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Vaccination against Shigella and ETEC: novel antigens, novel approaches (STOPENTERICS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

To contribute to the development of vaccines against Shigella and ETEC for children of the developing world, STOPENTERICS will provide novel solutions by imposing a two-fold paradigm switch: (i) to break the dogma of serotype-specificity by inducing a cross-protective immunity (ii) to improve the immunogenicity of Shigella glycoconjugates by using synthetic oligosacharides mimicking the lipopolysa ...
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Social Innovation and Civic Engagement (ITSSOIN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Research has made seminal contributions to describing the size and scope of the Third Sector, including volunteering as an essential component. However, most of the research has focused on economic benefits (revenues, employment etc.). We highly value these efforts, but posit that the core contribution and main impact of the sector on socio-economic development lies in the creation of social innov ...
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European Research Area Network on Illicit Drugs - Towards integrated European research in illicit drugs: cause and nature of drug problems; interventions and policies (ERANID)

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

"ERANID, the European Area Network on Illicit Drugs, aims to improve cooperation in drug research in order to allow well-founded policy decisions.ERANID works both in the demand field and in the supply field. ERANID will promote multidisciplinary research activities in the field of socio-economic sciences and humanities. This may cover e.g. emerging drugs, vulnerable groups, changing demographics ...
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eHealth Week 2016 (eHealth Week)

Start date: Mar 31, 2016, End date: Jul 30, 2016,

The Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport will organize an international conference focusing on the implementation eHealth in health systems and the use by citizens. This conference will be organized in joint cooperation with the European Commission and aligned with the European conference of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, and together is called the 'eHealth Week ...
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ACCELERATE TO INDEPENDANCE: ‘After Care Guarantee’ in Youth Care via Personal Budget

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

BACKGROUND Social exclusion and poverty among young people has grown over the course of the economic crisis and project partners are actively involved with this initisative in providing answers to the Youth strategy Field of Action "Social Inclusion". It aims first of all at contributing to the EU’s roles of addressing the issues of homelessness, housing, and poverty AND promoting access to servic ...
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The European Social Survey - Data for a Changing Europe (ESS-DACE)

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

ESS-DACE aims to secure the continuation and consolidation of the European Social Survey (ESS) as a key data source for measuring and understanding long-term changes in public attitudes across Europe. This will be achieved by strengthening the links between the 7 institutions responsible for the central design and coordination of the ESS infrastructure, as well as between the ESS and its funders, ...
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Smart Open Services - Open eHealth Initiative for a European Large Scale Pilot of Patient Summary and Electronic Prescription (epSOS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Description SOS project becomes Smart Open Services for European Patients (epSOS) to better reflect the focus on patient needs.Patient summaries and ePrescriptionsPatient summaries and electronic prescriptions (ePrescriptions) are two key services that enable high quality medical care. Such health records provide health professionals with ...
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Supporting the European eHealth Governance Initiative and Action (SEHGovIA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Initiated by the EU Member States and supported by the European Commission the EU eHealth Governance Initiative was set up in 2009. This political initiative will be supported by two different instruments: the proposed Joint Action – eHealth Governance Initiative and the Thematic Network SEHGovIA. Defined areas of work of the eHealth Governance Initiative are legal issues, semantics and technical ...
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Discovery and preclinical development of new generation tuberculosis vaccines (NEWTBVAC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

"With 14.4 million prevalent cases and 1.7 million deaths tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most serious infectious diseases to date. An estimated 2 billion people are believed to be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and at risk of developing disease. Multi- and extensively drug resistant strains are increasingly appearing in many parts of the world, including Europe. While with current ...
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Identification of Mechanisms Correlating with Susceptibility for Avian Influenza (IMECS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

IMECS is a proposal of the FLUSECURE network aimed at combating the threat of new and re-emerging forms of highly pathogenic influenza in its first stages of a disease by identifying mechanisms of protection that are essential for a solid immune response to avian influenza. IMECS is uniquely featured by correlating research in humans directly to protection from influenza. The IMECS initiative was ...
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Rational design of a lipopolysaccharide adjuvant for tuberculosis vaccines (ADJUTUB)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"Tuberculosis, a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, kills 2-3 million people per year. Although an attenuated strain of M.bovis called BCG is widely used as vaccine against TB, its effectiveness is generally considered as insufficient. Our new approach for BCG improvement is to add a novel type of adjuvant, based on genetically engineered versions of the lipopolysaccharide ...
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NASAL VACCINATION AGAINST RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS IN YOUNG CHILDREN (CHILD-INNOVAC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

"Respiratory infections are the most frequent cause of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide. For many respiratory pathogens no vaccine is available, for others classical immunisations remain insufficiently effective. This project concerns the development of novel, nasal vaccines against two major respiratory pathogens, B. pertussis and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). No vaccine is yet av ...
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The European Social Survey Infrastructure Preparatory Phase (ESSPrep)

Start date: Feb 18, 2008, End date: Nov 17, 2010,

The European Social Survey (ESS) has three main objectives firstly to produce rigorous trend data at a national and European level about people’s social, political and moral values in the context of Europe’s changing institutions; to remedy longstanding deficiencies in methods of cross-national social measurement, particularly in respect of public attitudes and to bring social indicators into clos ...
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Changing Perceptions of Security and Interventions (CPSI)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

"The goal of the present project is to provide governments and related organizations with a methodology to increase insight into the determinants of actual and perceived security, and into which interventions are effective for increasing security. The deliverables of this project represent practical and ready-to-use tools, which can be employed by policy makers and other end-users, to formulate po ...
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