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Not too Young to Remember

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2016,

...more peaceful and just world, Youth For Understanding is a very natural actor in processes related to helping young people learn from from the past in intercultural settings in order to become active global citizens. YFU France will bring an innovative approach to remembrance with young people, one that can overcome some of the challenges of remembrance, whilst using the intercultural context to f ...
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Kidney Injury Technology (KIT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

... has developed and patented a revolutionary biomarker-based diagnostic system for a highly and increasingly incident (>10% yearly) and dismally deadly disease (Acute Renal Failure -AKI) posing a huge global health and economic problem worldwide. Bio-inRen’s diagnostic system is envisioned to 1) change the concept and approach to AKI clinical handling, 2) become a reference diagnostic, 3) reduce AK ...
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Characterization and modelling of dietary effects mediated by gut microbiota on lipid metabolism (ETHERPATHS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"Dysregulation of lipid homeostasis is related to multiple major global healthcare problems today, including aging, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It has already been shown that nutritional modulation of lipid homeostasis via direct supplementation, e.g., n-3 fatty acids, or via indirect mechanisms, e.g., dietary polyphenols, has beneficial effects on human health. There is growing evidence ...
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Innovative tool to improve risk assessment and promote the safe use of nanomaterials in the textile finishing industry (LIFE_ECO-TEXNANO)

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

... Europe’s textile sector is an important employer, exporter and service provider. Maintaining these benefits requires that the sector evolves to compete in an increasingly sophisticated global market. Innovation can help Europe’s textile sector to succeed, by focusing on higher value-added and sustainable products. Nano materials offer opportunities to provide such value-added produc ...
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Climate Action

Start date: May 3, 2016, End date: Mar 2, 2017,

...cross generations. The objectives of this project are primarily to raise awareness among young people about the effects of the climate change, and to empower young people to raise their voice in the global debate on preserving natural environment. Other objective is the increased learning mobility opportunities for young people, through organizing the event on Sint Maarten, region highly affected ...
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Parasite-specific cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase inhibitors to target Neglected Parasitic Diseases (PDE4NPD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

This project aims to unite global efforts to target the highly druggable class of enzymes called cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDEs) in the fight for neglected parasitic diseases (NPD). It will establish a drug discovery platform, PDE4NPD, that combines phenotypic screening with efficient target-centric drug discovery, including target validation, various strategies for compound screening, ...
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Religion, Politics and the Arts in Early Medieval Italy Against the Background of the ‘Image Struggle’ (680-850) (ICONOPHILIA)

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

...s visual evidence, 'ICONOPHILIA' will explore this ‘grey area’ and prove to be significant to a range of scholarly disciplines, while being appealing also to a wider global audience interested in religious mentality, Church history, history of monasticism, cultural policies, visual thinking, art production and consumption as socio-political statements. The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern ...
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Tidal River Development (TIDE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

...be considered to ensure economic benefits and the maintenance of ecologically important areas. At the same time decision-makers at these estuaries are faced with an increasingly challenging legal and global economic framework. TIDE will lead the path towards a more sustainable and effective use of large scale investments made into mitigation and compensation measures in NSR estuaries by applying f ...
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Groundwater and Global Change - Impacts and Adaptation

Start date: Oct 15, 2014, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

REFERENCE: 553633-EPP-1-2014-1-NL-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB_G-watCHTITLE: Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Programme in Groundwater and Global Change – Impacts and Adaptation, GROUNDWATCHObjectiveThe Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Programme in Groundwater and Global Change – Impacts and Adaptation (GROUNDWATCH) aims to address the current gaps in higher education with regard to the understanding of the interactions ...
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Secondment for the development of Research Innovation in Biomaterial Rapid Prototyping (Second. R.I.)

