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European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The overarching goal of the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) is to generate knowledge to inform the safe management of chemicals and so protect human health. We will use human biomonitoring to understand human exposure to chemicals and resulting health impacts and will communicate with policy makers to ensure that our results are exploited in the design of new chemicals policies an ...
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Network of Leading European AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Mountains to Oceans from the Arctic to the Mediterranean (AQUACOSM)

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

Experimentation in mesocosms is arguably the single most powerful approach to obtain a mechanistic quantitative understanding of ecosystem-level impacts of stressors in complex systems, especially when embedded in long-term observations, theoretical models and experiments conducted at other scales. AQUACOSM builds on an established European network of mesocosm research infrastructures (RI), the FP ...
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A Citizen Observatory and Innovation Marketplace for Land Use and Land Cover Monitoring (LANDSENSE)

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

Currently within the EU’s Earth Observation (EO) monitoring framework, there is a need for low-cost methods for acquiring high quality in-situ data to create accurate and well-validated environmental monitoring products. The aim of the LandSense project is to build a far reaching citizen observatory for Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) monitoring that will also function as a technology innovation ma ...
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PLAtform for Climate Adaptation and Risk reDuction (PLACARD)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2020,

Significant challenges exist towards strengthening the Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) communities for coherent, mutually reinforcing and pragmatic planning and action. PLACARD seeks to support the coordination of these two communities. PLACARD will tackle current challenges by 1) providing a common ‘space’ where CCA and DRR communities can come together, share ex ...
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A Large-Scale Systems Approach to Flood Risk Assessment and Management (SYSTEM-RISK)

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

Flood risk systems are characterised by physical and socio-economic processes acting at different space-time scales, by non-stationary and non-linear behaviour, and by a significant degree of interdependence between processes. This may lead to surprising developments and unanticipated side effects of risk reduction measures. A novel systems approach is needed that captures this dynamics and accoun ...
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ECOPOTENTIAL: IMPROVING FUTURE ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS THROUGH EARTH OBSERVATIONS (ECOPOTENTIAL)

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

Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential services to human societies. Anthropogenic pressures, however, cause serious threat to ecosystems, leading to habitat degradation, increased risk of collapse and loss of ecosystem services. Knowledge-based conservation, management and restoration policies are needed to improve ecosystem benefits in face of increasing pressures. ECOPOTENTIAL makes ...
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European Long-Term Ecosystem and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure (eLTER)

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

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

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

ENVRIPLUS is a cluster of research infrastructures (RIs) for Environmental and Earth System sciences, built around ESFRI roadmap and associating leading e-infrastructures and Integrating Activities together with technical specialist partners. ENVRIPLUS is driven by 3 overarching goals: 1) favoring cross-fertilization between infrastructures, 2) implementing innovative concepts and devices across R ...
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Expertise hub for a market uptake of energy-efficient supermarkets by awareness raising, knowledge transfer and pre-preparation of an EU Ecolabel (SuperSmart)

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

Supermarkets comprise various technical disciplines: buildings, heating-, cooling- and ventilations systems. Over one million supermarkets across Europe require ca. 4% of the total electricity. New integrated technologies for more efficient supermarkets are now available and efficiency improvements up to 30% have already been demonstrated. These heating and cooling technologies offer in the mid-te ...
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Intelligent Assessment of Pharmaceutical in the Environment (IPIE)

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

Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can be released to the natural environment during the manufacturing process, following use by patients or when unused medicines are disposed of. As APIs are biologically active compounds concerns have been raised about the potential effects of APIs in the environment on human and environmental health. Over the past 15 years, a substantial amount of work has ...
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Preventing and Remediating degradation of soils in Europe through Land Care (RECARE)

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

Although there is a large body of knowledge available on soil threats in Europe, this knowledge is fragmented and incomplete, in particular regarding the complexity and functioning of soil systems and their interaction with human activities. The main aim of RECARE is to develop effective prevention, remediation and restoration measures using an innovative trans-disciplinary approach, actively inte ...
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Full scale demonstration of energy positive sewage treatment plant concepts towards market penetration (POWERSTEP)

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

The municipal wastewater in Europe contains a potential chemical energy of 87,500 GWh per year in its organic fraction, which is equivalent to the output of 12 large power stations. Due to the currently applied technologies and related energy loss at each process step, wastewater treatment in Europe today consumes instead the equivalent of more than 2 power stations. Many operators are thus target ...
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EUDAT2020

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

EUDAT2020 brings together a unique consortium of e-infrastructure providers, research infrastructure operators, and researchers from a wide range of scientific disciplines under several of the ESFRI themes, working together to address the new data challenge. In most research communities, there is a growing awareness that the “rising tide of data” will require new approaches to data management and ...
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INtegrated Spatial PlannIng, land use and soil management Research ActTION (INSPIRATION)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The aim of INSPIRATION is to adopt a funder and end-user demand-driven approach to establish and promote the adoption of the knowledge creation, transfer and implementation agenda for land use, land-use changes and soil management in the light of current and future societal challenges. Main objectives are: • Formulate, consult on and revise an end-user oriented strategic research agenda (SRA), • S ...
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Advancing the European Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure towards ESFRI (Advance_eLTER)

