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The European network for observing our changing planet (ERA-PLANET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2021,

In the last decade a significant number of projects and programmes in different domains of environmental monitoring and Earth observation have generated a substantial amount of data and knowledge on different aspects related to environmental quality and sustainability. Big data generated by in-situ or satellite platforms are being collected and archived with a plethora of systems and instruments m ...
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Dynamics of cultural landscapes and heritage management

Start date: Oct 15, 2014, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

...wo years (120 ECTS credits).Brief descriptionDYCLAM offers a mobility training between the University Jean Monnet Saint- Etienne (UJM, France), the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT, Portugal), the National Museum of Natural History in Paris (MNHN) and either the University Federico II of Naples (UNINA, Italy) or the University of Stuttgart (UStuttgart, Germany). 4 international academic institu ...
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International Master in Quaternary and Prehistory Master International en Quaternaire et Préhistoire

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Objective The main objective of the International Master in Quaternary and Prehistory is to train young researchers in the fields of prehistory, paleo-anthropology, palaeontology, methods and techniques for prehistoric and archaeological research, quaternary’s geology and heritage preservation.Course duration Two years (120 ECTS)Brief DescriptionThe International Master in Quaternary and Prehistor ...
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CONNECTING Early Medieval European COLLECTIONS

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

...ject aims to provide a new business model for durable collaboration between museums on an exchange basis. In order to establish this network, CEMEC will create a mobile exhibition (at 3 venues) and 5 national presentations with generic curatorial content, together with technical partners and the associated scientific partners, who will be able to create on-going spin-off research. This integrated ...
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EUROPLANET 2020 Research Infrastructure (EPN2020-RI)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...y scientific and technological challenges facing modern planetary science by providing open access to state-of-the-art research data, models and facilities across the European Research Area. Its Transnational Access activities will provide access to world-leading laboratory facilities that simulate conditions found on planetary bodies as well as specific analogue field sites for Mars, Europa and T ...
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Gamification of participatory science for training and education purposes (GAPARS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Creating effective ways for citizen science is immensely important. Scientists in all fields increasingly rely on active public participation for experiments and analyses of complex and/or massive data, and the outreach and education possibilities of citizen science are enormous.Yet there are three key issues for any citizen science project: (i) reach out to a sufficiently large audience, (ii) low ...
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ECOPOTENTIAL: IMPROVING FUTURE ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS THROUGH EARTH OBSERVATIONS (ECOPOTENTIAL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

...essures. ECOPOTENTIAL makes significant progress beyond the state-of-the-art and creates a unified framework for ecosystem studies and management of protected areas (PA). ECOPOTENTIAL focuses on internationally recognized PAs in Europe and beyond in a wide range of biogeographic regions, and it includes UNESCO, Natura2000 and LTER sites and Large Marine Ecosystems. Best use of Earth Observation (E ...
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Integrated Platform for the European Research Infrastructure ON Cultural Heritage (IPERION CH)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

IPERION CH aims to establish the unique pan-European research infrastructure in Heritage Science by integrating national world-class facilities at research centres, universities and museums. The cross-disciplinary consortium of 23 partners (from 12 Member States and the US) offers access to instruments, methodologies and data for advancing knowledge and innovation in the conservation and restorati ...
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European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

...he Holocaust. The vision of EHRI is to integrate the data, services and expertise of existing Holocaust infrastructures on an unprecedented scale. It will allow researchers from across the globe transnational and virtual access to the integrated infrastructure, and provide them with innovative digital tools and methods to (collaboratively) explore and analyse Holocaust sources. EHRI will thereby b ...
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Geoparks: Heritage, Education and Sustainable Development - an Innovative Methodology for Southern Countries. Case Study in Morocco (Atlas Mountains, Marrakech) (Geopark)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...2000s this Label knows a growing success among European countries, particularly in the West (France, Germany, Italy, Spain). In 2013, 54 European Geoparks received the precious label. This international recognition by UNESCO attracts Southern countries to implement development strategies in line with the recommendations of good-practices management oriented by international organizations. Indeed, ...
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Eavesdropping on the tropics: assessment of climate change impacts on amphibians through passive acoustic monitoring (EAVESTROP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Recent climate change is a major threat for conservation of amphibian diversity, the most endangered group of vertebrates. Species distribution models derived from functional traits have been proposed to provide more robust predictions of future climate-induced shifts in environmental suitability than commonly used correlative models. The proposed project aims, for the first time, to examine speci ...
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Lifelong Learning at Open Air Museums: Improving Competences of Adult Learning Facilitators

