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REnaissance of Places with Innovative Citizenship and TEchnolgy (REPLICATE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2021,

The objective of REPLICATE is to demonstrate Smart City technologies in energy, transport and ICT in districts in San Sebastia, Florence and Bristol addressing urban complexity and generate replication plans in other districts and in follower cities of Essen,Nilufer and Lausanne.Main challenges for cities are to increase the overall energy efficiency, to exploit better local resources in terms of ...
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Being Lean and Seen: Meeting the challenges of delivering projects successfully in the 21st century (BeingL_S)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The advancement of project management (PM) knowledge and the development of PM capability of people is crucial to the successful delivery of projects. As the overall project-related spending in the EU is assumed to be about € 3.27 trillion there are huge societal and economic challenges of reducing the massive financial and psychological costs of poor project delivery. Especially as about 6% of al ...
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European Research Area for Climate Services (ERA4CS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Within the European Research Area (ERA), the ERA4CS Consortium is aiming to boost, research for Climate Services (CS), including climate adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management, allowing regions, cities and key economic sectors to develop opportunities and strengthen Europe’s leadership. CS are seen by this consortium as driven by user demands to provide knowledge to face impacts of cl ...
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NAture Insurance value: Assessment and Demonstration (NAIAD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

NAIAD aims to operationalise the insurance value of ecosystems to reduce the human and economic cost of risks associated with water (floods and drought) by developing and testing - with key insurers and municipalities - the concepts, tools, applications and instruments (business models) necessary for its mainstreaming. We will do this in detail for 8 demonstration sites (DEMOs) throughout Europe a ...
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DEvOps for trusted, portable and interoperable Multi-Cloud applications towards the Digital singlE market (DECIDE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Multi-cloud applications refer to applications that dynamically can distribute their components over heterogeneous cloud resources and still hold the functional, business and non-functional properties (NFP) declared in their SLAs. The main objective of the DECIDE action is to provide a new generation of multi-cloud service-based software framework, enabling techniques and mechanisms to design, dev ...
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Combined HEat SyStem by using Solar Energy and heaT pUmPs (CHESS-SETUP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

The project objective is to design, implement and promote a reliable, efficient and profitable system able to supply heating and hot water in buildings mainly from renewable sources. The proposed system is based in the optimal combination of solar thermal (ST) energy production, seasonal heat storage and high efficient heat pump use. Heat pumps will be improved technically in order to obtain the b ...
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For a Better Tomorrow: Social Enterprises on the Move (FAB-MOVE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The project “For a Better Tomorrow: Social Enterprises on the Move (FAB-MOVE)” brings together researchers and practitioners in order to explore the question of how social enterprises can grow and flourish. These objectives will be achieved through a carefully crafted network of academic and non-academic partner organisations co-operating worldwide.Managers and practitioners of social enterprises ...
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Career Management Skills - A New 'Literacy' for Sustainable Employment

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The development of guidance services for adults within the workforce is a topical concern. Dramatic changes in work structures and social organization have occurred that are placing demands on adults to rethink their careers on an on-going basis. Added to this, are current EU policies that emphasize the need for continuous education for future economic and social mobility in an increasingly compet ...
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Beyond Retirement - A Migrant Integration Resource

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The BRAMIR Project proposes the development and implementation of a multi-layered andragogic framework designed for a seniors target group comprising older workers approaching retirement and recent retirees. This framework will incorporate a bespoke train-the-trainer curriculum, a suite of psychographic profiling tools and a digital toolbox of appropriate teaching resources to enable the redeploym ...
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Commitment, Communication, Community

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Commitment, Communication, Community are the three concepts that give name and purpose to this project. Our institution is situated within a well-established, seasonal touristic location, which has and will continue to have a great impact on the community and its inhabitants. Tourism is the foundation for most of the economy in Mallorca and provides employment to a large part of our student popula ...
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MArket uptake of an innovative irrigation Solution based on LOW WATer-ENergy consumption (MASLOWATEN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...ires innovative solutions, less water and energy dependant. UPM developed in 2013 solutions for large power photovoltaic (PV) pumping systems at TRL5 that was successfully tested in a real Irrigators Community (IC) of Alto Vinalopó (Spain). The results showed great technical reliability (solving the problem of the variability of solar energy), matching the IC irrigation needs just with the solar e ...
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Empowering Agribusiness Training in Emilia 2

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The Municipality of Correggio has made significant commitments with respect to European policies that can be implemented locally to promote a thorough European citizenship. The applicant is working at all levels of education and is Agency of the Italian network for the transnational mobility of young people EURODESK.It is the territory of the Parmesan cheese, traditional balsamic Vinegar of Reggio ...
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MUlti-cloud Secure Applications (MUSA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The most challenging applications in heterogeneous cloud ecosystems are those that are able to maximise the benefits of the combination of the cloud resources in use: multi-cloud applications. They have to deal with the security of the individual components as well as with the overall application security including the communications and the data flow between the components.The main objective of M ...
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From Push to Pull: ECVET and transparency instruments go Business - Modern Human Resource Management with European transparency instruments

