration route for many important bird species. It is surrounded by a city of 1.5 million inhabitants, and due to its tourist location it receives around 3 million visitors each year from all a ...
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Background The increase in the use of electronic equipment all over the world has occurred without the development of safe disposal strategies. These products are characterised by fast technological change, for example, the switch from cathode ray tube (CRT) to LCD and plasma screen technology. This means they often have a short lifespan and therefore pre ...
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OBJECTIVOS: Qualificar e promover o desenvolvimento dos territórios transfronteiriços abrangidos pelo projecto através da conservação e valorização dos seus espaços naturais, expressando essa qualificação e aumento de valor através da conservação do lince-ibérico. ACÇÕES: Controlo e Segurança do território (vigilância de incêndios; controlo da caça ilegal); Gestão do habitat (culturas para a fauna ...
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CIRCUITO TURÍSTICO POR TIERRAS RAYANAS (0336_CTPTR_4_E)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

OBJETIVOS: Hacer desaparecer el denominado efecto de frontera a través de esta alianza turística estratégica, con el propósito de constituir a este nuevo itinerario turístico de interior en el centro de los mercados emisores hispano-lusos. ACCIONES: La ejecución del proyecto se ha articulado en cuatro áreas de acción conjuntas: nuevas tecnologías, medio ambiente, formación y empleo, y promoción tu ...
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highly scalable Deployment model" of Inclusive E-GOverm (DIEGO)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The main outcome of DIEGO, will be to offer to any European Public Authority a FULL e-accesibility front-end for e-Gov services, highly scalable and affordable:1) a new "user-centric" and accessible service provision model for speeding up Inclusive e-Government & e-Governance (Inclusive e-Gov), including trans-borders services, according to preferred ICT media available (interactive TV, smart mob ...
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Background On the eastern Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula, the Albufera de Valencia Natural Park is one of the last sites hosting a well preserved dune system. With chains of shifting and stabilised dunes, it is a natural barrier between a shallow lagoon and the adjacent sea. The most representative plant species on stabilised dunes and pre-f ...
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Environmental integration for ports and cities (SIMPYC)

Start date: Aug 1, 2004, End date: Jan 31, 2008,

Background The frontier between port and city has become a focal point for a wide range of tensions of an urban, environmental and social nature. Sustainable solutions to these problems are needed, contributing to a more harmonious coexistence between port and city. One approach to this is to build a cooperative network for sharing of experience relating ...
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Background The pollution caused by light is one of the many problems arising from two conflicting interests; the need to preserve the environment on the one hand and human action on the other. The "Albufera Nature Reserve" is a good example of this. This outstanding 5000 hectares nature reserve has been declared both a "Site of Community Interest" (Coun ...
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Alternative to wine shoots'incineration (BIOVID)

Start date: Nov 1, 2003, End date: Oct 31, 2006,

Background Vineyards generate a huge amount of waste, most of which goes to incineration. The burning of this waste is damaging to the environment and much of it could be used for other processes. Vine shoots, in particular, are usually incinerated, causing a number of problems: risk of fire, a negative impact on human health, the diminution of air qualit ...
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Inventory Evaluation and Monitoring of Wetlands (MW/SUDOE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2002, End date: Dec 30, 2004,

This network will consist in a group of case studies that aim to represent the reality of the MW/SUDOE area so that the obtained results can be applied in the management of other wetlands. The MW/SUDOE project objectives are: To develop a tool to support the elaboration and monitoring of Wetland Management Plans in MW/SUDOE regions. To review of the Inventory MedWet Methodology, introducing import ...
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Background After Italy, Spain is the EU’s leading rice producer. It has 94000 hectares dedicated to this crop, with yields that are amongst the highest in the world. The Spanish rice-growing area is distributed mainly amongst the provinces of Seville, Tarragona and Valencia, the latter accounting for 40 percent of total national production. Valencia m ...
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Background The 'Albufera de Valencia' Nature Park contains the last enclave in the Valencia Region where there is still a good example of dune vegetation of great biological and scenic interest. Between the lake and the coastline is the 'Devesa del Saler', consisting mainly of chains of mobile and fixed dunes. The vegetation is characterised by a dense ma ...
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Repeated criminal acts make up a large part of the delinquency statistics in Europe.Studies show that a small number of people commit three quarters of some categoriesof offence. Politicians are searching for a prevention policy to help target this group inorder to monitor them and prevent them from repeating their crimes. This preventivepolicy requires more staff and more imagination in preparing ...
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The WebPOL project will develop a virtual learning environment for European police personnel, with a particular focus upon three profiles, namely, police officer, inspector and official. The project will initially undergo an analysis of the training needs for the three local police services selected for the pilot (Valencia, Bologna and Bremen). Further activities will include the development of th ...
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