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AcceLerate Innovation in urban wastewater management for Climate changE (ALICE)
Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,
The challenges facing society in urban wastewater management cannot be solved by any one sector alone. ALICE (AcceLerate Innovation in urban wastewater management for Climate changE) will accelerate innovation by bringing together and exchanging knowledge between the key players who can, together, address the future techno-economic, governance and societal challenges arising from climate change. I ...
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Grey and green in Europe: elderly living in urban areas (GRAGE)
Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2018,
The EU has to face many challenges in achieving a more balanced regional development and sustainable economic recovery. Many of those challenges have to do with the ageing population trend, urbanization and environment under distress. More liveable and efficient communities is a target to be reached in Europe, where the “silver hair” trends can become a challenging opportunity, from a social, econ ...
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Supporting Artists and Cultural Organizations in developing Entrepreneurial Skills
Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,
The artistic and cultural sector is growing all over Europe. This trend is stronger in countries with a long tradition (like UK) where the impact on GDP and jobs is considerable, weaker in other areas of Europe that still need policies and ecosystem to foster the growth of the sector.What is visible all around Europe is the need, for the operators of the sectors, particularly arts/culture, to dev ...
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Continuing Education to Preschool Teachers and Education Directors through Online Trainings
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
...rogrammes to test and implement the developed modules.
The project consortium of EduTeach is led by the Innovation in Learning Institute at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and includes Militos Consulting S.A. (Greece), Spanish Federation of Early Childhood Education Centres (Spain), IPAK Inštitut za simbolno analizo in razvoj informacijskih tehnologij (Slovenia), Università degli Stu ...
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Social Enterprise Skills for Business Advisers
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Social economy and entrepreneurship has developed in the recent years as an answer to major social needs that have been exacerbated through the economic crisis. Social enterprises contribute to social innovation, the creation of new business models and the exploitation of unused resources. However, the supporting structures for social economy, such as advisory services, are still underdeveloped in ...
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CRAFTSMANSHIP+ FOSTERING A NEW AND COMPETITIVE APPROACH TO CRAFTS AND SEMI-INDUSTRIAL HIGH ADDED-VALUE SECTORS
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
With the rise of Creative Industries in recent years, many places in Europe have seen the rebirth of high added-value crafts and semi-industrial activities. Generally lead by young entrepreneurs or already established businesses and ‘makers’ inspired by ‘new blood’, these new or renewed businesses tend to establish themselves in old (many times abandoned) industrial areas in the city centres or in ...
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Social UP - Design thinking for sustainability of social enterprises
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Nowadays, the "social economy" employs over 11 million people in the EU, accounting for 6% of total employment. The burgeoning interest in social entrepreneurship across Europe has been driven by the recognition of the role social enterprise can play in tackling societal achallenges, the global economic crisis, austerity measures and ongoing withdrawal of public agencies from supplying social serv ...
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European Network of Socially Responsible Universities
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,
The social dimension of Higher Education is one of the overarching themes of the Bologna Process.
Furthermore, recent studies confirm that there is an emerging interest in University Social Responsibility issues (Larrán 2012) an even a recognition of the term, USR as “overarching” regarding the social dimension of Universities. However, most Higher Education institutions are still reluctant to fu ...
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STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP: Smart City Coaching – multi-stakeholder training concepts for the city of the future
Start date: Dec 22, 2014, End date: Oct 21, 2017,
Smart City initiatives and projects become increasingly important throughout Europe for several reasons but basically these projects focus on technical innovations (green urban technologies, ICT) and are often top down driven by investors, global technology concerns or building developers. This approach excludes other urban actors that could play a crucial role for the quality of results and broad ...
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Rooms to VET – Upskilling and Professionalisation of private tourism accommodation services
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
Europe is the world's no. 1 tourist destination, with the highest density and diversity of tourist attractions. The European region, as a whole, represents 51.7% of the total world arrivals, of which the EU-28 countries represent 39.5%.
According to Eurostat, already in 2009, private rented accommodation in Europe covered as much as 13% of the total of holiday (4 nights or more) accommodations, a ...
