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Restoration of connections between the Alpine and Pyrenean populations of bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) (LIFE GYPCONNECT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

Background The conservation status of the bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is listed as vulnerable on the European IUCN Red List and endangered in France. Before vulture reintroductions started, the Alps represented a huge barrier separating the Pyreneo-Iberian populations and those of the Balkans. To bridge the distance between the populations of the ...
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Development of an innovative gene therapy platform to cure rare hereditary muscle disorders (MYOCURE)

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

The objective of MYOCURE is to develop an innovative gene therapy platform to cure rare hereditary muscle disorders, specifically focusing on myotubular myopathy (MTM) and glycogen storage disorder (GSD) type II. These are attractive diseases for gene therapy since they compromise a diverse family of rare genetic diseases typically caused by single gene defects that often provoke significant morbi ...
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Optimizing and Enhancing the Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing System (AtlantOS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

The overarching objective of AtlantOS is to achieve a transition from a loosely-coordinated set of existing ocean observing activities to a sustainable, efficient, and fit-for-purpose Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing System (IAOOS), by defining requirements and systems design, improving the readiness of observing networks and data systems, and engaging stakeholders around the Atlantic; and leav ...
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European Marine Biological Research Infrastructure Cluster to promote the Blue Bioeconomy (EMBRIC)

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

Marine (blue) biotechnology is the key to unlocking the huge economic potential of the unique biodiversity of marine organisms. This potential remains largely underexploited due to lack of connectivity between research services, practical and cultural difficulties in connecting science with industry, and high fragmentation of regional research, development and innovation (RDI) policies. To overcom ...
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Bringing together Research and Industry for the Development of Glider Environmental Services (BRIDGES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

BRIDGES (Bringing together Research and Industry for the Development of Glider Environmental Services) will provide a necessary tool for further understanding, improved monitoring, and responsible exploitation of the marine environment while assuring its long-term preservation. This new tool, a robust, cost-effective, re-locatable, versatile and easily-deployed ocean glider, will support autonomo ...
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Deferred Restructuring of Experience in Autonomous Machines (DREAM)

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

A holy grail in robotics and artificial intelligence is to design a machine that can accumulate adaptations on developmental time scales of months and years. From infancy through adult- hood, such a system must continually consolidate and bootstrap its knowledge, to ensure that the learned knowledge and skills are compositional, and organized into meaningful hierarchies. Consolidation of previous ...
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Designing quality and training tools for competence profile of supported employment specialists

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

The European Disability Strategy (EDS) 2010-2020, “A renewed Commitment to a Barrier-Free Europe”, (European Commission, Brussel, Nov. 2010) defined employment and accessibility of labor market as one of the 8 areas of action. On this basis member states are required to offer accessibility to the labor market for people with disabilities and provide support structures for this target group to be a ...
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A Simulated Training Framework for Skills Development addressing students withintellectual and developmental disabilities and their trainers (Play2Do)

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

People with intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities represent one of the most disadvantaged social groups inEuropean countries especially regarding their vocational preparation and their training towards employment. The pervasive natureof intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities, creates very high levels of need for assistance often throughout everyaspect of the in ...
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COLUMBUS - Monitoring, Managing and Transferring Marine and Maritime Knowledge for Sustainable Blue Growth (COLUMBUS)

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

We are standing at the dawn of a century that will be largely affected by how we as a society are able to manage our oceans and their resources. Marine and Maritime Research has a critical role to play in developing our understanding of the seas and advance technology so that we can develop their economic potential in a sustainable manner. The COLUMBUS project intends to capitalise on the EC’s sig ...
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Inclusion Training in Intellectual Disability for Educators in Europe

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

...omplutense de Madrid Austria:Dr Pretis SINN (a private SME dealing with research and training in the field of persons with disability, specifically with children) Turkey; Andalou University Bulgaria: Marie-Curie Institute ( a non-profit, NGO providing support and services to disabled people) The ITIDE project will develop these resources by building on an existing excellent set of materials previo ...
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Open Project for the European Radiation Research Area (OPERRA)

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

"Within the OPERRA project, it is proposed that the MELODI Association, as a well-advanced network, takes the lead in establishing the necessary structures able to manage the long-term European research programmes in radiation protection, also taking advantage of the valuable experience gathered through the DoReMi network of excellence. Whilst in fields adjacent to low-dose risk research (radioeco ...
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Intangible Treasures - Capturing the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Learning the Rare Know-How of Living Human Treasures (i-Treasures)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Cultural expression is not limited to architecture, monuments or collections of artifacts. It also includes fragile intangible live expressions, which involve knowledge and skills. Such expressions include music, dance, singing, theatre, human skills and craftsmanship.These manifestations of human intelligence and creativeness constitute our Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). ICH is at the same t ...
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North Atlantic Climate: Predictability of the climate in the North Atlantic/European sector related to North Atlantic/Arctic sea surface temperature and sea ice variability and change (NACLIM)

