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Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys (HEALS)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,
Assessing individual exposure to environmental stressors and predicting health outcomes implies that both environmental exposures and epi/genetic variations are reliably measured simultaneously. HEALS (Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys) brings together in an innovative approach a comprehensive array of novel technologies, data analysis and modeling tools th ...
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OSH+ for the European Agriculture sector - Stimulating growth in rural areas through capacity building for providers (and beneficiaries) of occupational medicine and OSH services
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
According to the 2012 data of EUROSTAT/ESAW for EU-28, agriculture occupies the 4th place (out of 22 NACE categories analyzed) in terms of number of both non-fatal and fatal accidents. Within the 5 project countries accidents' statistics published by their Labor Inspections show a worse picture, agriculture is in the top 3 contributors of non-fatal & fatal work accidents. Moreover when it comes t ...
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Development and implementation of Grouping and Safe-by-Design approaches within regulatory frameworks (NanoREG II)
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
One of the greatest challenges facing regulators in the ever changing landscape of novel nano-materials is how to design and implement a regulatory process which is robust enough to deal with a rapidly diversifying system of manufactured nanomaterials (MNM) over time. Not only does the complexity of the MNM present a problem for regulators, the validity of data decreases with time, so that the wel ...
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Assessment and mitigation of nano-enabled product risks on human and environmental health: Development of new strategies and creation of a digital guidance tool for nanotech industries (GUIDENANO)
Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,
The main objective of GUIDEnano is to develop innovative methodologies to evaluate and manage human and environmental health risks of nano-enabled products, considering the whole product life cycle. A strategy to identify hot spots for release of nanomaterials (NMs) will be followed by decision trees to guide on the use of (computational) exposure models and, when necessary, design of cost-effecti ...
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Biological Foundation for the Safety Classification of Engineered Nanomaterials (ENM): Systems Biology Approaches to Understand Interactions of ENM with Living Organisms and the Environment (NANOSOLUTIONS)
Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,
The main objective of this research proposal is to identify and elaborate those characteristics of ENM that determine their biological hazard potential. This potential includes the ability of ENM to induce damage at the cellular, tissue, or organism levels by interacting with cellular structures leading to impairment of key cellular functions. These adverse effects may be mediated by ENM-induced a ...
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SUSTAINABLE NANOTECHNOLOGIES (SUN)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,
SUN (Sustainable Nanotechnologies) is the first project addressing the entire lifecycle of nanotechnologies to ensure holistic nanosafety evaluation and incorporate the results into tools and guidelines for sustainable manufacturing, easily accessible by industries, regulators and other stakeholders. The project will incorporate scientific findings from over 30 European projects, national and inte ...
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A common European approach to the regulatory testing of nanomaterials (NANOREG)
Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,
The innovative and economic potential of Manufactured Nano Materials (MNMs) is threatened by a limited understanding of the related EHS issues. While toxicity data is continuously becoming available, the relevance to regulators is often unclear or unproven. The shrinking time to market of new MNM drives the need for urgent action by regulators. NANoREG is the first FP7 project to deliver the answe ...
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Promoting the Implementation of Safe by Design (PROSAFE)
Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2017,
The CSA links different initiatives and facilitates the integration of results from these initiatives, so that a maximum use of these results can benefit the regulatory process. The CSA is designed to facilitate this process and show European leadership on chemical safety, including nano’s. The aim of this activity is to coordinate and support for risk assessment, management and governance by stre ...
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Managing Risks of Nanoparticles (MARINA)
Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,
While there are standard procedures for product life cycle analysis, exposure, hazard, and risk assessment for traditional chemicals, is not yet clear how these procedures need to be modified to address all the novel properties of nanomaterials. There is a need to develop specific reference methods for all the main steps in managing the potential risk of ENM. The aim of MARINA is to develop such ...
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A pan-European infrastructure for quality in nanomaterials safety testing (QUALITYNANO)
Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2015,
Nanoscale objects interact with living organisms in a fundamentally new manner, ensuring that a fruitful marriage of nanotechnology and biology will long outlast short term imperatives. Therefore, investment in an infrastructure to drive scientific knowledge of the highest quality will have both immediate benefits of supporting the safety assessment of legacy nanomaterials, as well as pointing tow ...
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Urban Reduction of GHG Emissions in China and Europe (URGENCHE)
Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
In URGENCHE, a team of internationally recognised scientists in the areas of health risk assessment, urban energy demand and supply scenarios, urban planning, environmental science and epidemiology - in close collaboration with city partners in both Europe and China - develops and applies a methodological framework for the assessment of the overall risks and benefits of alternative greenhouse gas ...
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Sustainability of miners' well-being, health and work ability in the Barents region (MineHealth)
Start date: Mar 30, 2012, End date: Dec 29, 2014,
The project will provide long term sustainability of well-being, health and work ability among workers in the mining industry on the Barents region. Work in the mining industry situated in the Barents region is characterized by exposure to harsh climatic conditions. Therefore specific knowledge is needed about the separate and combined risks that are unique for the regional mining industry. The p ...