Start date: Sep 5, 2016, End date: Sep 4, 2018,

Although the role of adult learning is increasingly recognised in the Member States’ National Reform Programmes, in the context of the Lisbon agenda, there has been no common framework regarding the content, competences and processes for continuous training of adult learning staff. This is mainly due to the diversity of the adult learning sector and the diversity of the professional pathways to be ...
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History of Nuclear Energy and Society (HoNESt)

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

...t debate on future energy sources and the transition to affordable, secure, and clean energy production.Civil society's interaction with nuclear developments changes over time, and it is locally, nationally and transnationally specific. HoNESt will embrace the complexity of political, technological and economic challenges; safety; risk perception and communication, public engagement, media framing ...
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CONSERVATION OF FALCO VESPERTINUS IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN (REDFOOT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

...ies. Improper management practices have adversely affected rook colonies and other prey species, putting the red-footed falcon on the verge of extinction in Slovakia. The country has yet to draw up a national Action Plan and no systematic conservation measures are being taken. Objectives The main objectives of the LIFE ...
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Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 (HBP SGA1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

...d the capabilities of the HBP Platforms, in order to use them to address otherwise intractable problems in neuroscience, computing and medicine in the future. In addition, collaborations with other national, European and international initiatives will create synergies, maximizing returns on research investment. SGA1 covers the detailed steps that will be taken to move the HBP closer to achieving i ...
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FRESH - Find Researchers Everywhere and SHare (FRESH)

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

... be on enhancing the public understanding of and engagement with science. Core activities during the Night will include a digital participatory campaign to engage audiences across the country; international live streaming; science city quests and quizzes; science cafes; hands-on experiments; science shows; simulations; games and competitions. Thematic programmes will include, among other, food and ...
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Reaserchers' Night Project 2016-2017 in Israel (ERNI2016)

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

...lvement of the academic community including Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (MOST), all major researchuniversities, leading collages and three science museums.o Awareness campaign at national level managed and funded by the Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space.o Groups of junior-high and high-school students (ages 12-18) will be invited by each partner to take part in ...
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Evolutionary Trends And GRasping form and function In Primates and other tetrapod lineages (GETAGRIP)

Start date: Jan 18, 2016, End date: Jan 17, 2018,

Human beings have been credited with unparalleled capabilities for digital prehension grasping. However, given the single evolutionary origin of humans and the unique anatomical features they possess, quantitative tests of evolutionary scenarios remain difficult. Moreover, functional inferences based on fragmentary fossil material are often problematic. However, grasping behavior is widespread amo ...
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European Curation of Astromaterials Returned from the Exploration of Space (EURO-CARES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Sample return missions (SRMs) are a critical next step in our exploration of the Solar System and are identified as strategic missions by international space agencies. Europe has a very strong legacy in the curation and research of precious extraterrestrial materials. To maintain European leadership and ensure high-level involvement in future SRMs, a dedicated European Sample Curation Facility (ES ...
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Responses of precambrian life to environmental changes (PALEONANOLIFE)

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

This multidisciplinary proposal has the objective to enhance our knowledge on the early steps of the evolution of life on Earth by providing a foundation for better deciphering the molecular fossil record as well as the geochemical signals hidden in ancient rocks. Based on the multiscale and multitechnique study of morphologically preserved microorganisms fossilized within ancient siliceous nodule ...
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CACHE: CAlcium in a CHanging Environment (CACHE)

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

"Anthropogenic driven climate change is a global problem that will increasingly affect our world and It is essential that we train our future scientists in multidisciplinary approaches to enable them to tackle such complex problems. This ITN examines environmental calcium mobilisation and deposition in marine molluscs, species that have been highlighted as being particularly at risk under future c ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Synthesis of systematic resources (SYNTHESYS3)

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

SYNTHESYS3 will create an accessible, integrated European resource for researchers in the natural sciences in Europe and globally. Building on the success of the previous SYNTHESYS IA, the NA will focus on improving collections management of new physical and virtual collections. By focusing the JRA on extracting and enhancing data from digitised collections, SYNTHESYS3 will increase the accessibil ...
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Apheleia – Integrated Cultural Landscape Management for Local and global sustainability

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Aug 30, 2017,

...rucial, and a new specific framework of reference is required, to address the challenges of Rio+20 and to converge with other global initiatives, such as “Future Earth” and the proposed “International Year of Global Understanding”. The strategic partnership Apheleia aims at structuring a convergent set of tools that will foster the need for a properly Integrated (as opposed to dispersed) Cultural ...
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Svět muzeí - svět ideí.

