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INTEGRAL USE OF OIL SEEDS TO REDUCE GREEN HOUSE GASES EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH FARMING ACTIVITIES (LIFE SEED CAPITAL)

Start date: Sep 2, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

...interesting bio-fuel alternative for use in agrarian systems, since it can be produced on the farm. Oil can be extracted mechanically with a ram press that uses a piston inside a cage to crush the oilseed and force out the oil into a tank. The use of rapeseed oil has been shown by studies to reduce GHG emissions by up to 57% compared to diesel fuel. Livestock are the major source of anthropogenic ...
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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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Seed of Cooperation - the way to stimulate cross-border cultural activity

The project will be executed in the form of seminars, workshops, presentations and spectacles.Seminars for instructors and staff of centres of culture of the region aim at building theoretical background for work in favour of further activities within the project and creating new programmes. Also, workshops will be organized for musicians, dancers and artists.
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Inter-SEED

Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The aims of this project is to address the skills depicted in science and technology and to reverse the downturn in enrolment on science and technology courses. It also aims to improve the quality of post-graduate research.
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Speeding "Every European Digital" (SEED)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The target of SEED is to expand, through the "cloud computing" approach and a very cheap network of Interactive Public Service Advertising (i-PSA) nodes, the positive results of European Inclusive e-Governance initiatives to boost "citizen-centric" e-Gov Services, to reuse as much as possible the European, National, Regional and Local stocks of Public Sector Information (PSI) and to leverage savin ...
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Development of specific regional policies through the analysis of early-stage financing opportunities for innovative start-ups and spin-offs (SEED-REG)

Start date: May 31, 2005, End date: May 30, 2007,

...h of the economy through innovation and employment. Unfortunately, however, enterprises, especially innovative small and medium sized enterprises fail to grow or even form due to lack of capital. The SEED-REG project was initiated with the aim of examining possible actions for the bridging of the gap between enterprises and capital. The cooperation of German, Greek, Slovenian, Czech and Hungarian ...
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Learning to See in a Dynamic World (SEED)

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

The goal of SEED is to fundamentally advance the methodology of computer vision by exploiting a dynamic analysis perspective in order to acquire accurate, yet tractable models, that can automatically learn to sense our visual world, localize still and animate objects (e.g. chairs, phones, computers, bicycles or cars, people and animals), actions and interactions, as well as qualitative geometrical ...
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Seizing Electron Energies and Dynamics: a seed for the future (SEED)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

...n spectra, electron-phonon coupling and non-equilibrium dynamics. The method is based on a non-perturbative solution of a multidimensional functional differential equation. This equation is the SEED from which distinct sub-lines of research will be grown.Based on my widely recognized experience in the field of many-body physics and starting from recent results of an exploratory study, the project ...
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Sustainable Energy Educational Demonstration Center - SEED Center (HUSKROUA/1001/104)

Start date: Jan 12, 2013, End date: Jan 11, 2015,

...e use of natural energy resources and contribute to the improvement of the quality of the environment and the air we breathe. Main activities Activity 1 - Project Management. Activity 2 - Creation of SEED Centers. Activity 3- Training of personnel running the SEED Center. Activity 4 - Sustainable energy capacity building seminars for employees of public institutions (including schools). Activity 5 ...
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System for Thermal Sedd Treatment - an Integrated Approach to Implementation and Management in the EU Seed Industry (Stiim)

Start date: Jan 1, 2004, End date: Jun 30, 2005,

Background Chemical seed dressing pesticides are currently used to protect the crop yield and quality from seed-borne diseases. It has been estimated that in 2001, Sweden alone accounted for 68.9 tons of chemical seed dressing pesticides used for cereal cropping, while in Europe as a whole the quantity is approximately 2000 tons annually. The use of the ...
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"The NAtive Seed Science, TEchnology and Conservation Initial Training Network" (NASSTEC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

