Projects

In this section, you will find a list of ongoing projects in which EECA countries are participating. These projects cover a wide range of thematic fields and are being carried out under bilateral and multilateral cooperation agreements.

Projects of the Month

In September 2008 the new category “Project of the Month” was launched on this web portal. Following the "Project Coordinators Meeting" of IncoNet EECA in Bonn, June 2008 the idea to present different EU projects related to EECA within the format "Project of the Month" as "Main Topic" at the IncoNet EECA-webportal incrEAST was born. 
Download a compilation of "Projects of the Month" September 2008-June 2010 from the right hand sidebar.
View all current and former "Projects of the Month":
http://www.increast.eu/en/214.php#Projects_of_the_month

Individual Projects

A-C | D-F | G-I | J-O | P-S | T-Z

A-C

ACCESSRU

ACCESSRU is one of 11 projects within ACCESS4EU - supporting the access of EU researchers to third country S&T programmes. Objectives are: to assess access opportunities in Russia for EU organisations by screening the Russian S&T landscape and identifying common challenges, needs and opportunities; to raise awareness on access opportunities in Russia amongst European research organisations and to stimulate, encourage and facilitate the participation of European organisations in Russian programmes; to enhance the S&T policy dialogue and to formulate the strategic recommendations on scientific collaboration between Europe and Russia.
http://www.access4.eu/russia/index.php 

ACTIONPLAN-BS

The aim of the ActionPlan-BS Project has been the preparation of an Action Plan in Science and Technology for the Black Sea countries and its adoption at the level of relevant Ministers. To achieve its goal the project included preparatory work on a draft Action Plan and the organisation of two events: a High Level Officials meeting and a Ministerial Meeting.
http://icbss.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=69    

ADAGIO

Compared to the manifold- potential impacts of climate change on agroecosystems, potential adaptation measures are even more complex because of the high number of options available through the human factor. The aims of ADAGIO (Adaptation of Agriculture in European Regions at Environmental Risk under Climate Change) are therefore: 1. Identifying most vulnerable regional issues through climate change 2. Identifying feasible potential adaptation measures 3. Integration into management strategies and agricultural policy.
http://global-change.meteo.bg/adagio_en.htm

ASCABOS

ASCABOS is an supporting programme for capacity building in the black sea region towards operational status of oceanographic services. ASCABOS is designed to strengthen the communication system ensuring flexible and operative infrastructure for data and information exchange between partners and end users. It aims to increase public awareness and to stimulate and motivate the utilization of operational oceanographic information in regional management and decision-making practices.
http://www.ascabos.io-bas.bg/index.html

BILAT-UKR

The project aims to contribute to the European Commissions objective of the fuller integration of the Ukraine into the broader European Research Area. Also it constitutes part of the implementation of the EU-Ukrainian Action Plan, the main guiding tool of the European Neighbourhood Policy with the Ukraine, whose general objective is to share EU stability, security and prosperity with Ukraine.
http://www.bilat-ukr.eu/index.php

BILAT-RUS

The project aims at contributing to the sustainable implementation of the Common Space on Research, Education and Culture between the EU and Russia and at further strengthening the participation of Russia in Community programmes - most prominently the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7).
http://www.bilat-rus.eu/

BONUS/ BONUS PLUS

BONUS ERA-NET is a project with a full name BONUS for the Baltic Sea Science – Network of Funding Agencies. It is funded by the EU 6th Framework Programme during 2003 - 2008. It has the form of a consortium with 14 partners from all nine Baltic Sea countries. The project’s aim is to build up a network of funding agencies and create conditions for a Joint Baltic Sea Research Programme.
http://www.bonusportal.org/modules/system/stdreq.aspx?P=336&VID=default&SID=587754166327532&S=0&C=28524 

BS.ERA-Net

BS-ERA.NET is a networking project aimed at integrating the participating countries from the Black Sea extended region in the European Research Area by linking research activities within existing national, bilateral and regional RTD programmes. Its main objectives are:  to reduce the fragmentation of the European Research Area (ERA) by improving the coherence and coordination of national and regional research programmes;  to develop and strengthen the coordination of public research programmes;  to sustain the communication in order to develop better reciprocal knowledge and promote trust-building among programme owners; to enhance the complementarities and synergy between the Framework Programme and activities; to promote a network and mutually open at national regional research programmes level .  
http://www.bs-era.net/

BSI

The Black Sea Interconnection project intends bridging the digital divide that exists between the South Caucasus countries and Europe by establishing a regional research and education network in the South Caucasus and connecting it to GÉANT2. The project involves the development of strategies for interconnecting the existing infrastructures in the region, realization of the connections and supplying operational support for the established network.
http://www.blacksea-net.org/

