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AGINFRA+ addresses the challenge of supporting user-driven design and prototyping of innovative e-infrastructure services and applications. It particularly tries to meet the needs of the scientific and technological communities that work on the multi-disciplinary and multi-domain problems related to agriculture and food. It will use, adapt and evolve existing open e-infrastructure resources and se ...
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The strategic goal of e-ROSA is to provide guidance to EU policies by designing and laying the groundwork for a long-term programme aiming at achieving an e-infrastructure for open science in agriculture that would position Europe as a major global player at the forefront of research and innovation in this area. Through a foresight approach, the project will build a shared vision of a future susta ...
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A major sustainability challenge for the European society is moving beyond conventional, industrialised food production and agricultural systems, characterised by a high use of external inputs. Mainstream conventional food production systems are posing a serious threat to the environment and to biodiversity and are becoming increasingly unsustainable due to unacceptable levels of food waste in ind ...
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Open Mining INfrastructure for TExt and Data (OpenMinTeD)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

Recent years witness an upsurge in the quantities of digital research data, offering new insights and opportunities for improved understanding. Text and data mining is emerging as a powerful tool for harnessing the power of structured and unstructured content and data, by analysing them at multiple levels and in several dimensions to discover hidden and new knowledge. However, text mining solution ...
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BigDataEurope will provide support mechanisms for all the major aspects of a data value chain, in terms of the employed data and technology assets, the participating roles and the established or evolving processes. The effectiveness of the provided support mechanisms will be assessed in different domains pertaining to Europe’s major societal challenges with respect to the needs and requirements of ...
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Engaging the EGI Community towards an Open Science Commons (EGI-Engage)

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

Over the last decade, the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) has built a distributed computing and data infrastructure to support over 21,000 researchers from many disciplines with unprecedented data analysis capabilities. EGI builds on the European and national investments and relies on the expertise of EGI.eu - a not-for-profit foundation that provides coordination to the EGI Community, includin ...
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The aim of the FREME innovative action is to establish an “Open Framework of E-Services for Multilingual and Semantic Enrichment of Digital Content”. Six enrichment services will be designed, piloted, and validated during the action. Their innovation, usability, and robustness will be shaped by four real world business cases that will bring FREME data innovation and technology transfer directly to ...
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The increase in food safety information quantity (e.g. through online sources) and diversity (e.g. information from social networks vs. structured surveillance programmes), results into a need to adequately discover and display information about food threats in a way that is customized to the user’s specific context and environment, in a highly usable and integrated format. Foodakai would like to ...
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As the trend to open up data and provide them freely on the Internet intensifies, the opportunities to create added value by combining and cross-indexing heterogeneous data at a large scale increase. To seize them, we need infrastructure that is not only efficient, real-time responsive and scalable but is also flexible and robust enough to welcome data in any schema and form and to transparently r ...
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Open Discovery Space aims to serve as an accelerator of the sharing, adoption, usage, and re-purposing of the already rich existing educational content base. First of all, it will demonstrate ways to involve school communities in innovative teaching and learning practices through the effective use of eLearning resources. It will promote community building between numerous schools of Europe and emp ...
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agINFRA is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) project that will try to introduce the agricultural scientific communities into the vision of open and participatory data-intensive science. In particular, agINFRA aims to design and develop a scientific data infrastructure for agricultural sciences that will facilitate the development of policies and the deployment of services that will prom ...
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The Organic.Lingua project will extend the current Organic.Edunet portal to fill the gaps in multilingual support and cross-language resource organization and search, by significantly expanding its linguistic coverage. It particularly it aims at analyzing and re-engineering the service infrastructure and the related facilities and business models, in order to be able support more widely and effect ...
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Through the use Web 2.0 technologies, the POLITICS project will enable school students, VET trainees and adult learners, specially immigrants undertaking 'citizenship' programmes, to develop a better understanding of how modern society functions and at the same time develop skills in problem solving, communication and language learning and writing skills. POLITICS is the digital storytelling proje ...
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Due to the shortage of the precious resource water and the consequences of the climate change, numerous European policies have been developed and adopted for the protection and sustainable utilisation of water creating a huge demand in particular in the vocational training. Economic factors like privatisation and increasing cost pressure in water management are heightening these educational needs ...
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The ACT project will contribute to reduce the mismatch between new jobs and existing skills in the agricultural sector and to improve the agricultural curriculum design and delivery by innovative VET services and broad dissemination throughout whole Europe.The main objectives of ACT are: • To analyse the current situation of skills needs and the state-of-the-art on different approaches for strengt ...
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Organic Agriculture (OA) as a rural development strategy addresses the need for sustainable growth while meeting consumer demand for increased food quality and safety. EC policy encourages the development of OA with the European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming, which is applied nationally through efforts to increase land area in OA. The European Council of Young Farmers found training to ...
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To make lifelong learning and mobility reality is one of the main objectives of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training ("ET 2020"). The ongoing development and management of knowledge, skills and competences at the individual and organisational level is therefore set a clear priority and challenge for the EU and its Member States, for vocational education and tr ...
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e-COmpetences TOOLs

Start date: Dec 1, 2009,

The overall objective of the eCOTOOL project is to improve the development, exchange, and maintenance of VET certificates and their accessibility and transparency by harmonizing Europass with other European instruments (EQF, ECVET) and e-competences. This will increase the European mobility and transparency of VET systems and will be achieved through:1. The Development of an Application Profile an ...
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Organic farming of herbs and medicinal and aromatic plants is of major importance for rural economy due to their contribution to agricultural diversification and better use of land. Herbs have been used by local populations in traditional ways for many centuries. Their novelty is thus not related to their introduction to new areas but rather to the ways in which old and new uses are being re-addre ...
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Green Learning Network

Start date: Nov 1, 2013,

...es will deliver high quality, innovative solutions and innovative visions for the future of ICT based education in agriculture. GLN builds on ‘Green Ideas’, a creativity event concept from Agro-Know Technologies. Green Ideas events unite experts from a range of backgrounds to vision and create innovative solutions to case studies drawn from the first-hand experiences of ABR professionals, facil ...
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LaProf is a Multilateral Project that aims at promoting language awareness toimmigrating workforces in two particular sectors, ICT and agriculture. The main goal isto provide access to language learning resources that will help candidate immigrants getmore familiarized with the terminology and cultural issues in their sectors, throughdeveloping and disseminating a number of language learning exerc ...
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