"NASSTEC will train 11 Early Stage Researchers and 1 Experienced Researcher in native seed science, conservation and use, so that environmental mitigation and adaptation projects can have increased impact. Without immediate enhancement of capacity and capability in this specific area of biodiversity science, the native seed industry in Europe will fail to develop towards the multi-million dollar m ...
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SEEDTRANS – Seed Fund Management Training Programme

The main aim of the project is to develop comprehensive e-learning materials supporting European seed fund managers so that they can develop their own funding procedures. Target groups are seed-fund managers and organisations aiming to become early stage financers. Further target groups are regional development agencies, industrial and SME associations, universities, companies. The project targets ...
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Seed Guardians / Support for agroecological Production and Implementation of Seed Centres in Ecuador

Start date: Mar 1, 2011,

The group EVS project "SEED GUARDIANS Support for Agroecological Production and .Implementation of Seed Centres in Ecuador" results from the cooperation between the Portuguese environmental NGO GAIA and the Ecuatorian Seed Guardians Network. Eight Portuguese young volunteers will be hosted for 12 months by Seed Guardians Network. The project includes four different activities, taking place in diff ...
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SEED: Strategic Experience for European Dimension

Start date: Feb 6, 2015, End date: May 5, 2015,

The Study Visit “SEED: Strategic Experience for European Dimension” intends to offer an experience to youth and social organizations and their workers inspired in our strategic plan for internationalization, sharing visions about methodologies to bring European Dimension to our daily work involving local partners and improving realities by discovering and networking good practices. This Study Visi ...
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Social determinants and ecological impacts of seed transmission systems in African root and tuber crops, and their implications for resilience of smallholder farming systems (KINSEED)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

...ng the transmission of their technical and ecological knowledge through the generations, is essential for tackling food insecurity whilst at the same time conserving agricultural biodiversity. The KINSEED project focuses on seed transmission systems as a determining factor of the adaptive capacity of smallholder farming societies in a context of global changes, in particular climate change. Seed t ...
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Professional tool to facilitate data collection and digitalization in field trials for plant breeding and seed commercialisation (BreedIT-FIELD)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...lant phenotypes in the field which makes use of the latest ICT technology (computer vision, QR code scanning) to facilitate data collection, digitalization and analysis from breeding field trials and seed production fields. The main advantages of Breedit-Field are the following: -It will reduce time to market, by optimizing planning, management and execution of growing trials -It will reduce the o ...
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Seed for Growth 2

Start date: Aug 1, 2012,

Seed for Growth 2 is an EVS Project involving 5 group EVS activities. 2 Hosting Activities will be hosted in Parana’, Brazil, 2 will be hosted in Passignano sul Trasimeno, Italy and 1 in Puebla, Messico. In total it will involve 14 volunteers, 10 from Programme Countries and 4 from Partner Countries, of which some with fewer opportunities. The volunteers will carry out their services between Sept ...
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REsearch to improve PROduction of SEED of established and emerging bivalve species in European hatcheries (REPROSEED)

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

"Secure and stabilised hatchery production of bivalve seed is the unifying objective of the REPROSEED project. Development of innovative new methods will lead to high quality seed of guaranteed physiological health, sanitary status and genetic diversity. By considering the biology of bivalve life stages and the trophic and microbial environment of rearing conditions REPROSEED researches ways of co ...
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Sexual Plant Reproduction – Seed formation (SexSeed)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

...nable this critical aspect of agricultural production to be engineered for increased productivity, without increasing arable land. Our project will provide new insights into the network controlled by SEEDSTICK (STK), a MADS box transcription factor, which is the master regulator in the production of seeds. The objective of this proposal is to strengthen research partnerships through staff exchange ...
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Alternative splicing of NADPH-Oxidases as a mechanism for seed dormancy regulation (arSEEDas)

Start date: Apr 27, 2011, End date: Apr 26, 2014,

This project brings together a top-class, young researcher from Germany, Kerstin Müller with two world-leading experts on complementary aspects of seed biology: Prof. Mike Holdsworth at Nottingham University UK and Prof. Allison Kermode at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada. The project will work on the very active and timely field of alternative splicing during seed after-ripening and its c ...
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Establishment of the Pannon Seed Bank for the long-term ex situ conservation of Hungarian vascular wild plants (HUSEEDBANK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

