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Probing safety of nano-objects by defining immune responses of environmental organisms (PANDORA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

PANDORA (Probing safety of nano-objects by defining immune responses of environmental organisms) shall assess the global impact of engineered nanoparticles (NP) on the immune responses of representative organisms covering all evolutionary stages and hierarchical levels from plants to invertebrates and vertebrates. Immunity is a major determinant of the survival and fitness of all living organisms, ...
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Computer Vision Enabled Multimedia Forensics and People Identification (IDENTITY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Forensics is a well-established science that aims at applying various disciplines to the law, both civil and criminal, in order to solve questions related to crime. It is mainly concerned with proving and investigating infringements, identifying perpetrators and describing modus operandi. Biometrics, on the other hand, is a relatively new science that aims at measuring and analysing a person's uni ...
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European Centre for Risk Management and Safe Innovation in Nanomaterials Nanotechnologies (EC4SafeNano)

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

A significant challenge to ensuring sustainable production and use of nanotechnologies is to understand safety and health risks of the technology and its end-products, and to implement practical strategies to manage these risks. Knowledge is growing rapidly, but effective use of this knowledge for risk management is lagging behind. We therefore need to bridge the gap between knowledge on hazard an ...
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Pervasive and UseR Focused BiomeTrics BordEr ProjeCT (PROTECT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The goal of the PROTECT project is an enhanced biometric-based person identification system that works robustly across a range of border crossing types and that has strong user-centric features. The system will be deployed in Automated Border Control (ABC) areas supporting border guards to facilitate smooth and non-intrusive rapid crossing by travellers based on deployment of the next generation o ...
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The Choice for Europe since Maastricht. Member States' Preferences for Economic and Financial Integration (EMU_SCEUS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

The Eurozone crisis corroborated the warnings of economists that weak economic policy coordination and loose fiscal oversight would be insufficient to stabilise the monetary union. To prevent a recurrence of the crisis, economists, political actors and the “Blueprint” of the European Commission are asking for the construction of a deep and genuine economic and monetary union with reinforced govern ...
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Impacts and risks from higher-end scenarios: Strategies for innovative solutions (IMPRESSIONS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

IMPRESSIONS will provide empirically-grounded, transformative science that quantifies and explains the consequences of high-end climate scenarios for both decision-makers and society. IMPRESSIONS will develop and apply a novel participatory methodology that explicitly deals with uncertainties and strong non-linear changes focussing on high-end climate change, but also including intermediate warmin ...
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Strategic support on strengthening the quality assurance structures at the private higher education institutions in Albania

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Considering the problems identified in the project rationale, and including data from primary research from the Albanian partners, the project concept was conceived with sufficient scope to target real needs gaps identified, without being un-attainable. It is quite obvious that private HEIs in Albania are seeking to improve their quality assurance system and processes. And also the rest of the sta ...
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GeoServices-4-Sustainability

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Ensuring social, economic and environmental sustainability is one major aim of all the countries but priorities are not the same world over. The partner countries, China and Thailand, are fast growing economies attracting significant Foreign Direct Investment but facing a number of social and environmental challenges. Growing cities, expanding industry and increasing pollution of air, water and so ...
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ODYSSEUS-MONNET NETWORK ON IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM

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

The main rationale of the project is to forge, throughout the Member States, a European community of researchers and professors in the field of EU immigration and asylum who, despite the existing important cooperation and personal links, do not benefit from a consistent enough framework at EU level. Establishing “the place to be” virtually or physically sometimes per year to meet, exchange and net ...
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Enhancing ecoSysteM sERvices mApping for poLicy and Decision mAking (ESMERALDA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

Mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services (ES) are core to the EU Biodiversity (BD) Strategy. They are essential if we are to make informed decisions. Action 5 sets the requirement for an EU-wide knowledge base designed to be: a primary data source for developing Europe’s green infrastructure; resource to identify areas for ecosystem restoration; and, a baseline against which the goa ...
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NEW DEPENDABLE ROLLING STOCK FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE, INTELLIGENT AND COMFORTABLE RAIL TRANSPORT IN EUROPE (ROLL2RAIL)

