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Alternative models and robust decision-making for future forest management (ALTERFOR)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

European forests are expected to provide a broad range of ecosystem services (ES). This capacity is however threatened by the uncertainties of climate change, the complex dynamics of evolving global markets and the pressures for increased use of bioenergy. Such challenges cannot be effectively addressed with an uncritical regional or national commitment to traditional forest management models (FMM ...
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Keep the Energy at the right place! (EnergyKeeper)

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

Main idea is to allow individual users and urban communities in remote (isolated) areas to benefit from a local low carbon economy.The project will enable the communities and individual users to participate in the smart grid context, it will develop an intelligent storage solution optimizing the communities demand and supply. The solution will be scalable towards size of the community (30-10.000 h ...
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READY

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

"Based on thorough integrated climate planning the READY project will demonstrate a Whole City Approach including: 1) Demo of a balanced and holistic approach towards affordable retrofitting of residential buildings and offices 2) Development and demo of new solutions for low-temp. district heating, components and management ICT systems 3) Development and demo of flexible combined grid balancing/e ...
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FAST Nuclear Emergency Tools (FASTNET) (FASTNET)

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

When dealing with emergency, two issues with fully different time requirements and operational objectives, and thus different methods and tools, have to be considered: emergency preparedness and emergency response. This project will address both issues by combining the efforts of organizations active in these two areas to make already identified deterministic reference tools and methods a decisive ...
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Camelina & crambe Oil crops as Sources for Medium-chain Oils for Specialty oleochemicals (COSMOS)

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

The COSMOS proposal aims to reduce Europe’s dependence on imported coconut and palm kernel oils and fatty acids and castor oil as sources for medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA, C10–C14) and medium-chain polymer building blocks. These are needed by the oleochemical industry for the production of plastics, surfactants, detergents, lubricants, plasticisers and other products. In COSMOS, camelina and cra ...
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Role of technologies in an energy efficient economy – model-based analysis of policy measures and transformation pathways to a sustainable energy system (REEEM)

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

REEEM aims to gain a clear and comprehensive understanding of the system-wide implications of energy strategies in support of transitions to a competitive low-carbon EU society. Comprehensive technology impact assessments will target the full integration from demand to supply and from the individual to the entire system. It will further address its trade-offs across society, environment and econom ...
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In-Vessel Melt Retention Severe Accident Management Strategy for Existing and Future NPPs (IVMR)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

The stabilization of molten corium is recognised as essential if a safe and stable state is to be reached following a severe accident. Among the possible options, In-Vessel Melt Retention (IVMR) appears as an attractive solution that would minimize the risks of containment failure (less Hydrogen produced, no corium-concrete interaction), if it can be proved to be feasible.The strategy is already a ...
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PHotonics enhanced fAB LABS supporting the next revolution in digitalization (PHABLABS 4.0)

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

PHABLABS 4.0 aims to integrate photonics in a durable way into the rapidly expanding ecosystem of European Fab Labs and Makerslabs, resulting in a larger and better skilled photonics workforce with superior innovation capacity to achieve a lasting, positive impact on the next revolution in digitization. Combining the forces of top experts from 13 European photonics institutes and STEM-oriented org ...
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Cultural Opposition: Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries (COURAGE)

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

The project proposes both to create an electronic registry of representative online and offline, private and public collections of cultural opposition in all former socialist countries in Europe and to study the origins, uses and changing roles of these collections in their social, political and cultural contexts. We seek to further an understanding of how these (private and public, alternative an ...
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Implementation of activities described in the Roadmap to Fusion during Horizon 2020 through a Joint programme of the members of the EUROfusion consortium (EUROfusion)

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

A Roadmap to the realization of fusion energy was adopted by the EFDA system at the end of 2012. The roadmap aims at achieving all the necessary know-how to start the construction of a demonstration power plant (DEMO) by 2030, in order to reach the goal of fusion electricity in the grid by 2050. The roadmap has been articulated in eight different Missions. The present proposal has the goal of impl ...
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Managing Affective-learning THrough Intelligent atoms and Smart InteractionS (MATHISIS)

