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Art / culture / economy to democratize society. Research in placemaking for alternative narratives (trans-making)

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

The project trans-making aims to establish a multilateral network of research and innovation staff active in the fields of placemaking/place-based art activities as a space to create alternative narratives for social, economic and democratic renewal.It will investigate and experiment with placemaking to contribute actively to the democratization/well-being of society, educating and empowering indi ...
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Beyond East and West: Developing and Documenting an Evolving Transcultural Musical Practice (Integrating Turkish)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

...table obstacles. This project systematises practical processes essential for the creation of a new, East-West strand of contemporary music and opera. It initiates cutting-edge research workshops in Istanbul, Holland and the UK to: 1. Train top-level traditional instrumentalists and singers in Turkey effectively to perform a new repertoire; 2. Train top professional Western singers in non-Western t ...
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Synthesis and Performance Optimization of a Switching Nano-crossbar Computer (NANOxCOMP)

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

The main goal of this project is developing a complete synthesis and optimization methodology for switching nano-crossbar arrays that leads to the design and construction of an emerging nanocomputer. New computing models for diode, FET, and four-terminal switch based nanoarrays are developed. The proposed methodology implements both arithmetic and memory elements, necessitated by achieving a compu ...
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The Protection of Geographical Indications and Traditional Speciality Guaranteed in the European Union Law

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...ch faculties or departments of engineering, architecture who would like to learn about the protection of geographical indications (GIs) and traditional specialities guaranteed (TSG) in EU Law at Istanbul Technical University. The duration of programme is 42 hours (14 weeks) which will be designed as one semester course. A new teaching module on protection of geographical indications and traditio ...
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Counselling for Refugee and Migrant Integration into the Labour Market – Development of Courses for Higher Education and Public Employment Services

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Refugees and migrants and integration into the labour market as a key strategy to tackle the refugee crisesThe influx of refugees and migrants into the European Union has recently reached a high level. The crisis constitutes an urgent call to the member countries of the European Union to work together and develop efficient strategies for coping with the challenges that arise. European countries ne ...
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Re-use of modernist buildings - Design tools for sustainable transformations.

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The project, Re-use of modernist buildings. RMB wants to initiate an educational framework of common definitions, approaches and methodologies on a European level. It is based on existing research, educational practices and reference projects in the program countries and associated states.Demographic and climate chance has resulted in huge qualitative and quantitative challenges and demands for th ...
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PRACE 5th Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-5IP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing is the permanent pan-European High Performance Computing service providing world-class systems for world-class science. Systems at the highest performance level (Tier-0) are deployed by Germany, France, Italy and Spain providing researchers with over 11 billion core hours of compute time. HPC experts from 25 member states enabled users from academia an ...
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Fate and Toxic Effects of Silver Nanoparticles and Its Transformation Products in Soil Applied with Biosolids (TESNinSAB)

Start date: May 1, 2017, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Sewage sludge management is one of the most challenging waste issues in Environmental Engineering field due to their highly polluted nature and high volume. On the other hand, sewage sludge, which is also called as biosolids, can be a nutrient resource for the agri-foods which leads to their usage in agriculture as fertilizers. Usage of biosolids as fertilizer is the most desirable management stra ...
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RepliCable and InnovaTive Future Efficient Districts and cities (CITYFIED)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

"CITyFiED project aims to develop a replicable, systemic and integrated strategy to adapt European cities and urban ecosystems into the smart city of the future, focusing on reducing the energy demand and GHG emissions and increasing the use of renewable energy sources by developing and implementing innovative technologies and methodologies for building renovation, smart grid and district heating ...
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Welding of E-Textiles for Interactive Clothing (ETexWeld)

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

The new field of science dealing with implementation of electronics to textiles in combination with informatics is known as e-textiles. This project proposal leads to knowledge transfer among partners in order to develop innovative e-textile products for interactive protective clothing and footwear using welding technologies by bringing experts from different countries, sectors and disciplines tog ...
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CASE-STUDY ALLIANCE TURKEY

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

The context of this project is the higher education in entrepreneurship, business and management in undergraduate major and minor, MBA, and Executive MBA levels. The primary objective of this project is to enhance the diffusion of the case teaching and case writing in emerging countries and economies to improve the quality and relevance of education, to create high quality learning opportunitie ...
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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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Space-borne observations for detecting and forecasting sea ice cover extremes (SPICES)

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

The main objective of this proposal is to develop new methods to retrieve sea ice parameters from existing (and imminent) satellite sensors to provide enhanced products for polar operators and prediction systems, specifically addressing extreme and unexpected conditions. Automatic remote sensing products traditionally provide general information on sea ice conditions such as ice extent and concent ...
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COmbining Probable TRAjectories (COPTRA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

SESAR implementation will result in an environment using extensive and intensive planning to address complexity imbalances and reduce potential conflicts. Accurate planning requires quantifying forecast accuracy at all planning horizons with the main challenge of combining trajectories with different levels of accuracy.A quality indicator giving the forecast accuracy could enhance the situation: I ...
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Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change (SI-DRIVE)

