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Improving Drought Resistance in Crops and Arabidopsis (IDRICA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

Drought is the first cause of agricultural losses globally, and represents a major threat to food security. Currently, plant biotechnology stands as the most promising strategy to produce crops capable of producing high yields in fed rain conditions. From the study of whole-plants, the main underlying mechanism for responses to drought stress has been uncovered, and multiple drought resistance ge ...
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Photoacoustic/Ultrasound Mammoscopy for evaluating screening-detected abnormalities in the breast (PAMMOTH)

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

X-ray mammography is the mainstay of breast cancer screening programs. It is estimated that between 20 - 50% of abnormal screening mammograms will prove to be negative. The paradigm in diagnosis is to establish whether a lesion is benign or malignant. All the imaging techniques conventionally used today – diagnostic x-ray, ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging have many limitations, leadi ...
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Supporting Urban Integrated Transport Systems: Transferable tools for authorities (SUITS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

SUITS takes a sociotechnical approach to capacity building in Local Authorities and transport stakeholder organisations with special emphasis on the transfer of learning to smaller sized cities, making them more effective and resilient to change in the judicious implementation of sustainable transport measures. Key outputs will be a validated capacity building program for transport departments, an ...
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Multimodal, Functional Bio-Photonic Imaging (FBI)

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

FBI fosters education of ESRs on an emerging, multimodal imaging platform and its translation into clinical and biological applications. In FBI, 15 ESRs are trained at world-leading European academic institutions and companies, thus forming strong interdisciplinary relations between industry, technical sciences and clinical end-users.Optical imaging has huge potential to address unmet clinical nee ...
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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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Advanced direct biogas fuel processor for robust and cost-effective decentralised hydrogenproduction (BIOROBURplus)

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

BioROBURplus builds upon the closing FCH JU BioROBUR project (direct biogas oxidative steam reformer) to develop an entire pre-commercial fuel processor delivering 50 Nm3/h (i.e. 107 kg/d) of 99.9% hydrogen from different biogas types (landfill gas, anaerobic digestion of organic wastes, anaerobic digestion of wastewater-treatment sludges) in a cost-effective manner.The energy efficiency of biogas ...
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Baltic pilot cases on reduction of emissions by substitution of hazardous chemicals and resource efficiency (LIFE Fit for REACH)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Background Some harmful chemical substances produced by industrial activities remain in the environment for a very long time once released. There, they can accumulate via the food chain and, if toxic, exert harmful effects on living organisms. These so-called persistent bio-accumulative toxic (PBT) substances can also be transported long distances from th ...
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Transforming Intangible Folkloric Performing Arts into Tangible Choreographic Digital Objects (Terpsichore)

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

"Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) content means "the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith". Although, ICH content, especially traditional folklore performing arts, is commonly deemed worthy of preservation by UNESCO (Convention for the Safeguarding of ICH) and the EU Treaty, most of th ...
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Demonstration of soft stimulation treatments of geothermal reservoirs (DESTRESS)

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

DESTRESS is aimed at creating EGS (Enhanced geothermal systems) reservoirs with sufficient permeability, fracture orientation and spacing for economic use of underground heat. The concepts are based on experience in previous projects, on scientific progress and developments in other fields, mainly the oil & gas sector. Recently developed stimulation methods will be adapted to geothermal needs, app ...
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New commercial EUropean RICE (Oryza sativa) harbouring salt tolerance alleles to protect the rice sector against climate change and apple snail (Pomacea insularum) invasion (NEURICE)

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

About 2/3 of the rice consumed by European citizens is produced in EU, and its productivity is affected by abiotic and biotic stresses. Of particular concern, global temperature has increased over the last century, especially during the last 50 years (0.13° C / decade). One consequence has been a clear tendency toward salinization, which affects rice as one of the most salt sensitive crop in the r ...
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Glass bottles reuse in southern Europe wine sector (LIFE-reWINE)

