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Improvement of habitats and population connectivity for endangered amphibians in the cityregion of Aachen (LIFE-Amphibienverbund)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2025,

...e Habitats Directive, along with the Annex IV-listed midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) and natterjack toad (Bufo calamita), are all endangered in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and in Germany as a whole. The former two species have a bad conservation status in the Continental region, as well as in the Atlantic region, while the natterjack toad has an insufficient conservation status in both regions ...
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Nature Integrated Management to 2020 (LIFE IP GESTIRE 2020)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2023,

Background In order to ensure the conservation objectives and ecological coherence of the Natura 2000 network, the Lombardy region recognised the need to develop a regional strategy for the period 2015-2020, supported by an integrated, unified, coordinated and participatory management strategy. To this end, in the period 2012-2015 the project GESTIRE (LIF ...
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LIFE FLOODPLAIN AMPHIBIANS (LIFE Auenamphibien)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2023,

... The ongoing decline of amphibian species is especially severe in Central and Northern Europe, particularly those species listed in Annex II and IV of the Habitats Directive. This is due to habitat destruction and degradation, mainly driven by the intensification of land use over recent decades. In some regions, more than 90% of reproduction ponds were destroyed in the ...
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Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Vaccine (CCHFVaccine)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2022,

Natural epidemics and outbreaks of emerging viral epidemics are growing problems internationally. The general aim of the CCHFVaccine project is to develop and deliver a vaccine, which can significantly increase our capacity to control the situation of Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) disease on a global basis. The proposed work program on CCHF virus aims to build a multidisciplinary researc ...
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Development of a habitat network for the Violet Copper to promote a sustainable metapopulation (LIFE-Patches & Corridors)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2022,

...oils. The northern Eifel is one of only six German regions with the necessary qualities and site conditions for the species. However, dispersal of individual butterflies between sites is not possible. Improved migratory movement is needed to ensure that the species survives in the region. Restoration measures could create a habitat network in the “Oberlauf der Rur” Natura 2000 network site. ...
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GRowing AviaN in Apennine's Tuscany HeathlAnds (LIFE GRANATHA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2022,

...s are mostly habitats of anthropic origin, which have flourished thanks to active human management and relevant socio-economic activities, such as the exploitation of heath and pastures for agriculture. In the last decades, as a consequence of the abandonment of traditional activities, the target area has been subjected to major environmental changes. In fact the original dry heath vegetation cove ...
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Adaptation of FORest management to CLIMATE variability: an ecological approach - AForClimate (LIFE AFORCLIMATE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2022,

Background Climate change is known to influence forest tree growth response and the CO2 cycle. Dendroclimatological research has shown that the climate signal, species composition, and growth trends have changed in different types of forest ecosystems during the last century. Under current and demonstrated changes in climate variability at geographic, reg ...
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Engine Mount System for Ultra High Pass Engine (EMS UHPE)

Start date: Mar 15, 2016, End date: Feb 14, 2022,

Our consortium is applying for the Engine Mounts System (EMS) of the Ultra High Propulsive Efficiency. Our 3 objectives are:1. Assist the Engine Manufacturer & the Airframer in the evaluation & selection of the most promising & suitable Engine Mounts System (EMS) configuration. Criteria for evaluation: weight, cost, dynamic performance, certification, impact on engine & aircraft assembly.2. Design ...
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GEOTHERMICA - ERA NET Cofund Geothermal (GEOTHERMICA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Europe is challenged to increase the share of renewable energy for heating and cooling, industrial processes, power generation and energy storage. Geothermal energy is a vastly under-utilized indigenous, clean, low footprint and continuously available energy resource, and thus uniquely positioned to substantially contribute to a safe and secure energy supply of Europe’s Energy Union. Hitherto only ...
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Transparent and flexible electronics with embedded energy harvesting based on oxide nanowire devices (TREND)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The Internet of Things is shaping the evolution of information society, requiring an increasing number of objects with embedded electronics, sensors and connectivity. This spurs the need for systems where summing to performance and low cost, multifunctionality has to be assured. In this context, TREND aims to take transparent electronics into as-of-yet unexplored levels of integration, by combinin ...
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Ocean Energy ERA-NET Cofund (OCEANERA-NET COFUND)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

