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Interactive Soil Quality Assessment in Europe and China for Agricultural Productivity and Environmental Resilience (iSQAPER)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

Knowledge regarding the complex interplay between agricultural land use and management and soil quality and function is fragmented and incomplete, in particular with regard to underlying principles and regulating mechanisms. The main aim of iSQAPER is to develop an interactive soil quality assessment tool (SQAPP) for agricultural land users that integrates newly derived process understanding and a ...
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Advanced Regenerative and REStorative Therapies to combat corneal BLINDNESS (ARREST BLINDNESS)

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

Over 30 million Europeans are blind or visually impaired, leading to reduced quality of life and a tremendous loss of productivity in society. Corneal blindness is the second largest cause of blindness globally and while treatable, millions remain unnecessarily blind due to issues of access to transplantable tissue, lack of standardized treatments, and the lag in translating new regenerative medic ...
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Reducing Injury in Sport with Kids: youth injury prevention programme for grass-root coaches

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

RISK grass-root coach education programme encompasses, and is directly related to, the EU Youth Strategy which aims to support the health and well-being of young people. There are serious short and long-term health-related consequences of sustaining a sport injury in childhood, however, injury prevention programmes have been shown to reduce injury incidence in youth participants. Such programmes a ...
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Demonstration of the suitability of dredged remediated sediments for safe and sustainable horticulture production (LIFE HORTISED)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Background Exploitation of peatlands has been steadily increasing over the last 25 years, leading to the loss of 70% of peatland areas in Europe and, in some cases, to the destruction of natural habitats. Yet, peat remains important for horticultural growing, with no reliable alternatives in sight. Tested alternative materials, such as tree bark, wood fib ...
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FOOD QUALITY AND CONSUMER STUDIES

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

... food quality through a comprehensive policy on certification schemes, value - adding terms and standards for agricultural products . The aim of the project is to modernize and improve the quality of university education in the field of food science, food marketing and consumer studies, applied through the synergic effect of international cooperation, transfer of innovation and creation of new val ...
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District of the Future (DoF)

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

Cities are increasingly recognizing the need of addressing climate and energy challenges. The District of the Future (DoF) project is a project funded by the European Union (EU) with the objective to increase energy efficiency in a city district using innovative Information and Communication Technology (ICT) approaches. It will help city leaders to achieve quantifiable and significant reduction up ...
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Marine Microorganisms: Cultivation Methods for Improving their Biotechnological Applications (MACUMBA)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Marine microorganisms form an almost untapped resource of biotechnological potential. However, its use is hindered by the low success rate of isolation of novel microorganisms and often by poor growth efficiency. Hence, the vast majority of marine microorganisms has not been cultivated and is often considered as ‘unculturable’. MaCuMBA aims at improving the isolation rate and growth efficiency of ...
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Empowering root-targeted strategies to minimize abiotic stress impacts on horticultural crops (ROOTOPOWER)

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

ROOTOPOWER aims to develop a multidisciplinary suite of new tools targeted to the root system to enhance agronomic stability and sustainability of dicotyledonous crops under multiple and combined abiotic stresses: salinity, water stress, soil compaction and low fertilizer (N, P, K) input. Central to our approach is the use of tomato as a model species since it can be very easily grafted (usual com ...
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Open Discovery Space: A socially-powered and multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adoption of eLearning resources (Open Discovery Space)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Open Discovery Space aims to serve as an accelerator of the sharing, adoption, usage, and re-purposing of the already rich existing educational content base. First of all, it will demonstrate ways to involve school communities in innovative teaching and learning practices through the effective use of eLearning resources. It will promote community building between numerous schools of Europe and emp ...
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EUCOMM: Tools for Functional Annotation of the Mouse Genome (EUCOMMTOOLS)

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

The EUCOMMTOOLS Collaborative Project responds to the topic ‘HEALTH.2010.2.1.1-1: Large-scale efforts in mouse functional genomics to determine the functions of genes and their involvement in disease.’ EUCOMMTOOLS will provide, in a systematic high-throughput way, genetic tools and resources contributing to the determination of every gene’s function in any cell type of the entire organism at any g ...
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Architecting Manufacturing Industries and systems for Adaptability (AMISA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Systems provide value through their ability to fulfill stakeholders’ needs. Inevitably, these needs evolve over time and diverge from an original system’s capabilities. Thus, the system must be disposed of or periodically upgraded at substantial cost.The objective of the AMISA project is to develop a generic, quantitative methodology for architecting manufacturing lines, product systems and custom ...
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Synapses: from molecules to higher brain function and diseases (SYMBAD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

