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Tackling Water Challenges in the International Context (IC4WATER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The Joint Programming Initiative Water Challenges for a Changing World, the Water JPI, is an intergovernmental initiative which strives to achieve sustainable water systems for a sustainable economy in Europe and abroad.IC4WATER’s objectives include supporting agencies in stepping up international cooperation: through the sharing of best practices, networking, closer coordination of existing activ ...
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Marine Renewable Infrastructure Network for Enhancing Technologies 2 (MARINET2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

Integrating activities planned under MaRINET 2 build upon the achievements of the advanced community created in MaRINET FP7. MaRINET 2 will ensure the continued integration and enhancement of all leading European research infrastructure and facilities specialising in research, development and testing of offshore renewable energy systems including electrical sub systems and grid integration through ...
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PRevention Of Malnutrition In Senior Subjects in the EU (PROMISS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

PROMISS (PRevention Of Malnutrition In Senior Subjects in the EU) is a multi-country project aiming to turn the challenge of tackling malnutrition in community-dwelling older persons into an opportunity for healthy ageing for the future. The PROMISS consortium contains worldwide expertise in epidemiology, clinical trials, geriatrics, nutrition, physical activity, microbiomics, as well as in behavi ...
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Africa-EU Innovation Alliance for Water and Climate (AfriAlliance)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

The main objective of AfriAlliance is for African and European stakeholders to work together in the areas of water innovation, research, policy, and capacity development to prepare Africa for future Climate Change challenges. There are many but fragmented initiatives and networks in place, therefore we will not create new but will consolidate existing networks of scientists, decision makers, pract ...
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Nose to Brain Delivery of NG-101 via the Olfactory Region for the Regenerative Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis Using Novel Multi-functional Biomaterials Combined with a Medical Device (N2B-patch)

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

The overall aim of N2B-patch is the development of a new innovative N2B drug delivery technology based on the synthesis of a biomaterial-based innovative galenic formulation that will be applied with the aid of a novel medical device equipped with a container closure system (CCS) as a hydrogel patch to the nasal olfactory region for the chronic treatment of MS. The galenic formulation will consist ...
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AQUAculture infrastructures for EXCELlence in European fish research towards 2020 (AQUAEXCEL2020)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

AQUAEXCEL2020 aims to integrate top class European aquaculture research facilities of very diverse nature, covering all relevant scientific fields for research and innovation in aquaculture, from genetics to technology through pathology, physiology and nutrition. It will put in place a user-friendly one-stop access to high-quality services and resources from 39 installations covering both establis ...
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Sustainable Integrated Management FOR the NEXUS of water-land-food-energy-climate for a resource-efficient Europe (SIM4NEXUS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

Land, food, energy, water and climate are interconnected, comprising a coherent system (the ‘Nexus’), dominated by complexity and feedback. The integrated management of the Nexus is critical to secure the efficient and sustainable use of resources. Barriers to a resource efficient Europe are policy inconsistencies and incoherence, knowledge gaps, especially regarding integration methodologies and ...
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Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies (ATHLOS)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

The objective of the ATHLOS Project is to achieve a better understanding of ageing by identifying patterns of healthy ageing pathways or trajectories, the determinants of those patterns, the critical points in time when changes in trajectories are produced, and to propose timely clinical and public health interventions to optimise healthy ageing. Moreover, a new definition of ‘old age’ based on ma ...
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Intelligent Parkinson eaRly detectiOn Guiding NOvel Supportive InterventionS (i-PROGNOSIS)

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

Transition from healthy status to Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is vaguely tractable, since symptoms can be so subtle in the early stages that they go unnoticed. Lack of biomarkers and/or findings on routine MRI and CT scans, PD is left undiagnosed for years, gradually affecting the life of over 6.5 million of older adults (>55-60 yrs) worldwide, increasing the risk of their health deterioration. Epide ...
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MANAGEMENT OF BIOMASS ASH AND ORGANIC WASTE IN THE RECOVERY OF DEGRADED SOILS: A PILOT PROJECT SET IN PORTUGAL (LIFE No_Waste)