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

...f HR staff in the broadest sense where participants learn in practice how to work with ECVET and transparency tools in the HR practical work, test single instruments, exchange experiences and build a community of practice around the topic. These three intellectual outputs are embedded into a comprehensive quality assurance approach as well as dissemination / exploitation strategy which will ensur ...
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Streetfood: Opportunities for Regions

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

...ies for Regions has been carefully structured to generate impact for current street food entrepreneurs and the VET providers who serve them, as well as creating wider benefits for the HEI-VET community and overall regional economic development. At individual level, street food entrepreneurs who take the course are more likely to grow their businesses, moving into new markets and products with gre ...
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Practical implementation of main transparency tools - EQF, ECVET, EQAVET - in European VET organisations

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

In times of striking economic crisis in Europe, education and training are more in the spotlight than ever, as policymakers are looking for clear responses to challenges faced by the Member States. All over Europe, national VET system and VET organisations are making considerable efforts to face these challenges and are undergoing developments to ensure that VET qualifications meet the highest qua ...
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Education for Equity - Social, Linguistic and Cultural Inclusion

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

...p consists of three organisations from three European countries – BildungsWerk, (BWK) Berlin in Germany, Centre for Professional Development (FBA), Uppsala University in Sweden and Alt Valley Community Trust (AVCT), Liverpool in UK. BWK, educates young people in both practical skills and theoretical knowledge in close cooperation with employers. FBA has a long experience in producing professional ...
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XPTO+ II – “eXcellence in Professional Training Opportunities II”

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

In 2014 the 1ST project within the framework of the Consortium XPTO+ was presented and the success that it is demonstrating in its implementation brought the desire to give it a continuity, presenting a new project this year. The entities that participate as sending organisations in this new project are: Agrupamento de Escolas de Santo André, Escola Profissional de Fafe, Escola Profissional de Rio ...
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Europeana Sounds

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The Europeana Sounds is Europeana's 'missing' fifth domain aggregator, joining APEX (Archives), EUscreen (television), the Europeana Film Gateway (film) and TEL (libraries). It will increase the opportunities for access to and creative re-use of Europeana's audio and audio-related content and will build a sustainable best practice network of stakeholders in the content value chain to aggregate, en ...
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Pacific Europe Network for Science, Technology and Innovation (PACE-NET PLUS)

Start date: Sep 2, 2013, End date: Nov 1, 2016,

...s Innovation Union Flagship Initiative.- Strengthen the Pacific-EU research cooperation partnerships, through the promotion of EC and MS&AC programmes, especially Horizon 2020, among Pacific research community, as well as the Pacific opportunities for European researchers.
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MOVinVET

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

The MOVINVET project is targeting two main groups: training center's staff (short-time job shadowing in training centers) and young graduates that have obtained an accredited training certificate during the previous year to the departure (3 month internships). Hosting countries are Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Lithuania and the Czech Republic. Job shadowing activities for staff wi ...
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New didactical models for initial VET training of young disadvantaged persons to reduce drop out

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

Promoting equity, social cohesion and active citizenship is one of the four core objectives of the ET2020 strategy and all member states are asked to emphasise the equal opportunities in access to the education systems. The reduction of drop outs and low performers in the education systems and especially in the initial VET systems is a core indicatore for this objective. The benchmark for the drop ...
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Enlightenment and Innovation, Ensured through Pre Commercial Procurement in Cities (ENIGMA)

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

Through the ENIGMA project, 5 cities from Sweden, Finland, Italy,The Netherlands and Norway will initiate a joint Pre-Competitive Procurement process leading to the procurement of innovative solutions and radical improvements for these and other cities' urban safety and energy efficiency using next generation ICT applications in the context of innovative public lighting systems in part of their ci ...
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European-study on Quantifying Utility of Investment in Protection from Tobacco (EQUIPT)

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

Tobacco smoking costs the EU an estimated 98 to 130 billion Euros each year – just above 1% of the EU Gross Domestic Product in 2000. A large, robust and consistent evidence base indicates that coordinated, high impact and comprehensive approaches are the most effective way to reduce smoking initiation, prevalence and intensity. Despite this, policy makers and public health procurers often lack th ...
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LUCUSMUNDI

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

...specifically the following: - Visual arts and design. - Administration and management. - Personal image. - Information technology and communications. - Hospitality and tourism. - Cultural and community services. Consortium members were able to note that this is the group with the biggest difficulties when it comes to entry into the workforce and presents a wide range of linguistic needs, to g ...
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On the move - Best Practice in Outreach Educational Counselling and low-threshold learning opportunities

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

Central to the project is the question of how to reach those remote from education – i.e., people who for whatever reason have had little or no formal adult education - to improve their participation in further education and to design and provide low-threshold learning opportunities. Studies show that only about 10% of the low-qualified participate in further education – among graduates of univers ...
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Creating European standards for open education and open learning resources

