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Mental, cognitive, vision and hearing health problems in elderly people are amongst the top 10 public health challenges in Europe. They frequently occur co-concurrently and have an additive negative effect on quality of life and mental well-being. To address this negative impact, and promote mental well-being, particularly from a gender and minority community perspective, SENSE-Cog's aim is to: (1...
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The Research Infrastructure (RI) ACTRIS – Aerosols, Clouds and Trace Gases - is the pan-European RI that consolidates activities amongst European partners for observations of aerosols, clouds, and trace gases and for understanding of the related atmospheric processes, to provide RI services to wide user groups. ACTRIS is composed of 8 connected elements: distributed National Facilities (observatio...
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Unicorn aims to simplify the design, deployment and management of secure and elastic –by design- multi-cloud services. This will be achieved by a) development and design libraries that will provide security enforcement mechanisms, data privacy restrictions, monitoring metric collection and resource management; b) enabling continuous orchestration and automatic optimization of portable and dynamic ...
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INTERFACES

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Interfaces is an international, interdisciplinary project where a range of new audiences engage with new music. It unites nine diverse partners from 8 European countries plus several other European and international associate partners, with extensive and varied experience in performing, multi-media, new media, acoustic and electroacoustic research, community action and education. This rich experti...
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The Living Book - Augmenting Reading For Life

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

In the EU, 1 out of 5 15 year-olds are low achievers in reading. According to the PISA (2012) results, the proportion of low achievers is dramatically high in CY (32,8%), RO (37,3%), IT (19,5%), PT (18,8%). Students also show a general de-motivation towards reading. Lack of interest in childhood continues in adulthood. The proportion of non-readers is very high in Portugal (60%), Cyprus and Italy...
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Heads Using Professional Learning Communities

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The project Heads UP “Headmasters Using Professional Learning Communities” invents and implements a model for leadership development in order to support school leaders (heads/vice heads) to lead their teachers better into school improvement and necessary teaching development. By setting up Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) , which are proven to be an effective method for advanced training,...
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Evidence and opportunities for responsible innovation in SMEs (COMPASS)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The challenge of the COMPASS project is to collect and deploy evidence on how RRI can be meaningfully integrated into extant innovation systems in European industry. COMPASS will pursue three overarching objectives: Providing evidence for better uptake of RRI in industrial R&D&I, fostering collaboration in three key innovation fields (healthcare, nanotechnology, ICT) and promoting responsible and ...
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Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research InfraStructure (ACTRIS-2)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

ACTRIS-2 addresses the scope of integrating state-of-the-art European ground-based stations for long term observations of aerosols, clouds and short lived gases capitalizing work of FP7-ACTRIS. ACTRIS-2 aims to achieve the construction of a user-oriented RI, unique in the EU-RI landscape. ACTRIS-2 provides 4-D integrated high-quality data from near-surface to high altitude (vertical profiles and t...
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Background of the project PLAY&LEARN DIGIMEDIAHigh quality professional development and training for teachers and educators is a crucial aspect for achieving the “digital jump”. When developing educators’ digital competences, it is particularly important to consider the pedagogical aspects of digital media use. There is substantial evidence from research studies that the effective use of e-learnin...
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Teaching European Signed Languages as a First Language

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The project: “Teaching Signed Languages as a First Language” (SIGN FIRST) is based on the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Universal Design for Learning, the Paris Declaration, data driven results and recent best practices for the development of literacy in students with hearing impairments.International studies show that the vast majority (90-95%) of ...
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Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Children’s health affects the future of Europe – children are citizens, future workers, parents and carers. Children are dependent on society to provide effective health services (UN Convention on the Rights of the Child). Models of child primary health care vary widely across Europe based on two broad alternatives (primary care paediatricians or generic family doctors), and a variety of models of...
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SkillsUp:Skilling up educators for today and tomorrow's labor market

