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Value Intellectual Property for SMEs (VIP4SME)

Start date: Dec 15, 2015, End date: Dec 14, 2019,

...nal Intellectual Property Offices (NIPOs) from EU member states and countries participating in Horizon2020 together with 22 local partners working in close cooperation with NIPOs and which are mostly business support providers (BSPs) having easy access to their local SMEs. Synergies with other IP stakeholders and especially international organisations (EPO, OHIM, Benelux Office for Intellectual Pr ...
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STI International Cooperation Network for Eastern Partnership Countries – PLUS (EaP PLUS)

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

The project 'STI International Cooperation Network for EaP Countries Plus (EaP PLUS)' aims to stimulate cooperation between researchers from the EaP countries and EU MS and enhance the active participation of the Eastern Partnership countries in Horizon 2020 Framework Programme.Building on the results of the predecessor FP7 project 'IncoNet EaP', the project will eliminate remaining obstacles to E ...
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OPEN MIND - gamified platform and open online course in Social Entrepreneurship for female learners and students from diverse fields of study

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

... the labour market for groups which are disadvantaged and under-represented in entrepreneurship. The project will promote social entrepreneurship, specially addressing women and young people from non-business studies, through an innovative gamified open course in social entrepreneurship. The project will produce 3 main intellectual outputs:1. Massive online open course (MOOC) “Introduction in Soci ...
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Restart Entrepreneurship

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

Setting up a business is increasingly easy but keeping it going is much tougher: 50% of enterprises don’t survive the first 5 years and bankruptcies account for 15% of business closures. The recent financial crisis caused a peak in business failure in Ireland, Netherlands, Spain and Bulgaria. Since recognising the need to enable honest, failed entrepreneurs to start over in business in the Small ...
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The European network of Women web Entrepreneurs Hubs (WeHubs)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

It is generally acknowledged that the web entrepreneurship sector can contribute significantly to the competiveness and economic growth of countries and regions. However, Europe is clearly lagging behind given that even though there are lots of European web start-ups, most of them rarely grow up to become global leaders. In this context, the position of women seems particularly weak given that on ...
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STI International Cooperation Network for Eastern Partnership Countries (INCONET EAP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The project aims to support the advancement of the bi-regional STI policy dialogue between the EU MS/AC and the Eastern Partnership countries, with an explicit focus on the Societal Challenges that have been identified to be of mutual interest for the two regions, namely Climate Change, Energy and Health. In particular the project will identify actions and stakeholders and will implement innovativ ...
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PROmoting Management and Entrepreneurial THinking among the career counselors and guidance practitioners in the EU Societies

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

PROMETHEUS is the Greek god that gave fire to the people. His name in Greek means forethought. He stands as a symbol of the human progress and the gift of fire and hope. Hope helps human beings to struggle to improve their lives while fire, as the source of technology, makes success in that struggle possible. What better metaphor can one find for the nowadays career counsellors and guidance pract ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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MedDiet - Mediterranean Diet and enhancement of traditional foodstuff (MedDiet)

Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

...anean healthy eating habits) and of SMEs (in particular restaurants) about the benefits of the Mediterranean Diet (MD) by reinforcing the capacity of schools, local authorities, chambers of commerce/ business organizations and policy making institutions to implement effective and sustainable initiatives for safeguarding MD in Egypt, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Spain and Tunisia. ...
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Feeling younger by getting older

End date: Dec 24, 2015,

The project’s objectives were: - to promote the creation of a culture of active ageing as a lifelong process- to ensure that the rapidly-growing population comprised of people who are currently in their late 50s and over have good opportunities for employment and active participation in social and family life, including through volunteering, lifelong learning, cultural expression and sports- to in ...
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Strategic Hubs for the Analysis and Acceleration of the Mediterranean Solar Sector (SHAAMS)

