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ONLINE Platform for Smart Specialisation Policy Advice (ONLINE-S3)
Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2018,
This project aims to develop an e-policy platform augmented with a toolbox of applications and online services, which will assist national and regional authorities in the EU in elaborating or revising their smart specialisation agenda, in terms of policies and strategy. The platform will leverage existing methodologies, initiatives and tools developed by the EC for the RIS3 strategy, but it will a ...
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Danube Urban Brand - regional network building through tourism and education to strengthen the Danube cultural identity and solidarity (DANUrB)
Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2016,
The project primarily aims to strengthen the Danube regional cultural identity and brand by fostering transnational cultural ties between the settlements along the Danube, and at the same time, by exploring the unused or hidden cultural and social capital resources of this regional network. The main goal of the project is to create a comprehensive tourism strategy connecting all cities along the D ...
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Knowledge Transfer Community to bridge the gap between research, innovation and business creation (NoGAP)
Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
...Innovation Space” on societal challenge ”secure, clean and efficient energy”.The NoGAP consortium is composed of 13 organizations from 6 countries of which 3 are EU members (Germany, Romania, Slovakia) and 3 are members of the Eastern Partnership (Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia). In order to improve mobility between research, business and innovation, interrelated tandem relations between research organ ...
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Emerging communities for collective innovation in Central Europe (CentralCommunity)
Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
The main objective of CentralCommunity is to strengthen collaboration in the Life Sciences sector of five participating central European member states. The extended cluster- and network-based collaborative approach at the heart of this project represents also a promising solution to major constraints of SME innovation, such as access to learning and knowledge processing, to cognitive diversity and ...
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Regional Policy Improvement for Financially Sustainable Creative Incubator Units (InCompass)
Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
... Achievements: The InCompass project is a partnership of 15 institutions across 12 European regions: Scotland, Spain, Netherlands, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Italy, England, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary and Bulgaria. The aim of the project is to support increased self-sustainability of creative industries business incubator units. Led by Lead Part ...
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Surpassing Energy Targets through Efficient Public Buildings (SERPENTE)
Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
Reduction of harmful emissions and efficient use of resources are key to ensuring long term sustainable development. Energy consumption in buildings represents around 40% of total final energy use in Europe. In this context, public authorities have a key role in leading by example, as the impact of energy use in publicly owned and managed buildings is huge.Thus, SERPENTE brings together 10 partner ...
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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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Central Europe Repair & Re-use Centres and Networks (CERREC)
Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Jul 30, 2014,
...onal re-use conditions that resulted in seven national reports. Results showed that the conditions for re-use are quite different between participating countries (Austria, Germany, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Italy). Also from the very beginning stakeholder participation process have been initiated by the single project partners in their countries. Within several meetings the current stat ...
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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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Enhancing Framework Conditions for an effective Transnational Cluster Cooperation in Central European Countries (ClusterCOOP)
Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2014,
...n EU & global level.These considerations brought about the idea of a cluster conference in May 2009, organised by partnership behind ClusterCOOP, where the Visegrad 4(Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia) discussed strategies for enhanced cooperation with the participation of policy level representatives, clusters & experts.Creating and enhancing framework conditions for the effective cross-r ...
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Boosting innovation through capacity building and networking of science centres in the SEE region (SEE Science)
Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2014,
Innovation scores low in SEE, proper framework conditions are missing to bridge research, education & business and the region is characterized by a weak culture for innovation. Although SEE Science PPs have excellent chances for innovative business development since universities and high technology companies are located there, their potential to improve social climate for new developments, is unde ...
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Innovative value chain development for sustainable plastics in Central Europe (PLASTiCE)
Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2014,
Capability for the diffusion of innovative biodegradable solutions among producers of packaging and other plastic products is dependent on the expectations of end-user industries (food sector, retail, medical and health sector). As long as these players are not convinced of the economic and environmental benefits of introducing biodegradable packaging and half products in their production systems, ...