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Transport related Air Pollution and Health impacts – Integrated Methodologies for Assessing Particulate Matter (TRANSPHORM)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,
TRANSPHORM brings together leading air quality and health researchers and users to improve the knowledge of transport related airborne particulate matter (PM) and its impact on human health and to develop and implement assessment tools for scales ranging from city to Europe. Over four years, TRANSPHORM will aim to develop and implement an integrated methodology to assess the health impacts of PM a ...
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Improving quality and safety in the hospital: The link between organisational culture, burnout, and quality of care (ORCAB)
Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2014,
To date, relatively little evidence has been published as to what represents an effective and efficient way to improve quality of care and safety in hospitals. This vacuum in the research means there is a significant opportunity to design quality of care and safety interventions in collaboration with the relevant stakeholders, which address the relevant organisational and individual factors in a h ...
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Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon (UHI)
Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2014,
As population of our cities grow, so does land area and this result in increase of an average temperature. The buildings and roads absorb temperature produced during the day, like giant heaters, and store it. The energy is then released during the night time. This often means a big difference in the temperature between city and its surrounding areas.This phenomenon is called the Urban Heat Island ...
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Novel Concepts, Methods, and Technologies for the Production of Portable, Easy-to-Use Devices for the Measurement and Analysis of Airborne Engineered Nanoparticles in Workplace Air (NANODEVICE)
Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,
Due to their unique properties, engineered nanoparticles (ENP) are now used for a myriad of novel applications with great economic and technological importance. However, some of these properties, especially their surface reactivity, have raised health concerns, which have prompted scientists, regulators, and industry to seek consensus protocols for the safe production and use of the different form ...
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Demonstration of a study to coordinate and perform human biomonitoring on a European scale (DEMOCOPHESII)
Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,
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Human Biomonitoring involves collecting tissue samples, such as urine, blood, hair, saliva or nails, from volunteers and measuring chemical uptake and effect known as biomarkers in those indicators.
For a given chemical, human biomonitoring surveys can highlight spatial trends of exposure, help uncover contributing lifestyle factors, and indi ...
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European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)
Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2012,
"European policy making is hampered by considerable uncertainty about the magnitude and nature of the impacts of long term exposure to air pollution on human health. ESCAPE is a collaboration of more than 30 European cohort studies including some 900,000 subjects. It is aimed at quantifying health impacts of air pollution and at reducing uncertainty. ESCAPE will also test new hypotheses on specifi ...
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RISK ASSESSMENT OF ENGINEERED NANOPARTICLES (ENPRA)
Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,
...ssential to ascertain whether exposure to ENP can lead to possible health risks for workers and consumers. We have formed a consortium of well-known scientists from European Universities and Research Institutes, with over 100 publications in the field of Nanotoxicology. Our aim is to develop an approach for the Risk Assessment of ENP (ENPRA). Our objectives are: (i) to obtain a bank of commercial ...
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Harsh Weather Testing Network
Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Oct 30, 2012,
The purpose of the project is to create a novel transnational network between the project partners and their clients (SME’s) and find an activate other organizations that give testing services to join the network. The meaning of the network is to create a totally new system for developing and strengthening the harsh weather testing activities in the northern periphery region. During the project th ...
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Flexible working culture - Rethinking of work, place, time and life (FLEX)
Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,
The development of attractive island communities requires competitiveness and innovation. It also requires the development and recognition of island communities and the archipelago as a whole, in regional, economical, and political terms. Because of the geographic heterogeneity of the islands as well as the regional inequality within the archipelago, flexible work arrangements offer one possibil ...
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European Network on the Health and Environmental Impact of Nanomaterials (NanoImpactNet)
Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,
Recent technological advances allow the targeted production of objects and materials in the nanoscale (smaller than 100 nm). Nanomaterials have chemical, physical and bioactive characteristics, which are different from those of larger entities of the same materials. Nanoparticles can pass through body barriers. This is interesting for medical applications, but it raises concerns about their health ...
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European observatory for science-based and economic expert analysis of nanotechnologies, cognisant of barriers and risks, to engage with relevant stakeholders regarding benefits and opportunities (observatoryNANO)
Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,
observatoryNANO brings together leading EU organizations who collectively have expertise in the technological; economic; societal/ethical; health, safety, and environmental analysis of nanotechnologies. Its primary aim is to develop appropriate methodologies to link scientific and technological development of nanotechnologies with socio-economic impacts. Both of these aspects will be enhanced by e ...
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Comprehensive assessment of hazardous effects of engineered nanomaterials on the immune system (NANOMMUNE)
Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,
...human health, and the dissemination of our findings. Through our comprehensive approach, which combines analytical procedures from many different disciplines and leading experts from several national institutes devoted to occupational and environmental safety, we aim to establish a panel of read-out systems for the prediction of the toxic potential of existing and emerging ENs, thus enabling a con ...
