Closed international projects in which UBU was involved

MEBATFOL

The main objective of MEBATFOL project is the engagement and contribution of MeBattery’s team to implement the activities that are part of the EIC Pathfinder portfolio “Mid to long term and system integrated energy storage (MLDES)” work package to reinforce collaboration with the portfolio projects. More information.

JUST4ALL

Just Transition expresses EU socio-economic model which is crafted in inclusive values and environmental-friendly policy. Higher education institutions and other organizations are trying to respond to the need of promoting EU Green policies and Just Transition through teaching and learning along with promoting this context to local/regional/national/supranational stakeholders. More information.

AR-STEAMapp

AR-STEAMapp addresses the challenges of improving the teaching of STEAM disciplines in the 12-16 age group, designing an innovative way to establish connections between these disciplines in a meaningful and viable way with the educational context. One possible mean to address this challenge is the development of an augmented reality (AR) educational app (hereafter AR-STEAMapp) that can be used to explicitly reflect on the connections between STEAM disciplines through the analysis of relevant European cultural heritage (i.e. sculpture and buildings). More information.

E5GForTCA

E5GForTCA will enhance the capabilities of the Norwegian facility within the FIDAL project by carrying out the deployment and field testing of fully automated, programmable private 5G networks for time-critical applications. The EU-funded FIDAL project aims to address this challenge by developing, testing and demonstrating innovative infrastructure capable of supporting evolved 5G and the advent of 6G. More information

eEarlyCare-T

The objectives of the eEarlycare-T project are directly framed in the Erasmus + Programme, specifically in the Sector Priority related to School Education: Developing high quality early childhood education and care systems. Therefore, the eEarlycare-T project aims to put into practice the key principles of the EU Quality Framework for ECEC (Proposal for key principles of a Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care. EC, 2014). More information.

JOINRISE

The main objective of JOIN-RISe is to make higher education STEM students develop into citizens that are critical thinkers and are fully committed to the SDGs. In order to achieve this, it is crucial for there to be changes to current curricula and for the SDGs to be included in the teaching of STEM degrees. Evidently, lecturers are key players in meeting the project’s main objective. Therefore the aim is to make STEM lecturers more aware of global challenges and the need to integrate values and ethics into their teaching to help students develop a sustainable mindset and to use science to do good in society. More information.

SPEM

The project School Plastic freE Movement – SPEM - aims at developing and implementing, through the creation of a movement of schools and educational organizations, a new inclusive pedagogical model addressed to children from 5 to 13 years old, in particular to those at risk of marginalization and underachievement (migrant, disable, high potential and gifted pupils). More information

LAWYERS4RIGHTS

The project aims at improving the understanding of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights via specific training activities addressed to lawyers. In the face of emerging challenges such as migrations and terrorism, lawyers play a key role in the protection of fundamental rights and need to have a better knowledge on the Charter and its application at national level. More information.

DRYNET

DRYNET objective is to set an multidisciplinary network between EU academic, SME, the EU pan-Biobank, and international partners, with the aim of sharing knowhow & expertise to lay down the theoretical and early empirical basis for the dry storage of cells/germplasm. More information.

RISKREAL 

Provide specific tools for the evaluation and acquisition of psychosocial skills and competencies necessary in low-skilled jobs in some industrial sectors such as wind energy, metal manufacturing or mold manufacturing, and other similar positions in which management-related psychosocial occupational risks occur emergency. The training provided will complement the current certified technical training to contribute to the employability, health and quality of life of workers, as well as to the competitiveness of companies. More information.

GREENER

GREENER proposes the development of green, sustainable, efficient, and low-cost solutions for soil/sediment and water bioremediation, by integrating several remediation strategies with innovative bio-electrochemical technologies. The project will effectively accelerate the remediation time of a range of organic and inorganic pollutants of high concern, while producing useful end-products, such as bioelectricity and/or harmless metabolites of industrial interest. More information.

SELFIE

The radically innovative potential of SeLFiE is its ability to integrate the Scientific language – which is simpler and easier to understand than the literary language, and rich in liferelated and practical lexicon – and the CLIL framework in ages between 4 and 12. It also gives continuity along the whole compulsory education maintaining the consistency of the learning and teaching processes. SeLFiE develops of a joint methodology for CLIL and science education, being that a field to explore needed for further implementation and revision. More information.

SBVI

The project STEAM in the secondary school with no barriers for blind and visually impaired pupils, has been created to generate in Spanish schools, including the partner university, inclusive classrooms with a diversity of students with different profiles, especially students with visual impairments. The school partnership includes three schools specialized in this student profile, the collaboration and exchange of practices will serve to generate experiential classrooms within technical subjects such as science, technology, engineering, mathematics and arts (STEAM), subjects that have often been cited as difficult for students with visual impairments. More information.

