Search for European Projects

39 European Projects Found

Searched on 125080 European Projects

 FINISHED 

OPEN AND INNOVATIVE SPACES FOR COLLABORATIVE WORKING BETWEEN VET PROVIDERS AND BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

We are facing very important and long-term changes that go further than the crisis we are undergoing and that have impact in all economic and social changes. These geo-political, economic and social changes are forcing our companies to change their “ways of doing”, to make things better or differently, transforming their value proposals, their international presence and their organisation and mana ...
Read Project

 5

 FINISHED 

Process VET from Chemi to Pharma

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

For improving competitiveness and to maintain high standards of health and safety and to promote the contribution of the European chemical industry to the economic, social and environmental life, it is critical to ensure a high competence level of all workers at all levels in the sector. Demographic change has become one of the most pressing challenges Europe is currently facing. Ensuring best pos ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Regional Networks for Quality in Vocational Mobility

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

The REMO project is established in front of a VET policy background covering 4 crucial issues in European VET policy: 1) ET 2020: mobility of learners and staff as well as quality in education are two core issues stipulated in the ET 2020 strategy of the European Commission and huge efforts are required to improve the situation in initial VET mobility on quantitative and qualitative level. On qua ...
Read Project

 7

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

Technology and Innovation for Smart Publishing (TISP)

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

The TISP network aims at creating a platform for publishers and technology providers to promote wider collaboration so to make available expertise and tools on innovation and technology to publishing industry in a mutual exchange of ideas and experience between the two sectors.TISP results from the merging of two pre-existing networks, lead by the two European federations of publishing and ICT ind ...
Read Project

 25

 FINISHED 

lanning sustainable regional-Urban Mobility in the Alpine Space (PUMAS)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Alpine Space cities face common urban mobility challenges which call for innovative and cost-effective mobility solutions. PUMAS offers these solutions: It coordinates the development of the sustainable regional-urban mobility planning (SUMP) concept which the European Commission strongly promotes and, in its 2011 Transport White Paper, even suggests as a mandatory approach. The PUMAS partnership ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

Venture Initiative in the Balkan Europe  (VIBE)

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

The VIBE project addresses the challenge of developing the innovation and entrepreneurship system across the SEE by enabling private investment into innovative entrepreneurial companies in partnership with smart public initiatives and investment. VIBE offers a transnational integrated approach by avoiding unnecessary duplication, mobilizing a critical mass of the regional investment, innovation ag ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

Development of interregional financial assistance to SMEs and of non-grant instruments (DIFASS)

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

DIFASS aims to unlock potential for innovation, internationalisation and sustainable growth of SMEs in Europe by improving access to finance.Innovative SMEs are often faced with problems when obtaining loans from commercial banks and intermediaries as valuing risks in technology innovation or foreign markets is problematical and as SMEs often cannot provide sufficient collateral. Resulting from th ...
Read Project

 26

 FINISHED 

Guardians of Environment Framework: An Integrated Approach of Strategies for Prevention of Soil Pollution and Rehabilitation of Harmed Territories  (GuardEn)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

...Regional/Local Government entities involved in Environmental Protection, Research and Education Institutes, Agencies supporting Sustainable Development and Sustainable Treatment of Natural Resources, Chambers, Employers' Associations, NGOs, Voluntary Organizations, Experts/Consultants of the fields of Environmental Protection, and most of all- enterprises (and agricultural cooperatives) of the tar ...
Read Project

 15

 FINISHED 

Boosting innovation through new cluster concepts in support of emerging issues and cross-sectoral themes (CluStrat)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Clusters are part of the new economic environment, but often miss the dynamism which is needed for innovation. New cluster concepts which upgrade clusters & cluster policies are needed. Central European governments need to increase the effectiveness of their policies in this area to secure further development and competitiveness. The policy frameworks on cluster and innovation policy need to be up ...
Read Project

 18

 FINISHED 

Green Intermodal Freight Transport (GIFT)