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

Background Mining operations are a cause of soil degradation. They are associated with a legacy of abandoned metalliferous mine wastes and acid mine drainage, which contributes to around 2% of soil contamination in Europe. There is therefore an urgent need for sustainable site re-development strategies and remediation technologies that are effective, both ...
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Demonstration of an innovative recycling scheme to increase the water efficiency in the petrochemical industry (LIFE REWATCH)

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

Background Protection of water resources is a cornerstone of environmental protection in Europe. Clean water demands careful management to protect ecosystems, society and industry. However, water scarcity affects at least 11% of Europe’s population and 17% of EU territory. Poor or unsuitable water quality reduces its availability by restricting its poss ...
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Promoting Multi-Stakeholder Contributions to International Cooperation on Sustainable Solutions for Aquaculture Development in South-East Asia (EURASTIP)

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

EURASTIP will evaluate and prepare for the launch of an international multi-stakeholder platform (MSP), so as to provide a new mechanism to create and reinforce international cooperation on sustainable aquaculture between Europe and South-East Asia and will focus on actions that will provide mutual benefit to both regions. EURASTIP, headed by the European Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Plat ...
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Development of a multi-stakeholder dialogue platform and Think tank to promote innovation with Nature based solutions (ThinkNature)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Nature-based solutions (NBS) aim to help societies to address a variety of environmental, social and economic challenges in sustainable ways. They are actions which are inspired by and supported by nature. Some involve using and enhancing existing natural solutions to challenges, while others are exploring more novel solutions, for example, based on how non-human organisms and communities cope wit ...
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Action Plan EU STEM Coalition

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

To ensure smart, sustainable and inclusive economic growth in Europe an ever increasing number of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduates is needed. Fostering competitiveness while addressing challenges as climate change, energy supply, healthy aging and digitalisation in our knowledge driven European economy, the demand for STEM talent is continuously rising. Whilst the ...
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Open Sea Operating Experience to Reduce Wave Energy Cost (OPERA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

Europe is endowed with abundant wave energy which could cover some 10% of its electricity needs with a clean, predictable and job-creating resource, which EU companies are at the forefront exploiting with little dependence on foreign suppliers.There remain important technical challenges to bring down costs to within investors’ reach, as a top priority open-sea operating experience must be analyse ...
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The VET Learning Community

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The project is based on the NLQAVET model of Quality in VET which emphases the interdependency of quality system, quality culture, quality awareness and quality behaviour as fundament for sustainable implementation of improvements actions.The key factors for quality in VET can been seen from 2 different perspectives: The visible factors which include the quality system and the quality behaviour of ...
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Two-Stage Autotrophic N-remoVal for maINstream sewaGe trEatment (LIFE SAVING-E)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Background Currently, urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) consume at least 8-15 kilowatt hours/inhabitant/year of energy in order to meet legal requirements on discharges of organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus. This means a significant economic cost and is associated with substantial greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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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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Mobile Age (Mobile-Age)

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

The Mobile Age project will focus on open government data, mobile technology, and the provision of public services in relation to Europe’s elderly population. Europe’s senior citizens are growing steadily and are predicted to comprise of 28% of Europe’s population by 2020. However, senior citizens do not normally share the same level of connectivity to the Internet as younger generations, and whil ...
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Improving energy efficiency in industrial water processes through benchmarking and benchlearning tools in Europe manufacturing industry. (energywater)

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

Objectives1. Improve the competitiveness of the EU industrial sector by reducing 20% energy costs in industrial water processes. (WP4)A total reduction of 26 GWh/year will be achieved at the end of the project implementing energy efficiency measures in the European manufacturing companies.2. Identify saving potentials and benchmark energy performance through an Energy Management Self-Assessment (E ...
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Comparing the effectiveness of palliative care for elderly people in long term care facilities in Europe (PACE)