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

The MaTHiSiS learning vision is to provide a product-system for vocational training and mainstream education for both individuals with an intellectual disablity and non-diagnosed ones. This product-system consists of an integrated platform, along with a set of re-usable learning components (educational material, digital educational artefacts etc.), which will respond to the needs of a future educa ...
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OPENing UP new methods, indicators and tools for peer review, impact measurement and dissemination of research results (OpenUP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Open Access and Open Scholarship have revolutionized the way scholarly artefacts are evaluated and published, while the introduction of new technologies and media in scientific workflows has changed the “how and to whom” science is communicated, and how stakeholders interact with the scientific community. OpenUP addresses key aspects and challenges of the currently transforming science landscape a ...
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Baltic youth research(ers) up-graded: long term impact on youth field

Start date: Oct 26, 2016, End date: Oct 25, 2018,

There could be many examples when proper attention and reacting to certain problem is given upon urgent and unpleasant situations (such as alcoholism problematic when father is killing two small children). It so called “firefighting” - the practice of dealing with problems as they arise rather than planning strategically to avoid them. It‘s so obvious that such practice is undesired, but still it ...
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Learning and assessing soft transversal skills in work-linked trainings to optimize the success of pathways, to prevent from dropouts and to favor employment integration and professional mobility in the long term

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

To succeed in today’s economy, modern society and personal lives, key competences and the related transversal soft skills are considered essential and complementary to formal skills. This postulate has been highlighted by many organizations and taken as a main thematic for this new project called JANUS+.The innovative approach of JANUS+ is however to focus on the importance of soft / transversal s ...
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Entrepreneurship with vision - methods and tools for managerial capacity building of agricultural producers in Central and Eastern Europe

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

European farmers and their successors live in a changing market environment and have to prepare for the new Common Agricultural Policy after 2015, allowing more freedom to produce products of own choice and quantity. The new EU countries experience this even more. Especially the situation in less favored regions, often in remote areas with relative small farms, is complex. Such families are found ...
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Digital, Social and Civic Competences Development for Adult Educators Working with Migrants and Refugees - DiSoCi

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

Europe needs more cohesive and inclusive societies which allow citizens to play an active role in democratic life. Education and youth work are key to prevent violent radicalization by promoting common European values, fostering social integration, enhancing inter-cultural understanding and a sense of belonging to a community. According to the crisis the refugees, migrants and etc. diversified g ...
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Developing Interdisciplinary Economics, Ethics and Citizenship Education in Secondary Schools

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

The Lithuanian Free Market Institute together with six partner organisations in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland, including the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, the Vilnius Vytautas Magnus Gymnasium in Lithuania, the JAMK University of Applied Sciences in Finland, the Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy, Riga State Gymnasium No 1 in Latvia in Latvia, and Gu ...
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ODYSSEE-MURE, a decision support tool for energy efficiency policy evaluation. (ODYSSEE-MURE)

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

The 2012 Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) establishes a set of binding measures to help the EU reach its 20% energy efficiency target by 2020. Countries have also set their own indicative national energy efficiency targets. To reach these targets, EU countries have to implement energy efficiency policies and monitor their impact. The Commission has also the task of monitoring the impacts of the m ...
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Baltic Region Initiative for Long Lasting InnovAtive Nuclear Technologies (BRILLIANT)

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

The region of the European Union around the Baltic sea especially the countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are not adequately integrated to the European electricity grid. At the end of 2009 Ignalina NPP (Lithuania), which generated ~70-75 % of electricity in Lithuania and supplied electricity to Latvia and Estonia was permanently shutdown leaving the region without nuclear power generation. Lit ...
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Together: Refugees & Youth

