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Transforming Transport (TT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Big Data will have a profound economic and societal impact in the mobility and logistics sector, which is one of the most-used industries in the world contributing to approximately 15% of GDP. Big Data is expected to lead to 500 billion USD in value worldwide in the form of time and fuel savings, and savings of 380 megatons CO2 in mobility and logistics. With freight transport activities projected ...
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Disarming the intravascular innate immune response to improve treatment modalities for chronic kidney disease (DIREKT)

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

"Chronic kidney disease is world wide a major cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). 800.000 patients in Europe and in the US, respectively, require long-term treatment initially with peritoneal dialysis, followed by hemodialysis and kidney transplantation. Each ESRD patient on hemodialysis costs ≈€40000 to €80000 per year, has extremely poor quality of life and an average life expectancy of onl ...
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CYCLADES "Integrated monk seal conservation in Northern Cyclades" (CYCLADES Life)

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

Background The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is a priority species for conservation, according to Annex II of the Habitats Directive. It is also designated as a “critically endangered” species under the IUCN Red List; and is included in Annex III of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive – as a key indicator of the status of the marin ...
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Infoteachers

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

The Model Experimental High school of Mytilene is an active and open to challenges school, willing to apply innovation in education and in continuously improving learning services it provides. The objectives of the project are directly linked with the development plan of the scool and its basic priorities, namely: - continuous upgrading of staff skills, - incorporation of new tools in teaching, ...
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Development of Landscape Character Assessment as a tool for effective conservation of natural heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean (MEDSCAPES)

Start date: Dec 30, 2013, End date: Dec 29, 2015,

Project in brief The integrity of Mediterranean landscapes is currently threatened by a series of common problems: pollution, overgrazing, tourism development and urbanisation. Besides lack of public awareness, political commitment or intersectoral cooperation, the protection of natural heritage is hindered by the fragmentation of actions and approaches implemented so far in the Mediterranean regi ...
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Hybrid Parks: Combining abilities, creating synergies and enhancing the performance of parks for sustainable local and regional development policies (Hybrid Parks)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Parks, both historic and modern, are intensively managed, high quality environments. They add to the attractiveness and success of cities and regions and to the quality of life for citizens and visitors.The partnership includes many of those cities and regions energetically enhancing and using parks in a wider policy context such as economic development, rural diversification, protection of cultur ...
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Digitization for preservation and promotion of audiovisual and printed material from the modern and contemporary history of Cyprus and the islands of the North Aegean (ΨΗΦΙΑΚΟΣ ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ)

Start date: May 14, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

Το προτεινόμενο Έργο στοχεύει στη ψηφιοποίηση οπτικοακουστικού και έντυπου υλικού μοναδικής ιστορικής αξίας του Ραδιοφωνικού Ιδρύματος Κύπρου (ΡΙΚ), της Δημόσιας Κεντρικής Βιβλιοθήκης Μυτιλήνης και της Δημόσιας Ιστορικής Βιβλιοθήκης Μηθύμνης. Το πολύτιμο αυτό υλικό αφορά κομβικής σημασίας περιόδους, γεγονότα και εξελίξεις που διαδραματίστηκαν στην Κύπρο και το βόρειο Αιγαίο. Η διάσωσή του από τον ...
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xtrovert entrepreneurship (ΕΞΩΣΤΡΕΦΕΙΑ)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

Το έργο επικεντρώνεται στον ειδικό στόχο της ενίσχυσης του ανθρώπινου δυναμικού και αποσκοπεί, κυρίως μέσω της υλοποίησης ειδικών στοχευμένων προγραμμάτων κατάρτισης, να υποστηρίξει έναν ικανοποιητικό αριθμό ενδιαφερομένων (πρακτικά: υφιστάμενοι και μελλοντικοί επιχειρηματίες) να εμβαθύνουν σε σημαντικά και κρίσιμα αντικείμενα του «επιχειρείν» και της εξωστρεφούς επιχειρηματικότητας. Το προτείνον ...
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Facilitating Responsible Innovation in SEE countries  (FaRInn)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The main objective of "FaRInn - Facilitating Responsible Innovation in SEE countries" is to enhance framework conditions and pave the way for a responsible innovation model in South East Europe, which respects the principles of sustainability, social responsibility and better quality of life. Responsible Innovation is a "transparent, interactive process by which societal actors and innovators inte ...
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Green Intermodal Freight Transport (GIFT)

