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FORAGE SYSTEMS FOR LESS GHG EMISSION AND MORE SOIL CARBON SINK IN CONTINENTAL AND MEDITERRANEAN AGRICULTURAL AREAS (LIFE+FORAGE4CLIMATE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Background The agricultural sector and climate change are strongly interlinked. On the one hand, climate change has a significant impact on the quality and quantity of agricultural production and related revenues while, on the other hand, agricultural practices generate considerable amounts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that contribute to global warmi ...
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Sustainable Integrated Management FOR the NEXUS of water-land-food-energy-climate for a resource-efficient Europe (SIM4NEXUS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

Land, food, energy, water and climate are interconnected, comprising a coherent system (the ‘Nexus’), dominated by complexity and feedback. The integrated management of the Nexus is critical to secure the efficient and sustainable use of resources. Barriers to a resource efficient Europe are policy inconsistencies and incoherence, knowledge gaps, especially regarding integration methodologies and ...
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Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

This Project aims to address an increasingly pressing global challenge: How to achieve the EU’s development goals and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, while meeting the global target of staying within two degrees global warming and avoid transgressing other planetary boundaries.EU policies must align with sustainable development goals (Article 11 TFEU). The impacts of climate change and glo ...
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Methodologies and Data mining techniques for the analysis of Big Data based on Longitudinal Population and Epidemiological Registers (LONGPOP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

European societies face rapid social changes, challenges and benefits, which can be studied with traditional tools of analysis, but with serious limitations. This rapid transformation covers changes in family forms, fertility, the decline of mortality and increase of longevity, and periods of economic and social instability. Owing to population ageing across Europe, countries are now the experienc ...
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Computer Vision Enabled Multimedia Forensics and People Identification (IDENTITY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Forensics is a well-established science that aims at applying various disciplines to the law, both civil and criminal, in order to solve questions related to crime. It is mainly concerned with proving and investigating infringements, identifying perpetrators and describing modus operandi. Biometrics, on the other hand, is a relatively new science that aims at measuring and analysing a person's uni ...
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MAinSTreaming Experiences at Regional and local level for adaptation to climate change (LIFE MASTER ADAPT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Background Within the EU, southern Europe, and the Mediterranean basin in particular, will be most affected by global climate change. Strategies and plans for adaption to climate change are developed at national and regional level in the EU. Italy launched its National Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change (SNAC) in 2014, and officially adopted it in June ...
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de-FLuoridation technologies for imprOving quality of WatEr and agRo-animal products along the East African Rift Valley in the context of aDaptation to climate change. (FLOWERED)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

FLOWERED objective is to contribute to the development of a sustainable water management system in areas affected by fluoride (F) contamination in water, soils and food in the African Rift Valley countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania), thus to improve living standards (environmental, health and food security) of its population. FLOWERED aims to study, test and implement innovative defluoridation te ...
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Interuniversity learning in Higher Education on Advanced land management-Egyptian Country

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

Productive land resources in Egypt are under multiple natural and human pressure that are leading to soil degradation and desertification. Agriculture land conservation is a high priority for Egypt. Several efforts have been undertaken by the government authorities of Egypt to reduce desertification processes and preserve land productivity but they have faced a wide range of obstacles, mostly rela ...
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Enhancing Responsible Research and Innovation through Curricula in Higher Education (EnRRICH) (EnRRICH)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The Enhancing Responsible Research and Innovation through Curricula in Higher Education (EnRRICH) project will build the capacity of staff in higher education to facilitate their students’ development of knowledge, skills and attitudes and competencies in responsible research and innovation, and respond to the research needs of society, particularly underserved civil society organisations (CSOs).I ...
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Innovation in teaching, training and dissemination of virology

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

Like viruses themselves, the scientific discipline of Virology has evolved from the study of viruses, to overlap and intertwine with many other scientific disciplines, both traditional and contemporary. As these developments into new areas of science such as gene therapy in treating cancers, reverse genetics in biotechnological assay development and nanotechnology in vaccine design continue to gr ...
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Virtual reality-Treadmill combined Intervention for enhancing Mobility and reducing falls in the Elderly (V-TIME)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"Falls are a major public health concern that directly affects millions of elderly Europeans, the healthcare system, and the adult children and caregivers of older people. The V-TIME approach combines cutting edge technology with emerging concepts from gerontology, neuroscience and rehabilitation to reduce fall risk in a unique way. The V-TIME multi-modal intervention consists of treadmill traini ...
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SAFEGUARD, VALORISATION AND MANAGEMENT QUALITY. USE OF THE MANAGEMENT MODELS FOR THE ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES AND URBAN CONTEXTS (ARCHEOMEDSITES)

Start date: Dec 30, 2013, End date: Dec 29, 2015,

Project in brief The management of archaeological sites and urban areas in the southern and northern countries of the Mediterranean area still need to be developed through the implementation of good practices focusing on sustainability and ensuring the valorisation of the specific historical and cultural heritage as well as its protection and conservation. In this framework, the ARCHEOMEDSITES pro ...
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Ecological Function and Biodiversity Indicators in European Soils (ECOFINDERS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The strategic goal of EcoFINDERS is to provide the EC with tools to design and implement soil strategies aimed at ensuring sustainable use of soils, including: i) Characterisation of European soil biodiversity; ii) Determination of relations between soil biodiversity, soil functions and ecosystem services; iii) Design of policy-relevant and cost-effective indicators for monitoring soil biodiversit ...
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Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society (PERARES)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

