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Diversification and development of the European bison population in northwestern Poland (LIFE_BISON_NW_PL)

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

Background The European bison (Bison bonasus) is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the American bison. It once ranged throughout the lowlands of Europe, with the last wild populations, in Poland’s Białowieża forest and the northern Caucasus, becoming extinct by 1927. They have since been reintroduced from captivity into several European co ...
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Quantum fields and knot homologies (FIELDS-KNOTS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

This project is concerned with fundamental problems arising at the interface of quantum field theory, knot theory, and the theory of random matrices. The main aim of the project is to understand two of the most profound phenomena in physics and mathematics, namely quantization and categorification, and to establish an explicit and rigorous framework where they come into play in an interrelated fas ...
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Adopción de enfoques de calidad, accesibilidad e innovación en la educación superior de Latinoamérica

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The changes in educational paradigms and development of ICT are promoting the modernization of universities and the establishment of open and flexible study programs, freeing academic boundaries.Quality, accessibility and innovation are concepts that are driving the changes of virtual higher education. ACAI-LA Universities Network undertake the challenge of modernizing and internationalizing highe ...
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Best Practice - Lernen von und mit anderen Erweiterung der fachlichen, interkulturellen und Projektmanagementkompetenzen zur Gestaltung unserer zukünftigen Europaschule

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

Project background:The achievements at our school have been changed. Our school intends to prepare our students for Europe and the European labour market. Therefore we plan to improve our teachers‘ professional, intercultural and project management skills, significantly.Intercultural skills as multidisciplinary capabilities build an essential part of a school that is open to Europe.Project modules ...
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Mobilité de travailleurs belges du secteur jeunesse

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

1.BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVESThe objective of the project: enable mobility of youth workers of this consortium (partnership of organizations of the youth sector, members of the European network Ecett) to improve the quality of their work with young people, by adopting a biased position and enquiring with their peers abroad.Professionals of “youth” feel sometimes helpless when confronted to some situ ...
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Phytoremediation driven energy crops production on heavy metal degraded areas as local energy carrier (Phyto2Energy)

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

The scientific and technological (S&T) goal of the project is to develop and validate an innovative approach combining phytoremediation and production of biomass on heavy metal contaminated (HMC) areas which could be used as local energy carrier. The S&T objectives of the project are as follows: Objective1) selection of optimal plant species suitable for phytoremediation driven energy crops produc ...
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Reducing Early School Leaving in the EU (RESL.eu)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Where the available research data on ESL only explains isolated aspects of the evolution towards ESL, the RESL.eu project analyses ESL from a holistic perspective. By framing the complex and often subtle interplay of factors influencing ESL on macro/meso/micro level; and by deconstructing these configurations of influencing factors in the specific contexts where they occur, we expect to uncover sp ...
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The Higgs quest - exploring electroweak symmetry breaking at the LHC (HiggsTools)

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

The main goal of the project is to provide excellent initial training to young researchers in the field of high energy particle physics, paving the road for new discoveries about the fundamental nature of the Universe at a time when new discoveries are expected, and when the new Standard Model of Particle Physics is going to be forged.The research goal of HiggsTools is the investigation of electro ...
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Europe and America in contact: a multidisciplinary study of cross-cultural transfer in the New World across time (CULTURECONTACT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

"At the core of this research proposal is the aim of reconstructing and understanding the nature, exact trajectories, mechanisms and implications of cross-cultural contact and transfers between Europeans and the native people of the Americas, focusing on, but not limited to, the Nahuatl-speaking zone of central Mexico. A major innovation of this project is to study this process of cross-cultural c ...
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New ceramic technologies and novel multifunctional ceramic devices and structures (CERMAT2)

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

"The CERMAT2 project is aimed to train young researchers in understanding the modelling of Solid Mechanics problems applied to the process and design of advanced ceramics in a synergic collaboration between academia and industry, in view of social developments related to enhancement of industrial production and pollution reduction.In the EU, the ceramic industry is employing about 200,000 people a ...
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Comparative Effectiveness Research to Assess the Use of Primary ProphylacTic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators in EUrope (EU-CERT-ICD)

