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Smart Transition of EU cities towards a new concept of smart Life and Economy (mySMARTLife)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

mySMARTLife project aims at the development of an Urban Transformation Strategy to support cities in the definition of transition models, as a suitable path to reach high level of excellence in its development process, addressing the main city challenges and progressing to the smart people and smart economy concepts.The main instrument to achieve this very ambitious strategy will be the definition ...
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Adaptation to extreme rainfall; demonstration of FHVI to prevent damage by urban pluvial flooding (LIFE AERFIT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

Background Climate change scenarios predict more frequent and larger extremes in rainfall. Already, cities in the EU face damage from pluvial flooding. Damages will increase due to climate change and continuing urbanisation. Urban pluvial flooding is a major problem that urgently requires effective, sustainable and cost-effective solutions. Putten regul ...
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integrated Smart GRID Cross-Functional Solutions for Optimized Synergetic Energy Distribution, Utilization Storage Technologies (inteGRIDy)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

inteGRIDy aims to integrate cutting-edge technologies, solutions and mechanisms in a scalable Cross-Functional Platform connecting energy networks with diverse stakeholders, facilitating optimal and dynamic operation of the Distribution Grid (DG), fostering the stability and coordination of distributed energy resources and enabling collaborative storage schemes within an increasing share of renewa ...
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4x4, demonstrating a flexible value chain to utilize biomass functionalities in the processing industry (Bio4Products)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Biomass is a valuable, sustainable feedstock for the production of high added value chemicals and materials, and will play an important role in the transition of the European Process Industry to a Sustainable Process Industry. However, for the optimal utilization of these bio-resources the fractionation of the biomass on basis of functionalities is required. The innovative approach of BIO4PRODUCTS ...
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Robotics Enabling Fully-Integrated Logistics Lines for Supermarkets (REFILLS)

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

While online grocery stores are expanding, supermarkets continue to provide customers with the sensory experience of choosing goods while walking between display shelves. Therefore, retail and logistics companies are concerned with making the shopping experience more comfortable and exciting while, at the same time, using technology to reduce costs and improve efficiency. The REFILLS project aims ...
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Managing soil and groundwater impacts from agriculture for sustainable intensification (INSPIRATION)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

"Agricultural production in Europe has significantly damaged soil and water resources, ecosystem biodiversity, socio-economic well-being and contributed to climate change. Expected further intensification of production to ensure food safety for population growth must be sustainable to minimise future impacts and negative externalities. This ETN addresses these challenges by training 15 early stage ...
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health-i-care

Start date: Mar 31, 2016, End date: Mar 30, 2020,

Description (EN): Themes Health-i-care: innovations for safer healthcareAll health-i-care project activities are devoted to the highly actual thematic focus of prevention and control of hospital infections and antibiotic resistance and the associated risks for patients and public health.Health-i-care focuses on developing innovative products and technologies that protect the populat ...
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Automated diagnostic platform, data management system and innovative communication tool, for improving the impact of malaria vector control interventions (DMC-MALVEC)

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

Malaria is a life-threatening disease causing more than 500,000 deaths every year in sub-Saharan Africa. Prevention of the disease is best achieved by vector control which relies on the use of insecticides. Monitoring mosquito vector populations is an integral component of control programmes and a prerequisite for effective interventions. Several individual methods are used for this task, However, ...
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Reintroduction of burning in Boreal western taiga woodlands (LifeTaiga)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background Controlled burning can support the conservation of many sites of priority habitat type 9010 (*Western Taïga) and, to some extent, habitat 9060 (Coniferous forests on, or connected to, glaciofluvial eskers) Up until 150 years ago, 1% of the wooded area burned annually. Today less than 0.016% burns annually. The reduction in the frequency of fir ...
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Renewable residential heating with fast pyrolysis bio-oil (Residue2Heat)

