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Optimizing and Enhancing the Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing System (AtlantOS)

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

The overarching objective of AtlantOS is to achieve a transition from a loosely-coordinated set of existing ocean observing activities to a sustainable, efficient, and fit-for-purpose Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing System (IAOOS), by defining requirements and systems design, improving the readiness of observing networks and data systems, and engaging stakeholders around the Atlantic; and leav ...
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ECOPOTENTIAL: IMPROVING FUTURE ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS THROUGH EARTH OBSERVATIONS (ECOPOTENTIAL)

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

Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential services to human societies. Anthropogenic pressures, however, cause serious threat to ecosystems, leading to habitat degradation, increased risk of collapse and loss of ecosystem services. Knowledge-based conservation, management and restoration policies are needed to improve ecosystem benefits in face of increasing pressures. ECOPOTENTIAL makes ...
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TBVAC2020; Advancing novel and promising TB vaccine candidates from discovery to preclinical and early clinical development (TBVAC2020)

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

The TBVAC2020 proposal builds on the highly successful and long-standing collaborations in subsequent EC-FP5-, FP6- and FP7-funded TB vaccine and biomarker projects, but also brings in a large number of new key partners from excellent laboratories from Europe, USA, Asia, Africa and Australia, many of which are global leaders in the TB field. This was initiated by launching an open call for Express ...
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Strategic Planning for Alpine River Ecosystems – Integrating protection and development (SPARE)

Start date: Dec 16, 2015, End date: Dec 15, 2018,

Description (EN): The Alps are Europes WATER-TOWERS, providing MULTIPLE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES such as water for human consumption, agriculture, industry, energy and maintaining tourism, recreation & quality of life not only for the residents but also for surrounding lowlands & big metropolitan areas. Alpine rivers are the BLUE BACKBONES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, but only healthy rive ...
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Introduction of new olive crop management practices focused on climate change mitigation and adaptation (oLIVE-CLIMA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Background Human activities contribute to increasing the level of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere by creating new sources of emissions or by removing natural sinks. Agriculture is generally considered to be a source of GHGs, but appropriate farming practices that enhance the capability of plants to capture GHGs and remove them from the atmosphere ...
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Economy of Common Good and Youthwork

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

Project´ context: Training on Economy of Common Good and its possible application within the management of the participating organizations, and at local, nacional and international level. Participants: 26 youth workers Partners: 1. VšĮ "Edukacijos Ambasadoriai, Lithuania, 2. Youth Shake, Austria, 3. "Youth, Youth, Youth", France, 4. London Borough of Hackney, UK 5. Patronus, Slovakia 6. Timz ...
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Strategic Hubs for the Analysis and Acceleration of the Mediterranean Solar Sector (SHAAMS)

Start date: Nov 8, 2012, End date: Nov 7, 2015,

The project in brief The last decades have witnessed a growing interest for solar energy initiatives in the Mediterranean region, coupled with a growing pressure to ensure an actual shift from traditional energies towards a more efficient energy system. While many successful national and regional projects have been implemented in order to develop market, policy and technical actions, the transitio ...
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Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR-IDAZ)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

Animal diseases can cause serious social, economic and environmental damage and in some cases also threaten human health. An increasing number of the major disease problems or threats faced by the livestock industry and zoonoses are of a global nature. The overall aim of the global strategic alliances for the coordination of research on the major infectious diseases of animals is to improve coordi ...
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Vectors of Change in Oceans and Seas Marine Life, Impact on Economic Sectors (VECTORS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

...terests in natural system functioning. VECTORS is therefore fully equipped to deliver the integrated interdisciplinary research required to achieve its objectives with maximal impact in the arenas of science, policy, management and society.
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SCIence Data Infrastructure for Preservation – Earth Science (SCIDIP-ES)

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

The aim of this initiative is to address priorities a) and c) of the call INFRA-2011-1.2.2: Data infrastructures for e-Science. It is about delivering long-term preservation services as part of the data infrastructure for e-Science.We aim to deliver generic infrastructure services for science data preservation that address the persistent storage, access and management required by the call and to b ...
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Pan-European Gas-AeroSol-climate interaction Study (PEGASOS)

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

The Pan-European Gas-AeroSOls-climate interaction Study (PEGASOS) European large scale integrating project brings together most of the leading European research groups, with state-of the-art observational and modeling facilities to:(1) Quantify the magnitude of regional to global feedbacks between atmospheric chemistry and a changing climate and to reduce the corresponding uncertainty of the major ...
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Regional Policy Improvement for Financially Sustainable Creative Incubator Units (InCompass)

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

Incubator units for creative industries business start ups provide much needed space and act as vital support mechanisms and catalysts for the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in this sector right across the EU. The creative industries (e.g. Advertising, Textiles, Fashion, Television & Radio, Photo Imaging, Graphic Design and Interactive Media, Publishing, Animation, Computer Games, ...
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A wiki for capitalising on spatial-development projects (WIKIAlps)

