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Sustainable Integrated Management FOR the NEXUS of water-land-food-energy-climate for a resource-efficient Europe (SIM4NEXUS)
Date du début: 1 juin 2016, Date de fin: 31 mai 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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Tools for Assessment and Planning of Aquaculture Sustainability (TAPAS)
Date du début: 1 mars 2016, Date de fin: 29 févr. 2020,
Aquaculture is one of five sectors in the EU's Blue Growth Strategy, aimed at harnessing untapped potential for food production and jobs whilst focusing on environmental sustainability. TAPAS addresses this challenge by supporting member states to establish a coherent and efficient regulatory framework aimed at sustainable growth. TAPAS will use a requirements analysis to evaluate existing regulat ...
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Pilot line production of functional polymer nanocomposites from natural halloysite nanotubes: demonstrating controlled release of active antimicrobials in food packaging applications. (NanoPack)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2017, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2019,
"NanoPack will demonstrate a solution for extending food shelf life by using novel smart antimicrobial surfaces, applied in active food packaging products. It will run pilot lines in operational industrial environments to manufacture commercially feasible antimicrobial polymer films, accepted by consumers. It will minimize the amount of preservatives required to maintain freshness, add value and a ...
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Copernicus Evolution and Aplications with Sentinel Enhancements and Land Effluents for Shores and Seas (CEASELESS)
Date du début: 1 nov. 2016, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2019,
The CEASELESS project will demonstrate how the new Sentinel measurements can support the development of a coastal dimension in Copernicus by providing an unprecedented level of resolution/ accuracy/continuity with respect to present products. The retrieval and validation for restricted domains and for an enlarged set of combined variables (user oriented) will be the basis to advance the state of t ...
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HYDRALAB+ Adapting to climate change (HYDRALAB-PLUS)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2015, Date de fin: 31 août 2019,
HYDRALAB is an advanced network of environmental hydraulic institutes in Europe, which has been effective in providing access to a suite of major and unique environmental hydraulic facilities from across the whole European scientific community.A continuation project will prepare environmental hydraulic modelling for the upcoming urgent technical challenges associated with adaptations for climate c ...
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CommerciaL Energy ARray for Widespread Acceleration of Tidal European Resources (CLEARWATER)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2018,
Our project consortium will design, build, install and operate an open ocean 4.5MW tidal energy farm in the Inner Sound in the Pentland Firth, off the Northern coast of Scotland. The project (“Clearwater”) will demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of a multi-turbine tidal energy array, an essential step to catalyse development of commercial projects in the EU ocean energy industry. P ...
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Preparing for Extreme And Rare events in coastaL regions (PEARL)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,
"Coastal floods are one of the most dangerous and harmful natural hazards affecting urban areas adjacent to shorelines. Rapid urbanisation combined with climate change and poor governance means a significant increase in the risk of local surface flooding coinciding with high water levels in rivers and high tide or storm surges from the sea, posing a greater risk of devastation to coastal communiti ...
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Demonstrate Ecosystem Services Enabling Innovation in the Water Sector (DESSIN)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,
The main objectives of DESSIN are- To demonstrate and promote innovative solutions to water-related challenges with a focus on: (i) water quality issues related to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and (ii) water scarcity.- To demonstrate a methodology for the valuation of ecosystem services (ESS) as catalyser for innovation in water management.DESSIN will launch demonstrat ...
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Innovative Wind Conversion Systems (10-20MW) for Offshore Applications (INNWIND.EU)
Date du début: 1 nov. 2012, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2017,
The overall objectives of the INNWIND.EU project are the high performance innovative design of a beyond-state-of-the-art 10-20MW offshore wind turbine and hardware demonstrators of some of the critical components. These ambitious primary objectives lead to a set of secondary objectives, which are the specific innovations, new concepts, new technologies and proof of concepts at the sub system and t ...
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Intelligent control of swimming pool disinfection with reduction and treatment of harmful by- products (INTELLIPOOL)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2014, Date de fin: 31 mai 2017,
The 4 SME Participants in the INTELLIPOOL project – ULTRAAQUA, VES, Electrocell and Swan aim to develop technology solutions to eliminate the severe adverse health effects caused by chlorinated disinfection by-products (DBP) in recreational bathing water facilities and simultaneously save energy, chemicals and water associated with pool water sanitation. We will create a toolbox of analytical/desi ...
