2014-2020

The main objective is to demonstrate that, thanks to collaboration between different nations, it is possible to find an outlet for the large amount of waste generated (vegetable and fruit pulp, oil mill pomace, pine bark), obtaining economically viable processes for extracting value-added compounds. At present, this waste is not used and is disposed of in landfills or incinerators, which entails a large economic outlay, as well as an environmental impact with global repercussions. Therefore, this project is a great innovation as it tackles the problem of waste in a different way: using it instead of eliminating it.

Reducing waste and obtaining high added-value ingredients will bring benefits to companies in the agri-food and forestry sector, which will not only minimise their waste disposal costs, but will also be able to start a new, profitable line of business.

will be able to start a new line of business selling new functional products to be used in food companies or as phytosanitary products. This will generate jobs and improve the industrial

jobs and the improvement of the industrial fabric in agricultural areas devastated by the crisis. In addition, the R&D centres involved will also benefit from establishing collaborations with private companies, creating new lines of work and favouring applied research that will have an impact on society in general.

To achieve the objective, intensive transnational cooperation will be necessary, with each entity contributing its expertise at different R&D stages. Some will be involved in the extraction of added-value products, others in their characterisation and others in their encapsulation for their protection. In addition, the benefits of these products (antioxidants, anticarcinogenic, antimicrobial) will also be studied, demonstrating that they can be used with food or as natural phytosanitary products for organic farming.

• University of Zaragoza
• Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (Portugal)
• AKINAO (Francia)
• University of Lleida
• University of Minho (Portugal)
• Indulleida S.A.
• University of Perpignan Via Domitia (France)

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In an increasingly competitive and globalised market, wineries in the POCTEFA area must innovate to differentiate themselves. Minority vine varieties that only exist in conservatories or old plots could be the tool to achieve this goal:

1) in response to a type of demand from certain market niches, which would generate a high added value or

2) to bring complexity to "generic" wines through blending operations.

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The CLIM'PY project aims to understand the evolution and trends of the Pyrenean climate in the context of global change, with these priority actions: creation of an extensive database of temperature, precipitation and snow, homogenised and with quality control; development of climate indicators that allow a complete diagnosis of the observed trends, which can be updated within the framework of the OPCC; analysis of the distribution of snow cover and its spatio-temporal variability; and generation of regionalised climate projections for the implementation of policies for adaptation to climate change.

The CLIM'PY proposal is a continuation of the Climate Action of the OPCC-EFA235/11 project, and builds on the cooperation established between the main research bodies on both sides of the Pyrenees. At the same time, it is part of the need to offer a lasting and updatable initiative that makes it possible to carry out useful climate diagnoses with a broad future projection.

The results are intended to contribute to the development of the OPCC strategy and action plan. They will also provide knowledge to assess the impacts on the territory (water resources, ecosystems, biodiversity, tourism, energy, etc.), and to propose options for adaptation to climate change.

The aim of the CLIM'PY project is to understand the evolution and trends of the Pyrenean climate in the context of global change, by unifying and homogenising existing information, developing climate indicators and making future projections, in order to reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change and adapt to its effects through the transfer of knowledge.

The main results of the project are as follows:

• Obtaining a daily database of temperature and precipitation from 1960 to 2015, with quality control and homogenised, from the existing weather stations in the Pyrenees.
• Database of extreme events to determine hydro-meteorological and socio-economic consequences.
• Development of a snow cover database with the network of beacons, telenivometers and existing mountain stations, together with information from satellite images. From this database, the annual evolution, variability and trend in the occurrence of snow over the last few decades will be known in order to monitor this phenomenon and its modelling.
• Obtaining climate indices for temperature, precipitation and snowfall, which provide insight into climate trends and are used to feed climate models.
• Regionalised climate change scenarios to prepare specific impact and vulnerability studies, and to assess the needs for adaptation to climate change in various sectors and ecological systems in the Pyrenees.
• High spatial resolution climate mapping and detailed graphical expression of the elements analysed.

• Meteó-France (France)
• Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (Spain)
• Servei Metereologic de Catalunya (Spain)
• CSIC (Spain)
• Paul Sabatier University (France)
• Institute of Andorran Studies (Andorra)

The challenge of the OPCC-2 project is to adapt the territory of the Pyrenees Working Community (CTP), 7 regions, to climate change.

The Pyrenean Climate Change Observatory (OPCC) has the mission to be the reference platform for CC in the Pyrenees.

