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Cancer: Activating Technology for Connected Health (CATCH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Advances in cancer diagnosis and treatment have been groundbreaking, and we are now considering some cancers as chronic disease rather than fatal illness. This moves the point of focus in the fight against cancer from sustaining life towards maximizing functional capacity and quality of life (QOL). A critical element in this shift has been the rise of active rehabilitation in the management of can...
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Valorization of alcoholic wastes to produce H2 to be used in the sustainable generation of electricity (ECOELECTRICITY LIFE)

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background New technologies play an essential role in helping to mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Impure alcohol fractions with low commercial value are a waste product of bioethanol manufacturing. A new technology has been designed to reuse these waste fractions to produce gaseous hydrogen-rich streams for the productio...
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Support Tourism And Reduction Strategy (+20) : STARS (+20) (LIFE STARS (+20))

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Background Based on Eurostat and World Trade Organisation (WTO) statistics, the tourism sector in the EU accounts for 9.7 million jobs (12% of the EU workforce) and more than 10% of the EU’s total GPD. It supports around 1.8 million enterprises, most of which are SMEs and micro-enterprises. The EU is the world’s no.1 tourist destination, with more th...
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Improving the Knowledge in Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology for Technicians and Workers (KNOWHY)

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

KnowHY aims to provide the FC&H2 sector with a training offer for technicians and workers featuring quality in contents, accessibility in format and language, practicality for the targeted audience, ease of scalability and update, and at competitive costs which make the training offer economically sustainable after project completion. Thanks to this project both OEMs as well as professionals can r...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 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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Arrowhead (ARROWHEAD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"Our society is facing both energy and competitiveness challenges. These challenges are tightly linked and require new dynamic interactions between energy producers and energy consumers, between machines, between systems, between people and systems, etc. Cooperative automation is the key for these dynamic interactions and is enabled by the technology developed around the Internet of Things and Ser...
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Financial Literacy for You

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The economic crisis revealed serious gaps in financial literacy of citizens of the EU. Countries as well as individuals executing poor financial management steps contribute to global economic instability. The need for higher financial literacy of the EU population was expressed by the European Commission in 2008 when the Expert Group on Financial Education was set up. The rising indebtedness on bo...
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Team Sweden

Start date: May 10, 2016, End date: Oct 9, 2016,

In a previous project called “Madrona has an answer” a group from Gävleborg visited Catalonia for the purpose of promoting inter-european exchange, environment sustainability and knowledge of rural development. Now the group from Gävleborg would like to invite their friends from Catalonia to experience Sweden. The project “Gävleborg and Catalonia keeping it clean” and will teach participants about...
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Passport to your Future

Start date: Sep 8, 2014, End date: Sep 7, 2016,

In order to equip our students with the necessary employability skills to meet the needs of current and future employers, we as education providers must understand these needs and improve our current practice to safeguard and nurture prosperous futures for our teenagers today, regardless of their socio-economic or academic backgrounds. Despite our best efforts, the cohort we often in the UK refer ...
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Reducing CO2 footprint of Information and Communication Technologies (LIFE GREEN TIC)

Start date: Sep 2, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Background The EU has set three strategic goals around climate change and energy to be achieved by 2020: a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions; 20% of energy from renewable sources; and a 20% increase in energy efficiency. The total footprint of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector was estimated in 2007 to be 830 million tonn...
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COMMUTING EUROPE ACROSS WORK EXPERIENCE

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Work-related experience for students has become more and more popular and important for any increased future employability. The project aims to provide post-16 Language students in Spain/Germany/England to gain invaluable insight into the European job market by completing a week-long work placement in a local business of the host country as well as increase their linguistic skills, which will bene...
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Habla que te escucho/ It speaks that I hear

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

The school is located in a small town (1300 inhabitants). There are around 86 students in the school and 10 teachers. The teachers staff main objetive is to improve the linguistic communicative competence. How? Increasing the amount of hours teaching English at Infant Education stage. Why? For two reasons, first because there are studies that tell us that ages form 3 to 6 are the best to learn du...
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Madrona has an asnwer

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Context. Longtime first Spanish group and then, after the selection phase, also the group from Sweden, have observed that the elderly are most frequently involved in maintaining traditions, heritage protection and care for the natural environment. More and more often we find young people in our regions with urban vocation, who wish to develop their life in big cities, without giving much value to ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

From March 2015 till June 2015, seven vocational training students travelled with Erasmus+ to United Kingdom so as to do the 3 month work experience which is part of their compulsory curriculum. 5 students were in Sheffield, and 2 were in Manchester, working in differente companies. One teacher travelled to Dublin (Ireland) in summer so as to do a course to improve her CLIL teaching skills.
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Innovation and Modernisation of STEM teaching & learning at Meadowhead.

