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FOSTERING PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES FOR WATER TREATMENT & MANAGEMENT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN (FP4BATIW)

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

...rojects and identify issues and possible activities of common interest in order to draft a roadmap for cooperation between the projects.The continuous cluster cooperation will contribute to adopt the Mediterranean Water Strategy and related Action Plan that will provide the financial and instrument framework for the future, partnerships to create conditions for competitive research in water use ef ...
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Development and implementation of decentralised solar-energy-related innovative technologies for public buildings, in the Mediterranean Basin countries (DIDSOLIT-PB)

Start date: Dec 12, 2012, End date: Dec 11, 2015,

The project in briefThe rise in energy demand has aggravated the dependence on fossil fuels imports of most of the Mediterranean countries. With a forecasted increase by 70% in energy consumption over the next 20 years, there is an urgent need to secure alternative energy sources especially for buildings - commercial and residential - which share of total energy used is higher than 40%, i.e. super ...
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RESearch Elevation on Integration of SOLar Technologies into MEDiterranean BUILDings (RESSOL-MEDBUILD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"The Mediterranean countries, including Jordan and Lebanon, face significant energy challenges which mainly emphasise their need to secure energy supply, to satisfy elevating electricity demand due to increasing demographics and economic development and protect the environment. These challenges weight more considering that Jordan and Lebanon have little indigenous energy resources. The exploitatio ...
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High energy efficiency schools in Mediterranean Area: Multi-issues platform as interactive Network for technical regulations management, technologies data base and best practice dissemination activity (Teenergy schools)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2011,

...omponent 3: coordination and editing of 1 Action Plan as final document of the project, methodology including Guidelines for energy efficient school building refurbishment and new building in the Mediterranean context. Component 4: direction of CONCEPT DESIGN phase in collaboration with ABITA and elaboration of the final 12 Pilot Projects in collaboration with all partners during Campus in Athens. ...
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Coastal and shallow-water monitoring through innovative low-cost technologies for blue growth in the Mediterranean (CoMPi)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

...s and the evolution of the shoreline, contributing in this way to the development of the Blue Growth Strategy.Coastal tourism, a pillar of Blue Growth, is negatively affected by climate change in the Mediterranean and in other European coasts. Therefore, proper and sustainable management of the coasts is imperative. Although there are methods and mathematical models widely used to calculate the ra ...
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Demonstrating integrated innovative technologies for an optimal and safe closed water cycle in Mediterranean tourist facilities (DEMEAUMED)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

...ry representatives, stakeholders, policy-makers and diverse technical and scientific experts in demonstrating and promoting innovative technologies, for an optimal and safe closed water cycle in Euro-Mediterranean tourist facilities, leading to their eventual market uptake. A representative resort placed in Catalonia, Spain, is considered as a DEMO site, where a representative part of all inlet an ...
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Creation of networks and actions of cooperation through the implantation of new technologies in the Mediterranean mount (TECNOMED)

Start date: Jun 30, 2005, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

El proyecto TECNOMED es un proyecto de acercamiento de las nuevas tecnologías a los montes implicados en modelos de gestión sostenible. TECNOMED es la consolidación en el espacio SUDOE de un proceso iniciado con los análisis de riesgos (proyecto Interreg IIC "Problemática del monte mediterráneo"), continuado con la implantación de los modelos de gestión sostenible y procesos de certificación (proy ...
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Enhancing Mediterranean Initiatives Leading SMEs to Innovation in building Energy efficiency technologies (EMILIE)

...tputsEMILIE project supports the innovation of tertiary SME infrastructure and buildings to achieve advanced energy efficiency in order to contribute to the growth, competitiveness, and employment of Mediterranean countries. EMILIE conducted 6 surveys on energy consumption in the tertiary sector buildings, a map of existing research and innovative services facilities, 6 pilot plants, 12 pilot site ...
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"GRANARIES AND WAREHOUSES IN NORTH AFRICA AND EGYPT DURING THE ROMAN AGE. TYPOLOGY, BUILDING TECHNIQUES, FUNCTION, PRODUCTIVE CONTEXT." (GRAWINAE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

..., considered all noticeable evidence emerged from the excavations of the past forty years. The present study intends to develop and to deeply investigate grain provision in the Roman provinces of the Mediterranean coasts/shores in North Africa (actual Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt), shifting the perspective to the study of granaries as containers, to their technological aspects and produ ...
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A Digital Journey in Europe

