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Restoration of sterlet populations in the Austrian Danube (LIFE Sterlet)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

...duction. Target areas for the release are the two free-flowing sections of the Austrian Danube in the Wachau and the Danube National Park regions, the latter including the Morava river at the Austro-Slovakian border. These areas are home to suitably diverse habitats that offer the greatest chance of sustaining populations of the sterlet in the long term. Furthermore, the project aims to identify ...
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Cost effective FCL using advanced superconducting tapes for future HVDC grids (FASTGRID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

Sustainability of energy systems goes through high penetration of renewable energy with huge volumes of electricity to transmit over long distances. The most advanced solution is the HVDC Supergrid. But fault currents remain an issue even if DC circuit breakers have emerged. These are not satisfying, whereas Superconducting Fault Current Limiters (SCFCLs) using REBCO tapes bring an attractive solu ...
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European Long-Term Ecosystem and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure (eLTER)

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

A collective effort is needed to create the environmental research infrastructure for answering pressing questions in a world of rapid social, economic and environmental change.The overall aim of the eLTER project is to advance the European network of Long-Term Ecosystem Research sites and socio-ecological research platforms to provide highest quality services for multiple use of a distributed res ...
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CAST (CArbon-14 Source Term) (CAST)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The CAST project (CArbon-14 Source Term) aims to develop understanding of the generation and release of 14C from radioactive waste materials under conditions relevant to waste packaging and disposal to underground geological disposal facilities. The project will focus on releases from irradiated metals (steels, Zircaloys) and from ion-exchange materials as dissolved and gaseous species. A study t ...
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Advancing the European Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure towards ESFRI (Advance_eLTER)

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

Advance_eLTER marks a crucial step in building the distributed European Research Infrastructure of Long-Term Ecosystem Research sites and socio-ecological research platforms (eLTER RI) to provide highest quality data and services complementary to the European and global environmental RIs. The project will conduct important conceptual work and preparatory steps towards enabling European-scale inves ...
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SUPerconducting, Reliable, lightweight, And more POWERful offshore wind turbine (SUPRAPOWER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

SUPRAPOWER is a research project focused on a major innovation in offshore wind turbine technology by developing a new compact superconductor-based generator.The project aims to provide an important breakthrough in offshore wind industrial solutions by designing an innovative, lightweight, robust and reliable 10 MW class offshore wind turbine based on a superconducting (SC) generator, taking into ...
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OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: FROM CONCEPTS TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS (OPENNESS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

Despite improved understanding of the links between ecosystem health, provision of ecosystem services and human well-being, further conceptual and empirical work is needed to make the ideas of ecosystem services (ESS) and natural capital (NC) operational. OpenNESS will therefore develop innovative and practical ways of applying them in land, water and urban management: it will identify how, where ...
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High-Resolution Solar Physics Network (SOLARNET)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

This project aims at integrating the major European infrastructures in the field of high-resolution solar physics. The following actions will be taken: (i) realise Trans-national Access to external European users; (ii) enhance and spread data acquisition and processing expertise to the Europe-wide community; (iii) increase the impact of high-resolution data by offering science-ready data and facil ...
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European development of Superconducting Tapes: integrating novel materials and architectures into cost effective processes for power applications and magnets (EUROTAPES)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

High current coated conductors (CC´s) have high potential for developing electrical power applications and very high field magnets. The key issues for market success are low cost robust processes, high performance and a reliable manufacturing methodology of long length conductors. In recent years EU researchers and companies have made substantial progress towards these goals, based on vacuum (PLD) ...
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Pushing the Envelope of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Paramagnetic Systems. A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Approach (pNMR)

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

A network combining 9 academic research groups and 4 collaborating industrial companies is proposed to train the next generation of PhD students and post-doctoral researchers, in developing and applying novel experimental and theoretical methods in the NMR spectroscopy of systems containing paramagnetic metals. The assembled team, with researchers distributed throughout the EU, will investigate a ...
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Naši hvězdáři za vzdělávacími programy planetárií a science center v Evropě

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

... for the network of observatories and science centres in central Europe We suggest short-term mobility within the range of 3-10 days for 6 employees each in observatories and planetariums in Poland, Slovakia, Turkey (4 persons) and France. We suppose communication in English, possibly Polish. There are some results and impact expected: foreign institution's visits support educators of our Observ ...
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GaN-based normally-off high power switching transistor for efficient power converters (HiPoSwitch)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Highly efficient power electronics is needed for low volume and low weight future power conversion systems. The proposed project aims for the exploitation of novel gallium nitride (GaN) transistors for advanced switched power supplies. High voltage normally-off GaN power devices on Si substrates in vertical device architecture will be developed and its technology transferred to an European industr ...
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FUnctional Nitrides for Energy Applications (FUNEA)

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

The FUNEA vision is to develop an integrated and multidisciplinary research and training programme in the field of inorganic nitrides for energy applications. In terms of fundamental research, the FUNEA aims to advance the state-of-the-art knowledge and understanding of inorganic nitrides and mixed nitride-anion systems by achieving the ability to synthesise, manipulate, characterize, understand a ...
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Development of interregional financial assistance to SMEs and of non-grant instruments (DIFASS)