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

...as well as the associated impacts on EU policies and enterprises in the biomaterials sector will be investigated. This unique initiative has its strength in the composition of its consortium which is global and multidisciplinary hence is expected to accelerate scientific and business progress in the strategic field of bone tissue engineering and to foster strong scientific cooperation between Chin ...
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Improving risk assessment in environmental decision making through robust uncertainty estimation (IMPROVE)

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

...future changes. Robust hydrological predictions with minimum uncertainty are needed to support the development of water-management strategies that minimise socio-economic risks at local, regional and global scales.The overall purpose of this project is to improve risk assessment in environmental decision making through robust quantification, reduction and communication of uncertainties in model pr ...
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Happiness in the nature!

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

...f 23.9. - 1.10.2016 in Krásensko in the centre of enviromental education Lipka. The project was invented by people who graduated in the Regional development where a lot of subjects were focused on global problems, enviromental issues. The project team is realizing that sharing the knowledge is huge responsibility. Seven young people would like to take this challenge and make an eco education more ...
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KÜÇÜK VE ORTABOY İŞLETMELERDE E-TİCARET UYGULAMALARI STAJI

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The rapid expansion of electronic commerce in the Internet has made new and very effective tool for the execution of commercial transactions. Visible manner has increased competition in the global economy with the emergence of this new economy. Electronic commerce applications held over computer networks which was off some extend, its cost are relatively high however it is a safe system. Nowadays ...
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“PRESET” Participation, Resilienz and Employability through Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Training

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

...itutes the predominant reason for social exclusion and poverty. Moreover, climate change and environmental degradation pose additional pressure especially on the future generation. For tackling these global developments, all societies are challenged to better exploit the huge potential offered by the younger generations in order to attain sustainable and inclusive growth. In this respect, the over ...
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European Business and Biodiversity Campaign (B+B Campaign)

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

... and regional initiatives; Disseminate information and demonstrate methodologies and tools that help businesses to assess and mitigate their impacts on biodiversity; Refine the global challenge of loss of biodiversity at the local level and motivate and support concrete action at local and regional level by SMEs. Results ...
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Dynamics of cultural landscapes and heritage management

Start date: Oct 15, 2014, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

...n the country of a DYCLAM partner– or at UStuttgart –for two months on the progressive anthropology of space followed by a research for four months–.DYCLAM emphasizes the learning of complex, global and integrated management, conservation and sustainable exploitation of heritage systems and sites (tangible and intangible heritage), protected areas and PCs. The training meets the needs identified b ...
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The European Union in World Politics: What Power? What Leadership? A multidisciplinary approach

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

...raction with the external environment can be considered as a gradual result of the integration processThe general aim of the project is to show how and why the EU has come to assume the status of a global power, and to what extent this status affects the international context. The activities foreseen include research, teaching and the organisation of several events and outputs. Given the high impo ...
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GREEN conNEXTion

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

...nd scholars around the world in this direction, aiming to develop a society which ensures harmony between environment, society and economic growth. This is more and more evident today, also thanks to global initiatives such as the Sustainable development goals (SDGs) and UN conferences and events such as the COP21. In general, starting from the UN Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockh ...
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A Genetic Data CUBE - An innovative business model applied to predictive and prescriptive analytics, exploring Big Data and empowering cloud-services and urgent computation (GDC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

...sis is therefore of paramount importance to diagnose and solve business problems and issues in our VUCA world (dominated by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity). To meet this EU as well as global challenge, we intend to bring Genetic Data Cube (GDC) to market maturity. GDC is a data driven innovative business model powered by a huge trove of real-world, real-time preference/usage /feedb ...
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World Wide Wet

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

...e essential asset to all human activities , "That’s what is stated in the 1st principle of the European Water Charter. Unfortunately, water is a limited resource , it is decreasing because of global warming and excessive demand from a growing world population. This means to adopt , in the present, new lifestyles which also take into account the needs of future generations. The context in which th ...
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VET Stakeholders of the Automotive Sector