PERARES strengthens public engagement in research (PER) by developing multi-annual action plans, involving researchers and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the formulation of research agendas and the research process. It uses debates on science to actively articulate research requests of civil society. These are forwarded to research institutes, and results are used in a next phase of the deb ...
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Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world (FUME)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Fire regimes result from interactions between climate, land-use and land-cover (LULC), and socioeconomic factors, among other. These changed during the last decades, particularly around the Mediterranean. Our understanding of how they affected fire regime in the past is limited. During this century temperatures, drought and heat waves will very likely increase, and rainfall decrease. These and fur ...
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An Integrated Network on Climate Change REsearch Activities on Shrubland Ecosystems (INCREASE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"The network INCREASE consists of 6 infrastructures (large-scale field sites) with experimental manipulation of climate e.g night time warming and extended summer drought. Within INCREASE we will improve the technology and methodology for studies of climate change effects on European shrublands. The main objectives of INCREASE are: 1. To optimize technologies and methodologies for non-intrusive fi ...
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Hormone-free non-seasonal or seasonal goat reproduction for a sustainable European goat-milk market (FLOCK-REPROD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"FLOCK-REPROD will provide the European dairy goat industry with the innovative, economically and environmentally-viable technology necessary to enable the hormone-free production of goat’s milk and related products (e.g. cheese). It will achieve this by controlling reproduction via artificial insemination (AI) all year round. FLOCK-REPROD technology will allow the EU dairy goat industry to operat ...
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Sustaining research momentum over the coming decades: mentoring the next generation of researchers for tuberculosis (TBsusgent)

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

Tuberculosis is an international public health crisis of catastrophic proportions. The relative lack of TB research and funded investigators over the last several decades has been acknowledged by the The Stop TB Partnership and Global Stop TB Plan. In order to sustain research momentum over the next few decades suitably qualified investigators, who are the next generation of TB researchers, partic ...
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Prevention and Restoration Actions to Combat Desertification. An Integrated Assessment (PRACTICE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"The general objective of PRACTICE is to link S & T advances and traditional knowledge on prevention and restoration practices to combat desertification with sound implementation, learning and adaptive management, knowledge sharing, and dissemination of best practices. Specific objectives are: 1. To create an international platform of long-term monitoring sites for assessing and investigating pra ...
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Advanced Materials as CO2 Removers: A Computational Study of CO2 Sorption Thermodynamics and Kinetics (AMCOS)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

The proposed work aims at developing the tools required for the intelligent choosing and tuning of nano-porous materials with respect to a specific application. For this purpose, a combined computational theoretical and experimental study is envisaged in order to digitally reconstruct the porous matrix of selected advanced materials, mainly for applications involving sorption of carbon dioxide an ...
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"European Network for Genetic-Epidemiological Studies: building a method to dissect complex genetic traits, using essential hypertension as a disease model" (HYPERGENES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"The project is focused on the definition of a comprehensive genetic epidemiological model of complex traits like Essential Hypertension (EH) and intermediate phenotypes of hypertension dependent/associated Target Organ Damages (TOD). To identify the common genetic variants relevant for the pathogenesis of EH and TODs, we will perform a Whole Genome Association (WGA) study of 4.000 subjects recrui ...
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Implementing Employment Service (IES)

Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Oct 30, 2011,

The Public Employment Service System, as system composed by several actors, is defined by the European Commission as a key element for combating unemployment and for favoring the access of job seekers to the labour market at local, national and European level. Its functioning and effectiveness is emphasized by Project IES activities which, according to the main goal of the interregional cooperatio ...
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TRADE ON-LINE - On-line training for the development of rural areas in Europe

The aim of the Trade On-line project is to improve intervention instruments with a view to increasing employability in the agricultural and rural development sector. A new occupational profile, "specialist in employability promotion in rural areas", will be established.Initially the partnership will focus on analysing employment prospects in rural areas and on national and regional policies on emp ...
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DUALHVE - New Developments in Work Linked Training - Dual Education in Higher Vocational and Professional Education

The project will produce a research-based, reference material on Dual Vocational Education (DVE), addressing issues such as; the relative position of dual education in the higher vocational education system; the costs and benefits of dual education for stakeholders; the role of labour market stakeholders in dual education (development of dual education, models of learning, theory-practice relation ...
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EUROPEAN CULTURE EXPRESSED IN ISLAND LANDSCAPES

Start date: Jun 1, 2011,

... oriented sustainable development in European islands, from website and wiki to mapping, exhibition, videos, publications, conference and workshops.EXPERTS PARTNERSHIP & ISLANDSCOORDINATOR1. IT-IUAV (University IUAV of Venice) - Venice LagoonCOORGANISERS2. CY-OUC (Open University of Cyprus) - Cyprus3. EE-IAES (Estonian University of Life Sciences) - Saaremaa4. GB-CCLP (Cambridge Centre for Landsca ...
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Gender-Medicine

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

Gender determines the outcome of numerous wide-spread diseases. Myocardial infarction, heart failure (HF), diabetes, neuropsychiatric, musculoskeletal, renal and others differ significantly between women and men. Side effects of frequently used drugs, use of prevention and rehabilitation depend on gender. A large imbalance of gender knowledge between different European regions exists. Yet, a syst ...
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EUROPEAN CULTURE EXPRESSED IN SACRED LANDSCAPES

Start date: Nov 1, 2013,

...lturally-oriented development of European sacred sites from website, wiki and e-tools to mapping, travelling exhibition, workshops, conference and a book.PARTNERSHIP OF EXPERTSCOORDINATOR1. IT - IUAV University of VeniceCOORGANISERS2. GB - CCLP University of Cambridge3. PT - FCSH New University of Lisbon 4. SE - KTH Royal Institute of Technology 5. IT - CITERA Sapienza University of RomeASSOCIATED ...
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