Start date: Jun 9, 2016, End date: Jun 8, 2018,

Current European refugee crisis is one of the biggest threats to the European Project (Angela Merkel, 2015). Indeed, the media is full of scenes with thousands of people flocking to Europe from the war zones looking for better life. However, more often than not they end up in the place that does not want to use their potential, let alone welcome them. Is Europe going to keep these refugees out of ...
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CAST (CArbon-14 Source Term) (CAST)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The CAST project (CArbon-14 Source Term) aims to develop understanding of the generation and release of 14C from radioactive waste materials under conditions relevant to waste packaging and disposal to underground geological disposal facilities. The project will focus on releases from irradiated metals (steels, Zircaloys) and from ion-exchange materials as dissolved and gaseous species. A study t ...
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Dare to care

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

Project "Dare to care" was initiated to empower young people from all over Europe to take an action in the sphere of society life they care for – children at risk, environment, promoting reading culture in society, non-formal, inter-cultural learning. By acting upon the cause they care the most, volunteers will increase their awareness about the phenomena and improve skills necessary to be effecti ...
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Get Youth into IT: Encouraging and Supporting Young People in the IT Careers

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2017,

It has been well documented that Europe is currently experiencing a skills shortage in the field of IT with an estimated shortage of 900,000 IT professionals by 2020. The EU is currently home to some of largest multinational IT companies in the world, however with a lack of relevant skills available in the local labor market they may be forced to locate to competing, more IT skilled markets. Anoth ...
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Sustainable network for Independent Technical EXpertise of radioactive waste disposal - Interactions and Implementation (SITEX-II)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

The coordination action SITEX-II aims at implementing in practice the activities along with the interaction modes issued by the FP7 program SITEX project (2012-2013), in view of developing an Expertise function network. This network is expected to ensure a sustainable capability of developing and coordinating joint and harmonized activities related to the independent technical expertise in the fie ...
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Researchers' Night: It's Your Friday to Discover! (LT2016)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

"The LT2016 Researchers’ Night projects for 2016 and 2017 will take place in major Lithuanian cities, i.e. Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Siauliai and Moletai, as well as in rural areas. The project aims to enhance public recognition of researchers and their work through bringing scientists and public closer to one another and thus increasing an understanding of the impact of researchers' work on citi ...
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Equality in practice and work

Start date: Jul 3, 2016, End date: Nov 2, 2017,

The project “Equality in practice and work” responds to the needs of our graduates to develop their professional skills in accordance to the demands of European context, providing their chances on the labor market to be equal to graduates of other educational institutions with similar profile. This is especially important as our school is located in a rural area, such non-formal learning student e ...
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Light the Candle of Your Bright Future (CANDLE)

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

The CANDLE partnership is a joint effort of 7 organisations (3 NGOs, 1 school, 1 public body and 2 SMEs) from 6 European countries from 3 main regions of Europe (North, South-Eastern, South). The project's overall aim is to improve employment prospects of young people with intellectual disabilities. The concrete objectives of the project are:- to improve social entrepreneurial skills of 35 young p ...
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“Innovative Training System For Young Entrepreneurs base on case studies. ENTREPRENEURS 7x21”

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

The Project is designed to help potential entrepreneurs in their professional activities increasing their success chances in the business world. This will affect positively all the participating countries (RO, ES, IT, LT, CZ, PL) and will imply direct benefits in their economy such as employment growth, more ethical and competitive CEO behaviour, better prepared personnel, reinforced leadership a ...
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USEFUL USABILITY DISPOSABILITY

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

USEFUL, USABILITY , DISPOSABILITY (UUD) is a project which addresses the issue of plastic invasion of our communities and households with a purpose to bring the message of a safe and healthy environment closer to the citizens through civic education. Five organizations decided to use their capabilities and expertise to produce a Moodle based e-learning platform with a content capable to serve the ...
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Sustainable Entrepreneurship based on Multifunctional Agriculture