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EUropean Provision Of Regional Impact Assessment on a Seasonal-to-decadal timescale (EUPORIAS)
Date du début: 1 nov. 2012, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2017,
Recent advances in our understanding and forecasting of climate and climate change have brought us to the point where skilful and useful predictions are being made. These forecasts hold the potential for being of great value for a wide range of decision-makers who are affected by the vagaries of the climate and who would benefit from understanding and better managing climate-related risks. Howeve ...
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AQUA-USERS: AQUAculture USEr driven operational Remote Sensing information services (AQUA-USERS)
Date du début: 17 sept. 2013, Date de fin: 1 nov. 2016,
"The GMES downstream project ""AQUAculture USEr driven operational Remote Sensing information services"" (AQUA-USERS) will be a highly user driven project to provide user relevant and timely information to aquaculture industries based amongst others on historic ENVISAT, future Sentinel 3 (and 2) data and innovative optical in-situ measurements. The key purpose of AQUA-USERS is to develop, together ...
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Portable Automated Water Analyser for Viruses (AQUAVIR)
Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2016,
Water-borne viral diseases pose high risks for public health worldwide. The urban wastewater contains large number of pathogen viruses, and even the most advanced wastewater treatment is not safe for full removal of virus particles.The conventional biological water quality indicators do not provide adequate information about the presence of pathogenic viruses. The currently available reliable viru ...
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ESCOLA DA FLORESTA / Forest School
Date du début: 1 oct. 2014, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2016,
Considering that the high number of young early school leavers and who do not initiate any system of vocational training, feeds a number of socially reprehensible acts, fosters deregulation of educational structures, increases the number of unsafe citizens and the number of anti-social groups who practice violent and delinquent acts;
Considering that the consequent increase in the number of people ...
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Safeguarding Water resources in INdia with Green and Sustainable technologies (SWINGS)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2012, Date de fin: 29 févr. 2016,
"At a time with an urgent need to conserve water resources, efficient sanitation systems play a key role in sustainability. They can ensure that the vital resource Water is recovered from waste and can be re-used at the same time as protecting human health and the environment. The SWINGS project consortium will establish an optimal methodology for nutrient and energy recovery from wastewater (WW) ...
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Preparing Land and Ocean Take Up from Sentinel-3 (LOTUS)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2015,
"The objective of the LOTUS project is to support the development of GMES by developing applications of Sentinel-3 to complete the space observation infrastructure that are designed for land and ocean monitoring for GMES. Sentinel-3 is the GMES space component for monitoring the oceans. The SRAL instrument onboard Sentinel-3 is a radar altimeter that will provide observations of sea-surface and la ...
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"Innovative Multi-purpose off-shore platforms: planning, Design and operation" (MERMAID)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2012, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2015,
"European oceans will be subject to massive development of marine infrastructure in the near future. The most obvious is the energy facilities e.g. offshore wind farms, exploitation of wave energy, expansion of electricity connections, and also further development and implementation of marine aquaculture. This will also lead to an increased need for marine infrastructure to support installation an ...
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Risk Monitoring, Modelling and Mitigation of benthic Harmful Algal Blooms along Mediterranean coasts (M3-HABs)
Date du début: 31 déc. 2013, Date de fin: 30 déc. 2015,
Project in brief Blooms of Ostreopsis in coastal areas are a topic of increasing interest, mainly in the Mediterranean Sea, due to the potential hazards that this species of algae might cause to human health and the consequent negative effects on tourism, fishery and aquaculture businesses. In the last 15 years, blooms of toxic dinoflagellates (harmful water microorganisms) belonging to the genus ...
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Development of bio-oil dewatering and fractionation processes and testing of upgraded bio-oil as engine fuel and feedstock for the production of lubricants (GREEN-OIL)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2011, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2014,
"There is globally a large and growing market for biofuels, mainly due to environmental and safety of energy supply concerns, which is only limited by production capacity and competitive prices. Currently, the market is almost totally based on 1st generation biofuels, which have negative implications to global food resources. Therefore the rising pressure towards shifting to biomass residues and w ...
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Meso-level eco-efficiency indicators to assess technologies and their uptake in water use sectors (EcoWater)
Date du début: 1 nov. 2011, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2014,
EcoWater will address the development of meso-level eco-efficiency indicators for technology assessment through a systems' approach. The effort will focus on enhancing the understanding of the interrelations of innovative technology uptake in water use systems, and their economic and environmental impacts. Research will address the selection of indicators appropriate for assessing system-wide eco- ...