Start date: Sep 30, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

WIKIAlps tackles the capitalisation on selected Alpine Space 2007-2013 projects in the first Inclusive Growth and second Resource Efficiency and Ecosystem Management field focussing on missing links/synergies/unsolved contradictions between economic growth & environmental development. With the aim of contributing to a balanced territorial development in the AS & by involving different policy secto ...
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European Union Basin-scale Analysis, Synthesis and Integration (EURO-BASIN) (EURO-BASIN)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

EURO-BASIN is designed to advance our understanding on the variability, potential impacts, and feedbacks of global change and anthropogenic forcing on the structure, function and dynamics of the North Atlantic and associated shelf sea ecosystems as well as the key species influencing carbon sequestering and ecosystem functioning. The ultimate goal of the program is to further our capacity to manag ...
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duction of biodiesel from Algae in selected Mediterranean Countries (MED-ALGAE)

Start date: Dec 7, 2011, End date: Dec 7, 2014,

The potential of producing bio-fuel from microalgae has been recognized as an alternative to fossil fuels, especially under the form of liquid fuel (diesel, ethanol), which can be used in the transport sector. The use of microalgae as a biomass resource for production of biodiesel has drawn a lot of attention from researchers, governments and the private sector. To foster the development of microa ...
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Enhanced Protective Immunity Against Filariasis (E PIAF)

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

"Filarial infections remain a major public health problem in West and Central Africa. Three filarial species are involved: Onchocerca volvulus (onchocerciasis or river blindness); Wuchereria bancrofti (lymphatic filariasis); and Loa loa (the eye worm). Treatment of onchocerciasis with ivermectin has been successful in many situations but emergence of drug resistance and risk of severe adverse reac ...
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Towards integrated European marine research strategy and programmes (SEAS ERA)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

This proposal is intended to take into account the ongoing and previous integrating initiatives (AMPERA, marinERA, Marifish,...) so as to constitute a stable and durable structure for coordination and integration of national and regional marine and maritime research programmes with the major goal of providing a clear reply to the need for developing and implementing common research strategies and ...
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motion of residual forestry biomass in the Mediterranean basin (PROFORBIOMED)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

PROFORBIOMED promotes renewable energies in rural areas by developing an integrated strategy for the use of forest biomass as a renewable energy source, improving forest management systems, recovering forest biomass potential and developing new opportunit Achievements: ...
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Baltic environment, food and health: from habits to awareness (FOODWEB)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

...with mutual awarding approach and to start up a process for initiating a sustainable food strategy (NGOs facilitated), d) to establish a common exhibition platform for a public use and image support (science exhibition centre in main responsibility). Structurally these are included into two extensive work packages: regeneration of knowledge intensive facilities and transfer of knowledge, supported ...
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Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society Implementation (BERAS IMPLEMENTATION)

Start date: Jun 10, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

BERAS Implementation offers a response to the challenges to achieve a good environmental status in the Baltic Sea, reinforce sustainable agriculture and enhance rural development in the region.Objectives:Contribute to solving the problem of excessive nutrient losses from agricultural through introduction of conversion to Ecological Recycling Agriculture (ERA) in all countries of the BSRDevelop a s ...
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Knowledge-based Sustainable Management for Europe's Seas (KnowSeas)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

... (Marine Strategy Directive), both currently close to adoption. These instruments rely on the Ecosystem Approach, a management paradigm that encompasses humans and the supporting ecosystem. But the science base for this approach needs strengthening and practical tools must be developed and tested for policy implementation. In particular, criteria for assessing costs and benefits of management acti ...
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Marine Ecosystem Evolution in a Changing Environment (MEECE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

MEECE is a scientific research project which aims to use a combination of data synthesis, numerical simulation and targeted experimentation to further our knowledge of how marine ecosystems will respond to combinations of multiple climate change and anthropogenic drivers. With an emphasis on the European Marine Strategy (EMS), MEECE will improve the decision support tools to provide a structured l ...
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Sustainable and Innovative European Biogas Environment (SEBE)

Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Feb 27, 2013,

Europe's current dependencies on imports of natural gas (and the willingness to delivery from its supplier states) have proven to be at valuable risk during recent years. When considering the projections of our growing energy demand during the next decades in relation to Europe's natural oil and gas resources it becomes clear that these dependencies will have tremendous pricing effects on our econ ...
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Living North Sea (LNS)

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Sep 29, 2012,

The Living North Sea project will solve problems surrounding the management of fish species which rely on moving between the North Sea and freshwater systems of partner countries. These species are under considerable threat, some even in hazardous decline. Living North Sea brings together representatives from every North Sea Interreg partner country, in a programme which will make long lasting cha ...
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CHannel integrated Approach for marine Resource Management – Phase 3 (CHARM 3)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