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

The EU has clearly identified the need for European agriculture to be reshaped towards greater sustainability. Multifunctional agriculture is the key concept underlying the reformed agricultural and rural development policy aiming at increasing sustainability of agriculture, while at the same time being competitive at the European and global market. Most farmers, especially young farmers and manag ...
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Future society lab

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Project "Future society lab" is European voluntary service project, which will be implemented in Vilnius from 1st pt March, 2016 to 28th of February, 2017 (12 months). 3 participants from Great Britain, Ukraine and Germany will come to Lithuania. Project is focused on 3 main issues: human rights, social innovations and dissemination of ethical media's concept. These topics are very related in con ...
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Social Justice on Social Media

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"SOS - Social Justice on Social Media" is an Erasmus+ Youth Workers' Mobility Activon which will take place in İstanbul/Turkey between 2-8 June 2016 organised by an informal group which called "Youthist".This Youthist, will bring together 39 young people and youth workers from Europe as well as a team of trainers and some media workers and specialists, all concerned by social injustice.16 Partners ...
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Novel Type of Terahertz Devices (NOTEDEV)

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

"The realization of efficient, cheap, reliable, scalable and portable terahertz (THz) radiation sources and detectors is one of the important objectives in modern applied physics. THz emitters and detectors have potential applications in biology, medicine, security and nondestructive in-depth imaging. However none of the existing THz devices satisfy the application requirements. The project consor ...
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Hub of Application Laboratories for Equipment Assessment in Laser Based Manufacturing (APPOLO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

During more than 50 years of the laser existence, they have been proved as the unique tool for diverse material processing application. New application ideas, coming from universities and research institutions, are usually implemented by spin-off companies with limited resources for market penetration. Research laboratories are using universal laser tools, while effective and low-cost production r ...
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Prevention of Violence against Women

Start date: Jul 4, 2016, End date: Aug 3, 2017,

The project Prevention of Violence against Women was motivated by the existence of violence against women and by the fact that the concept of violence has become normalised in people’s perception. In order to contribute to the prevention of violence against women, this project is planned by WRAP, an informal group gathered to deal with the problems of women. Based on the idea that the problem of v ...
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Youth Work Recognition with Self-Assessment and Accreditation

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

The project is set around the trend of youth work recognition, which is enhanced both on European and national, level. The idea of youth work recognition often can be seen as a two-fold process: on one hand directed to the youth work providers aiming to make their work effective and to provide space for real and meaningful support for young people, while on the other hand ensuring that youth worke ...
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360° participation model

Start date: Jan 5, 2016, End date: Jul 4, 2017,

Youth participation is still is a challenge across Europe. Participation often happens in cultural, leisure spheres or school environment. Aiming to develop stronger civic society, assisting young people in integration processes, youth participation and consultation in decision making processes has to be strengthened through creating platforms for youth to contribute to solving issues of society a ...
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Lietuvos Seimo rinkimų stebėsena

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

Only half of Lithuanian residents vote at national elections and even fewer participate at local or European Parliament elections. Young people represent the most passive public group in elections, just a third of them cast their vote there. The major cause of the youth inactivity is a weak relationship, or even the absence of it, between them and the politicians not only at European, but also at ...
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Europe One – Refugees mission to survive

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

“Europe One - Refugees mission to survive" is 7 days training course that will take place in Kiev, Ukraine. We would like to take “Europe One" as a starting point for putting the situation of refugees in Europe in the center of attention of the current issue of the Thematic Series. This project is an initiative adopted by different 10 European and partner countries - from Poland, Ukraine, Armenia, ...
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Code for European Severe Accident Management (CESAM)

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

The Fukushima accidents highlighted that both the in-depth understanding of such sequences and the development or improvement of adequate severe accident management measures is essential in order to further increase the safety of the nuclear power plants operated in Europe. CESAM (Code for European Severe Accident Management) is a R&D project that aims in particular at the improvement of the Europ ...
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