| Projects of the Month – December 2016
The IncoNet EaP project partners have prepared a review of selected outcomes of international STI cooperation projects the EU is involved in. Their focus was on Energy, Environment and Health related projects.The result is a list of noteworthy deliverables from EU-Eastern Partnership cooperation projects, which are available to the public. In this special issue of our 'Featured Projects' we present some of these deliverables.The EU-Eastern Partnership project outputs include:
The examined projects also reinforced the RTD and cooperation capacities of EaP institutes; supported the policy dialogue and the creation of networks; provided analyses and support to research and innovation activities; fostered the development of innovative and export oriented SMEs in the Danube and Black Sea regions; and analysed the potential impact of trade agreements between the EU, Russia, Eastern Partnership and Central Asian countries.
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The overall goal of the H2ESOT project is to develop materials and technologies for thermal-to-electric energy conversion aimed at a wide temperature range. The development of efficient, thermoelectric modules using only low-cost, readily available, renewable and sustainable organic materials would address a range of major transnational FET challenges impacting energy efficiency, climate change, resources depletion and ‘personalised electricity generation/use’ that will arise within the next decade. |
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DANUBE-INCO.NET is a coordination and support action funded under the 7th Framework Programme and addresses the official EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) in the field of research and innovation (R&I). Whereas the EUSDR concerns a wide variety of priority areas, the project focuses mainly on two of them: PA 7 „Knowledge Society“ and PA 8 „Competitiveness“ while also supporting the policy dialogue, the creation of networks, and providing analyses and support to R&I activities. |
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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. |
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The overall goal of “Healthy lifestyle“ project is to propagate pupils' healthy lifestyle through sports aiming at reducing health problems and to strengthen the experience share and cooperation of Lithuanian and Belarusian schools. |
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The project aims at reinforcing RTD and cooperation capacities of the Institute for Nuclear Problems of Belarusian State University in the area of applied nanoelectromagnetics. This new research discipline comprising the classical electrodynamics of microwaves and present-day concepts of condensed matter physics is covered by the FP7 Theme 4 'Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies – NMP'.
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The overall goal of Amber Coast Logistics project is to support the development of multimodal logistics centres in the southern and eastern Baltic Sea region and thereby improve the accessibility of remote areas. |
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The project aims at establishment and strengthening a transnational business incubator network – the platform for continuous exchange of information, know-how and technologies among its members in order to foster development of innovative and export oriented SMEs in the Baltic Sea Region. |
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The central goal of EcoArm2ERA is to reinforce the international research cooperation between Armenian leading institute in environmental and ecological studies CENS and ERA in the critically important areas, specifically FP7 Themes as Environment, KBBE and Space (e.g. GIS technologies for environment)). |
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The aim of this study was to remediate degraded arable soils and promote carbon sequestration by implementation of cover cropping and green manuring in Moldova. |
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The main objective of the LAGOONS project is to contribute to a science-based seamless strategy - in an integrated and coordinated fashion - of the management of lagoons seen under the land-sea and science-policy-stakeholder interface; i.e., the project seek to underpin the integration of the EU Water Framework Directive, Habitat Directive, the EU’s ICZM Recommendation, and the EU Marine Strategy Directive. |
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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. | |
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The overall goal of HYPOX project is to monitor oxygen depletion and associated processes in aquatic systems that differ in oxygen status or sensitivity towards change: open ocean, oxic with high sensitivity to global warming (Arctic), semi-enclosed with permanent anoxia (Black Sea, Baltic Sea) and seasonally or locally anoxic land-locked systems (fjords, lagoons, lakes) subject to eutrophication. |
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The overall goal of the CLEAR project is to investigate the possible impact of global climate change on reproductive health in one Arctic and two European populations. |
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SIGMA presents a global partnership of expert institutes in agricultural monitoring, with a strong involvement in GEO and the Global Agricultural Geo-Monitoring (GEO-GLAM) initiative. SIGMA aims to develop innovative methods, based upon the integration of in-situ and earth observation data, to enable the prediction of the impact of crop production on ecosystems and natural resources. |
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The overall objective of EFENIS is to facilitate and accelerate a move to low carbon manufacturing processes and site management by deployment and demonstration of innovative energy management systems and enabling efficiency technologies, which extend the scope of energy management outside the boundaries of a single plant to total site and then beyond the total site to district heating/cooling systems. |
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The overall goal of the CHERISH project was to establish an interdisciplinary Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) consortium of experts with a joint programme of activities to generate knowledge about mental retardation (MR) and the structure and dynamics of the brain as such, as well as to study in depth the prevalence and incidence of MR in EECA . |
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The project on living organ donation in Europe is a coordination action that aims to 1) establish an inventory of living donation practices in Europe, 2) explore and promote living donation as a way to increase organ availability and 3) develop tools that improve the quality and safety of living organ donations in Europe. |
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The BestAgeing consortium aims to improve the lack of diagnostic capabilities for both acute and chronic cardiovascular diseases in the elderly by developing and validating innovative omics-based biomarkers particularly for elderly patients – supporting healthy ageing in Europe. |
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Project title: EaP countries involved: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine |
The aim of AGRICISTRADE project is to accompany new trade agreements between EU, Russia, EaP and CA countries by analysing the potential impact of these trade agreements and by delivering insights on the potential developments of the food, feed and biomass sectors in those countries. |
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The objective of EnPC-INTRANS project is to increase the market uptake of technologies for the improvement of energy efficiency (EE) in public buildings and services by means of fostering private sector participation in innovative financing schemes for EE investments. |
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The goal of the Bioenergy4Business project is to support and promote the (partial) substitution of fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) used for heating, by available bioenergy sources (industrial wastes, forest biomass, straw and other agricultural biomass) in the partner countries and beyond. |
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The FREEWAT aims at promoting water management and planning by simplifying the application of the Water Framework Directive and other EU water related Directives. |
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Source & contact: Olga Zyrina | National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the EU, Poland
