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Miss to Hit: From misconceptions to learning insights through inquiry with playful physical objects

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

Several reports and studies warned us about the decline in scientific vocations in the last decade. Science education is not able to change the negative attitudes and lack of interest of students. The situation is alarming from a gender perspective, considering women have gone from a presence of 35% in the technology sector in 1980 to a meager 15% today. At the same time, a more detailed analyses ...
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Dynamic Control and Numerics of Partial Differential Equations (DYCON)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

This project aims at making a breakthrough contribution in the broad area of Control of Partial Differential Equations (PDE) and their numerical approximation methods by addressing key unsolved issues appearing systematically in real-life applications. To this end, we pursue three objectives: 1) to contribute with new key theoretical methods and results, 2) to develop the corresponding numerical t ...
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VERIFICATION ENGINEERING OF SAFETY AND SECURITY CRITICAL DYNAMIC INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS (VESSEDIA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The VESSEDIA project will bring safety and security to many new software applications and devices. In the fast evolving world we live in, the Internet has brought many benefits to individuals, organisations and industries. With the capabilities offered now (such as IPv6) to connect billions of devices and therefore humans together, the Internet brings new threats to the software developers and VES ...
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Moving towards Life Cycle Thinking by integrating Advanced Waste Management Systems (Waste4Think)

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

The main objective of this project is to move forward the current waste management practices into a circular economy motto, demonstrating the value of integrating and validating a set of 20 eco-innovative solutions that cover all the waste value chain. The benefits of these solutions will be enhanced by a holistic waste data management methodology, and will be demonstrated in 4 complementary urban ...
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Detecting and ANalysing TErrorist-related online contents and financing activities (DANTE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Money underpins all terrorist activities (without money propaganda, training, recruitment, and support are less effective or null). The disruption of terrorist financing activity is a key element in any fight against terrorism.DANTE will deliver effective, efficient and automated data mining, analytics solutions and an integrated system to detect, retrieve, and analyse huge amounts of heterogeneou ...
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GameHub: University-enterprises cooperation in game industry in Ukraine

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The wider objective of the GameHub project is to ensure employability and self-sustainability of HEI graduates, unemployed engineers as well as veterans of Anti-Terror Operation (ATO) in Ukraine by equipping them with knowledge and skills demanded by digital game industry (GI) - a highly networked global impact economy. GI strongly based on online work approach allows one to develop a highly techn ...
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Learning STEAM through a playful online platform, social learning and content co-creation

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

Although important figures in Pedagogy (i.e., Dewey, Montessori, Illich, etc.) proposed new ways of understanding education more than one century ago, the majority of EU educational systems are based on methodologies strongly focused on curriculum contents. In recent years, taking advantage of the popularization of educational technology in schools, many teachers are opting for other ways to teach ...
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Design thinking for digital innovation

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

DigiThink stands for Design thinking for digital innovation. The project aims to develop a new course to be implemented as part of HEIs' curricula on this topic. The idea behind DigiThink is to apply design thinking methodology for digital innovative business creation. The project has four key intellectual outputs: Course syllabus and learning methodology; training and learning materials, open edu ...
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Open Discovery of STEM Laboratories

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

ODL was initiated to equip European school teachers with innovative approach - micro-MOOC, to deploy STEM laboratories and their application in the everyday teaching practices and, thus, strengthen the profile of the teaching professions. The project will foster partnerships between universities, research centers, training and professional associations, and school sector to modernize the school ...
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A neW concept of pubLic administration based on citizen co-created mobile urban services (WeLive)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

The WeLive project is devised to transform the current e-government approach by facilitating a more open model of design, production and delivery of public services leveraging on the collaboration between public administrations (PAs), citizens and entrepreneurs. WeLive applies the quadruple-helix approach based on the joint collaboration of 3 PAs, 4 research agents and 5 companies, constituing the ...
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Multispectral visual monitoring of the impact of civil engineering works on the environment (VISIONTECH4LIFE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Mar 30, 2017,

Background Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) have been used for several decades as a tool to prevent or quickly identify any environmental damage arising from an activity. The assessments involve identifying, predicting, evaluating and mitigating the environmental, social, and other relevant potential impacts of works, such as civil infrastructure. ...
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Hands on entrepreneurship

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

PROJECT SUMMARY 4892 UNIVERSIDAD DE DEUSTO Nowadays, the need for entrepreneurial mind sets and action oriented European citizens is taken for granted. In this scenario, the educational sector is a key player and being aware of this, Educational Institutions are implementing programmes and actions to address this social and economic challenge. The project answers the following needs: • The claim ...
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Make World: learning Science through Computational Thinking

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

Despite we are living in an increasingly technological world, the decline in scientific vocations in the last decade is inexorable. The EC warned of this fact, and Fensham stated that the two main problems have to solve science education in the long term would be negative attitudes and lack of interest around it. Other reports (Rocard, PISA, ROSE) provide evidence of the loss of youth interest in ...
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Smart Specialisation For Regional Innovation (SMARTSPEC)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The aim of SmartSpec is to provide substance, guidance and practical support to the EU Smart Specialisation Platform, based on the combination of leading academic and practical expertise present in the consortium. The goal is directed at operationalising the concept of smart specialisation in a manner which will be useful to actors in different regional contexts. It will do this by strengthening t ...
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Internet Enabled Services for the Cities accross Europe (IES Cities)

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

IES Cities is the last iteration in a chain of inter-related projects promoting user-centric and user-provided mobile services that exploit open data and user-supplied data. The technical components and achievements of several former European projects will be integrated to assemble an open Linked Data apps-enabling technological platform. Such platform will be deployed in different cities across E ...
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Rethinking Entrepreneurship (RethE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Oct 30, 2011,

The concept of entrepreneurship is becoming ever more relevant in all areas of economic policy and brings together a disparate number of themes (education, finance, innovation, etc...), the fragmented coverage of which results from professional interests. Accordingly, it is necessary to have a multi-disciplinary approach, combining different (sectoral and territorial) sensibilities to achieve a gl ...
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