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Engineering optoelectronic INterfaces: a global action intersecting FUndamental conceptS and technology implementatION of self-organized organic materials (INFUSION)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Investing in energy efficiency and saving is crucial to support energy accessibility and environmental protection, and it is the world’s best interest to share and implement forms of energy efficiency. This implies a stronger and effective transnational policy to promote and disseminate know-how about new technologies both at the market and R&D level. In this respect, development of projects cente ...
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integrated Smart GRID Cross-Functional Solutions for Optimized Synergetic Energy Distribution, Utilization Storage Technologies (inteGRIDy)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

...Grid (DG), fostering the stability and coordination of distributed energy resources and enabling collaborative storage schemes within an increasing share of renewables. inteGRIDy will: a) Integrate innovative smart grid technologies, enabling optimal and dynamic operation of the distribution system’s assets within high grid reliability and stability standardsb) Validate innovative Demand Response ...
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Sharing Cities (SHAR-LLM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Sharing Cities has four key objectives. 1) To achieve scale in the European smart cities market by proving that properly designed smart city solutions, based around common needs, can be integrated in complex urban environments. This will be done in a way that exhibits their true potential and allows for the significant scale-up and consequent increase in social, economic and environmental value. ...
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Zero Waste Ligno-Cellulosic Biorefineries by Integrated Lignin Valorisation (Zelcor)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Zelcor project aims at demonstrating the feasibility of transforming lignocellulose biorefinery recalcitrant side streams into high added-value biobased products, including fine chemicals. Its concept is to combine chemical and enzymatic catalysis with insects-based biological conversion, within a biorefinery integrated approach. The project is conceived to avoid waste production by recycling wast ...
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NOVEL, SUSTAINABLE MARINE BIO-SURFACTANT / BIO-EMULSIFIERS FOR COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION (MARISURF)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

...This has led to a number of manufactures, looking for ways to increase competitiveness through searching for underexploited sources such as the marine environment. Our objectives are to develop (1) innovative approaches in discovering, characterizing and producing novel marine-derived bio-surfactants from a large bacterial collection (greater than 500 strains) housed at Heriot Watt University, ori ...
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Green Integrated Structural Elements for Retrofitting and New Construction of Buildings (GREEN INSTRUCT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

The Green INSTRUCT project will develop a prefabricated modular structural building block that is superior to conventional precast reinforced concrete panels by virtue of its reduced weight, improved acoustic and thermal performance and multiple functionalities. The Green INSTRUCT block consists of over 70% of CDW in weight. The Green INSTRUCT project will: (i) achieve sustainability and cost sav ...
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REsources from URban BIo-waSte (RES URBIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

...ies and have different characteristics. - well-targeted experimental activity to solve a number of open technical issues (both process- and product-related), by using the appropriate combination of innovative and catalogue-proven technologies.- market analysis whitin several economic scenarios and business models for full exploitation of bio-based products (including a path forward to fill regulat ...
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Advanced VR, iMmersive serious games and Augmented REality as tools to raise awareness and access to European underwater CULTURal heritagE. (iMARECULTURE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

iMARECULTURE is focusing in raising European identity awareness using maritime and underwater cultural interaction and exchange in Mediterranean sea. Commercial ship routes joining Europe with other cultures are vivid examples of cultural interaction, while shipwrecks and submerged sites, unreachable to wide public are excellent samples that can benefit from immersive technologies, augmented and v ...
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A New Life for Mar Piccolo (Life4MarPiccolo)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Background The Mar Piccolo is a coastal basin extending over more than 20 km2 to the north of the city of Taranto (Puglia). It is characterised by the presence of many plant and animal species, a reason for which it has been recognised as an environmental priority area within the Habitats Directive. Its importance for the national fishing industry has als ...
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Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management (STORM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Starting from previous research experiences and tangible outcomes, STORM proposes a set of novel predictive models and improved non-invasive and non-destructive methods of survey and diagnosis, for effective prediction of environmental changes and for revealing threats and conditions that could damage cultural heritage sites. Moreover, STORM will determine how different vulnerable materials, struc ...
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Urban metabolism accounts for building Waste management Innovative Networks and Strategies (Urban_Wins)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