BS-RESPOT

The Research Potential of the BSEC countries (BS-ResPot) is a project coordinated by the ICBSS and funded by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission. BS-ResPot covers the twelve countries that form the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), namely the Republic of Albania, Republic of Armenia, Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Bulgaria, Georgia, Hellenic Republic, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia*, Republic of Turkey and Ukraine. The aim of BS-ResPot has been to transform the political will for cooperation into concrete actions.
http://icbss.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=62

CASPINFO

The project aims at strengthening the regional capacity and performance of marine environmental data & information management, and adoption of international meta-data standards and data-management practices, involving stakeholders from management, research.
http://www.caspinfo.net/

CHERISH

Mental retardation (MR) is a highly heterogeneous disorder and is of genetic origin in about 50% of the cases. The objectives of the CHERISH project are to: to develop a standardized approach for MR diagnosis through clinical workshops and courses; to create a large data-base of patients with clinically well defined MR, both syndromic and non-syndromic; identify cryptic genomic rearrangements through molecular cytogenetic analysis; sequence MR genes and analyze the molecular epidemiology of MR in Eastern European populations ; develop diagnostic tools for recurrent/common mutations; identify new MR genes in X-linked and autosomal recessive forms of the disorder; increase awareness on the possible genetic origin of MR and implications for novel therapeutic strategies. The project partners will create a large collection of samples and a database from MR patients.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP7_PROJ_EN&ACTION=D&DOC=4&CAT=PROJ&QUERY=011fa8f18626:91a7:1a2bc0be&RCN=89726

Co-Meth

The project aims at reducing green house gas (GHG) emissions caused by the uncontrolled exhausting of coal mine methane (CMM) to atmosphere and to explore suitable economically interesting schemes for its energetic use by the development of an universal decision guidance for optimal use of CMM under varying conditions, an analysis and comparison of the current legal and administrative situation in countries with big coal deposits (PL, CZ, RU, UA, RO, KZ and UK), the development, establishment and test of test units for new CMM utilisation technologies (use of CMM vented from a mine and CMM liquefaction) and the analysis of the emission reduction potential of CMM utilisation.
http://www.frp.nrw.de/frp2/de/hom/dtb/det/?CD_PROJ_ID=218935

CREATION

A general project's objective is to develop an efficient and sustainable infrastructure for in-formation support to Russia's participation in FP6 and the ERA, and involvement of Russian enterprises into innovation process via establishing links with EU partners.
http://www.fp6-creation.ru/win/eabout.html

CROSS TRAP

Project CROSS TRAP tackles the ICT objective of photonic components and subsystems for sensing for environment, well-being safety and security. The project aims at developing a versatile method for standoff chemical identification of trace amounts of airborne pollutants, such as biochemicals, bacterial threats and explosive materials that can be fingerprinted using their characteristic vibrational Raman spectral signatures.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP7_PROJ_EN&ACTION=D&DOC=1&CAT=PROJ&QUERY=01270f639e36:f630:48abbcab&RCN=93598

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D-F

D4S - DIALOGUE FOR SUSTAINABILITY

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has taken the initiative of establishing the Dialogue on Science for Sustainability with the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. A series of structured research policy conferences and workshops aims at: Strengthening binational scientific and technological cooperation, support for national research framework programmes, the formulation of the international research agenda (G8+5) and enhanced dissemination of the results through intensive public relations work.
http://www.dialogue4s.de/en/126.php

DIABIMMUNE

The aim of the DIABIMMUNE project is to assess the role of the hygiene hypothesis in the development of immune-mediated diseases, T1D in particular, and to define the mechanisms behind the potential protective effect conferred by microbial agents. The study design comprises two cohorts: a birth cohort and a cohort comprising young children. The objective is to study 2000 children at the age of 3 and 5 years and to observe 320 newborn infants with increased genetic risk for autoimmune disease from birth up to the age of 3 years. The estimated number of study subjects will altogether be approximately 7000 with Finland, Russian Karelia and Estonia each contributing have 2320 subjects. The children are tested for organ-specific autoantibodies, allergies, infections, gut microflora, and for nutritional factors.
http://www.diabimmune.org/

EDICT

The European Drug Initiative on Channels and Transporters, EDICT, allies, for the first time, partners with world-class expertise in both the structural and functional characterisation of membrane transporters and channels. The EDICT project brings together leading biologists, chemists, and experts in three key technologies - X-ray crstallography, nuclear magnetic resonance, and electron microscopy - to work on this problem. EDICT will provide training opportunities for the 35 plus researchers emplyed by the project.
http://www.edict-project.eu/