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The cooperation for safety in sparsely populated areas 2.4 (CoSafe)
Start date: May 31, 2008, End date: May 30, 2011,
The CoSafe project aims to increase the preparedness for major accidents and extreme situations in rural areas and to develop emergency medical care (EMC) in extreme conditions in the NPP region. Improved preparedness rescue and prehospital capacity will as well increase basic safety for the tourists as well as the inhabitants in the NPP region. This com-prises also the development of: * collabora ...
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Extreme Weather Conditions
Start date: Aug 31, 2004, End date: Aug 31, 2006,
Cold is a natural part of the environment in the northern regions of Europe and can be considered as a risk factor, be it encountered in the work environment or during leisure activities. In a wide range of occupational areas, such as rescue, cold and freezer room work, fishing, tourism etc., problems linked to the cold are a daily occurrence. This project aims to focus on extreme cold conditions ...
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Development of Occupational Health and Safety in the Republic of Karelia
Start date: Jul 31, 2002, End date: Feb 27, 2006,
The central monitoring measurements of occupational health and safety, statistics on accidents and occupational illnesses had observed very large diff erences between Finland and the Republic of Karelia, which, according to preliminary and individual workplace reports and measurements, should not have existed. Th e underlying reasons for such huge diff erences had not been examined earlier. Th e p ...
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The project aims to develop new innovative on-line standards and Vocational Certificate for Trainers and officers working within the field of Social, Economic, Environmental and Physical Regeneration. The qualification will provide the beneficiaries with the knowledge to undertake their roles and provide them with the skills to develop volunteers and trainers from primarily voluntary, community an ...
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Bullying at workplaces represents a big problem for many employees. Research studies document serious negative consequences from bullying, for the victims, as well as their colleagues and the enterprise they are employed by. Research indicates that as much as five per cent of employees perceived themselves as being bullied at the workplace (Eurofound). Bullying and badly managed conflicts lowers t ...
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Health Reporting Training Project
Start date: Nov 1, 2010,
WHO defines health communication as a key strategy to inform the public and maintain health issues on the public agenda (WHO, 1996). The majority of journalists, as research shows, lacks specialized health training and do not understand the complexities of scientific subjects (Smith, 2008; Dentzer, 2009). Inadequate, misleading or incomplete health coverage constitutes a public health threat (Voss ...
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Training professionals to bring together medical cultures in Europe : A training programme on a European scale for healthcare professionals, bringing together the different medical cultures of the continent. This project started in 2000 and lasted 36 months.
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This project aims to equip teachers, HR professionals and care workers to understand the factors that are critical to life span mental health maintenance and promotion in schools, workplaces and older people’s services and to initiate, implement and monitor policy and programme development within their organisations. This requires:1. An understanding of the distinction between mental health and m ...
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Training on Health & Safety for workers in the Environment Industrial Sector
Start date: Nov 1, 2011,
THESEIS aims at developing, testing and disseminating an innovative training model in the field of occupational Health and Safety of workers in the pollution management sector of eco-industry.The increasing demand for this material can be attributed to several factors: People working in eco-industry face specific risks related to their activities; most of the companies of the sector are SMEs; ther ...
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In the context of the global marketplace and the need to remain competitive, inappropriate use of alcohol and drugs by employees is presenting an increasing number of European employers with problems in their workplaces. These include increased sickness absence, lower levels of performance and reduced productivity of staff. Line managers and supervisors have a key role to play in developing and pr ...
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The project aims at compiling the expert-knowledge of integrating Occupational Safety and Health into education and training in Europe and to promote the use of good practice across national and cultural boundaries. The project is aimed at lecturers and trainers who train intermediaries in occupational safety and health, and at decision-makers and policymakers in OSH and vocational training policy ...
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EIPEN is the acronym for “European Interprofessional Education Network for vocational training in health and social care”. Eipen will establish a sustainable and inclusive network of people and organisations in the six partner countries (UK, SE, HU, PL, FI, EL)to share and develop effective interprofessional vocational training curricula, training methods and materials for improving collaborative ...
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WO-MEN: Gender Equality Creates Democracy
Start date: Oct 1, 2003,
Through social partnership, bridge-building and knowledge sharing, directly involving representatives of civil society and the political world, the WO-MEN project aimed at enhancing learning opportunities for decision and policy makers, specifically in the realm of gender equality. Following an initial needs analysis, a comparative review of gender equality structures was undertaken leading to th ...
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...ualification of instructors and trainers in safety and health. Today, almost 50 partners from 20 European countries plus South Korea and USA are involved in ENETOSH. The network is coordinated by the Institute for Work and Health (IAG) of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV).
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The proposal with the title “Delopment of professional education standard, quality criteria and training tools pakcage on safe work with asbestos addresses the topic of safe work in the industrial sector which has to do with asbestos and its effects. The proposal refers to the EU dircetive on demolition, handling and storing of asbestos and on the need for information and training for employees on ...
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The overall aim of the project is to improve, adapt and transfer an existing international blended learning training programme in workplace health promotion, named ELWHP and developed already in Romania, for a number of 30 Slovenian Occupational, traffic and sports medicine physicians.
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