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Common Good First - digital storytelling for Social Innovation

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

In order to support and grow the emerging South African social innovation sector, we will a create a digital network – Common Good First - to capture and showcase social impact projects in South Africa, connecting them to each other, academics and HEIs around the world. In doing so, we will also address the issue of the ‘digital divide’, as identified by the country’s National Development Plan 20 ...
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Live Cinema EU

Start date: Oct 23, 2016, End date: Oct 22, 2017,

Live Cinema EU will for the first time, bring together international leaders in creating live cinema events (film screenings enhanced with live music, theatrical performance or increased audience participation), to explore whether audience size for European films can be increased through the development of live elements at film screenings as part of core festival programming. Live cinema projects ...
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Generally Accepted Reliability Principle with Uncertainty modelling and through probabilistic Risk assessment (GARPUR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"Power system reliability management means to take decisions under increasing uncertainty (for instance, related to renewable generation). It aims to maintain power system performance at a desired level, while minimizing the socio-economic costs of keeping the power system at that performance level. Seven TSOs (Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Iceland, Norway), together with ele ...
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Introducing students and staff to innovation in materials and methods, and connecting them to the European education and employment system.

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

The project involves three diploma departments at the Reykjavik School of Visual Arts (RSVA); FORMING-Clay and Creative Composites, Drawing and Textile. Students in their second semester and 2 teachers from each department will take part in two weeks mobility activities. Fourteen students and 2 teachers from the Forming Department will visit the Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (the department‘s ...
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Sustainable Hospitality

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

The tourism industry is the fastest growing industry at the moment and it offers many international opportunities. In order to be successful on this labour market you have to a good knowledge of hospitality (service, reception, friendship, relations and sustainability). In this project our participants will develop competence and knowledge how to be successful and sustainable on this internationa ...
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Quality Assurance and Enhancement Marketplace for Higher Education Institutions

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

...t possible sparring partners as well as a forum for networking, sharing experiences, information and best practices. The project consortium consists of eight European higher education institutions: Reykjavik University, Iceland; Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland ; Aarhus University, Denmark; Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland; Umeå University, Sweden; Telecom B ...
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Introducing students and staff to innovation in materials and methods, and connecting them to the European education and employment system.

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

The project contains three separate trips: the first is a student study trip, the second is a VET traineeship and the third is a staff training trip. MíR will be sending 14 students during the second semester of their diploma course in Drawing as well as 2 accompanying teachers to Great Britain. They will travel to the University of Cumbria, as students from MíR are able to apply for the thi ...
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Transforming SMEs into successful experience stagers (StageIt)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The goals of the StageIt project are to develop knowledge about how SMEs can take advantage of experience staging as a means to improve their competitiveness and put this knowledge into practice in three SMEs. The point of departure is the recognition that technological innovation alone does not necessarily insure market acceptance. Instead, competitive environments require innovation that goes be ...
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RICHE – a platform and inventory for child health research in Europe (RICHE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

"The European Commission and other funding agencies make a large investment in child health research. The health of our children is satisfactory, but there are serious concerns, for example, obesity, mental health, alcohol abuse, and sexuality. We know that there are strong links between the health of young people and their social inclusion and level of education. Our objective is to establish a s ...
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Opportunities for Community groups Through Energy Storage (OCTES)

Start date: Mar 14, 2011, End date: Mar 14, 2013,

The project will develop a business model that can deliver a new Integrated Renewable Energy Management Service (IREMS) that can be adapted to suit local needs in a transnational context. The developed Renewable Energy Management Service incorporating smart grid technology with existing renewable energy (RE) know-how will be made available to existing advisory services across the NPP region.The co ...
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Humanoids that Learn Socio-Communicative Skills by Observation (HUMANOBS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Description Developing new cognitive architectural principles to allow intelligent agents to learn socio-communicative skills by observing and imitating people Automatic imitation learning of socio-communicative skills is an interesting research topic with significant potential benefits for future ...
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Impact of International Criminal Procedures on Domestic Criminal Procedures in Mass Atrocity Cases (DOMAC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

"Although considerable attention has been given to the establishment and operation of international criminal courts and other international or internationalized mechanisms for determining individual and state responsibility in mass atrocity situations, their capacity remains limited and national courts continue to carry most of the burden of prosecuting the vast majority of perpetrators. However, ...
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Knowhow-expanded : two new 2 year art/VET school study-lines in creative industries (drawing) and design (textiles).