... Plan – and ensuing EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 – aim to identify and fill in critical gaps in the ex-situ conservation programmes for wild species. A proposed ‘Pannon Seed Bank’ for the long-term ex-situ conservation of Hungarian vascular wild plants would meet this requirement. Without the establishment of a seed bank some species and the richness of the Pannonian flora may be threa ...
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Seed of change: Reinforcing the role of young people with fewer opportunities in their access to social rights

Start date: Sep 1, 2012,

Seed of Change is a project aimed to reinforce the role and the active participation of Young People with Fewer Opportunities (YPFO), specifically young people from disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods, as actors of change to achieve an equal society which guarantees them an effective enjoyment of social rights, in the actual context of social and economic crisis. Some of the most important objectiv ...
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Regulation of Seed Storage Oil Mobilization (SOM) by the Phytochrome-Interacting bHLH Transcription Factors PIFs (PIF Oil)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Storage oil mobilization (SOM) breaks down the reserve lipids in the seed and converts them to sugar. SOM is essential to support postgermination growth and seedling establishment, which are of foremost importance for plant fitness in the field. Light is the main environmental cue determining the transition between heterotrophic growth based on oil reserves and photoautotrophic growth supported by ...
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Exploring the molecular control of seed yield in crops (ExpoSEED)

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

ExpoSEED aims to integrate forward and reverse genetic approaches to dissect the molecular mechanisms that control seed/kernel (hereafter referred as seed) yield in model species and to transfer the acquired knowledge to selected crops as legumes and cereals. The identification of “molecular hubs” that determine seed number and size will put the basis for the development of breeding tools to impro ...
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THE SEED OF FUTURE

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"The seed of the future" is a trilateral youth exchange to be held in Marcellinara (Calabria, Italy) in the period 13-22 September 2016 among 30 young people aged between 16 and 19 years, perfectly balanced in terms of gender, from Italy, Latvia and UK. Plus three group leaders, who will also meet for a necessary APV (19-22 August). It aims to contribute to the development of a positive attitude ...
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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 ...
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Seed Inside Us 2014

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

...otect and create the environment, develop knowledge-ability, civil fellowship and cooperation. The idea of “Think globally and act regionally!” is supported also by activities of the project Seed Inside Us 2014 : - the operation and performance of the waldkindergarten "Lesný klub jadierko" - the building of natural education central - the partake of social activities for older generation and local ...
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Seed for Growth

Start date: Dec 1, 2011,

Seed for Growth is an EVS Project involving 4 group EVS activities. 3 Hosting Activities will be hosted in Parana’, Brazil and 1 will be hosted in Passignano sul Trasimeno, Italy. The volunteers will carry out their services between February 2012 and November 2012.The services in Brazil will last 3 months (organised in 3 shifts starting from February 2012) and the service in Italy 5 months (starti ...
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Impacts of Environmental Conditions on Seed Quality (EcoSeed)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"Seed quality is of paramount importance to agriculture, food security and the conservation of wild species. Considerable economic losses result from sub-optimal seed performance, undermining food security and livelihoods. Seed quality is strongly influenced by the environmental stresses experienced by the mother plant. Climate change will further exacerbate economic losses and decrease the predic ...
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Characterization of Lupin B-Conglutin Seed Proteins with a Focus on Health Benefits and their Role in Allergenicity (LUPIN-CHALLENGE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

...n grains are a potential human health food, with specific nutritional attributes, highly beneficial for agriculture, and also with important pharmaceutical attributes.As is the case for many legumes, seed proteins from lupin species can potentially contribute to food allergy. The prevalence of food allergies varies by country, but the highest is among young children between 0-14 years old, affecti ...
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the ultimate priming solution scaling up seed storability length (VITASEED)