Its strategic objectives are:

• To analyse and facilitate knowledge on the impacts of climate change in the Pyrenees and on the vulnerability of natural and human systems.
• Develop tools to enable decision-making for better adaptation and disseminate the observatory's work to sectoral stakeholders.
• To give European and international visibility to the transnational nature of the Pyrenees in terms of climate change observation and adaptation.

The expected results are to minimise the effects and consequences of CC and to take advantage of the opportunities that arise in the area in an innovative way.

To achieve the objectives and challenges, the OPCC has designed actions to be developed by the CTP, the project's BoF, and its 6 partners; technical experts covering the whole cross-border territory. The subjects related to climate change and the partners are: climate, water cycle, forests, sensitive ecosystems and in a transversal way the socio-economic sectors.  

The project will also rely on a network of prestigious scientific experts who will endorse the work and publications of the project.

The aim of this project/programme is to study and understand the evolution of the climate in the Pyrenees in order to reduce the vulnerability of natural and human systems to the impacts of climate change and to adapt to its effects through knowledge transfer.

The main results of the project are the following:

• Most of the actors related to climate change and most of the interested population in the Pyrenees WILL KNOW about the OPCC. Obtaining and implementing a communication, dissemination and knowledge dissemination plan/strategy on adaptation to climate change within the Pyrenean massif that reaches all the representative sectoral entities (link actors) of the 8 cross-border regions of the Pyrenees, and through them the different socio-economic sectors, public and private entities and the general public. Nearly one million people will have been made aware of or informed in some way about the effects of climate change. This result contributes to one of the programme's productivity indicators (5,400,000 people are expected to be made aware of the effects of climate change by 2023).
• The OPCC and the Pyrenees are known as a trans-Pyrenean mountain territory outside the Pyrenees. Obtaining and implementing a Communication Plan/Strategy outside the Pyrenees to raise awareness of the OPCC at regional, national, European and international level; and to enhance the recognition of the Pyrenees and the mountain territories as sensitive and favourable territories for monitoring, assessing and adapting to climate change.
• Analysis and transfer of knowledge on the IMPACTS of climate change in the Pyrenees and on the VULNERABILITY of Pyrenean natural and human systems.
• Identification of the needs of at least 5 socio-economic sectors in the 7 territories of the Pyrenees.
• Knowledge transfer to 5 sectors and 200 actors in these sectors in the 7 territories.
• Compilation and sharing of at least 70 Good Practices of Climate Change ADAPTATION INITIATIVES in the Pyrenees and other mountain areas, in a Database.
• Methodological Framework or Methodological Guide for adaptation initiatives, which will reach 400 public and/or private entities and linking actors.
• Development of at least 4 TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES TO PROMOTE INNOVATION to facilitate and promote climate change adaptation initiatives in the Pyrenees.

• University of Zaragoza (Spain)
• Estación Experimental  Aula Dei (Spain)
• Bureau de Recherches Meteorologiques (France)
• Forespir (France)
• CBNPMP (France)
• Meteó-France (France)
• CSIC (Spain)

Improve the health of vulnerable populations (disadvantaged, obese), young people (school children) through the practice of physical activity.

• Creation of a cross-border health infrastructure (=1).
• Sources of verification of the indicators: photos, building permit, certificate of completion.
• Shared use and management of health infrastructure in the cross-border area (=1).
• Indicator verification sources: Report of the transboundary scientific committee and the board of directors of Capes Cité (seat and antenna).
• Improve the health of target populations: 8785 (disadvantaged 1000, obese 285, adolescents 2000, children 5500).
• Sources of verification of the indicators: Monitoring and health records carried out by doctors or health professionals and accepted by CAPAS-cité.
• The promotion of physical activity and the benefits for the school population (11500), disadvantaged population (1000), obese people (285), medical personnel (250), teachers and educators (300) and the general public.

• University of Zaragoza (Spain)
• University of Pau (Spain)
• Huesca City Council

Coordinate and improve neonatal screening activities in the territory and develop new bioinformatics tools for the interpretation of the results.a cross-border network of research groups and hospitals that:

• It coordinates neonatal screening programmes to improve diagnosis, guide treatment and contribute to the education of patients and their families.
• It develops new and more efficient bioinformatics tools to improve diagnosis based on patients' genetic information.
• It collaborates with companies in the genetic diagnosis sector to define new software products to facilitate genetic diagnosis and interpretation.

