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Implement a European-wide coordination of research and innovation programs on raw materials to strengthen the industry competitiveness and the shift to a circular economy (ERA-MIN 2)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

Building on the experience of ERA-MIN FP7 funded project, the objective of the ERA-NET Cofund on Raw Materials (ERA-MIN 2) is to strengthen the coordination of national and regional research programmes in the field of non-energy non-agricultural raw materials by implementing one joint call for proposals resulting in grants to third parties with EU co-funding.In line with the integrated strategy pr ...
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Design for Resource and Energy efficiency in cerAMic kilns (DREAM)

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

The DREAM project aims to design, develop and demonstrate a radically improved architecture for ceramic industrial furnaces, characterised by optimised energy consumption, reduced emissions, and lower operating costs compared to currently available technological solutions. This will be obtained by substantially enhancing specific furnace parts (control system, refractories, emissions abatement sys ...
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ELIXIR-EXCELERATE: Fast-track ELIXIR implementation and drive early user exploitation across the life-sciences. (ELIXIR-EXCELERATE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The life sciences are undergoing a transformation. Modern experimental tools study the molecules, reactions, and organisation of life in unprecedented detail. The precipitous drop in costs for high-throughput biology has enabled European research laboratories to produce an ever-increasing amount of data. Life scientists are rapidly generating the most complex and heterogeneous datasets that scienc ...
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A Paradigm Shift in Reactor Safety with the Molten Salt Fast Reactor (SAMOFAR)

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

Imagine an inherently safe reactor that produces all electricity world-wide for thousands of years, and recycles all actinides until fission.The Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR) can reach this goal. The cylindrical reactor core contains actinide-fluorides mixed in lithium-fluoride. The liquid salt is at ambient pressure and can freely expand upon heating, giving a strong negative reactivity feedbac ...
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SIMPLA - Sustainable Integrated Multi-sector PLAnning (SIMPLA)

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

SIMPLA responds to topic EE 7 ‘Enhancing the capacity of public authorities to plan and implement sustainable energy policies and measures’ and its ultimate goal is empowering public authorities to develop, implement and finance sustainable energy policies and actions by creating the conditions for a smart integration between SEAPs (Sustainable Energy Action Plans) and SUMPs (Sustainable Urban Mob ...
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Graphene-based disruptive technologies (GrapheneCore1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CS ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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Promoting a functional and comparative understanding of the conifer genome- implementing applied aspects for more productive and adapted forests (PROCOGEN)

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

In the midst of a climatic change scenario, the genetics of adaptive response in conifers becomes essential to ensure a sustainable management of genetic resources and an effective breeding. Conifers are the target of major tree breeding efforts worldwide. Advances in molecular technologies, such as next-generation DNA sequencing technologies, could have an enormous impact on the rate of progres ...
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Latin America-Europe Advanced Dialogues to Enhance ICT Research and Innovation partnerSHIP (LEADERSHIP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Policy dialogue in science, technology and innovation has become an important vehicle for Latin America participation in EU-FP7 and ICT is currently in the bilateral and bi-regional political agendas. To ensure continuity and enhance collaborative ICT research and innovation (R&I) in Horizon 2020, LEADERSHIP will support the evolving dialogues on EU-LAC cooperation in ICT, by providing input, both ...
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ENSOCIO-LA: Strategic, Sustainable R&I Cooperation with Latin America (Climate Action, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials) (ENSOCIO-LA)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Bi-regional cooperation between the EU, its Member States and Latin America has focussed on the environment since the 1st EU-LAC Summit in Rio de Janeiro and the creation of the Strategic Partnership in 1999. Within political dialogue and the subsequent EU-LAC summits, the environment has always been a priority, focusing on climate change, sustainability, biodiversity, natural resources and hazard ...
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Développement d'un réseau d'infrastructure fédérée pour la création de services de virtualisation d'emplois (FI4VDI)

Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Le projet FI4VDI propose une infrastructure informatique sur le nuage (Cloud Computing) en utilisant les ressources disponibles de différents centres de calcul intensif situés dans le territoire de l'espace SUDOE, afin d'assurer la protection des données des utilisateurs, la conformité, et la sécurité des données. Le lancement de ce service entraînera l'amélioration de la compétitivité et des écon ...
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Functionalities of Bismuth based nanostructures (BisNano)

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

The aim of the present project is to explore the properties and possible applications of bismuth and bismuth based compounds when they are synthesized at the nanometric scale. This approach is motivated by the uncommon but advantageous properties of bismuth which, in part, have been exploited for many years. However, there are many unexplored possibilities and with the advent of nanotechnology new ...
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Mejora de los sistemas agrícolas y racionalización de cultivos para optimizar la competitividad y sostenibilidad de las explotaciones agrícolas. (0450_AGRI_SOS_6_E)