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Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes of the XX° Century in Urban Management (ATRIUM)
Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2013,
From wounds of an inconvenient & terrible past, the architectural traces of totalitarian regimes of XX° Century could become an important source of local development, if they were managed & valorized through a trans - national cultural route (in compliance with requisites set out by the Council of Europe with the Resolution n° 12/07) corroborated by tourism cultural products. ATRIUM has been desig ...
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INNOvation TRAINing IT Central Europe (INNOTRAIN IT)
Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Mar 30, 2013,
Information technologies are regarded as key drivers of innovation in SMEs. However, many SMEs, particularly in the production sector, still have difficulties in utilizing these new technologies efficiently in order to foster process and product innovation. This is partly due to the fact that many SMEs dont use IT Service Management and waste many (financial and personal) resources in running basi ...
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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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Green management plans for European urban and peri-urban Landscapes (EUROSCAPES)
Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
EUROSCAPES is a shared vision of 14 partners coming from 13 EU Member States on the necessity to tackle natural and cultural landscapes' management issues in urban and peri-urban areas at an interregional level and in a sustainable way. In dense and contrasting urban environments, tackling the concept of landscapes and its related issues will prevent their loss of specificity and identity, and hel ...
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Tools for Transnational Innovation Support in Centrope (CENTROPE_TT)
Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2012,
...er European context. Bearing this in mind, it is astonishing that almost 20 years after the fall of the iron curtain, 15 years after EU-accession of Austria and 5 years of Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, this transnational region still suffers from insufficient connectivity in the field of research, technology and innovation. Enterprises are already taking advantage of business opportunities ...
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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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Metropolisation and Polycentric Development in Central Europe: Evidence Based Strategic Options (POLYCE)
Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2012,
The European Commission considers the Danube Region as one of the most important areas in Europe and has set up a macro-regional strategy encouraging long term co-operation to tackle a wide range of policy challenges. The capital cities of Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Bratislava and Ljubljana wish to play an active role in this co-operation. These big cities are important drivers of development. The ...
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South East European Transport Axis Cooperation (SEETAC)
Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Mar 30, 2012,
The existing SEE transport framework & network are inadequate to actual requirements. For too long the relevant institutions were concentrating on national infrastructures where most of the investments have been made to the detriment of the trans-national implications. Current transport facilities, mostly in the non-EU countries are way beneath international standards mainly because of insufficien ...
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Materials for Robust Gallium Nitride (MORGaN)
Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,
The MORGaN project addresses the need for a new materials for electronic devices and sensors that operate in extreme conditions, especially high temperature, high electric field and highly corrosive environment. It will take advantage of the excellent physical properties of diamond and gallium nitride heterostructures. The association of the two materials will give rise to the best materials and d ...
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Central Europe Research to Innovation Models (CERIM)
Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 30, 2011,
CERIM wants to foster innovation-based economic activity in the Central Europe area, particular in the new member states. Academic research-efforts will be turned into new companies and bring higher competitiveness to existing enterprises thereby helping to sustain and enlarge industrial activity in areas far from cities such as Vienna, Munich and Milan. The project will also contribute to improvi ...
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EST: The large aperture European Solar Telescope (EST)
Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2011,
"This is the project definition for the Conceptual Design Study of the large aperture European Solar Telescope (EST). EST is a pan-European project involving 29 partners from 14 different countries. A consortium EAST (European Association for Solar Telescopes) exists with the aim, among others, of undertaking the development of EST, to keep Europe in the frontier of Solar Physics in the world. EST ...
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Common best practices in spatial planning for the promotion of sustainable POLYcentric DEVelopment (POLY.DEV.)
Start date: May 31, 2005, End date: May 29, 2007,
Regional spatial planning policies and tools for spatial development play an important role when applying sustainable development principles as they are outlined in the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP), by the European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) or by the European Conference of Ministers Responsible for Regional Planning (CEMAT). These principles combine economic, ...
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EINET will establish itself as a multi-level network to encourage entrepreneurship and innovative training amongst young European citizens. Partners representing 17 countries will be established at 4 levels (local, regional, national & transnational) comprising core players, permanent relay points and occasional correspondents.Primary activities of the network will include the creation of a 'Virtu ...