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

SI-DRIVE extends knowledge about social innovation (SI) in three major directions:- Integrating theories and research methodologies to advance understanding of SI leading to a comprehensive new paradigm of innovation.- Undertaking European and global mapping of SI, thereby addressing different social, economic, cultural, historical and religious contexts in eight major world regions.- Ensuring rel ...
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Dynamic Response and Instability of Seabed-Coastal Structure Systems under Waves (DRISCS)

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

"Marine infrastructure plays a vital role in relation to energy, environment and sustainable development. Coastal and offshore structures built to protect coastal regions and to provide renewable energy, constitute a significant part of marine infrastructure in Europe. The need for such structures is expected to grow rapidly in the future due to increase in magnitude and frequency of storms, the a ...
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GLobal cOntemporary art market: the intrinsiC and sociologicAL components of FINancial and artistic valuE of ARTtworks (GLOCALFINEART)

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

The Contemporary Art world and market lack the basic information support and analytical tools that are widely available in similar environments and even for Pre-impressionist and Modern art. The huge amount of information (magazines, fairs, galleries etc.) available in various languages, creates chaos and is not summarised in any useful way which takes into account the different weight that phenom ...
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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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Anatolian pLateau climatE and Tectonic hazards (ALErT)

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

ALErT: Anatolian pLateau climatE and Tectonic hazards, is a virtual campus of 10 European academic and 5 industry partners in the fields of applied Earth sciences, natural hazard monitoring, and knowledge transfer. Our research focus is on the tectonic and climatic boundary conditions along the densely populated margins of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey and associated natural hazards. Due t ...
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Renovation of Residential urban spaces: Towards nearly zero energy CITIES (R2CITIES)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

R2CITIES aims to develop and demonstrate an open and easily replicable strategy for designing, constructing, and managing large scale district renovation projects for achieving nearly zero energy cities. For this purpose, it will be developed a demonstration and dissemination framework of very innovative strategies and solutions for building energy renovation at district level, based in the follow ...
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Multimodal Face Processing (MMFP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2017,

"Faces play a central role in human communication. When interacting with someone, we use their face to identify them, to determine their gender, their emotional state and even their health. Automatic facial image interpretation involves developing algorithms, which can estimate such information from digital images and video. Such technology has a wide range of applications, including use in human- ...
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PRACE 4th Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-4IP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing, was established in May 2010 as a permanent pan-European High Performance Computing service providing world-class systems for world-class science. Six systems at the highest performance level (Tier-0) are deployed by Germany, France, Italy and Spain providing researchers with over 9 billion core hours of compute time. HPC experts from twenty-five membe ...
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Female Empowerment in Science and Technology Academia (FESTA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

"FESTA is concerned with implementing changes in the working environment of academic researchers, to encourage female researchers to stay and make a career in the academy and to create organizational environments where their competence is valued and fostered. In particular, we address the working environment of researchers in the lower levels of their careers, to make it possible for them to advan ...
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POst-CArbon CIties of TOmorrow – foresight for sustainable pathways towards liveable, affordable and prospering cities in a world context (POCACITO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

...bon cities to address climate adaptation and urban environmental metabolism concerns by using a participatory city case study approach. Case study cities include Barcelona, Copenhagen/Malmö, Istanbul, Lisbon, Litomerice, Milan/Turin, Offenburg and Zagreb. These cities will develop qualitative post-carbon visions with local stakeholders. Visions will be chosen based on selected best-practice measur ...
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Improving E-Learning Training Competencies of Adult Education Trainers "Yetişkin Eğitimi Veren Eğiticilerin Uzaktan Eğitim Yetkinliklerinin Geliştirilmesi"

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2016,

...pants’ isolation feeling, and their encouragement (Denis V., et all 2004. Roles and Competencies of the e-tutor.) In this particular proposed plan, 20 adult’s instructors of the Governorship of Istanbul will take part. These instructors constitute the corpus of the adults instructors of our organization and they come from different scientific fields (economists, foreign language teachers, professo ...
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Non-intrusive Optical Pressure and Loads Extraction for Aerodynamic Analysis (NIOPLEX)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

NIOPLEX will contribute to the development of non-intrusive experimental flow diagnostics to improve the aerodynamic analysis capabilities in wind tunnels. The particular objective of the project is to develop an unprecedented comprehensive diagnostic approach, achieved by a simultaneous measurement of the surface pressure distribution on a model and the velocity and pressure field around it. Curr ...
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Infrastructure for Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems (ANAEE)

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

ANAEE will provide Europe with a distributed and coordinated set of experimental, analytical and modelling platforms to analyse and predict in a precise manner the response of the main continental ecosystems to environmental and land use changes. ANAEE will consist of highly equipped in natura and in vitro experimental platforms associated with sophisticated analytical and modelling platforms coup ...
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Safety Enhancements in transport by Achieving Human Orientated Resilient Shipping Environment (SEAHORSE)