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

Background Although recycling of packaging waste has been increased in the EU in recent years, the situation varies significantly between Member States; some countries such as Spain still recycle less than a third of their packaging waste. A large part of this waste stream is thus still being disposed in landfills and waste incinerators, causing significa ...
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Crossing the Mediterranean: towards investment and integration

Start date: Oct 15, 2014, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

REFERENCE: 553641-EPP-1-2014-1-IT-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB_MIMTITLE: Crossing the Mediterranean: towards Investment and Integration, MIMObjectiveThe aim of the programme Crossing the Mediterranean: towards Investment and Integration (MIM) is to develop a professional profile which is flexible enough to adjust to the Mediterranean as a changing environment; a self-aware expert able to understand his/her plac ...
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EDUCATION POLICIES FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

Start date: Oct 15, 2014, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

...nd skills depending on students’ academic and vocational preferences and their interest in particular issues and regions of the world. Students will spend the first semester together in Barcelona (UAB) and will be able to choose electives in the second semester in Oslo (UiO) or Amsterdam (UvA), before coming together again for a Summer School at the University of Malta (UM). During the second year ...
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Virtual Factory Open Operating System (vf-OS)

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

The primary outcomes of vf-OS are an:- Open Operating System (vf-OS) and Software Development Kit (OAK) for Factories of the Future that aims to be the reference system software for collaborative manufacturing and logistics processes including its associated resources and data- Open vf-OS Platform, including a Multi-sided application marketplace and development studio, that aims to become the Apps ...
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Master in Photonics Engineering, Nanophotonics and Biophotonics

Start date: Sep 15, 2015, End date: Sep 14, 2019,

Objective The Europhotonics Master programme aims at giving an extensive two‐year teaching program focusing on advanced research and applied topics in Optics/Photonics and related fields. Course durationTwo years (120 ECTS)Brief DescriptionThe Europhotonics Master covers one of the most expanding fields in physics and material sciences, dealing with the control, manipulation and monitoring of ligh ...
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mobile learning in higher education

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

Mobile technologies are an important part of our daily life and we carry them all the time with us. Mobile learning is already used a lot in informal and non-formal learning, but in the context of formal learning it´s till now not much used. The projekt MINE (mobile learning in higher education) aims to increase the use of mobile technologies in higher education. it´s not about developing a new ap ...
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Guidelines for the work inclusion of the refugees and the asylum seekers

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

The year 2015 ended with a record number of people forced to flee from their country because of war, famine and poverty: according to the UNO’ High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the refugees in the world are more than 60 millions. In 2015, according to Frontex data, the illegal entries in Europe were more than 1.5 million, five times more than the 280,000 in 2014.The migration crisis in the M ...
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Developing an open online course in European social pedagogy

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

As a holistic, relationship-based way of working with children, young people and adults in educational and care settings from early years, school support, foster care, youth justice, residential child care, family support, support for people with disabilities and elderly care, social pedagogy is well established in many European countries. Given the inadequate educational and well-being outcomes f ...
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Multilit Moocs

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

Within the European Union, teaching staff have been confronted with great challenges in heterogenous classrooms. One of these challenges relates to identifying suitable programmes for the teaching of language and literacy.Children may have a number of reasons for facing difficulties in this area, e.g. learning disabilities, a right to an individual special educational needs programme, social disad ...
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Cross-curricular teaching

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

The CROSSCUT project aims at supporting secondary-level teachers’ professional development by training them to develop and implement innovative cross-curricular approaches, in order to enhance the acquisition of transversal key competences by pupils. Transversal competences are not associated with school subjects while secondary teachers are often trained in traditional academic disciplines. There ...
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Diversity in the Cultures of Phyiscs

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

The establishment of a Strategic Partnership “Diversity in the Cultures of Physics” seeks to build a transnational network for launching several key actions geared towards improving the gender balance in physics and its subfields. The main network activities will focus on creating spaces for young women to consider physics as a field of academic training and drawing upon the diversity of physics f ...
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Audio Description: A Laboratory for the Development of a new Professional Profile