Lost Millennials

The Lost Millennials project, funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and the Norwegian Grant Fund for Youth Employment, focuses on a commonly neglected target group of the Millennial generation: young people between the ages of 25 and 29, who are out of employment or education and training (NEETs), live in small towns in rural areas and face multiple barriers to their inclusion in the labor market. More information.

EUMOFRAUD

EUMODFRAUD overall objective is the development of high-level comparative studies on the analysis of the factors and aspects leading to a loss of transparency of ERDF and CF due to misuse and diversion in public and private entities. The achievements expected will be the development of a deep knowledge on the mechanisms of diversion of ERDF and CF and their interconnections, and the enhancement in the capacity of relevant EU bodies for the early detection of misuse in EU funds. More information.

ALGWAS-BIOR

The ALGWAS-BIOR project is an EU-funded project that proposes the implementation of cascade, green and integrated biorefinery technologies that durably add commercial values to the discarded waste material with high beneficial profits. The project primarily focuses on the valorization of the organic waste stream released from the food industry and uses the algae industry as an exemplar prototype. More information.

RIMAS

The innovation project Ready to innovate: Maths & Sports4all (RIMAS) consists of the implementation of a toolkit for Primary Education students, whose objective is the learning and reinforcement of Mathematics contents through Physical Education, in a gender equality context. More information.

EUMOFRAUD

EUMODFRAUD overall objective is the development of high-level comparative studies on the analysis of the factors and aspects leading to a loss of transparency of ERDF and CF due to misuse and diversion in public and private entities. More information

NANOBAT

Sustainable storage of electrical energy is one of this century’s main challenges, and battery production is one of the future key industries with an estimated market potential of 250 Billion Euros by 2025 as stated by the European Commission. We contribute to this by establishing an RF-nanotechnology toolbox for Li-ion batteries and beyond Lithium batteries. More information.

TUT4IND

El objetivo principal del proyecto es formar docentes universitarios a través del desarrollo de herramientas que les ayuden a adquirir las competencias necesarias para adaptar sus aulas a las necesidades de las personas con discapacidad intelectual y, con ello, promover la inclusión de este colectivo en la Educación Superior. Para ello, se crearán diversos materiales y herramientas que se pondrán a prueba a través de un curso piloto enfocado a docentes de universidades de diferentes países. More information.

AccessCULT

The project aims to improve the accessibility of cultural heritage across Europe through the exchange and promotion of good practice. The team will develop, implement, and test innovative multidisciplinary educational material for students as future experts, as well as training for existing cultural workers.  More information.

ROBY

The project have the ambition to set up and to get it accepted, a common new international/European policy,  as a demonstration of a possible integration of ICT competencies that can be used to promote educational process of assimilation of social values in kids. The project itself foreseen as well, the value of in-service and university training courses as a core strategy to improve teachers’ update with technological competencies enriched by innovative psycho-pedagogical competencies on robotics versus bullying challenges. More information.

SMARTART

Nowadays, the society moves forward new ways of education, both formal and non-formal, based on the implementation of life-long learning training courses on different topics fundamentally in Blended-Learning environments. To this end, there is a need of online non-formal training that facilitates the learning of students of different ages, making them functional, efficient regarding the achievement of the learning outcomes, and encouraging students’ interest and increase their motivation. More information.

Development of new chemical sensors and optical technologies for fast and sensitive detection of improvised explosives

The goal was thus to produce portable sensors that continuously monitor the environment, detect the presence of explosive compounds and alert the user. More information.

YOUNGMOB

YOUNGMOB is addressed to deliver practical tools for parents and school teachers to promote a correct use of smartphones and avoid or reduce addictive behaviours; and a set of recommendations also for policy makers to prevent mobile addiction. More information.

SUSKIDS

The Project “SUSKIDS Enabling professionals and families to transfer SUstainable knowledge and SKills to Down Syndrome individuals” aims to connect the education and training of DS   individuals in the field of sustainability and the need of raising awareness about new materials produced. More information

EN-ABILITIES

The EN-ABILITIES primary objective is to develop tools aimed at encouraging autonomous language learning for adult students with SEN, in formal and no-formal education settings, implementing a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and a new validated and evidence-based methodology and approach translated into practical guidelines for ICT and software developers and pedagogical guidelines for teachers. More information

FORDYS-VAR

FORDYS-VAR aims to improve the quality of student life of school children with dyslexia thanks to; The creation of VR and AR materials for the treatment of dyslexia in school children and of a guide with materials aimed at dyslexia issues (good practices in this field, methodological guidelines and OER (open educational resources); The creation of an eBook for families, associations of relatives with dyslexia or/and policymakers to have access to a repository of materials and information about this disorder; The creation of a white paper that will contain scientific information about the needs of children with dyslexia and the different approaches to treatment used in the EU. More information

