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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia and loss of autonomy in the elderly, implying a progressive cognitive decline and limitation of social activities. Progressive aging of EU population will increase the magnitude of this problem in the next decades. Currently, there is not an effective method for the early diagnosis of AD. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop new ef ...
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Background Dupont's Lark is one of the most endangered and rare birds in Spain and Europe as a whole. In Spain, where it has a small, declining population, overgrazing or undergrazing and agricultural development have reduced its preferred habitats and caused its numbers to decline considerably. It is therefore included in the ‘endangered’ category of ...
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Background In the Mediterranean region, yew (Taxus baccata) usually grows with other tree species in mixed forests. Wooded formations made up solely of Mediterranean yew are listed in Annex I of the Habitats Directive as priority for conservation, and are very rare. They are often reduced to small enclaves in remote mountain areas. Climatic and anthropog ...
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Background Despite increasing awareness in the land use, land use change and forestry sectors (LULUCF) concerning climate change action, reflected in Decision 529/2013/EU, the emissions and carbon sink effect generated by sustainable forest management (SFM) strategies are not included in the EU’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction objectives (40% ...
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The project MarMOOC, entitled «apprentissage hybride mutualisé et ouvert dans les universités Marocaines» (Shared blended and open learning for Moroccan universities), aims to support a thoughtful integration and wide distribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as an efficient teaching support for Moroccan universities. In order to reduce the impact of massification of higher ...
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...ific project objectives are to: Design and construct two mobile prototypes that absorb ammonia using gas-permeable membranes, a pioneering technology developed and tested at laboratory scale by the Universidad de Valladolid (UVA) and the Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León (ITACYL); Determine the environmental, technical and economic viability of the prototypes; Characterise the ...
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SynchroniCity represents the first attempt to deliver a Single Digital City Market for Europe by piloting its foundations at scale in 11 reference zones - 8 European cities & 3 more worldwide cities - connecting 34 partners from 11 countries over 4 continents. Building upon a mature European knowledge base derived from initiatives such as OASC, FIWARE, FIRE, EIP-SCC, and including partners with le ...
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Biowaste valorisation is an attractive approach in the framework of the EU Waste Management policies and the development of a circular economy. Waste from biostreams and different biobased sources are being under-utilised as potential resource of valuable compounds. Fertilisers play an important role as suppliers of nutrients relying on their production heavily on fossil mineral resources. Europea ...
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WASTE2FUELS aims to develop next generation biofuel technologies capable of converting agrofood waste (AFW) streams into high quality biobutanol.Butanol is one of the most promising biofuels due to its superior fuel properties compared to current main biofuels, bioethanol and biodiesel. In addition to its ability to reduce carbon emissions, its higher energy content (almost 30% more than ethanol), ...
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Demographic ageing is one of the most serious challenges Europe is facing. Better care and sustainability of health services calls for innovative ways to address the needs of the elderly. Supporting homecare, i.e. care provided by professionals within users’ own homes, has been identified by EC as a possible solution.Although a high number of elderly and their families are searching for skilled pr ...
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Confidence in behaviour changes through serious games (e-Confidence)

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

Serious Games have become a popular tool for knowledge transfer, behavioural, perceptual or cognitive change, but their effectiveness has been under several studies aiming to answer the question whether they are an effective instrument. The E-Confidence project aims to test a methodology that includes several models, such as the Activity Theory-based Model of Serious Games (ATMSG) for game develo ...
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The objective of the project is to support the Vietnamese students in the field of ICT to transfer their knowledge to the businesses and community by providing them with - directly and through teachers - new skills and activities to adapt them effectively to the IT-market as entrepreneurs or employees. The partner universities will also be supported to enhance their collaboration with the industry ...
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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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The recent economic and deep political crisis in the South Mediteranian (SM) region show that access to higher education is NOT a sufficient prerequisite for economic stabilty and job creation. The mismatching between academic programmes and labour market has created a political and economic void where young, high educated people have difficult to build careers in the industrial sector.The SM Wel ...
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HICA, driven by university associations, universities and ministries in 6 Central American (CA) countries, intends to support the reform, innovation and harmonisation of HE curricula. The project will further develop/implement a regional qualifications framework for Central American HE (‘MCESCA’) – proposed by the prior project Alfa PUENTES – that defines what a student should know, understand an ...
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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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Les TICE appliquées à l'expérimentation scientifique