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

Despite the incessant advocacy of an inclusive society and the growing need for accessible audiovisual (AV) products, the professional figures working in the field of audio description (AD) are still few, often untrained and not well defined. Furthermore, the provision of AD – i.e. verbal descriptions illustrating the visual elements of an AV product for the blind and visually impaired community – ...
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NANOSCIENCE FOUNDRIES AND FINE ANALYSIS - EUROPE (NFFA-Europe)

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

NFFA-EUROPE will implement the first open-access research infrastructure as a platform supporting comprehensive projects for multidisciplinary research at the nanoscale extending form synthesis to nanocharacterization to theory and numerical simulation. The integration and the extension of scope of existing specialized infrastructures within an excellence network of knowledge and know-how will ena ...
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Novel Productivity Enhancement Concept for a Sustainable Utilization of a Geothermal Resource (SURE)

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

Within the project SURE (Novel Productivity Enhancement Concept for a Sustainable Utilization of a Geothermal Resource) the radial water jet drilling (RJD) technology will be investigated and tested as a method to increase inflow into insufficiently producing geothermal wells. Radial water jet drilling uses the power of a focused jet of fluids, applied to a rock through a coil inserted in an exist ...
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Combined Ultrasonic and Enzyme treatment of Lignocellulosic Feedstock as Substrate for Sugar Based Biotechnological Applications (US4GREENCHEM)

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

US4GREENCHEM aims to design a biorefinery concept for the complete valorization of lignocellulosic biomass that is energy- and cost- efficient and based solely on green technologies. The concept combines mechanical pretreatment of the substrate with the aid of ultrasound to overcome its recalcitrance and disrupt inhibitors with mild CO2 hemicellulose degradation and with the enzymatic recovery of ...
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Creating a framework and developing contents for tomorrow’s youth centers

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

“Creating a framework and developing contents for tomorrow’s youth centers” consists of equipping youth centers and youth organisations which are partners in the consortium with a series of competences and skills for young people and youth workers and working methods and tools for the same categories adapted to the needs of the future. More precisely, the application aims at creating a framework f ...
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Be a Winner In elite Sport and Employment before and after athletic Retirement

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

The general aim of the ‘Be a Winner In Sport and Employment before and after athletic Retirement’ (B-WISER) project is to provide EU Member States with empirical data, conceptualisations, tools and evidence-based practices relevant to, and enabling them to create the optimal environment to enhance (former) elite athletes’ employability and employment. The partnership will bring together 13 partner ...
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Play for Inclusion

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

A. CONTEXTWhite economy sector is becoming central in the cultural and economic dynamics of the world. Working in a socially inclusive world means to give the opportunity to all to be equally citizens. It is estimated that White Economy in Italy has an economic value 290 billions (CENSIS) with 3.8 million employees. It refers to services, products, technologies and professionals for the care and p ...
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TURISTI non PER CASO

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

A. CONTEXT The Italian accommodation offer is leader in Europe for quality and dimension. Tourism sector has always been and it is still a solid engine for economic recovery of European Union. It is important, in period of economic crisis, to invest in the education and training of young people who want to work in tourism sector. In order to increase sector competitiveness, is it essential to ensu ...
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Audiovisu@ls

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

A. CONTEXTAudiovisuals market, belong traditional sectors, is booming in Europe and world wide, thanks to flourishing of integrated market “Online Audiovisuals”, which match 4 publishing markets: television, internet, smartphone apps, home video.Sector enterprises are always looking for increasingly competent staff, able to compete with international scope productions.Training offered by the proje ...
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Power Generation

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

A. CONTEXTEnvironmental sustainability, efficient use of energy resources and renewable energies are European priorities (European Strategy 2020).EC – DG Employment, Social Affaires and Inclusion states that more than 20 million workers in Europe are engaged in activities connected to environmental sustainability; moreover, the request of Green Jobs will increase.The project contributes to this tr ...
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A Reconfigurable robot workCell for fast set-up of automated assembly processes in SMEs (ReconCell)