Through agreements between the Phyrepred centres and selected companies, the bioinformatics tools developed will be refined and the possibility of converting them into marketable products will be assessed. In any case, the innovative bioinformatics tools developed will allow the genetic diagnostics companies involved to benefit from the competitive advantage of being able to provide their customers with better interpreted results.

• Instituto Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón (Spain)
• CNRS (Francia), Centro Hospitalario de Nimes (France)
• Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (Spain)
• Hospital Universitario Vall d´Hebron (Spain)

• University of País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (ES)
• Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tarbes (FR)
• University of Zaragoza (ES)
• Centre Català del Plàstic - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (ES)
• Oudoul 64 (FR)

The project comes under Axis 1 and aims to stimulate innovation in order to improve the competitiveness and technological development of SMEs and the quality of life in the territories. Its main objective is to support the innovation efforts of the agri-food sector, in the field of food packaging, in the border areas and more particularly in Aquitaine, Aragon, Euskadi and Languedoc-Rousillon. The result will be the production of an innovative material (a food plastic) whose additives will be natural (and for certain products with provenance in local agriculture) migration-free, odourless and fully recyclable for food packaging.
The project aims to:

1) Create a network of plastic packaging specialists from both sides of the Pyrenees around SMEs.

2) To develop an innovative packaging demonstrator that will add value to the products of SMEs in the agri-food industry in the POCTEFA area.

3) Evaluate an innovative technology to improve the recycling of food packaging.

• Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (FR)
• University of ZARAGOZA (ES)
• LEARTIKER SCOOP (ES)
• Ecole des mines d’Alès – Pôle Rime (FR)
• Pyrénées Adour Génie Alimentaire (FR)

The main objective of the project is the construction of a unique cross-border destination in the heart of the Pyrenees, through public and private cross-border cooperation, tourism dynamisation and the promotion of innovation and tourism research.  This project is built with and for the territory, and until 2018 will work on:

• To create a tourist destination in the heart of the Pyrenees, based on its main qualities: a sustainable and quality destination, offering sports and nature activities all year round, a destination accessible to all.
• Encourage, facilitate and structure exchanges between tourism professionals.
• Create and facilitate the design of cross-border tourism products.
• Structuring this cooperation tourism to achieve international visibility using the Pyrenees image.

• Comité départemental du tourisme des Pyrénées-Atlantiques
• Agence d´attractivité et de Développement Touristique 64 Béarn – Pays Basque
• Clúster Turismo de Montaña
• Sociedad Estatal para la Gestión de la Innovación y las Tecnologías Turísticas, S.A.M.P.
• Sociedad de Promoción y Gestión del Turismo Aragonés, Turismo de Aragón
• Universidad de Zaragoza
• Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

http://www.espalet.eu/proyectos/inturpyr/

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• Italian National Research Centre
• Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis CNR-IMAA (IT) - Principal Partner
• Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología FCT - UNL (PT)
• Centro de Energías Renovables y Ahorro Energético - CRES (EL)
• Societa Energetica Lucana (IT)
• Agencia de la Energía Regional de Croacia Noroeste - REGEA (HR)
• University of Zaragoza- UN IZAR (ES)
• Agencia de Desarrollo Regional de Macedonia Oeste SA-ANKO (EL)
• Comunidad lntermunicipal de Leziria do Tejo CIMLT (PT)
• Ciudad de Karlovac (HR)
• Diputación Provincial de Teruel - DPT (ES)

Socios adjuntos:

• Agencia Regional de Energía y Medioambiente de Alentejo Norte (PT)
• Clúster de Eficiencia Energética de Aragón (ES)

As a general objective, the project aims to develop new minimally invasive clinical analysis procedures, facilitating the development of more patient-friendly screening and control methods. Specific objectives include:

1. Implement the use of DBS or similar specimens to determine the level of metals in biological fluids of patients with prostheses, without the need for such patients to come to the Hospital.
2. Study the use of these specimens to develop methods based on copper isotopic analysis to improve the diagnosis of Wilson's disease.
3. To communicate the results to hospitals and clinical laboratories so that they can apply the methodology developed.

• Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón (IIS Aragón)
• Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique Délégation Aquitaine (CNRS)

Asociados 

• Centro Universitario de Defensa (CUD)
• Centre Hospitalier d´Angers (CHU Angers)

• Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)
• Ayuntamiento de Huesca (ES)
• Ayuntamiento de Pamplona (ES)
• Elkarkides S.L. (ES)
• Jardins du Girou (FR)
• Medes (FR)

The overall objective of the aCCeSS project is to promote the transfer of knowledge and technologies from universities to SMEs in the cross-border territory in order to improve their innovation potential and to form consortia to present European research projects.
The aCCeSS project is based on cross-border cooperation between the participating universities, the associated members and the industrial fabric of their regions, with the aim of strengthening the innovative potential of the SMEs in their environment. The cross-border nature of the project makes it possible to make the most of the enormous research potential of the territory, as well as to exploit innovation capacities more efficiently.

Cooperation across borders is key to the development of the collaboration model proposed in the Project. This model promotes and facilitates access to European funds for research and innovation. The projects achieved will have an important impact on the economic development of the territory. The project presents a development model in line with the regional specialisation strategies (Smart Specialisation Strategies S3), and is based on the complementarity of the territorial actors in order to tackle the major social challenges (smart cities, transport, energy...), developing innovative industrial technologies that enable the competitiveness of SMEs in the territory. The project also proposes a reflection on a common innovation strategy, taking into account the disparities in regional innovation systems.

El objetivo del proyecto es reforzar la cooperación entre los diferentes actores del territorio a ambos lados de la frontera en materia de I+D+i.El proyecto propone vincular equipos académicos y empresas del territorio con el objeto de facilitar la transferencia de conocimientos y tecnología y así fortalecer el potencial innovador de las PYMEs en seis sectores socioeconómicos orientados al crecimiento que están incluidos en las RIS3. Apoyará el surgimiento de proyectos de innovación en colaboración que podrán ser financiados a nivel europeo y que conducirán al desarrollo de productos comercializables y servicios innovadores. Entre los objetivos específicos que abordarán el proyecto se encuentran:

• Contribute to the setting up of at least one research project per theme, associating territorial actors, both academic and SMEs, and the presentation of a European and/or national proposal with an international dimension. This specific objective is met by the implementation of the indicator "number of SMEs cooperating with research organisations on funded research projects.
• Create an advisory council associating academic actors, chambers of commerce and industry and SME clusters. This council will define the selection of collaboration themes taking into account regional strategic priorities. It will also participate in the development of the cross-border research and innovation strategy. This strategy will include a reflection on access to infrastructures within the cross-border territory. Implement a digital visualisation platform in Open Data of existing cross-border collaborations corresponding to the 6 fields of specialisation following an analysis of the specialisation strategies. Collaborations will be identified thanks to scientific publications, patents, funded collaborative projects that academics and associated partners will communicate. This network will be the basis for the organisation of meetings.

• Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)
• Consorcio Campus Iberus (ES)
• Universidad de la Rioja (ES)
• Universidad Pública de Navarra (ES)
• Universitat de Lleida (ES)
• Université de Perpignan (FR)
• Université de Pau et de Pays de l´Adour (FR)
• Université Federale Toulouse Midi Pyrineés (FR)

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• Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones cientificas - CSIC 
• Centre National de la 3 Recherche Scientifique - CNRS 
•  Universidad de Zaragoza 
•  Consorcio para la construcción, equipamiento y Explotación del Laboratorio de Luz Sincrotón - Alba (CELLS) 
•  Institut Catalá de Nanociencia i Nanotecnología (ICN2) 
•  ISP System 
•  Graphene Nanotech SL (GPNT)

Asociados

•  Coating Technologies S.L 
• Fundación Donostia International Physics Center -DIPC

Organismo Tercero

• Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal herriko Unibersitatea

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The main objective of the project is the creation of a scientific network of excellence in the field of prion diseases. These neurodegenerative diseases affect both livestock farming in the French-Spanish cross-border area and its human population and there is no reliable treatment or ante-mortem diagnostic test for their detection. The transmission of animal prions to humans (zoonosis) through the consumption of contaminated food remains a concern for European health authorities. Our project proposes to co-ordinate the activities and combine the specific skills of Research Centres, large hospital centres and private partners in the cross-border region for the following purposes:

• Protect people from the risks associated with prion diseases (zoonoses and iatrogenic transmission).
• Developing innovative therapeutic approaches and diagnostic tools for patients
• Ensure the sustainability of specific production chains in the transboundary region, given the risk of prion agents in the agri-food field
• To inform decision-makers and professionals in charge of Public Health and Animal Health, the actors involved in the production chains and the general public of solutions and innovations in the field of prevention of risks associated with these diseases.