EECAlink

The EECAlink is a coordination action aimed at identification of joint research priorities of the EU and EECA countries and strengthening scientific collaboration among them. International Cooperation Partner Countries targeted by the proposal are: Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The consortium gathers partners from: Armenia, Belarus, Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
http://www.eecalink.eu/?cat=home

ERA.Net RUS

The project aims at intensifying and strengthening S&T cooperation between Russia and Europe by the coordination of MS/AC S&T programmes towards and with Russia. The project is funded under the 7th EU Research Framework Programme. The project focus will be on exploring options for linking bilateral S&T programmes in a variable geometry.
http://www.era.net-rus.eu/index.php

ERANIS FP6 project

ERANIS project is a Specific Support Action (SSA) financed by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Program, whose aim is to contribute to more active involvement of NIS partners into the EU Seventh Framework Programme.
http://www.kpk.gov.pl/eranis/

EuroGycoArrays

The development and production of glycoarrays will provide the foreground knowledge necessary to lead to a step change in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases ranging from cancers to autoimmune diseases.
http://www.euroglycoarrays.eu/

EuropeAid

The project objective is to improve the conditions for development of science and technology innovation policies in the Russian Federation, particularly within the Russian Academy of Science, and to support commercialisation of Russian S&T results at national and international market levels.
http://www.ras-stc.ru/en/about

FFAST

The target for the FFAST (Future fast aeroelastic simulation technologies) project is to demonstrate a speed up of 2 to 3 orders of magnitude over high fidelity methods. To meet this target research will be carried out in work packages to: improve identification of critical loads; develop reduced order modelling strategies for unsteady aerodynamic and aeroelastic simulation.
http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_LANG=EN&PJ_RCN=11041377&pid=4&q=6ABD613932EFC35FF6F88DB03F545042&type=adv

FishPopTrace

FishPopTrace brings together expertise in fish traceability projects (Fish and Chips, FishTrace, FISH-BOL) to: integrate data from European fish species traceability projects, and to generate a single compatible database and tissue archive managed by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission; examine single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and otolith microchemistry and morphometrics in widely distributed populations of cod, hake, herring and sole (outputs will comprise population-level signatures associated with fish origins in early life and representative spawning groups); undertake validation of traceability tools in relation to end-user technology; develop a population monitoring system based on genetic and otolith data that will assess population stability in a temporal and spatial framework.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP7_PROJ_EN&ACTION=D&DOC=45&CAT=PROJ&QUERY=011f897f03a2:d3be:60e891ae&RCN=88407

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G-I

Gate2RuBIN

The Enterprise Europe Network is a new European initiative, aimed at providing innovation and business support to entrepreneurs and companies across the European Union. Launched in February 2008, the Network comprises close to 600 partners in over 40 countries who offer a wide range of services to small- and medium-sized enterprises. The project "Gate2RuBIN" was initiated in 2007 by a consortium of three network organizations: Russian Technology Transfer Network (RTTN), Russian Union of Innovation and Technology Centres (RUITC), Russian Agency for Support of Small and Medium Business (RA). RTTN and RUITC associate over 75 Russian innovation infrastructure organisations (Innovation Centres, Technology Transfer Centres, Technoparks) from 30 regions of Russia, covering all the most innovation-active regions of the Russian Federation.
http://www.gate2rubin.ru/

Global SSH

Global SSH is an Action that aims at promoting transnational research cooperation between the Europe, Russia, the CIS countries, and China in the social sciences and humanities. The action intends to identify prerequisites for transnational research networks as well as common agendas for transnational research in the future structuring of the enlarged European Research Area (ERA).
http://www.globalsocialscience.org/index.php

HiDEaS

This project aims at a breakthrough in the information capacity of Quantum Communication (QC), well beyond the standard single-mode approach, by exploiting the intrinsic multi-modal and multivariate character of the radiation field.
http://hideas.dfm.uninsubria.it/

HydroNet

The HydroNet proposal is aimed at designing, developing and testing a new technological platform for improving the monitoring of water bodies based on a network of autonomous, floating and sensorised mini-robots, embedded in an Ambient Intelligence infrastructure. Chemo- and bio-sensors, embedded in the mobile robots will be developed and used for monitoring in real time physical parameters and pollutants in water bodies. Enhanced mathematical models will be developed for simulating the pollutants transport and processes in rivers, lakes and sea.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP7_PROJ_EN&ACTION=D&DOC=1&CAT=PROJ&RCN=88876