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

The overall objective of Residue2Heat is to enable the utilization of sustainable, ash rich biomass and residues in residential heating applications (20-200 kWth) to provide sustainable heat at a competitive price. In this concept, various 2nd generation agricultural, and forestry residue streams are converted into a liquid energy carrier near the biomass origin at an economic viable scale of 15-3 ...
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AUTOmated driving Progressed by Internet Of Things (AUTOPILOT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

"Automated driving is expected to increase safety, provide more comfort and create many new business opportunities for mobility services. The market size is expected to grow gradually reaching 50% of the market in 2035. The IoT is about enabling connections between objects or "things"; it’s about connecting anything, anytime, anyplace, using any service over any network. There is little doubt that ...
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FINanacial management, Accounting and Controlling curricula development for capacity building of public administration

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

The central aim of “FINancial management, Accounting and Controlling for capacity building of public administration” (FINAC) project application is contribute to the higher quality of budgeting, money management, finance management, accounting and control, in Albanian and Serbian public administration. This aim will be achieved throughout meeting specific objectives:- Designing and developing thre ...
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REady for BUSiness - Integrating and validating practical entrepreneurship skills in engineering and ICT studies

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

European business sector pays an ever more increasing attention to competences such as sense of initiative and entrepreneurship. The recommendation 2006/962/EC on key competences for lifelong learning highlights paramount importance of these key competences for employability. These competences related to entrepreneurship play a paramount role in EU neighbouring countries in their development proc ...
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Bioeconomy Awareness and Discourse Project (BioCannDo)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The Bioeconomy Awareness and Discourse Project (BioCannDo) will raise awareness and acceptance of the broad public towards the bioeconomy and bio-based products through a strategic, stakeholder-driven information campaign and education. Convincing people that the bio-based economy offers something desirable, with new products, functionalities and applications for their daily life, that provide ans ...
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Demonstration of an integrated Renovation approach for Energy Efficiency At the Multi building scale (DREEAM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

DREEAM aims to demonstrate replicable Net Zero Energy residential building renovation approaches achieving 75% total Net Energy Demand reduction- an improvement of 60% to state of the art market practices. It will utilise packages of interconnected energy systems that achieve a balance between energy efficiency and renewable energy measures. This is enabled by enhancing renewable technologies capa ...
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Netzwerk GEP

Start date: Jun 30, 2015, End date: Sep 29, 2019,

Description (EN): To reduce CO2 emissions and to improve the productivity of SME's in the Euregio, cross-border efficient practical innovation processes will be initiated and implemented which will be informed by new technologies such as Industry 4.0 / Smart Industry, automation and HTSM. In order to ensure resource-efficient production in the SME's, the common features of the Lean ...
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Green Guest

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Green Guest's ambition is to provide a comprehensive approach of employment and training in the hospitality trade based on Corporate Social Responsibility. The trade sometimes suffers from a poor image although it can offer very interesting careers and is a strong job provider . It can also develop environmental policies in favour of the planet which can be an incentive for future workforce ...
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Architecture for EurOpean Logistics Information eXchange (AEOLIX)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Supply chain visibility supported by easy access to, and exchange and use of relevant and abundant logistics-related information is an important prerequisite for the deployment of pan-European logistics solutions that are needed to increase efficiency and productivity, and to reduce environmental impact. Although there is a proliferative development of logistics-related data stores, information ch ...
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Cost-effective CO2 conversion into chemicals via combination of Capture, ELectrochemical and BI-ochemical CONversion technologies (CELBICON)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

CELBICON aims at the development, from TRL3 to TRL5, of new CO2-to-chemicals technologies, conjugating at once small-scale for an effective decentralized market penetration, high efficiency/yield, low cost, robustness, moderate operating temperatures and low maintenance costs.In line with the reference Topic text, these technologies will bridge cost-effective CO2 capture and purification from the ...
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Low Cost Materials Processing Technologies for Mass Production of Lightweight Vehicles (LoCoMaTech)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The overall aim of LoCoMaTech is, in the first place, to enable the novel HFQ® process, (patented by ICL) in its latest most advanced form, which includes 10 recently patented refining technologies (TRL4), to be used for the manufacture of lightweight, high strength body and chassis structures and components for low-cost vehicles, by establishing a prototype, full scale pilot production line (TRL6 ...
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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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AErial RObotic system integrating multiple ARMS and advanced manipulation capabilities for inspection and maintenance (AEROARMS)

