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onlinE PrOfessional Development in Second chance Education

Start date: Oct 31, 2016, End date: Jan 30, 2019,

In 2014 the DIgital Second Chance Opportunities (DISCO) Consortium was established with support funding from Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership as digital technology and education are evolving at an increasingly rapid pace, both separately and together. For example, there have been significant developments in new digital technology platforms such as mobile technologies, cloud computing, social media, ...
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OER uptake in adult education institutions

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

...n, from Timisoara (Romania) who work closely with private and public adult education providers and their staff within their regions, having an in-depth insight into their daily challenges and needs; MENON, a strongly internationally oriented research and innovation organization with an extensive network of adult education stakeholders and associations on the European level; and finally the Open Un ...
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Creativity REsearch Adaptive roadmap (CRe-AM)

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

This project aims to bridge communities of creators with communities of technology providers and innovators, in a collective, strategic intelligence/roadmapping effort to streamline, coordinate and amplify collaborative work towards developing, enhancing, and mainstreaming new ICT technologies and tools by addressing the needs of different sectors of the creative industries (e.g. art, culture, pub ...
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European Schools enhancing creativity, exploration and science (we.learn.it)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

we.learn.it will launch the European Living Learning Network by schools and for schools.we.learn.it is a facilitated grassroots initiative initially formed from school networks in 6 European countries and partnerships abroad including schools in developing countries. Linked to a facilitators network of higher education institutions, thematic organizations, experts, learning content and technology ...
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Разкрий своя потенциал

Start date: Jun 17, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

“Reveal Your Potential” is a youth exchange project by means of which outsiders aged between 13 and 18 are going to acquire new skills and knowledge in order to get more self-confidence and faith in the personal potential. The encounter between boys from different countries but having similar problems would help them out to realize their European identity and overcome their rough background. Stud ...
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Holistic Approach to Technology Enhanced Learning (HOTEL)

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

Many studies on the role of ICT as a catalyst to change learning scenarios have failed to grasp relevant developments because they were working on the ground of a given set of technology options and codified learning models. If the areas of implicit, tacit and informal learning are not taken into consideration there is little chance to discover fundamentally new forms of learning through ICT.The H ...
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FOSTERING EUROPEAN UNION - CARIBBEAN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NETWORKS (EUCARINET)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

The EUCARINET project is a 4 years Coordination Action whose main goal is to strengthen bi-regional sustainable policy dialogue on S&T between EU Member States (MS), Associated States (AS) and in the Caribbean Region, the Caribbean ACP States, the overseas Departments and Collectivities, the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs). The project will work at policy, programme and institutional (re ...
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Enhancing Scientific Cooperation between the European Union and Central America (ENLACE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

ENLACE aims at supporting the bi-regional dialogue between the EU and the Central America Countries (CAC) on S&T issues, identifying common interests in research areas, setting up S&T priorities, supporting capacity building activities, and enhancing the dialogue within the region.The planned activities are: policy dialogue meetings between EU and CA stakeholders to identify research priorities of ...
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A network for supporting the coordination of Supercomputing research between Europe and Latin America (RISC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The RISC project aims at deepening strategic R&D cooperation between Europe (EU) and Latin America (LA) in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC) by building a multinational and multi-stakeholder community that will involve a significant representation of the relevant HPC R&D EU and LA actors (researchers, policy makers, users). RISC will identify common needs, research issues and opportuni ...
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Sustainable Technologies and Research for European Aquatic Management (STREAM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The EU has invested considerable resources over the last decade to support the development of water technologies. As it often is the case with innovative technologies, there are currently few resources to pursue this process in the needed scale, and the uptake potential of water technologies and other environmental technologies resulting from EU-funded research seems limited due to insufficient aw ...
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Science Education for Diversity (SED)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Young people in Europe are not acquiring the scientific literacy they need to participate as citizens in democratic decision making about issues that involve science. In addition recruitment to careers in science is falling in Europe which is a challenge to Europe’s future in the knowledge economy We propose to learn how to respond to this situation in collaboration with international partners in ...
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Thematic Network ICT for social integration and cultural diversity (Bridge IT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

Description Thematic Network ICT for social integration and cultural diversityIncreasing migrations into the EU raise the question of the potential of Iinformation and Communication Technologies (ICT) for promoting the integration of immigrants and cultural diversity in Europe. As pioneer initiatives in this field have already taken place ...
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Widening IST Networking Development Support - Caribe (WINDS-Caribe)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

The WINDS-Caribe project aims at contributing to the building a cohesive Information Society in the Caribbean region by deepening strategic cooperation between Europe and the Caribbean in ICT RandD issued; it will help to involve Caribbean actors in a multinational community that will involve all the relevant stakeholders (researchers, policy makers, users) that deal with ICT and that will define ...
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StartUp_EU - Be a High Tech Entrepreneur