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

"Aging populations, rising costs and sustainable delivery of high-quality care are increasingly common concerns in all EU countries. PACE aims to perform comparative effectiveness research concerning palliative care in long term care facilities (LTCFs) in Europe. While a growing number of older people will require palliative care in institutionalized settings, palliative care has only recently beg ...
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Sensing and predictive treatment of frailty and associated co-morbidities using advanced personalized patient models and advanced interventions (FrailSafe)

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

Ageing population is steeply increasing worldwide. A consequence of age related decline is the clinical condition of frailty. Frailty is a biological syndrome of decreased reserve and resistance to stressors, resulting from cumulative declines across multiple physiologic systems and causing vulnerability to adverse outcomes. Susceptibility to stressors is influenced by biological, behavioral, env ...
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seCtor skills for elderly home care - An integRatEd framework for domiciliary healthcare SkillS development

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

Demographic ageing is one of the most serious challenges Europe is facing. Better care and sustainability of health services calls for innovative ways to address the needs of the elderly. Supporting homecare, i.e. care provided by professionals within users’ own homes, has been identified by EC as a possible solution.Although a high number of elderly and their families are searching for skilled pr ...
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Displaced in Media - building an infrastructure to support participation of young refugees through media

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Young migrants and refugees have entered European countries but they haven’t entered the public sphere. When they do, it is as characters in other people’s stories - desperate faces, surging hoards and floating bodies - something ‘other’. We rarely hear from young refugees as experts or legitimate voices - even when the news agenda concerns their country of origin. Migrants, it seems are only allo ...
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Magnetically actuated bio-inspired metamaterials (ABIOMATER)

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

This project will deliver a new class of metamaterials whose functionality can be controlled by external magnetic fields. The materials consist of micromotors, comprising an anisotropically “hard” and “soft” ferromagnetic particle pair embedded in a polymer matrix, and promise wide-ranging technological applications. The project, involves 5 partners with expertise in experimental and theoretical p ...
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Network supporting refugees - Education, NGOs, Public Authorities

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Context/backgroundThe project aims to explore the role of non-formal adult education in the new refugee situation. The partners are sharing different ways to work with refugees in order to help them to integrate into the society during the time they are arriving until the time they get decision about their status. Relevance, needs, EU priorities and target groups:The overwhelming refugee problem i ...
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Innovative Assessment Methods for Validation

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The InnoVal project aims to address the urgent need to offer valid and reliable assessment methods that allow all learners to have a chance at validation. The 2012 Council Recommendation gave a strong political impulse to the goal of having national validation arrangements in all countries by 2018. Yet, according to the CEDEFOP 2014 Validation Inventory Report, EU countries still greatly diverge i ...
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PROGRESSIVE STANDARDS AROUND ICT FOR ACTIVE AND HEALTHY AGEING (PROGRESSIVE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The PROGRESSIVE project will provide a dynamic and sustainable framework for standards and standardisation around ICT for AHA. The project is pan-European but also draw on wider international experience – especially in the contexts of interoperability and standards harmonisation.As attitudes towards ageing change there is recognition of the importance of older people’s engagement. Engagement can e ...
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Supporting the Recognition of the Silver Economy in Europe in the Digital Era (SEED)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

SEED is designed to ensure the successful launching of a highly visible and sustainable European-level award scheme rewarding innovative solutions that demonstrate a significant impact on the quality of life of the ageing population. The new award scheme will rely upon a carefully prepared conceptual and operational approach. A positive narrative will be developed suitable to effectively mobilise ...
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The development of a programme of identification, new teaching methods and a chain oriented approach to prevent underachievement of gifted and talented