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

...l topics in the EU. In the vision paper on open education 2030 J. M. Pawlowski stated that education is distributed on a global market. Therefore, he argued it is crucial for Europe to engage a broad community in cross-border collaboration to be successful in this field. In the vision paper ´Open Education 2030´ he comes up with six recommendations: (see Pawlowski, p. 78) 1. to create an inventory ...
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MESA - Maritime Europe Strategy Action - FOSTER Waterborne (MESA)

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

Maritime Europe Strategy Action (MESA – FOSTER WATERBORNE), main strategic objective (in line with WATERBORNE-TP) is to strengthen the effectiveness of the research and innovation capacities of the European maritime industry, by:- Optimization of the European maritime RDI strategies- Improvement of the stakeholders network, of the dissemination, of the use of the research results, and increasing t ...
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Future Of Surface Transport Research Rail (FOSTER RAIL)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

FOSTER RAIL addresses the broad support challenges of SST.2013.6-1. Strengthening the research and innovation strategies of the transport industries in Europe. This Research action is a Level 1 Coordination and Support Action aiming at supporting the land transport European Technology Platforms activities.This action will assist ERRAC and the other transport-related European technology platforms ( ...
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Addictions and Lifestyles In Contemporary Europe – Reframing Addictions Project (ALICE RAP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

ALICE RAP is a Europe wide project of 43 partner research institutions involving 107 researchers from 25 European countries providing 1000 months of a plurality of scientific endeavour to analyse the place and challenges of addictions and lifestyles to the cohesion, organization and functioning of contemporary European society. Through integrated multidisciplinary research, a wide range of factors ...
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"Embrace Equality"

Start date: Apr 6, 2015, End date: Nov 5, 2015,

...its work in the area of intervention with youth: Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa - Portugal, Helsingin Kaupunkin - Finland, Movego Jugendhilfe Gemeinnützige GmbH - Germany and the Dove House Community Trust - Ireland. This project represents a continuation of the work that begun in 2010 that allowed the realization of three exchanges involving more than 90 youngsters, 15 group leaders and org ...
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Face to Face Youth Work - EVS Project

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

...he Black Country but was based in Dudley. There were long term and six short-term volunteers engaged in the project. The Face-to-Face Youth Work EVS students were engaged in the skills of youth and community work. The students engaged in hands on projects sharing and developing programmes using their per-existing skills and newly developed ones. The had the opportunity to design their own proj ...
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Sozial- und heilpädagogische Institutionen in Europa

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

34 students attending 2 years of ESPA vocational college of social affairs, concentrating on social pedagogy and social care, will be participating in the project. During the first two years these full-time school based educations include several weeks of internships in different social and remedial institutions. After 2 years of college education the students complete a probation year. Starting ...
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Europeana Creative

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

Europeana Creative will support and promote the re-use of cultural resources available via Europeana by realising a set of concrete objectives. (1) The project will establish the Europeana Labs Network of online and physical spaces for experimentation and engagement. The labs will provide access to technical and business services, and experimentation content to support the development of new proje ...
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PEDCA Pan-European Data Centre Academy (PEDCA)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Data centres are the cornerstones which underpin the digital economy, and create the essential environment for both business and employment to flourish. It is becoming urgent for established data centre states to contribute to R&D, share and develop skills, define standards and promote strategies for network investment. All of these activities will lead to increased trust of new technology such as ...
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e-Maritime Strategic Framework and Simulation based Validation (EMAR)

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

... streaming of synthesised information from disparate sources to assist decision making.The eMar approach will facilitate extensive participation of the European maritime public, business and research community in a knowledge development process leading to the specification of the e-Maritime Strategic Framework. The emphasis will be in multiple iterations across different stages and with differen ...
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TRA2014-VISIONS (TRA VISIONS)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The concept of this project is to organise two competitions for transport research awards to be announced at the TRA conference in 2014:- A research student competition with the goal of stimulating the interest among young researchers/students in the field of sustainable surface transport.- A competition for senior researchers in the field of innovative surface transport concepts based on results ...
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Development and proof of new approaches for through-life asset management based on next generation of materials and production technology (ThroughLife)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Within this framework, the main objective of the project is to develop and prove new approaches for through-life asset management for selected technologies and application scenarios.This will be done by considering all life cycle phases of the technologies concerned in view of their cost efficiency, environmental performance and safety. Special emphasis will be given to the identification, elabora ...
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SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE MARINE AND RIVER INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE TRANSPORTATION OF DANGEROUS GOODS (SEE MARINER)

Start date: Jan 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

The SEE area is a sea and river transit space of vessels carrying hazardous freight which constitutes many potential environmental risks for coasts and inland waterways. Economic development and a strong growth of transport and increased traffic in the SEE area aggravate the already increased threats of pollution and thus require a good management and high performance of observation, communication ...
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ilot project POMERANIA – experience network (INT-10-0038)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Jul 30, 2013,

In the pilot project the actors of the touristic field of the Euroregion POMERANIA build a network. The partners of the network will organise their marketing measures together and bundle information for touristic offers. In doing so, the attention of visitors and residents of the region, independent of age and interest, will be drawn to the use and the protection of nature through year-round touri ...
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