...n the Leonardo pilot project KnowHow, 2004- 2007, (www.knowhow.is). Based on this methodology of learning, the Knowhow project created a 2 year study-line in ceramics which is currently taught at The Reykjavik School of Visual Art. The Knowhow methodology will be used as a basis for creating two new lines of 2years in drawing and in textiles at art/VET school level. The core of the Knowhow metho ...
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European clusters to promote the exchange of knowledge and best practices in fighting early school leaving through IT

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

The rationale behind the IT-CLEX project is to respond to the need for reducing the drop-out rates and improving the quality of education and training in Europe. IT-CLEX intends to identify and transfer best practices and provide tools, mechanisms and methodologies, especially focused on active co-operation between educational and non-educational actors. It will also provide a framework for these ...
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Successful Small Scale Manufacturing from Small Island Territories

Small island territories - small in size, big manufacturing potential : The project proposes a set of tools that demonstrate the possibilities and components of successful manufacturing enterprises on island territories. The production of a manual, based on case studies of island business activities, will help to draw up guidelines for potential entrepreneurs wanting to develop manufacturing activ ...
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Writing Professional English

Improving business English for better communication : Conceived to provide professionals form certain industry sectors with flexible educational material that will offer a variety of ways to improve writing skills. The didactic material also includes guidelines for designers and managers of the training programme to establish the business EN course for the target sectors. This project started in ...
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RETAIN - Retention in Education and Training

The main target groups for the project are teachers, trainers, mentors and guidance counsellors working with young people in Upper Secondary Schools or in Vocational training. The beneficiaries will be the young people at risk of dropping out from the education and training system. The envisaged impact of the project will be an increased number of young people carrying out their education and trai ...
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EVETE 2 - Empowerment of Vocational Education and Training by Improving the E-Learning Competencies of Teachers and Trainers

During the implementation of EVETE project (No. LT/05/B/F/PP-171010) T&T needs were addressed and Curriculum on T&T e-learning competences was prepared on the basis of FENTO professional competence standard. New and highly innovative methodology was created basing Learning Units on standards of competences, with the possibility to use competence assessment before the learning process and directin ...
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NEiD - New European Identities

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

The project is developing a module in fashion and textile design combining study of folklore and sustainability. The module aims to give students understanding national/regional material cultural heritage and how it has given rise to the present diversity of European cultures. It focuses on local materials and methods and how they could be developed into sustainable industrial materials and proces ...
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E-Commerce Innovation for Vocational Education and Training Initiatives & Practices

The VETIP project's key aim was to use ecommerce resources to help partners in 5 EU countries to develop comprehensive ecommerce entrepreneurship programmes that would help beneficiaries to improve their digital competence and succeed in creating their own business online. The consortium believes that he project has met all of the initial objectives specified in the application form. Each of the l ...
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OWLS - Outcomes that Work for Learners and their Stakeholders

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

Good quality VET is extremely important to the European economy. A new European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for VET (EQARF) has been developed and it includes a set of indicators which Member States can use to assess the quality of their VET provision. The use of the framework is voluntary and little work has been done at a grass roots level on how this framework can be implemented by tr ...
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European Network for Quality Assurance in VET (Quality.net)

Quality.net project aims to built on the work already carried out by the Technical Working Group on Quality and by the Thematic Monitoring Group 3 and proposes the valorisation of existing quality practices and approaches at institute and project level, through the development of a sustainable portal, an advanced information system-showcase of quality models and approaches and the networking of st ...
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