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CLIMATE ADAPTATION TO SHIFTING STOCKS (CLOCK)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

Management of marine fisheries is still far from incorporating adaptation to climate change, even though global stocks are heavily overexploited and climate change is adding additional pressure to the resource. In fact, there is growing evidence that current fisheries management systems may no longer be effective under climate change, and this will translate into both ecological and socioeconomic ...
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Africa-EU Innovation Alliance for Water and Climate (AfriAlliance)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

...n objective of AfriAlliance is for African and European stakeholders to work together in the areas of water innovation, research, policy, and capacity development to prepare Africa for future Climate Change challenges. There are many but fragmented initiatives and networks in place, therefore we will not create new but will consolidate existing networks of scientists, decision makers, practitioner ...
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Accellerating CCS technologies as a new low-carbon energy vector (ACT)

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

"This ERA-NET Cofund action is a transnational collaboration on CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) technology. CCS is regarded as one of the main routes for Europe to mitigate climate change. Our initiative "Accelerating CCS technology as a new low-carbon energy vector" (ACT) targets mainly the energy sector, but will also have benefits for energy intensive industries. The vision of ACT is to ensure th ...
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AcceLerate Innovation in urban wastewater management for Climate changE (ALICE)

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

The challenges facing society in urban wastewater management cannot be solved by any one sector alone. ALICE (AcceLerate Innovation in urban wastewater management for Climate changE) will accelerate innovation by bringing together and exchanging knowledge between the key players who can, together, address the future techno-economic, governance and societal challenges arising from climate change. I ...
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Bioenergy Sustaining the Future (BESTF) 3 (BESTF3)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

This ERA-NET Co-fund will bring together a number of national and transnational organisations with an interest in promoting the greater use of bioenergy. It follows on from two previous BESTF ERA-NET Plus initiatives launched in 2013 and, like its predecessors, aims to kick-start large scale investment in close-to-market implementation of bioenergy, thereby helping to achieve the key objectives of ...
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DemoWind 2 ERA-NET Cofund action - delivering cost reduction in offshore wind (DemoWind 2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

...dustry, through partnership, to push technologies through TRLs 5-6 to 6-7 in transnationally funded projects. We aim to connect existing and new European offshore wind demonstration opportunities, exchange knowledge and facilitate the acceleration of cost reducing innovative technologies to commercialisation.This action will contribute to European cost reduction targets for offshore wind, economi ...
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Promoting awareness of wildlife crime prosecution and liability for biodiversity damage in NATURA 2000 areas in Crete. (LIFE Natura Themis)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

...ticular, as a special case of prosecution; Inform and raise awareness of stakeholders, targeted audiences and the public in Crete about liability for preventing and remediating biodiversity damage; Change the attitude of stakeholders, targeted audiences and the public in Crete so that they see their support and engagement in EU environmental law enforcement is an important tool to protect biodiv ...
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PLAtform for Climate Adaptation and Risk reDuction (PLACARD)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2020,

Significant challenges exist towards strengthening the Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) communities for coherent, mutually reinforcing and pragmatic planning and action. PLACARD seeks to support the coordination of these two communities. PLACARD will tackle current challenges by 1) providing a common ‘space’ where CCA and DRR communities can come together, share ex ...
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Innovation for Sustainable Sheep and Goat Production in Europe (iSAGE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

...ld the project from the farmer level. This approach will ensure relevant issues are addressed and the project outcomes are applicable in practice and create a farm-level observatory and knowledge exchange network on the sustainability of livestock. This WP will also assist three assessment work packages that will deal with the sustainability assessment of sheep and goat farm systems and related su ...
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Novel integrated refurbishment solution as a key path towards creating eco-efficient and competitive furnaces (VULKANO)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

...grated solution to increase the energy and environmental efficiency in existing industrial furnaces fed with NG; through the combined implementation of new solutions based on high temperature phase change materials, new refractories, optimised co-firing of NG and syngas from biomass or process gas, an advanced monitoring and control system and an holistic in-house predictive tool. All together wil ...
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DemoWind ERA-NET Cofund action - delivering cost reduction in offshore wind (DemoWind)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

...through partnership, to push technologies through TRLs 5-6 to 6-7 in transnationally funded projects. We aim to connect existing and new European offshore wind demonstration opportunities, exchange knowledge and facilitate the acceleration of cost reducing innovative technologies to commercialisation. This action will contribute to European cost reduction targets for offshore wind, economic devel ...
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INter-sectoral Health Environment Research for InnovaTions (INHERIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The overarching aim of INHERIT is to define effective inter-sectoral policies and interventions that promote health and well being across the social gradient by tackling key environmental stressors and related inequalities in the areas of living, consuming and moving.INHERIT will bring together relevant stakeholders from different sectors, including the private sector. It will support inter-sector ...
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CONSumer Energy Efficiency Decision Making (CONSEED)

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

...eir energy consumption.There is a large knowledge gap in terms of understanding which factors are salient in consumers’ decisions, the relative importance of these factors and how these factors change by consumer group and product type. The key idea behind CONSEED is to understand how consumers make decisions which involve an energy component, and to make (energy) operating costs more salient to c ...
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Enabling the Energy Union through understanding the drivers of individual and collective energy choices in Europe (ENABLE.EU)