The main objective of generating a network for research and innovation in human and animal prion diseases between research centers, hospitals and the business sector of the cross-border territory. This network will contribute to:

• Develop innovative diagnostic and therapeutic methods
• Characterize the health risks associated with these diseases (iatrogenic transmission and zoonotic potential).
• Strengthen the collaboration between the actors of the territory in the field of R&D&I.The specific objectives of the project are the following:

1. Generation of a research and innovation network in the field of prion diseases between cross-border research centers, hospitals and the business sector.
2. Characterization of public health risks associated with human and animal prion diseases.
3. Development of innovative diagnostic tools (patentable) and identification of therapeutic compounds for patients affected by a prion disease.

• INRA
• CIC BIOGUNE
• Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
• Universidad de Barcelona
• INSERM
• ATLAS MOLECULAR PHARMA S.L

REDPRION-POCTEFA

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WHO (2016) lists antibiotic resistance as one of the 3 major problems facing humanity. In Europe, it causes 25,000 deaths per year and losses of €1.5 billion. The international initiative One Health proposes the reduction of the use of these drugs in the clinical and veterinary fields. It should be noted that the livestock sector consumes 70% of the antibiotics marketed in the world. The project aims to contribute to improving the management of antibiotic use in the livestock sector (cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry) and thus reduce the risk of their presence in the food chain.

The main objective is the development of innovative analytical tools for the rapid detection of antibiotic residues in live animals. This pioneering initiative will allow farmers and the food industry in the region to benefit from a unique solution for the self-monitoring of these residues on farm and in slaughterhouses, which will guarantee a reduction in the health risks associated with meat production. In addition, the two participating biotechnology companies will position themselves as world leaders in this diagnostic field. All this will be achieved thanks to the participation of regional specialists in pharmacology, microbiology and biosensors and the close public-private collaboration with the biotechnology companies that will allow the systems developed to be placed on the market.

The main objective is the development, through the collaboration of research centers and companies on both sides of the border, of pioneering and innovative analytical tools to detect residues of antibiotics, sulfonamides and quinolones in live animals and in commercial meat of different species, thus guaranteeing a reduction in the health risks associated with meat production and a plan of measures for the management and control of residues for the region's agri-food sector.

The specific objectives of the Project are:

Development and validation of an integral test for the detection of antibiotics, sulfonamides and quinolones for easy self-monitoring of these residues in both live animals and marketed meat 2.

A) Development and industrialization of a biological screening test for the detection of antibiotics and sulfonamides in live animals.

B) Development and industrialization of chemical tests for the detection of quinolones in live animals and marketed meat.

2. Evaluation of the presence of antibiotics, sulfonamides and quinolones in marketed meat of different animal species (sheep, cattle, pigs and poultry) in the cross-border region (Bilbao, Logroño, Zaragoza, Toulouse and Perpignan); and demonstration of the need to implement new action protocols.

3. Communication Plan. Preparation of a specific methodological guide on early detection of antibiotic residues in the food chain and the need to implement the tools developed, for dissemination among livestock associations and other actors involved in the production and marketing of meat products: for public health reasons and as a strategy to differentiate meat produced in cross-border regions as "free" of antibiotics.

• Universidad de Perpignan Via Domitia
• Universidad de la Rioja
• Laboratorio de Salud Pública Gobierno Vasco
• Zeulab SL
• Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
• Biosentec SA
• Fundación Vasca de Innovación e Investigación Sanitarias

https://www.testacos.com/

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The objective is to harmonize and strengthen lifelong learning practices to meet the challenges of the cross-border area: attractiveness and competitiveness of the territory, development of exchanges, inclusion and social cohesion. Based on historical cooperation (TRANVERSALIS2009-2013) between university institutions and following the strategies set by regional and national authorities, the project will work on three themes:

• Linking skills and training supply: the creation of cross-border models must be a tool for the overall integration of training systems and support for mobility.
• Specify and redefine the evolution of business models in order to advance training modalities (dual training, mutual recognition of professional qualifications). The training offer, as well as the mutual recognition of competencies, must be developed in a continuum of territories which is concretized in the creation of common training courses in dual training or in the validation of cross-border diplomas by a VAE process.
• Good guidance for good training: knowledge of university and employment guidance services and their work dynamics, and the exploration and validation of guidance resources and tools to ensure the harmonization of academic and professional needs and the definition of coherent training paths in the field of mobility, internships and dual training in the territories involved.