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Our project will be mainly one of raising the profile of the STEM subjects of Science, Technology and Maths as well as improving the staff competences / expertise with CPD for specific staff within the STEM subjects of Science, Maths and Technology. We are aiming to have two key staff within each of these three areas who are keen to improve their practice and are able to job shadow staff within t...
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Demonstration Of Models for Optimisation of Technologies for Intelligent Construction (DOMOTIC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Background The environment and health problems associated with the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere are one of the main concerns of the EU. Atmospheric pollution is the primary cause of environment-related disease in Europe and is the principal cause of global climate change. European environmental regulations and strategies are dedi...
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Support to the developmenT of a European SSA caPability (STEP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

"As highlighted by the European Space Policy and in line with the Europe 2020 Flagship Initiative Innovation Union, the development of a European Space Situational Awareness (SSA) capability will protect European space assets providing economic, social and strategic benefits to the EU and its Member States.The European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC), an EU Agency linking space and security with dis...
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Creation Of New Network for Electric Cars Technology (CONNECT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Background The transport sector is one of the main sources of CO2 emissions in the EU. Passenger-car use accounts for about half of the overall CO2 emissions generated by the transport sector, representing 12% of the total CO2 emissions in the EU and 13% in Spain. The number of cars on EU roads has tripled in the past 30 years, increasing at a rate of ar...
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"DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED, NOVEL BIOSENSOR PLATFORM FOR PESTICIDE RESIDUE DETECTION" (FOODSCAN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"The objective of the FOODSCAN project is to develop a novel and automated biosensor platform for pesticide and other chemical residue detection incorporating membrane-engineered cells with pesticide-specific antibodies. The system is primarily based on the Bioelectric Recognition Assay (BERA) technology. Furthermore a specially designed electronic interface is realized in order to acquire and man...
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Project for Optimisation of Water and Emissions Reduction (POWER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Background The European IRENA programme, coordinated by the European Environment Agency, identified the agriculture sector as having the highest water consumption (50%) in Southern European countries. Spain has the biggest irrigation area in the EU and 68% of available water is consumed by the agricultural sector. However, there is a high percentage of in...
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Development of educational programmes and training initiatives related to hydrogen technologies and fuel cells in Europe (HYPROFESSIONALS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"Today’s technicians and students are the next generation of potential fuel cell users and designers, and education now is a critical step towards the widespread acceptance and implementation of hydrogen fuel cell technology in the near future.Development of training initiatives for technical professionals will be started aiming to secure the required mid- and long-term availability of human resou...
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Thematic Network on Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information (LAPSI)

Start date: Mar 22, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Information generated and collected by public sector entities represents a veritable minefield; it might make a much greater contribution to EU economies and societies, if current legal barriers to access and re-user were removed. The LAPSI project will deal both with established PSI areas (geographic, land register data, etc.) as well as novel areas (cultural data from archives, libraries, scien...
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NANOMATERIALS-RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND HEALTH HAZARDS THROUGHOUT THEIR LIFE-CYCLE (NEPHH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

The purpose of this project is to identify and rate important forms of nanotechnology-related environmental pollution and health hazards that could result from activities involved in nano-structures throughout their life-cycle, and to suggest means that might reduce or eliminate these impacts. Besides the positive multipurpose nano-reinforcement in materials and expanded devices applications, lit...
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Low Resource consumption buildings and constructions by use of LCA in design and decision making (LoRe-LCA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

LoRe-LCA aims to coordinate activities regarding the application of LCA in the European construction sector, focusing on comparing and improving the functional units used for LCA for whole buildings, improving the possibilities to compare results for different alternatives during design stage, and for comparison of results for different buildings. The project focuses on harmonisation and use of LC...
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GAMING TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM FOR SOCIAL REINTEGRATION OF MARGINALISED YOUTH (REPLAY)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

The aim of project REPLAY is to develop a gaming technology platform to provide young people who have become marginalised in society as a result of anti social behaviour with a learning environment to facilitate their reintegration into society. Although scalable to a range of marginalised groups such as immigrants, children with learning disabilities, retirees etc, REPLAY will focus on the rehabi...
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Demonstration of water saving for watering uses through the experimentation of artificial intelligence integrated in traditional systems of water control (OPTIMIZAGUA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2003, End date: Sep 30, 2006,