HYPERGENES

The aim of the Project is to develop an exhaustive model to disentangle the genetic bases of a complex disease using population genetic epidemiology as a methodological tool. EH was chosen as the disease model, both because of  long-term experience in investigating the genetics of EH and because the cardiovascular complications remain the major cause of death in the EU. Its impact in term of cost and disability are a devastating burden for patients, for their relatives and for the human potential of the EU. Designing a comprehensive genetic epidemiological model of complex traits will also help to translate genetic findings into improved diagnostic accuracy and new strategies for early detection, prevention and eventually personalised treatment of a complex trait.
http://www.hypergenes.eu/ 

Ideal-ist

Ideal-ist reduces the barriers faced by organisations wishing to participate in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) programme by offering transnational partner search. The project provides an entirely web-based platform and thus making it the ideal tool for: joining ICT projects, finding partners for your project idea, finding services to support you in your ICT project within the Seventh European Framework Programme.
http://www.ideal-ist.net/

IMPACTMIN

ImpactMin will develop new methods and a corresponding toolset for the environmental impact monitoring of mining operations using Earth Observations. Novel technology will be proposed for the combined use of satellite remote sensing, aerial lightweight measurements and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The proposed methods will be validated at four demonstration sites in Sweden, Bosnia&Herzegovina, Romania and Russia.
http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_LANG=EN&PJ_RCN=11178843&pid=0&q=6ABD613932EFC35FF6F88DB03F545042&type=adv
 

INCOMAT

The field of medical biomaterials has recently developed a major growth potential as the demand for cardiovascular, orthopaedic as well as dental implant devices is tremendously increasing worldwide. The ageing of Europe's population will be a crucial challenge for the 21st century. Furthermore there are specific problems concerning RTD resources and capabilities existing in the Third countries (Western Balkan, Newly Independent States) having been isolated and excluded from the cooperation with EU, their networking works rather on regional level. INCOMAT contributes to eliminate these deficiencies and will create cooperation teams of excellence with experts from EU, Third countries and US.
http://www.ssa-incomat.com/

INCONTACT

Project Full Name: Trans-national co-operation among NCPs for International Cooperation. Project Target: Cooperation among the FP7 International Cooperation (INCO) National Contact Points (NCPs). Project Duration: 2 years (1 January 2008-2010). INCONTACT aims at the development of a platform for: Stimulating closer cooperation among all INCO national NCPs; Improving the overall NCP network’s capacity; Raising regional awareness in FP7; Understanding the cultural effect on research collaborations.
http://www.fp7.org.tr/home.do?ot=5&rt=3&sid=0&cid=9562

INCONTACT - ONE WORLD

This project aims at stimulating closer cooperation among INCO NCPs. Within the framework of this closer cooperation, INCO NCPs/NIPs will work together to effect a substantial improvement in the overall quality of NCP services in the field of International Cooperation. The positive effect of these efforts will not be limited to the NCP network alone but the international research community will ultimately benefit from the heightened level of service offered by the network.
http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_LANG=EN&PJ_RCN=11059891&pid=3&q=6ABD613932EFC35FF6F88DB03F545042&type=adv

INJOY AND TRAIN

InJoy and Train is a 24 months Specific Support Action which aims at improving the quality and quantity the participation of researchers, multipliers and NCPs in the Food sector from R-U-A-B countries in European research.This objective is relevant and responds to the following major needs of policy coordination in the Food sector.
http://www.ist-world.org/ProjectDetails.aspx?ProjectId=2f8a49f4787847e08624bba05a2a214e 
http://www.injoyandtrain.eu/injoyandtrain/

ISTOK-SOYUZ

The overall objective of the ISTOK-SOYUZ project is to explore new opportunities for ICT collaboration between EU and Eastern Europe/ Central Asia countries and to increase the number of the international collaboration projects involving partners from EECA countries.
http://www.istok-soyuz.eu/

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J-O

ModelPROBE

The strategy of ModelPROBE is to provide an integrative tool box for cost effective site screening, site characterisation, and forensics to aid the soil thematic strategy and to be applicable in a future Soil Framework Directive. The concept will also cover survey systems and strategies that will have feedback options for acquiring the information necessary for decision making regarding remediation measures and long-term monitoring.
http://www.modelprobe.ufz.de/
 

NESTER

One of the major goals of NESTER was to raise awareness among key-players such as politicians and government officials responsible for policies and funding of research and education in the NECS area. To help achieve this, the Final Recommendations paper, summarising the NESTER findings from a strategic perspective was delivered at the end of the project. The document provides an executive summary about the NESTER activities and studies. 
http://www.nester-ru.eu/
   

NET4SOCIETY

NET4SOCIETY is a networking project of National Contact Points (NCPs) for Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) with the primary goal to promote transnational cooperation by means of a structured and user-friendly network. In the course of the 3 years project duration, the declared mission of NET4SOCIETY will be to ensure that all SSH NCPs have full and easy access to all tools of their trade, e.g. all relevant information from all relevant sources, trainings, workshops, good practices, etc., giving all SSH NCPs the opportunity to be part of a learning network.
http://www.net4society.eu/public/