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

Advance_eLTER marks a crucial step in building the distributed European Research Infrastructure of Long-Term Ecosystem Research sites and socio-ecological research platforms (eLTER RI) to provide highest quality data and services complementary to the European and global environmental RIs. The project will conduct important conceptual work and preparatory steps towards enabling European-scale inves ...
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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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Assessing and Monitoring the Impacts of Genetically modified plants on Agro-ecosystems (AMIGA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2016,

The project aims at 1 providing baseline data on biodiversity in agro-ecosystems in the EU, 2 translating regional protection goals in measurable assessment endpoints, 3 defining lists of suitable bioindicators for various European regions, 4 improving knowledge on potential long term environmental effects of genetically modified plants (GMPs), 5 testing the efficacy of the EFSA Guidance Document ...
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Rotating bioreactors for sustainable hydrogen sulphide removal (Biosur)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Background People living in industrial tannery districts, especially those close to wastewater treatment plants, have traditionally experienced poor air quality and odour problems caused by emissions of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and other sulphurous compounds. The Santa Croce sull’Arno tannery district in Tuscany produces more than 80% of all Italian foot ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate -III (MACC-III)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

MACC-III is the last of the pre-operational stages in the development of the Copernicus Atmosphere Service. Its overall institutional objective is to function as the bridge between the developmental precursor projects - GEMS, PROMOTE, MACC and MACC-II- and the Atmosphere Service envisaged to form part of Copernicus Operations.MACC-III will provide continuity of the atmospheric services provided by ...
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Chemical Assessment according to Legislation Enhancing the In silico DOcumentation and Safe use (CALEIDOS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Background REACH (Regulation (EC) 1907/2006 on the registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals), which came into force in 2007, sets out a new regulatory regime for chemicals in Europe. It requires manufacturers and importers of chemicals to submit hazard assessments and safe-use information, and it is based on the principle that the use of ch ...
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Distributed Infrastructure for EXPErimentation in Ecosystem Research (EXPEER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2015,

EXPEER will bring together, major observational, experimental, analytical and modelling facilities in ecosystem science in Europe. By uniting these highly instrumented ecosystem research facilities under the same umbrella and with a common vision, EXPEER will form a key contribution to structuring and improving the European Research Area (ERA) within terrestrial ecosystem research.EXPEER builds ...
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EUropean DATa (EUDAT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

EUDAT is our proposal for the next stage in the realisation of the vision of "data as infrastructure". The EUDAT consortium includes representatives from each stage of the value chain that has evolved to deliver scientific knowledge to researchers, citizens, industry and society as a whole. It includes funding agencies that invest in research infrastructures and programmes of research, infrastruct ...
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Common Operations of Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

"Frontier environmental research increasingly depends on a wide range of data and advanced capabilities to process and analyse them. The ENVRI project, “Common Operations of Environmental Research infrastructures” is a collaboration in the ESFRI Environment Cluster, with support from ICT experts, to develop common e-science components and services for their facilities. The results will speed up t ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate Interim Implementation (MACC II)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

MACC II (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate – Interim Implementation) is designed to meet the requirements that have been expressed for prototype operational GMES services for the atmospheric domain. From late-2011 MACC II will continue the operation and development of the GMES service lines established by the MACC project and prepare for its transition in 2014 to become the atmospheri ...
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Climate Impact Research & Response Coordination for a Larger Europe - 2nd Generation ERA-Net -Science meets Policy (CIRCLE-2)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

"Climate Change is one of the most important issues facing the world in the 21st century and challenges all four (ecological, economical, social and cultural) dimensions of sustainable development. Europe takes a leading role in the necessary response to these challenges. Severe impacts are unavoidable and European adaptation strategies must be supported by a coherent base of knowledge on its key ...
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Developing a Knowledge Network for EUropean expertise on biodiversity and ecosystem services to inform policy making economic sectors (KNEU)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

"Knowledge about biodiversity and ecosystem services is well advanced in the European scientific community, as demonstrated by many excellent projects and their scientific impact. However, on the global as well as the European scale, there is a failure to communicate the knowledge gained into the policy-making process and society as a whole. Such communication efforts, must ensure that all relevan ...
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Harmonised European Land Monitoring (HELM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"The land surface is a decisive factor regarding the state of the environment and human well-being. To manage it well, regularly obtained up do date information on land use and land cover is needed. Land monitoring provides this information through thematic maps based on the interpretation of areal photography, satellite imagery and further sources. These maps aid spatial planning, nature protecti ...
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European Forest Downstream Services- Improved Information on Forest Structure and Damages (EUFODOS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"It is the overall aim of EUFODOS to develop specific Forest Downstream Services (FDS) that are urgently required by regional European users in an economically viable manner and utilise the GMES Land Forest Core products as a basis for the development of these services. The specific FDS which will be examined and developed to a pre-operational level are related to assessment of forest damage and m ...
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"Microorganism and enzyme Immobilization: NOvel Techniques and Approaches for Upgraded Remediation of Underground-, wastewater and Soil" (MINOTAURUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"MINOTAURUS will deliver innovative bio-processes (bioaugmentation, enzyme technology, rhizoremediation with halophytes, and bioelectrochemical remediation), which are all based on the concept of IMMOBILIZATION OF BIOCATALYSTS (microorganisms and enzymes), to eliminate emerging and classic organic pollutants. The immobilization-based technologies will be applied to engineered (ex-situ) and natural ...
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MONAIRNET

