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Emotive Virtual cultural Experiences through personalized storytelling (EMOTIVE)

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

Storytelling applies to nearly everything we do. Everybody uses stories, from educators to marketers and from politicians to journalists to inform, persuade, entertain, motivate or inspire. In the cultural heritage sector, however, narrative tends to be used narrowly, as a method to communicate to the public the findings and research conducted by the domain experts of a cultural site or collection ...
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Support, Monitoring and Reminder Technology for Mild Dementia (SMART4MD)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

As Europe’s population is ageing, long-term care for elderly citizens will become an increasing cost for society. To manage this transition healthcare policies in the EU and individual Member States are heavily focussed on extending the independent life of the elderly, with the dual aim of increasing their quality of life and reducing the costs of care. Dementia affects more than 6% of people aged ...
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Support Tool for Energy Efficiency pRogrammes in medical centres (STEER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

To meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets set by the European Commission and to reduce the reliance on imported energy sources from not-EU countries, the energy efficiency sector vitally needs basic analytical and decision support tools. This is especially true for large scale energy-consumer plants (for ex. foundries) but also for medical centres which typically (1) use large amounts of energy ...
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Avoiding and mitigating safety risks in urban environments (City.Risks)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

The main objective of the City.Risks project is to increase the perception of security of citizens in cities by activating in a more transparent and sustainable way their participation in communities, through which information and interventions can be provided both to proactively protect citizens from falling victims to criminal activities as well as to reactively provide more timely and effective ...
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Open Water Management - from droplets of participation to streams of knowledge (DAIAD)

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

Efficient water management is a challenging issue with the potential to affect the long-term well-being, economy and security of society. Policies for sustainable water management have been established in the EU. However measures to support efficient water use for citizens are currently lacking. Consumers have limited means to accurately monitor their water consumption and thus stimuli to modify t ...
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MOSES II

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

The MOSES project is addressed to 60 students taking part in their initial vocational training in the social health care sector (vocational institutes for social services) in the region of Tuscany, in particular from the Institute of Secondary Education Elsa Morante of Florence (30 students) and the Institute of Secondary Education Signorelli di Cortona (30 students) and is aimed at spreading stud ...
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Local content in a Europeana cloud (LoCloud)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

LoCloud aims to build on the achievements of CARARE in establishing a repository-based aggregator for Archaeological and Architectural heritage and of Europeana Local in its work with local institutions and their regional and national aggregators, which resulted in the contribution to date of well over 5 million items to Europeana.The main goals of LoCloud are: to continue to ease the task of ena ...
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Advanced pRotection of critical buildinGs by Overall anticipating System (ARGOS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"Socioeconomic activities such as supply and distribution of gas or electricity and the Infrastructures that generate it or transport it (power plants, gas pipes), are vital to the day-to-day functioning of any country. Due to several factors, the social and financial European situation, or supply constraints, energy & utilities have become, over the last years, a prominent issue in Europe.In this ...
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Valorisation of EU project results in the area of access to cultural content (eCultValue)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

Cultural heritage is one of the main assets of Europe and the deployment of research results in the areas of interactive storytelling, personalization and adaptivity, coupled with mobility-enabling systems, has the potential to increase access to resources, improve user experiences and boost the ICT industries. But take-up is slow and collaboration often difficult.The aim of eCultValue is to encou ...
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3D Digitisation of Icons of European Architectural and Archaeological Heritage (3D-ICONS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

3D-ICONS proposes to digitise a series of architectural and archaeological masterpieces of world and European cultural significance and provide 3D models and related digital content to Europeana, with the aim of contributing to the critical mass of highly engaging content available to users.Public fascination with the architectural and archaeological heritage is well known, it is proven to be one ...
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Research Data Alliance Europe (RDA Europe)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Over the last 10 years, significant investments have been made in both the European Union and the USA for developing scientific data infrastructures to support the work of research communities, and in improving shared access to data. On both sides of the Atlantic, there is a shared understanding that solutions must be global and that the development of an integrated and interoperable data domain c ...
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Large Deployable Technologies for Space (DEPLOYTECH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"Large deployable structures are needed as the backbone and as an integral part of large reflectors, Earth observation antennas, radiators, sun shields and solar arrays. In addition to providing a deployment function, the large space deployable structures can provide shape and stability for a spacecraft throughout its mission. Deployable structures have the capability of reducing mass substantiall ...
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Smarter Cluster Policies for South East Europe (ClusterPoliSEE)

