2010-2011 Pilot Projects: Transatlantic Methods for Handling Global Challenges in the European Union and the United States

Seven projects are being implemented in 2010-2011:

Project title: EU-US Security Strategies: comparative scenarios and recommendations
Lead beneficiary: Instituto Affari Internazionali (Italy)
Partners: Center for Strategic and International Studies (US), Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (France), Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Sweden)

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Project title: CALAMAR: Cooperation Across the Atlantic for Marine Governance Integration
Lead beneficiary: Ecologic
Partners: Meridian Institute (US), Duke University (US), The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (France), University of Delaware (US)
Project website: http://www.calamar-dialogue.org/

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Project title: Promoting Evidence-Based Transatlantic Dialogue and Convergence on Food Aid and Food Assistance Policy and Practice
Beneficiary: Global Public Policy Institute (Germany)
Partner: Cornell University (US)
Project website: http://www.gppi.net/approach/research/uniting_on_food/

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Project title: Improving EU and US Immigration Systems’ Capacity for Responding to Global Challenges: Learning from experiences
Lead beneficiary: European University Institute (Italy)
Partner: Migration Policy Institute (US)

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Project title: Transatlantic Opportunities for Meeting Challenges in Energy Efficiency and Low Carbon Technologies
Lead beneficiary: University College Dublin, National University of Ireland (Ireland)
Partners: Sustainable Energy – Ireland, University of California, Berkeley (US), Centre for European Policy Studies (Belgium)
Project website: http://www.transatlanticenergyefficiency.eu/

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Project title: Policy focus on child obesity and commerce. Marketing food and beverages for children: setting the right standards
Beneficiary: International Association for the Study of Obesity
Partners: Rudd Center for Food Policy, Yale University (US), Department of Public Health Nutrition, Suhrs University (Denmark)
Project website:  http://www.iaso.org/policy/euprojects/stanmarkproject/

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Project title: Transatlantic Observatory for Meeting Global Health Policy Challenges through ICT-Enabled Solutions. ARGOS eHealth
Beneficiary: The Eurorec Institute for Health Records
Partners: Gesellschaft fur Kommunikations und Technologieforschung (Germany), Instituto Ortopedico Rizzoli (Italy), American Medical Informatics Association (US), University at Buffalo, Ontology Research Group (US)
Project website: http://argos.eurorec.org/

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Calendar [270 KB] of all 2010-2011 Pilot projects’ events (17/11/2010)

Download one page summary sheet here [16 KB]