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Implement a European-wide coordination of research and innovation programs on raw materials to strengthen the industry competitiveness and the shift to a circular economy (ERA-MIN 2)

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

Building on the experience of ERA-MIN FP7 funded project, the objective of the ERA-NET Cofund on Raw Materials (ERA-MIN 2) is to strengthen the coordination of national and regional research programmes in the field of non-energy non-agricultural raw materials by implementing one joint call for proposals resulting in grants to third parties with EU co-funding.In line with the integrated strategy pr ...
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Innovative approaches to turn agricultural waste into ecological and economic assets (NoAW)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

NoAW : No Agro-Waste.Innovative approaches to turn agricultural waste into ecological and economic assets.Driven by a “near zero-waste” society requirement, the goal of NoAW project is to generate innovative efficient approaches to convert growing agricultural waste issues into eco-efficient bio-based products opportunities with direct benefits for both environment, economy and EU consumer. To ach ...
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PORT-Cities: Integrating Sustainability (PORTIS)

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

Port Cities can be seen as multidimensional laboratories where challenges connected with urban mobility are more complex due to the dual system of gravity centre: the city, the port, not to mention their shared hinterland.These peculiarities are at once a challenge and an opportunity, as they provide scope for planning, researching and implementing integrated mobility solutions in distinctively co ...
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Efficiency in the use of resources for the improvement of sustainability of vine and wine sector at Priorat region (LIFE PRIORAT+)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

Background The global wine sector represents around 0.3% of the global annual carbon footprint of human activities, with each bottle of wine producing 2.2 (+/- 1.3) kg of CO2-eq. depending on technological, geographical and viticulture conditions. Viticulture (especially fertilisation) and packaging (especially with glass bottles) are the most significant ...
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Adding socio-economic value to industry through the integration of artists in research and open innovation processes. (VERTIGO)

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

The VERTIGO project provides a major opportunity to develop more inclusive, intercultural, and thus productive and innovative approaches to the participation of artists in ICT research activities and for promoting synergies between creative arts, businesses, research organizations and the society at general. If the digital economy of Europe is to prosper over the long term, then its full and diver ...
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Scale-up of low-carbon footprint material recovery techniques in existing wastewater treatment plants (SMART-Plant)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

SMART-Plant will scale-up in real environment eco-innovative and energy-efficient solutions to renovate existing wastewater treatment plants and close the circular value chain by applying low-carbon techniques to recover materials that are otherwise lost. 7+2 pilot systems will be optimized fore > 2 years in real environment in 5 municipal water treatment plants, inclunding also 2 post-processing ...
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Zero-defect manufacturing strategies towards on-line production management for European factories (Z-Fact0r)

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

Manufacturing represents approximately 21 % of the EU’s GDP and 20 % of its employment, providing more than 30 million jobs in 230 000 enterprises, mostly SMEs. Moreover, each job in industry is considered to be linked to two more in related services. European manufacturing is also a dominant element in international trade, leading the world in areas such as automotive, machinery and agricultural ...
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Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Support Action (AORAC-SA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Coordination and Support Action (AORAC-SA) is designed to provide scientific, technical and logistical support to the European Commission in developing and implementing trans-Atlantic Marine Research Cooperation between the European Union, the United States of America and Canada. The Coordination and Support Action (CSA) is carried out within the framework of t ...
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Sustainable downstream processing of vaccines through incorporation of nanobiotechnologies : novel affinity ligands and biomimetic membranes (DiViNe)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

In the vaccine industry, downstream processing is of extreme importance. Prophylactic vaccines aim at protecting healthy people, so any contaminant has to be discarded with the most drastic measures. Such « negative » approach comes at the expense of the recovery of product : yields are poor, thereby inducing a high product cost. Processes are also complex, since they rely on multiple eliminations ...
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Advanced Networking for Nuclear Education and Training and Transfer of Expertise (ANNETTE)