Start date: Feb 29, 2012, End date: Aug 30, 2014,

The main aim of the current project is to map, analyze, and evaluate the status of the transport sector in the GIFT transport network and propose new policies and strategies in infrastructure, processes, assets, ICT, legislation, norms and harmonization/ standardization issues, in order to promote innovative green intermodal freight transport corridors. GIFT project will drill down in three Pan-Eu ...
Read Project

 27

 FINISHED 

Improving the enabling environment and public awareness for innovation in the South-East-European food sector through transnational collaboration (CAPINFOOD)

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

Project aims at building the capacity of institutions supporting innovation in the food sector and promoting public awareness on benefits of innovation, making the sectoral innovation easier through transnational cooperation of the national food technology platforms and related institutions. Although food industry has specific importance in SEE economies, the level of innovation in the region is n ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 

Mechanism for fostering innovation in South East Europe (FINNO)

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

SEE countries elaborate and implement the innovation policies with various level of effectiveness. There is a lack of cooperation, capacity and common understanding of innovation performance, policies and supporting instruments in the region. The aim of the FINNO project is to contribute to better productivity and achieve more comparable level of innovativeness between countries in SEE region. The ...
Read Project

 15

 FINISHED 

Cluster and Network Cooperation for Business Success in Central Europe (CNCB)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Sep 29, 2013,

Clusters are one of the most important instruments for economic development and innovation policy. They play an active role in reinforcing the competitiveness of the regions by contributing to the creation of an attractive regional profile and encouraging application-oriented research and supporting SMEs.The project CNCB focuses on the development of cluster initiatives. Its aim is to target speci ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

The KNOW IN – TARGET Framework: KNOWledge and INnovation TARGETed Dissemination Framework (KnowInTarget)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 30, 2013,

KNOWINTARGET aims at producing a cohesive framework supporting adoption of a "knowledge and innovation society" concept at the regional level, with a transnational and cross-sector approach/methodology, laying on the needs for: -Targeted knowledge transfer to SMEs. -Coordinated, cross-sector and goal-oriented action with the synergetic participation of key actors of all categories/levels concern ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

Wood Energy Exploitation for Entrepreneurship (WOODE3)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The project is addressing the protection and valorisation of forest resources in the Mediterranean space with the integration of mechanisms that will ensure a sound development of the wood energy sector. The aim is to raise awareness and build capacity of decision makers promoting a governance scheme in line with the 4 principles of sustainable development, setting up priorities and providing supp ...
Read Project

 7

 FINISHED 

Future Laboratory for the Diffusion and Application of Innovation in Materials Science and Engineering (FLAME)

Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Aug 30, 2012,

Materials sciences and engineering (MS&E) are significant innovation drivers within the Central European area and thus crucial for competitiveness and economic growth. The MS&E sector has its particularities like: frequent introduction of new material technologies, existing requirements and specifications frequently do not fit the unique features of advanced material and the sectors complexity req ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

Exploiting the TIPTOE plAtforM by transferring ECVET and EQF semAntic tools in a Multi-sectoral perspective

The TAMTAM project has operated a sectoral and geographic transfer of TIPTOE project results: from commerce to ICT, fashion/textile, mechanics/mechatronics and energetic efficiency/green building; from the Netherlands to Italy, Austria, France, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and United Kingdom. The construction and the intelligent grow of a common European space for lifelong learning (Lisbon p ...
Read Project

 22

 FINISHED 

Increasing energy performance by transfer innovation to the agro-food SMEs of the Mediterranean areas (SINERGIA)

Over the recent years it has become clear that an essential requisite for future growth & competitiveness in the European agro-food industry (in which SMEs represent 99% of the sector, with consequent high strategy fragmentation) are not only the investments in global network of commodities & distribution channels but also to extend the paradigm of sustainability in the food processing from the bi ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Integrating Experiences and Recommendations in Eco-Innovation for Sustainable Production and Consumption in the Mediterranean Area (ECO-SCP-MED)

