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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has included low back pain in its list of twelve priority diseases. Notably, Degenerative disc disease (DDD) presents a large, unmet medical need which results in a disabling loss of mechanical function. Today, no efficient therapy is available. Chronic cases often receive surgery, which may lead to biomechanical problems and accelerated degeneration of adjacent ...
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Severe ocular disorders are affecting the lives of more than 100Mill people world-wide and at least 25% of the population above 70 years of age, a growing demographic group in EU. More than 8 million people lose their lives to cancer every year, making cancer a leading cause of pre-mature mortality in the world. The main hallmarks of severe eye conditions (i.e angiogenesis, inflammation and vascul ...
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The Research Infrastructure (RI) ACTRIS – Aerosols, Clouds and Trace Gases - is the pan-European RI that consolidates activities amongst European partners for observations of aerosols, clouds, and trace gases and for understanding of the related atmospheric processes, to provide RI services to wide user groups. ACTRIS is composed of 8 connected elements: distributed National Facilities (observatio ...
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REMOURBAN aims at the development and validation in three lighthouse cities (Valladolid-Spain, Nottingham-UK and Tepebasi/Eskisehir-Turkey) of a sustainable urban regeneration model that leverages the convergence area of the energy, mobility and ICT sectors in order to accelerate the deployment of innovative technologies, organisational and economic solutions to significantly increase resource and ...
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The transition to a low carbon economy needs to achieve multiple aims: competitiveness, protection of the environment, creation of quality jobs, and social welfare. Thus policy-makers and other key stakeholders require tools that need to focus beyond the energy sector by including these other domains of economy, society and the environment. Currently, most available tools lack integration of these ...
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The typical lifetime of an industrial process plant is between 30 and 50 years. Technologies to enhance the operation and optimization of process plants can both guide the development of new state-of-the-art process plants and, perhaps more pertinently, can ensure that the large installed base of existing plants operates efficiently. The PRONTO Consortium partners are strongly convinced that for E ...
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Transforming Transport (TT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Big Data will have a profound economic and societal impact in the mobility and logistics sector, which is one of the most-used industries in the world contributing to approximately 15% of GDP. Big Data is expected to lead to 500 billion USD in value worldwide in the form of time and fuel savings, and savings of 380 megatons CO2 in mobility and logistics. With freight transport activities projected ...
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Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research InfraStructure (ACTRIS-2)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

ACTRIS-2 addresses the scope of integrating state-of-the-art European ground-based stations for long term observations of aerosols, clouds and short lived gases capitalizing work of FP7-ACTRIS. ACTRIS-2 aims to achieve the construction of a user-oriented RI, unique in the EU-RI landscape. ACTRIS-2 provides 4-D integrated high-quality data from near-surface to high altitude (vertical profiles and t ...
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Critical Transitions in Complex Systems (CRITICS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Complex systems research has been on the forefront of scientific priorities of many national research councils and the EU for more than a decade. Many very interesting phenomena have been identified and explored, but the development of the underpinning mathematical theory has been lagging behind. The proposed training network builds on an emerging development in applied mathematics to provide prop ...
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Health Care Work Exchange 2016

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

...nistered by the EU Liaison Office (EU-Hochschulbüro Hannover/ Hildesheim) at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. Meanwhile more than a hundred partner organizations throughout Europe, such as university teaching hospitals, private medical practices, rehabilitation centers, public and private hospitals and clinics offer such Erasmus+ internships. In addition, numerous educational institutions offer t ...
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"Background: A significant proportion of pre-diabetics, show macro and micro vascular complications associated with hyperglycaemia. Although many trials have demonstrated the efficacy of lifestyle and pharmaceutical interventions in diabetes prevention, no trial has evaluated the extent to which mid- and long-term complications can be prevented by early interventions on hyperglycaemia.Aims: To ass ...
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Sustainable Innovative Mobilisation of Wood (SIMWOOD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"SIMWOOD presents a novel idea for an innovative, integrated approach to multifunctional forestry and enhanced wood mobilisation across European forest regions. The project targets a multitude of forest owners and stakeholders to spread integrated, transferable solutions and viable policies to unlock immobile forest resources and ensure sustainable forest functions. A novel pan-European Informatio ...
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Entrepreneurship, Modernization and Innovation in SoutH Africa