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

NACLIM aims at investigating and quantifying the predictability of the climate in the North Atlantic/European sector related to North Atlantic/Arctic sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice variability and change on seasonal to decadal time scales. SST and sea-ice forcing have a crucial impact on weather and climate in Europe. Rather than running climate forecasts ourselves, we will analyze the ...
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European System for Recognition And Validation Of Non-formal & Informal Youth Learning Deriving From Voluntary Civil Service

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

The importance of volunteering for the EU's economy, society and individuals has long been acknowledged by EU policy makers. 92 to 94 million adults are involved in volunteering in the EU (23% of all Europeans over 18 years old). Today you may be the person with the ability to help, but tomorrow you may be the recipient of someone else's volunteer effort. Volunteering is prioritized field of the ...
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Managing Impacts of Deep-seA reSource exploitation (MIDAS)

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

The MIDAS project addresses fundamental environmental issues relating to the exploitation of deep-sea mineral and energy resources; specifically polymetallic sulphides, manganese nodules, cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts, methane hydrates and the potential mining of rare earth elements. These new industries will have significant impacts on deep-sea ecosystems, in some cases extending over hundre ...
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European Marine Biology Resource Centre preparatory phase 2 (pp2EMBRC)

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

EMBRC is a distributed infrastructure of marine biology and ecology, encompassing aquaculture and biotechnology, exploiting the latest “omics”, analytical and imaging technologies, and providing on site and remote scientific and technical services to the scientific community of the public and private sector. EMBRC successfully completed a preparatory phase in early in 2014 with the production of a ...
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Mixed-ability Training Course for Inclusion of Young People with Disabilities

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

Barrier-free Society and Youth Association plans a training course named “Mixed-ability Training Course for Inclusion of Young People with Disabilities” under Erasmus+ mobility of youth workers on 19-26 March 2016 for youth workers in Ankara, Turkey. We worked together with 7 different kinds of partners in this project from different experiences, and backgrounds. The project brought together 29 yo ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate -III (MACC-III)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

MACC-III is the last of the pre-operational stages in the development of the Copernicus Atmosphere Service. Its overall institutional objective is to function as the bridge between the developmental precursor projects - GEMS, PROMOTE, MACC and MACC-II- and the Atmosphere Service envisaged to form part of Copernicus Operations.MACC-III will provide continuity of the atmospheric services provided by ...
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Valmer

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

VALMER aims at developing methodologies that will be used to quantify the economical, social and environmental values of services provided by marine and coastal ecosystems in the Western Channel.
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Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society (ACCESS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The Arctic is engaged in a deep climatic evolution. This evolution is quite predictable at short (year) and longer scales (several decades), but it is the decadal intermediate scale that is the most difficult to predict. This is because the natural variability of the system is large and dominant at this scale, and the system is highly non linear due to positive and negative feedback between sea ic ...
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mouvoir une gouvernance efficace de la Manche (Pegaseas)

Start date: Mar 31, 2013, End date: Feb 27, 2015,

the PEGASEAS cluster aims at supporting improved governance of the Channel marine ecosystem by capitalising on the results of the projects financed by the Interreg IV A France(Channel)-England Programme on this topic.
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European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (EGI-InSPIRE)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Scientific research is no longer conducted within national boundaries and is becoming increasing dependent on the large-scale analysis of data, generated from instruments or computer simulations housed in trans-national facilities, by using e Infrastructure (distributed computing and storage resources linked by high-performance networks).The 48 month EGI-InSPIRE project will continue the transitio ...
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Training young Adult's Regulation of emotions and Development of social Interaction Skills (TARDIS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The number of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) is increasing across Europe. Current research reveals that NEETs often lack self-confidence and the essential social skills needed to seek and secure employment. Youth inclusion associations across Europe provide social coaching programmes, in order to help young people acquire and improve their social competencies. Howeve ...
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Gliders for Research, Ocean Observation and Management (GROOM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Underwater gliders are intelligent and affordable platforms, useful for long-term, multi parameter marine observations. Because of their remotely controlled navigational capabilities and the high spatial and temporal resolution of their measurements in real-time, gliders have been identified to fill gaps existing in the existing ocean observing systems. Along with there rapidly growing importance ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate Interim Implementation (MACC II)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

MACC II (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate – Interim Implementation) is designed to meet the requirements that have been expressed for prototype operational GMES services for the atmospheric domain. From late-2011 MACC II will continue the operation and development of the GMES service lines established by the MACC project and prepare for its transition in 2014 to become the atmospheri ...
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ECO FAB 2

Start date: Sep 30, 2010, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

Objectif général :Le projet ECO FAB 2 vise à favoriser l’échange et l’acquisition de connaissances dans le domaine de l’éco-construction ainsi que le développement de compétences dans ce domaine. Le projet prévoit la mise en place de formations adaptées ainsi que des échanges de bonnes pratiques entre français et britanniques en matière de dispositifs d’incitation à l’adoption des énergies renouv ...
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EMBRC preparatory phase (EMBRC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