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

The Educational Technologies have taken over the past ten years, a remarkable growth of interest because they provide: saving time, space constraints, expensive instrumentation, constraints related to management, effective galloping students, flexibility of use, etc. ...They also offer the possibility of using new learning methodologies flexible and adaptable learners, leveraging the interactive f ...
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Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovia are all in the transition process from a centrally planned economy to a democracy with market oriented economy. Today, they face numerous challenges and problems, such as land related problems, rural and agricultura stagnation, air and water pollution, flooding, land slides and other natural hazards. Addressing all these problems needs technical support from ...
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The changes in educational paradigms and development of ICT are promoting the modernization of universities and the establishment of open and flexible study programs, freeing academic boundaries.Quality, accessibility and innovation are concepts that are driving the changes of virtual higher education. ACAI-LA Universities Network undertake the challenge of modernizing and internationalizing highe ...
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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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INTENSSS-PA will support public authorities to integrate the energy theme into spatial planning and regional physical and socioeconomic landscapes. To achieve this objective INTENSS-PA will provide human and institutional capacity building to public authorities and to the wider network of private and public actors related to energy and regional planning by implementing the Living Lab concept, i.e. ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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The PsyTool project is a collaborative partnership that allows a group of stakeholders from different sport backgrounds to collaborate in the establishment of a network to take full advantage from the implementation of the Sport Psychology as a strategic tool to promote integrity and to tackle violence, discrimination, intolerance and match-fixing among young practitioners of grassroots sports. Th ...
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LEGumes for the Agriculture of TOmorrow (LEGATO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The project has been conceived to promote the culture of grain legumes in Europe by identifying priority issues currently limiting grain legume cultivation and devising solutions in term of novel varietal development, culture practices, and food uses. LEGATO will develop tools and resources to enable state of the art breeding methodology and to exploit fully the breadth of genetic resources avail ...
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For higher education (HE) to better prepare graduates for jobs in the increasingly mobile international labour market and further European integration, communication barriers such as cultural stereotypes, identity conflict, language deficiency and the lack of interactive skills must be addressed. This two-year project aims to establish a pool of 20 experts in the field of intercultural communicati ...
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Marketing Communication Innovativeness of European Entrepreneurs

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The importance of entrepreneurs is significant for the economic development the European economies and it has been documented in many cases. The development of particular competences are crucial in the preparation and the process of creation. Nevertheless, the existing education of universities provides a limited preparation for these challenges. Entrepreneurs have the chance to differentiate the ...
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The Europeans Facing new Integration Challenges

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

From a general context, with an economic situation dominated by austerity and high restrictions in public expenditure in Spain we believe that it is necessary to explain to young people and civil society why European Union is a solid project, why is important to take part in it and what doubts and uncertainties are around the future of EU policies. Today, many Spanish students are migrating to oth ...
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In the era of Europe 2020 Strategy, for overcoming the socio-economic crisis affecting European countries, of boosting growth and jobs and of fostering social equity and inclusion, this project aims to use the potential of Europe’s human and social capital originating from higher education’s institutes and the industry, in order to exchange and transfer knowledge and know-how in food science and t ...
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Refractory metals (tungsten, tantalum, rhenium, molybdenum and niobium) are highly strategic metals today mainly imported from a few countries. The European primary production remains below a few percentage. However, resources exist in Europe, as primary resources but mainly as secondary resources (industrial waste, urban mines). Valorizing these resources requires coordination and networking betw ...
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Low Emissions Core-Engine Technologies (LEMCOTEC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The main objective of the LEMCOTEC project will be the improvement of core-engine thermal efficiency by increasing the overall pressure ratio (OPR) to up to 70 leading to a further reduction of CO2. Since NOx increases with OPR, combustion technologies have to be further developed, at the same time, to at least compensate for this effect. The project will attain and exceed the ACARE targets for 20 ...
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Europäische Österreich-Tage 2016/2017

Start date: Jun 2, 2016, End date: Jun 1, 2017,

European Austria-DaysBackground of the project"Kultur und Sprache" is offering further education for specialists in German studies and teachers for German as a Foreign language and is developing teaching materials for Austrian culture, literature and the German language for more than 20 years. In the course of these activities we could set up a strong, worldwide network of co-operation partners wh ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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COMET will strengthen the pan-European research initiative on the impact of radiation on man and the environment by facilitating the integration of radioecological research. COMET will build upon the foundations laid by the European Radioecology Alliance (ALLIANCE) and the on-going FP7 STAR Network of Excellence in radioecology. By collaborating with the European platforms on nuclear and radiologi ...
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The main strategic objective of BIOMed is to enhance the scientific collaboration between North-South Euro-Mediterranean countries. The purpose is to: 1) Initiate the establishment of national BioMedical Informatics (BMI) associations, aligned with IMIA, for remodelling the national strategies; 2) Structure the BMI Strategic Plans for MEDA; 3) Define the requirements for targeted BMI new projects ...
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Stardust-The Asteroid and Space Debris Network (Stardust)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Asteroids and space debris represent a significant hazard for space and terrestrial assets; at the same time asteroids represent also an opportunity. In recent years it has become clear that the increasing population of space debris could lead to catastrophic consequences in the near term. The Kessler syndrome (where the density of objects in orbit is high enough that collisions could set off a ca ...
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Water Public Innovative Procurement Policies (WATERPIPP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Water Public Innovation Procurement Policies (WaterPiPP) is about exploring new public innovation procurement methodologies and testing it in water sector in the context where European innovation potential in the water sector is blocked by a number of bottlenecks and barriers.Public procurement represents around 19% of the EU’s GDP, an important lead market for innovators in particular in the wate ...
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Climate change can disrupt ecological, social and economic systems, with some regions and sectors suffering significantly. Therefore, adaptation plays a paramount role in responding to climate change. Progress has been made, but there are still important obstacles. Knowledge of the benefits and costs of adaptation is sparse, unsystematic and unevenly distributed across sectors and countries. Plan ...
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