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2017,

...ized there was a need for a capacity building project in the region. As previous projects had focused on mobility of students and staff, we wanted to create a project that would train and support the university staff in developing innovation in their universities.We put together a set of models which would affect employment of graduates, operation of innovation centers as well as structured meetin ...
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Ensuring Equability in Education for Migrant and Refugee Pupils

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Migrant students (or synonymously students or pupils/children of migration background or minority students) are disadvantaged in terms of enrolment in type of school, duration of attending school, indicators of achievement, drop-out rates and types of school diploma reached. The topic of education and migration is relevant in the context of European economic development, social cohesion and the st ...
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Drug Discovery and Development for Novel Eye Therapeutics (3DNET)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"Age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and corneal inflammation are significant causes of irreversible blindness with increasing prevalence as the EU population ages and the “diabetes epidemic” expands. There is an unmet clinical need for more effective treatments to halt or reverse these diseases.Many EU pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, with established processes for ...
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Health Care Work Exchange 2015

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

...ect that meets students’ needs for high-quality and technically challenging internships abroad. In addition, more than 100 partner organizations throughout Europe participate in this project. University teaching hospitals, private medical practices, rehabilitation centers, public and private hospitals and clinics offer internships and a variety of educational institutions assist as intermediary pa ...
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AngioMatTrain focuses on the comprehensive, multidisciplinary understanding of ischemic diseases, from basics to translation, fully supported by 8 full partners (5 universities, 1 hospital and 2 SMEs). This ITN will educate and train 12 Early Stage Researchers and 3 Experienced Researchers scientists in: tissue engineering, materials science, chemistry, functionalisation, cell biology, nanotechnol ...
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Open Educational Resources (OER) has the potential to widen access to education and to improve the quality and cost-efficiency of teaching and learning in Europe. The most successful way to achieve a practical implementation of OERs are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). MOOCs are large-scale online courses and represent one of the latest developments in open education in its continuous e ...
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"The concept of THE GRAIL project is the creation of an in vivo, in situ structured bioactive, selectively porous, bioresorbable scaffold that locally regenerates intima growth after endovascular treatment of the obstructed arteries in patients with atherosclerosis. Arterial obstruction due to arteriosclerosis is the cause of a wide spectrum of diseases, disabilities and death, because of induced ...
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Hybrid-EVs and Full-EVs on the market are products where the Internal-Combustion-Engine (ICE) is supplemented by an electric-motor (HEV) or replaced by an all-electric power-train (FEV). Neither approach address lightweight or modularity inheriting the same disadvantages as conventional ICEV - Electrification of mobility must face a conceptual rEVOLUTION! This project breaks the paradigm of curren ...
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Health Care Work Exchange 2014

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

...ect that meets students’ needs for high-quality and technically challenging internships abroad. In addition, more than 100 partner organizations throughout Europe participate in this project. University teaching hospitals, private medical practices, rehabilitation centers, public and private hospitals and clinics offer internships and a variety of educational institutions assist as intermediary pa ...
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Sustainable Hydrothermal Manufacturing of Nanomaterials (SHYMAN)

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

It is vital that nanomanufacturing routes facilitate an increase in production whilst being 'green', sustainable, low cost and capable of producing high quality materials. Continuous hydrothermal synthesis is an enabling and underpinning technology that is ready to prove itself at industrial scale as a result of recent breakthroughs in reactor design which suggest that it could now be scaled over ...
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Novel biomimetic strategy for bone regeneration (INNOVABONE)

