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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,
Despite improved understanding of the links between ecosystem health, provision of ecosystem services and human well-being, further conceptual and empirical work is needed to make the ideas of ecosystem services (ESS) and natural capital (NC) operational. OpenNESS will therefore develop innovative and practical ways of applying them in land, water and urban management: it will identify how, where ...
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Assessing and Monitoring the Impacts of Genetically modified plants on Agro-ecosystems (AMIGA)
Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2016,
The project aims at 1 providing baseline data on biodiversity in agro-ecosystems in the EU, 2 translating regional protection goals in measurable assessment endpoints, 3 defining lists of suitable bioindicators for various European regions, 4 improving knowledge on potential long term environmental effects of genetically modified plants (GMPs), 5 testing the efficacy of the EFSA Guidance Document ...
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Clusters meet culture: an opportunity for development (CMC)
Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,
As culture is increasingly used as a means of social and economic development, the cultural tourism market is being ?flooded? with attractions, cultural routes and heritage centres. However, many consumers, tired of encountering the serial reproduction of culture in different destinations, are searching for new alternatives. The rise of skilled consumption, the importance of identity and the acqui ...
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Adriatic - Danube - Black Sea multimodal platform (ADB multiplatform)
Start date: Mar 31, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,
The idea of the project is to develop and promote environmentally friendly, multimodal transport solutions from the ports in the SEE programme area (Black Sea, Aegean, Adriatic) to inland countries and regions along a selected pilot transnational network. This will be done by developing and establishing a "multimodal transport development platform", which integrates different regions and stakehold ...
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Sustainable Mobility and Tourism in Sensitive Areas of the Alps and the Carpathians (ACCESS2MOUNTAIN)
Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2014,
The Alpine and the Carpathian Conventions state sustainable tourism mobility as a challenge and call for cooperation on this topic among the countries of these mountain regions. In particular sustainable tourist mobility is not well-developed in mountainous regions, especially in South-East Europe, as mountain regions are lacking sufficient sustainable transport facilities and facing major ecologi ...
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Integrated management of biological and landscape diversity for sustainable regional development and ecological connectivity in the Carpathians (BIOREGIO Carpathians)
Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,
...ty preservation and ecological connectivity in the Czech Republic• Analysis of the institutional and legal framework affecting biodiversity preservation and ecological connectivity in the Slovak Republic• Analysis of the institutional and legal framework affecting biodiversity preservation and ecological connectivity in UkraineFor more information see:http://www.southeast-europe.net/en/projects/ap ...
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Comparative Analysis of Factor Markets for Agriculture across the Member States (Factor Markets)
Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,
Well functioning factor markets are a crucial condition for the competitiveness and growth of agriculture and for rural development. At the same time, the functioning of the factor markets themselves are influenced by changes in agriculture and the rural economy, and in EU policies. Member state regulations and institutions affecting land, labour, and capital markets may cause important heterogene ...
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Valorisation and Sustainable Development of Cultural Landscapes using Innovative Participation and Visualisation Techniques (VITAL LANDSCAPES)
Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Mar 30, 2013,
Unique cultural landscapes constitute a major factor of Central Europe's cultural identity, uniting nature and heritage. Being the most typical part of nature in CE, they are precondition of biodiversity and an important ecological resource. Moreover, functioning landscapes constitute the base for regional economic development, above all in of rural areas, and the well-being of the inhabitants. Ho ...
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Circular flow land use management (CIRCUSE)
Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Feb 27, 2013,
CIRCUSE partner regions are confronted to massive urban sprawl, the current economic crisis and the effects of the demographic change that cause land use patterns that are neither competitive (e. g. in attracting viable economies, efficiently providing infrastructures) nor sustainable. Dispersed land use patterns with their high demands of land, soil and energy accelerate the process of climate ch ...
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Future Laboratory for the Diffusion and Application of Innovation in Materials Science and Engineering (FLAME)
Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Aug 30, 2012,
Materials sciences and engineering (MS&E) are significant innovation drivers within the Central European area and thus crucial for competitiveness and economic growth. The MS&E sector has its particularities like: frequent introduction of new material technologies, existing requirements and specifications frequently do not fit the unique features of advanced material and the sectors complexity req ...
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Stakeholder oriented flood risk assessment for the Danube floodplains (DANUBE FLOODRISK)
Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,
The Danube River is one of the most important natural axes in South-East-Europe. It links most of the countries in the SEE area. Thus the improvement and good examples of transnational cooperation of all countries at this river will be a brilliant signal for the whole region. This project has a far reaching strategic focus beyond risk management and could become a flagship project for the SEE prog ...
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European Biodiversity Observation Network; a project to design and test a biodiversity observation system integrated in time and space (EBONE)
Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,
The key challenge addressed in the present proposal is to develop a biodiversity observation system that is transmissible, cost effective and provides added value to the currently independent data sources of in situ data and EO. There are three requirements: the production of protocols to enable extant data to be placed on a common framework for analysis; the provision of a sound scientific conce ...
