Search for European Projects

22 European Projects Found

Searched on 125080 European Projects

 FINISHED 

Rotterdam, Umea and Glasgow: Generating Exemplar Districts In Sustainable Energy Deployment (Ruggedised)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

The RUGGEDISED project will create urban spaces powered by secure, affordable and clean energy, smart electro-mobility, smart tools and services. The overall aims are:1. Improving the quality of life of the citizens, by offering the citizens a clean, safe, attractive, inclusive and affordable living environment.2. Reducing the environmental impacts of activities, by achieving a significant reducti ...
Read Project

 34

 FINISHED 

Pest Organisms Threatening Europe (POnTE)

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

This proposal SFS-03a-2014-aligned focuses to minimize the risk of introduction/impact of emerging pests threatening EU agriculture and forestry. The targets are: 1) Xylella fastidiosa and its vectors in olive, grapevine, citrus, stone fruit, ornamentals and landscape trees of high socio-economic importance; 2) ‘Ca. Liberibacter solanacearum’ and its vectors affecting a number of strategic crops s ...
Read Project

 27

 FINISHED 

Novel biocontrol agents for insect pests from neuroendocrinology (nEUROSTRESSPEP)

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

Insects are the most diverse Class of life on earth, and different insects can be essential for, or highly damaging to, agriculture, horticulture and forestry. There is a pressing need, not just for new insecticides to combat resistance, but more specific, “greener” insecticides that target deleterious insects while sparing beneficial ones. This proposal aims to identify such insecticides by turni ...
Read Project

 16

 FINISHED 

The development of tools for tracing and evaluating the genetic impact of fish from aquaculture: “AquaTrace” (AQUATRACE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The genetic changes associated with domestication in aquaculture pose an increasing threat to the integrity of native fish gene pools. Consequently, there is a bourgeoning need for the development of molecular tools to assess and monitor the genetic impact of escaped or released farmed fish. In addition, exploration of basic links between genetic differences among farmed and wild fish and differen ...
Read Project

 22

 FINISHED 

ENERGY EFFICIENCY FOR EU HISTORIC DISTRICTS SUSTAINABILITY (EFFESUS)

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

Europe can become the leader in CO2 emission reduction by applying innovative solutions to its built cultural heritage. According to the European Recovery Plan one of the actions that needs to be taken to tackle the current crisis, is investing in energy efficiency. Historic urban buildings consume 4% of all energy and are responsible for 3% of CO2 emissions. Therefore, improving energy efficiency ...
Read Project

 27

 FINISHED 

Shared Standards for Open Data and Public Sector Information (Share-PSI 2.0)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Share-PSI 2.0 brings together a critical mass of government agencies and organisations responsible for implementing the new PSI Directive. Lead by the W3C, the consortium includes the Open Group and Open Geospatial Consortium as fellow standards bodies plus the PSI Alliance, Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Data Institute and PwC as the primary contractor in the ISA Programme's work on interoperabi ...
Read Project

 42

 FINISHED 

Seed health: development of seed treatment methods, evidence for seed transmission and assessment of seed health (TESTA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Healthy seed are key to high crop yields, underpinning European and global food security. A wide range of diseases and pests are carried by seed and as well as spreading and increasing old problems, new problems may be introduced into the European Community countries via this route. There are currently opportunities to improve seed quality control by implementing emerging novel methodologies. The ...
Read Project

 14

 FINISHED 

Support USers To Access INformation and Services (SUSTAINS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

SUSTAINS comprises a rich basket of services based on giving citizens online access to their Electronic Health Records (EHR). The services proposed have been distilled from the experience of regions which have already pioneered such access. The SUSTAINS Consortium is composed of regions in the EU leading in the area of innovation in services for citizens, and a number of user and professional asso ...
Read Project

 17

 FINISHED 

Towards Regional spEcialisation for Smart growth spirit (TRES)

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

Europe faces a moment of global transformation and must now take charge of its future. In the meantime, the world is moving fast and long-term challenges – globalisation, pressure on resources, ageing – intensify. Europe can succeed if it acts collectively, as a Union. Regions need a strategy to come out stronger from the crisis, overcome structural weaknesses and contribute to turn the EU into a ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

EUROPEAN PHYTOSANITARY RESEARCH COORDINATION II (EUPHRESCO)

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

The Community Plant Health Regime (CPHR) aims to prevent the introduction, establishment and spread of regulated and quarantine plant pests. These pests pose increasing risks to European agriculture, horticulture, forestry and the environment. This is due to increased globalisation of trade (volume and diversity), but is exacerbated by climate change and EU expansion (increased pathways). In compa ...
Read Project

 37

 FINISHED 

Facing sustainability: new relationships between rural areas and agriculture in Europe (RURAGRI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