The LLL-TRANSVERSALIS project is committed to a process of structuring a global offer of services in the 6 regions (Cat., Occ., And., Ar., Aqui, P.V.), supported by the creation of a cross-border campus.

The main objective of the project is to establish a cross-border policy for the implementation of LLL training. This objective should make it possible to increase the number of people undergoing training with cross-border validation. It will also make it possible, through common strategies, to increase mobility on the territory. This strategy will be based on the creation of a cross-border campus as a tool for the management and promotion of the LLL development policy:

1.- To define a cross-border vocational training offer in terms of competences in a cross-border campus.The presentation of the university vocational training offer in competences is necessary to be able to satisfy in the best possible way the needs of the companies. By relying on a cross-border campus-type structure, this initiative will reinforce the visibility and attractiveness of our territory, favoring professional insertion.

2.- To develop the tools of dual training in higher education and in specific economic sectors of the cross-border area. Dual training is a priority in vocational training as it allows a joint commitment between the company or professional performance areas and the university, guaranteeing high rates of professional insertion. Our project aims, by strengthening the skills of developers and managers, to implement cross-border dual training.

To improve the labor market relevance of education and training systems, facilitating the transition from higher education to work and strengthening vocational education and training systems and their quality, including through mechanisms that anticipate the need for qualifications, the adaptation of curricula and the establishment and development of work-based learning systems, including dual and apprenticeship systems. The guarantee of this improvement implies the integration of the university and employment guidance services of the territories.

Establish joint strategies for access to diplomas through the VAE. Review and define joint methodologies to promote the development of cross-border VAE (organization of mixed juries composed of professors and professionals). This action will ensure the clarity of our training offer in cross-border competencies and will serve as a basis for the creation of cross-border diplomas / VAE network of certifiers / courts.

Opaque PET is increasingly used in the manufacture of various types of plastic packaging. Its waste is difficult to recover, disrupts the PET recycling industry and is a perceived threat by the general public and environmental associations. The RevalPET project has made it possible to develop a methodology for recycling opaque PET and to demonstrate that in order to develop high value-added applications for this recycled material, it is necessary to stabilize and improve the quality of the base material after its recovery.The RevalPET'UP project proposes to meet this challenge by using the reactive extrusion process. The recycled opaque PET thus improved will be used for blending with other plastics to improve their mechanical properties or will be transformed into foams for building insulation.

The RevalPET'UP project will go as far as the production of pilot-scale materials, the realization of prototypes for measuring insulation performance and the study of the commercial potential of the materials developed. The plastic packaging recycling sector, which is well represented in the POCTEFA area, will thus be able to develop innovative products with high added value and a long service life. The building materials industry will also be able to develop the use of recycled materials to replace currently imported insulation materials. Cross-border cooperation will make it possible to address the issues at the relevant regional level and to benefit from an unprecedented synergy of skills and know-how.

• Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (ES)
• Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tarbes (FR)
• Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)
• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (ES)
• NOBATEK/INEF4 (FR)

The IberusTalent Doctoral Programme for Talent Attraction to the Campus of International Excellence of the Ebro Valley aims at boosting highly skilled human resources and R&I capacity of the four public universities in the consortium of Campus Iberus. The IberusTalent programme’s first goal is to attract 36 talented researchers at early stages of their careers to develop their PhD projects at any of the Campus Iberus four universities: University of Zaragoza, Public University of Navarre, University of Lleida and University of La Rioja.?The ultimate goal is to enhance the excellence and international dimension of the research community in the Ebro Valley. Thanks to this MSCA Cofund programme a significant number of PhDs students will become scientists and that will happen in the Ebro Valley regions of Campus Iberus, connected by a river, well-known internationally, and now becoming a driving force for science and knowledge in Agrofood and Nutrition and in Health Technologies.?To definitely make an impact on the society, the programme expects to reach the following specific objectives:

• ?To attract 36 talented researchers to the Ebro Valley regions to become PhDs and future scientists that will shape the progress of the R&I ecosystem.?
• To build an interconnected, multicultural and international researchers’ community working on interdisciplinary projects of excellence in Agrofood and Nutrition and Health Technologies.
• To support the career development of the recruited researchers by being trained and exposed to as many collaborators as possible from different sectors and countries.
• To reinforce the international visibility of Campus Iberus as the International Campus of Excellence of the Ebro Valle.?
• To challenge and modernise the current institutional structures and services to manage an expanding and long lasting international research community growing at the Universities of Campus Iberus.?
• To disseminate science and become active social actors and role models to others to promote a knowledge based society.