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

The present situation of nuclear energy in Europe asks for a continuing effort in the field of Education and Training aimed to assure a qualified workforce in the next decades. In this scenario, the present proposal is aimed at enhancing and networking the Europe-wide efforts initiated in the past decades by different organisations belonging to academia, research centres and industry to maintain a ...
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Design for Resource and Energy efficiency in cerAMic kilns (DREAM)

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

The DREAM project aims to design, develop and demonstrate a radically improved architecture for ceramic industrial furnaces, characterised by optimised energy consumption, reduced emissions, and lower operating costs compared to currently available technological solutions. This will be obtained by substantially enhancing specific furnace parts (control system, refractories, emissions abatement sys ...
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PRODUCTION OF QUARTZ POWDERS WITH REDUCED CRYSTALLINE SILICA TOXICITY (SILIFE)

Start date: Sep 7, 2015, End date: Sep 27, 2019,

Background Prolonged inhalation of crystalline silica particles can cause lung inflammation and the lung disease known as silicosis. Total European usage of crystalline silica (i.e. quartz and crystobalite) is measured in thousands of millions of tonnes per annum. It is used in many manufacturing industries such as the cement, ceramics, steel, glass, mine ...
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ECOTEX - Demonstration of polyester of footwear waste recycling into new textile products using glycolysis technology (LIFE)

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

Background Polyester is the second largest family of plastics in terms of quantity used. In the EU in 2009, half of the 1.75 Mt of polyester textiles produced were used in clothing. Due to their properties, polyester-based textiles predominate in the footwear sector, where they have been introduced in many parts of the shoe (collar, tongue, insole, lining ...
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Turning silver into gold through management strategies that effectively address an ageing and multi-generational workforce

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

EC Europe 2020 Strategy points to increased ageing and low employment, especially of older workers, as two of Europe’s main structural weaknesses. EC proposed a target for 75% overall employment rate for 2020, which specifically needs greater involvement of older workers and for Member-States to promote innovative active ageing policies. The adoption of this Strategy was followed by the Council co ...
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EURO4SCIENCE 2.0 – Spin Off of a Forensic Science Educational Strategy Promoting Scientific Literacy and European Students Citizenship

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

Euro4Science 2.0 is a spinoff of a very sucessfull partnership, previous Euro4Science erasmus + Project. Considering Euro4Science 1, a sucessfull strategic partnership, from the participants and partners feedback we also identified several needs and opportunities that justify a new project with much wider scope and ambition in pursuit of innovative and mobilizing practices in secondary school edu ...
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Aerospace Engineering ECVET Resources Online

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

Aerospace is a vital industry sector across the EU. Recognising and addressing skills gaps and enabling the personal development of well-trained and skilled employees to support growth will make a significant contribution to the advancement of the key Europe 2020 aims of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. In particular, the AEERO project will contribute towards the objectives of the 'Agenda ...
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ELIXIR-EXCELERATE: Fast-track ELIXIR implementation and drive early user exploitation across the life-sciences. (ELIXIR-EXCELERATE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The life sciences are undergoing a transformation. Modern experimental tools study the molecules, reactions, and organisation of life in unprecedented detail. The precipitous drop in costs for high-throughput biology has enabled European research laboratories to produce an ever-increasing amount of data. Life scientists are rapidly generating the most complex and heterogeneous datasets that scienc ...
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A Paradigm Shift in Reactor Safety with the Molten Salt Fast Reactor (SAMOFAR)

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

Imagine an inherently safe reactor that produces all electricity world-wide for thousands of years, and recycles all actinides until fission.The Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR) can reach this goal. The cylindrical reactor core contains actinide-fluorides mixed in lithium-fluoride. The liquid salt is at ambient pressure and can freely expand upon heating, giving a strong negative reactivity feedbac ...
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TCBL – Textile and Clothing Business LabsTransformative Business Models for the Textile Clothing Sector (TCBL)