SyMBaD aims to move forward our knowledge on synapse structure and function in the normal and pathological brain. Brain diseases represent a considerable social and economic burden in Europe. Emerging evidence indicates that synaptic dysfunction is associated with a majority of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Novel therapeutical approaches relie on a better knowledge of the synapse and its ...
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European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development (ECHORD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Description Strengthening the knowledge transfer between scientific research and industry in robotics and stimulating their cooperation In Europe the robotics industry is strong, but still fragmented and dispersed. The objective of ECHORD is to provide new opportunities for coordinated and target- ...
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Combating Antibiotics Resistant Pneumococci by Novel Strategies Based on in vivo and in vitro Host – Pathogen Interactions (CAREPNEUMO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

"The diseases caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae are a major public health problem all over the world. Children, elderly people and immuno-compromised individuals are the high-risk targets for pneumococcal diseases. In spite of the availability of a large number of antibiotics the mortality and morbidity due to S. pneumoniae infections remain very high. There are two reasons for this: Firstly, the ...
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Developmental Molecular Pathways in Drosophila as a Model for Human Cancer (CancerPathways)

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

Cancer is often characterized as a disease of signal transduction pathways, since it is frequently associated with inappropriate activation of such pathways. Indeed, new therapeutic approaches in cancer therapy, such as Herceptin, frequently target signaling pathway components to revert their pathophysiological aberrations. Most oncogenic pathways have been highly conserved throughout evolution wi ...
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Small Area Methods for Poverty and Living Condition Estimates (SAMPLE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

It is well known that in order to ensure a good allocation of public funds and to guarantee the rights of final users of the statistics (government, research institutes and citizens) statistical data on monetary and supplementary poverty indicators have to be timely and effective. Effectiveness of statistical data is a function of their spatial relevance and accuracy. Often official data are refer ...
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Renforcement de l'Assurance Qualité Interne dans des Universités de la Méditerranée Algérie - Maroc - Tunisie

Start date: Jan 15, 2010,

Ce projet part du constat que l’assurance qualité des universités constitue désormais, dans la lignée de l’agenda de Lisbonne et du processus de Bologne, une priorité des politiques nationales d’enseignement supérieur en Europe mais aussi dans les pays du Maghreb. L’adoption de nouvelles lois relatives à l’enseignement supérieur et la création récente ou en cours d’agences nationales chargées de l ...
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Future Skills for Biotechnology

The main purpose of the “FS Biotech – Future Skills For Biotechnology” project is to promote cooperation between HEI and companies by fostering the involvement of enterprises, Industry and Professional Associations, Alumni and other relevant stakeholders. Our goal is to develop and validate a Skills Profile (SP) for Biotechnology graduates using an instrument that will be administered to 500 comp ...
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"Strengthening Institutional Capacity in Arab countries ""ALTAIR"" "

...universities in five partner countries, through the development and embedding of a culture for quality assurance. Related activities include a series of pilot quality assurance assessments of chosen university services, the development of a long-term strategic plan for the development of quality assurance and the publication of a guide to the promotion of institutional quality assurance. The spec ...
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HOPE: Giving hope to victims of abuse through vocational guidance and counselling

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

There has been a number of successful European projects, still being used by vocational guidance counsellors, on target groups with labour market difficulties. These include migrants, refugees, older and younger people, women, low-paid workers and, more generally, people at risk of social exclusion. There is, however, a very large group that cross-cuts all social groups: victims of abuse, both me ...
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Developing Employability Programmes using Interactive Curriculum Technologies

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

Developing Employability Programmes using Interactive Curriculum Technologies (DEPICT) seeks to understand how new communication technologies can be used to deliver enhanced employability in direct response to the needs of employers. DEPICT is a follow up to ERASMUS IP funded Creative Enterprise Futures Enterprise Bootcamps which involved students from universities in Europe helping them to devel ...
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