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European Speakers of Other Languages: Teaching Adult Immigrants and Training their Teachers (EU-Speak 3)

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

Adult immigrants require literacy and numeracy in the language of the community to participate in the economic and social life of that community. While many post-industrialized countries fund programmes to actively support the development of immigrants’ basic and more advanced literacy skills, in most of these countries, there is no specific training and development for teachers who work with the ...
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Intelligent and easy tool to categorise and characterise flour quality for consumer-driven wheat baked goods in European SME-bakery and cereal sector (FLOURPLUS)

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

The FLOURplus proposal was initiated by concerned SMEs and industrial associations that have realized the fluctuations in wheat quantity and quality due to the progressing climate change. Their aim is to finally tackle the core problem of the increasingly varying, non-detectable and thus incontrollable flour quality – being aware that this requires a European-wide sector-solution supported through ...
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ATHENA

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The ATHENA project brings together major user communities with world leading experts in crisis management and experts and technology developers of mobile and social media use and development. The goal of the ATHENA project is to deliver two major outputs that will enable and encourage users of new media to contribute to the security of citizens in crisis situations and for search and rescue actio ...
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Development of a new high performance material associated to a new technological Energetic, Flexible, Economical, Versatile and Ecological process to make super strong and lightweight components (EFEVE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The general objective of EFEVE project is the improvement of the new technologies to manufacturing of materials (aluminium and magnesium alloy) and processes and new technologies of production that are more energy efficient, improve manufacturing productivity, optimize raw material consumption, flexible mold changes and manufacturing capability of producing multiple components, ...etc.The developm ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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Rapid development and distribution of statistical tools for high-throughput sequencing data (RADIANT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

"High-throughput sequencing (HTS) is a powerful and rapidly evolving family of technologies with a multitude of applications. They include genetics of rare and common diseases, understanding of disease mechanism and progression through transcriptome and epigenome profiling, cancer stratification, personalised medicine and molecular systems biology of gene regulation. The genome, epigenome, transcr ...
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Social Interaction and Entrainment using Music PeRformance Experimentation (SIEMPRE)

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

SIEMPRE develops research theoretical and methodological frameworks, computational models, and algorithms for the analysis of creative communication within groups of people, important also for future ICT (e.g. social media, on-line and mobile communities, web 2.0). Focus is on ensemble musical performance and audience experience, ideal testbed for the development of models and techniques for measu ...
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Novel biofunctional high porous polymer scaffolds and techniques controlling angiogenesis for the regeneration and repair of the degenerated intervertebral disc (Disc Regeneration)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

30% of European workers experience back pain, and it is the most frequently reported work-related disorder. The proposed work seeks to provide a cure for lower back pain by developing porous scaffolds and technology which will repair a damaged intervertebral disc (IVD) by enabling its regeneration to a natural healthy state or better. Injectable acellular and cell-loaded bioactive polymer-based sc ...
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Assessment of the impacts of non-tariff measures - NTM on the competitiveness of the EU and selected trade partners (NTM-IMPACT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"The overall objective of the project is to collect and analyze new data on non-tariff measures (NTMs), particularly on governmental standards and regulations that prescribe the conditions for importing agri-food products into the EU market and into the markets of the main competing players. Furthermore, impacts from EU NTBs on least developing country (LDC) exports are examined. The project will ...
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Development of an automated process to extract fibres from the waste of banana food production for exploitation as a sustainable reinforcement in injection- and rotomoulded products (Badana)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

18% of the European consumption of bananas is produced in Canary Islands. Around 10 million banana plants are grown annually in Gran Canaria. The fibre obtained from the superposed layers of the pseudo-stem is called badana. In the past, the banana plant waste was used as a support element for tomato plants, and, for some decades, it was used in handicrafts such as basket-making and artificial flo ...
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Transatlantic Degree Cinema and Language

Start date: Sep 16, 2010,

The University of Messina, the Universidad de Cordoba and Virginia Commonwealth University, founding members of the Centre for Integrative Mediterranean Studies, have established a Transatlantic Degree in Cinema and Language (TDC&L), weaving existing graduate courses in specific areas of expertise at each university into an innovative, interdisciplinary curriculum in cinema studies that explores i ...
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Educating Planners for the New Challenges of Sustainability, Knowledge, and Governance

Start date: Sep 16, 2010,

The main purpose of the collaborative project PLAN-ED is the enhancement of planning education in Europe and the United States through the international exchange of planning knowledge, methodologies, and practices and the tuning of competences and learning outcomes in urban and regional planning degree-granting institutions. The project will represent a platform for promoting the comparability, t ...
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European Speakers of Other Languages: Low-literate adult immigrants: Training their Teachers : EU-Speak 2

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

Literacy figures in success in post-industrialized countries yet many adults immigrate without basic native language literacy (7% - 15% of all immigrants, particularly women). Most research on reading development is on children, so in 2004 a group of Dutch, UK and US researchers established the inter-disciplinary Low-educated Second Language & Literacy Acquisition forum to fill the evidence gap on ...
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Policy project in benchmarking international homeland security education

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

This Project will benchmark best practices in academic Homeiand Security (HS) offerings ofcomparative and international HS issues, leading to collaboration and the development of aknowledge transfer exchange relating to homeland security. In addition, a web-based Global HSEducation Network will be created to establish an academic e-journa! and a means for institutionsto provide, beyond the period ...
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Examining VALUe Added in Transatlantic Exchanges in Engineering

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

Programs with highly integrated multi-institutional undergraduate and graduate curricula and iead to the awarding ofdual or joint degrees have become more prevalent in Europe over the past iwo decades. There are many similartransatlantic programs involving higher education institutions in the E.U. and U.S., but not as widespread as those inEurope. We propose a detailed study of the different schem ...
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Atlantis Collaborative Team Interaction Virtual Environment

Start date: Sep 1, 2009,

This project will support the sharing of domain specific lessons learned and best practices across Atlantisacademic consortia that offer dual degree education programs. Apart from the Atlantis Conference,currently no program or process exists to capture lessons learned or evolved best practices of trans-Atianttc academic consortia. To encourage collaboration and knowledge exchange we will analyse ...
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TransAtlantic Biosystems Engineering Curriculum and Mobility

Start date: Sep 1, 2009,

Participating institutions are Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (lead US) and University of Illinois (US partner) andUniversity College Dublin, National University of Ireland (lead EU), Agricultural University of Athens, Universidad Politecnica deMadrid, and University of Bari from the EU. The overall goal is to advance internationalization of Biosystems Engineering (BE)curricul ...
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