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Fiscal Rules and Strategies under Externalities and Uncertainties (FIRSTRUN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

...ctive mechanisms of fiscal policy coordination. It analyzes the very reason why fiscal policy coordination may be needed in the first place, namely cross-country externalities (spillovers) related to national fiscal policies. Specifically, it identifies different types of spillover effects, investigates how they work in the EU and in the EMU, and analyses whether they work in the same fashion unde ...
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Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (STYLE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

..., dissemination and scientific coordination work packages.There are three cross-cutting research WPs that examinePerformance, Policy Learning and its limitations and include the production of an International Handbook on Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe;Six substantive research WPs focus on issues of:• Labour Market Mismatch in terms of education and skills as well as geographical ...
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OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: FROM CONCEPTS TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS (OPENNESS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

...ustaining ESS and NC, and for the design of new economic and social investment opportunities. Finally, OpenNESS will assess how current regulatory frameworks and other institutional factors at EU and national levels enable or constrain consideration of ESS and NC, and identify the implications for issues related to well-being, governance and competitiveness. OpenNESS will analyse the knowledge tha ...
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MOBILISING THE POTENTIAL OF ACTIVE AGEING IN EUROPE (MOPACT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The starting point for MOPACT is the ambitious goals set by Horizon 2020 and the European Innovation Partnership Pilot Project on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPAHA). Our response is ambitious too: we aim to provide the research and practical evidence upon which Europe can make longevity an asset for social and economic development. MOPACT will create a high quality, multi-disciplinary critical mas ...
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HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters (HERA JRP CE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters (HERA JRP CE) consortium will establish a single joint transnational programme for multi-disciplinary research into the causes and consequences of cultural encounters. To understand cultural encounters is to understand the history and meaning of Europe itself, from the earliest periods of human settlement to the present day. Its effects impact ...
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Advancing SSA-EU cooperation in research and innovation for global challenges (CAAST-Net Plus)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

In 2007, heads of state and government from Africa and Europe launched the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) formulated in response to geopolitical changes, globalisation and the processes of integration in Africa and Europe. At the heart of the JAES is an overtly political relationship and among the features distinguishing JAES from previous Africa-Europe policy initiatives is the associated actio ...
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Development of NEXT GENeration cost efficient automotive CATalysts (NEXT-GEN-CAT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

The main objective of NEXTGENCAT proposal is the development of novel eco-friendly nano-structured automotive catalysts utilizing transition metal nanoparticles (Cu, Ni, Co Zn, Fe etc) that can partially or completely replace the PGMs. Based on nanotechnology, low cost nanoparticles will be incorporated into different substrates, including advanced ceramics (SiO2, perovskite etc) and silicon carbi ...
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Prevention of Liver Fibrosis and Cancer in Africa (PROLIFICA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

"Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection affects 350 million people worldwide and 25-30% of these individuals will die as a result of their infection mainly as a results of hepatocellular carcinoma HCC. Liver cirrhosis, high viral load and dietary exposure to aflatoxin are recognised as risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma amongst HBV carriers. However, these variables do not account for al ...
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Continuous improvement strategy for increasing the efficiency of wastewaters treatment facilities in the Black Sea coastal states (CISWastewater)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

The overall objective of the project is to achive stronger regional partnership and cooperation to realize significant improvements of the wastewater treatment facilities management in the Black Sea coastal states. Achievements: Expert knowledge on the situation of wast ...
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Mediterranean cultural network to promote creativity in the arts, crafts and design for communities regeneration in historical cities (MEDNETA)

Start date: Dec 30, 2013, End date: Dec 11, 2015,

Project in brief Arts, Crafts and Design (ACDs) are traditionally rooted in trading and harbour cities of the Mediterranean area. Historically in these cities the production and sale of such goods were particularly vibrant and, besides inhabitants, concerned visitors came to shop for what they could not find in their place of residence. This commercial network kept alive and dynamic the crafts in ...
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Local/ Regional Economic Development Network as decisive leverage point for enhanced competitiveness in the Black Sea Basin regions (LRED)

Start date: Jun 30, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

... of local LRED main players entrepreneurial and administrative capacities to enhance social, information, trade and other links to local level, as well as between partner countries hence encouraging national governments to scale-up cooperation opportunities and synergize efforts towards better life in the Black Sea Basin. ...
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Genetic and Epigenetic Networks in Cognitive Dysfunction (GENCODYS)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Mutations in about 400 different genes have been associated with Cognitive Disorders (CD), such as mental retardation, autism, neurodegenerative disorders, and psychiatric disorders. Whereas CD impose a major medical and socio-economical problem, there are no systematic studies that aim to provide insight into common mechanisms in CD. We propose a systems biology approach to gain insight into comm ...
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Sustainable Urbanisation in China : Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mega-trends towards 2050 (URBACHINA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"""Sustainable Urbanisation in China : Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mega-trends towards 2050 (URBACHINA) combines the knowledge and expertise from a number of different disciplines to provide new and innovative insights and scenarios that can be used guide urbanization in China over the next 40 years. A key strength of the proposal is the use of 'thematic pairs' of European and Chine ...
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Territorial Indicators of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe (TIPSE)

