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Smart Magnetic Solutions for Minimally Invasive Surgery (Smart Mag Solutions)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The objective of this proposal is the reintegration of Dr. Pádraig Cantillon-Murphy, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and MIT (Boston, USA), back to Europe, as Assistant Lecturer at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT). His reintegration will result in (i) research independence and increased European collaboration and funding support for Dr. Cantillon-Murphy, (ii) novel and high-impact re ...
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Development of a portable miniature mass spectrometer to monitor important, but technically difficult parameters in aquaculture (AquaMMS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

...ogy. Anglsey Aquaculture and Telemarks Roye will benefit from improved production by using AquaMMS ahead of its competitors. The RTDs, University of Liverpool (UK), Teknologisk Institutt (Norway) and Cork Institute of Technology (Ireland) have been invited to perform the RTD work needed to reach the objectives.
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Learning Through Mobility

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

St. John's Central College is a college of Further Education and Training within the Cork Education and Training Board. We provide a wide range of Vocational Education and Training to students who ae 18+ years of age. A significant percentage of the students come from vulnerable social groups such as people who are long term unemployed, early school leavers, lone parents etc. We first began worki ...
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Uczeń technikum wobec oczekiwań pracodawców. Rola nauczyciela zawodu w prawidłowym starcie kariery zawodowej absolwenta w świetle doświadczeń szkolnictwa zawodowego Republiki Irlandii.

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

...tion of schools with potential employers during the process of vocational education, - Visitation of vocational training classes carried out at FAS Training Centre, - Visiting Cork Institute of Technology and meeting with the employees dedicated to the role of the local business in the process training future vocational faculty, - Meeting with Irish entrepreneurs, who cooperate with vocational ...
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Learning Through Mobility

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

St. John's Central College is a college of Further Education and Training within the Cork Education and Training Board. We provide a wide range of Vocational Education and Training to students who ae 18+ years of age. A significant percentage of the students come from vulnerable social groups such as people who are long term unemployed, early school leavers, lone parents etc. We first began worki ...
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CoderDojo Training in ICT Programming Skills

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

...hich has been developed and grown on a totally voluntary basis, provides such an innovative approach which can very valuably inform European policy development. The CoderDojo movement was started in Cork, Ireland, in 2011. CoderDojo is a totally free of cost voluntary movement to teach young people how to write computer code, it raises awareness of potential to set up business and it works extens ...
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Learning Through Mobility

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

St. John's Central College is a college of Further Education and Training within the Cork Education and Training Board. We provide a wide range of Vocational Education and Training to students who ae 18+ years of age. A significant percentage of the students come from vulnerable social groups such as people who are long term unemployed, early school leavers, lone parents etc. We first began worki ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

...mit 20 von 64 Studierendenmobilitäten nach Irland. Dies begründet sich in den guten und langjährigen Kooperationen mit drei irischen Partnerhochschulen (Dublin Institute of Technology, Cork Institute of Technology und University College Dublin) und dem großen Interesse der Studierenden an einem Austausch mit englischsprachigen Ländern. Es folgten das Vereinigte Königreich und Frankreich mit je sec ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

... the following higher education institutions: Escola Superior de Disseny i Arts Plàstiques de Catalunya, Spain, Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Technologias, Portugal, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland, Gazi University, Turkey, Riga Building College, Latvia, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, Royal Institute of Art, Sweden and Weisensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Germany. On the basi ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

...requirements, standards, health and safety at work. NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS: a). work placement for 2 students in their 2nd year of study, lasting three months. - 1 student in Ireland, Cork, programme Environmental engineering, - 1 student in the UK, Plymouth, programme IT b). job-shadowing for 3 lectures in the UK - Plymouth - BSc in mechanical engineering, lecturer at mechanical engi ...
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Diamond-based nanomaterials and nanostructures for advanced electronic and photonic applications (D-SPA)

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

We are proposing a 4-year program of knowledge transfer and networking between Aston University, UK (Aston), Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland (CIT), Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain (ICN2), University of Birmingham, UK (UoB), Zhejiang University of Technology, China (ZJUT), Nanotechplamsa Ltd, Bulgaria (NPL), B&T composites, Greece (B&T), National Institute for Research and ...
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Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART)

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

This Project aims to address an increasingly pressing global challenge: How to achieve the EU’s development goals and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, while meeting the global target of staying within two degrees global warming and avoid transgressing other planetary boundaries.EU policies must align with sustainable development goals (Article 11 TFEU). The impacts of climate change and glo ...
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Sensor Enabled Affective Computing for Enhancing Medical Care (SenseCare)

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

This project brings together a diverse group of subject matter experts from industry and academia under one umbrella, with the main aim of enhancing and advancing future healthcare processes and systems using sensory and machine learning technologies to provide emotional (affective) and cognitive insights into patients well-being so as to provide them with more effective treatment across multiple ...
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Integrated Smart Spatial Exploration System (INSPEX)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