Start date: Nov 8, 2012, End date: Nov 7, 2015,

The project in brief The last decades have witnessed a growing interest for solar energy initiatives in the Mediterranean region, coupled with a growing pressure to ensure an actual shift from traditional energies towards a more efficient energy system. While many successful national and regional projects have been implemented in order to develop market, policy and technical actions, the transitio ...
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Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT)

Start date: Mar 15, 2011, End date: Mar 14, 2015,

Environmental Justice Organizations (EJOs) are civil society organizations locally or globally involved in conflicts over resource extraction or waste disposal. Such conflicts increase in number as the world economy uses more materials and energy. The EJOs focus on the link between the need for environmental security and the defence of basic human rights. The project EJOLT unites a consortium of i ...
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Addressing the divide between EU indications and their practical implementation in the green construction and eco-social re-qualification of residential areas in South East Europe regions (BUILD SEE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

WHY ARE SEE CITIES SO FAR FROM SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DESPITE EU INDICATIONS ? WHY DO URBAN PLANNING AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS LACK A TRUE GREEN APPROACH? "BUILD SEE" answers these questions. It supplies public administrations, enterprises and citizens with practical tools, recommendations and action plans (from SEE local country case-studies) to bridge the gap to achieve low environmental impact and ...
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Local economic development in airport catchment areas (airLED)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...c project work. airLED partners are focussing their long-term strategies on 3 thematic pillars: (1) Logistics and transport; (2) Spatial development, environment and architecture and (3) Business and investment development. Related to these, some strategic aspects of ‘airport city’ development will be tested in partner regions via a statistical and decision-making support model, a tool for territ ...
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licy and Public-Private Partnerships for Offshore Wind EneRgy (4 POWER)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...ractical reasons - electricity cables have to ‘land’ in coastal regions – and because of the political and strategic role they can play – e.g. creating Triple Helix linkages and stimulating business networks.While the technological advancement in OSW applications is considerable in industry, the uptake in terms of knowledge and effective policy in Europe’s regional and local governments is still p ...
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Regional Policy Improvement for Financially Sustainable Creative Incubator Units (InCompass)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Incubator units for creative industries business start ups provide much needed space and act as vital support mechanisms and catalysts for the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in this sector right across the EU. The creative industries (e.g. Advertising, Textiles, Fashion, Television & Radio, Photo Imaging, Graphic Design and Interactive Media, Publishing, Animation, Computer Games, ...
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Development of interregional financial assistance to SMEs and of non-grant instruments (DIFASS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...ill be provided for - an internet based Micro Finance Management tool from Hungary to regions in Estonia, Spain, Italy and the Slovak Republic and- a programme to support internationalisation of SMEs business from Andalusia to regions in Denmark, Italy, Romania and Sweden. Achievement ...
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Regional policy instruments and approaches for improving access to finance and speeding up investments in sustainable energy. (Regions4GreenGrowth (R4GG))

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...project are Flevoland province (NL, lead partner), Norrbotten and Västernorrland regions (SE), Maramures County and Prahova Energy Agency (RO), Abruzzo and Lazio regions (IT), Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (ES), Patras SciencePark representing Western Greece region (EL), Euro Perspectives Foundation representing Gabrovo region (BG), Noord-Brabant province (NL), Assembly of Europe ...
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Integration and education of students, graduates andSME’s in terms of industrial design management (Design EntrepreneurSHIP)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...tivities devoted to transfer of knowledge and exchange of good practices. The SBR industrial design sector is dominated by small and medium sized companies with a high creativity potential and little business competence. A typical career path of graduate designes involves starting up their own business, such as a design studio, but the significant lack of entrepreneurial competences and experience ...
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Making full value of good ideas by leveraging intellectual assets for financing SMEs in SEE  (EVLIA)

Start date: Oct 31, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

...cal point of view and its application at national and local level according to specific and peculiar needs assessed. - the elaboration of a new role of financial players, such as venture capitalists, business angels, banks and credit rating agencies when assessing IA and particularly IP -the development of local networks composed by stakeholders, BIOs and financial intermediaries in charge to test ...
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Networking of materials laboratories and innovation actors in various industrial sectors for product or process innovation (InnoMatNet)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