NeuroCypres

NeuroCypres is a large-scale integrated project involving 20 European laboratories in the area of Cys-loop neurotransmitter receptors funded by the European Union as of February 1, 2008. In the seventh research framework programme (FP7), the EU commission devoted a special call to stimulate high-throughput approaches to structure function analyses of membrane-transporters and channels for the identification of potential new drug target sites. The Neurocypres consortium (Neurotransmitter Cys-loop receptors: structure, function and disease) is devoted to studying structural and functional aspects of Cys-loop receptors, a superfamily of ligand-gated ion channels.
http://www.neurocypres.eu/ 

NIS-NEST

The project aims to contribute towards closer and mutually beneficial collaboration between the EU and the Eastern European partner countries, in the field of novel exploratory research within the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development of EU. The trans-national consortium of the project is composed of seven partners originating from: Greece, France, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus and Republic of Moldova.
http://www.nisnest.gr/ 

OpenTox

The goal is to expand OpenTox as a community project enabling additional expert and user participants to be involved in developments in as timely a manner as possible. To this end, our mission is to carry out developments in an open and transparent manner from the early days of the project, and to open up discussions and development to the global community at large, who may either participate in developments or provide user perspectives. Cooperation on data standards, data integration, ontologies, integration of algorithm predictions from different methods, and testing and validation all have significant collaboration opportunities and benefits for the community.
http://www.opentox.org/

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P-S

PLAPROVA

PLAPROVA is a collaborative project between the EU and Russia with participation from South Africa that will develop a rapid plant-based system to produce and assess the capacity of different proteins to act as vaccines against important diseases of livestock such as avian influenza and blue tongue. The project is funded under the EU Framework 7 programme (Research area: Cooperation; Theme: Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology) and co-ordinated from the John Innes Centre, Norwich, U.K.
http://www.plaprova.eu/index.htm
 

PEGASE

PEGASE is a four year project dealing with the High and Extra High Voltage transmission and sub-transmission networks in Europe (designated as ETN) and implemented by a Consortium composed of 20 Partners including TSOs, expert companies and leading research centre s in power system analysis and applied mathematics.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP7_PROJ_EN&ACTION=D&DOC=1&CAT=PROJ&QUERY=011dfd048a92:3e15:33ec457a&RCN=88387 

PHOTONICS4LIFE

The project aims at providing a coherent framework for the strongly fragmented field of Biophotonics in Europe. One of the challenging tasks of PHOTONICS4LIFE is therefore to structure and integrate the research and technological developments throughout the various subdisciplines of Biophotonics with their manifold interdependences.
http://www.photonics4life.eu/
 

PROSPARE

The project aims at developing a technological platform for multi-purpose processing of AB-P, in particular poultry ones, flexible enough to be tailored to different industrial sector needs. Using a novel bio-catalytic approach unmarketable poultry secondary resources will be converted into value added peptide hydrolysates leading to marketable end-products, with programmable nutritional properties, and bio-diesel. Innovative techniques will be used for the molecular characterization of the hydrolyzates.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP7_PROJ_EN&ACTION=D&DOC=71&CAT=PROJ&QUERY=011f278ccca2:778b:68297f61&RCN=87819

REACCESS

The main goal of the project is to build tools suitable for EU27 energy import scenario analyses, able to take into account at the same time the technical, economical and environmental aspects of the main energy corridors, for all energy commodities and infrastructures.
http://reaccess.epu.ntua.gr/
 

REALISEGRID

The mission of REALISEGRID, a new project co-funded by the European Union (EU) within the 7th Framework Programme, is to develop a set of criteria, metrics, methods and tools to assess how the transmission infrastructure should be optimally developed to support the achievement of a reliable, competitive and sustainable electricity supply in the EU.
http://realisegrid.cesiricerca.it/

RECIST (IST)

The aim of this proposal is to involve researchers of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and five top technical universities (RTU) based chiefly around Moscow and St Petersburg in EC research proposals under the IST Priority.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP6_PROJ&ACTION=D&DOC=1&CAT=PROJ&QUERY=1183531168420&RCN=74594

RegionERA

RegionERA (Regional network for support of scientific and technological co-operation between European union and Russian regions) is a FP6 project under Specific Support Actions. It lasts form 2006 to 2008. The overall objective of the project is to reinforce S/T co-operation between Russia and EU through opening up scientific potential of Russian regions to ERA, to promote and develop stabilisation of scientific potential of Russian regions and its integration into ERA.
http://www.ric.vsu.ru/en/cbs_rip/regionera/