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

Combating poverty and social exclusion rank among the main objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The recent economic crisis has had a huge effect on millions of European citizens with many people losing their jobs, household incomes decreasing and consequently the risk of being affected by poverty increasing. For social exclusion, not only a clear definition seems to be lacking, but also there d ...
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Bringing closer ESPON evidence for decision making (ESPON on the Road)

Start date: Dec 23, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...as the numerous scientific tools (Priority 3) and publications (Priority 4) to be delivered during 2014. Main activities envisaged:The project has nineteen country partners divided into four transnational working groups. The transnational working groups will adapt the activities of the project into the specific context of their transnational macro-region, customise ESPON messages targeted to their ...
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Managing Migration and its Effects in SEE - Transnational Actions Towards (SEEMIG)

Start date: May 31, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

The SEE region faces a complex, nationally and regionally diverse set of demographic, migratory and labour market challenges (low or declining fertility, large scale out-migration, brain and care drain, ageing, low labour force participation rate). Together with further aspects like gender, age and the given territorial heterogeneity of the programme area, they are creating a complex challenge to ...
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Fostering Evaluation Competencies in Research, Technology and Innovation in the SEE Region (EVAL-INNO)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2014,

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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HERA Joint Research Programme (HERAJRP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

... (HERA JRP) partners will launch a joint call for multilateral projects in two humanities research areas: “Cultural Dynamics” and “Creativity and Innovation”. By setting up a HERA JRP, the 13 national funding partners want to create collaborative, trans-national research opportunities that will derive new insights from humanities research in order to address major social, cultural, and political c ...
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Regional ICT Foresight exercise for Southeast European countries (FORSEE)

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

... Green paper on how to apply foresight for planning the innovation policy in ICT sector• Innovation and entrepreneurship strategic roadmap• Open consultation synthesis report• Review of national innovation systems and the ICT sector in particularFor more information see:http://www.southeast-europe.net/en/projects/approved_projects/?id=140
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The Impact of Service Sector Innovation and Internationalisation on Growth and Productivity (SERVICEGAP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

...elative to competitor regions, especially the US. The research is divided into three areas: Productivity and its drivers in service industries; Firm strategies in the knowledge-based economy and Internationalisation of service markets and growth. In the first area the project will explore the impact of intangible assets such as R&D and firm- specific training in explaining the EU’s poor performanc ...
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Indicators for evaluating international performance in service sectors (INDICSER)

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

"The objective of the INDICSER project is to develop indicators which provide information on the performance of service sectors in the EU. At the heart of the project are concerns that such indicators should be valid in terms of concepts, measurement methods and feasibility but should also have value in terms of their usefulness for policy. Therefore the approach adopted is to include both an EU-w ...
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Full Costs of Climate Change (ClimateCost)

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

There is increasing interest in the economics of climate change to inform policy on a) long-term targets, b) the costs of inaction (the economic effects of climate change), and c) the costs and benefits of adaptation. The objectives of this study are to advance knowledge across all three areas, i.e. the full economic costs of climate change, through the following tasks: 1. To identify and develop ...
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Preparing for the construction of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (PREPARINGDARIAH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

...l scholarship; • use DARIAH as a place for experimentation and innovation in collaboration with other scholars from across multiple domains. The core strategy of DARIAH is to bring together national, regional and local endeavours to form a coherent infrastructure where complementarities and new challenges are clearly identified and acted upon. The initial idea for DARIAH has now grown into a clear ...
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Intangible Capital and Innovations: Drivers of Growth and Location in the EU (INNODRIVE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

...ormance is still incomplete. While firms undoubtedly are at the centre of innovation and productivity growth, their activities are hard to analyse empirically. Furthermore, at the macro-level the national accounts data on capital formation focus primarily on fixed investment and have only recently attempted to measure investment in intangibles such as software, mineral exploration and artistic cre ...
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Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points for Socio-economic sciences and the Humanities (NET4SOCIETY)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

A strong and efficient Network of National Contacts Points (NCP) is not only elementary to the success of the Seventh EU Framework Programme but also to the realization of the European Research Area. The trans-national project “NET4SOCIETY” will strive to achieve this declared goal. For its proposed duration of three years, “NET4SOCIETY” will support the creation and establishment of a functional ...
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Longitudinal Enhancement and Access imProvement of the SHARE infrastructure (SHARE_LEAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

...iving conditions of individuals as they go through the ageing process. SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, is an infrastructure of multidisciplinary, longitudinal, and cross-nationally harmonized micro data that has been created in response to these demands. Currently, SHARE contains two waves of data for about 32,000 respondents aged 50+ in 17 European countries. SHARE b ...
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III (EGEE-III)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

