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...lish direct business contacts between cluster managers from the EU and target countries and raise awareness on the programming of as well as on the advantages of inclusive, sustainable and social innovation. The project’s results will be broadly disseminated to increase awareness on bi-region STI cooperation activities and opportunities and will be exploited towards an enhanced introduction of the ...
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Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change (SI-DRIVE)

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

SI-DRIVE extends knowledge about social innovation (SI) in three major directions:- Integrating theories and research methodologies to advance understanding of SI leading to a comprehensive new paradigm of innovation.- Undertaking European and global mapping of SI, thereby addressing different social, economic, cultural, historical and religious contexts in eight major world regions.- Ensuring rel ...
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...enge of the Mobilising and Mutual Learning Action Plans (MMLAP) topics, listed in the Science in Society call for proposals of the Capacities Work Programme 2013, namely ""Assessment of sustainable innovation"". The project’s main objective will be to develop a methodological framework for assessing sustainable innovation and managing multi-disciplinary solutions through public engagement in the R ...
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Energy supply and usage and the stimulation of innovation activities are some of the most important challenges for the EU and for the Eastern European countries within the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). Increased resource efficiency and innovation in renewable and sustainable energy offers the best potential to solve the urgent, interrelated societal challenges of insecurity over energy supp ...
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...rm will be used to facilitate exchanges all along the project. Improvement of knowledge transfer in a structured ecosystem should contribute to the “… creation of a favourable ecosystem for SME innovation in which public enterprises, SME intermediaries, …, end users, suppliers and enterprises … are encouraged to collaborate for radical innovation that may not yet be described and formulated as pr ...
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Coaching for Change

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Background of the project: Historically, young people have faced social exclusion, and the recent economic downturn has prompted high unemployment which particularly affects the younger generation. However, some disadvantaged groups of young people face exclusion in the longer term for reasons beyond the current crisis. Remaining outside the global labour market has far-reaching consequences – not ...
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Environmental change and particularly amplified global climate change are accelerating in the Arctic. These changes already affect local residents and feedback from the Arctic’s land surface to the climate system, will have global implications. However, climate change and its impacts are variable throughout the wide environmental and land use envelopes of the Arctic. Unfortunately, the Arctic is g ...
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Wealth: Promoting Local Sustainable Economic Development (Project Wealth)

Start date: Apr 24, 2012, End date: Aug 24, 2015,

PROJECT WEALTH aims to introduce new approaches to socio-economic development and enhancement of territories, based on the needs and assets of local communities. To that end, the project will enhance economic clusters through local sustainable economic initiatives as a tool to bringing about economic, environmental and community wealth. ...
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Public and Private entities in Adriatic and elsewhere have identified a challenge on finding a common language and field of interest between research & innovation and reaching a common understanding of the commercial imperatives in terms of economic and social development. IPATECH aims at developing a network for integrated trans-regional cooperation between knowledge & technology providers, innov ...
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Connecting Young Barents (CYB)

Start date: Jun 26, 2012, End date: Mar 30, 2015,

The Barents region during the last few years faces the problem of the Youth outflow to the central and southern parts. This project is intended to create Communication network for the young people in the Barents region. It will give the youngsters the opportunity to share their successes, to meet and communicate with other youngsters, and as for youth workers it is a great possibility to establish ...
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Boosting European Games Industry (BOO-Games)

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

Once the economic force of Creative Industries (CI) was showcased by several studies,the development of strong digital+interactive media strategies is still high on the agenda throughout Europe. Especially the digital games market is a fast growing market within CI:The global demand for digital games is expected to grow 10% annually in the next years.Today the production of dig.games is an interna ...
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MOVE ON GREEN (MOG)

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

Sustainable transport is vital to maintaining the environmental and economic health of rural areas, as well as to ensuring the access of both inhabitants and potential visitors to key services such as employment, education and healthcare.Rural areas policy-makers have come to realise that the lack of sustainable mobility schemes is a cross-cutting element which affects every development strategy i ...
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KNOW-HUB addresses a crucial problem of insufficient competence in European regions in strategic management of innovation policies, which negatively impacts the effectiveness of the Structural Funds operations. Even though there had been good strategies developed in Europe, few were fully, if at all, implemented. There are little instruments that effectively eliminate the stumbling blocks of knowl ...
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HISTorical assets and related landsCAPE (HISTCAPE)