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

"Within the aeronautical industry it is critical to have safe and reliable operations in order to prevent accidents and mistakes which can potentially cause a huge loss of life and destruction. In this respect, the aeronautical industry has led the way in terms of understanding and implementing tools, methodologies and systems to combat human error within a system. One such principle which has bee ...
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SEiSMiC, Societal Engagement in Science, Mutual learning in Cities (SEISMIC)

Start date: Oct 29, 2013, End date: Oct 28, 2016,

The European Research Area is targeting efforts in research and innovation on thecurrent challenges faced by society. These challenges are complex, multidimensional and require the engagement of different actors alongside researchers, particularly relating to integrated and sustainable urban development.In an effort to bridge the gap between the scientific community and society, SEiSMiC (Societal ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

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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Enhancement of Skills in Retail

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

Recent research carried out in Turkey showed that the retail sector vocational training is limited to an average of 5 hours. On the one hand there are the companies where the staff trainings are exclusively well-done, with multiple sessions and effective methodology; on the other hand most of the companies organize the trainings orientation-like meetings. That creates a low profile for the retail ...
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Virtualized programmable InTerfAces for innovative cost-effective IoT depLoyments in smart cities (VITAL)

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

...ng the scope of potential applications. It will also enable a more connected/integrated approach to smart city applications development, which will be validated in realistic deployments in London and Istanbul. The partners will contribute and adapt a host of readily available urban infrastructures, IoT platforms and novel IoT applications, which will ease the accomplishment of the project's goals ...
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PRACE - Third Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-3IP)

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

PRACE-3IP supports the accelerated implementation of the pan-European HPC Research Infrastructure (RI) created in April 2010. It continues, complements, and extends the work of the PRACE-1IP and -2IP projects.PRACE-3IP addresses the computational and simulation needs of European scientific communities and of industry to keep them at the forefront of discovery. Our vision is the formation of an int ...
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New Directions in Seismic Hazard assessment through Focused Earth Observation in the Marmara Supersite (MARSITE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The recent devastating earthquakes and associated tsunamis in Japan, Indonesia, and Haiti, which killed more than half a million people, highlighted how mankind is still far away from a satisfactory level of seismic risk mitigation. Among the regions around the Mediterranean Sea for which earthquakes represent a major threat to their social and economic development, the area around the Marmara Se ...
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Training and collaboration on material developments and process improvements in oil and sugar production (OIL&SUGAR)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The problems encountered in the industrial processing of oil and sugar are connected with corrosion, biochemical and/or biological reactions, friction, wear, and combined corrosion-wear of materials used in mechanical parts. The main concerns are on one hand a material degradation that generates risks of contamination during food production, and on the other hand the actual machinery that needs to ...
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Mediterranean Air QUality In future climate Scenarios (MAQUIS)

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

The project “Mediterranean Air QUality In future climate Scenarios” (MAQUIS) will improve our understanding of air quality-climate interactions in a region of the world where significant climate changes are predicted to occur in the future. In particular we will characterize air quality in the eastern Mediterranean basin in current climate conditions and in future climate conditions; quantify the ...
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"Innovative Multi-purpose off-shore platforms: planning, Design and operation" (MERMAID)

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

"European oceans will be subject to massive development of marine infrastructure in the near future. The most obvious is the energy facilities e.g. offshore wind farms, exploitation of wave energy, expansion of electricity connections, and also further development and implementation of marine aquaculture. This will also lead to an increased need for marine infrastructure to support installation an ...
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BOOSTING COLLABORATION BETWEEN RESEARCH CENTRES AND INDUSTRY TO ENHANCE RAPID INDUSTRIAL UPTAKE OF INNOVATIVE FUNCTIONAL TEXTILE STRUCTURES AND TEXTILE RELATED MATERIALS IN A MONDIAL MARKET (2BFUNTEX)

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

2BFUNTEX will exploit the untapped potential in functional textile structures and textile related materials. It will bring together all innovation actors in the field fostering a multidisciplinary approach between universities, research institutes, SMEs (in textile 95% of the companies are SMEs) and sector associations. The 2BFUNTEX team will identify technological gaps and will eliminate barriers ...
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New design principles fostering safety, agility and resilience for ATM (RESILIENCE2050.EU)

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

The Air Transport in general and the Air Traffic Management system are formed by a high number of elements, human, organisational and technological, that interact with each other creating a unique system of intrinsic complexity. The variability of the initial conditions and the high number of potential scenarios makes the system performance particularly difficult to predict. As a consequence, the ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

During the academic year 2014-2015, ITU has taken part in Student Mobility including SMS and SMP as well as in Staff Mobility including STT and STA. The expected number for SMS was 393 students and the actual figure is 374. For SMP, 2014-2015 was the first year for ITU and while the expected number for traineeships was 7, the actual figure turned out to be 10 students. For that reason, as our SMP ...
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