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

...rgleich der Ergebnisse aus Monitoring-Netzwerken der beiden Großregionen darstellen. Zusätzlich soll das Projekt die Basis für eine künftige enge Zusammenarbeit der beiden Partner, dem Umweltbundesamt in Wien und der Masaryk Universität in Brünn, bilden. Aktive Luftsammelstationen sollen über einen größeren Zeitraum hinweg die grenzüberschreitende Erhebung zur Beurteilung der POPs-Belastung und - ...
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Naturnaher Hochwasserschutz im Zusammenfluss von March und Thaya (Poldr Soutok/Polder Soutok)

Start date: Oct 21, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

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Producing a shared vision on how to harness Research & Development for Sustainable Development (VISION RD4SD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

The main objective of VISION RD4SD is to ensure that Europe is able to contribute to a Sustainable Development of the world by formulating policies and decisions based on robust, up to date knowledge of highest scientific quality.The project focuses on a dialogue among European science policy-makers, administrators and those funding-policy makers in general who demand and need solutions from VISIO ...
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Balkan GEO Network – Towards Inclusion of Balkan Countries into Global Earth Observation Initiatives (BALKANGEONET)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

Inclusion of all Balkan countries into GEO and their contribution to GEOSS is of great importance, since only a comprehensive EO framework can lead to better understanding and more intelligent utilization of the environmental resources, increased quality of life and faster economic development. The importance and benefits from participation in global EO initiatives have already been recognized by ...
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The Environmental Observation Web and its Service Applications within the Future Internet (ENVIROFI)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Large European communities generate significant amounts of valuable environmental observations at local and regional scales using mobile communication devices, computers and sensors which are mostly connected to the internet. These communities' environmental observations represent a wealth of information which is currently unused and therefore in need for integration with other fragmented data and ...
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Revitalisierung der March: Maßnahmendetailplan entsprechend EU Wasser- und Naturschutz-Richtlinien (MoRe)

Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: May 30, 2013,

Um die ökologische Situation der March zu verbessern wird ein Plan für ihre Renaturalisierung erstellt. Damit verfolgt das Projekt MoRe die Zielsetzung verschiedener EU Richtlinien wie die EU Wasserrahmen-Richtline, die Flora- und Habitat-Richtlinie sowie die Vogelschutz-Richtlinie. Es gilt, Kompromisse zwischen den Anforderungen von Hochwasserschutz, Naturschutz, Freizeit und Tourismus zu finden. ...
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Urban Soil Management Strategy (URBAN-SMS)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Mar 30, 2013,

Central Europe is characterised by a relatively high population density. In some of the countries a quarter of the total national population lives in the capital agglomeration, in the other countries urban networks of larger towns exist. These urban areas have a high economic potential, but they are facing a concentration of environmental, social and economic problems often triggered by increasing ...
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Coordination of national environment and health research programmes - Environment and health ERA-NET (ERA-ENVHEALTH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"It is estimated that around 20% of the burden of disease in industrialized countries can be attributed to environmental factors, and the magnitude of the problem is perceived by the majority of Europeans. The assessment of health impacts is based mostly on scarce exposure data and limited information on the relationship between exposure and health. There is, therefore, a need to strengthen resear ...
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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,

Background 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 coordination action on human biomonitoring (COPHES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

This proposal has been elaborated by a consortium of 35 partners coming from 27 European countries and including scientists, government institutions and authorities, NGOs and industry. The main goal is to develop a coherent approach to HBM in Europe as requested by ACTION 3 of the EU Environment and Health Action Plan through coordination of ongoing and planned HBM activities. The project will exp ...
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Harmonisierung und Bewertung von Probenahmetechniken für ein Trendmonitoring in der aquatischen Umwelt (HESTIA)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Nov 29, 2012,

Angesichts der steigenden Belastungen, denen unsere Wasserressourcen ausgesetzt sind, wurde im Dezember 2000 die Wasserrahmenrichtliche verabschiedet. Im Rahmen deren Umsetzung ist ab 2010 von allen Mitgliedstaaten ein zeitliches und räumliches Trendmonitoring verschiedener Schadstoffe durchzuführen. Für ein Trendmonitoring der nicht im Wasser gelösten Schadstoffe ist die Methodik der Probenahme E ...
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