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Food-based solutions for Optimal vitamin D Nutrition and health through the life cycle (ODIN)
Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,
Vitamin D deficiency has significant implications for human health and impacts on healthy growth and development and successful aging. Fundamental knowledge gaps are barriers to implementing a safe and effective public health strategy to prevent vitamin D deficiency and optimize status. ODIN will provide the evidence to prevent vitamin D deficiency in Europe and improve nutrition and public health ...
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EU BON: Building the European Biodiversity Observation Network (EU BON)
Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,
Sustainable governance of our biological resources requires reliable scientific knowledge that meets the needs of society. Current biodiversity observation systems and environmental datasets are unbalanced in coverage and not integrated, limiting integrative analyses and implementation of environmental policies.EU BON presents an innovative approach towards integration of biodiversity information ...
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MARine Litter in Europe Seas: Social AwarenesS and CO-Responsability (MARLISCO)
Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,
Marine environments are central to human well being, but they are also extensively threatened by our activities. The MARLISCO proposal seeks to raise societal awareness of both the problems and the potential solutions relating to a key issue threatening marine habitats worldwide; the accumulation of marine litter. A major objective of this proposal is to understand and subsequently facilitate soci ...
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People Localization for save ship evacuation during emergency (LYNCEUS)
Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,
The objective of the Lynceus project is to investigate and demonstrate ultra-low power wireless body-area-network technologies for enabling unobtrusive localisation and tracking of people for onboard and overboard search and rescue as well as for safe evacuation of ships during emergency. The Lynceus technology aims to revolutionise current emergency management and ship evacuation practice throug ...
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Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy (ViBRANT)
Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,
Biodiversity science brings information science and technologies to bear on the data and information generated by the study of organisms, their genes, and their interactions. ViBRANT will help focus the collective output of biodiversity science, making it more transparent, accountable, and accessible. Mobilising these data will address global environmental challenges, contribute to sustainable dev ...
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UP-GRADE BLACK SEA SCIENTIFIC NETWORK (UP-GRADE BS-SCENE)
Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,
...ion about the Black Sea. The Black Sea SCENE research infrastructure stimulates scientific cooperation, exchange of knowledge and expertise, and strengthens the regional capacity and performance of marine environmental data and information management, underpins harmonization with European marine data quality control/assessment procedures and adoption of international meta-data standards and data-m ...
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AimsThe Project Objective is to develop a new training and competence verification tool that can be used for marine navigators to fast track learning and improve safety in marine operations.ForAll persons in the maritime sector involved in the ship operations and training whether: Crew Managers, Ship Managers, Ship Owners, Agents and staff of Government Administrations, as well as training provide ...
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Specific training for ships cooks has become increasingly important and this need has been aroused by the fact that the number of personnel on board has been shrinked and there are no general regulations regarding their training. This project has set define standards of competence for ship's cooks and has developed a new training and competence verification tool that could be used for hotel and ca ...
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The CIVILPROFNAVY project aims to re-integrate commissioned and non-commissioned ex-navel officers and redundant officers of the deep-sea fishing industry into the modern employment market of international commercial shipping.An initial analysis will be undergone to ascertain both the quantity and quality of the target group, this will comment not only on number but also on the level of basic educ ...
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The main objective of the proposal is to better train staff concerned with certificate evaluation in the maritime sector and to improve respective professional skills in order to identify and to combat falsification of certificates of competency during the “transfer action”. The expected results are the development of an anti-fraud package which aims to improve transparency and recognition of qual ...
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The 2010 BIMCO/ISF study highlights that shipping faces a challenging future regarding crewing with an increasing imbalance in the maritime workforce. A surplus of Ratings especially in today’s EU Member States is facing increasingly unsecure employment prospect caused by cheaper manpower from the Pacific Rim Countries. This however is countered by a lack of ships’ officers, with a dramatic short ...
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The project will create a web-based tool for accessing information on the international maritime shipping industry. The key focus of the project will be the development of a platform, to function as an international learning/information tool for the delivery of information to users. The project will not focus upon the development of platform content. Project partners will initially conduct resear ...
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