The project ECO-SCP-MED is a 16-month project which aims at ensure sustainability across the supply chain of the main products and services in the MED area, whose cornerstone is fostering eco-innovation and competitiveness through transnational cooperation, integrating experiences and recommendations towards this objective. ECO-SCP-MED will integrate relevant outputs and mutualize experiences and ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

ECOFUNDING

...more than 45 projects that have participated in the pilot actions; and the 10 Proposals to Improve Green Financing in the EU, a presentation drafted by the Council of Chambers of the Valencia Region and based on all partners activities at local and regional level to improve financing in the EU for green and eco SMEs. The event closed w ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

Intermodal Freight Services Development Committees (iFreightMED-DC)

... project will be structured in 4 axes. Each axis will be addressed by a Working Group (WG) that will involve all relevant local stakeholders and complementary actors (public bodies, port authorities, chambers of commerce and intermodal freight transport operators). Every WG will be lead by a different partner, taking advantage of its relevant knowledge and competences. 1st WG: Strategic Planning. ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

TipToe (Testing and Implementing EQF- and ECVET-Principles in Trade Organizations and Education)

The main aim is to contribute to the establishment of a European lifelong learning space, by providing tools and guidelines by which mutual trust between countries and between labour market and educational field is achieved more easily.Background.Experiences from earlier projects tell that Europe-wide agreements on qualification profiles do not always hold when it comes to their implementation as ...
Read Project

 20

 FINISHED 

Innovative financial instruments to support energy sector SMEs in Med area (FireMed)

..., at the end of January 2015, Veneto Region had the opportunity to present to public entities the new financial engineering measures to support green businesses in regional planning 2014-2020 and the Chamber of Commerce of Venice to illustrate the financial services addressed to SMEs that would meet the financial operators’ expectations. Moreover, still at the end of January 2015, the Chamber of C ...
Read Project

 15

 FINISHED 

Marketing and govERning innovative industrial areas (MER)

MER project is based on the core value that green marketing and management of industrial areas can be a key factor for attracting investments in the European area. MER is aimed at translating selected results of previous projects into concrete long-term tools for sustainable and responsible economic development. MER aims at establishing a -network of network-� to share experience in the green mark ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

New Hospitality - Analysis and development of a European qualification and competence system in the hospitality sector for transparency and across-border recognition

The aim of the project is to design and test in the hotel industry a prototype set of methodologies and tools for documenting and comparing skills and qualifications with a view to promoting transparency, recognition and, most importantly, transferability (ECTS). The specific target group includes hotel workers in the tourism sector.
Read Project

 12

 FINISHED 

E.R.M.E.S. Enhancing Resources for Mobility Experiences and Strategies

In the EU there is a longstanding tradition in support of learning mobility by means of different programmes. Since 1992, the EC has grant-aided transnational mobility for young people. The LLP defines a 2009-2011 priority as expanding learning mobility in EU and worldwide. Despite these persistent efforts the overall percentage of young people which actually engages in transnational mobility acti ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

green groWing of SMEs: Innovation and Development in the energy sector in mEd aRea (WIDER)

...t 5.Networking to favour transnational thematic synergies. WIDER partnership is composed of 10 partners (4 RDAs, 1 public university, 1 non-profit association aimed at animating the regional RDC, 1 chamber of commerce, 1 energy agencies, 2 transnational networks oriented at economic development) from 7 countries from the extreme Occidental boundaries of MED Programme (Algarve) to the extreme Easte ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

International Trade e-Learning Suite for SMEs Extension (InTeLS+)

The project builtb on previous international trade & e-learning projects to develop best practice examples of how to use new ICT based technologies for SME business & vocational training. The project primarily addressed Call Priority 3 “Developing relevant & innovative e-Learning Content” and use ICT-supported learning to provide appropriate training and learning materials for less qualified work ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