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Tisa Catchment Area Development (TICAD)
Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Feb 27, 2012,
The extraordinary feature of the TICAD project is the broad and productive transnational cooperation of local, regional, national authorities, planning and research institutions from all the five countries sharing the territory of the Tisa basin. Owing to this comprehensive and integrated partnership the aims of the EU water management policies and territorial development perspectives will be purs ...
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ion and valorisation of the longest habitat system in Europe (GREEN BELT)
Start date: Mar 31, 2006, End date: May 29, 2008,
Borders separate, nature unites: Along the former "Iron Curtain", the longest European system of habitats has been preserved due to decades of inaccessibility. However, the location within border areas did not only help to protect nature, but also limited the economic development of the adjacent regions. GREEN BELT aims at transforming the former "death belt" into a green "life line" by focusing o ...
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Integration of migrants in the enlarged Europe and policies for the return of productive intellect (MIGRALINK)
Start date: Feb 28, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
ountries such as Veneto or Austria and recently also by the newly acceded countries. Parts of Poland, Slovakia and Hungary are now new border regions of the EU and face immigration-related problems while Romania and Serbia have experienced growing outflows of citizens towards EU Member States in recent years. The phenomenon means organisational and social challenges that have to be dealt with by b ...
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Setting up and implementation of sustainable and multifunctional rural development model based on organic and competitive agriculture (SIMOCA)
Start date: Dec 31, 2002, End date: Mar 30, 2006,
Consumers are increasingly demanding organic agricultural products. This creates a new market for agricultural products which are produced in an environmentally-friendly way. Also the Community policy (EC Reg. 1257/97) promotes production methods compatible with the increasing needs of protection and improvement of the environment, natural resources, the soil and genetic diversity, as well as with ...
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VET students and VET-level employees currently have insufficient knowledge about Clean Technologies and sustainability and how to implement these broad themes in practice in SMEs. The EU has made it clear that investing in these qualities is important for a sustainable Europe. The Europrean Council stated in Dec 2010 that this basis in VET-education is weak in its “Council conclusions on education ...
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Central Asia Student International Academic exchange with EU - CASIA
Start date: Nov 30, 2010,
The Consortium brings a wide range of disciplines together, but focuses in specific on agriculture, life
sciences, trans-boundary natural resource management and climate change. The wider objective is very
relevant in the context of partner Universities modernisation and adaptation of their education capabilities
towards reformed countries economy in the region. The chosen main disciplines are add ...
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Vocational Training in Rural Development and Ecology
Start date: Jan 15, 2010,
Russian public bodies such as ministries, oblast administration and other authorities have a lack of knowledge in the sector of ecology and rural development. This lack of knowledge is increasingly growing due to the complexity of ecological relevant topics and the extremely weak interdepartmental approach in the sphere of environmental protection. Due to that gap employees of public bodies workin ...
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...ulture" puts the accent on elaboration and easy access to all important information about plant protection in ecological agriculture, as there was not such comprehensive source available until now in Slovakia. The project is providing useful information for developing environmentaly safe agricultural technologies heading to sustainable development which is one of the top priorities of European Uni ...
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After the change of system in Slovakia viniculture stopped its development. Through establishment of the EVIRS (Európskeho vinárskeho rytierskeho stavu – European wine knight status) consulate for the Slovak Republic in Pezinok as an institutional basis of the European wine knightage in Slovakia, new possibilities to retain the cultural heritage in the area of viniculture, production and sale ...
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Placements abroad have a longlasting impact on social competencies of students: communication, respect for cultures and religions, language skills, flexibility, etc. and acceptance of foreign people. The ambition is to increase the number of students with practical experiences abroad (from 1% now to 20% in 2020). We work on improvement of quality of placements by accreditation, mutual recognition, ...
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Renewable Energy Studies in Western Balkan Countries
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
Renewable energy is highly important for the future economy in the partner countries in the Balkan region with limited energy resources in a growing economy and with the related environmental problems. The wider objective of the project is therefore the reform of the studies in the five partner universities in the field of renewable energy. Thereby existing studies are upgraded and new Master stud ...
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...it is necessary to support educational efforts to disseminate knowledge on agricultural biogas plants. A similar situation as in Poland takes place in the partner countries of the project that is in Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and Cyprus. Partner from Slovakia successfully conducted project called "Resnet" on the subject of the renewable energy. This project was the basis for the transfer of inno ...
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Modernisation of higher education in the area of food quality and safety in Tajikistan
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
...ber States. Partners involved: Lead partner - Latvia University of Agriculture; P2 Tajik Agrarian University; P3 Avicenna Tajik State Medical University; P4 Technological University of Tajikistan; P5 Slovak University of Agriculture; P6 Lithuanian University of Health Sciences; P7 Ministry of Education of the Republic of Tajikistan. WPs and main outputs: WP1 Development of the master study progra ...