The scope of the project is to develop and test methods for designing and implementing innovative and sustainable Strategic Plans for Waste Prevention and Management in various urban contexts that will enhance urban environmental resilience and guarantee progress towards more sustainable production and consumption patterns together with improvements waste recovery and recovered materials use. Ur ...
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Demonstration project to prove the techno-economic feasibility of using algae to treat saline wastewater from the food industry. (SALTGAE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

The aim of the project is to implement and demonstrate at large scale the long-term technological and economic feasibility of an innovative, sustainable and efficient solution for the treatment of high salinity wastewater from the F&D industry. Conventional wastewater treatments have proven ineffective for this kind of wastewater, as the bacterial processes typically used for the elimination of or ...
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Embedding crop diversity and networking for local high quality food systems (DIVERSIFOOD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

...plant species for organic and low-input agriculture or marginal/specific conditions, including the association of various underutilized legumes with several cereals, and create new diversity by innovative breeding methods designed for more intra-crop variation. It will help to facilitate cooperation between participatory research networks and professional breeders as well as policy makers in conne ...
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Diagnostic Imaging Strategies for Patients with Stable Chest Pain and Intermediate Risk of Coronary Artery Disease: Comparative Effectiveness Research of Existing Technologies (DISCHARGE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in high-income countries. Invasive coronary angiography (ICA) is the reference standard for the diagnosis of CAD and allows immediate therapy. However, only 40% of patients undergoing ICA actually have obstructive CAD and ICA has relatively rare but considerable risks. Coronary computed tomography (CT) is the most accurate diagnostic test ...
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Creating a University-Enterprise Alliance for a Spatially Enabled Society

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...enterprises. Cooperation in educational activities in the GI sector between universities is currently quite limited. In addition, SMEs are mainly acting on a domestic, or close to domestic, market. Innovations at one university or enterprise are not easily spread to the wider European community. One result of the giCASES project is the creation of a pan-European University-Enterprise alliance. Thi ...
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let's go!- und lift-Einzelstipendien

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

The present pool project "individual scholarships let's go! and lift" is a nationwide initiative to promote practical trainings abroad for apprentices of skilled trades as well as technical trainees in industry and trade who are taking part in a vocational education and training under the dual system. Its objectives are fixed against the background of a previously relatively low mobility of young ...
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DEVELOPING SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING

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

This project is designed and developed by IKASLAN, Association of public vocational training centres public of the country Basque, to enable students of average degree of vocational training cycles and from virtually all professional families that are taught in the CAV can make a stay in different European countries. It is a continuation of the projects that we perform as response wing demand of p ...
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Cualificaciones Profesionales Internacionales

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

Coremsa Online proposes, for the sake of implementing a vocational training of international quality that encourages the acquisition of language skills and also reverses in the employment of students in Europe (thanks to the European Erasmus+ program), the implementation of the CPI project for students of the professionalism certificates in areas in which Coremsa Online is specialized: socio-cultu ...
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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,

The aim of demEAUmed project is the involvement of industry 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 ...
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OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: FROM CONCEPTS TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS (OPENNESS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

...em services and human well-being, further conceptual and empirical work is needed to make the ideas of ecosystem services (ESS) and natural capital (NC) operational. OpenNESS will therefore develop innovative and practical ways of applying them in land, water and urban management: it will identify how, where and when the concepts can most effectively be applied to solve problems. To do this, it wi ...
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Multipurpose hemp for industrial bioproducts and biomass (MULTIHEMP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