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

...cussing their usage with colleagues and students in other countries, and in ultimately enriching their own school's integration of ICTs. Ten schools will participate in this project, encompassing the Mediterranean world, the Scandinavian region and Western Europe. In all cases, they are schools that have the same concerns and ambitions regarding the acquirement and development of high level digita ...
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Supporting research potential for MARine BIodiversity and GENomics in the Eastern Mediterranean (MARBIGEN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

...will allow the institute to strengthen its research and technological development and to get established in a first-line position in biodiversity science. The location of IMBG in the heart of Eastern Mediterranean Sea, which is a biodiversity hot spot and one of the most vulnerable to climatic change sea basins, argues for the significance of establishing it as a high level centre for genomics and ...
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Mediterranean Cultural Network of cities - stations of the Apostle Paul missionary path (MEDMISSION)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Mar 30, 2008,

The MEDMISSION project aims at exploiting the common cultural heritage of Mediterranean cities through the creation of a Sustainable Cultural Network on the traces of the Ap. Pauls missionary path for the expansion of the Christianity taking advantage of ICT technologies and exploiting synergies with local key economic sectors in Mediterranean basin. Main objectives of the project are: • The prote ...
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Sustainability and Tourism in the Mediterranean (S&T MED (ex MedRouteSTD))

Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

The project in brief The Mediterranean region is a highly relevant tourist destination although the offer is still concentrated on notable heritage sites and massive sun and sea locations. Many other areas, which have not yet been affected by mass tourism, possess a significant potential for being developed as sustainable travel destinations providing unique assets in terms of cultural heritage, t ...
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Integrated Development and Management of NATURA 2000 Protected Areas through Innovative Techniques in E. Mediterranean (ManagMED)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Apr 29, 2008,

ManageMED is a project aiming to contribute to the sustainable development, protection and management of the protected ΝΑΤURA 2000 areas in the Eastern Mediterranean, which are threatened by a number of aggravating factors that can lead to the complete degradation or even extinction of these areas. The risk management will be based on a scientific model of risk indexes, which will result from the ...
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Ancient ConstructionTECHniques between East and West. Building traditions, technological innovations and workmanship circulation: from Roman Arabia to Medieval Europe. (ACTECH)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

This proposal is designed to study the circulation of ancient construction knowledge in the Mediterranean through an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of built heritage. Particular attention will be given to the study of a specific construction technique, the arch, and how it influenced the types and techniques of architectural construction between the 2nd and 8th centuries ...
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Pietų Europos virtuvė geresniam specialistų rengimui

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...elp students to improve professional knowledge, motivation to learn foreign languages, improve learning outcomes. During the placements the students will deepen their professional knowledge about Mediterranean cuisine and seafood, cooking technologies, get acquainted with other cultures, broaden learning horizons, they just acquire better personal features. Development of professional competencies ...
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Mediterranean Wireless Innovation (WiNNOVATE)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

WiNNOVATE aims at strengthening the innovation capacity of regional and municipal authorities in Greece, Spain, Italy and Slovenia by transferring knowledge and best practices, as well as coordinating policies, on the introduction and proliferation of wireless applications and services for citizens, government, and economic development actors. More specifically, the project will leverage and cross ...
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LANDCARE MEDiterranean cross-border network for local rural governance improvement to enhance rural waste management (LANDCARE MED)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

Project in brief The prevention of rural waste production and the recycling of material deriving from human activities in rural communities are currently not well developed in the Mediterranean area. Residuals from breeding and agriculture are often treated all together, even though differentiating waste would prove much easier than in the case of industrial or urban waste for instance. Due to the ...
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Resource protection, management and promotion of ecological awareness for the sustainable exploitation of edible Herbs and Spices (PROHERBS)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

The goal of the project PROHERBS is to build indissoluble linkages among ecological conservation, sustainable development and environmental awareness in the Mediterranean region by promoting cooperative actions based on the exploitation of natural resources. To achieve this goal indigenous edible herbs and spices will be studied. Herbs and spices form an integral part of the Mediterranean diet. Ap ...
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Best practices for agricultural wastes treatment and reuse in the Mediterranean countries (WASTEREUSE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

