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Identifying the food cultures of ancient Europe: an interdisciplinary investigation of plant ingredients, culinary transformation and evolution through time (PLANTCULT)
Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2021,
The project seeks to explore culinary practice among early farming European communities, from the Aegean to Central Europe, spanning the Neolithic through to the Iron Age (7th-1st millennia BC). The project seeks to identify the ‘food cultures’ of prehistoric Europe, and to reconstruct how cultivated and wild plant foods were transformed into dishes exploring their underlying cultural and environm ...
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Integrated engineering approach validating reduced water and energy consumption in milk processing for wider food supply chain replication (ENREMILK)
Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
EnReMilk will achieve significant water and energy savings in representative dairy case studies, mozzarella and milk powder production, across the supply chain. The dairy industry is an important food industry sector with sales of €124.3 billion and added value of €17.4 billion p.a. It is a high energy and water consumer, both overall and per unit production: up to 6.47 MWh (5.55 MWhth and 0.92 MW ...
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Smart and Innovative Rural Areas - Connect Centers of competences (SIRA DANUBE connected)
Start date: Mar 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2015,
The overall project, "SIRA DANUBE - Connect Centres of Competences" aims to foster the competitiveness of Danube rural areas by enhancing the institutional set-up and appropriate means to capitalize knowledge and innovation by SMEs. For this, innovation hubs and knowledge brokerage, respectively Centres of Competences (CCs) for Smart and Innovative Rural Areas in the Danube region and their transn ...
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Intelligent Knowledge Platform for Personal Health Monitoring Services (eHealthMonitor)
Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,
The eHealthMonitor project provides a platform that generates a Personal eHealth Knowledge Space (PeKS) as an aggregation of all knowledge sources (e.g., EHR and PHR) relevant for the provision of individualized personal eHealth services. This is realised by integrating service-oriented architecture, knowledge engineering, multiagent systems, and wearable/portable devices technologies. Innovations ...
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Protecting the food chain from prions: shaping European priorities through basic and applied research (PRIORITY)
Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2014,
"Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) started, 20 years ago, a devastating health and food crisis throughout Europe. Classical BSE is now under control as a result of the meat and bone meal ban. However, tonsil analyses suggest that there may be an alarmingly high number of asymptomatic PrPSc positive cases. Transmission through blood transfusion is another important concern, as are recent “atyp ...
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European Study to Establish Biomarkers of Human Ageing (MARK-AGE)
Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2013,
The rate of ageing in humans is not uniform, due to genetic heterogeneity and the influence of environmental factors. Age-related changes in body function or composition that could serve as a measure of “biological” age and predict the onset of age-related diseases and/or residual lifetime are termed “biomarkers of ageing”. Many candidate biomarkers have been proposed but in all cases their variab ...
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Economics e-translations into and from European Languages: an online platform
Start date: Oct 1, 2011,
The study and analysis of historical texts of Economics allows useful learning from the past so as to avoid mistakes in the application of economic models.In order to fully understand the economic texts of the past it is very important to underline both their institutional context and their linguistic aspects. Every earlier economic text has indeed been translated from the original language into o ...
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Central Asia Student International Academic exchange with EU - CASIA
Start date: Nov 30, 2010,
The Consortium brings a wide range of disciplines together, but focuses in specific on agriculture, life
sciences, trans-boundary natural resource management and climate change. The wider objective is very
relevant in the context of partner Universities modernisation and adaptation of their education capabilities
towards reformed countries economy in the region. The chosen main disciplines are add ...
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L05 - Russia
Start date: Jul 15, 2009,
The consortium has already been selected under the 2006 and 2007 EM ECW calls and has implemented the network in 2007. During the first two years of the project implementation (academic years 2007/08 and 2008/09) 550 persons have been selected and are already participating in individual mobility flows. For the third phase of the project 261 mobility flows from Russia to the EU and vice versa are p ...
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Vocational Training in Rural Development and Ecology
Start date: Jan 15, 2010,
Russian public bodies such as ministries, oblast administration and other authorities have a lack of knowledge in the sector of ecology and rural development. This lack of knowledge is increasingly growing due to the complexity of ecological relevant topics and the extremely weak interdepartmental approach in the sphere of environmental protection. Due to that gap employees of public bodies workin ...
