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Structurally weak rural regions are faced with major social and economic problems. In comparison to urban or intermediate regions, predominantly rural regions are economically less productive and they provide a less extensive scope of desired goods and services. As a consequence, the regions experience a loss of inhabitants, especially of young and highly skilled people. Thus, downward spirals are ...
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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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Global Studies - A European Perspective

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

...nagement. Diploma Successful students of the European Master 'Global Studies' will receive a Master of Arts in Global Studies. Depending on their mobility track a double degree (in case it contains Roskilde and/or London School of Economics) or joint degree (in all other cases) will be issued. The degree will be accompanied by a diploma supplement, which contains further information about the educ ...
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DiasporaLink

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

DiasporaLink is a 4-year exchange program between 24 universities and research institutes representing EU, the Americas, Africa and Australia and will investigate, evaluate and facilitate transnational diaspora entrepreneurship, TDE as driver of development and wealth creation in countries of origin and residence. • The partners in DiasporaLink have together a unique possibility to have a substant ...
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The goals of preventing the outbreak of conflict and promoting sustainable peace remain a fundamental challenge to policymakers and analysts alike. The European Union (EU) and its member states require an adequate set of capabilities if they are to address this challenge in a timely and effective manner. EU-CIVCAP will provide a comprehensive, comparative and multidisciplinary analysis of EU civil ...
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The current crisis has indirectly contributed to questioning the efficiency of financial markets and democratic institutions at European and national levels. Recent data from the Eurobarometer (July 2013) shows a continuous decrease in the trust levels that citizens from the European Union have on national governments and parliaments, radically decreasing in more than 25 points in the last six yea ...
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Social Protection Innovative Investment in Long Term Care (SPRINT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

SPRINT project intends to give meaning to the concept of social investment as applied to long-term care provision. Its objective is to articulate in more detail the aspirations of the Social Investment Programme, to provide a means for assessing the social costs and benefits of various ways of providing long-term care for the frail elderly, and to present examples of approaches that do indeed, fa ...
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The European Union (EU) is increasingly affected and challenged by geopolitical changes, increasing impact of conflict on civilians, globalized impact of local conflicts, technological developments and budgetary constraints challenges the Radicalization, the growing potential for individuals to create large security threats and transnational criminality further complicates the security landscape o ...
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Co-ordinating Research Efforts of the ICT-Energy Community (ICT-Energy)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The goal of this proposal is to create a coordination activity among consortia involved in the ICT-ENERGY subject with specific reference to bringing together the existing "Toward Zero-Power ICT" community organized within the ZEROPOWER C.A. and the novel "MINECC" (Minimising energy consumption of computing to the limit) community recently funded under the FET Proactive Call 8 (FP7-ICT-2011-8) Obj ...
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Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environements (LIPSE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

"The LIPSE project (Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environments) identifies drivers and barriers to successful social innovation in the public sector. Through studying social innovation and co-creation practices and processes in 11 European countries and 7 policy sectors, LIPSE will create and disseminate essential knowledge about public innovation. The LIPSE consortium consists of lead ...
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Tourist maritime paths of South Baltic (Baltic Pass)

Start date: Jun 30, 2015, End date: Oct 30, 2015,

Transformation of a system of industries and changes accompanying with globalization changed importance of sailing as a tool of transport of goods and people.However, in many places infrastructure adapted to a sailing movement still has left a space and opportunities.At the same time, the memory of the old ways of transportation of goods by sea disappears. In many coastal regions and cites sailing ...
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Maritime Education and Sail Training for Young People (M.A.S.T.)

Start date: Oct 31, 2010, End date: Apr 29, 2015,

MAST project origins from the local initiative of City of Gdansk to restore the historical two-mast sailing vessel General Zaruski and dedicate it to non-commercial sailing with young people. Inspired by the international history of the boat, an idea came up to let mixed groups of young people from different countries participate in such sail vacation, get to know each other and learn something fo ...
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The objective of NEUJOBS is to imagine future, or rather various possible futures, under the conditions of the socioecological transition (and incorporating other key influences), map the implications for employment overall, but also in key sectors and relevant groups and integrate all of this together under a single intellectual framework. It will do so by combining EU-wide studies based on exist ...
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Energy Oresund