Today’s automotive sector is characterized by steadily ongoing workprocess innovations, by the development of global delivery networks, andby increasing competition. This yields a lot of requirements for theemployees in terms of flexibility to cover the needs of this ever-changingworld of work, or, in other words, the ability to cope with complex workrequirements which can only be determined prope ...
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Establishing new concepts and approaches for future vaccine development against parasitic pathogens of cattle (FLUKVAC)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The negative impact of worm parasites on livestock animal health/welfare and on plant crop health seriously undermines food production systems and poses a direct threat to global food security. However, the use of chemical products to treat worms is not sustainable in the long term because of the continual emergence of drug-resistant parasites. Also, the presence of chemical and antibiotic residue ...
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Dissection of Democracy

Start date: Aug 5, 2013,

...an citizenship and active participation in democratic life;- Youth unemployment and poverty;- Marginalisation and inclusion of young migrants, disabled young people, and, where relevant, Roma youth;- Global environmental challenges and climate change.Furthermore, they will review possible solutions to be implemented, in the light of their own researches and in the presence of decision-makers and e ...
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Intercambio de Jóvenes con la Semana por los Derechos de la Juventud 2014

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

... how to activate , discuss and propose , around the reality of the rights of young people in their countries, with a European perspective, and ask how vulnerabilities can be solved in a European and global context . The project has different activities and times : 1) A preparatory meeting in July , 2014 " Preparatory Meeting" will be held at VPP CENTRE ESPLAI (El Prat de Llobregat -Barcelona- Spai ...
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MIGRATION HIGHWAYS: Everlasting Phenomena

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

...s. Solidarity, tolerance and integration are fundamental values that this TC will promote. Activities will focus on the principles of intercultural dialogue and social inclusion, in both European and global perspective. The TC aims to equip participants with tools to spread these values among young people, to contribute to the promotion of a more open, tolerant environment which offers the same op ...
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Commercialisation of a world changing invention for the stabilisation and delivery of vaccines (StableVax)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

... human error. Currently 50% of the world’s vaccines are rendered useless due to the failings of the present refrigerated ‘cold chain’ delivery systems.Stablepharma has a vision to eliminate the global cold chain and unnecessary vaccine wastage by introducing an innovative method to stabilise vaccines allowing them to be transported and stored at a wide-range of temperatures. Our technology involve ...
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Aprendizaje de las competencias lingüísitcas en un entorno europeo y observación de buenas prácticas

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

...d socioeconomic surroundings is the ultimate goal of our work, as well as offering a better education which enables the integration of our students in a labour market more and more competitive and global.
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Exploiting the power of human induced pluripotent stem cells to generate synthetic retinae in vitro for cell based therapies, drug discovery and disease modelling (RET-iPSC)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2018,

Blindness represents an increasing global problem with social and economic impacts both for the patients and society in general. Recent estimates indicate that the overall number of people with visual loss is 285 million globally, of whom 39 million are blind. In Europe, approximately 1 in 30 individuals experience sight loss and 75% of those are unemployed, a social burden which is anticipated t ...
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RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUILDING SECURITY (RIBS)

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

"The RIBS-project supports the design of effective and viable integrated security measures aimed at protecting infrastructures without impacting on their business dynamics. In a global context where national interests are increasingly interrelated, the most vulnerable infrastructures in Europe, and particularly the most critical ones, are primary targets for terrorists. Attacks, carried out under ...
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Blending Stoichiometric and Metabolic Theories from Genes to Populations: Resource Stochiometry and Temperature Effects on Consumers with Contrasting Life-history Strategies (STOICHIOMET)

Start date: Oct 12, 2015, End date: Oct 11, 2017,

Human-induced global warming and increased nutrient bioavailability are impacting on species evolution and ecosystem functioning worldwide. Single effects of each global change factor on consumer life history have been well assessed by the metabolic theory of ecology, and ecological and biological stoichiometry, respectively, and for each biological level from genes to populations. However, their ...
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Where the world meets

