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Adaptation of FORest management to CLIMATE variability: an ecological approach - AForClimate (LIFE AFORCLIMATE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2022,

Background Climate change is known to influence forest tree growth response and the CO2 cycle. Dendroclimatological research has shown that the climate signal, species composition, and growth trends have changed in different types of forest ecosystems during the last century. Under current and demonstrated changes in climate variability at geographic, reg ...
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From microbial interactions to new-concept biopesticides and biofertilizers (INTERFUTURE)

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

The Directive 2009/128/EC sets rules in EU for the sustainable use of pesticides to reduce the risks and impacts of pesticide use on people's health and the environment. Among the listed actions there is the promotion of low pesticide-input management including non-chemical methods. In parallel several chemical active ingredients have been banned because of toxicity concerns. The result is that gr ...
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Demonstrating Remote Sensing integration in sustainable forest management (FRESh LIFE)

Start date: Sep 7, 2015, End date: Sep 6, 2019,

Background The compiling of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) indicators is usually accomplished by ground surveys. This approach, based on forest inventory techniques, ensures accurate statistical assessments of forest attributes and how they change over time. However, surveying is generally expensive and time-consuming for medium to large forest manag ...
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International University Cooperation on Land Protection in European-Asiatic Countries

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

Soil and land degradation refers to all process(es) by which soil declines in quality and is thus made less fit for a specific purpose, such the crop production. Education will play a crucial role in the land degradation protection. This involves an opportunity and implies rethinking and reorganizing higher education institutions (HEIs) to become effective change agents in terms of learning out ...
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Higher Education Innovation in Plant Diversity: flexible learning paths for emerging labour market

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation mission statement “is a catalyst for working together at all levels - local, national, regional and global - to understand, conserve and use sustainably the world's immense wealth of plant diversity whilst promoting awareness and building the necessary capacities for its implementation”. The interdisciplinary co-operation across EU boundaries throughout a ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

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

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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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 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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Actions for the recovery and the conservation of dune and back dune habitats in the Molise Region (MAESTRALE)

Start date: Sep 19, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Background Over the past few decades, coastal areas in Europe have been subjected to major changes and pressures. Threats to coastal habitats include uncontrolled tourism, the spread of invasive exotic flora, and natural and/or human induced erosion. Coastal ecosystems are severely constrained systems and contain a distinctive biodiversity in which flora ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

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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Generations Using Training for Social inclusion in 2020

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The GUTS project contributes to one of the most important goals of the Erasmus Plus program and the Europe2020 strategy: the decrease of poverty and social exclusion as well as increase of unemployment. As most of the countries didn’t succeed in this during the last years, the GUTS consortium is convinced that common European knowledge is necessary to fight this problem. Concretely GUTS will real ...
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FORest management strategies to enhance the MITigation potential of European forests (FORMIT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"Forest management can lead to continuous carbon sequestration, while timber as a renewable energy source can used as a substitute for fossil fuel, thus multiplying this mitigation effect. FORMIT aims to develop forest management scenarios for carbon sequestration in Europe, including mitigation measures and management strategies for different regions, and accounting for trade-offs with other fore ...
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Future-oriented integrated management of European forest landscapes (INTEGRAL)

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

"The vital environmental and socio-economic role of European forests is well documented and acknowledged in policy documents of both the European Union and its member states. However, there are critical incoherencies within and between trans-national, national and local forest-related land use policies, the central issue being mismatches between the policies and their implementation at the landsca ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Students and staff mobility is key in the internationalization policy of the University, as it is considered added value for the academic, as well as professional and cultural growth, and for the achievement of the goals set by Bologna Process. In a territory that has been affected not only by recent economic crisis, but that suffers the isolation from neighboring regions, too, mobility represen ...
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Managing forests for multiple purposes: carbon, biodiversity and socio-economic wellbeing (ManFor C.BD.)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Background Historically, forests have fulfilled many human needs. As the objectives of forest management have become more complex, management criteria need to take into account new issues, related to the less profitable practice of forestry and to the emergence of environmental forest functions. Several indicators have been proposed to assess sustainable ...
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Remote Laser Welding System Navigator for Eco & Resilient Automotive Factories (RLW Navigator)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

RLW Navigator aims to develop an innovative Process Navigator to configure, integrate, test and validate applications of Remote Laser Welding (RLW) in automotive assembly addressing today's critical needs for frequently changing operating conditions and product-mix provisions. Thus, RLW Navigator will crucially serve as an enabler for future energy efficient smart factories. RLW is emerging as a p ...
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Traffic- Health- Environment. Intelligent Solutions Sustaining Urban Economies (THE ISSUE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

This proposal is presented by a consortium of regional research clusters whose core members are already pursuing research and technology development (RTD) in programmes that map on to their local or regional transport policy priorities. Common themes of expertise within the consortium apply to the fields of Traffic, Health and Environment (THE); the objective of the project is to apply this resear ...
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Advanced Studies on Improving Sheep Fertility by Using Artificial Means of Reproduction (SheepRep)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