...e European Materials Research Society, two Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTNs), and technology centre CETEMMSA. Access to industry is also gained through the two KTNs mentioned as well as the European Business Innovation Centre Network (EBN), in particular creative industries and product designers are included through the European Architecture Foundation, EBN, Transplant (design) and the Materials ...
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Baltic Metropolises Accelerating Branding and Identity Building of the Baltic Sea Region (ONE BSR)

Start date: Jun 12, 2012, End date: Sep 11, 2014,

...eration in several thematic meetings organized by the project. They have been exchanging experiences and best practices, and looking for areas and methods in which cooperation in a highly competitive business would still be beneficial for all cities and countries. The existence of such cooperation is a completely novel, even revolutionary, thing in the history of investment promotion. The expected ...
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Enhancing Multimodal Platforms, Inland waterways and Railways services Integration in Central Europe (EMPIRIC)

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

...ltimodality, EMPIRIC has analyzed the potential alternative modes to road transport. In particular, every region involved in EMPIRIC delivered a specific report on inland navigation and implemented business analyses for the setting up of new rail services. The reports on inland waterways in Central Europe now serve as a good basis to share different ways in organizing inland navigation and the re ...
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motion of residual forestry biomass in the Mediterranean basin (PROFORBIOMED)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

PROFORBIOMED promotes renewable energies in rural areas by developing an integrated strategy for the use of forest biomass as a renewable energy source, improving forest management systems, recovering forest biomass potential and developing new opportunit Achievements: ...
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SmartComp - Smart competitiveness for the Central Baltic region (SmartComp)

Start date: Apr 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

...ctors of economy, too. In the future competitiveness of the maritime clusters in the Central Baltic region will be even more depending on how well innovativeness and profitable, continuously renewing business can be combined by the networks operators with the design and production of new technologies and products which are also ecological. SmartComp aims to support smart, environmentally sustaina ...
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South Baltic Offshore Wind Energy Regions (South Baltic OFFER)

Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: May 30, 2013,

... order to create an environment favourable for the development of a highly competitive offshore wind industry (OWI). Therefore, South Baltic OFFER will establish a vital network between the partners, businesses and stakeholders (C1&2) and communicate the importance of OWE for the region to the general public as well as to stakeholders from all levels (C2&3). It will also foster the transfer of kno ...
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Improved accessibility of the Baltic Sea Region by air transport (BALTIC BIRD)

Start date: Jun 8, 2011, End date: Mar 7, 2013,

...gurate air services in the forthcoming schedule periods. Airports in remote BSR as well as the public benefit from new flight routes resulting from the analyses giving them better access to business and social life. In April 2012 partners began transnationally working out the conceptual design of PAX potential analysis integrating best-practice experiences, ideas and needs from airports, airlines, ...
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motion of ICTs usage by SMEs as an enabler of Value Networks (ICT-VN)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

All around Europe regions have implemented different strategies to promote Information Society in SMEs convinced about the ICTs usage benefits to favour business sector. Those actions have contributed to the widely use of e-business as an opportunity for SMEs growth. ICT-VN want to go one step further and introduce a new challenge on information society promotion policies for SMEs. Todays busines ...
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Interregional SME Supply Clusters along the Northeast Corridor (BalticSupply)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

...Baltic SMEs. Based on analyses of regional economies as well as of international supply and procurement markets the partnership concluded that there is a clear need for SMEs to identify new business opportunities and to cooperate across regional boundaries for sustained success on interregional supply markets.For this purpose the projects created as main results• the “European Business Support Net ...
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Baltic COMPASS - Comprehensive Policy Actions and Investments in Sustainable Solutions in Agriculture in the Baltic Sea Region (Baltic COMPASS)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