RESPECT

Towards a Topography of Tolerance and Equal Respect. A comparative study of policies for the distribution of public spaces in culturally diverse societies. Tolerance has been increasingly invoked as the inspiring ideal of a number of social policies in European democracies. Appeals to tolerance have animated especially the political debates on those policies addressed to accommodate minorities requests. Among such requests those for the allocation of public spaces have recently acquired pride of place in the political agendas of many European and extra-European countries (e.g. the allocation of space for Roma sites; Muslims requests to build places of worship and housing policies for migrants).
http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_LANG=EN&PJ_RCN=11196266&pid=1&q=6ABD613932EFC35FF6F88DB03F545042&type=adv

RUSERA

The Project aims at contributing actively to the Programme's strategic objectives by targeting a major gap: the lack of RTD-cooperation between advanced and promising Russian regions and the European Union researcher organizations.
http://www.rusera.tpu.ru/index2e.htm

RUSERA-EXE

The objective of RUSERA-EXE is to increase the quantity and quality of cooperation between Russian and EU researchers by creating long lasting "researcher-to-researcher" RTD partnerships. The project will focus on the 5 most promising and advanced RUSERA FP6 Regional Information Nodes (RINs) (Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, St.Petersburg, Uljanovsk, Ulan-Ude) who actually will cover the whole territory of the existing RUSERA Network.
http://www.rusera-exe.ru/index_en.php

SCOPE-EAST

The project “Scenarios for a coordinated approach to sustainable S/T co-operation with the Eastern Neighbours of the EU (SCOPE-EAST)” intends to take sustainable steps in view of an enhanced coordination of the R&D cooperation of interested EU-Member States and Associated Candidate States with Russia and Eastern Europe. SCOPE-EAST will address the question of how to achieve optimum coherence between national cooperation strategies and the EU R&D cooperation strategy and of how cooperation in R&D can contribute to other policies of the EU such as the European Neighbourhood policy. Target countries of SCOPE-EAST are in the first step Russia and Ukraine.
http://www.scope-east.net/

SECURE

The project aims at building a comprehensive framework that considers all the issues related to security of supply (e.g. geopolitics, price formation and the economic and technical design of energy markets inside and outside the EU). It develops tools, methods and models to measure and assess security of energy supply for the EU, both inside and outside the Union. These tools aim at evaluating the vulnerability of the EU to the different energy supply risks and to promote the optimisation of EU energy insecurity mitigation strategies, including investment, demand side management and dialogue with producing countries.
http://www.secure-ec.eu/

SUPER-METHANOL

This project (formally: Reforming of Crude Glycerine in Supercritical Water to Produce Methanol for Re-Use in Biodiesel Plants) seeks to identify a viable alternative application by investigating whether (crude) glycerine can be reformed in supercritical water for syngas production and conversion into methanol, so that it can be re-used in biodiesel plants. 
http://www.supermethanol.eu/

SUST-RUS

Spatial-economic-ecological model for the assessment of sustainability policies of Russia (SUST-RUS) is funded under 7th Seventh Framework Programme. The objective of the study is to develop and implement for Russia an integrated spatial-economic-ecological model, which represents the state-of-the-art in different areas of economic, transport, resource-use and environmental modelling. It is the aim that the model will assist the Russian policy makers and international community in their choice of medium and long-term sustainability policies. The SUST-RUS modelling approach will be superior to the current models available for Russia.
http://www.tmleuven.be/project/sustrus/home.htm

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T-Z

TECHBRID

The proposed project TECHBRID is aimed at creating prerequisites and technical mechanisms for automated data exchange between existing European online infrastructures and the Russian online infrastructure under development, which should result in stronger integration of Russian and European innovation information resources and better interactions between EU and Russia actors in innovation sphere.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP6_PROJ&ACTION=D&DOC=3&CAT=PROJ&QUERY=1183448805982&RCN=73722

VISIT

The proposed projects focuses on strategic, high-value photonic components and subsystems for scalable economic broadband access and local area networks. The central objective is research on, development, test and exploitation of system-enabling optical transmitters having a completely novel design and/or largely improved functionality as compared to the state of the art.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP7_PROJ_EN&ACTION=D&DOC=5&CAT=PROJ&QUERY=011aa1a0593b:04a5:028d4c5b&RCN=86721

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Projects of the Month

  • | Project of the Month - July

    Project of the Month: IncoNet CA/SC - S&T International Cooperation Network for Central Asian and South Caucasus Countries