• Universidad de Zaragoza
• Universidad Pública de Navarra
• Universidad de La Rioja
• Universitat de Lleida

www.iberustalent.com

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/801586/es

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The wine sector in the SUDOE region faces both high year-on-year volatility in yields and increased competition for international markets. These two trends are self-sufficient: the level of yields influences the price of wine, which in turn influences the positioning on foreign markets.

VINCI's partners have joined forces to help the wine sector better anticipate yield forecasts and thus optimise its choice of export markets. VINCI will develop interconnected tools that will be available on a web platform: a yield forecasting tool at both plot and PDO level, together with an export support tool. These tools are innovative in the sense that they will allow a more personalised link between yield forecasting and export strategy.  

The tools will be co-developed and co-tested between academic teams and wine professionals from 4 SUDOE regions: Douro, Aragon, Castilla La Mancha and New Aquitaine. This transnational reference point is essential to guarantee the validity of the tools and their future use in the different but specific territorial constraints of Southwest Europe.

The VINCI project aims to develop and make available to SMEs in the wine sector innovative forecasting tools (connected, digital access) to assess yields and access international market data. The implementation of this advanced information system will significantly improve the development of their export strategies in the medium and long term, giving them a real competitive advantage.
Therefore, this project is directly linked to Axis 2: Promotion of competitiveness and internationalisation of SMEs in South West Europe and to the specific objective 3a1: Capacity building to improve the business environment in the SUDOE region.

The information provided in real time by the proposed tools offers real added value to SMEs in the sector, allowing them to develop an accurate medium-term business plan and to make strategic decisions in terms of inventory management, pricing and markets mainly for export.

The expected results of the project are: 2 decision support tools for SMEs in the wine sector and their integration in a digital solution:

- Yield forecasting tool

- Export support tool

- Integrated solution linking the two tools at the enterprise level

These two tools will provide the wine SME with a more accurate and proactive vision of supply flows (yield model) and international demand (export model). This will enable it to improve its strategic planning (setting prices and margins and quantities to be exported, preferred country of destination).

• Fruition Sciences
• Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement Toulouse School of Economics
• Bordeaux Aquitaine Inno'vin
• Universidad De Zaragoza
• Remot Technologies
• Aragón Exterior
• Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
• Universidade de Trás-os-montes e Alto Douro
• Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Viticultura Duriense
• Instituto dos Vinhos do Douro e do Porto

https://interreg-sudoe.eu/proyectos/los-proyectos-aprobados/219-vino-innovacion-y-competitividad-internacional

http://www.interreg-sudoe.eu/inicioec.europa.eu/regional_policy/

To develop interculturality in health and social intervention in the cross-border area of the Pyrenees for the dissemination of good practices, the acquisition of a reflective perspective on intervention models, progress in the accompaniment of people and collaborative work.

The main objective is the establishment of a cross-border network of health and social intervention actors through the creation of a collaborative work platform and a cross-border online training offer.

The main results are:

- A network of a hundred or so actors in the health and social field belonging to a cross-border platform.

- A cross-border training offer from member training centres.

- An information platform and collaborative work tools (interactive mapping, webinars) on training, research (advanced diagnostics) and interprofessional exchanges.

- Ethical rules on participation in the network.

- A quality policy, reflected in the awarding of a label to members.

The cross-border added value and novelty of the project lies in the following:

Health and social issues do not recognise borders, and sometimes neither do people. However, borders can cause difficulties in accompanying people (border effects due to different approaches, regulations or assistance). They can also be a source of mutual enrichment. Networking in cross-border spaces is a way of practising virtuous border crossings and creating supranational visions and practices.

The new elements are:

• Creation of a cross-border network of partners across the POCTEFA territory, contributing to and benefiting from a digital platform for collaborative work.
• Cross-border online training offer.
• Search for financial autonomy and sustainability of the platform (and the network) through an economic model.

• FAIRE Economie Sociale et Solidaire
• Centre Régional de Formation aux Métiers du Social –E.R.A.S.M.E.
• Etcharry Formation Développement
• Universitat de Girona
• Universitat de Lleida
• Universidad de Zaragoza
• Universidad Pública de Navarra

https://www.prospectsaso.com/

https://www.poctefa.eu/

https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/

The main objective of this project is to improve the competitiveness and working conditions of industries where deformable objects must be manipulated directly by human operators to control their shape during production.

