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Transitions pathways and risk analysis for climate change mitigation and adaption strategies (TRANSrisk)
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Both the models concerning the future climate evolution and its impacts, as well as the models assessing the costs and benefits associated with different mitigation pathways face a high degree of uncertainty. There is an urgent need to not only understand the costs and risks associated with climate change but also the risks, uncertainties and co-effects related to different mitigation pathways as ...
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Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 (HBP SGA1)
Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,
Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an understanding can provide profound insights into our humanity, leading to fundamentally new computing technologies, and transforming the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders. Modern ICT brings this prospect within reach. The HBP Flagship Initiative (HBP) thus proposes a unique strategy that uses I ...
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Improving skills and competences of cycling instructors for European territorial administrations
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
The CycloVET concept was initially developed and submitted for the 2014 ERASMUS+ call for proposals. It received a positive evaluation and was placed first in the reserve list, being separated by half a grade from the selected list. In this year’s resubmission various aspects of the project were further refined to improve its consistency, relevance and impact. Most importantly:
- The consortium co ...
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Robotics Opportunities (to foster) STEM Education
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
...riod of teamwork aiming to realize concrete actions to empower and enhance the attractiveness of the STEM disciplines at the school level such as open days and guidance intervention, technical visits to the partner HEIs, short training within the involved corporate, virtual fora, festivals which will imply the massive use of the ICT and the social networks. In particular student competitions mode ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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Z phase strengthened steels for ultra-supercritical power plants (Z-ultra)
Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2016,
The aim is to develop a heat resistant steel with a 100 000 hour creep strength of 100 MPa at 650°C. This allows increasing the thermal efficiency of fossil power plants to over 50%, which is 30% higher than the present standard in most existing power plants. The CO2 emissions are reduced accordingly. The consortium combines the expertise of a steelmaker, two utility companies, an engineering cons ...
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Quantifying projected impacts under 2°C warming (IMPACT2C)
Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,
Political discussions on the European goal to limit global warming to 2°C demands that discussions are informed by the best available science on projected impacts and possible benefits. IMPACT2C enhances knowledge, quantifies climate change impacts, and adopts a clear and logical structure, with climate and impacts modelling, vulnerabilities, risks and economic costs, as well as potential respons ...
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"HIGHER EFFICIENCY, REDUCED EMISSIONS, INCREASED RELIABILITY AND LIFETIME, ENGINES FOR SHIPS" (HERCULES-C)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
...ective of HERCULES-C is to achieve near-zero emissions by integrating the various technologies developed in the previous research Projects, in Phases I and II.The third Objective is to maintain the technical performance of engines throughout their operational lifetime. This requires advanced materials and tribology developments to improve efficiency and reliability, as well as sensors, monitoring ...
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Employing cultural heritage as promoter in the economic and social transition of old-industrial regions (SHIFT-X)
Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
Industrial regions in central Europe have over decades been regarded as hot spots of economic development. However, many of them have lost this significance due to globalisation, transition to market economies and other framework conditions. Especially regions dominated by peripherally situated small- or medium-sized towns are characterised by their industrial past. Former industries leave behind ...
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POSITIVE-ENERGY BUILDINGS THRU BETTER CONTROL DECISIONS (PEBBLE)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,
In the design and operation of positive-energy buildings a pragmatic target is maximization of the actual net energy produced (NEP) by intelligently shaping demand to perform generation-consumption matching. To achieve this, informed decisions in (almost) real-time are required to operate building subsystems and to account for unpredictable user-behavior, occupancy scheduling and occupants' activi ...
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Alternative Fuels and Biofuels for Aircraft Development (ALFA-BIRD)
Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,
...be performed with tests in realistic conditions. Then, at the end of the project, the review of the performance of these new alternative fuels will be made regarding the economical, environmental and technical efficiency. Based on this result the most relevant strategy for future alternative fuels for aircraft will be defined, as well as an implementation plan and industrial applications. The impa ...
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SEE HYDROPOWER, targeted to improve water resource management for a growing renewable energy production (SEE HYDROPOWER)
Start date: May 31, 2009, End date: May 29, 2012,
...ter bodies• Handbook detailing innovative technologies for small hydropower plants with examples from the river Prut• Manual for small hydropower plant implementation including legal, technical and economic aspects• Manual on dynamic operation of hydro power plants with focus on flood prevention and desalination• Report from testing tools for evaluating hydropower potential of Drava river sub-basi ...
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Development of Guidance Manual for LCA application to Fuel cells and Hydrogen technologies (H2FC-LCA)
Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2011,
"The project aims to develop a Guidance manual for LCA of FC and H2 based systems, training material and courses. The MANUAL will offer a step by step guidance, following the LCA Handbook procedure, together with specific examples, targeting LCA practitioners in industry and researcher. FC and H2 are technologies with a broad range of functions, applications and input processes thus we will ado ...
