Rechercher des projets européens

Plus de 40 projets européens trouvés

Recherche sur 125080 projets européens

 TERMINÉ 

The European network for observing our changing planet (ERA-PLANET)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2016, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2021,

In the last decade a significant number of projects and programmes in different domains of environmental monitoring and Earth observation have generated a substantial amount of data and knowledge on different aspects related to environmental quality and sustainability. Big data generated by in-situ or satellite platforms are being collected and archived with a plethora of systems and instruments m ...
Voir le projet

 38

 TERMINÉ 

Natural Toxins and Drinking Water Quality - From Source to Tap (NaToxAq)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2017, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2020,

Clean drinking water is crucial to human health and wellbeing. The ambition of the NaToxAq ETN network is to expand the research basis for EU’s leading role in securing high quality drinking waters for its citizens. Focus is on natural toxins – a large group of emerging contaminants with unknown impact on drinking water resources. Both known toxins, like cyanotoxins, cyanogenic glucosides and terp ...
Voir le projet

 10

 TERMINÉ 

European training Network for In situ imaGing of dynaMic processes in heterogeneous subsurfAce environments (ENIGMA)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2017, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2020,

The ENIGMA network will train a new generation of young researchers in the development of innovative sensors, field survey techniques and inverse modelling approaches. This will enhance our ability to understand and monitor dynamic subsurface processes that are key to the protection and sustainable use of water resources. ENIGMA focuses mainly on critical zone observation, but the anticipated tech ...
Voir le projet

 11

 TERMINÉ 

Analytical and Characterisation Excellence in nanomaterial risk assessment: A tiered approach (ACEnano)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2016, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2020,

An increasing number of nanomaterials (NMs) are entering the market in every day products spanning from health care and leisure to electronics, cosmetics and foodstuff. Nanotechnology is a truly enabling technology, with unlimited potential for innovation. However, the novelty in properties and forms of NMs makes the development of a well-founded and robust legislative framework to ensure safe dev ...
Voir le projet

 27

 TERMINÉ 

PLAtform for Climate Adaptation and Risk reDuction (PLACARD)

Date du début: 1 juin 2015, Date de fin: 31 mai 2020,

Significant challenges exist towards strengthening the Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) communities for coherent, mutually reinforcing and pragmatic planning and action. PLACARD seeks to support the coordination of these two communities. PLACARD will tackle current challenges by 1) providing a common ‘space’ where CCA and DRR communities can come together, share ex ...
Voir le projet

 10

 TERMINÉ 

Managing soil and groundwater impacts from agriculture for sustainable intensification (INSPIRATION)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2016, Date de fin: 31 mars 2020,

"Agricultural production in Europe has significantly damaged soil and water resources, ecosystem biodiversity, socio-economic well-being and contributed to climate change. Expected further intensification of production to ensure food safety for population growth must be sustainable to minimise future impacts and negative externalities. This ETN addresses these challenges by training 15 early stage ...
Voir le projet

 11

 TERMINÉ 

Establishing a European Knowledge and Learning Mechanism to Improve the Policy-Science-Society Interface on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (EKLIPSE)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2016, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2020,

The aim of EKLIPSE is to establish an innovative, light, self-sustainable EU support mechanism for evidence-based policy on biodiversity and ecosystems services open to all relevant knowledge holders and users, and to hand over this mechanism to the wider knowledge community by the end of the project. The mechanism will build on existing science-policy-society interfaces and be further refined via ...
Voir le projet

 10

 TERMINÉ 

GEMex: Cooperation in Geothermal energy research Europe-Mexico for development of Enhanced Geothermal Systems and Superhot Geothermal Systems (GEMex)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2016, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2019,

The GEMex project is a complementary effort of a European consortium with a corresponding consortium from Mexico, who submitted an equivalent proposal for cooperation. The joint effort is based on three pillars: 1 – Resource assessment at two unconventional geothermal sites, for EGS development at Acoculco and for a super-hot resource near Los Humeros. This part will focus on understanding the tec ...
Voir le projet

 26

 TERMINÉ 

Integrating Social Sciences and Humanities into Teaching about Energy

Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2019,

The relationship between technology and society changes; it is becoming a widely recognized view that future technology policies including energy policies have to be not only technically, but also socially acceptable. While it is uncertain what this shift means for the transformation of political decision-making about energy, the implications for the scientific ethos are obvious. It seems to be no ...
Voir le projet

 7

 TERMINÉ 

EnhANcing emergencY management and response to extreme WeatHER and climate Events (ANYWHERE)

Date du début: 1 juin 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2019,

The ultimate purpose of ANYWHERE is to empower exposed responder institutions and citizens to enhance their anticipation and pro-active capacity of response to face extreme and high-impact weather and climate events. This will be achieved through the operational implementation of cutting-edge innovative technology as the best way to enhance citizen's protection and saving lives.ANYWHERE proposes t ...
Voir le projet