This project proposes to develop and promote a set of new techniques and technologies in robotic perception, control and planning to dynamically handle deformable objects with a set of collaborative mobile manipulators. These new robotic functionalities will be applied in several industrial tasks identified as priorities by the industrial partners in the meat and footwear sectors.

The project is 75% co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Interreg SUDOE Programme.

AXIS 1 RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
OBJECTIVE 1B2 Develop the dissemination of applied research related to key enabling technologies

• Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)
• ASOCIACIÓN DE INVESTIGACIÓN PARA LA INDUSTRIA DEL CALZADO Y CONEXAS (ES)
• UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE (ES)
• Universidade de Coimbra (PT)

This project (HorizonteEUnizar) aims to promote and enhance the leadership and participation of the research groups of the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) in European projects of the Horizon Europe programme.

The research groups of biomedical and technical areas of UNIZAR have a wide experience in the presentation and attraction of European and international projects. However, there is a need to identify and promote research lines with little participation and development in European programmes, such as Heritage and Humanities and Social Sciences and Economics. 

Project ECT2020-000871, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union "NextGenerationEU/PRTR".

Amount funded 203.259€.

 SE CANTO is a cross-border cooperation project approved under the second call of the Interreg V-A Spain - France - Andorra POCTEFA 2014-2020 co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.

Specifically, it falls under:

- PRIORITY 5.- Strengthening competences and inclusion in the territories.

- INVESTMENT PRIORITY 8e.- Integration of cross-border labour markets, including cross-border mobility, joint local employment initiatives, information and counselling services and joint training.

- SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 9. - Promote the endogenous potential, the development of training systems and the skills of people in the cross-border territory in order to improve access to employment.

The project is led by the Comarca de Los Monegros and involves Spanish partners (Instituto de Estudios e Investigación de los Monegros, Atades Huesca and University of Zaragoza) and French partners (CBE du NET, Marie-Louise Foundation, L'Oustal Institute and City of Pechbonnieu).

The project will last 36 months, from January 2018 to December 2020, and has a budget of €1,558,620, of which 65% are ERDF funds.
 

 SE CANTO will favour the social and labour inclusion of people, of different profiles, in a situation of vulnerability through training and employment so that they can be part of the development of the North-East Toulousain and the Monegros region.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

- To improve the knowledge of the starting situation of the territories of the project (North-East Toulousain and Monegros).
- To reinforce the qualification and the competences of people, of different profiles, in situation of vulnerability and of professionals of the social sector.
- Promote the social and labour inclusion of the target public by promoting Social Responsibility.
 

 ANGEL PUEYO

INSTITUTO DE ESTUDIOS E INVESTIGACIÖN DE LOS MONEGROS

FUNDACIÖN PARA LA PROMOCION DE LA JUVENTUD Y EL DEPORTE DE LOS MONEGROS

 

VALENTIA

COMITË DE BASSIN POUR L´EMPLOI du NORT EST TOULOUSAIN 

COMUNNE DE PECHBONNIEU

FONDATION DE PARENTS ET AMIS D¨ENFANTS POLYHANDICAPES MARIA LOUISE

MFR INEOPOLE FORMATION

 IberusExperience will offer 11 positions for worldwide excellent Experienced Researchers (ER) who are willing to develop individual and free choice innovative research projects for a period of 36 months in any of the five areas of specialisation of Campus Iberus:

1) Agro-food & Nutrition;

2) Health Technologies;

3) Energy, Environment & Sustainability;

4) Social & Territorial Development;

5) Circular Bio-Economy.

The IberusExperience Programme started on July 2021 and last for 60 months. It involves one call for applicants and the evaluation of the research proposals by international independent experts. The recruitment of the 11 talented researchers is expected to be achieved before M18, i.e. November – December 2022. The programme is not just aimed at talent attraction but consolidation and retention. Researchers will have the opportunity to be extensively trained in research and transferable skills, such as Open Science, Communication & Public Engagement, Grant Writing, Project Management, Technology Transfer, IPR and Entrepreneurship, and consolidate their professional careers at the regions. Anchoring these highly skilled professionals will definitely boost the international dimension and competitiveness of Campus Iberus and surrounding R&I ecosystem..

1. Universidad de Zaragoza 
2. Uniersidad de la Rioja
3. Universidad de Lleida
4. Universidad Pública de Navarra