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An Integrated European ‘Flagship’ Program Driving Mechanism-based Toxicity Testing and Risk Assessment for the 21st Century (EU-ToxRisk)

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

The vision of EU-ToxRisk is to drive a paradigm shift in toxicology towards an animal-free, mechanism-based integrated approach to chemical safety assessment. The project will unite all relevant disciplines and stakeholders to establish: i) pragmatic, solid read-across procedures incorporating mechanistic and toxicokinetic knowledge; and ii) ab initio hazard and risk assessment strategies of chemi ...
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Effect of ALlopurinol in addition to hypothermia for hypoxic-ischemic Brain Injury on Neurocognitive Outcome (ALBINO)

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

Neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a major cause of death or long-term disability in infants born at term in the western world, affecting about 1-4 per 1.000 life births and consequently about 5-20.000 infants per year in Europe.Hypothermic treatment became the only established therapy to improve outcome after perinatal hypoxic-ischemic insults. Despite hypothermia and neonatal inte ...
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Towards the design of Personalised Polymer-based Combination Nanomedicines for Advanced Stage Breast Cancer Patients (MyNano)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

Research on anticancer therapies has provided little progress towards improved survival rates for patients with metastatic disease. The intrinsic advantages of polymer conjugates can be optimised to rationally design targeted combination therapies, concept I pioneered that allows enhanced therapeutic efficiency. Early clinical trials involving conjugates showed activity in chemotherapy refractory ...
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Providing the right care to the right patient with MyeloDysplastic Syndrome at the right time (MDS-RIGHT)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are chronic bone marrow malignancies of the elderly, complicated by severe anaemia. MDS significantly affects quality-adjusted survival and it imposes an increasing financial burden on patients and healthcare (HC) systems. The burden of disease is expected to worsen in the future, given the aging EU population and newly identified MDS cases among those diagnosed wit ...
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A holistic multi-actor approach towards the design of new tomato varieties and management practices to improve yield and quality in the face of climate change (TomGEM)

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

The world demographic growth and global climate change are major challenges for human society,hence the need to design new strategies for maintaining high crop yield in unprecedented environmental conditions.The objective of TomGEM is to design new strategies aiming to maintain high yields of fruit and vegetables at harsh temperature conditions, using tomato as a reference fleshy fruit crop.As yie ...
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Exploiting Protein Complexes that Induce Cell-death (EPIC)

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

The formation of specific protein complexes are key events in life-and-death decisions made by cells. Inappropriate decisions underpin a plethora of disease conditions from degenerative diseases to cancer while the role of the complexes in these processes make them important therapeutic targets. Our ability to develop small molecules to target death-inducing protein complexes has been hampered by ...
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Wireless In-Body Environment (WiBEC)

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

WiBEC (Wireless In-Body Environment Communications) is an Innovative Training Network for 16 young researchers, who will be recruited and trained in coordinated manner by Academia, Industry, and Medical Centres. This training will address the Social, Health, and Technology challenges of the H2020:Wireless In-Body Devices. WiBEC’s main objective is to provide high quality and innovative doctoral tr ...
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Skills and competences development of future transportation professionals at all levels (SKILLFUL)

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

The Transportation sector employs over 10 million persons in the EU today. At the same time, Transport is a social sector that is rapidly developing, changing and being influenced to the maximum extent by the development of automation, electrification and greening of transport, among others, thus facing problems in staffing its several domains with appropriate and qualified personnel. This fact, m ...
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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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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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ENVIRONMENTALLY EFFICIENT USE OF PESTICIDES BY LOCALIZED IRRIGATION SYSTEMS (LIFE_IRRILIFE)

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

Background In many countries, rising demand for food has resulted in the expansion of irrigation for agriculture and the increased use of fertilisers and pesticides in order to achieve and sustain higher yields. Since the Second World War, there has been a rapid increase in the use of synthetic organic compounds to control weeds, insects and different pes ...
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Interoperability of Heterogeneous IoT Platforms (INTER-IoT)

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

INTER-IoT project is aiming at the design, implementation and experimentation of an open cross-layer framework and associated methodology to provide voluntary interoperability among heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) platforms. The proposal will allow developing effectively and efficiently smart IoT applications, atop different heterogeneous IoT platforms, spanning single and/or multiple appli ...
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COMPACT BIOPHOTONIC PLATFORM FOR DRUG ALLERGY DIAGNOSIS (COBIOPHAD)

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

Drug hypersensitivity to antibiotics, mainly Beta-lactams (BLCs) affects more than 2.5 million European citizens. Moreover, preventable adverse drug reactions are estimated in additional hospitalization costs of 1750-4500 €/patient. Currently, the allergy diagnosis is mainly based on the information given by invasive, single, and risky in vivo assays. In daily practice, few in vitro diagnostic met ...
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Hepatic and Cardiac Toxicity Systems modelling (HECATOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

HeCaToS aims at developing integrative in silico tools for predicting human liver and heart toxicity. The objective is to develop an integrated modeling framework, by combining advances in computational chemistry and systems toxicology, for modelling toxic perturbations in liver and heart across multiple scales. This framework will include vertical integrations of representations from drug(metabol ...
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ECVET and OER based assessment and training of guidance practitioners working with NEETs