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

Nelson Garden’s ecological VITASEED method is the first and only priming method that allows for long-term storage of primed seeds. Seeds that have been treated by seed vitalisation will have all the traditional benefits of priming such as faster and more uniform germination, higher rate of germination and stronger seedlings, which altogether helps to increase the yield. In addition, the method not ...
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A labour-efficient, organic herbicide-free and micronutrient infused seed tape and delivery mechanismaiding the growth and harvest of agri-products (BioSeedMat)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

...evalent use of labour intensive weed control methods has contributed to the higher production cost, and hence retail price, of organic food compared to food grown with the use of herbicides.Our paper seed mat consists of a physical barrier made up of an absorbent lower layer and a very thin upper layer made from paper. Seeds are placed between these two layers in rows, broadcasted or with precisio ...
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SEED FOR FUTUTE: Volunteering for inclusion and non formal learning

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Seed for future is a voluntary service project that involve 5 European partners from 4 countries. It offers the opportunity to 3 youth from France, Greece, Spain to take part to the activity organized by A Ruota Libera Onlus and primary school IV istituto comprensivo di Anzio. Those project are based in the community of Anzio and Nettuno, two town near by Rome. This is are is by the sea, knowed a ...
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"Closing the seed-dispersal loop: How does seed-dispersal affect plant population structure at the global, regional and local scales?" (SEEDS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"Seed-dispersal is an important ecosystem function with important consequences for the dynamics of plant and animal populations. This project will cover four related objectives which will evaluate different aspects of seed dispersal at the global (biogeographic), regional (national) and local (community) scales deepening the current knowledge on seed dispersal and its consequences. Early botanists ...
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REGULATORY GENE NETWORKS IN SEED COAT DEVELOPMENT (SEEDNET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"Plant seeds are responsible for most of the world’s food supply and are important for the production of biofuels, fibers, and value-added chemicals. Seeds are also complex biological structures made of three genetically different tissues: the embryo, the endosperm that has nourishing functions and the seed coat that interfaces with the environment. The seed coat of the model plant Arabidopsis tha ...
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MADS box transcription factors: interactions between metabolic pathways and seed development (METMADS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

"Seed development is a complex process that requires the coordination in growth and development of the integuments, the embryo and the endosperm. The roles of integuments in seed development as well as the cross talk between the maternal tissues (the integuments) and the fertilization products (the embryo and the endosperm) represent intriguing arguments since many years.MADS-box genes have been t ...
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Identification of molecular mechanisms of seed longevity in the model legume Medicago truncatula (IDOMMSEED)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The aim of the proposed project is to enhance the global understanding of seed longevity. The survival of organisms in the dry state is intriguing researchers since van Leuvenhoek first observed this behaviour in rotifers in the 17th century. Many plant seeds and pollen also possess this ability. Desiccation-tolerant seeds can survive in the dry state for longer time spans ranging from years to d ...
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Development of the Recycled estate demonstration garden, seed bank and forest classroom - help us spread the word on sustainability

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Feb 1, 2015,

... estate. This year plan to build a forest classroom among the trees at the estate to better host them. We use our garden to teach people how to grow their on food but also to propagate the heirloom seeds, for which we plan to start a seed library. Basically, we want to further develop parts of our estate that are essential to practical teaching, which is the most motivational and has the most st ...
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The quantitative proteomics analysis of developing embryo, endosperm and seed coat in control and Chernobyl-grown plants (Proteomics of Cherno)

Start date: Sep 3, 2007, End date: Sep 2, 2011,

...s and Russia, but over the large parts of Europe. In this proposal, quantitative protein reference maps will be used to identify differentially expressed proteins in developing embryo, endosperm and seed coats of Chernobyl-grown plants compared to control. These reference maps will be generated during five stages of soybean and flax seed development using two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) i ...
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Seed mucilage envelope as a new structural model in cell wall research (MuCellWall)

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

...ion their spatial distribution in a special type of cell wall of the mucilage secreting cells (MSCs). The obtained results will allow creation a direct spatial cell wall model. The used material e.g. seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants and wild type, Artemisia leucodens or Lepidium sativum will be an excellent and so far not examined study model due to characteristic loose spatial structure of t ...
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