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Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe - Carbapenem Resistance (COMBACTE-CARE)
Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2020,
...m-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB): the ultimate challenge!Antibiotic resistance is a global public health concern recently elevated to the top three threats identified by the WHO, and subject of numerous national and international government activities. Although focused strategies have beneficially influenced infection rates due to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), infections due to ...
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Sustainable tailored integrated care for older people in Europe (SUSTAIN)
Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,
The overall aims of SUSTAIN are twofold: 1. to improve established integrated care initiatives for older people living at home with multiple health and social care needs, ensuring they are patient-centred, prevention oriented, efficient, resilient to crises, safe and sustainable; 2. to ensure that improvements to the integrated care initiatives are applicable and adaptable to other health systems ...
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Accelerated Development of Vaccine benefit-risk Collaboration in Europe (ADVANCE)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,
...forms, developing pharmaco-epidemiological methods for burden of disease, coverage, effectiveness and risk. ADVANCE partners also build on a track record of delivering results of ground breaking international collaborative studies of unprecedented population size. ADVANCE capitalizes on these achievements and tailors structures and processes to the needs of collaborative public-private vaccine ben ...
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Advanced Immunization Technologies (ADITEC)
Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
Vaccines so far have been developed mostly by following an empiric approach. To prevent and possibly cure unresolved and emerging infectious diseases we need to fully exploit the potential of the human immune system. Progress in science and technology makes it possible to achieve what was previously deemed impossible. The scope of this project is to produce knowledge necessary to develop novel and ...
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African Vector Control: New Tools (AvecNet)
Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2016,
...ol and elimination. Our carefully balanced, multidisciplinary team of European and African experts includes vector biologists, engineers, epidemiologists, social scientists and leaders of large supranational consortia. These partners are all prominent members of global vector control research programs having unique specialization in Africa-centric projects.Together we have developed a proposal f ...
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Syndromic approach to Neglected Infectious Diseases (NID) at primary health care level: an international collaboration on integrated diagnostic-treatment platforms (NIDIAG)
Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2016,
Neglected Infectious Diseases (NID) such as trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis receive less than 5% of the global investment for tropical diseases research. Clinical praxis in disease-endemic countries (DEC) is rarely evidence based and does not make use of the latest innovations in diagnostic technology. NID–related research on diagnostics is partic ...
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Innovative tools and strategies for surveillance and control of dengue (DengueTools)
Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2016,
Current surveillance systems and control efforts are clearly insufficient to combat dengue in endemic countries and to prevent spread to previously uninfected areas (including Europe). We will focus on the following aspects of the call: better diagnosis, surveillance, prevention as well as prediction and/or prevention of the spread of Dengue fever to previously uninfected regions (including Europe ...
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Dissecting the Immunological Interplay between Poverty Related Diseases and Helminth Infections: An African-European Research Initiative (IDEA)
Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2015,
Worm infections are receiving increased attention due to: the wide geographic overlap in occurrence between worms and HIV, TB and malaria; the large proportion of individuals (minimal estimates around 25%) co-infected with worms and HIV/TB/ malaria; the potential risk of increasing disease burden; the very limited understanding of the impact by worm infections on HIV-, TB- and malaria-specific imm ...
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African Programme for Advanced Research Epidemiology Training (APARET)
Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
The APARET fellowship programme will catalyse independent research activities of graduates of Field Epidemiology Training Programmes (FETP) and Field Epidemiology Laboratory Training programmes (FELTP) in Africa. APARET fellows will be employed as research associates by African APARET partners for 2 years (salary provided by host institute). During the first year of their contract they will be emb ...
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Moving Towards Wellbeing
Start date: Mar 31, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,
The objective of the project is to advance sustainable economic development of the area of the wellbeing. The project supports the Leningrad Region, Päijät-Häme, St Petersburg and Kymenlaakso regional entrepreneurial activities. It aims to develop cooperation in social and health care sector and its entrepreneurship, to build business and education (in entrepreneurship). The objective is also to r ...
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Discovery and preclinical development of new generation tuberculosis vaccines (NEWTBVAC)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,
"With 14.4 million prevalent cases and 1.7 million deaths tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most serious infectious diseases to date. An estimated 2 billion people are believed to be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and at risk of developing disease. Multi- and extensively drug resistant strains are increasingly appearing in many parts of the world, including Europe. While with current ...