 32

 TERMINÉ 

INTEGRATED AND ADAPTIVE RESPONSES TO TOXIC EMERGENCIES FOR RAPID TRIAGE: ENGINEERING THE ROADMAP FROM CASUALTY TO PATIENT TO SURVIVOR. (TOXI-triage)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2015, Date de fin: 31 août 2019,

The seven specific objectives of TOXI-triage address the operational; technological; ethical and societal dimensions of CBRN response and recovery, and importantly the economic base from which sustainable CBRN and multi-use systems are derived.19 partners in 4 Task forces will deliver 9 Work Packages (WPs) that address: end user specifications; Design and delivery; Test and Validation; and, Impact ...
Voir le projet

 19

 TERMINÉ 

ECOPOTENTIAL: IMPROVING FUTURE ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS THROUGH EARTH OBSERVATIONS (ECOPOTENTIAL)

Date du début: 1 juin 2015, Date de fin: 31 mai 2019,

Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential services to human societies. Anthropogenic pressures, however, cause serious threat to ecosystems, leading to habitat degradation, increased risk of collapse and loss of ecosystem services. Knowledge-based conservation, management and restoration policies are needed to improve ecosystem benefits in face of increasing pressures. ECOPOTENTIAL makes ...
Voir le projet

 47

 TERMINÉ 

Innovative Eco-Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastewater (INCOVER)

Date du début: 1 juin 2016, Date de fin: 31 mai 2019,

Taking into account the current global water scarcity and the expensive operation and maintenance cost of wastewater treatment, INCOVER concept has been designed to move wastewater treatment from being primarily a sanitation technology towards a bio-product recovery industry and a recycled water supplier. A wastewater specific Decision Support System methodology will be tailored to the INCOVER tec ...
Voir le projet

 18

 TERMINÉ 

European Long-Term Ecosystem and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure (eLTER)

Date du début: 1 juin 2015, Date de fin: 31 mai 2019,

A collective effort is needed to create the environmental research infrastructure for answering pressing questions in a world of rapid social, economic and environmental change.The overall aim of the eLTER project is to advance the European network of Long-Term Ecosystem Research sites and socio-ecological research platforms to provide highest quality services for multiple use of a distributed res ...
Voir le projet

 31

 TERMINÉ 

P4SB – From Plastic waste to Plastic value using Pseudomonas putida Synthetic Biology (P4SB)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2015, Date de fin: 31 mars 2019,

P4SB is about the utilization of the conceptual and material tools of contemporary Synthetic Biology to bring about the sustainable and environmentally friendly bioconversion of oil-based plastic waste into fully biodegradable counterparts by means of deeply engineered, whole-cell bacterial catalysts. These tools will be used to design tailor-made enzymes for the bio-depolymerization of PET (polye ...
Voir le projet

 12

 TERMINÉ 

MANAGING THE EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE STRESSORS ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS UNDER WATER SCARCITY (GLOBAQUA)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2014, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2019,

Water and water-related services are major components of the human wellbeing, and as such are major factors of socio-economic development in Europe; yet freshwater systems are under threat by a variety of stressors (organic and inorganic pollution, geomorphological alterations, land cover change, water abstraction, invasive species and pathogens. Some stressors, such as water scarcity, can be a st ...
Voir le projet

 27

 TERMINÉ 

Intelligent Assessment of Pharmaceutical in the Environment (IPIE)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2015, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2018,

Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can be released to the natural environment during the manufacturing process, following use by patients or when unused medicines are disposed of. As APIs are biologically active compounds concerns have been raised about the potential effects of APIs in the environment on human and environmental health. Over the past 15 years, a substantial amount of work has ...
Voir le projet

 29

 TERMINÉ 

MASSTWIN – Spreading excellence and widening participation in support of mass spectrometry and related techniques in Health, the Environment, and Food Analysis (MASSTWIN)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2016, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2018,

The Department of Environmental Sciences at Jožef Stefan Institute has invested in new state-of-the-the-art mass spectrometry instrumentation and related laboratory infrastructure, an important and essential technique in modern science, but must now bolster its knowledge capacity and raise its research profile through taking practical steps in training and knowledge transfer and networking activit ...
Voir le projet

 6

 TERMINÉ 

Solutions for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management (SOLUTIONS)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2018,

"SOLUTIONS will deliver a conceptual framework for the evidence-based development of environmental and water policies. This will integrate innovative chemical and effect-based monitoring tools with a full set of exposure, effect and risk models and assessment options. Uniquely, SOLUTIONS taps (i) expertise of leading European scientists of major FP6/FP7 projects on chemicals in the water cycle, (i ...
Voir le projet

 41

 TERMINÉ 

Ecological Sensitivity Distribution (ESD): integrating molecular-based structural and functional microbial community responses in a new tool for environmental risk assessment of chemicals (MicroERA)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2016, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2018,