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

TCBL uses Europe’s Textiles & Clothing (T&C) industry as test beds for evolutionary-driven co-design, dynamic optimisation and deployment of business models. It aims to increase the performance of a sector that, over the past two decades, upheld three main strategies to handle global competitive pressure: cost-oriented, product/service-oriented and productivity-oriented. TCBL provides a business e ...
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PROtective composite Coatings via Electrodeposition and Thermal Spraying (PROCETS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Wear and corrosion of materials causes losses of 3-4% of GDP in developed countries and billions of Euros are spent annually on capital replacement and control methods for wear and corrosion infrastructure. As a result many important industries are dependent on surface engineering of protective coatings, making it one of the main critical technologies underpinning the competitiveness of EU industr ...
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Demonstration project to prove the techno-economic feasibility of using algae to treat saline wastewater from the food industry. (SALTGAE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

The aim of the project is to implement and demonstrate at large scale the long-term technological and economic feasibility of an innovative, sustainable and efficient solution for the treatment of high salinity wastewater from the F&D industry. Conventional wastewater treatments have proven ineffective for this kind of wastewater, as the bacterial processes typically used for the elimination of or ...
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Innovative Eco-Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastewater (INCOVER)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Taking into account the current global water scarcity and the expensive operation and maintenance cost of wastewater treatment, INCOVER concept has been designed to move wastewater treatment from being primarily a sanitation technology towards a bio-product recovery industry and a recycled water supplier. A wastewater specific Decision Support System methodology will be tailored to the INCOVER tec ...
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Industrial Thermal Energy Recovery Conversion and Management (I-ThERM)

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

Waste heat recovery systems can offer significant energy savings and substantial greenhouse gas emission reductions. The waste heat recovery market is projected to exceed €45,0 billion by 2018, but for this projection to materialise and for the European manufacturing and user industry to benefit from these developments, technological improvements and innovations should take place aimed at improvin ...
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ERC = ScienceSquared (ScienceSquared)

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

The ERC is a great success scientifically, and now wants to broaden its popular and political support. But it has a problem: Most EU citizens don’t care about some Brussels agency they never heard of. The solution is in the ERC’s mandate: frontier research. It has science – the cutting edge variety, that can capture the imagination, change the world and stimulate curiosity. We have seen the power ...
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SIMPLA - Sustainable Integrated Multi-sector PLAnning (SIMPLA)

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

SIMPLA responds to topic EE 7 ‘Enhancing the capacity of public authorities to plan and implement sustainable energy policies and measures’ and its ultimate goal is empowering public authorities to develop, implement and finance sustainable energy policies and actions by creating the conditions for a smart integration between SEAPs (Sustainable Energy Action Plans) and SUMPs (Sustainable Urban Mob ...
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Increasing INternational Science, Technology and Innovation COoperation between BRAzil and the European Union (INCOBRA)

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

INCOBRA – Increasing Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) International Cooperation between Brazil (BR) and the European Union (EU) – is a 36-month Coordination and Support Action aiming to increase, enhance and focus Research and Innovation (R&I) cooperation between BR and EU.INCOBRA is expected to contribute to (i) Increased cooperation patterns – by supporting cooperation networks among BR ...
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Towards better Synchronisation of Priority Settings and Evaluation Mechanisms for Research Infrastructures Beyond National Relevance (InRoad)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The main objective of the proposal is to contribute to a better harmonisation and synchronisation of priority-setting-, funding- evaluation and life-cycle management of Research Infrastructures (RI through the exchange of best practices among the main stakeholders in member states, associated countries and at European level. The regional dimension will explicitly be taken into account by integrati ...
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STRengthening MARritime Technology Research Center (STRONGMAR)

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

INEST TEC is strongly committed to become a center of excellence in maritime technology and, in particular, deep sea technology. It is strategically located, with fast access to deep sea, it has been steadily building up its skills, capabilities and resources, and is presently in the process of implementing an open research infrastructure, thus preparing itself to become capable of providing servi ...
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SUpport and PartnERship for the development of multiple sustainable and market ready value chains in the BIObased economy (SUPERBIO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