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CO2-Neutral Transport for the Alpine Space (CO2-NeuTrAlp) (CO2-NeuTrAlp)
Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 30, 2011,
...ransport on the basis of renewable energies (RE) shall be implemented by local users of the Alpine Space: 1.) A variety of solutions will be applied in regions with differing resource potentials; 2.) Technical solutions will be harmonised in order to set international standards; 3.) Transnational exchange of know-how promotes the competitiveness of the Alpine Space. Through the use of new technolo ...
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Governance of territorial and urban policies (Governance)
Start date: Jul 22, 2004, End date: Nov 28, 2006,
Project 2.3.2 holds an important position in the definition and elaboration of a common ground for investigating the institutional and instrumental aspects of implementation of territorial and urban policies in Europe. The project focuses on the question how effective different systems are, e.g. considering a policy mix of spatial planning (in different forms implemented by Member States), local g ...
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L10 - Western Balkans
Start date: Jul 15, 2009,
The exchange programme developed by the consortium composed of the above mentioned partners offers a wide choice of the thematic fields of studies and opens up chances for undergraduates, masters, doctorates, post-doctorates and academic staff to get further qualifications into their specific academic field.The consortium selects the participants of the programme from the three target groups accor ...
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Europe lacks competent physics teachers – driving a negative feedback loop that hinders recruitment of good candidates who can turn the trend. This situation is ongoing at both national and European levels, as has been documented by several studies and conferences in recent years.The MOSEM2 project aims to contribute to changing this situation in a positive way by promoting lifelong learning in ph ...
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A wide-ranging programme for business training : A curriculum of nine modules on three levels has been produced to enable SME managers to run their businesses more efficiently and also to permit people who are not in work to integrate the labour market. This project started in 2002 and lasted 24 months.
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S1-L05 AVEMPACE
Start date: Oct 1, 2011,
The objective of the partnership coordinated by Technische Universität Berlin is to create a network of Jordanian, Syrian and European universities promoting academic excellence through joint research, education, and exchange of experience by awarding individual mobility grants to contribute to a sus-tainable development of Jordan and Syria in the field of higher education and improve the career p ...
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Modernizing and harmonizing maritime education in Montenegro and Albania
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
During the last two decades, due to well known transition reasons, maritime sector in Montenegro and Albania has been derogated. This situation affected the competencies in this area. Maritime education and training resources, with outdated curricula at all levels, as well as marine simulators and lab equipment, have become one of the obstacles in process of regaining maritime competencies in the ...
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Workshops and curricula for dissemination of Open Dynamic Design (ODD) findings. : The project will entail the integration of ODD recommendations into training for engineers so that training programmes will become more flexible and better suit the needs of industry. This project started in 2001 and lasted 24 months.
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... or re-qualify, as well as unemployed people who want to gain initial competences. AutoMatic was developed in close cooperation between five partners from four countries. The partnership includes two technical universities - Technical University of Gabrovo (Bulgaria) and Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), one international university focused in ICT - Luiss University (Italy), one research ...
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DIALOGUE-Bridges between Research and Practice in ULLL
Start date: Jan 1, 2011,
How can the link between academic research on LLL and professional practice on teaching and learning in ULLL be strengthened and the exchange be organised in such a way that reciprocal benefits and mutual learning are likely to take place? How can the European policy debate on LLL in Universities and beyond to the wider expert community in adult education be stimulated? The key purpose of the DIAL ...
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The Humboldt University of Berlin undertook a studypresenting, synthesizing and discussing recent and currentacademic research on the implementation of URBANin different European countries and cities.The study addresses 3 major issues:> URBAN and governance: impact of URBAN on (national,regional and) local governance structures and dynamics(impact on domestic policy traditions and institutional an ...
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Modernising Undergraduate Renewable Energy Education: EU Experience for Jordan
Start date: Oct 15, 2012,
The project’s wider objective is to ensure that universities in Jordan are placed in a position to offer quality education compatible with European standards and meets socio-economic needs of the emerging knowledge-based society by strengthening renewable energy teaching in order to graduate professional leaders who can meet market needs of the country. Its direct aim is to enhance the capacity an ...
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EACEA II - Euro-Asian Cooperation for Excellence and Advancement
Start date: Jul 15, 2013,
Euro-Asian Cooperation for Excellence and Advancement 2 is a continuation of an on-going project Euro-Asian CEA. The project follows the EM guidelines, balanced cover geographical area of regions in EU and Central Asia and answers to the regional needs in terms of thematic fields of study for lot 9. The proposal is based on the concentrated experience from initial project and will with advanced st ...