...onditions, with advantageous environmental and agronomical characteristics. Traditionally cultivated for the fibres, seeds and psychoactive substances, it is now considered an ideal crop to produce innovative biomaterials. Once a key industrial crop for fibre, hemp production declined in the last century and was displaced by cotton and synthetic fibres. This explains why hemp has not been subject ...
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Spaces of possibility for the creative re-use of Europeana's content (Europeana Space)

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

...ey expertise from the European creative industries, technology-based enterprises, the cultural heritage sector and higher education.Europeana Space will build 3 Spaces, the Technical, Content and Innovation Spaces: physical and virtual environments to enable the creative re-use of cultural content. They will contain online guidelines and tools, a technical framework; a platform for IPR managemen ...
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Europeana Sounds

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

The Europeana Sounds is Europeana's 'missing' fifth domain aggregator, joining APEX (Archives), EUscreen (television), the Europeana Film Gateway (film) and TEL (libraries). It will increase the opportunities for access to and creative re-use of Europeana's audio and audio-related content and will build a sustainable best practice network of stakeholders in the content value chain to aggregate, en ...
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3to4: Converting C3 to C4 photosynthesis for sustainable agriculture (3TO4)

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

Most plants use the C3 pathway of photosynthesis that is compromised by gross inefficiencies in CO2 fixation. However, some plants use a super-charged photosynthetic mechanism called C4 photosynthesis. The C4 pathway is used by the most productive vegetation and crops on Earth. In addition to faster photosynthesis, C4 plants demand less water and less nitrogen. Overall, our aim is to introduce the ...
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Combining innovation in vineyard management and genetic diversity for a sustainable European viticulture (INNOVINE)

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

...quality, durable resistance to pests and and diseases, and adaptation to climate change (higher CO2, drought, UV light, and higher temperatures)* At the vineyard level, design, develop and test innovative agronomic systems integrating new agricultural practices and taking into account the variability of constraints met by European vineyards grown under a wide range of environments* At the breeding ...
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Integrative Smart City Planning (INSMART)

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

The InSMART concept brings together cities, scientific and industrial organizations in order to establish and implement a comprehensive methodology for enhancing sustainable planning addressing the current and future city energy needs through an integrative and multidisciplinary planning approach. This approach will identify the optimum mix of short, medium and long term measures for a sustainable ...
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Life Go Park

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Background A March 2010 Eurobarometer survey - “Attitudes of Europeans towards the issue of biodiversity” - found that 97% of Italian citizens had never heard of the Natura 2000 network. Factors contributing to this knowledge gap include a lack of communication amongst different regional services and an insufficient level of training by tourism operat ...
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Recycling, Resources, entrepeneurship: systemic inclusion and exclusion of garbage

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The project is promoted by a consortium of 6 High Schools in Rome and its municipalities: 1. I.P.S.S.S. "E. De Amicis” vocational school for opticians, dental technicians, and healthcare assistants (Applicant Organisations) 2. I.P.S.I.A. "C. Cattaneo” vocational school for mechanical engineering 3. I.I.S.S. "Margherita di Savoia" High School Human Science 4. Science High school "Democrito" 5. Agr ...
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DEVELOPING SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING

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

This project is designed and developed by IKASLAN, Association of public vocational training centres public of the country Basque, to enable students of average degree of vocational training cycles and from virtually all professional families that are taught in the CAV can make a stay in different European countries. It is a continuation of the projects that we perform as response wing demand of p ...
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DEVELOPING SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING

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

Every scholarship holder in addition takes a book of practices in the one that aims at the tasks that it develops every day and that will serve for the evaluación in his own center also.This project is realized and developed by IKASLAN, association of public public centers of vocational training of the Basque Country, to allow that the students of cycles of average degree of Vocational training an ...
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Automotive Mechatronic Baseline for Electric Resilient Ultra Light Vehicle (AMBER-ULV)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