The Preparatory Phase for a pan-European MARINE BIOLOGICAL RESOURCE CENTRE(EMBRC) research Infrastructure. This application focuses on the technical, legal, governance, and financial issues to prepare a memorandum of understanding to begin to construct EMBRC. It will build on existing Marine Biological Institutes and Research Centres which will be complemented with innovative components and pro ...
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Virtual and Augmented Environments and Realistic User Interactions To achieve Embedded Accessibility DesignS (VERITAS)

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

VERITAS aims to develop, validate and assess an open framework for built-in accessibility support at all stages of ICT and non-ICT product development, including specification, design, development and testing. The goal is to introduce simulation-based and VR testing at all stages of product design and development into the automotive, smart living spaces, workplace, infotainment and personal health ...
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Our shared sea: mechanisms of ecosystem change in the western Channel (MARINEXUS)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Objectif général :Le projet MARINEXUS a pour but de réduire limpact des activités humaines sur les écosystèmes marins et de favoriser le développement durable de la Manche. En effet, la Manche fait face à de nombreuses problématiques environnementales liées au développement de diverses activités en zone marine. Pour cela, les partenaires souhaitent contribuer à la mise en place dune politique envi ...
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Thermohaline Overturning - at Risk? (THOR)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"THOR will establish an operational system that will monitor and forecast the development of the North Atlantic THC on decadal time scales and access its stability and the risk of a breakdown in a changing climate. Together with pre-existing data sets, ongoing observations within the project will allow precise quantitative monitoring of the Atlantic THC and its sources. This will, for the first ti ...
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Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European seas (HERMIONE)

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

The HERMIONE project is designed to make a major advance in our knowledge of the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems and their contribution to the production of goods and services. This will be achieved through a highly interdisciplinary approach (including biologists, ecologists, microbiologists, biogeochemists, sedimentologists, physical oceanographers, modelers and socio-economists) that will in ...
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Open Architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardisation (OASIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

OASIS introduces an innovative, Ontology-driven, Open Reference Architecture and Platform, which will enable and facilitate interoperability, seamless connectivity and sharing of content between different services and ontologies in all application domains relevant to applications for the elderly and beyond. The OASIS platform is open, modular, holistic, easy to use and standards abiding. It includ ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC)

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

"MACC (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate) is designed to meet the requirements that have been expressed for the pilot Core GMES Atmospheric Service. The project has been prepared by the consortia of the FP6 project GEMS and the GSE project PROMOTE, whose core service lines will provide the starting point for MACC. From mid-2009 MACC will continue, improve, extend, integrate and valida ...
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Reinforcement and conservation of Lesser Kestrel populations in Aude (FR) and Extrémadure (ES) (LIFE TRANSFERT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2005, End date: Aug 31, 2009,

Background The lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) is a small bird of prey, 27–33 cm in length with a 63–72 cm wingspan. The species breeds from the Mediterranean across Asia. It is a summer migrant, often wintering in Africa. It is rare to find the bird north of its breeding range. Both the population and range of the lower kestrel is declining in Europ ...
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Qtrain – Quality Assurance and Accessible Training

European and national VET policies encourage participation by disabled people in mainstream VET with the intention of opening opportunities for, and increasing the social integration of, disabled people. The Qtrain project will facilitate the delivery of a high quality service for disabled people in mainstream VET and enable their needs to be incorporated at all stages of the QU process. The proje ...
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Quality Assurance and Accessible Training 2 (QATRAIN2)

QATRAIN2 raises awareness of and enables teaching and training staff to respond to the increased participation of people with disabilities in mainstream Vocational Education and Training (VET). By removing unintended barriers to their entry and successful participation, students with disabilities are included in a wider range of opportunities and qualifications that broaden career options and con ...
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ACERISH – Améliorer les compétences des encadrants, renforcer l’intégration sociale des personnes handicapées

The project aims at producing innovative training methodologies and strategies useful to foster self confidence and self consciousness in the professional lives of people with mental handicap. The partners have a great experience in the field of the individual use and re-use of specific formal and informal competences, know how and communicative skills of mental handicapped people. An independent ...
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-Building Improved Flexible pre-Occupational Courses in Appropriate Language for Visually Impaired (BIFOCAL)

Blind and partially sighted (BPS) people are one of the most disadvantaged groups with regards to employment. Currently in the TR alone, of the 273,915 BPS people of working age only 15% are in employment compared with the national average of over 80%. Currently there is no definitive number of BPS for Europe but if we extrapolate these figures as a portion of the working age population across Eur ...
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Transfer of Employment Suppport Tools for People with Disabilities

It is one of the key areas of the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 to allow full accessibility to education as well as to the labour market for people with disabilities. In many European countries and beyond accessibility to the labour market is still not given because of the lack of suitable and powerful support concepts. The main aim of the T-EST project was the transfer of a well elaborat ...
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Apprentissage à distance et innovation pédagogique

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

Afin de répondre au défi de l'employabilité et de la formation y compris la formation des personnes isolées et la formation tout au long de la vie, ce projet est conçu comme un processus global et intégré contribuant à la modernisation des EESR par l'introduction de réformes structurelles. Ce projet se propose de réformer les méthodes d'enseignement par l'innovation pédagogique y compris numérique ...
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