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Strategic energy planning is a cooperative theme for the project. In the project, municipalities and energy companies across Oresund implement concrete demonstration projects, which address the challenges connected with integrating renewable energy in the existing energy system. Achie ...
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Green STRING Transport Corridor

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

Identify the sectors and companies which will have special growth opportunities through the establishment of a green transport corridor between Öresund and Hamburg. This will be of interest to logistics and goods transportation. To identify the physical, organisational and legal barriers limiting the full capitalisation of the value available for the business community in the Öresund Region with t ...
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There is widespread concern about how production and use of chemicals affect the environment. Yet food production and benefits of chemical products are vital for the functioning of European societies. In order to ensure sustainable use, EU regulations require extensive risk assessment before a chemical is approved for use. Current risk assessments focus on risk at the level of individual organisms ...
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Cross border Nordic Education (GNU)

Start date: Jan 7, 2011, End date: Jul 30, 2014,

The project establishes a cooperation between educational institutions and students from the Oresund-Kategatt-Skagerrak-region and develops exemplary models for a practical cross-border study community that will support integration between the Nordic countries' school systems and inspire other educational institutions and levels to develop cross-border education, which may contribute to Nordic you ...
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Regional potential for a Greener Economy (GREECO)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The Europe 2020 Strategy indicates that moving towards a greener economy allows for addressing environmental challenges, social inequalities as well as to create economic growth and jobs. Within the green economy approach, growth is especially expected in areas such as renewable energy, agriculture, water management and waste management. Transport, tourism and forestry are examples for other secto ...
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Sustainable RES-CHAINS in the South Baltic Region (RES-Chains)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

Renewable Energy Sources (RES) have become of vital importance for and a substantial part of regional development. Amongst others, RES contribute to an independent and secure energy supply, economic growth and climate protection. When using RES, it is important to observe the entire chain to guarantee a sustainable application, from the outtake of biomass from forest or the production of solar pan ...
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Innovative Social Services platform (InnoServ)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

Our consortium will investigate innovative approaches in three fields of social services: health, education, and welfare. To do so, we will focus on two levels: (i) the status quo of research in these fields and (ii) the input from practitioners who have developed innovative social services. Special attention will be paid to the transferability of elements, the European value, effects on gender an ...
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This project aims to effect a change across Europe in the teaching and learning of mathematics and science with teachers supported to develop inquiry-based learning (IBL) pedagogies so that students gain experience of IBL approaches. Ultimately, our objective is a greater number of students with more positive dispositions towards further study of these subjects and the desire to be employed in rel ...
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Project partner will complete a detailed multidisciplinary situation analysis of highland aquatic resources, focused on values, livelihoods, conservation issues and wise-use options at five sites in Asia (Guangdong, China; Uttrakhand and West Bengal, India and northern and central Vietnam). Factors assessed will include biodiversity and ecosystem services, including provisioning, regulating, suppo ...
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Cluster for Accelerator Technology (CATE)

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

With the prospects of big labs ESS and MAX IV, and the coming need of accelerator technology, companies in the region need to learn how to provide the required technology. To enable companies to compete internationally regarding design, construction, maintenance of high technology accelerator related equipment, close cooperation between Danish, Norwegian and Swedish universities and companies is e ...
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CareSam

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

The purpose of this project is to establish a regional network within the elderly care sector. The project will contribute to develop the quality assessment within the (public) elderly-care sector in the Oresund region. Achievements: During the first part of the project ...
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An Exemplary Knowledge Region

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

Crossboarder collaboration between Malmo University and Roskilde University.The aim of the project is to develop three knowledge fields ”Communication and Development for Social Change”, ”Europeanization and Globalization” and ”Meaning and Diversity”, and to organise the activities coherently and progressively. ...
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From strategies to activities (Bioenergy Promotion2)

Start date: Sep 28, 2011, End date: Dec 27, 2013,

The aim of the project "Bioenergy Promotion 2- from strategies to activities" was to promote and increase the sustainable production and use of bioenergy in the Baltic Sea Region.Bioenergy Promotion 2 was a follow-up to the Main stage project Bioenergy Promotion. The Main stage project started in 2009 and concluded in 2011. The initial project consortium consisted of 33 partners, who were involved ...
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ModNanoTox will develop a number of well-documented and technically advanced models describing the behaviour of engineered nanoparticles in organisms and the environment. Background to these models will be a thoroughly documented database, constructed based on: (1) an advanced evaluation of physicochemical properties of nanoparticles and in silico modelling of their reactivity; and (2) assessment ...
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Theatre Dialogue Oresund