AbstractOCEANERA-NET COFUND aims at coordinating the efforts of 8 agencies, in 4 Member states and 4 regions, in the ocean energy area. The joint action will focus on the demonstration and validation of innovative technologies for the generation of electricity from waves, tidal current, tidal range, salinity gradient and ocean thermal energy conversion, which will lead to improved performance, rel ...
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Federation for FIRE Plus (Fed4FIREplus)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

...e Fed4FIRE+ project has the objective to run and further improve Fed4FIRE’s “best-in-town” federation of experimentation facilities for the Future Internet Research and Experimentation initiative. Federating a heterogeneous set of facilities covering technologies ranging from wireless, wired, cloud services and open flow, and making them accessible through common frameworks and tools suddenly open ...
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Establishing the European Geological Surveys Research Area to deliver a Geological Service for Europe (GeoERA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The GeoERA proposal is put forward by the national and regional Geological Survey Organisations (GSO) of Europe. Its overall goal is to integrate the GSO’s information and knowledge on subsurface energy, water and raw material resources, to support sustainable use of the subsurface in addressing Europe’s grand challenges. The GeoERA consortium will organise and co-fund together with the EC a joint ...
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SIMVASTATIN AND RIFAXIMIN AS NEW THERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH DECOMPENSATED CIRRHOSIS (LIVERHOPE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

...imin and simvastatin, targeting the main pathophysiological mechanisms of disease progression , namely the impairment in the gut-liver axis and the persistent hepatic and systemic inflammatory response. This dual therapeutic approach is supported by preclinical data showing excellent and very promising results.We will perform two randomized double-blind trials to investigate safety, tolerability a ...
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European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The overarching goal of the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) is to generate knowledge to inform the safe management of chemicals and so protect human health. We will use human biomonitoring to understand human exposure to chemicals and resulting health impacts and will communicate with policy makers to ensure that our results are exploited in the design of new chemicals policies an ...
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Advanced Holographic Tomographies for Nanoscale Materials: Revealing Electromagnetic and Deformation Fields, Chemical Composition and Quantum States at Atomic Resolution. (ATOM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

... develop and advance such technologies and to improve the understanding of the underlying fundamental solid state physics effects, the nondestructive and quantitative 3D characterization of physical, e.g., electric or magnetic, fields down to atomic resolution is indispensable. Current nanoscale metrology methods only inadequately convey this information, e.g., because they probe surfaces, record ...
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Elementary quantum dot networks enabled by on-chip nano-optomechanical systems (QD-NOMS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

...ions are related to scalability, a most critical issue in quantum technologies. A scalable quantum network, which can be extended almost infinitely, is built by entangling individual quantum systems, e.g. atoms. It will provide thrilling opportunities across a range of intellectual and technical frontiers in quantum information science. Building such a network is however a great challenge, in both ...
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ORTHOpedic randomized clinical trial with expanded bone marrow MSC and bioceramics versus autograft in long bone nonUNIONs (ORTHOUNION)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

...ten requiring biological enhancement. Regenerative medicine research suggests to the general public that alternative treatments based on advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMP) are already available. However, early clinical trials only explore its potential benefit. Underreported results and absence of early trial confirmation in adequately powered prospective randomized clinical trials (RCT) i ...
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Conservation of amphibians and butterflies of open wet areas and their habitats at the Foreste Casentinesi National Park (LIFE WetFlyAmphibia)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Background Analysis of the population dynamics of species related to wetlands in the target area, and particularly amphibians and butterflies, reveals a range of problems. In particular, the populations of amphibians, the yellow-bellied toad (Bombina variegate) (in sharp decline at national level), spectacled salamander (Salamandrina terdigitata) and Ital ...
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ERA-Net Cofund on Sustainable Food production and consumption (SUSFOOD2) (SUSFOOD2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