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

The ROLL2RAIL project aims to develop key technologies and to remove already identified blocking points for radical innovation in the field of railway vehicles, as part of a longer term strategy to revolutionise the rolling stock for the future.The high level objectives of the work are to pave the way to:• Increase the capacity of the railway system and bring flexibility to adapt capacity to deman ...
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Curriculum Development joint European Political Science MA

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2017,

The project raises Western Balkan (WB) universities´ capacity to deliver applicable knowledge for the modernization and Europeanization of their countries. It aims at reflecting and enhancing standards in EU by regular academic exchange of good practice and sustainable networking. As expertise in the field of European polity, politics and policies is one of the key skills for future elites in any ...
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TOWARDS SAFE AND EFFECTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY OF PERSISTENT LIFE-THREATENING FOOD ALLERGIES (FAST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2017,

The FAST project aims at the development of safe and effective treatment of food allergies. It targets persistent and severe allergy to fish and fruit. Besides persistence and severity, this choice is based on prevalence and the importance of these foods for a healthy diet. Classical allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) for treatment of food allergy using subcutaneous injections with food extract ...
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Evidence based policy for post crisis stabilization: bridging the gap (CAERUS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The CAERUS consortium aims to identify humanitarian relief actions that pave the way for human development and stability in post-conflict societies. Why have some countries successfully escaped the cycle of violence and conflict where others seem to be trapped? What has been the specific role of national, international and particularly European post-conflict relief action and development cooperati ...
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MOBILISING THE POTENTIAL OF ACTIVE AGEING IN EUROPE (MOPACT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The starting point for MOPACT is the ambitious goals set by Horizon 2020 and the European Innovation Partnership Pilot Project on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPAHA). Our response is ambitious too: we aim to provide the research and practical evidence upon which Europe can make longevity an asset for social and economic development. MOPACT will create a high quality, multi-disciplinary critical mas ...
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Remote Medical Diagnostician (ReMeDi)

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

Description The ReMeDi project addresses telediagnostics in clinical environments. A successful medical treatment depends on a timely and correct diagnosis. In the ReMeDi project we develop a multifuntional robotic device, which will allow performing a real remote physical and ultrasonographic (USG) examination. Working as a multidisciplinar ...
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Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

EAGLE is a Best Practice Network that brings together the most prominent European institutions and archives in the field of Classical Latin and Greek epigraphy, to provide Europeana with a comprehensive collection of unique historical sources which constitute a veritable pillar of European culture. In particular, it will supply inscriptions coming from 25 EU countries, providing more than 1.5 M of ...
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Multidimensional Impact of the Low-carbon European Strategy on Energy Security, and Socio-Economic Dimension up to 2050 perspective (MILESECURE-2050)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The main objective of the project is to explore, identify, analyze and evaluate multidimensional impact of European low-carbon strategy on energy security and socio-economic dimension up to 2050 perspective. Energy transition towards a low carbon economy and society have to be considered as a process by nature that it is not only the mere result of intentional actions but the product of the intera ...
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Toolbox Implementation for Removal of Anti-personnel Mines, Submunitions and UXO (TIRAMISU)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Clearing large civilian areas from anti-personnel landmines and cluster munitions is a difficult problem because of the large diversity of hazardous areas and explosive contamination. A single solution does not exist and many mine action actors have asked for a toolbox from which they could choose the tools best fit to a given situation. Some have built their own toolboxes, usually specific to som ...
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Development of reference methods for hazard identification, risk assessment and LCA of engineered nanomaterials (NANOVALID)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The growing development, production and use of engineered nanomaterials and associated products will increase exposure of both humans and ecosystems to these new materials. However, current knowledge is still incomplete and established test methods are as yet inappropriate to reliably assess the extent of exposure and risk of materials at the nano-scale. There is an urgent need to develop methods ...
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Managing Risks of Nanoparticles (MARINA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