Creative Trainer II

Im Leonardo da Vinci Projekt CREATIVE TRAINER I wurde ein sehr erfolgreicher modularer Lehrgang zur nachhaltigen Unterstützung von größtenteils kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen entwickelt. In drei sehr praxisorientierten Modulen wurden Theorie, Methoden und nützliche Tools zum Bereich der Ideenfindung und Ideenbewertung aufbereitet. Die ersten beiden Abschnitte hatten in erster Linie spezielle Kr ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

New Hospitality - Analysis and development of a European qualification and competence system in the hospitality sector for transparency and across-border recognition

The aim of the project is to design and test in the hotel industry a prototype set of methodologies and tools for documenting and comparing skills and qualifications with a view to promoting transparency, recognition and, most importantly, transferability (ECTS). The specific target group includes hotel workers in the tourism sector.
Read Project

 16

 FINISHED 

MED Sha.p.e.s. Sharing prior excellence and support for the MED creative asset (Sha.p.e.s.)

Shapes is focused on the excellences of the Knowledge/Creative Economy in the MEDarea. In this area are concentrated in fact the most appreciated talents/brands/know-hows worldwide. The creative asset directly or indirectly produces cultural products and includes not only commercial/production/service enterprises but also artists, public and non-profit organizations. For this reason Shapes is also ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 

Youth Enterprise and Unemployment

A partnership between business intermediary organisations, educational establishments and young people’s organisations, YEU has provided entrepreneurial training which is accessible to all young people and targeted at those European countries with the highest rates of youth unemployment. We have created an online suite of materials and a business game which has been adapted and translated from the ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Corporate Social Responsability - CSR Matrix

Our Europe is recently emerging from an international crisis and trying to move forward to a better sustainable and inclusive society until 2020 (see European Strategy 2020 and 8 key competencies for Lifelong learning 2006/962/EC) In this sense Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is understood as a management tool to all kind of organizations to promote European sustainability and social cohesi ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

Transfer of ECVET instruments into the fields of Trade, Hospitality, Electronics/Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics

... will benefit from a better transparency.The consortium of the project consisted of twelve institutions from eight European countries, working in four working groups. There were vocational colleges, chambers, different governmental institutions of the vocational education and training and one university.
Read Project

 12

 FINISHED 

TRAINING PLACEMENTS IN FOREIGN ENTERPRISES FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING STUDENTS:AN EUROPEAN APPROACH FOR QUALITTY

The project aims at developing different materials and guidelines already published and used for national internships in order to create a handbook adapted to transnational internships. This handbook will be disseminated with an European scope in order to prevent unsuccesful mobility experiences, make clear the role of each actor in cross-border internships, facilitating the quality procedures of ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Emerging Modes of Cooperation between Private Sector Organisations and Universities

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

...d results include (1) a comparative survey on the modes of cooperation between employers and HEIs in selected countries (over 500 employers in 5 EU countries will be included), (2) survey among 100 Chambers of Commerce and Industry and other employers organisations on the EU level, (3) reports on cooperation between employers and HEIs and reports on key jobs and sectors for HE graduates, (4) guide ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

Web Advanced Export Manager

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

Partners deal with internationalization of SMEs and VET systems, working to create a favourable environment for improvement of international trade and more qualified Human Resources at local level. Export Manager (EM) is a key competence within SMEs growth’ strategies and his training is recognized as enabling factor for the capability of SMEs to sell abroad and compete globally. Nowadays compani ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

Transfer, configuration and development a intercultural competences model and a methodological guide for the actors (trainers/managers) involved in the Ethnic minorities/inmigrants learning process

The objective of the partnership is to develop a methodological guide to intercultural competences with innovative models. Organizations, VET Centres and companies all over Europe require specific training in intercultural competences, and the project aims at using the experience of countries such as Germany and UK or Spain in this field to create a learning guide that can be used in other countri ...
Read Project

 7