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

An estimated 500.000 sudden cardiac deaths (SCD) occur each year in the European Union. Patients at risk for SCD may benefit from prophylactic treatment with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). ICD implantations have dramatically increased in recent years leading to multi-billion Euros of costs with significant regional disparities across Europe. Information on risks, benefits and cos ...
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An Investigation into Immigration within the European Union

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

Context/Background of the project The background to this project lies in the most recent wave of immigration to the European Union and the movement of citizens within the EU-27. Recent unrest in the Middle East and North Africa has seen thousands of refugees make the attempt to gain access to the European Union in order to seek a better life for themselves. This has lead to many deaths as in despe ...
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Recueil de Cas pratiques pour Conseillers en Insertion professionnelle des Travailleurs Handicapés

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

One in six people in the European Union (EU) has a disability (LFS AHM 2002) that ranges from mild to severe making around 80 million who are often prevented from taking part fully in society and the economy because of environmental and attitudinal barriers. For people with disabilities the rate of poverty is 70 % higher than the average (EU-SILC, 2004) partly due to limited access to employment. ...
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YOUropeans on the move - migrants between integration and tradition

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

“YOUropeans on the move – migrants between integration and tradition” is our project’s title with which we want to make a contribution to the agenda “Europe 2020” in the context of a three years strategic school partnership. The agenda mentions several problems such as child and youth poverty, youth unemployment, high rates of high school dropouts of children and young persons with a migrational b ...
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Healthier Life with Eco-innovative Components for Housing Constructions (H-House)

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

H-House is aiming at the development of a number of building components for modern society where awareness for environmental aspects and living comfort are not compromised but complementing each other. The concept of H-House aims at components for the building envelope and components for the interior applied to both new buildings and for renovation. The purpose of an adequate building envelope is ...
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ΑΝΑΖΗΤΗΣΗ ΚΑΛΩΝ ΠΡΑΚΤΙΚΩΝ ΣΕ ΘΕΜΑΤΑ ΑΠΕΞΑΡΤΗΣΗΣ ΑΠΟ ΝΑΡΚΩΤΙΚΕΣ ΟΥΣΙΕΣ ΜΕΣΩ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΚΤΥΟΥ ECETT

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

ECEtt (European Companionship in Education – training by travel) is a European network of knowledge exchange between therapeutic communities for drug addicted persons (www.ecett.eu). The journeyman apprenticeship training method (produced and evaluated by “ECEtt-Pilot 2006-2008”, project funded by “Leonardo da Vinci” Agency) made possible for many European partners of the ECEtt network to exchang ...
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ECETT Mobility Polska - Europejski cross-training kompetencyjny. Praca z dorosłymi osobami zagrożonymi wykluczeniem społecznym, w tym z osobami uzależnionymi od alkoholu i substancji psychoaktywnych.

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

The aim of the project is to develop comprehensive skills for therapists working with people addicted to psychoactive substances, including the 'legal highs' that constitute a particular challenge because of their unstable structure and extreme popularity in Poland. In the opinion of Wolfgang Goetz, director of the EMCDDA drug scene in Europe varies with emerging market innovation, which makes us ...
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ECEtt Erasmus+ Mobility

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

Magdaléna, o.p.s. is a member of Ecett-Networks NGO. This broad European network has been built by cooperation of institutions who want to improve the quality and results of their teams. Project “ECEtt Erasmus + Mobility” builds on the previous European project of mobility (Lifelong learning program, 2011-2013) as well as further cooperation within the Ecett network. The project is based on the ed ...
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Antibody-functionalised cardiovascular stents for improved biocompatibility and reduced restenosis (EPICSTENT)

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

An industry-academia collaboration is proposed wherein two industry and three academic partners will establish a lasting, inter-national partnership for transfer of knowledge in biomaterials engineering. The partners have synergistic competences in the medical device sector, and, aided by a schedule of staff secondments and networking events, their relevant niche expertise will be shared and trans ...
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Smart elements for sustainable building envelopes (SESBE)

