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Both the models concerning the future climate evolution and its impacts, as well as the models assessing the costs and benefits associated with different mitigation pathways face a high degree of uncertainty. There is an urgent need to not only understand the costs and risks associated with climate change but also the risks, uncertainties and co-effects related to different mitigation pathways as ...
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The CARISMA project has two overall objectives. First, through effective stakeholder consultation and communication leading to improved coordination and assessment of climate change mitigation options, it aims to benefit research and innovation efficiency as well as international cooperation on research and innovation and technology transfer. Second, it seeks to assess policy and governance questi ...
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"The unsustainable path of our current economic system in managing both natural and man-made resources demands a paradigm shift in our idea of economic development. We need to define an innovative, multidisciplinary and integrate approach to identify, develop and deploy technologies, tools and services promoting a transition to a low-carbon, sustainable, resilient and socially comprehensive econom ...
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POLIMP will facilitate a process to identify, for different policy and decision making levels, knowledge gaps about implications of possible directions of international climate policies. Subsequently, it will cover these gaps with knowledge packages derived from a broad range of existing reports, research and climate policy decisions at, e.g., EU and UNFCCC levels. With these information packages, ...
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e-Maritime Strategic Framework and Simulation based Validation (EMAR)

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

The objective of e-Maritime is to make maritime transport safer, more secure, more environmentally friendly and more competitive. For this, e-Maritime must ameliorate complexities that hinder networking of different stakeholders, help to increase automation of operational processes particularly compliance management and facilitate the streaming of synthesised information from disparate sources to ...
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Internet Connected Objects for Reconfigurable Ecosystems (iCore)

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

The iCore initiative addresses two key issues in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), namely: (a) how to abstract the technological heterogeneity that derives from the vast amounts of heterogeneous objects, while enhancing context-awareness, reliability and energy-efficiency. (b) to consider the views of different users/stakeholders (owners of objects & communication means) for ensuring pr ...
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The building sector, responsible for about 40% of the EU's total final energy consumption and CO2 emissions, provides many cost-efficient opportunities for action, while contributing at the same time to the welfare of EU citizens. The EU is making a real effort to improve the energy efficiency of Europe's buildings and recently revised its legislation to prompt faster improvements. The Energy Perf ...
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The intensification of trade in the Mediterranean area has been identified as a top priority under the European Neighbourhood Policy. In particular, the Action Plans for Lebanon and Jordan stress on the importance of improving the export potential of both countries by further liberalising trade in goods and simplifying customs legislation and procedures. Taking into account these objectives, CUSTO ...
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Assessment of Policy Impacts on Sustainability in Europe (APRAISE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"The EU has formulated ambitious environmental policy targets in a variety of sectors aimed at forming the basis for a sustainable European growth with increasing prosperity and reduced pressure on natural resources and the environment. The overall motivation of the APRAISE (Assessment of Policy Interrelationships and Impact on Sustainability in Europe) project is to improve the decision basis for ...
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Wireless communications, perpetually a source of innovation, is entering new and uncharted territory. In order to enhance system performance and cater for the services and applications of the future, there is the need for cooperative and cognitive communications paradigms that support advanced coexistence technologies for radio optimization. In short, wireless communications is moving towards a di ...
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EXpAnding LTE for Devices (EXALTED)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

The number of networked humans will reach saturation by the middle of the next decade, while the number of networked devices will continue to increase dramatically for some time to come. The Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) has set out a vision of the future where 7 trillion wireless devices will be serving 7 billion people by 2017. The vast majority of wireless traffic will be between machine ...
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Promotional Platform for Short Sea Shipping and Intermodality (PROPS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

The PROPS project builds on previous EU and national activities undertaken to promote and develop short sea shipping. In particular, PROPS aims to work closely with the Short Sea Promotion Centres (SPCs) to develop a workable and replicable methodology that will enhance their practical promotion activities – in the fields of legislative, technical, and operational actions – and to extend their ope ...
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III (EGEE-III)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

A globally distributed computing Grid now plays an essential role for large-scale, data intensive science in many fields of research. The concept has been proven viable through the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project (EGEE and EGEE-II, 2004-2008) and its related projects. EGEE-II is consolidating the operations and middleware of this Grid for use by a wide range of scientific communities, such as ...
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Τhe project Green Enterprise focuses on rational spatial management; taking the Enterprise as a major Actor for sustainable development of the Community, while recognizing the effective management of Environmental Resources as a critical factor for sustainability, the project aims to develop and test a coherent – integrated framework for rational planning and implementation of strategies for promo ...
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DESCRIPTION The project S.CO.RE.–Net focuses on integrated natural and cultural resources management. Taking sustainable tourism as a cornerstone – also strongly connected with critical neighbour sectors -, the project aims to develop and test a coherent – integrated – mechanism for rational planning and implementation of initiatives for improving local products competitiveness and marketability. ...
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Women in Business support growth and competitiveness (WBC)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The project WBC pursues to increase women participation in economy and to contribute to the establishment of a coherent environment in SMEs in the Community Member States of South Europe and in countries of the South-Eastern Mediterranean area. The Project in accordance with the Commission Guidelines for transnational cooperation between national, regional and local authorities, recognizes the imp ...
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The dramatic rise in levels of consumer borrowing, the ease in accessing globalfinancial services via the internet, and the complexity of modern pension options haveall heightened the need for enhancing public competence in handling their everydayfinancial matters as well as longer term investment decisions. Financially literate citizensbecome empowered and transformed by their skills in managing ...
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Some projects have developed good practices, pilot actions and tools with similar objectives but at the end of the project, all of them disappear into obscurity. The idea is to join the skills of these different outputs by thematic trying to enrich the capitalization of the result, involving the different agents that have to profit it: - IMPROVING THE SUPPLY CHAIN BY USING INNOVATIVE IT TOOLS. Pro ...
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European Picture Book Collection II

Start date: Dec 1, 2009,

... completely new accompanying educational material. Almost a decade after the completion of the original project, there is dire need for renewal. This is also recognised by Dr Penni Cotton (Roehampton University, UK), leader of the first EPBC, who will have a central role in this project as well. The most important change that has taken place during the years that followed the first EPBC is the inc ...
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The goal of the project is to help teachers and children effectively use an alternativeinstructional medium for learning about literacy and scientific concepts by writing,designing, and publishing original web comic books. Web Comics is a plurimediaversion of the printed comic books. Web comics can be interactive means for studyingas well as for self-assessment.The EduComic project places children ...
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