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OSH+ for the European Agriculture sector - Stimulating growth in rural areas through capacity building for providers (and beneficiaries) of occupational medicine and OSH services

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

... it comes to fatal accidents agriculture is the number one contributor (in Ireland with 23 cases in 2014), or in top 4 (Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Spain). On the other hand the same statistics for occupational diseases are showing the same situation, agriculture occupies the 4th position within the pathologies producing sick leaves in EU-28 (EUROSTAT/ESAW).The specific objectives of the project ...
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Assessment and mitigation of nano-enabled product risks on human and environmental health: Development of new strategies and creation of a digital guidance tool for nanotech industries (GUIDENANO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The main objective of GUIDEnano is to develop innovative methodologies to evaluate and manage human and environmental health risks of nano-enabled products, considering the whole product life cycle. A strategy to identify hot spots for release of nanomaterials (NMs) will be followed by decision trees to guide on the use of (computational) exposure models and, when necessary, design of cost-effecti ...
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Biological Foundation for the Safety Classification of Engineered Nanomaterials (ENM): Systems Biology Approaches to Understand Interactions of ENM with Living Organisms and the Environment (NANOSOLUTIONS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The main objective of this research proposal is to identify and elaborate those characteristics of ENM that determine their biological hazard potential. This potential includes the ability of ENM to induce damage at the cellular, tissue, or organism levels by interacting with cellular structures leading to impairment of key cellular functions. These adverse effects may be mediated by ENM-induced a ...
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European Network on the Health and Environmental Impact of Nanomaterials (NanoImpactNet)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Recent technological advances allow the targeted production of objects and materials in the nanoscale (smaller than 100 nm). Nanomaterials have chemical, physical and bioactive characteristics, which are different from those of larger entities of the same materials. Nanoparticles can pass through body barriers. This is interesting for medical applications, but it raises concerns about their health ...
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Training for Mental Health promotion

This project aims to equip teachers, HR professionals and care workers to understand the factors that are critical to life span mental health maintenance and promotion in schools, workplaces and older people’s services and to initiate, implement and monitor policy and programme development within their organisations. This requires:1. An understanding of the distinction between mental health and m ...
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Training on Health & Safety for workers in the Environment Industrial Sector

Start date: Nov 1, 2011,

THESEIS aims at developing, testing and disseminating an innovative training model in the field of occupational Health and Safety of workers in the pollution management sector of eco-industry.The increasing demand for this material can be attributed to several factors: People working in eco-industry face specific risks related to their activities; most of the companies of the sector are SMEs; ther ...
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European Network Education and Training in Occupational Safty and Health

The project aims at compiling the expert-knowledge of integrating Occupational Safety and Health into education and training in Europe and to promote the use of good practice across national and cultural boundaries. The project is aimed at lecturers and trainers who train intermediaries in occupational safety and health, and at decision-makers and policymakers in OSH and vocational training policy ...
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European Network Education and Training in Occupational Safety and Health ENETOSH

The project started out with 13 partners from 10 countries. Examples of good practice of education and training in safety and health were brought together by the partners according defined criteria from whole of Europe. Furthermore the project group developed a common standard for the qualification of instructors and trainers in safety and health. Today, almost 50 partners from 20 European countri ...
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Workplace Health Promotion-a means of increasing the professional knowledge of the Slovenian Occupational, traffic and sports medicine physicians

The overall aim of the project is to improve, adapt and transfer an existing international blended learning training programme in workplace health promotion, named ELWHP and developed already in Romania, for a number of 30 Slovenian Occupational, traffic and sports medicine physicians.
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Translating Lisbon recommendations into an e-learning program for Occupational Safety & Health Specialists – Workplace Health Promotion as a mean for reaching enhanced competitiveness (ELWHP)

The idea of developing a Workplace Health Promotion Course for Occupational Health & Public Health experts emerged from a Needs Analysis and the recommendations of 2 previous projects: a Europe Fund Project from 2002 and a PHARE project from 2006.This project aims at increasing the level of knowledge in what concerns the most advanced findings in Workplace Health Promotion through a process of tra ...
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