Aquatic ecosystems are regularly threatened by chemical mixtures. Among risk assessment methods, the Species Sensitivity Distributions (SSD) approach is frequently applied. SSDs are built on the sensitivity of species, obtained from monospecies bioassays, and aim to derive concentrations expected to protect the structure of field communities to chemicals. However, this method overlook species inte ...
Voir le projet

 1

 TERMINÉ 

Degradation of ozone-depleting methyl halides in the troposphere characterized by isotopes (DEMETROPIS)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2016, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2018,

The stratospheric ozone layer is an important shield to protect life on earth. Most of the short-waved UVB radiation is absorbed which otherwise would cause skin cancer and genetic damage. Destruction of the ozone layer by halogen radicals was discovered in the 1970s and consequently production of many halogenated compounds was curtailed. Methyl chloride (CH3Cl) and methyl bromide (CH3Br), importa ...
Voir le projet

 1

 TERMINÉ 

INtegrated Spatial PlannIng, land use and soil management Research ActTION (INSPIRATION)

Date du début: 1 mars 2015, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2018,

The aim of INSPIRATION is to adopt a funder and end-user demand-driven approach to establish and promote the adoption of the knowledge creation, transfer and implementation agenda for land use, land-use changes and soil management in the light of current and future societal challenges. Main objectives are: • Formulate, consult on and revise an end-user oriented strategic research agenda (SRA), • S ...
Voir le projet

 22

 TERMINÉ 

Advancing the European Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure towards ESFRI (Advance_eLTER)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2017, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,

Advance_eLTER marks a crucial step in building the distributed European Research Infrastructure of Long-Term Ecosystem Research sites and socio-ecological research platforms (eLTER RI) to provide highest quality data and services complementary to the European and global environmental RIs. The project will conduct important conceptual work and preparatory steps towards enabling European-scale inves ...
Voir le projet

 28

 TERMINÉ 

"Landscape connectivity for Cat species: transcending structures, scales and climates" (CONTRASST)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2015, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,

"Anthropogenic pressures drive global biodiversity loss. The loss of landscape connectivity, further exacerbated by climate change, is a key driver of species decline. Hence, it is crucial to identify key elements that ensure landscape connectivity across landscapes and scales. Several challenges in this context include insufficient knowledge of 1) species’ eco-physiology across landscapes and ran ...
Voir le projet

 1

 TERMINÉ 

Metabolic interactions in oceanic photosymbioses (MINOTAUR)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2016, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,

Symbiosis between heterotrophic hosts and microalgae (photosymbiosis) is a widespread and ecologically important phenomenon in the oceanic plankton. Symbiotic organisms like radiolarians (unicellular eukaryotes) are key players in marine biogeochemical cycles by contributing to predation and primary production. While knowledge of the diversity of symbiotic partners has improved in recent years, me ...
Voir le projet

 1

 TERMINÉ 

Operational Potential of Ecosystem Research Applications (OPERAs)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2012, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2017,

Human use and exploitation of the biosphere is increasing at such a pace and scale that the sustainability of major ecosystems is threatened, and may not be able to continue to function in ways that are vital to the existence of humanity. Re-framing environmental resource use has led to the emergence of the concepts of ecosystem services (ES) and natural capital (NC). This discourse indicates not ...
Voir le projet

 27

 TERMINÉ 

Ecohydrological interfaces as critical hotspots for transformations of ecosystem exchange fluxes and biogeochemical cycling (INTERFACES)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2017,

"INTERFACES is a supra-disciplinary training and research network that aims (1) to develop conceptual process understanding of the role of ecohydrological interfaces (i.e. system boundaries) for the transport and transformation of fluxes of heat, energy and water and interlinked biogeochemical cycles (C, N, O) at micro- to landscape-scale; and (2) to create the next generation of supra-disciplinar ...
Voir le projet

 13

 TERMINÉ 

OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: FROM CONCEPTS TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS (OPENNESS)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2012, Date de fin: 31 mai 2017,

Despite improved understanding of the links between ecosystem health, provision of ecosystem services and human well-being, further conceptual and empirical work is needed to make the ideas of ecosystem services (ESS) and natural capital (NC) operational. OpenNESS will therefore develop innovative and practical ways of applying them in land, water and urban management: it will identify how, where ...
Voir le projet

 39

 TERMINÉ 

EU BON: Building the European Biodiversity Observation Network (EU BON)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2012, Date de fin: 31 mai 2017,

Sustainable governance of our biological resources requires reliable scientific knowledge that meets the needs of society. Current biodiversity observation systems and environmental datasets are unbalanced in coverage and not integrated, limiting integrative analyses and implementation of environmental policies.EU BON presents an innovative approach towards integration of biodiversity information ...
Voir le projet