    IncoNet CA/SC addresses the countries of Central Asia (CA) and the South Caucasus (SC) as well as Moldova (MO). The project aims to strengthen their policy dialogue with the EU and to promote science an technology cooperation between the EU and the target regions. The project also benefits from the already ongoing IncoNet EECA project, expanding its activities with a specific focus on CA/SC and Moldova.
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  • | Project of the Month - June

    EECAlink - Promotion and facilitation of international cooperation with Eastern European and Central Asian Countries

    The EECAlink is a coordination action aimed at identification of common research priorities of the European Union and Eastern European and Central Asian countries (EECA) and strengthening collaboration among them. The project is financed by the Seventh Framework Programme (contract n°223359) under the Health priority theme. The coordinator is Prof. Stanislav Stipek from the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague. In total, the project unites 17 partners from 12 countries – Armenia, Belarus, Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/917.php)
  • | Project of the Month - May

    Regional Research Network “Central Asian Water” (CAWa)

    From climate change to irrigation performance: In the frame of the project “Central Asian Water”(CAWa) scientists from Germany and Central Asia contribute to the development of the scientific basis for sustainable water management. The CAWa project is funded as part of the German Central Asia Water Initiative (also known as the Berlin Process) by the German Federal Foreign Office for the period 2008-2011.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/874.php)
  • | Project of the Month - April

    HITT-CIS Health in Times of Transition

    The HITT-CIS Project – "Health in Times of Transition: Trends in Population Health and Health Policies in CIS Countries" is an FP7-Health collaborative research project, funded by EU-FP7 Programme (2009-2013). This is an international research project that will study, in detail, trends in population health and health policies in 10 countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia).
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/864.php)
  • | Project of the Month - March

    ACCESSRU

    The ACCESSRU Project - a special support action co-funded by the FP7 Capacities Specific Programme of the European Commission - was initiated by the eight partners from four countries. This project is part of a European programme entitled ACCESS4EU, which aims to disseminate and raise awareness among researchers and organisations from the EU Member Sates and Associated Countries on R&D opportunities offered by national research and innovation programmes in third countries, namely Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, South Korea and the United States of America.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/817.php)
  • | Project of the Month - February

    D4S - Dialogue on Science for Sustainability

    Internationally coordinated research agendas are a must when it comes to finding sustainable solutions to the global challenges of our time. For this reason, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has launched a series of dialogues with key emerging economies, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Bilateral events are being held under the title “Sustainable Solutions – Science for Sustainability” (D4S). The objective is to establish the foundations for longterm, strategic partnerships in research for sustainability.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/808.php)
  • | Project of the Month - January

    E-URAL

    The goal of the recently started support action E-URAL (European Union and Russia Link for S&T cooperation in the area of environment) is to improve the quantity and quality of the participation of Russian researchers and SMEs in the “Environment (including climate change)” theme of the EU FP7.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/790.php)
  • | Project of the Month - December

    CEUBIOM

    The main objective of the CEUBIOM (Classification of European Biomass Potential for Bioenergy Using Terrestrial and Earth Observations) project is to develop a common methodology for gathering information on biomass potential using terrestrial and earth observations. This objective will be achieved by the implementation of a systematic assessment work plan and will result in the establishment of a harmonised approach and an e-training tool for dissemination.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/766.php)
  • | Project of the Month - November

    SCUBE-ICT

    SCUBE-ICT is an innovative EU funded project, which started on January 2009 and will last until December 2010. It aims to upgrade the cooperation in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) between European Union, Belarus and Ukraine in key areas of mutual interest in order to create substantial socio-economic benefits in all three regions.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/739.php)
  • | Project of the Month - October

    ICPC Nanonet

    ICPC Nanonet is a support action funded by the EU under FP7 for four years from 1st June 2008. It brings together partners from the EU, China, India, Russia and Africa and aims to provide wider access to published nanoscience research, and opportunities for collaboration between scientists in the EU and International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPC).
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/728.php)
  • | Project of the Month - September

    CAREN

    From an ancient trade route to a virtual highway: Co-founded by the Europe Aid Cooperation Office (AIDCO) for the period from 2009 to 2011, the CAREN project aims to establish a high-capacity, yet cost-effective, regional data-communications network for research and education in Central Asia. It sets out to provide broadband to about one million researchers, students and faculty at over 200 universities and research institutions in the countries dotted along the old Silk Road.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/694.php)
  • | Project of the Month - August

    Biomass Energy Europe - BEE

    The objective of the BEE project is to harmonise biomass resource assessments, focusing on the availability of biomass for energy in Europe and its neighbouring countries. This harmonisation will improve consistency, accuracy and reliability of biomass assessments, which can serve the planning of a transition to renewable energy in the European Union.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/650.php)
  • | Project of the Month - July