Start date: Apr 30, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

ClusterPoliSEE main objective is to enhance the capacity of regional policy makers to confront, prevent and anticipate change, developing smart specialization strategies for cluster improvement, thus accelerating differentiation and structural change towards a knowledge-based economy in which there is a place for all SEE regions to position themselves. 25 members partnership covers 11 different SE ...
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Future Internet Applied to Public Safety in Smart Cities (SafeCity)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Safecity deals with smart Public safety and security in cities. The main objective is to enhance the role of Future Internet in ensuring people feel safe in their surroundings at time that their surroundings are protected.Safecity is the result of the elaboration of a vertical Use Case Scenario based on Public Safety in European cities. The main goal of this project is to collect specific require ...
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Embedded Reconfigurable Architectures (ERA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Description To develop an embedded system platform that dynamically adapt itself to the applications. The platform will be open-source: both the industry and academia can use it for fast design-space prototypingThe design of embedded systems such as mobile smartphones becomes increasingly more complex as multi-core processors are needed t ...
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Pattern REcognition-based Statistically Enhanced MT (PRESEMT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

This proposal describes PRESEMT, a flexible and adaptable MT system, based on a language-independent method, whose principles ensure easy portability to new language pairs. This method attempts to overcome well-known problems of other MT approaches, e.g. bilingual corpora compilation or creation of new rules per language pair. PRESEMT will address the issue of effectively managing multilingual con ...
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Cost-Efficient Methods and Processes for Safety Relevant Embedded Systems (CESAR)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"The embedded safety-critical systems design and development industry is facing increasing complexity and variety of systems and devices, coupled with increasing regulatory constraints while costs, performances and time to market are constantly challenged.This has led to a profusion of enablers (new processes, methods and tools), which are neither integrated nor interoperable because they have bee ...
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moting Innovation in the Industrial Informatics and Embedded Systems Sectors through Networking (I3E)

Start date: May 31, 2009, End date: May 29, 2012,

The industrial informatics and embedded systems sectors present leading edge technology sectors that provide a competitive advantage for Europe. The SEE area is mostly characterized by developing low-wage based economies that will face a need for change in the near future. In order for these economies to be competitive in the globalised economy, focus should be placed on their transformation to kn ...
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Towards a 10-Year Vision for Global Research Data Infrastructures (GRDI2020)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

A Vision for Global Research Data Infrastructures GRDI2020 aims to define a framework of technological, organizational, & policy recommendations to guide the development of an ecosystem of Global Research Data Infrastructures. The project activities are aimed at mobilizing user communities, international initiatives, leading experts and policy makers worldwide in the GRDI2020 plan.GRDI2020 is subm ...
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Innovative and Novel First Responders Applications (INFRA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

"The objective of project INFRA is to research and develop novel technologies for personal digital support systems as part of an integral, secure emergency management system to support First Responders (FR) in crises occurring in various types of Critical Infrastructures (CI) under all circumstances. Project INFRA will focus on innovation at 2 levels: A. Create an open, standards based interope ...
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SMART LANGUAGES (NEEDS ORIENTED) TOOLBOX FOR EUROPEANS

Start date: Nov 1, 2009,

Objective is to create a language learning tool that is based on USER NEEDS. The tool will use a structure of a pyramid with 4 levels:Language-Need-Thematic Section-Methodological tool. The philosophy of the tool is that the user has a specific need to satisfy in a specific language eg going on holiday or doing business with another country or watching a documentary. Once this need is identified, ...
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Teachers First - Using Emotional Literacy to Improve VET Teaching in the 21st Century