While there are standard procedures for product life cycle analysis, exposure, hazard, and risk assessment for traditional chemicals, is not yet clear how these procedures need to be modified to address all the novel properties of nanomaterials. There is a need to develop specific reference methods for all the main steps in managing the potential risk of ENM. The aim of MARINA is to develop such ...
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Nanotechnology Education for Industry and Society (NANOEIS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Nanotechnology is an emerging area with strong implications for European society and industry. It is a challenge for the education system to integrate this interdisciplinary and transsectoral subject into curricula shaped mostly along classical disciplines. NanoEIS will evaluate how nanotechnology education has been integrated into secondary schools and universities, how cooperations between diffe ...
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BESAFE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Arguments for our future Environment (BESAFE)

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

In order to protect biodiversity, policy makers increasingly require demonstration of its value. BESAFE will usecase studies to investigate how much importance people attribute to alternative arguments for the protectionof biodiversity and in particular how this relates to ecosystem services. It will focus on the arguments used at different governance levels and in different ecological, socio-econ ...
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BRIDGE: Bridging resources and agencies in large-scale emergency management (BRIDGE)

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

"The goal of BRIDGE is to increase safety of citizens by developing technical and organisational solutions that significantly improve crisis and emergency management. The key to this is to ensure interoperability, harmonization and cooperation among stakeholders on the technical and organisational level.Therefor BRIDGE delivers:- Resilient ad-hoc network infrastructures, focussing on the requireme ...
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Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction in integration to climate change adaptation (KNOW-4-DRR)

Start date: Jun 3, 2013, End date: Jun 2, 2015,

“Mobilizing knowledge” suggests that there is need to dynamize the context in which knowledge about risks is developed, shared, and maintained. It conveys the implicit assumption that knowledge is perhaps currently fragmented and stuck in different compartments and bodies, be they institutions, agencies, universities, research centres, communities, individuals.While with this proposal we fully agr ...
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Nanotechnology: Training Of Experts in Safety (NANOTOES)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Life Sciences and Nano Sciences interact today mainly in two areas: in the evaluation of accidental health and environmental effects derived from engineered nanomaterials, and in development and biological/clinical evaluation of nanoparticles with intended biological effects for application in medicine and biotechnology. It is essential for producers, distributors, consumers and regulators that th ...
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Health, environmental change and adaptive capacity: mapping, examining and anticipating future risks of water-related vector-borne diseases in eastern Africa (HEALTHY FUTURES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The HEALTHY FUTURES project is motivated by concern for the health impacts of environmental changes. HEATHLY FUTURES aims to respond to this concern through construction of a disease risk mapping system for three water-related high-impact VBDs (malaria, Rift valley fever and schistosomiasis) in Africa, accounting for environmental/climatic trends and changes in socio-economic conditions to predic ...
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Capitalising Climate Change Knowledge for Adaptation in the Alpine Space (C3-Alps)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

C3-Alps will synthesize, transfer and implement in policy and practice results of previous Alpine Space projects on climate change adaptation. The capitalisation approach aims at a) generating new and directly usable forms of state-of-the-art synthesis adaptation knowledge in the Alps, harmonised across sectors and useful to adaptation decision-makers, b) its effective and tailor-made communicatio ...
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Secure and Trustworthy Composite Services (ANIKETOS)

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

The Future Internet will provide an environment in which a diverse range of services are offered by a diverse range of suppliers, and users are likely to unknowingly invoke underlying services in a dynamic and ad hoc manner. Moving from today's static services, we will see service consumers that transparently mix and match service components depending on service availability, quality, price and se ...
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Virtual and Augmented Environments and Realistic User Interactions To achieve Embedded Accessibility DesignS (VERITAS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