"The objective of INSPEX is to make obstacle detection capabilities that are currently only feasible on autonomous vehicles available as a personal portable/wearable multi-sensor, miniaturised, low power spatial exploration system. The INSPEX System will be used for real-time 3D detection, location and warning of obstacles under all environmental conditions in indoor and outdoor environments with ...
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Ophthalmic OCT on a Chip (OCTCHIP)

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

Silicon photonics is expected to leverage-off many of the advances made in CMOS electronics. International R&D efforts in this field have so far been mainly focused on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology platform because it is predestined for datacom, high-performance computing and telecom applications. However, SOI based integrated optical waveguides cannot ...
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Technology Advancement of Ocean energy devices through Innovative Development of Electrical systems to increase performance and reliability (TAOIDE)

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

Life cycle cost of electricity generated by marine renewable technologies is determined by multiple factors including energy production capability, capital costs, and operating and maintenance (O&M) costs, as well as multiple other logistical, permitting, environmental, and finance cost factors. ORPC’s direct experience has been that operating and maintenance costs are dominant in the cost structu ...
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Integrated Technology Ecosystem for ProACTive Patient Centred Care (ProACT)

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

ProACT targets Europe’s 50 million multimorbid patients to proactively self-manage and offset the EU’s annual €700billion cost of chronic disease management. ProACT aims at providing and evaluating an open application programming interface to integrate a variety of new and existing technologies to advance ‘home based’ integrated care (IC). Cloud based data analytics will determine correlations bet ...
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DAtacommunications based on NanophotoniC Resonators (DANCER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2019,

A key challenge for the 21st century is, therefore to provide billions of people with the means to access, move and manipulate, what has become, huge volumes of information. The environmental and economic implications becoming serious, making energy efficient data communications key to the operation of today’s society.In this project, the Principal Investigator will develop a new framework for opt ...
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Exploiting Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Computing and the Internet of Things to promote Science Education (UMI-Sci-Ed)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Nowadays we are lucky to have many exciting new technologies available, like Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), Mobile Computing (MobiCom) and the Internet of Things (IoT); in the following, we shall refer to them collectively as UMI. These technologies are so modern and powerful that can be both an educational means and end, thus fostering innovation and supporting promising scientific careers. The ...
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Smart Resilience Indicators for Smart Critical Infrastructures (SmartResilience)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

"Modern critical infrastructures are becoming increasingly “smarter” (e.g. cities). Making the infrastructures “smarter” usually means making them smarter in normal operation and use: more adaptive, more intelligent… But will these smart critical infrastructures (SCIs) behave equally “smartly” and be “smartly resilient” also when exposed to extreme threats, such as extreme weather disasters or ter ...
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Modelling Optimization of Energy Efficiency in Buildings for Urban Sustainability (MOEEBIUS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

MOEEBIUS introduces a Holistic Energy Performance Optimization Framework that enhances current (passive and active building elements) modelling approaches and delivers innovative simulation tools which (i) deeply grasp and describe real-life building operation complexities in accurate simulation predictions that significantly reduce the “performance gap” and, (ii) enhance multi-fold, continuous op ...
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Energy Saving Lighthouse Cities in the NPA region (e-Lighthouse)

Start date: Apr 26, 2016, End date: Apr 25, 2019,

Description (EN): Project actions will support increased energy efficiency in buildings (40% of EU energy consumption) and increase the uptake of renewable energy, thus decreasing carbon dioxide emissions. Our goal is to support and follow-up the retrofit of more than 250 public buildings. In the private sector with the consultation of building supervisory authorities, the project a ...
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Improving energy efficiency in industrial water processes through benchmarking and benchlearning tools in Europe manufacturing industry. (energywater)

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

Objectives1. Improve the competitiveness of the EU industrial sector by reducing 20% energy costs in industrial water processes. (WP4)A total reduction of 26 GWh/year will be achieved at the end of the project implementing energy efficiency measures in the European manufacturing companies.2. Identify saving potentials and benchmark energy performance through an Energy Management Self-Assessment (E ...
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Energy Efficient Optimised District Heating and Cooling (E2District)

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

Intelligent Energy Europe expects district heating to double its share of the European heat market by 2020 while district cooling will grow to 25%. While this expansion will translate into 2.6% reduction in the European primary energy need and 9.3% of all carbon emissions, it will not be achieved through modernization and expansion alone but requires fundamental technological innovation to make th ...
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Microbiome Influence on Energy balance and Brain Development-Function Put into Action to Tackle Diet-related Diseases and Behavior (MyNewGut)

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

Emerging evidence indicates that the gut microbiome contributes to our ability to extract energy from the diet and influences development and function of the immune, endocrine and nervous systems, which regulate energy balance and behaviour. This has led to hypothesize that developing microbiome-based dietary interventions can be cost-effective measures to prevent diet-related and behavioural diso ...
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Synchro-modal Supply Chain Eco-Net (SYNCHRO-NET)