...g the cost of EV with other competing vehicle technologies the parameter of interest should be the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).The project proposal AMBER-ULV aims to develop and integrate several innovative concepts, resulting from successfully completed R&D projects, giving a socially acceptable answer to safety concerns but not penalising the driving experience."
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Resource-Efficient Factory Of Recyclable Manufacturing composite components (REFORM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

...to be exploited in different industrial sectors (e.g. Transport, Energy, Construction, ..). Fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are becoming very popular as their use reduces weight and allow innovative designs for energy-saving products during service-life. Nevertheless, service-life does not represent the total solution. A total life cycle view must be taken including manufacturing and end ...
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Development of an active film for smart windows with inkjet method. Application to a building envelope component: autonomous smart device (SMARTBLIND)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

...sments.e Proof of concept.Expected energy savings will be examined. Producing the hybrid flexible film and the windows (simple or multiple panes) will allow reaching new building market as well as renovation market.The consortium is SME driven. Universities and research centers as well as end user support the research part. The multidisciplinary team gathers 13 partners from 7 EU countries.
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The Industrial Biotech Research and Innovation Platforms Centre - towards Technological Innovation and solid foundations for a growing industrial biotech sector in Europe (BIO-TIC)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

The project goal is to draw-up a blueprint document of recommendations for overcoming the innovation hurdles within a selection of targeted business market segments that can make a major contribution to an accelerated take-up of industrial biotechnology (IB) into the market place.This will involve:- Analysis of existing knowledge bank relating to market, research and institutional barriers hinder ...
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Point-of-care blood device for fast and reliable prediction of drug response in non- small-cell lung carcinoma patients from blood samples (LungCARD)

Start date: Feb 7, 2013, End date: Feb 6, 2015,

Chemotherapy is the standard care for the treatment of non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) patients, however most of non-small cell lung cancer tumours are not sensitive to this treatment. As an alternative to chemoterapy, target therapy with gefitinib (epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor) has been used in clinical practice in patients with tumours harbouring mutations in ...
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Strategies for Organic and Low-input Integrated Breeding And Management (SOLIBAM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

...phenomena 3. Develop the use of within-crop diversity to stabilise yield and quality in the face of current and increasing variation in organic and low-input agriculture 4. Design, develop and test innovative arable and vegetable cropping systems based on integration of a high level of diversification in crop management with the use of genetically diverse populations or varieties 5. Compare the ef ...
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INDUSTRIAL RECYCLING OF CFRP BY EMULSIFICATION (IRECE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

...ffective, purely physical recycling of thermosetting and thermoplastic carbon fibres reinforced composites typically obtained from the dismantling of End-of-Life Aircrafts. The plant is based on an innovative process of emulsification of grinded and sorted CFRP into a thermoplastic matrix, followed by lamination or pelletization. Potential application of the recycled compounds are automotive, inte ...
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Sustainable Irrigation water management and River-basin governance: Implementing User-driven Services (SIRIUS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

...in particular on water for food production with the perspective of a sustainable agriculture in the context of integrated river-basin management, including drought management. It aims at developing innovative and new GMES service capacities for the user community of irrigation water management and sustainable food production, in accordance with the vision of bridging and integrating sustainable d ...
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Discount Coupon Recommendation and Redemption System (DICO(RE)2S)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"DICO(RE)2S is an SME European Consortium devoted to develop and deploy a coupon-based discount campaign platform that will exploit state-of-the-art information and communication technologies and processes for providing consumers and retailers/manufactures with a personalized and efficient environment for maximizing customer satisfaction and business profitability.The platform will incorporate a c ...
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Holistic, extensible, scalable and standard Virtual Factory Framework (VFF)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

The project uttermost objective is to foster and strengthen the primacy of Future European Manufacturing by defining the next generation Virtual Factory Framework. The VFF will promote major time and cost savings while increasing performance in the design, management, evaluation and reconfiguration of new or existing facilities, supporting the capability to simulate dynamic complex behaviour over ...
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