EURODDIP_E

The Euroddip_e project aims to contribute to the educational inclusion of children with disabilities (preserved intelligence and physical disabilities (upper-limb)) using ICTs and different methodologies offering easy and viable solutions to overcome the barriers faced by those students and their teachers. More information

VIRTEACH

Vir_Teach works, step by step, for the following aims: The implementation of language training activities at a pre-sevice stage; The convergence of curricular formats at a European level; The creation of a digital platform, a virtual learning environmen (VLE) that includes a design of a friendly and easy-to-use digital tool for monitoring student teachers during their internship at their in-service stage; And the design of a White Paper for a comprehensive Language Teachers Training at a European scale where coordinated policy actions and a strategy for engaging policy makers and public administrators are suggested. More information

FASTCOLD

FASTCOLD aims to develop fatigue design rules for cold formed steel structural details, and classify such details according to their fatigue strength (as for hot-rolled steel in EN1993-1-9). More information.

ED-ARCHMAT

The ED-ARCHMAT (European Doctorate in Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Materials Science) EJD aims to train a new generation of creative and entrepreneurial early stage researchers able to face current and future challenges in Archaeological/Cultural Heritage protection and management and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit. More information.

SOLUTION

SOLUTION provides research and training programmes for 14 early stage researchers (ESR) studying for their PhD in various disciplines, covering the broadly defined area of solid lubricant coatings. The project combines theoretical approaches represented by advanced nanoscale simulations, laboratory design and fabrication of novel solid lubricants supported by simulations, and the scaling-up of promising solutions and their appliance in selected emerging engineering applications. More information.

LIFE REPOLYUSE

The LIFE REPOLYUSE project’s main objective is to increase the reuse of polyurethane waste that is currently managed as inert waste or is recovered through techniques that are not environmentally sustainable. Specifically, more than 3.5 million tonnes of polyurethane are used in Europe each year, which generates some 675,000 tonnes/year of polyurethane waste. The vast majority (68%) of this waste material goes to landfill. More information.

CO2MPRISE

The objective is to find an inexpensive, effective and robust solution for significant CO2 reduction from industries and civil transport, represents one of the main challenges proposed to the scientific community in the next 10 years and considered as a pillar of HORIZON2020.

MULTI-ACT

The project objective is to offer inclusive models of accountability of science to society. The aim is to answer the question of how the performance of research and innovation in the health sciences can be measured, incorporating criteria of effectiveness and economic efficiency, while incorporating the objectives of multiple interest groups. The researchers developed and applied an Integrated Accountability Model (IAM) in research initiatives in the field of brain diseases. More information.

ICARUS-INAS

The underlying innovation idea of ICARUS-INAS is the development of an Integrated Nanostructures Assessment-Service for the biological impact analysis of nanostructures (INAS) combining toxicology and LCA studies for innovative materials. The result of this project will be the service offer for the assessment of the human and environmental safety of the customer´s product, which could be implemented in the customer´s facilities too when requested. More information.

CoLLaboratE

The CoLLaboratE project will build upon state-of-the-art methods for teaching the robot assembly tasks using human demonstration, extending them to facilitate genuine human-robot collaboration. To this end, a framework for equipping the robots and AGV mobile platforms with basic collaboration skills, such as load sharing, human touch recognition and human intention detection, will also be developed, coupled with deep reinforcement learning algorithms for increasing adaptability. More information.

BOTSTEM

The objective of BOTSTEM is to develop new tools by means of inquiry teaching, open robotics and code-learning for enhancing current didactics of STEM subjects. BOTSTEM is aimed and fully in-line with the formal education curricula and its purposes for childhood and primary schools. More information

BRESAER

BRESAER will design, develop and demonstrate an innovative, cost-effective, adaptable and industrialized envelope system for building refurbishment. This system will include combined active and passive pre-fabricated solutions integrated into a versatile lightweight structural mesh. More information

ARCHMAT

ARCHMAT is a 2-years Erasmus Mundus Master Course (120 European Credit Transfer Scheme - ECTS). More information.

EERA

The objective of the EERA JP for Nuclear Materials is to converge towards truly integrated research activities at European level, based on the joint identification of key priority materials research topics, in support of the development and optimisation of sustainable nuclear energy systems, by building an effective collaborative framework that ensures the coordinated and optimized use of available resources and expertise all over Europe, while of course obtaining adequate funding. More information.