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Making Family Business Transfers SUCCESSful through Education and Training
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
Family businesses are the backbone not only of the private sector, but are supporting entire economies. With regards to the European context, family businesses make up more than 60 % of all European companies. The process of change in ownership, transfer and/or succession within or outside of a family is an extremely crucial moment in the business life of a family SME: ca. 30% of family business f ...
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Infusing entrepreneurial skills in the corporate ICT environment - Intraprise
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
In today’s increasingly competitive environment, companies need to find that ‘added extra’ to stay competitive to retain existing customers and attract new customers. One way to do this is to encourage innovative and creative behaviour within the organisation to encourage intrapreneurs. An intrapreneur is a person within a business or corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an ide ...
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Virtual Open Incubation Ecosystem (VOICE)
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
VOICE (Virtual Open Incubation Ecosystem) will help bridge the gap in the broader entrepreneurial development ecosystem by providing an international, virtual innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem based on open innovation, crowdsourcing and co-creation principles; where individual users and start-ups will meet, find collaborators and partners, co-create ideas and prototypes, utilize the wisdom ...
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Key Skills & Employability Assessment Service for Young and Adult Learners
Start date: Dec 31, 2014, End date: Apr 29, 2017,
The current economic and employment crisis in many European countries has increased the unemployment rate to unacceptable levels, especially in Southern Europe. At the same time, employers keep complaining about skills and competences shortages, concretely of transversal competences such as communication in foreign language, creativity, teamwork, leadership, communication. But not only: the curren ...
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MENTEE: MEntoring, Networking and Training for European Entrepreneurs
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
In the Europe2020 perspective, entrepreneurship is a pillar and fostering entrepreneurial spirit is considered a priority to deliver smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. In the recent crisis, with significant unemployment rates and even higher youth unemployment, European countries need to focus even more on promoting entrepreneurship among young generation as an alternative solution to the la ...
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Growing Levels of Employability/Entrepreneurship in Agriculture for NEETs
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
The huge increase of the unemployment rate for youth in the most recent years has also had a relevant impact on the percentage of NEET in Europe. The report about NEETs realized by Eurofound in 2012 stated that in 2008, 11% of 15–24-year-olds and 17% of 25–29-year-olds were NEETs. By 2011 these rates had increased to 13% and 20% respectively. There are currently 14 million young people not in emp ...
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Individual CAReer Development
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
The need for a better skilled and creative workforce for the European labour market has been identified as one of the strategic goals in EU policy statements and recommendations. The aim is to raise the level of education throughout Europe and to foster forward-looking and innovative citizens with ability for divergent and visionary thinking. The best result for enhancing these skills would be pro ...
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VET Schools as Entrepreneurial Hubs
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
Regardless of the sheer diversity of VET systems across Europe, we commonly find that many of them fail to acknowledge its essential role in securing a smooth transition for Young people into the world of work. However, a highly relevant curriculum and close connections with the world of work place VET schools in an unbeatable position to put forward an ambitious entrepreneurship education agenda ...
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Small agricultural enterprises and farmers are in a disadvantageous position to other players in the food chain (food manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers). Often times their efforts to maintain and improve their market position and to upgrade their market share or to expand their business internationally goes unrewarded. It is obvious that one single SME cannot compete with the marketing power o ...
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The ReportStag-e project addresses the adaptation to industrial/technological change in the field of journalism and will thus establish an internet-based training centre offering continuous training to professional journalists on the use of new technologies. The objective is to introduce, incorporate and adapt new technological methods and tools in order to achieve added-value journalism. A series ...
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Recent statistical data confirms a persisting high gender imbalance in ICTprofessions with women accounting for less than 20% of computersystems designers, analysts and programmers in the EU27. This meanswomen miss important employment opportunities in a sector that isdriving European economic growth and greatly depends on skilledworkers and on consumers who take up technological innovation. Since ...
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European VET trainers seem to lack specialised training to effectively train young offenders on acquiring entrepreneurship skills to start a new business as a sustainable professional path; while ex-offenders tend to face discrimination, social exclusion and limited professional options when attempting to re-enter the labour market after release from prison.FRESH START addresses these issues by tr ...