Increasing numbers of young people across the EU - a disproportionate amount from new racial and non-racial groups - have been alienated or excluded from education due to behavioural problems, leading to increased pressure on the criminal justice system and a negative impact on long-term job prospects.Punitive strategies are often invoked as a response to these problems but research shows that pun ...
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Business Incubator Management Training Institute - SUMMIT

Training in nurturing small business : Through the creation of intensive seminars, a distance learning platform and a guide for training incubator management and staff, the project will provide the skills needed for the operation of business incubators. This project started in 2003 and lasted 30 months.
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Competence Coach

The project “Competence Coach” is meant to make an important contribution to improving the quality of coaching in vocational education and the professional performance of advisors and coaches, in particular with regard to methods coaches can use for analysing their clients’ competences. Special attention was paid to the target group of people at risk of social exclusion. Both aspects were account ...
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Innovative Methods and Practices to facilitate Social Inclusion

Start date: Dec 1, 2009,

To achieve Lisbon Strategy objectives on social inclusion all partner countries are using top-down approach by implementing national programmes of social protection and social inclusion. Annual EC reports are developed http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/soc-prot/soc-incl/joint_rep_en.htm. The analysis of statistical data provided in this reports shows that level of social exclusion/poverty in p ...
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TOUREAST - Training Of Unemployment Middle Age Women For Employability In Tourism Sector

The project will build e-learning contents for improving the communication, negotiation, presentation skills and competences of unemployed middle aged women to enable them to get employed in the tourism sector, by facilitation of access to training and creating a network. Target groups and sectors are: Middle-aged women and people with previous work and other experience, willing to find a job in t ...
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e-Chance for Women

The e-Chance for Women project will develop innovative gender-oriented methodology for the trainers and counsellors of unemployed women wishing to guide and support this target group in learning basic ICT skills whilst capitalising on their previous life experience. This activity will be accompanied by a training course for individual trainers and counsellors as well as a pre-training course for w ...
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ISLATEC - Fostering entrepreneurship geared towards the development of high tech start-ups by new and recent university graduates in the EU islands

The project sets out to foster entrepreneurship in EU islands with the aim of promoting high tech start-up businesses. Given that islands often lack entrepreneurial opportunities because of their geographical position and absence of a high-tech infrastructure, the project targets young engineers and scientists, either employed or unemployed but living on one of the EU islands, with the aim of fost ...
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Certification of competences in selected specialist areas in small and medium enterprises

In the framework of the pilot project ESO-CSA, we elaborated a European system for the certification of competences. We developed a system which enables us to identify, assess and recognize competences in small and medium-sized companies, especially those that have been acquired through non-formal learning. This European certificate contributes to a European-wide assessment and to the recognition ...
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Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike

Start date: Nov 1, 2009,

This project aims at developing language learning word cards with a language's most frequent words corresponding to the European Framework. It will be developed for nine languages important for trade and associated countries, both LWUTL (Swedish, Norwegian, Greek, Polish) and MWUTL (Arabic, English, Chinese, Russian and Italian), as a complementary learning material. Word cards are "focused, effic ...
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Certification of competences in selected specialist areas in small and medium enterprises

In the framework of the pilot project ESO-CSA, we elaborated a European system for the certification of competences. We developed a system which enables us to identify, assess and recognize competences in small and medium-sized companies, especially those that have been acquired through non-formal learning. This European certificate contributes to a European-wide assessment and to the recognition ...
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SHE in EUROPE. Blended Learning and Founding.

Together with partners from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Slowakia, Hungaria and the subcontractor Webducation, the ibis acam Bildungs GmbH will implement the Leonardo da Vinci transfer of innovation project „SHE in EUROPE“ until the end of 2009.Duration: 01.01.2008- 31.12.2009Funding: European Commission, Leonardo da Vinci Programme for Lifelong Learning
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