Start date: Feb 29, 2012, End date: Aug 30, 2014,

The main aim of the current project is to map, analyze, and evaluate the status of the transport sector in the GIFT transport network and propose new policies and strategies in infrastructure, processes, assets, ICT, legislation, norms and harmonization/ standardization issues, in order to promote innovative green intermodal freight transport corridors. GIFT project will drill down in three Pan-Eu ...
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An Infrastructure for Open, Linked Governmental Data Provision towards Research Communities and Citizens (ENGAGE)

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

... partners from Belgium, Germany, Greece, Israel, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, with an excellent track record both in the eInfrastructures and the Governance domain (NTUA, FOKUS, STFC, Uni. Aegean, TU DELFT) including world-leaders in cloud infrastructures (IBM, Microsoft and INTRASOFT International) and a large network of scientific data diffusion (EUROCris).Following on Open Data initi ...
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Flood warning system establishment in Arda river basin for minimising the risk in the cross border area (ARDAFORECAST)

Start date: Mar 19, 2012, End date: Mar 18, 2014,

Project description and objectivesThe primary objectives of the project are: to promote cross border cooperation in the field of flood prevention, the establishment and running of reliable flood forecasting tools and reservoir operation scenarios for accurate and timely flood forecasts with sufficient lead time, effective dissemination of flood forecast information and warning messages to the end ...
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Upgrading of Energy Efficient Public Procurement for a balanced economic growth of SEE area (EFFECT)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

EFFECT proposal arises from the need to innovate SEE countries public procurement procedures and stimulate their integration with energy efficiency criteria to meet EU Public Procurement requirements and to contribute to achieve Eu energy strategy objectives. EU public procurement impacts for 16% on EU GDP and it is an important tool for public authorities to effectively address energy efficiency ...
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Launching (g)local level heritage entrepreneurship: strategies and tools to unite forces, safeguard the place, mobilize cultural values, deliver the experience. (SAGITTARIUS)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

Cultural consumption is a knowledge based activity: cultural products and services are viable, only if they possess widely recognized values. SAGITTARIUS advances cultural consumption by communicating cultural values: from natural monuments and ecosystems to sites and collections, from the arts to traditions and handicrafts. Thus values of tangible-intangible, movable-immovable and spiritual herit ...
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eACCESS+: the eAccessibility Network (eAccess+)

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

Description Much expertise, many guidelines and tools exist on e-accessibility but they are of a highly fragmented nature. As announced in the Communication of December 2008 on eAccessibility, the Thematic Network eAccess+ will create a platform for collecting and providing guidance on how to use in practice this body of knowledge. eAccess+ ...
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Tracking Oil Spills and Coastal Awareness Network (TOSCA)

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

...ilable for oil spill scenarios. Gulf of Naples 27/07-6/08/12: Different kinds of Eulerian & Lagrangian measurements, 86 drifters implementation of the circulation model of the Gulf almost ended North Aegean: Effectiveness of the modeling system implemented in the capture of oil spill dispersion A report achieved: Updating of the forecasting systems on the test sites (ocean velocities fields inform ...
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Policy Gadgets Mashing Underlying Group Knowledge in Web 2.0 Media (PADGETS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Today the ever growing visibility of the web as a medium that exhibits the potential to attract and maintain society's involvement coupled with the need for a more citizen-centric and socially-rooted policy making, calls for novel tools with the capability to analyze society's input and forecast the possible impact of policies. Thus, more citizen-centric governance arises more pressing than ever. ...
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Development of intelligent surveillance system with space marine application array camera and sensor networks (ΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΝ)

Start date: Jun 30, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

Τα θαλάσσια σύνορα της Ελλάδας και της Κύπρου είναι ιδιαίτερα μεγάλα. Μόνο για τις επιλέξιμες περιοχές (Β&Ν Αιγαίο, Κρήτη & Κύπρος) ξεπερνούν τα 10.000 χλμ. Τα σύνορα αυτά εκτείνονται μέσω πολλών και πολλές φορές μη κατοικημένων περιοχών, ώστε είναι αδύνατον η πολιτεία να περιπολεί κάθε χιλιόμετρο αυτών, προκειμένου να προστατεύεται από λαθρομετανάστες, εμπόρους ναρκωτικών/όπλων, λαθρεμπόρους, παρ ...
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vention & Combating of Marine Pollution in Ports & Marinas (PREMARPOL)