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

SYNCHRO-NET will demonstrate how a powerful and innovative SYNCHRO-modal supply chain eco-NET can catalyse the uptake of the slow steaming concept and synchro-modality, guaranteeing cost-effective robust solutions that de-stress the supply chain to reduce emissions and costs for logistics operations while simultaneously increasing reliability and service levels for logistics users.The core of the ...
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Tools for cOntinuous building Performance Auditing (TOPAs)

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

As occupant behaviour can be considered as one of the main drivers of the performance gap, TOPAs will focus on reducing the gap from an operational perspective, hence supporting Post Occupancy Evaluation. Quantifying the performance gap is non-trivial, the performance gap is dependent on time and contextual factors, and individual buildings will have a particular performance gap. The delivery of e ...
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Flip IT! – Flipped Classroom in the European Vocational Education

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

One of the burning issues of today is how to improve the quality of learning/teaching in schools. Thousands of studies and scientific research has tried to reveal the best methods, and to formulate usable advice in order to transfer theoretical conclusions into the daily practice of our schools. A particular focus has been placed on European vocational educational (VET) schools and training centre ...
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Training rural farmers in the use of mobile applications for agricultural activities

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

The acquisition of basic digital skills has been identified as one of the principal adults´ training needs to acquire to match the requirements of today´s changing labour markets. This is important particularly in rural areas where the spread of ICT has been lower than in urban areas, therefore rural citizens find more difficulties in order to access ICT training. There are many mobile application ...
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Transnational Education in LEADER Implementation 2

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

The project is based around the LEADER program which is a highly effective and successful model of integrated social and economic development in rural communities. LEADER is delivered in a variety of different fashions by the member states.The project will entail a study of the delivery of the LEADER programme - seeking examples of the most efficient modes of implementation in the partner coun ...
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Hacia una formación sin límites

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

The Secondary Education School, IES Politécnico Hermenegildo Lanz, of Granada, wishes to take part in an Erasmus+ project for VET learners in order to increase the quality of training, expand their career opportunities and strengthen a network of collaboration between different countries of the European Union to fulfil the principle of Unity in Diversity. The project plans the mobility of 10 pa ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

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

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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Cruising Oceans On Latitudes above 51º North (Cool Route)

Start date: Jun 2, 2015, End date: Jun 1, 2018,

Description (EN): The project investigates all aspects of the practical logistics and business potential to establish a bi-directional yacht cruising route along the offshore areas of the Northern Periphery Area, stretching from the South of Ireland, to the UK (Northern Ireland and Western Scotland) on onwards to Norway. As an eco-tourism product, exploiting the natural resources of ...
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EUropean test bed for the maritime Common Information Sharing Environment in the 2020 perspective (EU CISE 2020)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

EU CISE 2020 is an important step towards the accomplishment of the European roadmap for CISE; the project attains the widest possible experimental environment of innovative and collaborative processes between European maritime institutions.EU CISE 2020 takes as reference a broad spectrum of factors in the field of European Integrated Maritime Surveillance, arising from the European legal framewor ...
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Logistic Efficiencies And Naval architecture for Wind Installations with Novel Developments (LEANWIND)

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

A new EU 7th Framework Programme project, “LEANWIND” (Logistic Efficiencies And Naval architecture for Wind Installations with Novel Developments) seeks to apply lean principles to the offshore wind farm project lifecycle. The primary LEANWIND objective is to provide cost reductions across the offshore wind farm lifecycle and supply chain through the application of lean principles and the developm ...
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Access CenTer for PHotonics innovAtion Solutions and Technology support (ACTPHAST)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

ACTPHAST is a unique "one-stop-shop" European access centre for photonics innovation solutions and technology support (Access CenTre for PHotonics innovAtion Solutions and Technology support). ACTPHAST will support and accelerate the innovation capacity of European SMEs by providing them with direct access to the expertise and state-of-the-art facilities of Europe's leading photonics research cent ...
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GREEN MENTOR Fostering green entrepreneurship through an innovative ECVET curriculum for the new professional profile of Mentor for Green Entrepreneurs

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

New companies, especially SMEs, represent the most important source of new employment in Europe: they create more than 4 million new jobs every year. To bring Europe back to growth and higher levels of employment, Europe in general, but the countries of GREEN MENTOR project in particular (Spain, Austria, Hungary and Ireland), need more entrepreneurs. The transition to a green economy offers great ...
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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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Simulation based control for Energy Efficiency building operation and maintenance (Energy IN TIME)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Buildings Operational stage represents 80% of building’s life-cycle cost of which 50% is consequence of the energy use. Up to 90% of the buildings’ life cycle carbon emissions occur during their operational phase, mainly as consequence of the HVAC, lighting and appliances’ energy use. Therefore, energy and cost saving strategies addressing this building operation phase will have a major impact in ...
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