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The knowledge, skills and attitudes of each of Europe‘s 6 million teachers are of great importance. The quality of their teaching has a direct effect upon learner‘s attainment. The demands made on educators/teachers, which is our target group, are increasing and changing. They are called on to play a key role in modernizing education. To do that, they need to develop their own knowledge and skills...
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Although there is a large body of knowledge available on soil threats in Europe, this knowledge is fragmented and incomplete, in particular regarding the complexity and functioning of soil systems and their interaction with human activities. The main aim of RECARE is to develop effective prevention, remediation and restoration measures using an innovative trans-disciplinary approach, actively inte...
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The BONDS proposal intends to design and develop specific training/education programme for immigrant mothers and children, focusing on the acquisition of key competences and soft skills for social inclusion and well-being through the methodology of Collaborative Comics Storytelling. More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, compared with just 280,000 the year before. T...
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Bright@EU

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

PROJECT BACKGROUND & INTENDED IMPACTS:The overarching goal of the project is in line with two priorities of the Europe 2020 strategy: SMART & INCLUSIVE GROWTH. The priorities shall be supported by empowering young adults in the acquisition of legal skills. With an awareness of and know-how in different legal schema individuals develop greater problem solving capabilities, can advocate their intere...
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Europe 2020 is the growth strategy for the EU and the Member States to achieve higher employability, productivity and social cohesion levels whereas the comparability of skills and qualifications across the countries is consistently underlined as important. Going through all the Official Reports or Recommendations of European bodies for the EU transparency tools, one can see that one of the major ...
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School education is the most important educational period when students create learning mechanisms, construct knowledge and develop basic skills and acquisition methods. The quality and the effectiveness of school education is of strategic importance in all countries and a top priority in the EU agenda. Science school education is of strategic importance for the development, the economy and the so...
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The purpose of DEMOKLEOS is, after its lifetime to have empowered and inspired, as a beautiful flower, educational community about Democratic Awareness and Collective Responsibility, both fundamental to a quality European school. Mainly to be a weapon against misguided trends affecting the prosperity of European Democracy: hate crimes, racism, discriminations, political and social extremism ,all o...
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Equity and Social Inclusion through Positive Parenting

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Equity and Social Inclusion through Positive Parenting (ESIPP). CONTEXT Autism is a lifelong condition which affects about 1% of the population (or approximately 7.5m European citizens) as well as those who live with them and care for them. The presence of autism can be extremely challenging to parents and other family members, and autism has been identified as causing greater family and parental...
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Supporting Graduate Entrepreneurship in the Creative Sector

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Factory floors are progressively being replaced by creative communities whose raw material is their ability to imagine, create and innovate. In this new digital economy, immaterial value increasingly determines material value, as consumers are looking for new and enriching "experiences". It is widely accepted that there is a profound shortage of coherent entrepreneurship training programmes throug...
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Green Entrepreneurship Training - Underpinning Prosperity

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

There is little doubt that the development of the green economy can make a significant contribution to restoring Europe’s economy to growth by harnessing new business and employment opportunities that green businesses offer and many countries are looking to green growth as the way out of the current economic crisis. The global market for environmental goods and services is vast and it continues to...
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Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe 2020 (OpenAIRE2020)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

OpenAIRE2020 represents a pivotal phase in the long-term effort to implement and strengthen the impact of the Open Access (OA) policies of the European Commission (EC), building on the achievements of the OpenAIRE projects. OpenAIRE2020 will expand and leverage its focus from (1) the agents and resources of scholarly communication to workflows and processes, (2) from publications to data, software...
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It is presently acknowledged and scientifically proven than climate related hazards have the potential to substantially affect the lifespan and effectiveness or even destroy of European Critical Infrastructures (CI), particularly the energy, transportation sectors, buildings, marine and water management infrastructure with devastating impacts in EU appraising the social and economic losses. The ma...
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Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy encompasses Solar Thermal Electricity (STE), Solar Fuels, Solar Process Heat and Solar Desalination that are called to play a major role in attaining energy sustainability in our modern societies due to their unique features: 1) Solar energy offers the highest renewable energy potential to our planet; 2) STE can provide dispatchable power in a technically and eco...
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EU CISE 2020 is an important step towards the accomplishment of the European roadmap for CISE; the project attains the widest possible experimental environment of innovative and collaborative processes between European maritime institutions.EU CISE 2020 takes as reference a broad spectrum of factors in the field of European Integrated Maritime Surveillance, arising from the European legal framewor...
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Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP)