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The project aims to produce case studies of structural design to the new Eurocodes (focused on standardization and mobility) based on re-design of a real recent building construction project and incorporating the requirements of the National Annexes (adaptation of Eurocodes to national requirements), Health and Security-related issues and construction practices of each partner country. Target grou ...
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The NEXT project aims at adapting training and educational methodology in order to provide a more effective answer with regard to the development of social skills. Project partners will initially undergo a comparative survey at European level, with regard to the use of experience-based training methods and techniques and, based upon identified best practice, will define and introduce an innovative ...
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JP - EUJEP - European Japanese Exchange Projct in Nuclear Disciplines
Start date: Nov 1, 2009,
The European Japanese Exchange Project in Nuclear Disciplines covers the mobility programme of students at the Master level ofNuclear Engineering and other Nuclear Disciplines related to the application of nuclear technologies and radiation sciences. Theproject includes exchanges of students and faculty members between five European and three Japanese institutions. All institutionsare already mutu ...
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On-line Quality Assurance of Study Programmes
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
The project aims to the definition and adoption of an iQA system of SPs in the RF, consistent with the ESG and compatible with their organisation, and of an online documentation and monitoring system of their quality. The project will be especially addressed to technological education, but most topics are universal and can be applied to all fields of education as well. The first outcome of the pro ...
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This project focuses on the need for people working in SMEs in Central and East European countries to have easy access to cost-effective competence based training. This partnership of training organisations, universities, chambers of commerce, trade unions and employer organisations gathers together expertise based on practical experience available within the partnership that has been developed o ...
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Career assistance in bio-science : The project will oversee the application of EU standards to bio-science training. Mechanisms will also be set up to assess the needs of the labour market and at the same time offer help to those aiming for careers in the field. This project started in 2000 and lasted 36 months.
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Practical teaching programmes in electrical engineering : The project will bridge a gap caused by excessive concentration on theory in electrical engineering training programmes. It will provide interactive simulations which give the student the opportunity to study the theory of the subject whilst at the same time engaging in simulated practical experiments. This project started in 2002 and laste ...
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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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REVIVE project seeks to contribute to European cooperation in QA focusing on defining QA factors in VET services. More specifically, the project aims at methodology application to ensure quality of VET curriculum at institutional level. REVIVE project will aim at applicability of the CQAF criteria at institutional level, as national QA actions cannot be properly ensured without “bottom approach”. ...
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Complying to safety standards on idustrial electrical machinery is one of the biggest challenges facing European SME’s in the manufactoring sector.The main objective of SOMA project is to develop a learning system, which is used in training situationsof individuals, government organisations and SME’s.The challenge is to develop new tools ahd facilities in the process of improving local and interna ...
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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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REDILEM will develop a system of Distance Learning to improve the lifelong acquisition of skills and competencies, primarily for SME Managers in rural areas, where access to traditional learning environments is difficult.The system to be developed will comprise three learning elements: e-learning, self-learning and regular meetings of self-learning groups of entrepreneurs.Course topics will includ ...
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Developing and Adapting Professional Programs for Energy Efficiency in the Western Balkans
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
The wider objective of this project is to develop education in the field of energy efficiency at post-secondary and professional Masters levels. Thereby this project contributes to the modernization of the educational systems of Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro. Specific objectives include: the design of quality professional programs in five universities in the region; the delivery of programs accor ...
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Higher education Online: MOOCs the European Way
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are a new approach to lifelong learning which provides free access to selected courses and some services for very large audiences. MOOCs now are accepted as part of LLL provisions opening up HE, improving access to HE and responding to the needs and interests of people. However, it needs to be recognised that, to date, most investment in OER and in MOOCS has tak ...
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The NFATEC project will develop a two-part training programme, for Engineers in the Construction industry, involving a combination of self-learning and web-based tutor interaction. The programme will be aimed both at existing employees and recent graduates considering entry to the sector.Existing materials, developed through the previously funded Leonardo da Vinci project 'SSEDTA', will be adapted ...
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