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Identification and development of vaccine candidates for Buruli Ulcer Disease (BuruliVac)
Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,
Buruli ulcer disease (BUD), caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, is a neglected bacterial infection of the poor in remote rural areas, mostly affecting children. BUD, the third most common mycobacterial disease in immunocompetent humans after tuberculosis and leprosy, is most endemic in West Africa, but cases have been reported from more than 30 countries. BUD is a mutilating disease leading to sever ...
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European Consortium for Modelling of Air Pollution and Climate Strategies (EC4MACS)
Start date: Jan 1, 2007, End date: Jan 31, 2013,
...y in which options, scenarios, measures and costs/benefits are being negotiated.
The results make it easier for experts and politicians to agree with the data because all data is provided by the national experts. Whatâs more, the methods for calculation are absolutely transparent and widely discussed before agreement. This has a positive impact on the selection and implementation of more (cost ...
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Preventing community and nosocomial spread and infection with MRSA ST 398 - instruments for accelerated control and integrated risk management of antimicrobial resistance (PILGRIM)
Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,
...itation approaches, 5) integrate results in policy and practice guidelines. This project brings together clinical, genetic, microbiological and public health partners from 6 European countries, internationally renowned for their expertise in complementary ecosystems research. The two SME partners ensure the exploitation of results and the knowledge transfer, enabling associated companies to bring ...
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EUROBALTIC Civil Proctection Project II (Eurobaltic II)
Start date: Sep 25, 2005, End date: Jan 24, 2008,
...ings in the civil protection capabilities of the region. The activities in the following project was focused on three identified priority areas: risk management and spatial development, building transnational capacity through exercises, training, education and research and promoting safety over sectors and borders.Eurobaltic Civil Protection Project II is a continuation of the Eurobaltic I Project ...
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moting Womens Health and Safe Motherhood (WHEALTH)
Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
The main aim of the project WHEALTH is the promotion of gender specific and gender sensitive prevention strategies at national and regional levels. Specifically, the project aims at: • Raising awareness on womens health and safe motherhood (cervical and breast cancer, breastfeeding etc). • Providing access to health information, especially to women in island and remote communities. • Strengthening ...
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EMAS and Information Technology in Hospitals (e-Hospital EMAS)
Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Jan 30, 2007,
...andling environmental problems to carry out their work an organised and up-to-date way.
The e-Hospital EMAS Guide (with the EMAS software tool) generated significant interest among hospitals, national and regional health authorities and the Society of Health Inspectors after the projectâs final conference. The Guide (in Greek and English) is available both on the project website and on CD-ROM ...
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...inciples and measures in preventing violence, 2) improve teachers’ abilities to meet new challenges of IPV prevention which originate from practical work in Health and Social care sector at national level as well as from European co-operation 3) promote involvement of the teachers in the curriculum development at institutional and national planning level on IPV issues 4) bring new innovations and ...
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EAGLE - EUROPEAN APPROACHES TO INTER-GENERATIONAL LIFELONG LEARNING
Start date: Oct 1, 2006,
Recognising changing demographics in Europe and the increasing importance of intergenerational as well as lifelong and lifewide learning, EAGLE partners undertook in-depth research into the benefits and limitations of such learning approaches. Relevant policy frameworks and practice examples were identified and a range of social experimentation activities took place, all with a view to expanding e ...
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...ures, specialist press articles, and through relevant seminars. The end products/results will be implemented by partners and promoted to the full range of interested parties through seminars and international events. The CD-Rom and printed results will be subject to a copyright agreement with commercialisation envisaged beyond then lifetime of the project.
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Training professionals to bring together medical cultures in Europe : A training programme on a European scale for healthcare professionals, bringing together the different medical cultures of the continent. This project started in 2000 and lasted 36 months.
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Aim: to systematically inform city policy makers & decision takers of the relative cost-effectiveness of different types of investments by municipalities and their partners in shaping the lifestyle of the community (proximal determinants) and thus reducing the level and burden of disease.Objective 1, to enhance and transfer to European cities an innovative modelling tool, designed to predict the i ...
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Dietitians ensuring education, teaching and professional quality
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
...trategy the project aims to:- work with higher education to create, define, embed lifelong learning thereby raising the expertise of dietitians in Europe becoming a world quality reference- work with National Associations to ensure demonstrable worldwide quality of LifeLongLearning- strengthen research capability and capacity in new graduates ensuring development of a knowledge triangle in dieteti ...
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