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

...ut also personalities. Their voluntary service on the edge of their worlds could help in: building a common understanding and intercultural dialogue between people from different backgrounds, raising global connections awareness and using the global education in local activities, learning from each other (volunteers and partner organisations) and supporting young people in getting new competencies ...
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Centralbaltic Job Ferry (CB Job Ferry)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The overall objective of the current proposed project, correlated with the global objectives of the Central Baltic cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013, is to intensify the cross-border cooperation of all labour market participants in the common border region in a socially and economically sustainable way meant to support the development of a cross-border labour market. Specifically the p ...
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COOPERAZIONE DELLE RETI ECOLOGICHE NEL MEDITERRANEO (Co.R.E.M.)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The project's theme is the projection of the global issues of ecological network, in view of a synergistic sharing of intent to cross-border, cross-sector, cross-cultural and social. The overall project objective is to enhance the natural heritage and biodiversity in particular regions of the Mediterranean, through: • Reduction of human pressure and threats on the unique and rare habitats and site ...
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European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

...s and different perspectives to these contexts, emphasizes the relevance of (approaches to) intercultural relations and communication. Moreover, and along with increasingly accelerating tendencies of globalization, migration contests concepts of the nation state and territorial borders and directs attention to questions of social justice and human rights, conflict and reconciliation. It also leads ...
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"Unraveling the functional architecture of the human thermoregulatory system through immunological, circadian and sensory mechanisms: focus on the mature European population" (THERMOMICS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

...s, particularly for the elderly. Thousands of deaths among the mature have been attributed to heat waves that encompassed Europe recently, while an increase in heat-related deaths is projected due to global warming. Exertional heat illness and death among highly motivated athletes and soldiers also occur frequently, particularly since the deployments of European soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq. T ...
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NO PLAN(ET) B: TIME TO ACT, THINK GREEN!

Start date: Feb 15, 2015, End date: Jul 14, 2015,

...aning of the concept of sustainability, we have "competed" in the Olympics of Sustainability to test our knowledge and our individual behaviors, we analyzed the strategies and actions at European and global level concerning environment, climate change and sustainable development, we have tried to live "slowly" in the wonderful environment of the hills around Tortona and we managed to create new pr ...
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ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΗ ΔΕΞΙΟΤΗΤΩΝ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΝΟΥ ΔΥΝΑΜΙΚΟΥ ΣΤΟ e- ΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΕΙΝ

Start date: Jul 6, 2016, End date: Jul 5, 2017,

...ss technologies to reduce their operating costs,4. Promoting use technologies addressed to customers to improve service and gain pumping, directly or indirectly,5. Spread transactions at national and global levels.This plan regards a mobility of 20 participants, manpower managers - members of the Association, who for a period of 14 days will go to England. The duration of the mobility abroad is sa ...
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Dejte nám šanci

Start date: May 8, 2015, End date: Oct 7, 2015,

...ng children’s homes to be knowledgeable in society. The lectures and targeted nature trips that are focused on nature conservation should extend awareness of seriousness of the topic concerning global pollution, especially then watercourses. As we have already been informed, the experience gained at summer stays, which our organization organized in the past, were beneficial for personality develop ...
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Diet Sharing

Start date: Jun 17, 2014, End date: May 16, 2015,

...ing healthy, increasing the value of local food, if possible. So that the exchange will be also a good time for comparing different strategies for a better participation in local and global political decisions, using the rights of an active and democratic citizenship. Important will be the team building group activities, to better get to know each other and break some barriers based on stereotypes ...
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"The development, validation and implementation of human systemic Toxic Equivalencies (TEQs) as biomarkers for dioxin-like compounds" (SYSTEQ)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

...arkers are already available. Results of SYSTEQ are also going to be used to establish international consensus values of ‘systemic’ TEFs at WHO level, facilitating the global use of ‘systemic’ TEQs as biomarkers of effect and exposure."
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