Start date: Dec 1, 2011,

The StartUp_EU project is designed to motivate secondary school students by replicating the excitement and creative innovation of a new startup company. The project will create an educational game to develop entrepreneurial skills on a Web2.0 technology platform. Secondary school students will learn about entrepreneurship through inspiring and thought-provoking videos, online workbooks covering bu ...
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UniSchooLabS: remote access for schools to university science labs

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

UniSchooLabS aims at improving quality in science education in Europe, by promoting collaboration between universities and schools in the provision of remote access to science laboratories for primary and secondary schools through internet-based services and mobile learning devices. The use of internet-based services and mobile technologies allows access to science experiments that would not other ...
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Network of Educational Technologies : SOUNDS

The two experiences of MusiNet and MODEM projects, both addressing thepedagogical value of creating and sharing music within students through digitaltechnologies and the internet, have provided an integrated online environment toexchange open source music projects, and learning pathways for secondary schoolsstudents. Those successful experiences have identified a lack of interaction among thestake ...
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Web 2.0 Enhanced Gateway To Educational Transition

Start date: Nov 1, 2009,

A major characteristic of European societies might be seen in the rapidly growing differentiation of educational pathways, opportunities and biographies. This increase in complexity from learners requires great effort into initiative taking, creativity, problem solving, risk assessment and decision taking. Through the past years various structures have been developed in order to support students i ...
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EAGLE - EUROPEAN APPROACHES TO INTER-GENERATIONAL LIFELONG LEARNING

Start date: Oct 1, 2006,

Recognising changing demographics in Europe and the increasing importance of intergenerational as well as lifelong and lifewide learning, EAGLE partners undertook in-depth research into the benefits and limitations of such learning approaches. Relevant policy frameworks and practice examples were identified and a range of social experimentation activities took place, all with a view to expanding e ...
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KITE — The European mobile worker’s kit

The project gives an important contribution to the Europass systemic aim of promoting transparency of qualifications and competences; the partners’ original idea is the use of ICTs and of specific, simple, interactive tools to facilitate all the procedures and the actions planned by Europass. The partners a) analyse the potential impact of the integration of the blog tool in the process concerned ...
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LEARNOVATION

...ect will be reached thanks to the experience and credibilityof the LEARNOVATION consortium, that gathers both research leaders in the field ofLLL and ICT for learning (such as Scienter, MENON and the Universidad CatolicaPortuguesa) and professional awareness raising organisations, such as PAU Education(in charge of the European eLearning portal) and EDEN, the largest European networkactive in ICT ...
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Scenario Development for Lifelong Learning in 3D multi-user environments

Massive Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) like Second Life, enabling userbasedcontent creation in a 3D-space and real-time online interaction via avatarmovements, gestures, multi-user chat and object exchange, currently go through a rapidboost of usage-rates. Possibilities for using 3D virtual worlds for learning and teachingpurposes are immense as they enable to set up online learning based ...
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Europe 2111

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

Digital media have an important role in both everyday life and in Culture. For this reason, it has also a fundamental role to play in Education, by offering the opportunity to learn within both informal and formal approaches and by responding to the need to make sure the European educational system meets generational changes. In this sense ICT may become an important didactical tool not only of r ...
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Learning to Learn and to Love it. Helping teachers in building WINGS for Lifelong Learning for their students

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

LLWINGS aims at developing an elearning system for school teachers (and staff) to develop a set of competences aimed at favouring learning skills acquisition and motivation to learn, and specifically related to the integration of non/informal learning in education to make curricula meaningful to their students and helping them in learning to learn. Early development of learning skills and motivati ...
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Web 2.0 supported Higher Education Institutional Learning Scenarios for Collaborative Learning

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

The Bologna Process has brought about a series of important reforms in Higher Education, having brought about significant harmonisation in recognition, course structure and quality assurance to name but a few examples. However, the concept of harmonisation, is often ill-equated with the concepts of rigidity and non-flexibility.An even cursory look at the instruments created by the Bologna process ...
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Horizontal eLearning Integrated Observation System

Start date: Jan 1, 2005,

The project's aim is that of monitoring the progress of eLearning in Europe
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Virtual School and College Education for Teenagers and Young Adults

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

VISCED aims to make an inventory and to carry out a systematic review at international and national levels of innovative ICT-enhanced learning/teaching "Exemplar" initiatives and "e-mature" major secondary and post-secondary education providers for the 14-21 age group (including Virtual Schools and Colleges). This inventory will supply adequate comparative data, statistics and analyses to underpin ...
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Enhancing Access through a focus on Equity

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

The EquNet project aims at increasing access to Higher Education for all marginalized and non-traditional groups based on a principle of equity. It brings together a consortium of renowned research organizations and stakeholder organisations in the E&T sector to ensure a sound methodological base for its conclusions, and a wide audience amongst the European E&T community to ensure its impact.The n ...
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DAVID - Review System and Database for Civic, Citizenship and Values Education