Artificial insemination (AI) in livestock has made it possible to optimize reproduction efficiency. AI is undoubtedly the management technique that has most contributed to the genetic improvement of livestock in modern animal production. By comparison to the other currently available preservation methods of semen, cryopreservation is an established industry used worldwide for performing AI, as it ...
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Work Toghether to Stop Truancy Among Youth (WE-STAY)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"Truancy is a serious public health problem that affects adolescents from all countries around the world. In the United States, it has been reported that up to 35% of high school students skipped one or more days of school during a school year. However, little is known on the short- and long-term outcomes of underlying psychological and mental ill-health for those adolescents who truant. Research ...
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Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe: Promote health through prevention of risk-taking and self-destructive behaviors (SEYLE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"Promoting healthy behaviors is multi-faceted and no health is possible without mental health. The ultimate outcome of unhealthy and risk-taking behaviors is suicide. Risk-taking and suicidal behavior can be prevented. A pilot intervention study will be implemented to assess the effects of three different health promoting / suicide prevention programs in 11000 students across 11 European countrie ...
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"An unforgettable night for well-being with researchers of the Federative Universities of Basilicata, Molise and Puglia Regions in the Mediterranean Area" (UNIFEDERLAB)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

"UniFederLab will be animated by several different actions all focused on “Innovation and well-being” in important cities of the south part of Italy such as Bari, Foggia, Lecce, Brindisi, Barletta, Campobasso, Potenza and Matera. Events can be of different types: demonstrations, quizzes, games, exhibitions, shows, concerts, talk shows, competitions with prizes. A EU corner will be present in each ...
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NEW ISSUES IN AGRICULTURAL, FOOD AND BIOENERGY TRADE (AgFoodTRAde)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

International trade reflects complex dynamic processes driven by demographic, socio-economic, technological and political changes. Therefore, future evolution of world markets is highly uncertain. The project builds on past research but emphasizes issues usually overlooked by standard assessments of trade liberalization such as: • the impact of demand from energy markets which could affect agricul ...
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Transfer of Innovation and Organisation in the Research, Culture Environmental and Sanity (TIORCAS)

The project consists in the activities related to the mutual transfer, among the partners, innovation and organisation in the research, culture, environment and helth. These eople pat wil be realized by setting up scientific and linguistic laboratories, by carrying out either common research activities through specific masters, sheared doctorals or through eople pation of parteners.
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Situated Mobile Language Learning

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

Mobile devices - personal, portable, multimedia, ubiquitous, connected - have the potential to transform many aspects of learning. Language learning provides a prime testbed for mobile learning. It is widely acknowledged that learning about the language and culture of another country is most effective in-situ, yet no technologies currently support learners' informal situated learning while in a ta ...
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ERM – Engineering of Risk Management

The ERM project aims at helping European SMEs, in particular very small companies, to avoid marginalisation in the process of integration and competition, as a result of the recent enlargement of the European Union. To do so, the project will establish a system for co-operation amongst companies, research organisations, financial & training bodies and local authorities with the aim of stimulating ...
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Intergenerational Learning in Organisations

The demographic situation in Europe is changing. People are getting older and need tostay longer in their working lives. In the past older employees initiated younger oneshow to work, but nowadays technical knowledge changes very quickly and it oftenoccurs that the older workers need to get taught by younger ones. This can causeconflict between older experienced workers to younger bosses, both in ...
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Education Against Marginalisation

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

In several parts of Europe like Eastern-Europe, Southern-Europe, but also regarding immigrants in the North of Europe marginalization of minority-groups is one of the biggest threats of European society. One of the most difficult challenges in Europe is social inclusion of these minority-groups in nowadays society. These European inhabitants (incl. unemployed, elderly and low-educated) experience ...
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Sustainable Management of Coastal Areas (GES.S.TER)

The first objective of this projects concerns the protection and the evaluation of coastal areas along the Adriatic Sea. There will be carry out studies about the variations of the territorial and environmental assessment of the Adriatic coasts; about geology, morphology and ecology of the specific areas; about the experimentation of alternative solutions for the improvement of the integrated ener ...
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e-based Content and Language Integrated Learning Training

e-CLILT (e-based Content and Language Integrated Learning Training) addressesdirectly the 2007 Priorities about `Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)'. Itaims at enhancing the quality and European dimension of the teacher training in aconsortium of eight partner countries (IT, AT, ES, FR, GR, PL, SK, UK).The aims of the project can be divided into a teaching and learning dimension (to w ...
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ON-LANG.NET – On-line Languages Acquisition Network Grouping Contents in Education and Training

The ON-LANG.NET project aims at developing an on-line evaluation model relating to language competence, in particular to modern foreign languages. The main aim of the project is the development of an innovative, foreign language, e-learning approach able to support evaluation by means of technological resources (TELL – Technology-Enhanced Language Learning) and the related testing of accreditable ...
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