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Transformative Social Innovation Theory project (TRANSIT)
Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
The aim of TRANSIT (Transformative Social Innovation Theory) is to build a theory of social innovation that is useful not only to academics, but also to policy makers, social entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders. The starting point for TRANSIT is the need to understand transformative social innovations: social innovations that contribute to systemic changes that address urgent societal challenges ...
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Quantification of ecological services for sustainable agriculture (QUESSA)
Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,
"The project aims to identify the key semi-natural habitats (SNH), outside and within crops, providing essential ecological services (ES). Vegetation traits will be linked to potential ES provision, case studies will measure actual ES levels and inform models which will show unused opportunities and trade-offs among ES by SNH from habitat to landscape scale. This will be achieved for a range of re ...
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Building a platform for enhanced societal research related to nuclear energy in Central and Eastern Europe (PLATENSO)
Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
The objective of PLATENSO is to provide a proposal towards establishing the legal base for a European Entity on Socio-Economic matters linked to nuclear technology and to develop recommendations for research strategies in PLATENSO countries. Thereby the capabilities of research institutes in Central and Eastern European countries to take part in EU research with respect to governance, social and s ...
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Rethinking Globalisation in the light of Contraction and CONVERGEnce (CONVERGE)
Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,
"The CONVERGE project will build from the concept of 'contraction and convergence' that informed the Kyoto process. C&C linked the key social concept of equal rights to emissions with the key ecological need for reduced emissions to issue a challenge to economic systems to develop fair processes for emissions reduction. CONVERGE aims to re-think globalisation by developing our understanding of con ...
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Strengthening the energetic use of biomass in Central and Eastern Europe by establishing a standardised transnational consulting net for regions (COACH BioEnergy)
Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2011,
The increasing use of renewable energies, in this case focussed on Biomass, will play a considerable role in future regional development, both from the economic and the ecological side. Looking at existing activities in the field of biomass, the available knowledge regarding technologies and support opportunities is often underused and little harmonized which can be identified as one major obstacl ...
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