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Development and pre-operational validation of upgraded GMES Marine Core Services and capabilities (MyOcean)
Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,
MyOcean is THE PROJECT to set up infrastructures, services and resources to prepare the operational deployment of first Marine Core Services. My Ocean answers to the topic SPA.2007.1.1.01 - development of upgraded capabilities for existing GMES fast-track services and related (pre)operational services. MyOcean is proposed by a consortium of 67 partners spread in maritime countries: - federated aro ...
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LOGistics & MANufacturing trends and sustainable transport (LOGMAN)
Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Aug 30, 2011,
Factors like global competition, labour cost, recycling technologies and environmental restrictions force companies to implement new logistics and manufacturing systems. From a transport’s point-of-view most of these new systems (e.g. offshoring) have negative impacts as they induce additional freight transport. But on the other hand they are implemented as they have positive effects like cheaper ...
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Policy Influence of indicators (POINT)
Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,
Our overall aim is to help find better ways of using indicators in all aspects of policy, but with a thematic focus on the role of indicators in fostering and supporting change in areas of policy making towards ‘Sustainable Development’. The research area of indicators in the presumed service of sustainability will provide a rich ground for addressing the actual use, influence and impacts of indic ...
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Life Watch (LIFEWATCH)
Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,
"The Life Watch e-Science and Technology Infrastructure for biodiversity data and observatories will be a large-scale European research infrastructure bringing together: -a system of marine, terrestrial and freshwater observatories; -common access to a huge amount of interlinked, distributed data from databases and monitoring sites; -computational facilities in virtual laboratories with analytic ...
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Vision and Action Plans for European Freight Transport until 2050 (FREIGHTVISION)
Start date: Aug 14, 2008, End date: Feb 13, 2010,
In the next years and decades the European Union need to act on the following global challenges: How to ensure and increase economic growth whilst also reduce environmental emissions (mainly Co2) and dependence on fossil energy, when freight transport demand (in terms of transport performance) is expected to increase by around 50% between 2000 and 2020 in the EU-25 (Project ASSESS Final Report, 20 ...
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