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

Historic towns and their landscapes are a unique part of Europe’s identity. While Europe’s 500 million population is concentrated in larger settlements 80% of its territory is rural in character. These landscapes, developed over centuries, are home to a dispersed pattern of smaller historic towns. HISTCAPE focuses on these historical assets – some 4,500 small towns of under 20k population which ha ...
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sharing methodologies on FINancial ENgineering for enterprises (FIN-EN)

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

FIN-EN project aims at enhancing co-operation between regional and national authorities across Europe on the methodologies and instruments used for implementing Financial Engineering operations in the framework of EU Structural Funds. Financial Engineering is an option offered to member states to reviewing the ERDF/ESF disbursement procedures by using financial instruments (as opposite to traditio ...
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Following the tradition of scientific collaboration between EU and the EECA region, and built on the sound outcomes and lessons learnt of three clustering projects (ISTOK-SOYUS, SCUBE and EXTEND), a group of leading EU and EECA specialists from twelve countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbeki ...
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In front of more and more differentiating innovation policy and funding mixes in SEE, which increasingly leverage national budgets and bridge between different policy fields, the absence of sufficient endogenous RTDI evaluation capacities causes a serious bottleneck for the entire innovation management cycle. Thus, the key objective of EVAL-INNO is to strengthen regional as well as national evalua ...
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Introduction of Regional Energy Concepts (CEP-REC)

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

The classic central energy systems based on fossil fuels and nuclear power have a central supply distributing the energy to the consumers. Contrary to this, renewable energies and energy efficiency need the action of many persons, citizens, municipalities and enterprises in order to succeed. In addition the acceptance of the population plays important role in the change towards renewable energies. ...
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Technet_nano sets up a transnational network of public clean rooms and research facilities in micro- and nanotechnology making accessible innovation resources and services to SMEs in the BSR.The problem addressed is that especially SMEs and R&D institutions in branches such as energy, climate or medical technology do not fully exploit their innovation and growth potentials in the field of micro- a ...
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Strong cooperation in the scientific area is needed in the Baltic Sea region in order to ensure the competitiveness of the region. There is a new cluster of large-scale research infrastructure (Lund, Hamburg, Berlin and Geesthacht as EU countries and Gachina in Russia) and some more are planned or already under construction (the European XFEL in Hamburg, ESS and Max IV in Lund, Solaris in Krakow). ...
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Single CBR Home market (Home market)

Start date: Jul 31, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

...ums where companies have the opportunity to present their business idea and attract financing within CBR. The next set of activities include development of network of regional business incubators and innovation centers with common rules how regional SMEs may be incubated in other CBR country. The project partners will work together on developing guidelines for regional cross-border incubation sy ...
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From wounds of an inconvenient & terrible past, the architectural traces of totalitarian regimes of XX° Century could become an important source of local development, if they were managed & valorized through a trans - national cultural route (in compliance with requisites set out by the Council of Europe with the Resolution n° 12/07) corroborated by tourism cultural products. ATRIUM has been desig ...
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The overall objective of the project is social and economic development of areas situated within cross-border region of Poland and Ukraine within 5 years after projects completion. Indicator used for measuring the level of projects realization will be: Increase in the average amount of investments in Volyn region and Podlaskie voivodship for about 20% during 5 years after project realization. Than ...
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... by • Promoting expertise competence at the cluster and consortium level • Developing collaboration capabilities within each cluster and at the consortium level • Improving business environment innovation through mutual learning and mentoring The BIOCLUS clusters are located in rural regions and all possess great biomass resources such as forests, industrial and agricultural by-products, field cro ...
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Measures to Accelerate the Mediterranean Business Angel Market (MACC BAM)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Mar 29, 2012,

... in the MED space regarding the support of BANs. To this end this solidification of interested organizations and the establishment of partnerships and activities will develop and implement consistent innovation and economic development policies that will generate synergies at a transnational level. The well established consortium has carefully designed the components of the proposed project that w ...
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Joint SME Finance for Innovation (JOSEFIN)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

The Baltic Sea Region (BSR) shows a strong knowledge based and innovative economy. Accordingly, SMEs play a significant role as drivers of the innovation process. In the context of future-oriented understanding of territorial co-operation, regional development highly depends on the ability of key-actors to participate in international markets. However, especially SMEs often focus their business ac ...
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The ISTOK-SOYUZ project, based on the sound outcomes and lessons learnt of the ISTOK.Ru project www.istok-ru.eu implemented in Russia in 2006-2008, will expand the ISTOK experience to the Eastern Europe & Central Asia countries, identifying and promoting visibility of mutual RTD potential and collaboration opportunities. The project will : (1) promote the EU ICT programme, raise awareness about b ...
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Female Entrepreneurs´Meetings in the Baltic Sea Region (FEM)