...on and communicate on the different policy levels, and lack of trust between the environmental and agricultural sectors. The project aims to support win-win solutions for agriculture, environment and business sectors throughout the Baltic Sea Region. 23 partners from authorities, interest organizations and research institutes in Finland, Russia, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany ...
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Heritage Tourism for increased BSR Identity (AGORA 2.0)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

...re seen as possible bearers of a common identity:- Castles,- Red-brick gothic,- Forests,- Shifting sand dunes,- Stones / rocks (as geological potentials).Guided by experienced experts from Copenhagen Business School and University of Greifswald, these partner organisations had the outstanding possibility to systematically develop new tourism offers: after analysing the initial situation, conductin ...
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Central Environmental and Energy Management as a kit for survival (CEEM)

Start date: Oct 31, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2012,

The regions of central Europe are characterised by a medium-high economic activity mainly performed by micro companies and small and medium sized enterprises, representing mostly traditional industrial sectors (i.e. construction and building, food, manufacturing, automotive). These companies have a strong impact on the environment; thus a key factor for sustainable economic development of this reg ...
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Demonstration of Conservation Actions for Ursus artcos* and habitat type 9530* in Northern Pindos N.P., Grevena Prefecture, Greece (PINDOS/GREVENA)

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

Background The brown bear (Ursus arctos) sub-population in the Natura 2000 network site in the Pindos National Park in Greece (minimum size estimated between 40-50 individuals) is important at a regional level and makes up 3.5% of the national brown bear population. The main threats to the species include mortality as a result of human activities, habitat ...
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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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Manual Work Support Throughout System Lifecycle by Exploiting Virtual and Augmented Reality (ManuVAR)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

...age of the lifecycle; (2) facilitate adaptation to product customization and changes; (3) support efficient knowledge and skill management; (4) improve EU industry competitiveness via knowledge-based business models. This will be achieved by employing virtual reality technology to facilitate communication between people and systems. It will also enable the two-way flow of knowledge and its accumul ...
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SCanning INNOvation POLicy Impact (SCINNOPOLI)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

All 9 involved SCINNOPOLI partner regions are already fully aware that only the existence and regular application of a impact assessment system will allow a continuous improvement of the need oriented regional innovation policy with the aim to increase the firms and regional competitiveness, to create new high quality jobs and thus to increase the regional welfare.SCINNOPOLI is a Capitalisation Pr ...
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CASTLE - Cooperation Among SMEs Toward Logistic Excellence (CASTLE)

Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Oct 30, 2011,

CASTLE was born to answer regional needs to improve SMEs logistics policies. It relies on a solid past cooperation among ten partners in Italy, Poland, Greece, Slovenia, Spain, Germany, Hungary & Austria, especially developed in Interreg initiatives. The CASTLE objectives and ratio are rooted in past research & study activities on the regional logistics EU status and perspectives, which elected SM ...
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Managing the Industrial Territories in the Knowledge Era (MITKE)

Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Oct 30, 2011,

Business Areas and Industrial Parks (BAIPs) are important policy and planning instrument for local and regional development. Well planned and equipped BAIPs stimulate the relocation of industries and help to relieve congestion and pollution in metropolitan areas. The successful development of a region depends fundamentally on the region's capacity to support and sustain the competitiveness of its ...
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Virtual Power Systems as an Instrument to Promote Transnational Cooperation and Sustainable Energy Supply in the Alpine Space (AlpEnergy)

Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

...endent power producers and consumers. VPS have a high potential to trigger new knowledge-based and competitive economic activities. AlpEnergy will explore this potential and sensitise political and business decision makers. This includes a comprehensive communication concept. Achievem ...
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INNOVATIVE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT NETWORK (ISEDE-NET)

Start date: Jan 31, 2009, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

...es are: 1) identify driving forces for SE development; 2) mobilize a transnational network of SE and promote participation to ISEDE-NET social network; 3) implement pilot innovative actions (finance, business support services, market development); 4) promote innovation and new SE creation; 5) commit stakeholders to SE development 6) providing a chance for social inclusion of disadvantaged groups. ...
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