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

In December 2014 in the EU-28, about 5 million young people (aged under 25) were unemployed, of which more than 3.2 million in the euro area. 7.5 million young people between 15 and 24 years do not work or follow an educational or training course (Not in Education, Employment or Training - NEET). EU Member States have addressed the issue of young NEETs establishing the Youth Guarantee Program (YG) ...
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ECVET AND PRACTITIONERS WORKING IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUPPORT SERVICES

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

The EPWESS project is located in the context of Entrepreneurship Support Services (SAEs). The need for support and assistance to entrepreneurship is an area that permeates any country which bases its growth strategy in promoting the creation and consolidation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).As mentioned in the initial description of the project, 85% of the jobs generated by companies in Eur ...
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VALENCIA EMPLEA III

Start date: Dec 31, 2016, End date: Mar 30, 2018,

VALENCIA EMPLEA III Consortium already has experience in the implementation of this project in the city of Valencia, and they have considered it suitable to contribute to socio-economic development of the city, through improving the employability of young people who participate in it once again.The socio-economic and labor situation in Valencia is still very serious as far as unemployment is conce ...
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Multidimensional, IntegraTed, rIsk assessment framework and dynamic, collaborative Risk ManaGement tools for critical information infrAstrucTurEs (MITIGATE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Despite the importance of Critical Information Infrastructures (CIIs) and dynamic ICT-based maritime supply chains (SCs) for port operations, state-of-the-art Risk Management (RM) methodologies for maritime environments pay limited attention to cyber-security and do not adequately address security processes for international SCs. Motivated by these limitations, MITIGATE will introduce, integrate, ...
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Developing an European American NGS Network (DEANN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The DEANN project is a network formation initiative that involves six research institutions and universities from four EU countries and equivalently, six research entities from four Latin American countries. The overall goal is to strengthen research partnership among the participants by developing a shared scientific knowhow in the field of Next Generation Sequencing data analysis. More specific ...
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USE OF CO2 AS A SUBSTITUTE OF CHLORINE-BASED CHEMICALS USED IN O&M INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES FOR MACROFOULING REMEDATION (LIFE CO2FORMARE)

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

Background Combined cycle power plants located on the coast generally use seawater for their cooling processes. This can lead to biofouling – growth of flora and fauna on surfaces – which can be micro or macrofouling, depending on the size of the organisms. Macrofouling is a problem for industrial facilities. In order to eliminate the organic matter ...
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Increasing Capacity 4 Rail networks through enhanced infrastructure and optimised operations (CAPACITY4RAIL)

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

In 2011, the White Paper on European Transport reasserted how fundamental transport was for society, for the mobility of European citizens and for the growth and vitality of the European economy.CAPACITY4RAIL will deliver research that is innovative, prepares rail for the future and takes into account results from previous research projects and programmes. The project builds on previous useable re ...
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SOCIAL VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE IN VALENCIA

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

“SOCIAL VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE IN VALENCIA” is a project that promotes inclusion and equity , European citizenship and youth participation .The project will be developed in the city of Valencia that is the capital of Region of Valencia. The population of the city is about 1 million inhabitants. It has great historical and natural heritage as the Albufera and the Lonja de la Seda. The most importa ...
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Coaching Educativo: Prevención del Abandono Escolar.

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

CEPAE will be developed in a context of difficultues among the different european educational systems which are trying to overcome the phenomenon that is affecting negatively the european early leavers at personal and professional background. Looking at the partner countries, three of them have high Early Leaving Rate (ESL) rate (Italy, Turkey and Spain), whereas the partnership is also particip ...
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Applying ECVET and ECTS to certify competences and skills in maritime port sector

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

The project aims to support national and regional rules on the skills recognizing according to the ECTVET system. The partnerships aims to develop innovation on method of recognizing skills and management in the port and logistics field. The implementation proposal is focused on the skills and competences of the professionals in the sector. At this aim, 3 level of professionals (managerial, interm ...
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A European University-Business Alliance aiming to foster the entrepreneurial spirit of ICT students

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

“One becomes an entrepreneur not by birth but by education as well as by experience” Context/background: Our project, ICT ENTREPRENEUR, aims to develop an innovative entrepreneurship programme for ICT students/graduates across Europe, offering these young people an insight of the working environment, helping them in developing their transversal skills and providing a new professional path to them ...
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Coaching for Change

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

SummaryThis project equips youth workers with simple strategies and techniques, skills and competencies through Brief Coaching practices to engage with the young people with fewer opportunities they work with and make change easier. The approach we have chosen is underpinned by values, crucial for Europe today – democracy, human rights, respect for law, tolerance, acceptance, curiosity and courage ...
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E-Tourism - A new generation and new e-business models 2015

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

E-TOURISM" project relates to the theme of the relations between the WEB and the Cultural Tourism Industry. This experience will develop through a five week abroad mobility which provides, after an initial preparatory stage during the first week stay, work placements experiences similar to those of the Alternating School Work project, performed by the member schools of the consortium. The project ...
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VALENCIA EMPLEA II