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

There is a vastly growing demand for increased energy efficiency, safety and improved health of the buildings we live and work in. These demands need to be addressed by a mostly SME oriented building industry, which traditionally responds sluggish to technological advancement. This is partially due to restrictive building codes, which all too often delay new developments but also because the cost ...
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Stevia rebaudiana as a diversification alternative for European Tobacco Farmers to strengthen the European Competitiveness (GO4STEVIA)

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

The CAP reform for the tobacco sector (EG Nr. 864/2004) has the aim to phase out the subsidy payment for tobacco cultivation on Dec 31, 2013. This will have a great impact on the tobacco growers in terms of income and employment. Without a diversification alternative with a high added value most of European Tobacco farms must close. The DIVTOB and the CoAlTa-Project on diversification of Tobacco f ...
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Delivery of sustainable supply of non-food biomass to support a “resource-efficient” Bioeconomy in Europe (S2BIOM)

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

The main aim of this project is to support the sustainable delivery of non-food biomass feedstock at local, regional and pan European level through developing strategies, and roadmaps that will be informed by a “computerized and easy to use” toolset (and respective databases) with update harmonized datasets at local, regional, national and pan European level for EU27, western Balkans, Turkey and U ...
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More Effective use of Renewables Including compact seasonal Thermal energy Storage (MERITS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

As Europe moves towards low and zero-carbon housing, challenges arise in the management of building integrated renewable energy technologies. Electricity generating RES have the benefit of electrical connection and financial mechanisms allowing feed-in to the network. Thermal technologies do not have such general interconnectivity and therefore rely on sizing typically meeting 90% of summer demand ...
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Biomass-derived Microporous Carbon Adsorbents for CO2 Capture and Storage (BIOADSORB)

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

This Marie Curie proposal, BIOADSORB aims the development of new and low cost biomass-derived carbon adsorbents for CO2 capture using the following strategies:(i) a new synthetic route based on hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) process and in situ salt templating for the efficient conversion of waste biomass into functional porous carbon materials (HTCs) for CO2 capture(ii) a theoretical approach b ...
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Derribando barreras lingüísticas

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

The school C.E.I.P Santa María Magdalena is a public centre that depends of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of the JCCM. There are 540 students and 32 teachers. This present year we have started with the proyect of the multilingualism in the first level, teaching one area of knowledge in Pre-school Education, Natural Science in the first level and Arts and Crafts in all the levels in ...
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Teatro, creación e interculturalidad.

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

The teachers chosen for this mobility are the ones responsible of the School Drama Group, The Reading, Writing and Research Program and the Program for Immersion Language Class. We plan to enhance the professional roles of the teachers involved, for they already have experience working in the fields proposed. Through this training our aim is three - folded: placing our school at a European contex ...
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"Towards an Atlantic area? Mapping trends, perspectives and interregional dynamics between Europe, Africa and the Americas" (ATLANTIC FUTURE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"Mesmerized by the contrast between spectacular growth in Asia and the Pacific Rim and the West’s hard times, many observers have overlooked a major reconfiguration of the Atlantic space. The North America – Europe link continues to be the strongest and largest of the relationships between any two continents. But their decline in relative terms is slowly being matched by the rise of Africa, Latin ...
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EFFECTIVE INTEGRATION OF SEASONAL THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS IN EXISTING BUILDINGS (EINSTEIN)

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

Energy use in buildings accounts for approximately 40% of EU energy consumption. Energy efficiency in new buildings is important, but existing building stock is the main target. Existing buildings, however, are characterised by particular requirements and constraints that are not present in new buildings and that requires new developments and adaptation of existing technologies.In order to fulfil ...
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European regions fostering innovation for sustainable production and efficient use of woody biomass (ROKWOOD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The ROKWOOD project will support the cooperation between six European research-driven clusters in order to improve research and technological development (RTD), market uptake and to increase investments in wooden biomass production and utilisation schemes at regional level. The six participating regional clusters will be co-ordinated in order to develop a Joint Action Plan (JAP) at European level ...
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ECEtt Leonardo Mobility IRL- Training by travel