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Career assistance in bio-science : The project will oversee the application of EU standards to bio-science training. Mechanisms will also be set up to assess the needs of the labour market and at the same time offer help to those aiming for careers in the field. This project started in 2000 and lasted 36 months.
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The objective of the project is to improve Biotechnology education in the Western Balkans at bachelor and master degree level and to develop a regional network of HE institutions in this area. The specific project objectives are to restructure the curricula for new BSc/MSc studies and to establish these curricula in strategic fields covering technical, economical and managerial specialisation and ...
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Renewable Energy Studies in Western Balkan Countries
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
Renewable energy is highly important for the future economy in the partner countries in the Balkan region with limited energy resources in a growing economy and with the related environmental problems. The wider objective of the project is therefore the reform of the studies in the five partner universities in the field of renewable energy. Thereby existing studies are upgraded and new Master stud ...
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The project will create a training plan in RO, BG and SI with support from partners in D and UK, in the field of tertiary level education and distance education of young people and unemployed persons in rural areas. The goal is to train people as farmers. In the three eastern European countries no training programmes have yet been established. Besides, the quality of the existing teachers in the f ...
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Ploughing through agrarian law with ease : The project has created a number of modules for e-learning in agrarian law. Learners can make use of an interactive communication platform to learn about EU agricultural legislation, environmental issues and veterinary legislation, to name but a few of the modules. The project helps managers to increase their productivity by providing up- to-date informat ...
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The two main objectives of the ISEKI Food 3 academic network project are: 1) to continue to contribute to the realisation of the European Higher Education Area in the field of Food Studies, and 2) to work towards the network sustainability. The work plan is fostering innovative developments, enhancement of food studies quality, and improvement of European higher education international attractiv ...
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TIMUR - Training of Individuals through Mobility to EU from Uzbek Republic
Start date: Jul 15, 2013,
The core domain of TIMUR consortium is Life Sciences. Therefore Partnerships offers the following thematic fields of study: Agricultural Science, Climate Change, Sustainable Energy, Natural Science, Social Science and Geography as well thematic fields as Business studies & Management Sciences, Engineering & Technology and Mathematics & Informatics & Communication.The wider objective of Partnership ...
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IAMONET-RU – International Academic Mobility Network with Russia
Start date: Jul 15, 2013,
The project aims at developing and fostering the international academic mobility between the EU and Russia through a network initiated in year 2007 between 12 Russian and 8 EU Higher Education Institutions in the field of Agriculture, Life Sciences, Food Chain and beyond. This proven network serves as base and is expanded with regard to two aspects: 1. Three HEIs from Russia, with no experiences i ...
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S1-L05-IAMONET-RU-International Academic Mobility Network with Russia
Start date: Jul 15, 2010,
The consortium has already been selected under the 2006 - 2008 EM ECW calls and has implemented the network in 2007. During the first three years of the project implementation 785 persons have been selected and are already participating in individual mobility flows. For the third phase of the project 254 mobility flows from Russia to the EU and vice versa are planned, involving all levels of the p ...
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S1-L10 Central Asia Student International Academic exchange with EU
Start date: Jul 15, 2011,
The project’s wider objective is the establishment of a sustainable / operational network for academic exchange between Central Asia and European countries with a view to creating centres of excellence in CA Region.
The CASIA project aims at the following specific objectives:
- To enable a larger group of talented CA students to study at EU universities and benefit from already established educati ...
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Central Asia Student International Exchange with EU (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan)
Start date: Jul 15, 2012,
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The FORCREST project aims at improving the employability of highly qualified young people in order to facilitate their insertion into the labour market. To do that the project will develop a set of innovative training tools focusing upon key technical skills particular to the environmental sector. The end results of the project will comprise a training needs analysis of the targeted group, a serie ...
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The main objectives of this Thematic Network is to initiate and contribute to the structural development and the assurance of the quality assessment of the emerging discipline of Biosystems (or equivalent Agricultural and Biological) Engineering in Europe. The need for such development was established by the USAEE Thematic Network, which was concluded with the end of its dissemination year (30.09. ...
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Meeting an identified need for development within VET in newly acceded EU Member States, specific to environmental and organic farming practices, this project will enable the transfer of knowledge across the participating countries through the development of a network for the promotion of agricultural/academic links and through the development and introduction of related curricula in the newly acc ...
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