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

...ng regions.transfer of knowledge and assistance to pilot implementation will be provided for - an internet based Micro Finance Management tool from Hungary to regions in Estonia, Spain, Italy and the Slovak Republic and- a programme to support internationalisation of SMEs business from Andalusia to regions in Denmark, Italy, Romania and Sweden. ...
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Housing and Home-care for the Elderly and vulnerable people and Local Partnership Strategies in Central European cities (HELPS)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

...daily life spaces are not granted to increasingly larger portions of population in Central Europe. Helps Pilot Actions are disseminated over eight different countries (Italy,Germany,Hungary,Slovenia,Slovakia,Czech Republic,Poland,Austria).Key factors in common are:the support of public-private partnership and the transition from institutional care to community-based care.We can distinguish three ...
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servation and Enhancement of Folk Culture Heritage in Central Europe (ETNOFOLK)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2014,

The folk culture with its centuries of old tradition in the regions of Central Europe, extremely rich in forms and genres, not only represents one of the keystones of our cultural identity but also offers substantial potential for sustainable socio-economic development of the regions. The idea of creating common knowledge base for research of relations and influences of folk cultures and tradition ...
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Innovative value chain development for sustainable plastics in Central Europe (PLASTiCE)

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

Capability for the diffusion of innovative biodegradable solutions among producers of packaging and other plastic products is dependent on the expectations of end-user industries (food sector, retail, medical and health sector). As long as these players are not convinced of the economic and environmental benefits of introducing biodegradable packaging and half products in their production systems, ...
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Development and field test of an efficient YBCO Coated Conductor based Fault Current Limiter for Operation in Electricity Networks (ECCOFLOW)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"The project aims at developing a unique device for electricity networks: A superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) based on coated conductor YBCO tape (cc-tape) or 2nd Generation HTS tape. The general trend in Europe to a higher meshing of distribution networks and the rapid growing integration of renewable energy sources leads to an increase of the fault current level by every new installat ...
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Integrated management of biological and landscape diversity for sustainable regional development and ecological connectivity in the Carpathians (BIOREGIO Carpathians)

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

...ty preservation and ecological connectivity in the Czech Republic• Analysis of the institutional and legal framework affecting biodiversity preservation and ecological connectivity in the Slovak Republic• Analysis of the institutional and legal framework affecting biodiversity preservation and ecological connectivity in UkraineFor more information see:http://www.southeast-europe.net/en/projects/ap ...
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Nanotechnology for Chemical Enterprises – how to link scientific knowledge to the business in the Central Europe space (NANOFORCE)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Oct 30, 2013,

It is worth pointing out that the word "nanotechnology" has become very popular and rightly so as if by rearranging atoms we can produce something completely different, number of possibilities is endless. Nanotechnology currently underpins many practical applications (medical, Information and communication technologies, energy production, food-water, security, broad range of materials etc..) and ...
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Valorisation and Sustainable Development of Cultural Landscapes using Innovative Participation and Visualisation Techniques (VITAL LANDSCAPES)

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

Unique cultural landscapes constitute a major factor of Central Europe's cultural identity, uniting nature and heritage. Being the most typical part of nature in CE, they are precondition of biodiversity and an important ecological resource. Moreover, functioning landscapes constitute the base for regional economic development, above all in of rural areas, and the well-being of the inhabitants. Ho ...
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Borders for people (HUSKROUA/0901/069)

Start date: Sep 28, 2010, End date: Sep 27, 2012,

Overall objective:Optimization of transborder cooperation management of neighboring regions of Ukraine, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary.Specific objectives:1) Formation of the system of international monitoring of transborder cooperation 2) Establishment of the International Institute of Transborder Cooperation and Security of Borders (IICS) as an organizational mechanism of coordination of main aim ...
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Future Laboratory for the Diffusion and Application of Innovation in Materials Science and Engineering (FLAME)

Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Aug 30, 2012,

Materials sciences and engineering (MS&E) are significant innovation drivers within the Central European area and thus crucial for competitiveness and economic growth. The MS&E sector has its particularities like: frequent introduction of new material technologies, existing requirements and specifications frequently do not fit the unique features of advanced material and the sectors complexity req ...
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European Biodiversity Observation Network; a project to design and test a biodiversity observation system integrated in time and space (EBONE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The key challenge addressed in the present proposal is to develop a biodiversity observation system that is transmissible, cost effective and provides added value to the currently independent data sources of in situ data and EO. There are three requirements: the production of protocols to enable extant data to be placed on a common framework for analysis; the provision of a sound scientific conce ...
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Materials for Robust Gallium Nitride (MORGaN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

The MORGaN project addresses the need for a new materials for electronic devices and sensors that operate in extreme conditions, especially high temperature, high electric field and highly corrosive environment. It will take advantage of the excellent physical properties of diamond and gallium nitride heterostructures. The association of the two materials will give rise to the best materials and d ...
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Assessment of the impacts of non-tariff measures - NTM on the competitiveness of the EU and selected trade partners (NTM-IMPACT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"The overall objective of the project is to collect and analyze new data on non-tariff measures (NTMs), particularly on governmental standards and regulations that prescribe the conditions for importing agri-food products into the EU market and into the markets of the main competing players. Furthermore, impacts from EU NTBs on least developing country (LDC) exports are examined. The project will ...
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Central Europe Research to Innovation Models (CERIM)