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

AEROARMS proposes the development of the first aerial robotic system with multiple arms and advanced manipulation capabilities to be applied in industrial inspection and maintenance (I&M). The objectives are:1. R&D on aerial manipulation to perform I&M. This includes: 1.1 Based on previous partner results, developing systems which are able to grab and dock with one or more arms and perform dext ...
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Advanced Tools to assEss and mitigate the criticality of ICT compoNents and their dependencies over Critical InfrAstructures (ATENA)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Over recent years, Industrial and Automation Control Systems (IACS) adopted in Critical Infrastructures (CIs) have become more complex due to the increasing number of interconnected devices, and to the large amount of information exchanged among system components. With the emergence of such an “Internet of Things” generation of IACS, the boundaries to be protected have grown well beyond that of th ...
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Energy Saving Lighthouse Cities in the NPA region (e-Lighthouse)

Start date: Apr 26, 2016, End date: Apr 25, 2019,

Description (EN): Project actions will support increased energy efficiency in buildings (40% of EU energy consumption) and increase the uptake of renewable energy, thus decreasing carbon dioxide emissions. Our goal is to support and follow-up the retrofit of more than 250 public buildings. In the private sector with the consultation of building supervisory authorities, the project a ...
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Online courses with videos for the field of veterinary communication dealing with prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases transferable from animals to humans

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

In the current context that includes but is not limited to the warming up phenomena, the transnational and transcontinental mobility of the work force, the economic and political emigration and migration, the racial mix up, etc. the project develop specialised research and identify the most encountered infectious disease transmitted from non-human animals to humans (zoonoses). Zoonotic diseases re ...
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Self-learning resources for informal childminders

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

BACKGROUND & CHALLENGESOver the last decade, early childhood education and care has increasingly taken place through informal structures for many families, creating at the same time an employment opportunity and path for many people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds, such as migrants, refugees, unemployed, NEETs and people living on benefit. The skillssets required by informal and ...
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Support, Monitoring and Reminder Technology for Mild Dementia (SMART4MD)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

As Europe’s population is ageing, long-term care for elderly citizens will become an increasing cost for society. To manage this transition healthcare policies in the EU and individual Member States are heavily focussed on extending the independent life of the elderly, with the dual aim of increasing their quality of life and reducing the costs of care. Dementia affects more than 6% of people aged ...
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Strengthening Thinking and Learning Skills

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

„Strengthening Thinking and Learning Skills" is a collective project of 7 participating organisations with the common mission to reduce disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners, underachievers or children with learning impairment through introduction of more effective teaching methods. The participating organizations work with a wide range of clients from children coming f ...
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Self and external Evaluation of QUality in Europe to Nourish Childhood Education Services

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

"At a time of unprecedented economic and social challenges, the importance of giving all our children a solid start in life by providing high quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) is crucial" (Eurydice and Eurostat Report, "Key Data on Early Childhood Education and Care in Europe", 2014). Looking at researches and analyses from OECD and the European Commission, it is clear that there i ...
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Improved decision-making in contaminated land site investigation and risk assessment (Remediate)

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

The REMEDIATE ETN comprises 10 beneficiaries (from 5 EU Member States – the UK, Ireland, Germany, Denmark, and Italy) and 15 partner organisations. The beneficiaries and partner organisations are committed to the provision of innovative research and training for more cost effective and sustainable remediation of contaminated land. It is a multidisciplinary collaboration between internationally ren ...
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Breaking Educational Barriers with Contextualised, Pervasive and Gameful Learning (BEACONING) (BEACONING)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