Start date: Aug 14, 2004, End date: Aug 13, 2008,

... E-BSR-countries. The whole BSR profits from using "best practices" of the participating countries and thus more women are encouraged and supported to become entrepreneurs. Noticing gender and womens innovations, businesses and labour force as a comprehensive factor in regional economic competitiveness and affluence will bring added value to the development policies at local, regional and internat ...
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Cooperation of Regions for Innovation (CORINNA)

Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The operation “Corinna - Cooperation of Regions for Innovation” focuses on intensifying cross-border co-operation in the field of technology and innovation along the borders of Italy, Slovenia, Austria and Hungary. Recent studies of these regions show strong potential for capitalizing on development opportunities through cross-border cooperation in particular in the field or research, development ...
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Sustainable and Effective Entrepreneuships Development Scheme (SEEDS)

Start date: Oct 31, 2003, End date: Apr 29, 2007,

The SEEDS partnership aims to build and test a coherent framework for planning and implementing joint sustainable internationalisation strategies and actions for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in CADSES, which will enable the effective support of relevant actions. The SME internationalisation process needs to be considered as a part of the general spatial development strategies to serv ...
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ENABLE - ENABLing European Entrepreneurship (ENABLE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

...culture to the knowledge based society and rural migration contributing to the decline of rural areas and creating regional disparity. The operation builds on the understanding that entrepreneurship, innovation and internationalisation are recognised by all as a major part of the solution and that co-operation is necessary in order to jointly develop new and better approaches in this area. The ove ...
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BADGE aimed to transfer and adapt an innovative support programme - Diversity in Business Workshops - developed in the UK, and that enabled female start-ups experiencing double-disadvantage to gain valuable soft skills and competences to assist them in starting up their own business. The purpose of the transfer was to strengthen the position of women entrepreneurs in the face of a difficult econom ...
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Our objectives are: • to provide training in diversity issues by transferring lessons learned from the Dige_E training course; • adapt, develop, promote and test a quality management accreditation procedure for diversity training and test the procedure;• to adapt, develop, promote and test the use of a diversity self-assessment product to encourage organisations to implement diversity systems; • t ...
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Community Integration and Cohesion is high on the EU agenda and on national government priority lists. We live in a society where the arbitrary barriers of race, faith, gender, class, disability, age and sexual orientation can affect opportunities, income, civil rights and health of an individual. Integration is about responding to differences within our local and national mix – making spaces an ...
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We developed and adapted innovative practice, Fish in a Box into a written and visual training product for use in other countries and with other groups at risk of exclusion. Our aim was to develop Fish in a Box by sharing experiences amongst partners who support different groups at risk of exclusion, by adding material appropriate to that group and by ensuring that the curriculum, learning materi ...
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... Serbian HE system and providing sustainable source of high-quality human resources. The project will achieve this by developing and realizing interdisciplinary postgraduate curricula in the field of innovation management based on best practice from existing EU study programs and according to the Bologna requirements at Serbian HE.The specific objectives are:1. To develop and implement interdiscip ...
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Materials from the lead partners' existing social entrepreneurship programme, Ignite, were adapted and developed by the partners. The partners ensured that the new learning materials reflected the situation in each of their countries and that they met the needs of specific student groups. The original Ignite Europe comprised materials for the delivery of motivational and enterprise skill modules. ...
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For companies and scientific institutions, it is important to include gender equality into their HR management, in order to stay competitive and successful.The GenCo partners are mainly institutions, which award organisations for good practices in the field of gender equality. Based on their awarding activities they have a large pool of measurements showing good practice in gender equality. Thus, ...
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Through social partnership, bridge-building and knowledge sharing, directly involving representatives of civil society and the political world, the WO-MEN project aimed at enhancing learning opportunities for decision and policy makers, specifically in the realm of gender equality. Following an initial needs analysis, a comparative review of gender equality structures was undertaken leading to th ...
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...tween women and men.The project has the potential to contribute to all aspects of Europe 2020’ smart growth as it will develop means of strengthening knowledge through high quality education, innovation and digital society. Strong economies will depend on higher female wage returns on paid jobs. This is why Europe 2020 sets a target of raising the employment rate to 75 %.Achieving this target requ ...
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