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

The Energy Union Framework Strategy laid out on 25 February 2015 has embraced a citizens-oriented energy transition based on a low-carbon transformation of the energy system. The success of the energy transition pillar in the Energy Union will hinge upon the social acceptability of the necessary reforms and on the public engagement in conceptualizing, planning, and implementing low carbon energy t ...
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Common Good First - digital storytelling for Social Innovation

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

In order to support and grow the emerging South African social innovation sector, we will a create a digital network – Common Good First - to capture and showcase social impact projects in South Africa, connecting them to each other, academics and HEIs around the world. In doing so, we will also address the issue of the ‘digital divide’, as identified by the country’s National Development Plan 20 ...
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Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings. An integrated solution for residential building energy storage by solar and geothermal resources (TESSe2b)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

...tic hot water (DHW) production. The idea is to develop advanced compact integrated PCM TES tanks exploiting RES (solar and geothermal) in an efficient manner coupled with enhanced PCM borehole heat exchangers (BHEs) that will take advantage of the increased underground thermal storage and maximize the efficiency of the ground coupled heat pumps (GCHP). The two TES tanks developed within TESSe2b pr ...
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Building peacebuilders through integrated formal and non-formal learning approaches

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

BUILDPEACE will boost the skills and competencies of Europeans in the public, third and private sectors to build peace and connect communities. It will improve the overall provision of teaching, learning and training within the peacebuilding industry by bringing together providers from the formal education (FE) and non-formal education (NFE) sectors in a community of practice. These partners will ...
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The Future Teacher 3.0 as a bridge to accessible and customised adult education

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

...s of teachers in adult education as an essential and differentiated requirement first but also on effective teaching and learning by using ICT. At the moment for many teachers ICT is one-way exchange of information but this needs to change to reflect much more collaboration and use of newer and more efficient methods of communication. All partners feel that these priorities are crucial in order t ...
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Exchange of Practices on Education and Training Models for Members of Refugee Communities in Europe

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

...ms of the European countries and none of the European labour markets (which are currently struggling with high unemployment rates in general) are prepared for this challenge. Project objectives: 1) Exchange of practices, evaluation and transfer of good practices related to guidance and counselling approaches for refugees and migrants in Europe 2) Exchange of practices, evaluation and transfer of g ...
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Our 'Voices' create impact through mobilisation of data

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

...f desk and survey reach, workshops, seminars, action learning sets and electronic media to develop these communities into a universal voice which can influence, drive and guide social change. The tangible outputs will be the Curator Curriculum and associated learning materials, and the research database to support practice and provide information as the movement develops, but equally as important ...
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Increasing Malta’s participation in LIFE (Increase LIFE !)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

...rogramme implementation. The LIFE National Contact Point (NCP) will be working closely with personnel responsible for EU policy and implementation of policy with regards to environment and climate change in order to determine gaps in policy implementation. Expected results: A qualitative study to identify the reasons behind the low uptake of LIFE projects in Malta in the period 2007-13; A bette ...
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Enhancing landscape connectivity for brown bear and wolf through a regional network of NATURA 2000 sites in Romania (LIFE Connect Carpathians)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Background The Carpathian Mountains are an important biodiversity reservoir for the brown bear (Ursos arctos) and wolf (Canis lupus). However, an assessment of environmental suitability for large carnivores (LCIE 2008) identified the isolation of the Apuseni Mountains (Western Carpathians) from the Southern Carpathians in Romania as a pressing connectivit ...
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Interactive Education in 360°

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

A virtual educational system - Interactive Education in 360° The goal of the project is the emergence of an electronically web based system for the creation of educational content, teaching in a close-to-reality environment and a subsequent testing of the achieved outcomes. Why interactive 360° education?75% of human perception is performed through the visual analyzer. Based on that fact, it is ou ...
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Towards We-Government: Collective and participative approaches for addressing local policy challenges (WeGovNow)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

WeGovNow will tap into emerging technologies for effectively supporting coproduction by civic society stakeholders and collective proposition development, whereby citizens are partners as opposed to customers in the delivery of public services. By integrating a set of innovative technologies within a unified citizen engagement platform, the project will overcome the current limitations of existing ...
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NOMADs - European Youth for Inclusive Sport

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

NOMADs is a collaborative partnership that will develop in 3 years a program targeting young European volunteers and athletes, to involve them in projects supporting sport for all events.The partnership is composed by 11 sport for all and voluntary service organizations from 6 EU Countries, and will create, pilot and launch an European platform to allow local events, championships and tournaments ...
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PRODEST Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship with Digital Storytelling

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

Entrepreneurship is recognized as a powerful driver of economic growth and job creation: it creates new companies and jobs, opens up new markets, and nurtures new skills and capabilities. One of the main recommendations (Action Pillars) by the EU Commission Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan (2012) is to promote entrepreneurial education and training, however, the uptake and the effectiveness of en ...
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Inclusive Direction in Education of Adults on Article 12