...l of around 14 Mio. €. The consortium also aims at implementing other additional activities in a three-fold approach:i) strengthening networking and knowledge transfer among various stakeholders (i.e. by workshops, stakeholder events etc.)ii) additional funding activities without EU co-fund (preferably linked with other initiatives)iii) implementation and further advancement of the SUSFOOD SRA (de ...
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An Integrated European ‘Flagship’ Program Driving Mechanism-based Toxicity Testing and Risk Assessment for the 21st Century (EU-ToxRisk)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The vision of EU-ToxRisk is to drive a paradigm shift in toxicology towards an animal-free, mechanism-based integrated approach to chemical safety assessment. The project will unite all relevant disciplines and stakeholders to establish: i) pragmatic, solid read-across procedures incorporating mechanistic and toxicokinetic knowledge; and ii) ab initio hazard and risk assessment strategies of chemi ...
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Tackling Water Challenges in the International Context (IC4WATER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The Joint Programming Initiative Water Challenges for a Changing World, the Water JPI, is an intergovernmental initiative which strives to achieve sustainable water systems for a sustainable economy in Europe and abroad.IC4WATER’s objectives include supporting agencies in stepping up international cooperation: through the sharing of best practices, networking, closer coordination of existing activ ...
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Parallel network-based biocomputation: technological baseline, scale-up and innovation ecosystem (Bio4Comp)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

...m demonstrated proof-of-principle of a parallel-computation system in which a given combinatorial problem is encoded into a graphical, modular network that is embedded in a nanofabricated planar device. The problem is then solved by a large number of independent biological agents, namely molecular-motor-propelled protein filaments, exploring the network in a highly parallel fashion (PNAS 113, 2591 ...
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The Flagship ERA-NET (FLAG-ERA II)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

...RA-NET, gathers national and regional funding organisation with the goal of supporting, together with the European Commission, the FET Flagship initiatives and more generally the FET Flagship programme. Most funding organisations in Europe participate, either directly or as associated members. FLAG-ERA contributes to the construction of the two Flagship initiatives on Graphene and Human Brain rese ...
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Eranet Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (EN-SUGI)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

...able Urbanisation Global Initiative (EN-SUGI) will bring together the fragmented research and innovation expertise across Europe and beyond to find innovative new solutions to this FEW Nexus challenge. Furthermore, by linking the activity of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe and the Belmont Forum (BF), EN-SUGI develops more resilient, applied urban solutions that bring research ...
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ERA-Net on INtesTInal MICrobiomics, diet and health, implementing JPI HDHL objectives (HDHL-INTIMIC)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

"HDHL-INTIMIC (INtesTInal MICrobiomics) is a proposal for an ERA-NET Cofund in the field of food, nutrition and health to support the Joint Programming Initiative "A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life" (JPI HDHL).There is a high burden of non-communicable diseases due to unhealthy diet and lifestyle patterns. The intestine and in particular the intestinal microbiota have an influence on metabolic pr ...
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Maritime and Marine Technologies for a New ERA (MarTERA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

... additional joint activities that go beyond this co-funded call are planned, in order to contribute to the national priorities as well as to the Strategic Research Agenda of JPI Oceans and WATERBORNE. With the cooperation of ERA-NET MARTEC and JPI Oceans, a broader variety of topics with a larger amount of funding will be available for the trans-national projects. Moreover, the focus of developmen ...
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Implement a European-wide coordination of research and innovation programs on raw materials to strengthen the industry competitiveness and the shift to a circular economy (ERA-MIN 2)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

Building on the experience of ERA-MIN FP7 funded project, the objective of the ERA-NET Cofund on Raw Materials (ERA-MIN 2) is to strengthen the coordination of national and regional research programmes in the field of non-energy non-agricultural raw materials by implementing one joint call for proposals resulting in grants to third parties with EU co-funding.In line with the integrated strategy pr ...
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Cofund on Biotechnologies (CoBioTech)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

...cal processesc) Identification and use of the metabolic potentials of genomic datad) Chemical and biotechnological approaches to transform bio-based molecules into molecules with high added value.Bundling three predecessor ERA-Nets in the area of biotechnology, CoBioTech significantly increases public funding (call volume ~ 30 Mio €), intensifies collaboration across relevant sectors and countries ...
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Coordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming Systems Cofund (CORE Organic Cofund)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