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Future Deep Sea Wind Turbine Technologies (DeepWind)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2010, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2014,
The hypothesis of this project is that a new wind turbine concept developed specifically for offshore application has potentials for better cost efficiency than existing offshore technology. Based on this hypothesis the objectives are: i)to explore the technologies needed for development of a new and simple floating offshore concept with a vertical axis rotor and a floating and rotating foundation ...
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Enhancement of natural water systems and treatment methods for safe and sustainable water supply in India (SAPH PANI)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2011, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2014,
Saph Pani addresses the improvement of natural water treatment systems such as river bank filtration (RBF), managed aquifer recharge (MAR) and wetlands in India building on a combination of local and international expertise. The project aims at enhancing water resources and water supply particularly in water stressed urban and peri-urban areas in different parts of the sub-continent. The objective ...
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HYDRALAB IV More than water; dealing with the complex interaction of water with environmental elements, sediment, structures and ice (HYDRALAB IV)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2010, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2014,
The co-ordinated and integrated approach of HYDRALAB aims at structuring the access to unique and costly hydraulic and ice engineering research infrastructures in the European Research Area. The network of HYDRALAB is unique in the hydraulic research community and has large experience in co-operating since its start in 1997. It began by informing and co-ordinating the activities of the partners in ...
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Collaborative research on flood resilience in urban areas (CORFU)
Date du début: 1 avr. 2010, Date de fin: 30 juin 2014,
Collaborative research on flood resilience in urban areas (CORFU) is an interdisciplinary international project that will look at advanced and novel strategies and provide adequate measures for improved flood management in cities. The differences in urban flooding problems in Asia and in Europe range from levels of economic development, infrastructure age, social systems and decision making proces ...
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PREPARED “ENABLING CHANGE” (PREPARED)
Date du début: 1 févr. 2010, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2014,
IPCC climate change scenarios have a global perspective and need to be scaled down to the local level, where decision makers have to balance risks and investment costs. Very high investments might be a waste of money and too little investment could result in unacceptable risk for the local community. PREPARED is industry driven, 12 city utilities are involved in the project and the RDT carried out ...
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Coastal Biomass Observatory Services (CoBiOS)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2011, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2013,
The proposed CoBiOS project aims to integrate satellite products and ecological models into a really operational and user-relevant information service on high biomass blooms in Europe’s coastal waters. To this end CoBiOS will produce a harmonized and validated water transparency product based on satellite images for a large variety of coastal water types which will be used to force ecological mode ...
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@qua Innovation Network for Water Efficiency (@qua)
Date du début: 1 mai 2011, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2013,
Description
@qua Innovation Network gathers ICT and water services leading actors from SME to majors, research entities developing competences in both sectors, local and regional authorities directly responsible for water policy and water management. Partners have developed significant expertise about the interface of ICT and water and at th ...
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Nano-structured TiON Photo-Catalytic Membranes for Water Treatment (NATIOMEM)
Date du début: 1 juil. 2010, Date de fin: 30 juin 2013,
More than 1.2 billion people, mostly in poor regions, suffer from water scarcity, due to a global shortfall of potable water caused by population growth, over-exploitation, and pollution. NATIOMEM proposes to alleviate this by developing novel technology for treating contaminated surface and waste water so that it will be potable. This technology will not require electrical power, chemicals or oth ...
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"Toxicological impact of nanomaterials derived from processing, weathering and recycling of polymer nanocomposites used in various industrial applications" (NANOPOLYTOX)
Date du début: 1 mai 2010, Date de fin: 31 mai 2013,
"The project NANOPOLYTOX will evaluate the toxicological impact of nanomaterials included in polymer nanocomposites, highly used in various industrial sectors, during their life cycle. The toxicological profile will be correlated with the changes in the physical and chemical properties of the nanomaterials during the artificial aging/weathering process of the polymeric nanocomposites. Raw nanomate ...
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Marine Water Quality Information Services – AquaMar (AQUAMAR)
Date du début: 1 avr. 2010, Date de fin: 31 mars 2013,
"Water quality (WQ) is a focus of monitoring agencies and the public, and it is subject of several European Directives and regional conventions. The AquaMar project will develop and provide downstream services turning Marine Core Service products into WQ services, demanded by end user. The team is composed mainly of SMEs (70%) supported by key scientific partners. The objective is to create a refe ...
