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Families and food poverty in three European Countries in an Age of Austerity (FFP)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Food poverty in the global North is emerging as an urgent social and moral concern, increasingly recognized as a central issue in the field of health inequalities in industrialized countries. With widening income disparity in Austerity Europe and ‘the end of cheap food’, these effects are being exacerbated. International media report an increase in the number of children arriving at school hungry, ...
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NATural Language Energy for Promoting CONSUMER Sustainable Behaviour (NATCONSUMERS)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

Residential energy consumption represents the 28% of all EU consumption and if commercial buildings are also considered this percentage increases to 40% (36% of EU CO2 emissions). In this context, is clear that the reduction of consumption in the residential sector should play an important role in energy efficiency programmes and policies as is stated in the recent Energy Efficiency Directive 2012 ...
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Developing Innovative Outreach and Dialogue on responsible nanotechnologies in EU civil society (NANODIODE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Stakeholder engagement and dialogue are essential to the responsible development of nanotechnologies in Europe. NANODIODE establishes an innovative, coordinated programme for outreach and dialogue throughout Europe to support the effective governance of nanotechnologies. The project integrates vital engagement activities along the innovation value chain: it combines ‘upstream’ public engagement (b ...
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CReating Innovative Sustainability Pathways (CRISP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

The core objective of this proposal is to identify potential paths to engaging on an integrated effort to support the transition, to a sustainable, low carbon Europe. The call text places much emphasis of using a scenario and backcasting approach that explicitly discerns individuals, organisations and the collective (societal and economic organisation), addresses the interaction of agency and stru ...
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Enhancing connectivity Between Research and Policymaking in Sustainable Consumption (CORPUS)

Start date: Jan 15, 2010, End date: Jan 14, 2013,

The project “CORPUS - Enhancing Connectivity Between Research and Policymaking in Sustainable Consumption” aims to develop novel approaches to knowledge brokering (KB) between policy-making and research. It will foster evidence-based policy-making at the example of sustainable consumption by applying and testing a combination of online and offline KB methods. It will stimulate community-building a ...
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Barriers for energy changes among end consumers and households (BARENERGY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

The main objective in this proposal is to develop methods to identify the relevance and strengths of various barriers for energy behaviour changes among end consumers and households, and to discuss how activities from political authorities, energy producers and NGOs can overcome these barriers. We will address changes in consumer behaviour along two dimensions. The first is energy saving and impro ...
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Development of a Platform for Deliberative Processes on Nanotechnology in the European Consumer Market (NANOPLAT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2009,

The main idea behind this Support action is to develop a platform for deliberative processes on Nano-science and Nano-technology (NS&T) in the European consumer market. Nanotechnology products are now reaching the consumer markets within a large number of branches. During the last year, the number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475. Clothing and cosmet ...
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