Objectif général :Le projet CHARM 3 a pour but de contribuer à la préservation des ressources marines en Manche en approfondissant les connaissances sur les ressources marines de la zone et en fournissant des outils pour améliorer la gestion durable de l’espace Manche.En effet, l'éco-région Manche, une des zones où le trafic maritime est le plus intense du monde et constitue une voie de passage ob ...
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European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The overall goal of the European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) is to fill the numerousgaps in our understanding of the effects and implications of ocean acidification.EPOCA aims to document the changes in ocean chemistry and biogeography across space and time.Paleo-reconstruction methods will be used on several archives, including foraminifera and deep-seacorals, to determine past variab ...
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Climate Change and Marine Ecosystem Research Results (CLAMER)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"Although there is no certainty regarding the precise nature and rate of future climate change, even the most moderate scenarios predict a continuing change of the marine environment, with associated major environmental and social impacts. To prepare society for the necessary mitigation and adaptation measures, the awareness of citizens to research results, both certainties and uncertainties, in t ...
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MORE4NRG

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

To reduce the effects of climate change and prepare for the decline of the oil-age, European regions play a key role in promoting, developing and implementing renewable energy sources (RES) combined with energy efficiency strategies. Many EU regions are taking action in this field, defining specific objectives and action plans to improve the use of RES and energy efficiency in their area. More tha ...
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Sustainable energy technology at work: thematic promotion of energy efficiency and energy saving technologies in the carbon markets (SETATWORK)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

The overall objective of the SETatWork proposal is to undertake thematic promotion of energy efficiency and saving technologies in industry sectors connected with the carbon markets Core actions are:- Identification of concrete projects in ETS Companies (WP3)- Matchmaking events bringing market actors together for project realization (WP4)- Parallel project identification and match-making at CDM m ...
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ion and valorisation of the longest habitat system in Europe (GREEN BELT)

Start date: Mar 31, 2006, End date: May 29, 2008,

Borders separate, nature unites: Along the former "Iron Curtain", the longest European system of habitats has been preserved due to decades of inaccessibility. However, the location within border areas did not only help to protect nature, but also limited the economic development of the adjacent regions. GREEN BELT aims at transforming the former "death belt" into a green "life line" by focusing o ...
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Eastern Mediterranean Biodiversity Panorama (EMBD PANORAMA)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Apr 29, 2008,

The Eastern Mediterranean (EMed) biodiversity is threatened by the increased exploitation of the environment. Currently, related knowledge and collections are scattered around the EMed area and northern European institutions. The project EMBD PANORAMA will establish a network of reference for EMed biodiversity where scientists, government officials, students, and potentially anyone may be informed ...
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ScanBalt Campus – a European model case for transnational and transectoral institution building in education, research and development. (ScanBalt Campus)

Start date: Mar 9, 2005, End date: Jun 8, 2007,

...ties within ScanBalt Bioregion in knowledge formation and innovation and to increase the visibility of these actions. An important feature of ScanBalt Campus is that despite its focus on Biotech/life sciences, all activities should reflect a holistic view. This means that the educational training should also encompass a broad view on societal activities.ScanBalt Campus: Knowledge formation•8 ScanB ...
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New Bioenergy Business During Emission Trading (ET-BIOENERGY)

Start date: Jan 6, 2005, End date: Jan 5, 2007,

The biomass resources are significant in the Baltic Sea Region. However, the utilisation rate as well as the price level differs a lot from country to country. Most of biomass based fuels are utilised locally within short transportation distances. There has already been some international wood fuel trade, mainly in refined form (e.g. wood pellets), but also as wood fuels like logs and chips. The m ...
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Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society (BERAS )

Start date: Feb 28, 2003, End date: Mar 30, 2006,

...thened.It is important that all countries around the Baltic Sea have been involved in this project. A network across scientific disciplines, across national borders and across the lines between science workers, farmers, food chain entrepreneurs, consumers and political workers has been built and strengthened.The project has had a great impact on other European regions. The Interreg IIIC project LO ...
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Education for Sustainable Development beyond the Campus

Start date: Oct 15, 2010,

In line with the EC strategy for sustainable development (2008), the UN Decade Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), and the Egyptian Education Reform Policy (2008-2010), this project aims to promote the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the Egyptian society. The project is the first initiative in Egypt that brings universities and schools together in a structured mechani ...
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Collaboration of schools and communities for sustainable development

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

...rks working together for sustainability throughout Europe. Sustainability is a global challenge for humankind. Pedagogical approaches in the field of ESD are promising yet few of these got adapted to science education, which needs to be renewed in Europe. We promote the adaptation of ESD methods in science education enhancing inquiry based learning. We improve learning arenas on school-community i ...
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