...tainable agriculture and food production. This development has been and will be dependent on continuous research and innovation.CORE Organic started in 2004 and has been evolving for more than a decade. The present proposal for a CORE Organic Cofund will continue, to update and consolidate the series of transnational research calls that support a focused and coordinated research and innovation eff ...
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Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-Course: structures and processes (DIAL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

... cultural, economic and political dimensions and to disentangle the impact of past events and current circumstances on later outcomes to provide solutions to reverse inequalities across the life-course.The NORFACE DIAL programme will coordinate the research efforts of the participating European Member States by implementing a joint trans-national call with European Commission co-funding to fund in ...
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ERA-NET ON NANOMEDICINE (EuroNanoMed III)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

Nanomedicine is the application of nanotechnology to medicine and healthcare. The field takes advantage of the physical, chemical and biological properties of materials at the nanometer scale to be used for a better understanding of the biological mechanisms of diseases at the molecular level, leading to new targets for earlier and more precise diagnostics and therapeutics. Nanomedicine, rated amo ...
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QuantERA ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies (QuantERA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

QuantERA ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum TechnologiesQuantum Technologies (QT) has become a new and fast developing area of research initiated by a realisation that quantum physics opens up radically new modes of quantum information processing and communication. European researchers have been at the forefront of these developments delivering many groundbreaking scientific results and advancing technolog ...
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ERA-NET Cofund Electric Mobility Europe (EMEurope)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

...boration with the European Commission and the European Green Vehicles Initiative Association, European countries and regions will set-up an ERA-NET Cofund to further promote electric mobility in Europe. Electric Mobility Europe builds on the experiences, networks and results of Electromobility+ and is designed to take transnational e-mobility research and policy exchange to the next level.With a t ...
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ERA-NET ON ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES (MANUNET III)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

...ion efforts in the field of advanced manufacturing with a special focus in the key areas of new production processes, adaptive manufacturing systems and technologies for the factory of the future.The project will also reinforce the territorial cohesion through an extended collaboration network. The consortium pretends to respond to the actual economic crisis by promoting the transnational research ...
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MONTADO & CLIMATE; A NEED TO ADAPT (LIFE-Montado-adapt)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Sep 1, 2021,

Background Mediterranean ecosystems have been identified as being among the most likely to be impacted by climate change. A further clear trend towards drier and hotter conditions is predicted in the Mediterranean area. Here, substantial warming (about 1.5°C in winter and almost 2°C in summer) and a significant decrease in precipitation (5-10%) is likel ...
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A Bidirectional MyoKinetic Implanted Interface for Natural Control of Artificial Limbs (MYKI)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

MYKI aims at developing and clinically evaluating a dexterous hand prosthesis with tactile sensing which is naturally controlled and perceived by the amputee. This will be possible by overcoming the conventional approaches based on recording electrical signals from the peripheral nervous system (nerves or skeletal muscles) through the development of a radically new Human-Machine Interface (HMI) ba ...
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Reduction of CO2 emissions by restoring degraded peatlands in Northern European Lowland (LIFE Peat Restore)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

...t types of peatlands; and An internationally-applicable handbook on the restoration of degraded different mire habitats forming peat and storing carbon within the temperate Continental climate zone.
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Dual targeting of senescence and tumor immunity for cancer therapy (Immune-senescence)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

... tumor immunity in cancer are tightly interconnected. Tumor-infiltrating immune cells promote the clearance of senescent tumor cells thereby contributing to the tumor suppressive function of senescence. Moreover, T lymphocytes can drive senescence in cancers by secreting different cytokines in the tumor microenvironment. We have also recently reported that GR1+ myeloid cells antagonize treatment-i ...
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CRACKING THE CODE BEHIND MITOTIC FIDELITY: the roles of tubulin post-translational modifications and a chromosome separation checkpoint (CODECHECK)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

During the human lifetime 10000 trillion cell divisions take place to ensure tissue homeostasis and several vital functions in the organism. Mitosis is the process that ensures that dividing cells preserve the chromosome number of their progenitors, while deviation from this, a condition known as aneuploidy, represents the most common feature in human cancers. Here we will test two original concep ...
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