 32

 TERMINÉ 

Using FREshwater organisms to MItigate the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (FreeMi)

Date du début: 1 juin 2015, Date de fin: 31 mai 2017,

Amphibians are currently suffering severe worldwide declines caused by chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). So far, disease mitigation strategies have taken a host-level approach, in which only the host-pathogen interactions have been considered. However, recent results have shown that disease dynamics can be affected b ...
Voir le projet

 1

 TERMINÉ 

Governing Urban Diversity: Creating Social Cohesion, Social Mobility and Economic Performance in Today's Hyper-diversified Cities (DIVERCITIES)

Date du début: 1 mars 2013, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2017,

The central hypothesis of this project is that socio-economic, socio-demographic, ethnic and cultural diversity can positively affect social cohesion, economic performance and social mobility of individuals and groups. A better social cohesion, higher economic performance and increased chances for social mobility will make European cities more liveable and more competitive. In this period of long- ...
Voir le projet

 17

 TERMINÉ 

Taking Nanotechnological Remediation Processes from Lab Scale to End User Applications for the Restoration of a Clean Environment (NANOREM)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2013, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2017,

NANOREM is designed to unlock the potential of nanoremediation and so support both the appropriate use of nanotechnology in restoring land and aquifer resources and the development of the knowledge-based economy at a world leading level for the benefit of a wide range of users in the EU environmental sector.NANOREM uniquely takes a holistic approach to examining how the potential for nanoremediati ...
Voir le projet

 30

 TERMINÉ 

Biodegradation of xenobiotic tertiary alcohols (BIOTEROL)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2015, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2017,

"Tertiary alcohol groups are not unusual in nature. They can even be moieties of central metabolites, such as citric and mevalonic acid, which are processed by nearly universal metabolic pathways. However, simple tertiary alcohols not possessing additional functional groups are rarely degraded by bacteria or other organisms. These xenobiotic compoundsmight be formed during microbial attack of some ...
Voir le projet

 1

 TERMINÉ 

Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability (GLAMURS)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,

The overall aim of GLAMURS (Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability) is to develop a theoretically-based and empirically-grounded understanding of the main obstacles and prospects for transitions to sustainable lifestyles and a green economy in Europe, as well as of the most effective means to support and speed them up. The call states explicitly that for transit ...
Voir le projet

 11

 TERMINÉ 

Demonstrating Managed Aquifer Recharge as a Solution to Water Scarcity and Drought (MARSOL)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2013, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2016,

Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region are facing the challenge of managing its water resources under conditions of increasing scarcity and concerns about water quality. Already, the availability of fresh water in sufficient quality and quantity is one of the major factors limiting socio economic development. Innovative water management strategies such as the storage of reclaimed water or ex ...
Voir le projet

 23

 TERMINÉ 

Bottom-up Climate Adaptation Strategies towards a Sustainable Europe (BASE)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2012, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2016,

Climate change can disrupt ecological, social and economic systems, with some regions and sectors suffering significantly. Therefore, adaptation plays a paramount role in responding to climate change. Progress has been made, but there are still important obstacles. Knowledge of the benefits and costs of adaptation is sparse, unsystematic and unevenly distributed across sectors and countries. Plan ...
Voir le projet

 15

 TERMINÉ 

Integrating bio-treated wastewater with enhanced water use efficiency to support the Green Economy in EU and India (WATER4CROPS)

Date du début: 1 août 2012, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2016,

Water4Crops provides a combination of technical improvements in the field of bio-treatment and agricultural water use within a transdisciplinary identification of novel agri-business opportunities. Water4Crops aims at: a) developing innovative biotechnological wastewater treatments for improved water recycling, b) initiating the co-creation of alternative combinations of bio-treatment, recycling o ...
Voir le projet

 25

 TERMINÉ 

Tools, methods And training for CommuniTIes and Society to better prepare for a Crisis (TACTIC)

Date du début: 1 mai 2014, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2016,

The overall aim of the TACTIC project is to increase preparedness to large-scale and cross-border disasters amongst communities and societies in Europe. To achieve this, TACTIC will consider studies on risk perception and preparedness (including good practices and preparedness programmes) in order to develop a participatory community preparedness audit enabling communities to assess, impacts in a ...
Voir le projet

 8

 TERMINÉ 

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) ...
Voir le projet

 10

 TERMINÉ 

Energy-efficient, community-based water- and wastewater-treatment systems for deployment in India (ECO-India)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2012, Date de fin: 29 févr. 2016,

The overall aim of ECO-India is to design and develop innovative cost-effective solutions for community- based water- and wastewater- treatment systems. These systems will be deployed at pilot sites in arsenic-affected water-stressed regions in India. The two consortia, Indian (DST) and European (FP7), will establish pilot schemes for• catchment area and reservoir management• surface water supply ...
Voir le projet

 7