SUPERBIO focuses on the biobased economy. This emerging economy relies on the use of biomass (e.g. plants, waste) as renewable raw material for the production of new or existing products. The technologies used are a combination of biochemistry, biotechnology, chemistry and processing technology. The cluster coordinating SUPERBIO (GBEV) has already more than 3 years’ experience in building new biob ...
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European Training Network to Accelerate the Development Chain of Nanostructured Polymers (TheLink)

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Research and training in TheLink spans the material development chain for nanostructured polymers. These materials, including phase separated polymers and composites, are attracting scientific and industrial interest due to the outstanding properties and functionalities that can be achieved. However, to exploit the potential of these materials an in-depth understanding of the relationship between ...
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Citylabs: Engaging Students with Sustainable Cities in Latin-America

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

The CITYLAB project aims to enhance the quality of HEI’s in Latin America through problem based-learning. A problem-based learning is a proven innovative approach for introducing real-world problems in the education program with huge possibilities to transform the quality of learning and teaching. It is a kind of active, integrated and constructive learning method that works from a student centred ...
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Internationalization of Latin American peripheral Universities through sustainable integration and inclusive implementation of International Relations Offices

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

The main objective of the PONCHO project is to encourage the process of internationalization of Latin American Universities partners in the project, with special focus on the Universities of peripheral areas of the region, whose geographical position or the volume of students have been unable to develop their internationalization in the same way as capital universities or major universities in the ...
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Empowering climate resilience

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

By focusing on urban resilience, CARE addresses one of the most urgent topics in EU and Latin America (LA). Most LA countries are dealing with climate risk management issues, but they lack a holistic and common approach to resilience. International cooperation seems then the best-fit environment where to develop joint learning tools, go in depth on peculiar research and deliver support to policy m ...
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Biomass incorporation in AsphalT manufacturing Towards Less Emissions of CO2 (LIFE BATTLE-CO2)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Background The LIFE BATTLE-CO2 project is a demonstration project that will examine the technical, economic and environmental feasibility of the substitution of fossil fuels in asphalt mix manufacturing plants, specifically in the three main processes from which emissions are generated: aggregate drying, bitumen heating and electricity generation. ...
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Bridging digital storytelling and business modelling for developing entrepreneurship training for adults from rural and isolated areas

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

The Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan points out that to bring Europe back to growth and higher levels of employment we need to “bring about an entrepreneurial revolution in Europe”. It also states that investing in entrepreneurship education is one of the “highest return investments Europe can make”. Europe has to open up paths into entrepreneurship also for groups that are underrepresented among ...
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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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Qualificação Profissional e Cidadania - Um Desafio para os Jovens Europeus

Start date: Sep 26, 2016, End date: Sep 25, 2018,

The Consortium entities, as well as seven international intermediary organisations and dozens of other partners (companies and training centres), will all be involved in the preparation, mobilities and evaluation phases of this project and will be interconnected to provide project support in the host countries.This project aims to achieve and develop the following objectives: - To Promote the empl ...
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Mind Safety- Safety Matters!

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

According to Eurostat (2009) Health problems related with working conditions affected 8,6% EU workers and 3,2% suffered an accident at work during the annual working time, (this means 7 million europeean workers). The continuous increase of young workers ( between 15 and 24 years ) in the world economy , raises special concerns in the safety and health. Younger workers are more likely to be vict ...
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Organizational success through employee satisfaction

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Some companies are truly holding their own in today’s economic climate. They are continuing to exceed customer expectations, maintain employee productivity, and innovate to gain a competitive edge— all within the confines of reductions in staff, budgets, and income. They are cultivating a positive organizational climate in a negative economic one. Creating a positive organizational climate is not ...
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STS Education models to transmit to society the challenge of global change in the ocean

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

The EDUCO2CEAN project is promoted by Portuguese Association for Environmental Education – ASPEA (Portugal), the International Campus of Excellence - Campus do Mar (Spain), the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology of Scotland, the Portuguese National Agency for Scientific and Technologic Culture – Ciência Viva, the secondary education centres IES Virxe do Mar and Ribeira do Louro (Spain) and ...
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