RURAGRI aims to improve coordination between on-going and future European, national and regional research programmes dealing with the new relationships between rural areas and agriculture in Europe and the challenge of sustainability. While the challenges and issues are mostly common, and despite of the historical coordination at the EU level for agricultural and rural development policies, resear ...
Read Project

 26

 FINISHED 

Knowledge brokerage to promote sustainable food consumption and production: linking scientists, policymakers and civil society organisations (FOODLINKS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The policy issue central to this project is food as many of today’s sustainability problems (e.g. water shortage, GHG emissions, pollution of soil and water, decrease of biodiversity, urban waste) are related to the prevailing pattern of food production and consumption (including processing and distribution). Hence, developing more sustainable food production and consumption patterns will have a s ...
Read Project

 14

 FINISHED 

Characterisation of European CO2 storage (SiteChar)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

SiteChar will facilitate the implementation of CO2 storage in Europe by improving and extending standard site characterisation workflows, and by establishing the feasibility of CO2 storage on representative potential CO2 complexes suitable for development in the near term.Reasonable estimates of the theoretical capacities of storage sites have been undertaken in previous studies. We will develop a ...
Read Project

 17

 FINISHED 

Irish-Scottish Links on Energy Study

Start date: Jun 30, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The project will examine the feasibility of the construction of an offshore electricity transmission network linking potential offshore sites for the generation of renewable energy in the coastal waters of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Western Scotland. The feasibility study will develop a business case for the construction of such a grid and will examine the following aspects:- technology and i ...
Read Project

 3

 FINISHED 

Regional Telemedicine Forum (RTF)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The societal and economic benefits from wider use of telemedicine are potentially huge. The European Cohesion Policy is to deliver the renewed Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs (2007 – 2013), which is promoting innovation as a possible way of finding appropriate solutions for many of the societal challenges. The RTF partners are proposing to establish a Regional Telemedicine Forum to deliver inn ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Pan European Public Procurement OnLine (PEPPOL) (PEPPOL)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Description eProcurement - Opening doors to cross-border business Many EU countries use electronic procurement (eProcurement) to make bidding for public sector contracts simpler and more efficient. However, these national solutions have limited communication across borders. PEPPOL will make electronic communication between companies and g ...
Read Project

 22

 FINISHED 

Coordination of European Research on Emerging and Major Infectious Diseases of Livestock (EMIDA)

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

"The disease threats to the livestock industry have increased steadily over the past decades as a result of globalisation, evolving pathogens and climate change. Responding to animal disease threats relies heavily on science; research makes a significant contribution to the development of disease control policy and the translation of policy, and other drivers for improving animal health, into prac ...
Read Project

 29

 FINISHED 

The Sea as Our Neighbour: Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Communities and Habitats on Europe’s Northern Periphery 3.11 (CoastAdapt)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

CoastAdapt is a project aimed to safeguard people living in North Atlantic coastal communities and help them adapt to the impacts of climate change. Five pilot study sites in Iceland, Norway, Ireland and Scotland have been identified to determine the issues experienced by local communities. Municipalities and citizens, working together with project partners, will develop and trial adaptation strat ...
Read Project

 12

 FINISHED 

Demonstrating a European Method for Hazardous Waste Management Including Targets for Prevention and Reduction of Waste (HAZRED)

Start date: Dec 1, 2004, End date: Nov 30, 2007,

Background Despite EU regulation that addresses specific waste streams and the implementation of the Waste Framework Directive and related directives, the amount of hazardous waste generated is increasing. Without urgent action, targets for European waste may not be met. The problem of hazardous waste is particularly acute in communities remote from a was ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

Towards Implementation (ISLES 2)

The second phase included three distinct work-streams as detailed below as well as a programme of stakeholder consultation and dissemination activity. The ISLES II delivery phase concluded at the end of June and the reports finalised and uploaded to ISLES website in September 2015. The key outputs detailed in the reports include;• a cross jurisdictional Spatial Plan providing locational marine ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Second-language Competency for Technicians in Industry (Lang2Tech)

...ts, an association of researchers specialising in European integration, a consultant on employee competences in industry, bio-medical research facility employing skilled laboratory technicians, the Scottish Lifelong Learning Directorate, and a national trades union. The consortium has tested innovative methods in supporting and validating second-language competence development in five languages. T ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

Using local resources for microregional development - sustainable agribusiness and tourism in the southern Balkans

Start date: Jan 15, 2010,

The project aims to establishes new modular multiple degrees between Macedonian,Albanian,Kosovar,a Hungarian and an Italian university in the field of sustainable agriculture, forestry and rural development and sustainable tourism and rural development.For this creates the condition for new teaching methods to be introduced in the newly created model farm ,ecological park, local micro meteorologic ...
Read Project

 20