Start date: Nov 1, 2011,

DAVID Review System and Database for Citizenship, Civic or Values Education (CCVE) aims at rising interest and endorsement, among diverse education, training and policy actors in the majority of the European countries on CCVE results and responding to the growing demand for quality data in the field.In most of the European countries, public policy made CCVE explicit in the schools’ curricula, but ...
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CONtent Creation Excellence through Dialogue in Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

User generated content (UGC) poses a number of challenges to the current understanding of education and its institutions, very much due to its success. The concept of “authority” should be rethought. The “ivory tower” of higher education should be opened to the wider world. Knowledge management becomes even more fundamental than in the past. Moreover, the rapidly growing number of learning resourc ...
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TRACE – TRAnsparent Competences in Europe

TRACE means “Transparent Competences in Europe” and will develop, implement and test a coherent, systemic framework for the transparency and interoperability of competences systems in the European knowledge based societies in the e- learning sector. Two target groups are envisaged: practitioners of the e- learning sector and those of the guidance sector. A “Competences Translator” should contribut ...
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Big Foot. Crossing generations, crossing mountains

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

Common constraints of the mountain areas are featured by SOCIO-CULTURAL MARGINALISATION of the elderly population, who has lost its role and authority as mediator in cultural transmission; as well as ECONOMIC UNBALANCE due to the interruption in the transmission of elderly knowledge concerning a wise use of limited resources in marginal geographical environments.Big Foot proposes the development o ...
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te@ch.us - Learning community for Web 2.0 teaching

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

The proposed project plans to set up a web community for teachers interested in integrating Web 2.0 in classes at school. Results of recent studies about Web 2.0 teaching and learning in Europe show that existing pilot projects at schools are often driven by single, motivated teachers in grass-root approaches and that apart from support by the school basic knowledge, motivation and inspiration of ...
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European Platform for Communities of Practice in Lifelong Learning

Start date: Nov 1, 2013,

Dissemination and exploitation of projects results are currently the major mechanisms to make more valuable and increase the impact of project results. Nevertheless , it is also indicated that there is a need for further improvement in the direction of cooperation between LLL projects and exchange with users that can significantly increase peer learning, capitalize on previous efforts, create syn ...
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Reduction Early School Leaving of young people

Start date: Feb 1, 2012,

The risks created by the early school leaving phenomena are of different nature and creates high individual, social and economic costs. Those risks are essentially connected with integration difficulties either in society or in the labour market since those young people with only lower secondary education or less are more often affected by unemployment, are more likely to depend on social benef ...
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VIsion, Scenarios, Insights and Recommendations on how ICT may help making lifelong learning a reality for all

Start date: Nov 1, 2011,

...earch-grounded recommendations for policy making and for innovative practices large scale scalability and transferability. VISIR is put forward by seven European networks in the LLL field: the MENON network, EADL, EDEN, EFMD, ELIG, EICI, EFQUEL, supported by two renewed research institution such as Scienter and K.U. Leuven.
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LD-skills: Developmemt of learning design skills for enhancing students' key competencies

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

The aim of the proposed project is to have a positive impact on the development of students' problem-solving competencies by promoting the use of inquiry and problem-based approaches to teaching. To achieve this, a training framework will be developed for training teachers how to create science lesson plans by not just providing exemplar solutions to problems that arise from everyday practice, but ...
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TRACE - TRAnsparent Competences in Europe

TRACE means "Transparent Competences in Europe" and will develop, implement and test a coherent, systemic framework for the transparency and interoperability of competences systems in the European knowledge based societies in the e- learning sector. Two target groups are envisaged: practitioners of the e- learning sector and those of the guidance sector. A "Competences Translator" should contribut ...
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Ed2.0Work - European network for the integration of Web2.0 in education and work

Start date: Jan 1, 2012,

The EdWeb2Work Network project will improve the use of Web2.0 tools in education and the world of work. It is also building tools that will allow educators and employers see how effective Web2.0 tools are in improving education and working efficiencies. The project will create a network between stakeholders in the education and work sectors that will examine how both should be using Web2.0 in the ...
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Motivating pupils, linking teachers through active learning with Multi-Users Virtual Environments

Based on the potential and opportunities afforded by active learning approachescombined with Massive Multi-Users Virtual Environments (MUVEs) as effective solutionsto inspire and engage learners and foster motivation, the MUVEnation project's generalaim is to contribute to explore, analyse, develop and evaluate within context theeffectiveness of this innovative way of teaching and learning with re ...
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Equity in Higher Education from a Student Perspective

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

Increasing equal opportunities has always been a priority area of the student movement. The project 'equity through e-learning' aims to train student representatives to help and implement policies in order to increase equity and efficiency in their own higher education institutions and countries.
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