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

The project was started in response to the need of the Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové to provide its staff with international experience, following the completion of a previous project, funded by ESF, which enhanced the introduction of a system of further learning in the Museum. This previously completed project has shown us that educating the Museum staff abroad may be another step i ...
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Sharing and Learning

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

National Museum Wales consists of National Museum Cardiff, St Fagans National History Museum, the National Slate Museum, the National Wool museum, the National Roman Legion Museum, Big Pit National Coal Museum, the National Waterfront Museum and the National Collections Centre. These 8 are across wales and the collections cover earth and natural sciences, fine and applied art and the archaeology, ...
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Sharing and Learning

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

...p it became apparent that we could learn a lot from each organisation and this led to the idea of a mobility pilot project between the two regions. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed and National Museum Wales and Jamtli Foundation agreed to send staff on job shadowing and exchanges for five years. With this project, Sharing and Learning, we are applying for funding support for the first t ...
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EU BON: Building the European Biodiversity Observation Network (EU BON)

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

...of networks of biodiversity data-holders, monitoring organisations, and leading scientific institutions. EU BON will build on existing components, in particular GBIF, LifeWatch infrastructures, and national biodiversity data centres.EU BON will 1) enable greater interoperability of data layers and systems through adoption of new standards; 2) advance data integration by new (modelling) technologie ...
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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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Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe (ARIADNE)

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

...duals, teams and institutions, but form a vast and fragmented corpus and their potential is constrained by difficult access and non-homogenous perspectives.This integrating activity will enable trans-national access of researchers to data centres, tools and guidance, and the creation of new Web-based services based on common interfaces to data repositories, availability of reference datasets and u ...
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New Zealand Estonian French Research Exchange Scheme (NEFREX)

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

"The New Zealand Estonian-French Research Excellence scheme is based on promoting strong inter-disciplinary research into human genetic and cultural evolution, harnessing the complementary resources of the ERA based institutions and their partner in New Zealand. Its main goal is to couple the existing strengths in the Paris and Tartu groups (large population level samples, frequentist population g ...
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YE - Partner Countries - Remembrance: Taking us forward

Start date: May 10, 2016, End date: Oct 9, 2016,

...mpacts on a local level include trying to inspire people who are living in Kikinda, especially young people who are living with high levels of unemployment and few opportunities. On an international level much of our desired impact runs along the same lines as our expected and desired impact on the participants. We wish to raise the awareness about stereotypes, prejudice and generalisations - the ...
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"Polish your culture" Płużnica-Ostroh 2016

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

...he project we want to integrate youth from these two countries, exchange their experience in democracy, political systems and local government; help them to acquire skills in working in a international team and comunicate in a foreign language. We want to promote Ukrainian culture in Płużnica community and improve the image of Ukrainians amog the residents and promote Polish culture among Ukrainia ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

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

... for collaboration that links the partners under strong scientific leadership and professional project management, providing a coherent European approach and ensuring effective alignment of regional, national and European research and programmes. The project work plan is organized in the form of thirteen subprojects, each dedicated to a specific area of activity.A significant part of the budget wi ...
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BlueGenics – From gene to bioactive product: Exploiting marine genomics for an innovative and sustainable European blue biotechnology industry (BlueGenics)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

...dical and biotechnological interest. The molecular-biology-based strategies developed in this project for a sustainable exploitation of aquatic molecular biodiversity will further strengthen the international position and effectiveness of European (SME-based) blue biotechnology industry.
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Ambrosia: Europeana Food and Drink (Ambrosia)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

AMBROSIA: Europeana Food and Drink is a Best Practice Network under 'Objective 2.1 Europeana and creativity b) Promoting the use of Europeana by creative industries' of the ICT Policy Support Programme.The objective of AMBROSIA is to promote the wider re-use of the digital cultural resources available through Europeana by the Creative Industries to boost creativity and business development across ...
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Evolutionary morphology of accessory auditory structures in piranhas, pacus, and related serrasalmid fishes: is acute hearing an adaptation for prey location? (EVOMORPHASIS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

...h are to examine WA morphology in serrasalmids, to determine if morphology is related to hearing ability, and to test if prey can be localized by acoustic cues. This research will utilize the Muséum National de Histoire Nationelle specimen collection along with computerized tomography (CT), 3D imaging, and comparative analysis. Electrophysiology will be used to test hearing and behavioral experime ...
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Collaborative Networks of Multilevel Actors to advance quality standards for heritage tourism at Cross Border Level (ALECTOR)

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

The project focuses on different types of tangible-intangible heritage categories and their values as main level to invest in human capital and innovation in an effort to achieve stronger regional partnerships and cooperation in the Black Sea. Achievements: 9 Innovative ...
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Improving the conservation status for the priority species and habitats in the Iron Gates wetlands (Iron Gates wetlands)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Dec 15, 2015,

Background Located in southwest Romania, The Natura 2000 site “Danube water course Bazias – Iron Gates” includes a large area of priority habitats for the pygmy cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmeus). It is also an important stopover point for migrating birds. The pygmy cormorant is one of 23 bird species listed in Annex I of the Birds Directive found at ...
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