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

ReconCell develops a new type of robot workcell, its required process infrastructures and the economic framework for automated robot assembly, especially designed for the needs of SMEs. SMEs would benefit from robotic automation, but often cannot use it due to set-up & maintenance complexity. This requires expert knowledge and time for configuration and programming, which is too costly for them. R ...
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ACACIA: Centros de cooperación para el fomento, fortalecimiento y transferencia de buenas prácticas que Apoyan, Cultivan, Adaptan, Comunican, Innovan y Acogen a la Comunidad Universitaria

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

Eradicating all forms of exclusion, discrimination and marginalisation that result from disparities and/or inequalities, as well as reducing the student drop out rate remain key challenges for the higher education (HE) sector in Latin America. Through the design and testing of educational centers for support and development (CADEP), the ACACIA project aims to foster solidarity and cooperation amon ...
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EUCA-INVEST (Investing in Entrepreneurial universities in Caucasus and Central Asia)

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

In conditions of very low youth labor force participation and unappealing perspectives in employment upon graduation, universities lack capacity to equip their students with entrepreneurial skills. Lack of internships and other professional training opportunities during studies, among others, lead to discouragement, lack of motivation and inactivity among the youth. Large group of GE and KG youth ...
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Student Profile for Enhancing Engineering Tutoring

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

This project goal emerges from the potential synergy among a) the huge amount of academic data actually existing at the academic departments of faculties and schools, and b) the maturity of data science in order to provide algorithms and tools to analyse and extract information from what is more commonly referred to Big Data. A rich picture can be extracted from this data if conveniently processe ...
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Sustainable Production of Industrial Recovered Energy using energy dissipative and storage technologies (SUSPIRE)

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

SusPIRE project assimilates in its conception the sustainable energy use challenge described in the European SETPLAN and in SPIRE road map. It addresses its efforts to energy intensive industries and within this segment market to energy recovery from residual heat streams. To achieve this goal a two clearly differentiated working areas will be key aspects of this project. Technology area will in ...
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Eco-Solar Factory - 40%plus eco-efficiency gains in the photovoltaic value chain with minimised resource and energy consumption by closed loop systems (Eco-Solar)

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

EcoSolar envisions an integrated value chain to manufacture and implement solar panels in the most ecologic way by maximising resource efficiency, taking into account reuse of materials during production and repurposing solar panel components at end of life stage. EcoSolar will demonstrate that during the lifetime of a solar electricity producing field, individual panels can be monitored, allowing ...
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WItnessing Domestic Violence and audit Education in school system

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

...The Partnership of the project is constituted by Spazio Donna Onlus – Caserta – IT (as applicant), Istituto Comprensoriale Scolastico L. Van Bethoven – Casapulla – IT, University of Barcelona UAB – ES -, Liceul George Calinescu – Constanta – RO, Institut Escola Industrial - Sabbadel – ES, Agrupamento de escolas Dr Costa Matos – Vila Nova de Gaia – PT.
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Crowns and Pawns

Start date: Mar 3, 2015, End date: Sep 2, 2018,

“Crowns and Pawns” is a point&click adventure game, based on European history with added fictional events. It is a story driven game with puzzles and mini games. It will be a premium game with estimated gameplay of 4-6 hrs.The game is targeted at PC (Windows, Mac), current gen consoles (Xbox One and PlayStation 4) and tablets (iPad, Android, Win10 tablets).The game takes place in Europe and explor ...
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Masks of Magic

Start date: Mar 2, 2015, End date: Sep 1, 2018,

It‘s a story of great magician Toguran and his disciple Okasgiten. Okasgiten, in a search of the forgotten ancient culture, has found the Magic Mask. The Mask has given him magic powers and opened him the Path of Wisdom, which was created by Toguran twelve thousand years ago. Toguran did that with the hope to find himself a disciple. Within the path Toguran has hidden 32 more Masks. Each Mask co ...
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