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Towards Smart Zero CO2 Cities across Europe (SmartEnCity)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2021,

SmartEnCity’s main Objective is to develop a highly adaptable and replicable systemic approach towards urban transformation into sustainable, smart and resource-efficient urban environments in Europe through the integrated planning and implementation of measures aimed at improving energy efficiency in main consuming sectors in cities, while increasing their supply of renewable energy, and demonstr ...
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Integration of European Simulation Chambers for Investigating Atmospheric Processes – Towards 2020 and beyond (EUROCHAMP-2020)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

Atmospheric simulation chambers are the most advanced tools for elucidating processes that occur in the atmosphere. They lay the foundations for air quality and climate models and also aid interpretation of field measurements. EUROCHAMP-2020 will further integrate the most advanced European atmospheric simulation chambers into a world-class infrastructure for research and innovation. A co-ordinate ...
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Development of a real-time information and monitoring system to support the risk assessment of nanomaterials under REACH (LIFE NanoMOnitor)

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

Background Nanotechnology is one of the fastest growing and most promising technologies with implications for a wide range of sectors from electronics and ceramics to optics and automation. The number of Engineered Nanomaterials (ENMs) available on the market is increasing, but concerns have been raised about their potential impacts on human health and t ...
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Air pollution treatment in European urban environments by means of photocatalytic textiles (LIFE PHOTOCITYTEX)

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

Background Air pollution from traffic is a growing problem, especially in urban areas. In recent years the use of titanium dioxide (TiO2) based photocatalytic self-cleaning and de-polluting materials has been considered to remove these pollutants. TiO2 is now commercially available and used in construction material or paints for environmental purposes. Fu ...
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CAtastrophic Shifts in drylands: how CAn we prevent ecosystem DEgradation? (CASCADE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The aim of CASCADE is to obtain a better understanding of sudden ecosystem shifts that may lead to major losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services, and to define measures that can be used to prevent such shifts. The focus of CASCADE is explicitly on drylands as being one of the most fragile and threatened ecosystems in Europe. CASCADE will investigate the historical evolution of dryland ecosys ...
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Fate and Impact of Atmospheric Pollutants (AMIS)

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

"The proposed project aims at establishing a long-lasting collaboration and creates a network of European and Chinese research centres of excellence in the area of air quality and climate change studies. This aim will be achieved by undertaking joint research activities via collaboration facilitated by individual mobility of researchers between Europe and China. Accordingly, this network will cont ...
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TELEMANAGEMENT NETWORK USING FREE CONTROLLERS CONECTED TO A GIS FOR AN OPTIMIZED IRRIGATION IN VITORIA-GASTEIZ (IRRIGESTLIFE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Background Currently, there are some 5 000 ha of green space in Spain. The maintenance of these areas with the existing irrigation and water supply systems entails a water expenditure of some 500 million m3/yr. This represents approximately 2% of the total annual water consumption in Spain. The city of Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Basque Country has various pr ...
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Integrated non-CO2 Greenhouse gas Observing System (INGOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

InGOS will support and integrate the observing capacity of Europe for non-CO2 greenhouse gases (NCGHG: CH4, N2O, SF6, H2 and halocarbons). The emissions of these gases are very uncertain and it is unknown how future climate change will feedback into the land use coupled emissions of CH4 and N2O. The NCGHG atmospheric abundances will increase further in the future and the emissions of these gases a ...
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ICOS improved sensors, network and interoperability for GMES (ICOS-INWIRE)

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

The fundamental objective of the ICOS-INWIRE project is to enhance the capabilities of the ICOS infrastructure and fill in critical gaps for monitoring fluxes and concentrations of greenhouse gases, in order to meet the needs of operational users in the GMES program. It will achieve this by: Developing and testing autonomous sensors systems for greenhouse gas fluxes and concentration, enhancing th ...
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ICT services for Electric Vehicle Enhancing the User experience (ICT 4 EVEU)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