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

... This project contributes to enhancing the implementation of Article 12 which requires a coordinated and transnational intervention. It uses an innovative form of adult education as a tool of change.Awareness-raising strategies about the right to full legal capacity must be improved:- Strategies should include crucial target groups able to contribute to shifting the paradigm: professionals from su ...
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FOSTERING WATER-AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN MALTA (FOWARIM)

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

...years and is articulated into 5work packages, including one for management and coordination, involving: capacity building through several targeted and advanced training courses, short-term staff exchanges, summer schools and virtual training; research networking and knowledge sharing through providing technical assistance to establish new demonstration sites to promote innovations and best practi ...
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Artecitya

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

...e.The cycle Urbanities will complete the experience gained through a theoretical approach aiming at taking stock of the European initiatives carried out as participative art. Training sessions, exchange of expertise going to the cultural professional actors and those to be trained, we wish that the multidisciplinary approach of the project Aretecitya will prove beneficial not only for the professi ...
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Knowledge, Assessment, and Management for AQUAtic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services aCROSS EU policies (AQUACROSS) (AQUACROSS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

AQUACROSS aims to support EU efforts to enhance the resilience and stop the loss of biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems as well as to ensure the ongoing and future provision of aquatic ecosystem services. It focuses on advancing the knowledge base and application of the ecosystem-based management concept for aquatic ecosystems by developing cost effective measures and integrated management practice ...
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Bioenergy Sustaining the Future 2 (BESTF2)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

This ERA-NET_Plus Coordination and Support Action, BESTF, will bring together a number of national and transnational initiatives in the field of bioenergy. It follows on from the first BESTF call that launched in January 2013 and, like its predecessor, aims to kick-start large scale investment in close-to-market implementation of bioenergy thereby helping to achieve the key objectives of the Europ ...
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Climate Resilient Cities and Infrastructures (RESIN)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

...its population and capital goods concentrated in urban areas, cities are key to the European economy. One of the major challenges cities face are more frequent extreme weather events due to climate change.The current diversity of approaches and methods available for cities developing an adaptation strategy limits the comparability between cities of vulnerabilities, adaptation options, infrastruc ...
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Latin American Social Innovation Network

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

LASIN aims to effectively support and promote social innovation as a means to achieve sustainable and inclusive socio-economic growth, social cohesion and equity in Latin America, through intercultural, curricular and extracurricular activities. It will achieve this by establishing Social Innovation Support Units (SISU) within the Partner Countries to promote and support University-social enterpri ...
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Community based complex school program for effective prevention and treatment of aggression and bullying - intersectoral approach from best practices to policy making

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

...ational crime prevention strategies) so that the tested model programme will be available to and taken up by as many schools as possible. The long-term goal of the project is to achieve cultural change in schools through the dissemination of nonviolent communication, the introduction of alternative conflict resolution processes, the prevention of school conflicts and the minimisation of aggressiv ...
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REALLIFE: serious gaming and virtual reality to develop 21st century and employability skills

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

RealLife is an innovative project in which serious gaming and virtual reality are used to improve skills needed in the 21st century and skills needed for employability for those at the edge of society. Training skills in a safe and virtual reality will help prisoners to function in real life and enhance their sense of initiative. The objective is to develop an innovative tool, the RealLife game w ...
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Mobilité innovante dans la voie professionnelle 2016

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The consortium « Innovative Mobility in the vocational field 2016 » (MOBinov 16) will boost European mobility in company abroad to the advantage of 255 learners from Nord Pas de Calais – Picardy: pupils from secondary schools for vocational training, apprentices and vocational trainees. The region Nord-Pas-de-Calais – Picardy has nearly 6 million inhabitants, which represents 9.4% of the populat ...
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Supporting Graduate Entrepreneurship in the Creative Sector

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Factory floors are progressively being replaced by creative communities whose raw material is their ability to imagine, create and innovate. In this new digital economy, immaterial value increasingly determines material value, as consumers are looking for new and enriching "experiences". It is widely accepted that there is a profound shortage of coherent entrepreneurship training programmes throug ...
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Empowerment for improvement. Successful Intervention and Prevention against domestic violence.

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Recently, the real face of Domestic Violence in Europe became clearly captured for a first time, in a survey, that involves participants from all 28 European states and reflects the experiences of 42 000 women across EU. The data from the survey dreadfully shows that one in three women has experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15. This project aims at addressing this crucia ...
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NEW HORIZONS

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...elf career kit will play an additional motivational role for the long-term unemployed people with disabilities through making them familiar with real success stories, motivational video etc. Mutual exchange of experience, ideas and support will be fostered through the Online Social Tool which will go beyond the pure e-learning platform by creating a community of unemployed people with disabilities ...
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Transitions pathways and risk analysis for climate change mitigation and adaption strategies (TRANSrisk)

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

...sing the costs and benefits associated with different mitigation pathways face a high degree of uncertainty. There is an urgent need to not only understand the costs and risks associated with climate change but also the risks, uncertainties and co-effects related to different mitigation pathways as well as public acceptance (or lack thereof) of low-carbon (technology) options. The main aims and ob ...
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