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Oct 30, 2013,

The project will develop a guideline and a toolbox to help theatres collaborate in co-producing and touring existing productions abroad. And to develope ways to communicate and market productions in order to make new audiences attend the performances. Achievements: Dev ...
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Center for evacuation security in the Oresundregion (KESO)

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

The Öresund region share issues with regards to complex building constructions, i.e. buildings and constructions that are complicated from an evacuation point of view. The project will lead to a cross border evacuation strategy, applicable and equally relevant in Denmark and Sweden. ...
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Reprosund

Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Feb 27, 2013,

The project would like to expand the opportunities for improved diagnosis and treatment in the Oresund region and furthermore to focus on what can be done to prevent the expanding infertility problem (for example the increase in age of first time mothers). Achievements: ...
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Coasts of the Future

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The project Coasts of the Future is a co-operation project between actors engaged in costal area development in the Oresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak-region. The coastal areas have experienced an extensive industrial change – from traditional enterprises such as fishing boats to tourism. A challenge is to adapt to the change in a way that leads to economic growth, and at the same time preserve environmen ...
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Oresund as a bicycle region

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The project aims to promote the bicycle as a mean for transportation. It is done by coordinated facts and maps, improved tools for information for cyclists (webb based maps, navigation systems, and the promoting of roads that are well signed-posted). Achievements: The p ...
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Making Knowledge Work (MKW)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The Making Knowledge Work (MKW) consortium consists of 12 ambitious regions wishing to improve their regional innovation capacity. They all observe that excellent research does not always find its way into commercially valuable innovations and excellent ideas are often not used. Policy action is needed to bridge the gap in the innovation chain. It asks for projects on micro level and meso level st ...
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Centre for Scandinavian Studies (CSS)

Start date: Jul 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The long-term goal is to make the resulting centre into the leading institution worldwide for research and education in Scandinavian Studies, encompassing the fields of language, literature and culture. Expected Results: Co-op ...
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Work and Life Quality in New and Growing Jobs (WALQING)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"In order to explore the linkages between ‘new jobs’, conditions of work and employment in these jobs and more or less favourable outcomes for employees’ quality of work and life, WALQING combines data analysis on the chief European data sources, in-depth comparative investigation of stakeholder policies, organisational arrangements and strategies, and the perspectives and agency of individuals in ...
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Scandinavian-Adriatic Corridor for Growth and Innovation (SCANDRIA)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Sep 8, 2012,

Against the background of doubling freight transport volumes by 2050 in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR), capable transport infrastructures are required for efficient, integrated and sustainable freight and passenger traffic.The Scandinavian-Adriatic Development Corridor is the shortest geographical link between Baltic and Adriatic Sea. It provides freight transport capacities to relieve overloaded Wes ...
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Geological time is inextricably linked with Earth Sciences and the Geological Time Scale (GTS) is the yardstick to measure it. As such the GTS is the key to reconstruct Earth history. Recent developments in numerical dating now permit to build a much improved next generation GTS for the last 100 million years by integrating independent state-of-the-art techniques; this time scale will have an unpr ...
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Oresund EcoMobility

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

The project is an initiative that will unite the competencies within person and goods transportation, logistics, supply chain management and biofuels. Creating cross science triple-helix Thematic Knowledge Exchange Networks that gather knowledge on the possibilities for promoting a climate friendly transportation systems for goods and persons in the region by collecting knowledge from existing rep ...
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FoodBest Oresund

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Apr 19, 2012,

Oresund Region is the one of the leading European R&D regions within food with world leading universities and companies. The process of attracting Food KIC to Oresund region is very complex and connected with a profound and long term working effort. It will require regional consensus, international and national marketing, EU-lobbyism, and regional models for innovation and public private partnersh ...
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North Sea Screen Partnership (NSSP)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Mar 30, 2012,

NSSP seeks to tap the potential of the creative industries (i.e. the film industry) to promote innovation and growth in the NSR and increase the regions competitiveness in a global context. Transnational cooperation is concentrated on common challenges, such as marketing, financing and SME support is proposed to tackle issues such as fragmented national markets inhibiting critical mass creation (d ...
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