VERITAS aims to develop, validate and assess an open framework for built-in accessibility support at all stages of ICT and non-ICT product development, including specification, design, development and testing. The goal is to introduce simulation-based and VR testing at all stages of product design and development into the automotive, smart living spaces, workplace, infotainment and personal health ...
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"SEAMLESS AERONAUTICAL NETWORKING THROUGH INTEGRATION OF DATA LINKS, RADIOS, AND ANTENNAS" (SANDRA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"Air traffic in Europe is expected to double by 2025 according to the last forecast of Eurocontrol. Future passenger and freight fleets will bring better efficiency and improved environmental performance, and will allow people to benefit from the connections that only air transport can deliver. In this context, an integrated aircraft communication system is of paramount importance to improve effic ...
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Profiling the toxicity of new drugs: a non animal-based approach integrating toxicodynamics and biokinetics (Predict-IV)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The overall aim of Predict-IV is to develop strategies to improve the assessment of drug safety in the early stage of development and late discovery phase, by an intelligent combination of non animal-based test systems, cell biology, mechanistic toxicology and in-silico modelling, in a rapid and cost effective manner. A better prediction of the safety of an investigational compound in early develo ...
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ArtistDesign – Design for Embedded Systems (ArtistDesign)

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

The ArtistDesign NoE is the visible result of the ongoing integration of a community, that emerged through the Artist FP5 Accompanying Measure and that was organised through the Artist2 FP6 NoE.The central objective for ArtistDesign is to build on existing structures and links forged in Artist2, to become a virtual Center of Excellence in Embedded Systems Design. This will be mainly achieved throu ...
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Methods for the improvement of Vulnerability Assessment in Europe (MOVE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

MOVE will create knowledge, frameworks and methods for the assessment of vulnerability to natural hazards in Europe. It will use indices and indicators to help improve societal and environmental resilience. Floods, temperature extremes, droughts, landslides, earthquakes, wildfires and storms will be studied. Emphasis will be placed on clear, capable measurement and accounting for uncertainties. MO ...
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Water Management Strategies against Water Scarcity in the Alps (Alp-Water-Scarce)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

The main challenges of this project are to create local Early Warning Systems against Water Scarcity in the Alps based on sound and perennial monitoring and modelling and anchored strongly and actively within a Stakeholder Forum linked across comparative and contrasting regions across the Alps. The Early Warning System is based on the linkage and improvement of field monitoring and assemblage of q ...
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COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SECURITY-CENTERED TRAINING CURRICULA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN THE EU (CAST)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"Security-centered training course curricula on disaster management for first responders (FR)* in EU member states will be comparatively assessed with a specially developed matrix-based software: (1) for all EU member states (2) as derived from international best practices in the US, Russia, and Israel as countries with extensive experience in this field. The comparative assessment will cover: (a ...
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EU&I (European Awareness and Intercomprehension)

EU&I (European Awareness and Intercomprehension) aims to show the general public how much they are able to understand and do in other European languages, even if they have no prior knowledge of the language in question. The project therefore demonstrates the way in which, to accomplish everyday tasks in one’s own language, such as booking a hotel room or checking the weather forecast on the Intern ...
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Disaster Management in East Marmara

East Marmara is on a region that may come up against different types of catastrophes like earthquakes, dangerous material spoil to TEM, terrosit attacks to strategic intitutions like TÜPRAŞ; TÜBİTAK, great traffic accidents... In this project we will try to collect the data on our region and decrease the dublication in the facilities of different institutions. We need to asses the training require ...
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digitalearth.eu: geomedia in schools

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

There are pockets of activity in using geo-media with geoinformation (GI) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Two Comenius projects supported some developments. Those involved are not networked, so the digitalearth.eu project will do this and be a place for new initiatives. An early focus will be the founding of a European Centre. This will be based at the Austrian Centre of Excellence, di ...
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Spatial Citizenship

Start date: Dec 1, 2011,

The project develops and evaluates online modules for teacher education / in service training for use across a variety of subjects and distributes these to institutions involved in teacher training. Modules are based on 1) a thorough examination of the geoinformation society and its consequences for everyday lives 2) the development of a competence model and a relevant curriculum based on the resu ...
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