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

The importance of developing novel approaches for bone repair is underscored by the heavy burden on health care costs and patient suffering caused by traumatic, osteoporotic and osteolytic metastatic bone lesions. To address these health challenges, we will develop optimally performing bioinspired biomaterials mimicking the natural physiological processes underlying bone repair. Our overall approa ...
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The objective of INTUITEL is to enhance state-of-the-art e-learning content and Learning Management Systems (LMS) with features that so far have been provided only by human tutors. An INTUITEL-enabled system constitutes an integrated learning environment that configures itself in response to any learner, monitors his/her progress and behaviour, combines these data with pedagogical and methodologic ...
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...nd living laboratories as a nucleus for up-scaling and expanding the project scope from single building to campus scale. Three sites are used for research and validation of energy and cost savings, a university campus, a multi-purpose sports arena and an indoor sports complex.Due to its cross-sectoral membership, CAMPUS 21 goes across the whole innovation chain. It contributes with ground-breaking ...
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The PROFILES project promotes IBSE through raising the self-efficacy of science teachers and in so doing aiding a better understanding of the changing purpose of teaching science in schools and the value of stakeholder networking. The proposal innovation is in utilizing science teaching materials to support teachers, through an inspired, longitudinal training programme reflecting stakeholder views ...
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Climate change is for a large part governed by atmospheric processes, in particular the interaction between radiation and atmospheric components (e.g. aerosols, clouds, greenhouse and trace gases). Some of these components are also those with adverse health effects influencing air quality. Strengthening the ground-based component of the Earth Observing System for these key atmospheric variables ha ...
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The aim of LiveCity is to empower the citizens of a city to interact with each other in a more productive, efficient and socially useful way by using high quality video-to-video (v2v) over the Internet. Video-to-video can be used to save patients' lives, improve city administration, reduce fuel costs, reduce carbon footprint, enhance education and improve city experiences for tourists and cultural ...
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The rational exploitation of oceans’ space and resources is increasingly seen as crucial to enhance European competitiveness in key areas such as Renewable Energy and Aquaculture. The H2OCEAN consortium aims at developing an innovative design for an economically and environmentally sustainable multi-use open-sea platform. The H2OCEAN platform will harvest wind and wave power, using part of the ene ...
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Europe’s pine forests are a valuable economic, social and environmental resource under threat from the introduction of the pine wood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. Although not a pest in its native North America, PWN has devastated forests in Asia. Since the arrival of PWN in Portugal, the native maritime pine, Pinus pinaster, has proved to be extremely susceptible, with PWN being s ...
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"The overall goal of UMBRELLA is to use microorganisms to develop cost-efficient and sustainable measures for soil remediation at heavy metal contaminated sites throughout Europe. This will be facilitated by research in microbiology, plant uptake and (hydro)geochemistry centers on the study of microbial influence on metal biogeochemical cycles and their impact for use in soil and water protection. ...
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Supercritical fluid networks and materials (SUPERMAT)

Start date: Sep 14, 2003, End date: Dec 27, 2007,

To answer the needs of the strategy of sustainable development, the industrialists of the Atlantic Area seek, now more than ever, procedures and products offering solid environmental advantages. The SUPERMAT project offers them a new prospect for development, founded on the technology of supercritical fluids. This method, consisting of bringing fluids to precise conditions of temperature and press ...
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The operation “Enhance health: Environmental health surveillance system in urban areas near incinerators and industrial premises” is based on environmental and health concerns in relation to air pollution produced by industrial premises and waste incinerators in urban areas. The simultaneous presence of industrial and urban settlements and waste incinerators in urban areas and the related problem ...
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...ng and packaging industry, as well as the tourist and the forestry sector. The project involved the beneficiary and four partners: the Technological Forest Centre of Catalonia, Valladolid University, Orbalan S.L., and the “Trigo Limpio” Ecologic Agriculture Community. Results Manuals and guidel ...
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The lack of experienced practitioners having proper competence of applying the international internal audit standards for European specific requirements in European funding structures is the target problem of the project. Formal and sectoral education has been concentrating on general accounting and financial audit policies or on high level certification requirements of internal audit, which are l ...
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This project is aimed at using and adapting materials and products developed in previous projects, relying on new technologies to offer distance learning training in key competences to people who participate in mobility projects across Europe. This training involve a learning, tutoring, follow-up and assessment system applied during the acquisition of professional competences at work-linked traini ...
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The lack of experienced practitioners having proper competence of applying the international internal audit standards for European specific requirements in European funding structures is the target problem of the project. Formal and sectoral education has been concentrating on general accounting and financial audit policies or on high level certification requirements of internal audit, which are l ...
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Pre- and in-service teacher training has made a big effort in fostering the adoption of innovative pedagogical approaches, such as collaborative or project-based learning. Nevertheless, teachers still find significant difficulties when trying to apply innovations to ICT-based contexts, currently dominated by Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). Although most institutions now have a VLE, these are ...
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...ice learning in the EU, with the primary purpose of disseminating this information to newly acceeded EU states and pre-accession countries. Target groups for the project include VET professionals and University teaching staff (specifically those in the fields of humanities and social sciences), social partners and private & public training institutions working in the field of service-learning. End ...
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In this age of rapid pace of innovations and technological changes, the success oforganisations depends to a large extent on the continued learning and improvement ofits processes. Structured methods for innovation are needed. In 2003 - 2006 theinnovation manager profession has been developed by a Leonardo project (productinnovation, process innovation, market innovation) with guidance, courses, a ...
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