MCIATTP

This interdisciplinary project will benefit industry through the optimization of fabrication processes and the assessment of the mechanical and thermal performance of plastics during use. At a more fundamental level, understanding how micro-structure couples with the exhibited macroscopic properties will allow us to tune polymers to become better thermal conductors or insulators as needed. More information

Training action for legal practitioners: linguistic skills and translation in eu competition law  

The development of linguistic skills is the main focus of a training program. The objective is to increase the uniform and coherent application of EU competition law by national judges. Both judicial and linguistic skills are important. More information

EUROCOORD

EUROCOORD main objective is to promote judicial cooperation by developing systematic research and generating specific knowledge and tools addressed to the different stakeholders to contribute to the efficient and coherent application of the Directive 2014/41/EU on the European Investigation Order (EIO) in criminal matters and other relevant regulations. More information.

NO PUNISH

NOPUNISH toolkit will leverage on existing knowledge to enable regions and countries to develop a planning for change towards no punishment at all. More information.

SUPERMAT

The main objective of the proposal is to create a virtual centre to boost IMNR position in Bucharest-Ilfov region and Romania by increasing the knowledge and technology degree of innovation potential for sustainable advanced materials operating under extreme condition. More information.

E2VENT

E2VENT aims to develop, demonstrate and validate a system of low cost, high energy and low CO₂ emissions related to the rehabilitation of residential and commercial buildings, able to reach the standard levels retrofit NZEB, through the integration of a system ventilated façade innovative and adaptable. The system includes smart recovery units and modular heat, photovoltaic generation units with high efficiency, suitable for inexpensive and easy to install external thermal insulation and energy efficient HVAC systems (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) products. More information.

NANOPIEZOELECTRICS

With this Marie Sklodowska-Curie European project, ICCRAM (International Research Center in critical raw materials for advanced industrial technologies) aims to contribute to progress in solving biomedical ultrasound imaging. In the two years of investigations the main barriers to the marketing of piezoelectric ceramic sensors for ultrasonic sensors as will be discussed, such as the mechanical stability of the devices, wettability and electrical performance. More information

MSP-REFRAM

SAFEMEAT

SAFEMEAT_EU is a transfer of innovation project under LLP Leonardo da Vinci Program targeting to provide food safety training for meat sector workers and experts. It is transferred from BETELGEUX’s FoodSafetyCheese – “Continuous training on food safety in milk production centres and cheese industries” project. More information.

LIFE+ INTEGRALCARBON

The general objective of this project is directed to enforcement and demonstration activities of the capture of GHG produced in agroindustry, their fixation in autochthonous algal biomass and their agronomic application as sources of plant nutrients and C sink in soils. More information.

LIFE+ WOGAnMBR

LIFE+ WOGAnMBR (Demonstration of Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor technology for valorization of agro-food industry wastewater. LIFE13 ENV/ES/000779) project approaches the problem of industrial water with high concentrations of complex organic matter, often generated by food and beverages industries, which are currently treated by conventional processes that generate a large amount of sludge and have a high energy consumption. More information.

SNIFFER

Threats to food supplies may result from accidental, intentional or natural release of CBRN agents in one or more stages of the food supply chain, which may reach the final consumer rendering him/her susceptible to induced diseases or even death.  More information.

"TURBO-SUDOE"

All partners face a common challenge: to improve technology transfer processes in order to facilitate the exploitation in the market of the knowledge generated in the SUDOE space, activating the participation of the private sector through the full alignment of R & D activities ) With business activities (demand). More information.

SCRREEN

SCRREEN contributes to improve the CRMs strategy in Europe by mapping primary and secondary resources as well as substitutes of CRMs. It estimates the expected demand of various CRMs in the future and identifies major trends, all of this providing policies and technology recommendations for actions that improve the production and the potential substitution of CRMs. More information.

ICARUS

ICARUS brings a radically new concept by addressing a still unsolved problem in the stabilization of nanocrystalline alloys, that are useful for applications in the aerospace sector. More information.

NOVAMAG

The main objective of the proposal is, in response to the challenge issued by the European Commission for this call , to design and develop new free magnetic compounds of critical raw materials ( CRMs ) to be used for the permanent magnets of high energy used currently in motors, generators , apparatus for magnetic resonance , etc ... More information.

NANOGENTOOLS

It is an action Marie S. Curie research and innovation staff exchange (RISE) that will create a knowledge transfer network for the development and implementation of a new generation of tools to assess the safety of nanomaterials. More information.

TAT-CF

Cystic fibrosis, regarded as "rare disease" is a chronic hereditary disease with the highest incidence among Caucasians, affecting one in every 5,000 live births. TAT-CF project aims to complete the preclinical development of novel, innovative drugs based on a radically new concept in Cystic Fibrosis therapies: tackling the origin of CF using synthetic small molecules capable of replacing the missing chloride and bicarbonate transmembrane transport activity. More information.

QSPACE

The quantification of Einstein's theory of gravity is one of the main unsolved problems of real physics, and it seems clear that its solution requires new mathematical developments. More information.