BEACONING sets a forefront in multifaceted education technologies through large-scale piloting of a digital learning platform that blend physical and digital spaces. As innovation action strategies, pilots combine opportunities for new ICTs in multiple ways that merge learning acquired in formal, non-formal and informal means, developing the skills for today’s abled and disabled learners and workf ...
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ling Energy ACtion plans and Enhancing their implementation in the Alps (PEACE_Alps)

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

Description (EN): PEACE-ALPS tackles the problems related to the implementation of Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs) or any other Energy concepts already endorsed by Local Authorities (LAs) in Alpine Space Area (ASA) by supporting LAs, about 100, in developing concrete actions with an inter-municipal approach. This is the core aim of the project and the way for reaching main o ...
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AErial RObotic System for In-Depth Bridge Inspection by Contact (AEROBI)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

The latest developments in low flying unmanned robots with arms and the associated fields of intelligent control, computer vision and sensors open the floor for robotic solutions, exploitable in the near term, in the field of inspection of difficult-toaccess areas of the civil infrastructure in general and bridges in particular. The latter infrastructure is ageing requiring inspection and assessme ...
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' SENsing SKIN' for Monitoring-Based Maintenance of the Transport Infrastructure (SENSKIN) (SENSKIN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is expected to play a predominant role in the management of the transport infrastructure. Yet, SHM techniques continue to rely on point-based, as opposed to spatial, sensing requiring a dense network of these point-sensors increasing considerably the monitoring cost. Additionally, commercially available, strain sensors cannot measure strains beyond 1% to 2% and, ...
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CO2 capture from cement production (CEMCAP)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The European cement industry has committed itself to contributing to climate protection measures and therefore to curbing its CO2 emissions. CO2 capture technologies, although an essential part of all CO2 reduction scenarios, are not yet ready for large-scale deployment in the cement industry. Hence, the primary objective of CEMCAP isTo prepare the ground for large-scale implementation of CO2 capt ...
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Building sustainable logistics through trusted collaborative networks across the entire supply chain (NEXTRUST)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

NEXTRUST objective is to increase efficiency and sustainability in logistics by developing interconnected trusted collaborative networks along the entire supply chain. These trusted networks, built horizontally and vertically, will fully integrate shippers, LSPs and intermodal operators as equal partners. To reach a high level of sustainability, we will not only bundle freight volumes, but shift t ...
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Strategic support on strengthening the quality assurance structures at the private higher education institutions in Albania

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Considering the problems identified in the project rationale, and including data from primary research from the Albanian partners, the project concept was conceived with sufficient scope to target real needs gaps identified, without being un-attainable. It is quite obvious that private HEIs in Albania are seeking to improve their quality assurance system and processes. And also the rest of the sta ...
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Development of curricula on Accessible Tourism for VET Tourism Courses

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Facilitating tourism experiences for persons with special needs is an essential element of any policy for the development of responsible and accessible tourism. Staff in any touristic venue plays an important role in reducing potential barriers in access or in mitigating unforeseen difficulties. Training in disability awareness and customer care can minimize the barriers encountered by persons wit ...
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ROBOTICS – TRAINING FOR THE NEW AGE

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The overall aim of the Project is to use the motivational effects of robotics (including AI (Artificial Intelligence)) and 3D printing to excite students (particularly young people) about science and to develop programmes enable them to engage in the "New Age Technology” revolution.The specific aim of the Project will be to develop an introductory training programme, incorporating a combination of ...
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IES Asta Regia "Sharing Europe"II

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The IES Asta Regia is a high school established in 1979 and currently it is a ICT and bilingual school. It was the second school in Jerez de la Frontera to offer A-levels training (then BUP and COU). Currently the school offers seconday education and A-levels on Science and Technology as well as on Social Sciences. It also offers initial and higher VET courses: Baking, Dependent Care Provider and ...
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