Start date: Jun 30, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

Η ρύπανση των εμπορικών και τουριστικών λιμένων και η καταπολέμησή της, αποτελεί θεμελιώδες ζήτημα τόσο της διεθνούς νομοθεσίας (Marpol Convention '73/'78), όσο και της οικονομικής δραστηριότητας που εξαρτάται άμεσα από αυτή. Είναι γεγονός ότι από το επίπεδο ρύπανσης των τουριστικών λιμένων συναρτάται η προσέλκυση τουριστικών σκαφών, ενώ η διαρκής συσσώρευση ρύπων στα λιμάνια τα καθιστούν πηγή άμε ...
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Network of European Stakeholders for Enhancing User Centricity in eGovernance (NET-EUCEN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The NET-EUCEN project will create, animate and manage a working network of stakeholders in the Governance and Policy Modelling domains belonging to all the European countries and with relevant knowledge of massive on-line service fruition and eInclusion policies and interests, thus covering the whole supply chain of the Service for Users (S4U). The project will address the following specific objec ...
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Strategic Planning Towards Carbon Neutrality in Tourism Accommodation Sector (CARBONTOUR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

...e, which is, for example, already starting to impact upon the attractiveness of many of the Mediterranean’s major resorts. Tourism is a major contributor to the economy of the Region of North Aegean (RNA) and the autonomous government is very interested in its impact on climate change. Objectives The CARBONTOUR project ...
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COgnitive radio systems for efficient sharing of TV white spaces in EUropean context (COGEU)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The complete transition from analogue to the digital TV is planned in Europe for 2012. This will release significant amount of valuable spectrum in VHF/UHF bands. In fact, the Digital TV Switchover provides a "once in a lifetime" opportunity for the development of innovative services and the introduction sophisticated new technologies into the VHF/UHF bands.However, despite the grand words about o ...
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Geographic Specificities and Development Potentials in Europe (GEOSPECS)

Start date: Jan 31, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

The EU Cohesion Policy debate has included a focus on regions with specific territorial features. The Treaty of Lisbon (2007), being in the process of ratification, mentions already some of these types of regions and territories. It states that “(...) among the regions concerned, particular attention shall be paid to rural areas, areas affected by industrial transition, and regions which suffer fr ...
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Policy-Assessed system-level Security of Sensitive Information processing in Virtualised Environments (PASSIVE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Virtualised service platforms and cloud computing hold great promise for delivery of large applications in e-Government. However, to date, the fundamental shared-resource nature of virtualisation technologies has raised legitimate security concerns for Government and other organisations with duties to protect confidential data.The PASSIVE project proposes an improved model of security for such vir ...
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Virtual multidisciplinary EnviroNments USing Cloud infrastructures (VENUS-C)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2012,

Several research communities in Europe exploit e-Infrastructures, sharing data and computing resources with Grid and Supercomputing technology. However the inherent complexity of these technologies has limited their wider adoption and their long term sustainability: designing, developing and operating a computing infrastructure for an e-Science community remains challenging and costly.VENUS-C will ...
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Mediterranean Transnational Technology Transfer (MET3)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

Among the difficulties faced by most Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) and Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs) in MED and elsewhere is that of building effective Research-Industry partnerships. Technology transfer involves the processes of capturing and sharing explicit and tacit knowledge and includes both commercial and non- commercial activities. In particular, EU has identified the tra ...
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Small Mediterranean Insular Light Industries Enhancement and Support (SMILIES)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Mar 30, 2012,

The development of innovative manufacturing activities and processes in MED Islands can improve their innovation capacities, the diversification of their economy, the qualifications of the jobs offered and has a multiplier effect on all economic activities, while it contributes to a more sustainable use of key natural resources, notably water and energy. However insularity, scarcity of some resour ...
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Mediterranean Intermodal Transit (TRANSit)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

Ports in the Southern Mediterranean area play a key role in freight transportation, acting as the main gateways to the mainland. Their significant placement in the freight supply chain triggered the idea for an integrated management of the ports freight operations along with the provision and support of intermodal and multimodal services to transport operators (sea, road and rail).The main objecti ...
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Exchange, Valorisation and Transfer of regional best policy measures for SME support on IT and e-business Adoption. (EVITA)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

...rovence, the “e-commerce leveraging Center” in Galicia) and attempts to improve the effectiveness of relevant regional policies in Lithuania, Pomurska (Slovenia), Southern Aegean (Greece), Galicia (Spain) and Latvia. In addition to the exchange of know-how, EVITA proposes the pilot implementation of these practices, together with the development of new approaches, such as the integration of e-le ...
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Handovers for Ubiquitous and optimal bRoadband connectIvity among CooperAtive Networking Environments (HURRICANE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

