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Knowledge Alliance on Product-Service Development towards Circular Economy and Sustainability in Higher Education

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

The consortium has chosen the topic of circular economy (CE) as the focus of this project, because it concerns the transition from a take – make – use – dispose model that depletes natural resources and destroys ecosystems to a circular model where the value of products, materials and resources is maintained in the economy for as long as possible and the generation of waste is minimized. It has be ...
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Effective forecasting as a mechanism for aligning VET and Economic Development Strategies

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

We will develop and implement a new toolkit to enable national, regional and local labor market forecasters to ensure that they are able to support the alignment of VET policy and economic development strategy, in line with the priorities of the European Commission. This will be transferred through an existing network of labor market observatories operating throughout Europe. The ERASMUS+ Program ...
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Smart information models to adequately adapt vocational training to the labour market needs

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

The availability of information across Europe about certain economic sectors’ and companies’ demands is a complex, but key area when facing youth unemployment, low employability or mismatches between supply and demand. The European Commission has presented a package of concrete measures to promote the recovery of employment in Europe including a number of recommendations for member states to mobil ...
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Life Cycle in Practice (LifeCiP (LCiP))

Start date: Sep 2, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Background One of the key objectives of the EU is to integrate environmental sustainability with economic growth and welfare by decoupling environmental degradation from economic growth and doing more with less. Lifecycle analysis (LCA) is a tool that can play a central role in improving resource efficiency. Improvements in resource and energy efficiency ...
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SInnDesign - Sustainable Innovation through Design

Measures to improve the sustainability of buildings are a priority in EU policies. This requires the appropriate choice of building materials and products that are used indoor, and design plays a major role in this context, since it is at the design stage that the sustainability profile of products is mostly determined.Therefore, the aim of SInnDesign was to develop training materials and tools fo ...
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Green Games in Tourism / Hospitality [GGTH]

The Green Games in Tourism/ Hospitality project (http://goo.gl/RVKd0J) consisted of partners from Ireland, the UK, Germany, the Basque country and Austria. The central aim of the Green Games project was to develop an online digital game and game-based-learning-methodology, along with associated guidelines and training for learners, for the understanding and implementation of knowledge and skills r ...
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Innovation and Ecodesign in the Ceramic Industry

Ecodesign is a well established concept amongst environmental specialists in Europe, but there is a lack of know how to support the systematic integration of environmental considerations in the design of ceramic products. Despite its economic importance, the ceramic industry is suffering the effects of the slowing down of the European economy and it reports the effects of the competition of produc ...
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Hazardous Waste Management Training Programme

Recognising the challenges faced by SMEs in meeting EU legislative requirements to classify and appropriately manage and dispose of hazardous waste, the project will develop a tool to simplify the identification process for hazardous waste. As no easily accessible guidance on identifying and managing hazardous waste currently exists in Europe, the project will fill a discernible gap in the market. ...
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Train the Facilitators of Local Agenda 21 Implementation

The project partnership, comprising fifteen partners across five countries, responds to the training needs of Local Agenda 21 (LA21) which emerged from the Rio and Johannesburg Earth Summits. Agenda 21 is an instrument for improving quality of life, through sustainable development, by putting into operation local community partnerships. The project will contribute to skills development amongst loc ...
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