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The project responds to an identified need for physics teaching in schools, where there are either too few teachers, or non-specialist teachers, teaching physics and will further develop ICT teacher training tools for application in the classroom. SUPERCOMET 2 builds upon the previously fundedLeonardo da Vinci project, SUPERCOMET, which established computer-based training materials for the target ...
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IANUS II - Inter-Academic Network ErasmUs MunduS II - Strand 2 - Lot 5
Start date: Jul 15, 2013,
The main objective of IANUS II is to enhance higher education cooperation between EU and ENPI countries (student and staff mobility). The project aims at promoting intercultural cooperation and to helping to improve students’ career prospects, thus contributing to the improvement of human resources in the countries involved. IANUS II is coordinated by Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romani ...
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PhD in Food Science & Technology & Creating Capacities for PhD Reform at the University of Pristina / Kosovo
Start date: Oct 15, 2010,
The Joint Tempus Project "PhD in Food Science & Technology & Creating Capacities for PhD Reform at the University of Pristina (UP) / Kosovo - PhD@UP" has the aim of supporting curricular reform and capacity building at UP with active involvement Ministry of Education, State Accreditation Agency of Kosovo and Student Unions. It focuses on reforming PhD curricula in accordance with the Bologna proce ...
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Modernization of WBC universities through strengthening of structures and services for knowledge transfer, research and innovation
Start date: Oct 15, 2012,
The WBCInno project has an overarching aim to contribute to the modernization of WBC universities through the strengthening of their management structures/services for cooperation with the world of business in the areas of knowledge transfer, research and innovation. It has as its ultimate goal the creation of strong entrepreneurial universities and innovative regions. Five specific objectives of ...
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Partnership for the Education and Research about Responsible Living
Start date: Oct 1, 2009,
PERL (Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living) is a partnership of researchers and educators, aware of the urgent need for individuals and society to significantly rethink and reorient the choices they make and the manner in which they live their lives in order to reduce the negative impacts of climate change and financial instability, ensure more just distribution of resou ...
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I C Training as the answer : Hardware and software platforms have been developed with an accompanying methodology and two modular training courses. These courses will help train company staff in the applyication of ICTs to a variety of areas of business activity. This project started in 2002 and lasted 36 months.
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Reforming Foreign Language Studies in Serbia
Start date: Oct 15, 2010,
The overall broader objective of the project is to ensure that Serbia is in a position to have formally educated and highly skilled linguistic mediators and professionals necessary for the integration of Serbia in Europe and for its regional and internal development. Specific Project Objectives are:1. To significantly improve, harmonize the current Bologna-tailored modern language study programs i ...
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S1-L07 Align Research And Knowledge-based Innovation Systems
Start date: Jul 15, 2011,
This project places an emphasis on research and innovation, bringing opportunities to all countries in
the Caucasus. The implementation of individual mobilities, with special emphasis to research
initiatives, is expected to close some existing gaps in education. The overall aim of the proposal is to
implement student and teaching staff exchanges respecting quality indicators while introducing a
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S1-L05 JOrdan SYria Linking Europe and Erasmus Mundus
Start date: Jul 1, 2011,
The objective of the project is to enhance the understanding (linguistically, culturally, socially and educationally) and the international cooperation capacity in the field of science, education and culture between Europe, Jordan and Syria through an institution-based mobility scheme (all five levels included) between 10 universities in Europe, 5 universities in Jordan and 5 universities in Syria ...
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Putting the disabled on an equal footing : The project has produced a training curriculum together with an assessment tool aimed at both professionals working with the disabled and the beneficiaries themselves. It will contribute to improved standards of care for the disabled. This project started in 2003 and lasted 36 months.
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Euro-Asian Cooperation for Excellence and Advancement (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan)
Start date: Jul 15, 2012,
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Inter-Academic Network Erasmus Mundus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine)
Start date: Jul 15, 2012,
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CREATION OF THE THIRD CYCLE STUDIES-DOCTORAL STUDIES IN METROLOGY
Start date: Jan 15, 2010,
On the base of the new legislative for higher education in R. Macedonia, R. Croatia and Kosovo and the Bologna Declaration, new regulation and procedures for Ph.D. studies as well as new curricula for the third cycle of studies-doctoral studies in the field of metrology will be created. It will be a multi-country project with participation of R. Macedonia, R. Croatia and Kosovo for further introdu ...
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Credit where credit's due : The project has developed a vocational qualification transfer system that allows for cross-border recognition of acquired skills and competences. The system improves the mobility of students in vocational training and leads to improvements in vocational education and training throughout Europe. This project started in 2003 and lasted 36 months.
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