    ISTOK-SOYUZ

    The ISTOK-SOYUZ Project – a special support action co-funded by the FP7 ICT programme of the European Commission – was initiated by the eight partners from seven countries. Based on the sound outcomes and lessons learnt of ISTOK.Ru project (www.istok-ru.eu) implemented in Russia in 2006-2008, the ISTOK-SOYUZ project will expand this experience to the Eastern Europe & Central Asia countries, identifying and promoting visibility of mutual RTD potential and collaboration opportunities.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/576.php)
  • | Project of the Month-June

    SUST-RUS

    Spatial‐economic‐ecological model for the assessment of sustainability policies of the Russian Federation – is a sound scientific support for formulating sustainability policies with the focus on a balanced integration between social, economic and environmental policy objectives.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/524.php)
  • | Project of the Month-May

    NET4SOCIETY

    NET4SOCIETY, Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points for Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities, is a project funded by the European Commission under Theme 8, Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) in the Seventh Framework Programme. Official start was February 1, 2008. Declared aim of NET4SOCIETY: build a powerful network of best-informed National Contact Points for the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities to offer best services to the SSH research community. As yet, 41 countries are involved in NET4SOCIETY: the EU27, associated and non-EU countries.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/514.php)
  • | Project of the Month-April

    ERA.Net RUS - Linking Russia to the ERA: Coordination of MS/ AC S&T programmes towards and with Russia

    ERA.Net RUS, which is a project funded within the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission, was officially launched on 11-12 February in Vienna. The project aims to increase the cooperation and coordination of research programmes carried out at national or regional level in the Member States and Associated States towards and with Russia.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/504.php)
  • | Project of the Month-March

    The FP7 EXTEND project started

    On January 22-23 2009 the European project EXTEND (Extending ICT research co-operation between the European Union, Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus), was launched in Athens, Greece, attended by 15 participants from 8 partner-countries. The EXTEND project is a Specific Support Action and is financed by the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development of the European Commission.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/471.php)
  • | Project of the Month-February

    Project „LinKAGE“– Scientific Links between Kazakhstan and Germany– Kazakhstan is on the “Path to Europe”

    After the meetings with the Kazakh leading scientists in November 2008 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the research and consulting group innowise GmbH has started the match-making with the German research institutions for joint projects in national and in European research programs. Fields of cooperation include biotechnology, medicine, geo-technology, chemistry, catalysis research and nanotechnology. The project “LinKAGE” intends to establish and to extend scientific links between German and Kazakh research institutions and is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/452.php)
  • | Project of the Month-January

    Black Sea Interconnection

    Black Sea Interconnection (BSI) aims at building an international network infrastructure among research and education networks in the South Caucasus region and connecting it to the pan-European research network. The network will interconnect Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia and also provide the connectivity for these countries to GÉANT2. The BSI project intends to introduce new technologies and services to the Information Society in those countries and be an important leap towards the integration of those countries scientific potential with the European Research Area.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/441.php)
  • | Project of the Month-December

    RegionERA

    The overall objective of RegionERA project is to open up scientific potential of Russian regions to European partners whereas specific aims are to create a regional information network for support of S/T cooperation between EU and Russian regions and extend the number of Russian participants in FP7 on all the thematic priorities.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/415.php)
  • | Project of the Month-November

    RUSERA-EXE

    RUSERA EXE, an FP6/ INCO-project, supports the development of strategic and lasting RTD partnerships between European and Russian researchers for mutual scientific benefit. More particularly, RUSERA EXE aims to provide support to a more effective use of the mechanisms available for EU-Russian RTD cooperation, enabling researchers to better exploit the opportunities available for setting up long lasting partnerships.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/374.php)
  • | Project of the Month-October

    BONUS

    BONUS ERA-NET is a project with a full name BONUS for the Baltic Sea Science - Network of Funding Agencies. It is funded by the EU 6th Framework Programme during 2003 - 2008. It has the form of a consortium with 14 partners from all nine Baltic Sea countries. The project's aim is to build up a network of funding agencies and create conditions for a Joint Baltic Sea Research Programme.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/345.php)
  • | Project of the Month-September

    SSA INCOMAT

    The field of biomaterials for biomedical applications has recently developed a major growth potential as demand for cardiovascular, orthopaedic, dental and other implant devices is tremendously increasing worldwide. Ageing of the European and worldwide populations will be a crucial challenge for the health-care providing sector in the 21st century. The INCOMAT endeavor was expecially motivated by problems concerning research/technology resources and capabilities in the Third Countries (Western Balkan or WBS and Newly Independent States or NIS) which have, to date, developed only regional networks.
    [more...] (URL: http://www.increast.eu/en/330.php)

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