...ser communities, and addition of further computational and data resources; to prepare the migration of the existing Grid from a project-based model to a sustainable federated infrastructure based on National Grid Initiatives. By strengthening interoperable, open source middleware, EGEE-III will actively contribute to Grid standards, and work closely with businesses to ensure commercial uptake of t ...
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Environmental Friendly Technologies for Rural Development (EnviFriendly)

Start date: Dec 1, 2005, End date: May 31, 2009,

Background The Evrotas is the longest river in the prefecture of Laconia. Its valley is typified by agricultural land use, containing many citrus groves, olive groves and pastures. The prefecture is known for its orange production and is also home to 168 olive mills, 91 of which are in the river’s catchment area. The drainage basin of the River Evrotas ...
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ion and sustainable development of the Carpathians in a transnational framework (Carpathian Projec)

Start date: Aug 31, 2005, End date: Aug 30, 2008,

...development. The central objective of the Carpathian project is the integration of European spatial development policies and management of the fragile mountain ecosystems of the Carpathians in a transnational context. The project will analyse and consolidate the information base, develop strategies and policy instruments. It will also implement and test pilot activities in cooperation with local a ...
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AGORA -Network Sustainable Tourism Development in the Baltic Sea Region (AGORA)

Start date: Jun 30, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The BSR is characterised by large areas of unspoilt countryside. Because of strong economic problems just in these rural areas tourism seems to be a promising opportunity to support regional development. Sustainability considered as a guiding principle can ensure that such a development will lead to economical benefits without threaten the nature and the social structure. Consequently a lot of sus ...
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Utilisation du cyprès dans la sauvegarde de l'économie rurale, de l'environnement et du paysage méditerranéen: prévention et gestion des risques naturels (MedCypre)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2006,

Le projet MedCypre considère le cyprès toujours vert (Cupressus sempervirens L.) comme l'espèce de référence pour toutes ces fonctions dans le Bassin Méditerranéen Occidental. Le but principal du projet MedCypre est d'affronter le problème du contrôle des incendies avec des plates-bandes de cyprès à houppier horizontal qui, avec leurs branches longues et fines, freinent la formation du sous-bois d ...
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Inclusion of minority youth - a tool to combat poverty and social exclusion

Start date: Dec 1, 2010,

...tion and exclusion of migrants and minorities. Therefore this training course will aim to empower youth workers/leaders and volunteers to act as fighters for minority and migrant inclusion on local, national and European level by giving them different tools, methods, skills and knowledge on migration and inclusion.With this project we want to raise our voice on migration and its effects on the you ...
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GALAXIES Gender GuidAnce pathways in Education and Vocational Training Systems for free seXIsm choicES

Galaxies was aimed to adapt the best practices GALAXY carried out in a previous Leonardo project in order to deepen the analysis of gender-specific guidance in the field of education and training. Galaxies was developed in three phases: The first phase focuses on a literature review of political attitudes on gender in schools and training centers in the country partners. The second phase of the ...
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Business Advice and Guidance training for women Entrepreneurs

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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L06 - Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan

Start date: Jul 15, 2009,

...g and research methodologies; collection and development of educational material, as well as discussion with the non-academic sector.The activities provided to all beneficiaries are relevant to the national thematic priorities, thus being of great benefit for their linguistic, educational, personal, intercultural and professional development, for the acquisition of modern and expert knowledge, ski ...
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ADULT GUIDANCE IN EDUCATION: TRAINING OF TRAINERS

Improved training for adult education : The project responds to needs for better trained adult guidance workers by elaborating a programme for the training of instructors and producing multilingual educational materials in various formats. This project started in 2001 and lasted 30 months.
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SERIOUS. IMPROVING THE ENTREPRENEURS' SKILLS THROUGH THE SERIOUS GAMES SUPPORTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS.

One of the main strategies for fostering the entrepreneurial mindset has been developed promoting training activities focused in entrepreneurship. Several education and training institution implemented a lot of training programs intended to facilitate the self-employed of their graduates. But the results are not optimist.Since 2004, there has been no change in the percentage of Europeans wishing t ...
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Strengthening education in space-based remote sensing for monitoring of eco systems in Israel, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

The project consortium includes the following partners: three HEI`s from EU; nine Universities from AZ, IL and KZ; four stakeholders of related field from PCs; MHE from AZ and KZ; Ministry of Environmental protection from IL. Wider objective of the project is ensuring that the target Universities in AZ, IL and KZ can offer two cycle programmes in Space Based Remote Sensing Techniques to improve ...
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Language Rich Europe

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

...ndex of Language Policies and Practices in Europe, available in 18 languages and published in print form and on an interactive website. The Index comprises 120 indicators and reflects use of official national, immigrant, regional, and foreign languages in education, public services and spaces, business and the media. The knowledge sharing process will enable the network to develop action plans at ...
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EMINTE - Erasmus Mundus India To Europe

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

...ntial experience from the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 (EMA2) programme. In this way, the project will increase the number of universities that will benefit from EMA2 with all its positive effects on internationalisation at the same time as the consortium will have sufficient experience to assure an efficient and successful implementation. The project has five main goals. The first is to implement the ...
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