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The ENTANGLE project addresses entrepreneurship in (Secondary) Vocational Education institutes. The project has an innovative practical approach to stimulating entrepreneurship among students in VET institutions by providing their teachers with the tools and materials to educate, inspire and motivate their students for them to be able to pursue a career as an entrepreneur.VET students who finish t ...
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The Waste Training Tool project will develop a flexible, interactive, waste management training tool on CD-Rom for use primarily by SMEs in the planning and implementation of effective waste management.Tighter control on environmental impacts and growing recognition of the inherent value of waste requires companies to have a more detailed understanding of their resource consumption, process effici ...
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Development of Public Accreditation of Agricultural programs in Russia
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
The wider objective of the project is to contribute to the introduction of the Bologna principles into the Russian quality assurance system of higher education. This involves development of Standards and Procedures for Public Accreditation of Agricultural Programs in line with the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG). Standards should meet the ...
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Reshaping of Agricultural Vocational Studies in the Western Balkans
Start date: Oct 15, 2012,
AGRIVOC project focuses on the improvement of vocational studies in agriculture (crop rpotection, animal husbandry, viticulture & viniculture, farming and crop protection), and food technology. The project aims to upgrade the knowledge base and practical ability of students to work in agricultural and food related field by improving the curriculum of courses, subjects and methods of teaching and b ...
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TIMUR - Training of Individuals through Mobility to EU from Uzbek Republic
Start date: Jul 15, 2013,
...y (NL),- applicant, Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SE), Czech University of Life Sciences (CZ), Hohenheim University (DE), University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (AT), Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (SK), University of Granada (ES), Szent Istvan University (HU), Politechnico di Torino (I), SupAgro (FR), Georg-August Universitat Gottingen (D), University L ...
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Reasons.Vocational colleges in the agricultural sector in Europe experience problems to deliver well qualified workers to innovative companies in the Bio Based Economy (BBE). In general, teachers do not have the specific training materials at hand, directly related to the new BBE. Most VET colleges (EQF3-4) do not possess the right and specific educational materials that fit the BBE challenge.Outc ...
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Strengthening the Lifelong Learning in Environmental Sciences in Russia
Start date: Oct 15, 2012,
The project “Strengthening the Lifelong Learning in Environmental Sciences in Russia – STREAM” will strictly address its wider objective – contribute to the development of a national framework for lifelong learning in line with the needs of a knowledge-based society in Russia. The project strives to achieve three specific objectives:1. Setting-up a horizontally & regionally distributed network for ...
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Improving awareness of plant protection : This project will produce training tools to increase awareness of the need for plant protection amongst the agricultural workforce and will help give workers wider access to life-long learning. This project started in 2002 and lasted 30 months.
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The results and recommendations accumulated by research on cross cultural learning styles, conducted by different partner institutions in Europe, South America and Asia, funded through four different EU Grant Programmes’ , will form a solid basis for the project at hand. Over the course of four years of intensive research including a survey of thousands of students and a series of successful conf ...
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High Objectives of National Organizational Reform
Start date: Oct 15, 2012,
The development of a training and retraining system for high level civil servants of the Kyrgyz Republic will help to build a strong, modern and efficient civil service. The project will contribute to this wide objective through developing and implementing a new training scheme that will significantly improve the management of the public sector and the promotion of principles of transparency, et ...
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In 2010 the European Commission presented its new vision for the future of vocational education and training. As has been written in that document, vocational education and training is chosen by an average of around 50% of all students in upper secondary education. However, the sector needs to be modernized to make it more attractive and more relevant for job market needs aiming at helping young p ...
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Higher Education Structures to Enhance Public Health Learning and Teaching in the Republic of Uzbekistan
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
UZHELTH is designed to develop the capacity of Uzbek Higher Education Institutions to train public health personnel of various levels of responsibility and autonomy and in the relevant disciplinary sectors in order to enhance the level of human health in the broadest sense.Using Tuning Methodology, UZHELTH will implement a structured process of mapping, consultation, restructuring, monitoring and ...
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S1-L06 Euro-Russian Academic Network - Mundus
Start date: Jul 15, 2011,
The project proposal, coordinated by the University of Barcelona, is integrated by 10 European institutions, 8 Russian institutions and associates partners. Key to this proposal is the successful cooperation and participation of all partners as a solid and coherent working group.
To ensure smooth organisation of mobility flows and effective management of the partnership, the consortium will integr ...
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...and with this aim going creation on-line learning course with five modules focused on landscape development in area of renewable energy resources. Each of the modules will be multi-lingual – in Slovak, English and German languages. We will also prepare other study materials, in the form of CD-ROM but available from Internet too, multimedia textbook with animations, hyperlink, graphics, audio and v ...
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The project prepared a study program for VET schools with the main emphasis in the areas of renewable energy resources, basic procedures for reducing energy intensive farms and the theory of climate change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions. Educational methods was used to include blended learning supported by WEB 2.0 technologies as blogs, wikis and forums. The main attention was focused on ...
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