Start date: Dec 19, 2013, End date: Jan 1, 2018,

Understanding the evolution of galaxies across cosmic time is one of the great challenges of astrophysics. At the present day, galaxies found in different environments are very different from each other. To understand how this came to be we need to map a wide range of environments in the early Universe using telescopes that probe the different physical processes. Many astronomical facilities have ...
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“One becomes an entrepreneur not by birth but by education as well as by experience” Reason of project: SCIENT will develop an innovative entrepreneurship programme for PhD STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) students/graduates, giving them an insight out of the ivory tower of pure research, developing their transversal skills and providing a new professional path. The EU need...
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Empower Active Ageing

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

It is well documented and widely accepted that active ageing can give the opportunity to adults 50+ to be more competitive and productive by improving their skills through training. The Europe 2020 strategy recognizes that more adult learning can help overcoming the economic crisis, meet the need for new skills and keep its ageing citizens productive. Learning is also essential for social inclusio...
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Innovation Ecosystems for VET

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The challenges and opportunities of globalisation and technological development have led to a strengthened emphasis on innovation as a key driver for sustainable economic development. Innovation is essential for the growth of modern societies and it is also central to achieving economic and social development. While innovation is generally recognized as critical to the continuous improvement of ed...
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The Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth acknowledges lifelong learning and skills development as key elements in response to the current economic crisis, to demographic ageing and to the broader economic and social strategy of the EU. The crisis has highlighted the major role which adult learning can play in achieving the Europe 2020 goals, by enabling adults - in part...
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EU Youth: From theory to action

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The main aim of the project is to foster the employability and innovative potential of young people /students & graduates by upgrading and developing their competencies for entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial attitudes and other transversal competencies necessary for successful entering the labour market. This aim is to respond to the educational challenges of the higher education in Europe and all ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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E-learning Objects for Innovative Science Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The basic idea of the project “E-learning Objects for Innovative Science Education” (E-LOISE) is to improve adult education and teachers´ skills and knowledge in using interactive objects in all types of science education, as well as providing inspiration for new ideas in teaching. One aim of the project is to explore how to utilize the many opportunities for adaptive and self-paced learning, how ...
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Konstruktywizm w nauczaniu matematyki - otwarte zasoby edukacyjne

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The "Constructivism in teaching mathematics - open educational resources" aims to promote the development, testing and implementation of mathematical simulations to support teaching of mathematics in high school. The goal of 10 simulations creating group "Make Interest" is to awaken students' curiosity and interest in mathematics by posting the process in the environment close to the students. Ea...
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Finding people with the right experience and skills continues to be a challenge across Europe. Skills mismatches and occupational shifts have worsened as jobs are opening up for technical professionals in Europe. It is a well-known fact that programmers are the most sought professionals in almost all European countries. Software development in a wider sense is becoming an integrated part of many d...
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Creative Primary School Partnerships with Visual Artists

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Teaching and learning in and through visual arts tend to simulate everyday life, connect school life to real-world issues, engage children in meaningful learning processes and provide in-depth experiences. The involvement of students with the processes of contemporary artists could allow the development of meaningful relationships and alternative learning that could inspire their adult lives. Furt...
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Smart Practice -Empowering Entrepreneurial Skills in Higher Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Project addresses the issue of developing students’ skills that help them enter job market, make them entrepreneurial and able to innovate as well as meet demands of business and society. This issue raises requirements for HEIs to focus on such key aspects as innovative teaching methods, practice orientation, problem-based learning, flexibility, etc.Therefore project is targeted to contribute to ...
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STEM Teacher Training Innovation for Gender balance

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Despite nearly 30 years of efforts to engage girls in physical sciences and engineering, the gender gap continues in the scientific vocations. On the other hand, meanwhile the demand of graduates in those fields continues to grow, the scientific vocation among the young students is increasingly low. Answering to that need, the main objective of this project is to raise and share good science educ...
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“One becomes an entrepreneur not by birth but by education as well as by experience” Context/background: Our project, ICT ENTREPRENEUR, aims to develop an innovative entrepreneurship programme for ICT students/graduates across Europe, offering these young people an insight of the working environment, helping them in developing their transversal skills and providing a new professional path to them...
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This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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