Background The relevant policy objectives for water quantity are to ensure and promote sustainable water abstraction and sustainable use of surface and ground waters. With the exception of south-west Europe, total water abstractions have decreased over the last decade in Europe. Most sectors have cut their water use through measures such as greater water...
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Innovative approach for the participation of the farming sector in EMAS and the experimentation of new formulas to create specialized employment formulas (EMAS FARMING)

Start date: Oct 1, 2001, End date: Sep 30, 2004,

Background The agricultural and livestock sector at local level is characterised by small size operations, with smallholdings being equivalent to the size of a micro-company in 99% of cases. However, the sector has a significant environmental impact and affect on different natural resources (water, land-use and air quality). The agricul...
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Integral sustainability of Tourism (SITUR)

Start date: Oct 1, 2001, End date: Sep 30, 2004,

Background Rural tourism is a new product in expansion throughout Europe. It has similar features in every area, particularly in southern Europe where these policies are undergoing vigorous growth at present. However, tourism is not an innocuous business. Europe has long experience of the environmental deterioration that accompanies tourism, especially...
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H2 employment - Expert training in hydrogen technologies aimed at job creation emerging

Therefore, the international results "H2 training" project initially aimed at training of trainers and significant job demand detected in more than 50 organizations and companies integrating their international observatory to identify the main priorities of the manual transfer of and curricula for training and employment for the employability of workers and professionals. As an extra added value t...
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A New Job Opportunity for Unemployed Young People: “Data Security Skilled Worker” for SMEs

A new job opportunity for unemployed youth project aims to develop a new transparency of vocational qualifications to meet the training and the methods of the EU and also the usual tests, assessment and certification methodology in preparation for Europe to create jobs for unemployed youth . In addition, the project is the introduction of new qualifications for "Qualified Data Security" for traini...
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Corporate Sustainability Information and Training in Europe

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

There is a growing recognition around the world, seeing SMEs as a challenge in sustainability debate. SMEs have been seen as subjects unconcerned by environmental and social issues. The EC has published a report "Opportunity and Responsibility: How to help SMEs to integrate social and environmental issues into what they do". The report is clear about education and training: "Attention should be gi...
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H2-Training - Pilot project for international curriculum design and training development in the area of hydrogen and batteries techonologies

The project is aimed to design a curriculum and to elaborate the associated training materials for trainers and trainees in the professional profile “technicians for fuel cell installation and maintenance”. The approach will address the need for a new professional profile related to hydrogen-based technologies and fuels cells, adapted to the technological developments and in agreement with the Eur...
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Transfer of Innovation applied to reinforcement new key professional competences for the employment, under Directive 2010/31 of May 29; of Energy Efficiency in Buildings.

This project transfers the results of two projects of innovation carried out at international level in the ambits of the Life Plus Programme and Intelligent Energy for Europe, since their applications, techniques and methodologies have a high pedagogical value and they bring a practical approach for reinforcing the vocational competencies ; in the context of the new Community Directive on "energ...
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Transfer of successful structures and guidance for implementing the dual VET system. Training company trainers.

According to information from the European Commission, a quarter of 14 to 25 year-olds in Europe are unemployed. In November 2012, 5.799 million young people (under 25) were unemployed in the EU-27, the youth unemployment rate was 24.4 % in the euro area. The lowest rates were observed in Germany (8.1 %) and Austria (9.0 %). Spain has the second highest rate 56.5 % followed by Portugal with the 38...
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Transferencia de la innovación de herramienta TIC para el autodiagnóstico medioambiental y método de formación de gran interés para el sector agroalimentario.

Justification of the need at international level: The project answer a triple need of the agricultural sector and the agri-food related SMEs in the European rural areas:a).- The existing environment-related training shortage and of eco-efficiency measures of the European SMEs of the rural area,b).- The scarce implemenntation degree of environmental management systems (EMAS, ISO 14.000) considering...
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Aquanet: Expert training for Proffessions and Key sectors in Efficiente Water Management

The project tackles certain needs of continuous training for professions and key sectors related to the effective water management. This training is based on transfer of innovation, already validated by two pilot projects of international reference developed one of them in the framework of the LIFE Programme (www.life-optimizagua.org)and the other one under the Leonardo da Vinci framework and whos...
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Transfer of the innovation of expert methodologies for the qualification of eco-efficiency matters in the SME and combate the climatic change

The project has transfered a training method for unemployers and workers applied to SMEs that from the mutual interest has favoured following objectives: 1. Unemployers’ access to the first place of work. 2. Unemployers’ and workers’ expert qualification in eco-efficiency matter for its implementation to SMEs. 3. Workers’ labour improvement based on the knowledge acquired and results v...
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