...use in crop cultivation (irrigation and fertilisation); Development of alternative cultivation practices for the most widely cultivated and water demanding crops (e.g. vegetables and cereals) in the Mediterranean region by recycling nutrients and water from AW. This will focus on the identification and development of best management practices for waste application to main market crops with a view ...
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Reconstructing Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange during the Miocene (MEDGATE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

...lem which has implications for both environmental change and hydrocarbon exploration. The research aim of MEDGATE is to reconstruct the evolution of the marine corridors that linked the Atlantic and Mediterranean prior to the formation of the Gibraltar Straits about five million years ago. Closure of these gateways led to catastrophic changes in Mediterranean sea-level and salinity and to the for ...
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ICFONest International Postdoctoral Program (ICFONEST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

...oratories. Available to them are a nanofabrication cleanroom and a range of other support facilities. All research groups and facilities are located in a dedicated 10.000 m2 -building situated in the Mediterranean Technology Park in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Currently, ICFO counts about 200 researchers, a number that is continuously growing. By 2014, when ICFO completes its ongoing expa ...
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Sustainable strategies for integrated management of agroindustrial fruit and vegetable wastes (AGROWASTE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

... and vegetable wastes (FVW). This was adapted to the region of Murcia, Spain, but has good potential for being adapted and replicated in other European regions, especially those in the Mediterranean area. For this management system, the project developed a web-platform that includes a database of the main sustainable strategies for the valorisation of FVW. The web-platform includes intelligent Dec ...
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moting socio-economic sustainable development through innovative technological actions for Mediterranean tourism heritage and landscapes protection clusters (HELAND)

Start date: Aug 28, 2012, End date: Dec 28, 2015,

The Mediterranean region is currently being affected by increasing environmental and cultural deterioration. Although it is still one of the foremost tourist areas in the world, the Mediterranean is progressively losing attractiveness. In order to regain competitiveness, Mediterranean countries need to modernise the management of touristic assets, investing in new technologies and innovative polic ...
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Urban Greening Systems for the Mediterranean Region - UGREENS

UGreenS is a partnership of three European Universities engaged in research in the field of green roofs and living walls with Small-Medium Enterprises which are engaged with the development and the implementation of such technologies in Europe. The partnership is led by Frederick Research Center and it includes the University of Seville, the Agricultural University of Athens, the University of Mal ...
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Sharing the mediterranean culture in Europe: Developing, Exchanging and Spreading professionnal skills in tourism management through professional practising in Mediterannean companies

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

...quired. The suggested project involves the placement of trainees from 2 relevant departments of the Public Institute of Vocational Training (I.E.K) of Patras in institutes and enterprises of another Mediterranean country, Spain. The placements will take place for 2 weeks each, aiming at the participants' further education and practical training, as well as their involvement in productive activit ...
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ITC FOR INCLUSION

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

We are a public nursery school (3-5 years) and Junior (6-12 years), Onda (Castellón), located near the Natural Park of the Sierra de Espadán and a few kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea. The total number of students is 385 and 31 teachers with different specialties and a special education teacher part time. In our school we serve 64 students with specific educational needs and 70 remedial Educa ...
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Sustainable water use securing food production in dry areas of the Mediterranean region (SWUP-MED)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"The strategic objective of the project is to improve food crop production in the Mediterranean region, influenced by multiple abiotic stresses. These stresses are becoming even more pronounced under changing climate, predicted to result in drier conditions, increasing temperatures, and greater variability, causing desertification. The project will work mainly in farmers’ communities to improve fa ...
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Marine Investment for the Blue Economy (MARIBE)

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

...aculture, Marine Biotechnology and Seabed Mining. MARIBE links and cross-cuts with the Transatlantic Ocean Research Alliance and the Galway Statement by reviewing the three European basins (Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Baltic) as well as the Caribbean Basin. The project begins with an assessment of the current Blue Growth economy. A socio-economic study of the various Blue Growth sectors will be u ...
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Climate Change, Water and Productivity in the Mediterranean: Capacity Building for Geospatial Modelling (CLIMed)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