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

CERIM wants to foster innovation-based economic activity in the Central Europe area, particular in the new member states. Academic research-efforts will be turned into new companies and bring higher competitiveness to existing enterprises thereby helping to sustain and enlarge industrial activity in areas far from cities such as Vienna, Munich and Milan. The project will also contribute to improvi ...
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EST: The large aperture European Solar Telescope (EST)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

"This is the project definition for the Conceptual Design Study of the large aperture European Solar Telescope (EST). EST is a pan-European project involving 29 partners from 14 different countries. A consortium EAST (European Association for Solar Telescopes) exists with the aim, among others, of undertaking the development of EST, to keep Europe in the frontier of Solar Physics in the world. EST ...
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Policy Influence of indicators (POINT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

Our overall aim is to help find better ways of using indicators in all aspects of policy, but with a thematic focus on the role of indicators in fostering and supporting change in areas of policy making towards ‘Sustainable Development’. The research area of indicators in the presumed service of sustainability will provide a rich ground for addressing the actual use, influence and impacts of indic ...
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Life Watch (LIFEWATCH)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

"The Life Watch e-Science and Technology Infrastructure for biodiversity data and observatories will be a large-scale European research infrastructure bringing together: -a system of marine, terrestrial and freshwater observatories; -common access to a huge amount of interlinked, distributed data from databases and monitoring sites; -computational facilities in virtual laboratories with analytic ...
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Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets (Brown Dwarf)

Start date: Oct 1, 2007, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

There is a recent observational evidence that some young very low mass objects exhibit a strong photometric variability. The origin of this variability is mysterious and various scenarios such as an ongoing magnetospheric accretion or eclipses by planetary companions are possible. The aim of this proposal is to search for any associated spectroscopic variability of these objects. This will enable ...
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Implementation of a management model for the ecologically sustainable treatment of pig manure in the Region of Los Serranos, Valencia-Spain (Ecodiptera)

Start date: Dec 1, 2005, End date: Nov 30, 2008,

Background The huge volume of pig manure generated across Europe, and its customary use as fertiliser for agriculture, is the cause of serious environmental problems. These include the leaching of high nitrogen, which causes an excess nutrient enrichment of soil and water, and the emission of odours and greenhouse gases. Furthermore, the use of manure for ...
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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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d Area Networks - Establishment and Management of Corridors, Networks and Cooperation (PANet 2010)

Start date: Mar 31, 2006, End date: Mar 30, 2008,

The countries and regions involved in PANet 2010 strongly emphasise the efficient implementation of European and international requirements with regard to protected areas (Natura 2000, Ramsar, biogenetic reserves, etc.). However, there is an evident lack of knowledge and experience in managing protected areas (PAs) beyond their boundaries. The project will support the empowerment of the regions an ...
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Setting up and implementation of sustainable and multifunctional rural development model based on organic and competitive agriculture (SIMOCA)

Start date: Dec 31, 2002, End date: Mar 30, 2006,

Consumers are increasingly demanding organic agricultural products. This creates a new market for agricultural products which are produced in an environmentally-friendly way. Also the Community policy (EC Reg. 1257/97) promotes production methods compatible with the increasing needs of protection and improvement of the environment, natural resources, the soil and genetic diversity, as well as with ...
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Vocational Training in Rural Development and Ecology

Start date: Jan 15, 2010,

Russian public bodies such as ministries, oblast administration and other authorities have a lack of knowledge in the sector of ecology and rural development. This lack of knowledge is increasingly growing due to the complexity of ecological relevant topics and the extremely weak interdepartmental approach in the sphere of environmental protection. Due to that gap employees of public bodies workin ...
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Euro Crafts 21 - Developing competence for sustainable management in European handicraft

The main goal of the project is to establish a significant added value in the vocational education in Austria and the participating partner countries (Finland, Germany, Slovakia, Spain and Hungary). This will be achieved through the innovation transfer of an already completed pilot project – aiming the development and testing of an overall qualification and training concept for sustainability mana ...
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Landscape Education:New Opportunities for Teaching and Research in Europe III

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

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Partnership Opportunity for Learning - Astronomy Resources for Inspiring Seniors

... General Assembly declared 2009 the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009). Engaging older learners in non-formal opportunities linked to IYA2009 is the aim of this Grundtvig Learning Partnership. Slovakia, Poland, Greece and the UK will work together to further develop their astronomy outreach provision to enable senior citizens to access astronomical educational resources relevant to their ne ...
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Slovak Online

Start date: Nov 1, 2009,

Learning foreign languages online is a standard choice for many learners. With Slovak, as one of the European national languages, no such opportunity exists. Interested learners do not have free online course available and need to take part in school courses. We believe that creating a free online course of Slovak language, thus offering opportunities to learn and practice it, is based on existing ...
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