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

The students of The Netherlands, Slovenia and the Czech Republic perform low level on an international level with other countries. Just 5% of the Dutch primary students will obtain the highest level. For Slovenia and the Czech Republic this is 4%. Singapore (43%), England (18%) and Belgium (10%) are far beyond our level (GfK Intomart, 2014). Talented students do not excel at this time during educ ...
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Professional learning in complex settings thru reflection and portfolio

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

The objective of the transnational project PROLEA is to develop, test, adapt and implement innovative practices in teacher professional learning based on a wide knowledge and experience of different European partners to face common challenges in teacher education in Europe. The project support the achievement of the European objectives formulated in the strategic framework for European cooperation ...
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e- FishNet.-An innovative network for enhancement fishmongers management and communication skills

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

Fish Retailer Sector has a great economic weight, taking into account average annual fish consumption in Europe is 23,9 kg /pers. This figure is significantly higher than the world average annual fish consumption (17 kg/pers). Economic impact is even higher in countries like Spain, Portugal or Iceland, some of the partner countries that participate in this project. Fishmongers play an important ro ...
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Business in Europe Hosting Apprenticeships for Youth

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

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), have a big role and potential in combatting youth unemployment by providing development and employment opportunities, such as offering apprenticeships. SMEs however often lack information, resources and/or experience in providing high quality apprenticeships. To support SMEs this BEHAppY project aims to create support structures in the form of European & nation ...
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Construisons une éco-citoyenneté transfrontaliere

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

The "Building a cross-border eco- citizenship" project brings together youth workers and relevant actors on volunteering from the four countries and five regions that make up the Greater Region: Lorraine in France, Luxembourg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland in Germany, Wallonia and the German-speaking Community in Belgium. Together we will share our best practices and working methods to achieve ...
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Horizons Plus

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Context backgroundThis project is targeted at learners with additional needs and fewer opportunities who are carrying out initial vocational training in catering, horticulture and construction. These groups of learners face barriers to learning and accessing work which their peers do not. They require an additional intervention in order to succeed and improve their future career and learning prosp ...
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Vision and Roadmap for European Raw Materials (VERAM)

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

VERAM aims to provide an umbrella and coordination function for the raw materials related research and innovation activities across the relevant ETPs and their national technology platforms (while maintaining the flexibility and individual visions of each ETP network) as well as related other stakeholders across the raw materials value chain in order to increase synergies and facilitate uptake of ...
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European eXtreme Data and Computing Initiative (EXDCI)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The three most significant HPC bodies in Europe, PRACE, ETP4HPC and EESI, have come together within EXDCI to coordinate the strategy of the European HPC Ecosystem in order to deliver its objectives. In particular, the project will harmonize the road-mapping and performance monitoring activities of the ecosystem to produce tools for coherent strategy-making and its implementation by:• Producing and ...
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Ecosystem infrastructure for smart and personalised inclusion and PROSPERITY for ALL stakeholders (Prosperity4All)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Over 2 billion people worldwide have different types, degrees, or combinations of disability, literacy, digital literacy or aging related barriers that impede or prevent use of ICT. Not long ago you could live without access to ICT quite well. However today access to ICT is required for most education, employment, and commerce, and is increasingly required for travel, health, safety, daily living ...
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Culture of Dialogue

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

The project, consisting of two Training Courses, is designed to empower youth workers and active leaders to act for social inclusion and building of social cohesion in their local communities by learning and providing trainings on soft skills related to cultural diversity as a basis of building safe and respectful surroundings for young individuals from different backgrounds.The first event of the ...
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No Limits!

Start date: Oct 10, 2016, End date: Aug 9, 2017,

Project „No Limits!”, consisting of seminar and a training course, is aimed at comprehensive defining and understanding the phenomena of inclusion and diversity, as well as learning, exchanging and adapting tools and methods of youth work, to enable operation in line with the Erasmus+ Inclusion and Diversity Strategy – in the field of youth, and other key for the topic documents of the EU. The pro ...
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