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ELEVATING THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN MOLDOVA

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

...igher Education and Research and National Strategy of Academic Mobility and Recognition of Degrees (in line with the National strategy Education 2020). 2. Developing and implementing effective university strategies on comprehensive internationalisation & academic mobility along with coherent institutional measures capable of steering internationalisation, improving institutional capacities for ...
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Description (EN): Demographic change and rising of ageing index in AS areas could endanger the capability of territories to keep their attractiveness because of the risk that companies are not right transferred and maintained alive. Business transfer is thus seen not only as a critical phase but as a way to strengthen the innovation potential of established SMEs and as an opportunit ...
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I am a Sport Entrepreneur – what R U?

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

...different countries and through a model inspired by 21st century didactics and capacity building mechanisms in virtual gaming.Partner countries: UK, ES, TR, PT, SI, HU, CZ and GR, being East London University the coordinator.The capacity building of young sport entrepreneurs will be achieved through real-life and real entrepreneurial activities, including sporting events, and will take the youth t ...
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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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NEET U Re-mobilizing experienced and resourceful seniors as NEET brokers to help young people change depressed NEET situations Social innovations do not happen by themselves. Throughout their life cycle, they need to be supported and nurtured if they are to make an impact on society and the economy. Empowering people, driving change – social innovation in the European Union, European Commission, ...
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Ubiquitous iNteroperable Care for Ageing People (UNCAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The lack of ICT platforms based on open standards is regarded as one of the most significant market barriers to the creation of new care & assistance paradigms with global interconnection and interworking. UNCAP delivers an interoperable platform based on open industrial standards that leverages on existing technologies for biosensing, indoor/outdoor localisation and home-automation. The result is ...
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Our consortium consists of 4 HEIs and 4 Youth Organisations in 4 EU countries: STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY, Bitjam Limited (UK) UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA, EVM Project Management Experts S.L. (Tenerife) TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE, Sentiment Analysis Market Research(Crete) DOBA Fakulteta za uporabne poslovne in druzbene studije Maribor, KADIS, kadrovsko izobrazevalni inzeniring d.o.o., ...
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Digital Innovations for Growth Academy

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Digital Innovations for Growth Academy meets the strategic need defined in the Bruges Communique to improve the capacity of Vocational Education and Training to respond to the changing requirements of the labour market and to adapt VET to keep pace with shifts to new technologies, work organisation and internationalisation. Building upon the experiences of previous successful Leonardo da Vinci Tr ...
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Vocational training and enterprise: a winning alliance for growth 2015

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

The project "VET-PRICE 2015" moves from the need to expand the knowledge and skills of young people training in Vocational and Technical Education, through an internship experience abroad lasting five weeks, in order to improve job opportunities. It is also a response to the training needs of the productive sectors of the Province of Treviso, hit hard by the crisis, through action that will lead ...
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The INSPIRES project aims to contribute to resilient and inclusive labour markets in Europe. It comparatively assesses the resilience and inclusiveness of labour markets in European countries, it identifies innovative policies that have contributed to resilience and inclusiveness and it analyzes strategies of policy learning that facilitate the development and transfer of these innovations within ...
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Total Operation management for Safety Critical Activities (TOSCA)

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

Over the recent past the accumulation of major mishaps, crises and accidents have made it clear that organisations must still improve their capabilities to address safety “not a stand-alone activity that is separate from the main activities and processes of the organization” but as an integrated part of critical project management. Further it is critical also to understand how weaknesses not only ...
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Dangerous goods are nowadays primarily transported by trucks – despite higher safety risks and higher environmental costs compared to other transport modes like rail. Intermodal transport offers an alternative but developing efficient interfaces between different transport modes is a challenge to be solved. Regions in central Europe are further disadvantaged due to missing connections across the ...
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Ageing population, safeguarding a healthy workforce, and an emerging demand for quality and highly professional health services have boosted the significance of the health sector. The health sector absorbs large amounts of labour, commodities and research and thus creates incomes, which in turn flow back into the economic cycle of locations, regions and the overall economy. Within regions, health ...
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EUROPEAN SCREEN DESTINATIONS (EuroScreen)

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

...the forefront of screen tourism and 3 less-advanced regions (Rzeszow, Bucharest & Maribor). It will be deliveredfrom 2012-14 by lead partner Film London with Ystad City Council & Lund University (Sweden), ProMalaga (Spain), Apulia Film Commission(Italy), Fondazzjoni Temi Zammit(Malta), Bucharest Regional DA*(Romania), Maribor DA*(Slovenia) & Rzeszow Regional DA(Poland). * Development Agency. Colle ...
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It is undoubtedly true that growing concerns on environmental issues, desire of energetic independency and increasing process of energy require the development and utilization of clean and renewable energy sources. A significant contribution to these issues can be offered by geothermal resources and geothermal-derived energy. Due to its base-load power, a higher than 90 percent availability, a sma ...
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The SEE region faces a complex, nationally and regionally diverse set of demographic, migratory and labour market challenges (low or declining fertility, large scale out-migration, brain and care drain, ageing, low labour force participation rate). Together with further aspects like gender, age and the given territorial heterogeneity of the programme area, they are creating a complex challenge to ...
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Smarter Cluster Policies for South East Europe (ClusterPoliSEE)