For any IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) or pre-IMS combined network, the key enabling function for seamless mobility and service continuity among a variety of mobile/wireless access technologies supporting IP connectivity is the handover. HURRICANE focuses on the key RTD challenge to investigate, design, implement, validate and propose for standardisation, inter-system handover operations among vari ...
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The Development of the Islands - European Islands and Cohesion Policy (EUROISLANDS)

Start date: Jan 31, 2009, End date: May 31, 2010,

In recent years great consideration has been given to geographical particularities within the EU which seem to be significantly responsible for the persistence of regional and intraregional inequalities, affecting the development of some regions. The territorial dimension has been included in the recent cohesion reports, lending a particular dynamic in the search of more specialised and integrated ...
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III (EGEE-III)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

A globally distributed computing Grid now plays an essential role for large-scale, data intensive science in many fields of research. The concept has been proven viable through the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project (EGEE and EGEE-II, 2004-2008) and its related projects. EGEE-II is consolidating the operations and middleware of this Grid for use by a wide range of scientific communities, such as ...
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New forms of territorial governance for the promotion of landscape policies in the field of water resources management at water territories (NETWET3)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Jul 30, 2008,

Main objective of NetWet 3 project is the development of transnational co-operation in Archimed geographic zone for the elaboration of common methods that contribute to: (a) the promotion of a creative territorial policy for the management of Mediterranean landscapes (ESDP, European Landscape Convention, European Governance), (b) in connection to the promotion of sustainable management practices o ...
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Tourism Uses of the Historic Environment. Know-How Transfer and Quality Management Practices at Community Level (HERODOT)

Start date: Apr 30, 2007, End date: Jul 30, 2008,

Heritage per se cannot render a place to a tourist destination. While uncontrolled development results in quality downgrading at some places, other places are unknown. Once heritage values are restored and sustainably managed, the historic environment may serve as an agent for tourism. The project HERODOT aims to research and promote tailor-made heritage strategies for the regions involved, improv ...
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SCIENCES EN MEDITERRANEE (ARISTHOT)

Start date: Mar 31, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

L’objectif du projet ARISTHOT - Sciences en Méditerranée est de développer des solidarités culturelles dans le bassin méditerranéen en facilitant l’accès pour tous à un héritage commun. Les Sciences ont toujours été source d’échanges dans le bassin Méditerranéen, c’est pourquoi il semble nécessaire de médiatiser ces relations de toujours en constituant un corpus textuel et iconographique sur les S ...
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Mediterranean Standard For Sustainable Tourism (ME.S.S.T.)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

The overall objective of MESST project is the development of a standard on sustainable tourism for application in tourism destinations and enterprises in all the business cycle of tourism activity. The project will facilitate joint action among partners in view of: • Increasing the environmental responsibility of tourism enterprises • Increasing the capacity of local administration on monitoring s ...
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Mediterranean Risk Management (MEDRISK)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: May 29, 2008,

The project Med-RISK aims at solving the unsatisfactory synergy of systems for rational management of natural risks in the ArchiMed area. The Mediterranean zone is an intensely developing region in the sectors of industry and tourism with millions of visitors from all over the world. At the same time, natural disasters do not any longer concern only the state in which they occur since it affects s ...
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vention and Management of Sea Originated Risks to the Coastal Zone (CORI)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Apr 29, 2008,

The project CORI aims at providing tools to intercept and manage sea-originated threats to the coastal zone. The project is comprised of: • Identification and mapping of tsunami and other extreme sea level hazards for Eastern Mediterranean coasts. Actions for public education and awareness for responsive actions. • Development of tools and methodologies for managing and minimizing the impact of co ...
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Integrated Multiple Level Wetlands Monitoring System Using Innovative Technologies (WETMUST)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Apr 29, 2008,

...g tools. Also, the University of Basilicata has experience in soil and water parameters measurement, and together with the other project partners, the Region of Western Greece, the Region of Northern Aegean and the Prefecture of Thessaloniki have operational experience in projects involving data collection in wetlands under their administrative boundaries. The collaboration is essential for the ne ...
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moting Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Public Bodies in ARCHIMED Zone through Open Source & Free Software (OpenIT)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Mar 30, 2008,

The project OPEN IT will address the problems of high infrastructure and licensing costs regarding software and the continuous need for hardware upgrades (in order to stay current). Main objectives of the project are: 1. Promotion of ICT in SMEs by providing inexpensive IT solutions 2. Development of policies & exchange of know-how in the fields of IT use in public administration 3. Promotion of t ...
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