ICT 4 EVEU is a project born with the aim of deploying an innovative set of ICT services for electric vehicle (EV) in different and complementary pilots across Europe. The scope of the ICT services is the integration of different management systems operating on the existing EV infrastructures in the cities where the pilots will be run, so that related services are deployed making use of these inte ...
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Interactive Analysis, Simulation and Visualisation Tools for Urban Agile Policy Implementation (urbanAPI)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

In the context of European initiatives to improve policy as a more transparent and understandable process, the urbanAPI project aims to support activities such as issue identification, policy analysis, consultation, decision and evaluation in urban planning and land management policy. For this purpose, a policy metamodel, a formalised vocabulary, a set of rule languages to define data integration ...
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Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world (FUME)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Fire regimes result from interactions between climate, land-use and land-cover (LULC), and socioeconomic factors, among other. These changed during the last decades, particularly around the Mediterranean. Our understanding of how they affected fire regime in the past is limited. During this century temperatures, drought and heat waves will very likely increase, and rainfall decrease. These and fur ...
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Integration of European Simulation Chambers for Investigating Atmospheric Processes - Part 2 (EUROCHAMP-2)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"The fundamental objective of the project is the further integration of existing European research facilities to a grid of reaction chambers in a continuation of the EUROCHAMP project. These facilities were created to study the impact of atmospheric processes e.g. on regional photochemistry, global change, as well as cultural heritage and human health effects under as realistic conditions as possi ...
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Greenhouse gas management in European land use systems (GHG Europe)

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

The GHG-Europe project aims to improve our understanding and capacity for predicting the European terrestrial carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) budget by applying a systematic, comprehensive and integrative approach. GHG-Europe quantifies the annual to decadal variability of the carbon and GHG budgets of terrestrial ecosystems in EU27 plus Switzerland and in six data-rich European regions via data-m ...
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The terrestrial Carbon cycle under Climate Variability and Extremes – a Pan-European synthesis (CARBO-Extreme)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

The aim of this project is to achieve an improved knowledge of the terrestrial carbon cycle in response to climate variability and extremes, to represent and apply this knowledge over Europe with predictive terrestrial carbon cycle modelling, to interpret the model predictions in terms of vulnerability of the terrestrial – in particular soil – carbon pools and give according advice to EU climate a ...
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Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The ICOS project will build an infrastructure for co-ordinated, integrated, long-term high-quality observational data of the greenhouse balance of Europe and of adjacent key regions of Siberia and Africa. Consisting of a centre for co-ordination, calibration and data in conjunction with networks of atmospheric and ecosystem observations, ICOS is designed to create the scientific backbone for a bet ...
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MODERN - MObility, Development and Energy use ReductioN (MODERN)

Start date: Oct 15, 2008, End date: Feb 14, 2013,

The project outlines a bold package of integrated measures in all the cities of the consortium, and covers all the areas required by the CIVITAS PLUS programme. The project shows ambitious goals which will have a substantial impact on the state of the mobility in the cities and a good visibility at the European level, mixing measures with large scale application actions based in existing and comme ...
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Prevention and Restoration Actions to Combat Desertification. An Integrated Assessment (PRACTICE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"The general objective of PRACTICE is to link S & T advances and traditional knowledge on prevention and restoration practices to combat desertification with sound implementation, learning and adaptive management, knowledge sharing, and dissemination of best practices. Specific objectives are: 1. To create an international platform of long-term monitoring sites for assessing and investigating pra ...
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H2O

Start date: Apr 30, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

Le projet H2O entend affronter le problème « pêche et changements climatiques pour sauvegarder les écosystèmes marins ». Un important travail sera effectué dans le domaine de la recherche scientifique à travers la création d’un network coordonné d’observation entre les différentes Institutions partenaires, la création d’une base de données fiable afin de prévenir les risques naturels et l’analyse ...
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Training Module for Environmental Pollution Control

Learning to curb pollution : The project has created a special course designed to improve knowledge of environmental issues. Many people, from a range of professions, learn more about environmental monitoring through participation in the project modules. This project started in 2002 and lasted 29 months.
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