Project Context. How does the project contribute to wider strategies and policies? Please describe the project“s contribution to relevant strategies and policies at different levels ”EU/national/regional); in particular, those concerning the thematic scope of the project and the participating regions.
Project Context. WHV undertakes a range of workforce development activities to build the capacity of the workforce in gender equity, prevention of violence against women, and women’s health. These activities include the design and delivery of a suite of training options, in both face-to- face and online contexts. WHV is also implementing a two-year project to develop accredited training in gender equity. This project will develop up to eight units of competency in gender equity for accreditation, as well as training and assessment resources, designed to build knowledge and skills in gender equity across a broad range of disciplines and sectors, including both mainstream/generalist and specialist organisations. The units of competency and training materials will be informed by an applied research program (led by Monash University) and tested through a pilot to be delivered by RMIT University and two Learn Local Registered Training Organisations (RTOs). The project will involve close collaboration with seven partners (Adult Community Education Victoria, RMIT University, Women with Disabilities Victoria, Coonara Community House, Yarrawonga Neighbourhood House, Knox City Council and Monash University), as well as a broader advisory group and other stakeholders.
Project Context. Customer is in the process of implementing, configuring, customizing and/or integrating the Service (as defined in Customer’s PS Terms) into Customer’s business environment. Customer has requested that Zenardy’s System integration organization (“Zenardy SI”) provide resources to assist Customer’s staff as set forth below (the “Project”). Zenardy and Customer shall commit resources to work on the Project (the “Project Team”). In providing the Professional Services hereunder, Zenardy shall employ what it reasonably believes to be foremost industry implementation processes, activities, and systems (“Zenardy Leading Practices”).
Project Context. During 2015-2016 Emory University partnered with the Uganda Ministry of Health, Care International, Assist International, and Makerere University School of Public Health to monitor donated water purification systems in six hospitals in western Uganda. In March 2018, a team of research assistants from the Makerere School of Public Health explored qualitatively the factors that influence mothers’ decisions for choice of delivery place and the WASH status at HCFs located throughout the Kanunugu and Rukungiri districts in western Uganda. Research assistants also conducted a quantitative study that assessed health-seeking behaviors among women within these districts. The findings from these Makerere qualitative and quantitative studies will be the basis for this secondary data analysis. The major objective of this secondary data analysis of a mixed methods study will be to assess and characterize the challenges western Ugandan mothers experience when utilizing healthcare facilities for delivery. This will be done by analyzing the quantitative data set collected by Makerere University to assess the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) challenges versus non-WASH challenges that Ugandan women experience in HCFs. Furthermore, analyses will be conducted to examine potential differences between the WASH status at the HCFs where mothers delivered. Lastly, analyses will be performed to examine any potential associations between WASH and non-WASH challenges and regional district or type of health care facility. The quantitative analysis will be followed up by a secondary analysis of qualitative data (in-depth interviews) to explore mothers’ perspectives on the challenges experienced while utilizing HCFs.
Project Context. IMMOMEC represents a collaborative research effort of 9 academic and 2 industrial partners (SMEs) from 8 European countries. MCC is a highly aggressive and often lethal neuroendocrine cancer of the skin, associated with the recently discovered common Xxxxxx cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) or with chronic UV exposure. Epidemiologic data suggest that there are approximately 2500 new MCC cases per year within the EU; approximately 1000 of these patients will die from their disease. The incidence of MCC is considerably increasing: The reported incidence has more than tripled over the past 20 years. This increase can partially be explained by the demographic development, since MCC usually affects the elderly. The median age at diagnosis lies in the 8th decade of life, and there is a 5- to 10-fold increase in incidence after age 70 as compared with an age less than 60 years. Thus, it is likely that in an ageing European population the impact of this deadly cancer will further increase continuously. However, preliminary data from a MCC registry created within IMMOMEC suggest that besides an increasing incidence, the age distribution of patients is slowly shifting towards younger patients. Notably, MCC has a dramatically higher mortality rate than melanoma, rendering MCC as the most lethal skin cancer. This high mortality rate is largely due to the fact that until recently none of the available therapeutics improved the overall survival of patients suffering from metastatic disease. Consequently, new therapeutic strategies were needed for metastatic MCC. Since several lines of evidence indicate the outstanding immunogenicity of MCC, immune modulating treatment strategies are particularly attractive. To this end, the fundaments of the IMMOMEC project were based on a prospectively randomized phase II trial investigating the safety and efficacy of an innovative immunotherapy of advanced MCC (WP1). In detail, the trial was set up to compare the clinical efficacy of an - at that time - common chemotherapeutic intervention with a combination of this chemotherapeutic with an immune modulating therapy, i.e. the targeted delivery of IL2 to the tumor microenvironment by the tenascin C-reactive immunocytokine F16-IL2. The primary endpoint of this trial was overall survival; secondary endpoints included safety and the induction/boost of MCC-specific cellular immune responses. The translational research program, however, was not restricted to the identification and monitoring of MCC...