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

OBJETIVOS: Rentabilizar el sector agrario, pilar básico, económico, social y ambiental de las zonas rurales, mediante la implementación de nuevos cultivos, nuevos usos de cultivos, nuevos sistemas agrícolas, nuevas alternativas de cultivo para promover una agricultura empresarial competitiva en zonas productivas y sostenible, que garantice la seguridad y calidad en la alimentación, la protección d ...
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Diseño de la hoja de ruta Andalucía-Marruecos para el impulso de la Energía solar termoeléctrica (SOLEFLEX)

Start date: Nov 30, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

El objetivo general del proyecto consiste en diagnosticar y evaluar cualitativa y cuantitativamente la situación energética en Andalucía y el Norte de Marruecos así como su potencial crecimiento, definiendo el marco de actuación que ayude a fomentar el desarrollo de sistemas de energía solar termoeléctrica y microrredes eléctricas mediante la colaboración de las entidades de referencia en dicho se ...
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Towards a Latin America & Caribbean Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) in partnership with Europe (ALCUE-KBBE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

The project objective is to establish a LAC-UE platform bringing together regional and continental organizations involved in research funding and implementation, as well as other relevant stakeholders from the public and private sector and the civil society, in an effort to generate relevant information for the design and implementation of specific plans and projects, included the needed R&D and s ...
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Transport Fire Safety Engineering in the European Union (TRANSFEU)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

There is an urgent need to have a confident toxicity measurement methodology that contributes to the existing level of surface transport fire safety, which is the most difficult issue to assess in case of fire. The lack of confidence in the robustness of the existing product toxicity classification forbids its acceptance as a standard which prevent the European industry from common safety rules an ...
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GRID INITIATIVES FOR E-SCIENCE VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES IN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA (GISELA)

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

The GISELA objective is to guarantee the long-term sustainability of the European – Latin American e-Infrastructure and thus ensure the continuity and enhancement of the Virtual Research Communities (VRC) using it. The project will focus on:•\tImplementing the Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI) sustainability model rooted on National Grid Initiatives (NGI) or Equivalent Domestic Grid Structures ...
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Fostering the Research Dimension of Science and Technology Agreements (FORESTA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

FORESTA project wants to boost the research dimension of ICT cooperation and policy dialogue between the EU and the Latin American region. In particular, the project targets the four countries having signed S&T Agreements with the EU, and Colombia, which adopted in 2008 the DVB-T standard for digital broadcasting and has recently intensified contacts with the EU to start discussions on an S&T Agre ...
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High Speed Fire Stopping Sectional Door (NOFIRE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2011,

"The present proposal fills the gap existing in the European market concerning fire stopping garage doors capable of providing high speed closure, together with sensors and components for fire sttoping capabilities at an affordable price. These types of doors and sensors (light barriers and contact bands) have not been completely developed yet, fact that contributes to the creation of new business ...
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Smart fire-retardant coatings based on intumescent nanocomposites (HEFEST)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

"In Europe, annual fire losses reach 80 billion €, meaning more than 1% of EU GDP, 4000 people die and another 80000 suffer terrible burns. The use of fire retarding intumescent coatings play an important role in Fire Safety being this subsector mainly comprised by SMEs. Nowadays, a variety of fire intumescent coatings is available presenting diverse drawbacks such as: poor behaviour when ageing, ...
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The ergonomics, the new technologies, the quality and the management of the knowledge as engin for innovation in the traditional industry of the furniture (MEBLARO)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

O projecto MEBLARO é um projecto de investigação e difusão com o propósito de apoiar a indústria mobiliária do sudoeste Europeu, um sector muito importante na economia da região, mas que necessita desenvolver vantagens competitivas frente à complicada situação actual para poder subsistir. Pretende-se proporcionar ao sector ferramentas para conseguir esta vantagem, mediante a inovação e a diferenci ...
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QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE EUROPEAN BAKERY INDUSTRY

Start date: Feb 1, 2012,

The project Q-BAKE responds to the needs stated by a number of bakery companies for industry-oriented training for their workers. All RTDs presenting this proposal have a close relationship with the industry and have been providing technical training to the sector for a number of years. The changes in industrial and technological processes occur very rapidly and it is difficult for the companies a ...
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EUREKA - Enhancement of University Research and Education in Knowledge Areas useful for Sustainable Development (EU - Latin America)

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

EUREKA SD – Enhancement of University Research and Education in Knowledge Areas useful for Sustainable Development, will organize 315 mobilites, at all education and administrative university levels, between European and Latin American (LA) countries., The exchanges will be dedicated to educational and research of the areas supporting Sustainable Development (SD). The applicant- University of Old ...
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