Start date: Aug 4, 2014, End date: Aug 3, 2015,

This Mobility project is a follow up of the previous Ecett projects funded by Leonardo da Vinci. The innovative training method of Ecett has been described, tested and transferred from 2006 until 2015 in the field of therapeutic communities for addicted people and of social work. It consists in benchmarking, research and description of good practices which can be transferred in other places of t ...
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Europeana Creative

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

Europeana Creative will support and promote the re-use of cultural resources available via Europeana by realising a set of concrete objectives. (1) The project will establish the Europeana Labs Network of online and physical spaces for experimentation and engagement. The labs will provide access to technical and business services, and experimentation content to support the development of new proje ...
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Solutions and Processes to Enhance the Competitiveness of Transport by Rail in Unexploited Markets (SPECTRUM)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Modern manufacturing techniques and logistics require reliable, time sensitive delivery of lower density and higher value goods. This presents a market opportunity for rail freight to grow, partly due to increasing congestion on roads, and mainly due to the need for reliable and environment friendly transport of goods. At the same time, to meet customer requirements, rail freight has to rise to th ...
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Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks (GREEN)

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

"GREEN will study the current and future role of the EU in an emerging multi-polar world through a programme of stock-taking, multi-disciplinary research and complementary activities. It aims at an understanding of the prospective directions of the emerging global governance structures and Europe’s place in them.Analysis will focus on the extant actors from the 20th century, the 21st century risin ...
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Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators (AIDA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

AIDA (http://cern.ch/aida) addresses the upgrade, improvement and integration of key research infrastructures in Europe, developing advanced detector technologies for future particle accelerators, as well as transnational access to facilities that provide these research infrastructures.In line with the European Strategy for Particle Physics, AIDA targets the infrastructures needed for R&D, prototy ...
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European Nuclear Science and Applications Research (ENSAR)

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

ENSAR is the Integrating Activity of Nuclear Scientists from almost all European countries performing research in three of the major subfields of Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Astrophysics and Applications of Nuclear Science. It proposes an optimised ensemble of Networking (NAs), Transnational Access and Joint Research Activities (JRAs), which will ensure qualitative and quantitative ...
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Test Infrastructure and Accelerator Research Area (TIARA)

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

"The main objective of TIARA (Test Infrastructure and Accelerator Research Area) is the integration of national and international accelerator R&D infrastructures into a single distributed European accelerator R&D facility. This will include the implementation of organisational structures to enable the integration of existing individual infrastructures, their efficient operation and upgrades, and t ...
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Union of Light-Ion Centres in Europe (ULICE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

ULICE is a 4-year project set up by 20 leading European research organisations, including 2 leading European industrial partners (Siemens and IBA), to respond to the need for greater access to hadron therapy facilities for particle therapy research. Project coordinator is the Italian Research Infrastructure Facility CNAO (Milan). Both existing European Hadron Research Facilities in Heidelberg and ...
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Coordination and policy development in preparation for a European Open\nBiodiversity Knowledge Management System, addressing Acquisition,\nCuration, Synthesis, Interoperability and Dissemination (pro-iBiosphere)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Biodiversity core data and information constitutes an important source of knowledge for many disciplines. In order to facilitate access to this knowledge, technical and semantic interoperability barriers need to be addressed.The objectives of Pro-iBiosphere are, to: a) Coordinate towards and prepare the foundations for a long-term viable, evolving knowledge management, aggregation and integration ...
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Impacts Quantification of global changes (Global-IQ)

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

World societies experience today large transformation processes both in the social, economic and environmental dimensions. These transformations are usually described under the heading of ‘global change’, to emphasize the increasing interactions between them. The objective of the proposal is three-fold: (1) to provide significant advances in the estimation of socio-economic impacts of global chall ...
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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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