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The Get Mobile project has:-Encouraged greater European mobility of recent female graduates who are unemployed/under-employed through Get Mobile Circles, the Get Connected Zone and online material such as case studies.-Promoted the value of hosting a trainee to SMEs (particularly female-owned SMEs)through Business Briefing workshops, a Business Handbook and online material such as case studies.-Be ...
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At the present, organizations demand employees not only with technical key competencies that are taken for granted, but also with personal and social competences. They perform in a rapidly changing environment influenced by different factors not only of technological and economic nature but also organisational where competencies such as decision making, time management and leadership are vital for ...
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farms Up! Fostering the emerging agro-entrepreneurial culture through dynamic training solutions
Start date: Nov 1, 2012,
At a time where EU farm incomes rose by 6.7% compared to 2010, the agricultural sector in Greece is shrinking by a 4% rate annually (Eurostat). Effective agro-entrepreneurial activities are suggested as remedy to allow farmers to become more competitive and capitalize on this growing European economy. Thus, sustainable agro-entrepreneurial practices are expected to be beneficial for an economic re ...
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Fostering Innovation Skills as Key Competences for improving Employability of PhDs in SMEs
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,
The application of more advanced forms of ICT based learning and assessment methodologies for innovation skills is a field that needs to be explored in Europe and mainly at Higher Education level. This project aims to contribute to the development of innovation skills (i-skills) of PhD students and doctoral holders by developing an advanced e-assessment methodology (immersive game) that can be imp ...
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ladybizIT: Women Entrepreneurship on the verge of ICT
Start date: Dec 1, 2011,
Women entrepreneurship is facilitated by the familiarity and daily use of ICT. Moreover, these tools empower women to pursue a career as entrepreneurs while minimizing the barriers that limit equal entrepreneurial participation in an open market. Women constitute 30% of EU entrepreneurs and often face greater difficulties than men in starting up a business. The EC puts great effort to support wome ...
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The project will - based on desk-research of the partners and a survey based broad user needs analysis - adapt and develop an innovative training package and on-line platform for entrepreneurship skills targeting unemployed and inactive young and women to be tested and evaluated by the target groups (TGs).
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Centre 4 aims at the development and pilot implementation of a quality-based, training strategy in the field of juvenile probation. The main goals of the proposal are the improvement of knowledge, professional skills and competencies of institutional authorities' specialised scientific personnel and the introduction of innovative methods and best practice on issues related to juvenile probation an ...
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The application of agrochemicals for controlling pests and diseases is forbidden in organic agriculture, making crop protection a constant challenge for farmers and agricultural workers. The ecoplanta partnership has identified this clear need to enhance and upgrade farmers’ competencies and provide them with training material and key guidelines in order to help them adopt organic farming principl ...
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The CORE-VET project provided and reinforced vocational education and training possibilities and better employment outcomes for unskilled and/or semi-skilled people who are either unemployed but wish to enter the tourism industry or they are already working in the tourism industry but lack the necessary skills and competences in order to advance in their job. Specifically, CORE-VET targeted the i ...
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Support participants in training, in the acquisition and the use of knowledge, skills and qualifications to facilitate personal development, employ-ability and participation in the European Labor Market
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The objective of making European vocational education and training globally competitive and attractive has put teachers, trainers and leaders in VET in the spotlight and pushes them to continuously expand their horizons and to adopt new teaching methods and skills. Especially the integration of mentoring principles in VET trainers’ continuing education has proven to be highly effective and is cons ...
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Facilitating and fostering digital competence through volunteers - This is IT
Start date: Jan 1, 2012,
Digital literacy is becoming more and more as important for work, leisure and personal development as reading and writing. Further, digital literacy leads on to digital competence, the confident and critical use of information society technology for life and employability. It is underpinned by basic skills in ICT and the use of computers to retrieve, assess, store, produce, present and exchange in ...
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Designing and Developing Flexible Vocational Training for a Mobile Profession
Start date: Oct 1, 2012,
The ‘TAXISTARS’ project will develop innovative ICT based training material in the fields of work and road safety, emergency case assessment, criminal assault and social interaction skills, suited to fit the professional and societal profile of the taxi drivers across Europe. Due to the nature of their profession, taxi drivers are working under special conditions and are involved in multifarious i ...
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