Project Context. The COCONUT19 project (Understanding effects of land use Changes on ecosystems to halt loss of biodiversity due to habitat destruction, fragmentation and degradation) ran from November 2006 to April 2009 with the aim to provide a decision basis to meet the EU target to halt loss of biodiversity by 2010 and beyond and to improve understanding on how terrestrial biodiversity is affected by historic and current land use changes. The project horizon was 2030.
Project Context. The European Commission (EC), to further contribute to the Rio+20 agenda, is undertaking a broad range of activities to accelerate the transition towards a green economy. An important goal of these activities is to assist business communities in greening their operations. This requires a clear understanding of green business opportunities and associated costs, as well as of how to plan, design and operationalize green transition strategies in private enterprises. Yet, familiarity with these aspects of the green economy transition among business communities is often limited, for two reasons:
1. First of all, the wider business community struggles to identify what “best-in-class green practice” means in practical terms for a variety of reasons, which limits the potential of learning from proven practice.
2. Second, research often models the benefits and costs of green economic transitions from a theoretical perspective, but insufficiently addresses everyday business practice. To address the challenge of spreading green business practices among European private enterprises, a consortium of six European organisations took the initiative, within the EC FP7 programme, to establish GreenEcoNet, a Green Economy Network with a particular focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Since the beginning of the project, the consortium work focused on planning how to most successfully develop and establish the Green Economy Network, both online as offline. In particular, the first project year had the main objectives to develop a stakeholders engagement plan for the GreenEcoNet platform, the second part instead was dedicate to consolidate and expand the Green Economy Network throw the multiple channels foreseen in the DoW. More in detail, in WP1 we developed a taxonomy for an efficient collection and categorisation of the information to be collected from SMEs and their networks, including: who the actors are, in which sector they operate, whether they are green solution users or providers, etc.. The taxonomy (D1.1) was extended with updated categorisation and search functionalities in January 2015. Under WP2, we continued with the development, population and improvement of the GreenEcoNet Platform, aiming to create a global online destination of choice for green economy practitioners, policy makers and researchers. WP3 aimed at stimulating the GreenEcoNet debate. To do so, we completed the consolidated report #2 (D3.4) which includes the briefs from the Second a...
Project Context. The Global Environment Outlook11 (GEO) project is led and financed by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The time horizon is up to the year 2050. The overall aim is environment and development, especially on intra and intergeneration equity and addressing inter-linkages between environmental issues such as air and water pollution, land degradation, climate change and biodiversity loss.
Project Context. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment12 project is coordinated by UNEP. The project provides a time horizon up to the year 2100 with its focus on ecosystems and sustainability. It estimates factors at local, regional and global level, which can directly and indirectly affect 12 xxxx://xxx.xxxxx.xxx human-well-being and ecosystems. A driver is any factor that changes an aspect of ecosystem. The assessment develops scenarios, which connect possible changes in drivers with human demand for ecosystem services. These demands are then linked to the future of services themselves and to the aspects of human welfare, which depend on these services. The indirect drivers of change include demographic, economic, sociopolitical, science and technology, cultural and religious factors. Direct drivers include changes in local land use and coverage, introduction or removal of species, technology adaptation and use, external inputs, harvest and resource consumption, climate change, natural, physical and biological drivers.
Project Context. The XMOS project was conducted as a 12 month Knowledge Transfer Second- ment (KTS). KTSs are funded by the UK government’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). One objective of the KTS scheme is to place academic researchers in commercial organizations soon after the completion of their studies, in order to transfer and exploit their hard-won, and hard-funded, new ideas into industry. The XCore ISA formalization project was an exact fit to the KTS ob- jectives: the project applied and extended the Event-B and Rodin based techniques for ISA analysis developed by our doctoral research at the University of Bristol, which derived a formal specification of a small-scale academic ISA, dubbed “MI- DAS” [10]. The KTS benefited from the close links between XMOS and the Uni- versity. XMOS hosted the project from October 2010 for one year. As part of the original proposal we planned a specific set of tasks and objectives, and then re- ported on progress throughout the 12 months. We describe these tasks next, and their achievement during the project.
