Projects Database

In Cayenne, an innovative business incubator is home to young companies

The innovative business incubator in Cayenne is the first structure in French Guiana to welcome young businesses that are less than two years old. More than 20 entrepreneurs have already benefited from its services. They are provided with furnished offices, as well as the necessary infrastructure. They can also make use of personalised support and host services to increase their project's sustainability. The incubator employs three people. Inaugurated in June 2015, the facility was built on the Pôle Universitaire Guyanais - PUG (University of French Guiana Campus).

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Italian community turns old building into energy-efficient crèche

When the town of Drò, in Italy’s Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region, needed a new crèche, instead of building one from the ground up, they opted to save time and money by renovating an existing building dating back to the 1980s. The result is a showcase in energy efficiency.

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Advanced operating and sterilisation facilities at for a hospital in Olsztyn, Poland

A new operating block and sterilisation unit for the Provincial Specialist Hospital in Olsztyn, the biggest hospital in the Warmia and Mazury region, makes complex surgery safer and uses space more efficiently. More patients can now be treated and these recover faster, resulting in better health for the region’s inhabitants.

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Oncogalfarma – Development of new complementary therapies for the treatment of oncological diseases

Three Galician biotech companies are taking an interdisciplinary approach to research as a means of discovering a cure for cancer.

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Changing young lives through music in Portugal

Music is the means by which Portugal’s Orquestra Geração seeks to help the country’s disadvantaged youngsters. Since it was founded in 2007, it has, with EU financial support, touched the lives of hundreds of people aged 6-18 from deprived areas.

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Prototyping platform boosts creativity and entrepreneurship in west Netherlands

A project based in the Dutch city of Utrecht has helped students, designers and entrepreneurs bring their ideas and concepts to life. ProtoSpace FabLab has established itself as a prototyping platform that provides access to high-tech equipment like 3D printers. More than 25 start-up companies and around 250 students have used the FabLab to help realise their goals.

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Cultural Centre in Polish village celebrates heritage of the Tatars

A new educational and Muslim cultural centre in Kruszyniany village in Poland is attracting tourists to the area, while preserving the heritage of the Polish Tatar community, one of the smallest ethnic groups in Poland.

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Developing orphan drugs for orphan diseases in Tuscany, Italy

Ligneous conjunctivitis is a rare form of chronic conjunctivitis. Better known as pink eye, it is an inflammation that causes the eye to appear pink or reddish. Because only 1.6 per 1 million people across the world are affected by this disease, research into potential cures is of little commercial value. To address this research shortfall, an EU-funded partnership between a Tuscan company and life sciences incubator set out to produce an effective and viable treatment for the condition.

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Poland’s Green Velo Trail: 2 000 km of cycling trails and over 2 000 reasons to visit

To support tourism and economic development in Eastern Poland, the EU-funded Green Velo project built Poland’s longest, consistently marked cycling trail that connects five voivodeships within the region.

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German biotech company behind COVID-19 vaccine took its first steps with help from the ERDF

German biotechnology company BioNTech, which developed the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and is working on groundbreaking therapies for cancer, was able to take its first steps in 2009 with help from the ERDF - one year after it was founded.

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