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

The VLC EMPLEA project is a joint initiative undertaken by the Foundation Pact for Employment with 4 VET centers in the municipality of Valencia, the Consortium is composed by: - FoundationPact for Employment ( Consortium coordinator ) - INTER Institute - Sociedad Cooperativa Valenciana Juan Comenius - Professional School Xavier - TAES Centre The project arises from the need to provide great ...
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Learning from integrated eCare practice and promoting deployment in European regions (Beyond Silos)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Description BeyondSilos enables delivery of integrated care to older Europeans to support them to live independently within the community by providing the ICT tools necessary to join up care pathways across organisations, in particular between social and health service providers. A key area of integration is providing cross-sectoral teams wi ...
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Machine Learning for Personalized Medicine (MLPM2012)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"Over the last decade, enormous progress has been made on recording the health state of an individual patient down to the molecular level of gene activity and genomic information – even sequencing a patient’s genome for less than 1000 dollars is no longer an unrealistic goal. However, the ultimate hope to use all this information for personalized medicine, that is to tailor medical treatment to th ...
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SEIMED services to enhance innovation management capacity of SME's KAM services (SEIMED INNOSUP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Innovation support by the Enterprise Europe Network - SEIMED to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs & services as key account managers for the SME Instrument beneficiaries in the regions of Comunidad Valenciana y Murcia. In order to enhance SME innovation management capacity, we will support SME´s to implement truly effective processes in order to become more competitive and have a ...
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Destination eValidation

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Volunteering has always played important role in many sectors of the European economy and especially in the non-profit sector but for a very long time its contribution was not officially recognised at EU level. In 2012 the role of volunteering in the EU was highlighted in a resolution adopted by the European Parliament. The resolution stated that "the competences and knowledge gained by volunteers ...
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Mechanisms of cell dysfunction by aggregation dynamics of polyQ-containing proteins (MechAggrenamics)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Protein aggregation is a hallmark of several ageing-related neurodegenerative diseases, such as Huntington’s disease (HD), Alzheimer’s disease and prion-mediated diseases. Different cellular pathways influence the rate of aggregation, and clearance of intermediate protein species and aggregates in the cell (for example, autophagy or proteasomal degradation). Many signalling pathways regulate these ...
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Social Volunteering in DASYC Foundation

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Social Volunteering in DASYC Foundation is a project that promotes inclusion and equity , European citizenship and youth participation .The project will be developed in the city of Valencia that is the capital of Region of Valencia. The city has about 1 million inhabitants. It has great historical and natural heritage as the Albufera and the Lonja de la Seda. Important economic sectors are service ...
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Joining up ICT and service processes for quality integrated care in Europe (SmartCare)

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

Against the background of the European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing, SmartCare aims to define a common set of standard functional specifications for an open ICT platform enabling the delivery of integrated care to older European citizens. A total of 24 regions and their key stakeholders will define a comprehensive set of integration building blocks around the challenges of dat ...
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MESA - Maritime Europe Strategy Action - FOSTER Waterborne (MESA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Maritime Europe Strategy Action (MESA – FOSTER WATERBORNE), main strategic objective (in line with WATERBORNE-TP) is to strengthen the effectiveness of the research and innovation capacities of the European maritime industry, by:- Optimization of the European maritime RDI strategies- Improvement of the stakeholders network, of the dissemination, of the use of the research results, and increasing t ...
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Volunteering Validation Highway

End date: Aug 29, 2016,

The Volunteering Validation Highway (VVH) project focuses on the use of social media (Facebook, linkedIN etc.) and other online tools (e.g. learning platforms) in the recognition and validation of volunteers’ skills. The aim is to investigate tools used around Europe, share information and learners' experiences about them and their needs for validation, and provide recommendations for new tools. T ...
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LIVING TOGETHER, LEARNING TOGETHER

Start date: Aug 5, 2015, End date: Aug 4, 2016,

“Living together, learning together” expects to be the fifth edition of the European Voluntary Service (EVS) developed in the city of Elche, inside the neighborhood of Carrus, from 2010-2011 by the FEACV. Carrús, traditionally a working class neighborhood, has developed at the same time inmigration and industrial development in recent years. Now, It´s considered a preferred neighborhood social att ...
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Social EVS in Valencia City

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Social EVS in Valencia City is a project that has promoted inclusion and equity , European citizenship and youth participation . The project has been developed in the city of Valencia that is the capital of Region of Valencia. The city has about 1 million inhabitants. It has great historical and natural heritage as the Albufera and the Lonja de la Seda. Important economic sectors are services, fol ...
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European Consortium for the Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy (EUROCONDOR)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Diabetic retinopathy (DR), the leading cause of blindness among working-age individuals in developed countries has been classically considered to be a microcirculatory disease of the retina. However, there is growing evidence to suggest that retinal neurodegeneration is an early event in the pathogenesis of DR. For this reason, it is reasonable to hypothesize that therapeutic strategies based on n ...
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