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"Fluxes, Interactions and Environment at the Land-Ocean Boundary. Downscaling, Assimilation and Coupling" (FIELD_AC)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2010, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2012,
"Coastal-zone oceanographic predictions seldom appraise the land discharge as a boundary condition. River fluxes are sometimes considered, but neglecting their 3D character, while the “distributed” continental run-off is not taken into consideration. Moreover, many coastal scale processes, particularly those relevant in geographically restricted domains (coasts with harbours or river mouth areas), ...
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Water in Industry, Fit-for-Use Sustainable Water Use in Chemical, Paper, textile and Food Industry (AquaFit4Use)
Date du début: 1 juin 2008, Date de fin: 31 août 2012,
"Sustainable water use in industry is the goal of AquaFit4Use, by a cross-sectorial, integrated approach. The overall objectives are: the development and implementation of new, reliable, cost-effective technologies, tools and methods for sustainable water supply, use and discharge in the main water consuming industries in order to significantly reduce water use, mitigate environmental impact and ...
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Coordination action on Environmental Technology Verification ETV - Building a framework for international cooperation (AdvanceETV)
Date du début: 15 janv. 2009, Date de fin: 14 juil. 2012,
AdvanceETV aims to demonstrate that the proposed schemes and protocols for Environmental Technologies Verification systems have the potential to be recognised internationally. Thus the main objective is to develop an international framework for cooperation and mutual recognition by supporting the cooperation of international ETV activities, e.g the International Working Group (IWG). This requires ...
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MICROARRAYS FOR THE DETECTION OF TOXIC ALGAE (MIDTAL)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2008, Date de fin: 31 mai 2012,
Microalgae in marine and brackish waters of Europe regularly cause «harmful effects», considered from the human perspective, in that they threaten public health and cause economic damage to fisheries and tourism. Cyanobacteria cause similar problems in freshwaters. These episodes encompass a broad range of phenomena collectively referred to as «harmful algal blooms» (HABs). They include discolorat ...
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Coordinating Twinning partnerships towards more adaptive Governance in river basins (Twin2Go)
Date du début: 1 juin 2009, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2011,
Over the past years, the EU has funded several projects that undertook research on specific integrated water resources management (IWRM) issues in case studies carried out on twinned river basins from Europe and from developing countries. The aim of Twin2Go now is to review, assess, synthesize and consolidate the outcomes of these projects in order to make them transferable and applicable to other ...
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Autonomous and standardised container-based water treatment unit for production of potable water (ONLY WATER)
Date du début: 16 juin 2009, Date de fin: 15 juin 2011,
"Beside the lacking access to clean drinking water, the world are increasingly affected by natural disasters which require emergency water supply. Current water treatment systems require that they are designed to the specific water type and type of pollution which make them less suitable as emergency water suppliers. The existing mobile systems today are either not capable of cleaning the water su ...
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Bringing the OpenMI-Life (OpenMI-LIFE)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2006, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2010,
Background
The project's rationale lies in the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), which demands an integrated approach to water management. This requires an ability to predict the way catchment processes will interact. In most contexts, it is not feasible to build a single predictive model that adequately represents all the processes; therefore, there is ...
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EuroPLOT: Persuasive Learning Objects and Technologies for Lifelong Learning in Europe
Date du début: 1 nov. 2010,
Learning objects and technologies are currently limited in their adaptability and how far they support active engagement from the learner. EuroPLOT will develop a pedagogical framework for active engagement, based on persuasive design, and will demonstrate its value by creating authoring tools for, and exemplars of, persuasive learning objects and technologies (PLOTs) that are easy to create and a ...
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The project aims at improving environmental monitoring and control practices and focuses on the improvement of sampling quality through better training for environmental samplers. It is based on the need for establishing uniform, high quality vocational training courses for environmental samplers with standardised exams as the basis of a certification of their competences. The project plans to de ...
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Flood risk management plans, considered as a communicator and disseminator tool across the horizontal structures of governmental and non-governmental bodies dealing with flood protection, flood mitigation and flood struggle in general. They mainly include proposals on how to reduce the losses of lives, property and environmental through flood prevention, protection of vulnerable areas and increase ...
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