...h exchanging young scientist to estimate both hydrological and rates of biogeochemical cycling in order to test hypotheses on the relationship between climate change and ecosystem productivity in the Mediterranean environment. Remotely sensed-data, GIS and process-based simulation models have provided the capability to assess ecological change at broad spatio-temporal scales. The proposed exchange ...
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Bridging continents across the sea: Multi-disciplinary perspectives on the emergence of long-distance maritime contacts in prehistory (SeaLinks)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

...rchaeological remains. In particular, and in contrast to the Atlantic, for example, which has served as a formidable natural barrier to east-west movement and migration, both the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean have served as important zones of interaction and trade, across which populations have migrated and mixed for at least several thousand years. Recent research findings, including those f ...
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Floods and fire risk assessment and management (FLIRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

...strophic when occurring in an area where forest cover has been devastated by wildfire. Efficient risk assessment and effective management of floods and forest fires are national priorities for most Mediterranean countries, where peri-urban areas are particular vulnerable to the combined effects of these natural hazards. Floods and forest fire risks have traditionally been assessed separately, wi ...
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International vocational cooperation and innovation for a better future

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

... time of participants. The participants will experience working in a different working place with an international team. The scholarship will allow students gain special skills in the field of Mediterranean gastronomy. They can get inspired by examples from the real market background in terms of creativity in meals’ preparation. It will enlarge their language and communicative competences. The par ...
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Profitable organic farming techniques based on traditional crops: contrasting soil degradation in the Mediterranean (Crops for better soil)

Start date: Oct 15, 2011, End date: Oct 14, 2016,

... adverse environmental effects, including degradation and pollution of soil, water shortages and pollution, air pollution, fragmentation of habitats and loss of biodiversity. In Spain, as in most Mediterranean countries, agricultural yields have been falling steadily, unless propped up by artificial irrigation or the use of fertilisers and pesticides. It is only because of EU’s farm subsidies ( ...
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s limpos (PORTS NETS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2000, End date: Jun 29, 2005,

...for individual solutions to each port. The actions to be developed aim to promote the cooperation and the integrated management of the organizations and agents that are competent in the port scope of Mediterranean and Atlantic; the fast and efficient diffusion of a model of environmental management to the ports of the Atlantic and Mediterranean zones; the sensitization and formation of the agents ...
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EURO-MEDITERRANEAN COOPERATION ON RESEARCH & TRAINING IN SUN BASED RENEWABLE ENERGIES (EUROSUNMED)

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

...reas, namely photovoltaics (PV), concentrated solar power (CSP) and grid integration (GI), in strong collaboration with research institutes, universities and SMEs from Europe in the north side of the Mediterranean sea and from Morocco and Egypt from the south of the sea. The focus in PV will be on thin film (Si, CZTS) based solar cells and modules while the goal in CSP field is to design and test ...
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Water against climate change. Sustainable water management in urban areas (WATACLIC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

...to help improve interest. (via coordinated and integrated actions). The project's potential transferability is considered to be high in Italy, central Europe and Mediterranean areas). A specific document for this purpose was disseminated during the international conferences. Further information on the project can be found in the project's layman report and After-LIFE Communication Plan (see "R ...
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BLUe Energy for the Mediterranean (Bluene)

Start date: Apr 30, 2014, End date: Apr 29, 2015,

BLUENE is a project about “blue energy” in the Mediterranean Sea. “Blue energy” does not only consist in offshore wind power generation, which has been expanding rapidly in Europe, but also in other offshore renewable energy technologies (tidal barrages, wave power devices, thermal energy conversion), which are still at an early stage of development. These are however growing rapidly. BLUENE proje ...
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Crosslocations in the Mediterranean: rethinking the socio-cultural dynamics of relative positioning (CROSSLOCATIONS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

The Mediterranean, a key socio-cultural, economic and political crossroads, has shifted its relative position recently, with profound effects for relations between the peoples associated with its diverse parts. Crosslocations is a groundbreaking theoretical approach that goes beyond current borders research to analyse the significance of the changes in relations between places and peoples that thi ...
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Increasing energy performance by transfer innovation to the agro-food SMEs of the Mediterranean areas (SINERGIA)

...ours due to limited financing, information on the most fitting technologies or gap in knowing benefits without affecting the quality of the final products. This is a crucial aspect characterizing the Mediterranean SMEs: their know-how is usually based on a specific product and they typically consider any change in the production phase as a loss of -typical characterization-�, which is a market bra ...
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