Start date: Apr 30, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

ClusterPoliSEE main objective is to enhance the capacity of regional policy makers to confront, prevent and anticipate change, developing smart specialization strategies for cluster improvement, thus accelerating differentiation and structural change towards a knowledge-based economy in which there is a place for all SEE regions to position themselves. 25 members partnership covers 11 different SE ...
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Shrinking regions and cities are becoming a more and more relevant issue in central Europe. Especially former border regions (Iron curtain) are particularly affected by demographic and social change. On the other hand these regions have large potentials which have to be explored and used. The consequences of demographic change and increasing scarcity of public resources thus require a fundamental ...
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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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BACKGROUND: Ageing poses a serious challenge to metropolitan areas of SEE: Increasing number of seniors coupled with low employment rate increases costs for the society (pensions, social services & health care) whichis especially problematic in light of constrained public budgets and economic downturn. Growing sustainable communities addressing the needs of seniors require good governance and lead ...
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...e SEE region are especially weak in terms of innovation and access to innovation, (2) there is a mismatch between the supply and demand of research products at local/regional/transnational level, (3) university connected science park lack resources and knowledge and do not work closely with SMEs. Therefore the main objective is to improve and develop support services to innovative SMEs provided by ...
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Open Innovation in Alpine SMEs (OPEN-ALPS)

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

OPEN-ALPS strengthens the competitiveness of the Alpine Space by introducing and realising innovations in SMEs based on the Open Innovation (OI) paradigm. Main objective is to support Alpine SMEs in technology branches on their way from internal closed innovation to "open innovation". This shall encourage innovation, entrepreneurship and strengthen research and innovation capacities for SMEs in th ...
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Central European Living Lab for Territorial Innovation (CentraLab)

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

The systemic impact on the economy, the environment and the quality of life in the Central European regions derives from the increase in the “innovation attractiveness” of the Central Europe space, as it develops and articulates the innovation demand coming from its citizens and businesses and sets in place the governance mechanisms to ensure policy coherence and optimise the benefits of single in ...
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The Kyoto protocol, the EU 20-20-20 strategy and several further commitments force the states of Central Europe to rationalize their energy consumption and reduce the fossil energy sources in their energy mix in favour of renewables. MANERGY assists the Central Europe area in achieving these goals by setting its general objective: supporting the responsible use of the environmental potentials of C ...
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Regions benefitting from returning migrants (Re-Turn)

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

Economically motivated migration of people from the New Member States to high-income countries is currently dominating international migration flows in Europe thanks to the free right to work in any other EU Member State. This is intensifying a brain drain process of many regions. On the other hand statistics show willingness of people to come back to their countries, however this process is ofte ...
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Attractive Urban Public Transport for Accessible Cities (ATTAC)

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

Most transport starts & ends in urban areas, thus they should provide efficient interconnections for transportation networks. ATTAC cities/regions (important nodes of the EU transp. network) are facing increasing mobility needs, intensified suburbanisation, escalating traffic flows & congestion. This led to poor accessibility of these regions & externalities that negatively affect the environment. ...
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Fostering continuous research and technology application (FORT)

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

Innovation is a results-oriented concept with science and technology as the key to the complex innovation processes embracing many related actors such as technology transfer centres, venture capital, entrepreneurs, etc. Innovation systems are focusing more on relationships and processes between innovation actors in achieving the presence of key factors such high level of research capability, enoug ...
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"There is an urgent need to better understand the basic biology of Clostridium as a prerequisite for both countering the diseases they cause (C.difficile, C.perfringens and C.botulinum), and exploiting their beneficial properties in industry (biofuels by C.acetobutylicum) and medicine (cancer therapy by C.sporogenes). Attainment of this goal is being impeded because: (i) European research efforts ...
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The FUTURE MEDICINE project is in fact the synthesis and further development of two projects that have already received EU-funding under the INTERREG IIIA Programme, Futuro Donna and Adriatic Telemed, whose objectives included the acknowledgement by health operators of the patient’s right to self-determination, putting emphasis on health as a collective good, and making medical care more humane. A ...
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Our main objective is to contribute to the efficient technology and knowledge transfer from university to industry for increasing economic growth. R&D Industry aims at SMEs, which are unable to achieve proper knowledge transfer from university due to their limited resources. We will identify SMEs R&D lacks and support them to benefit from newest university´s research achievements. In addition, the ...
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"Urban health is important due urbanisation and requires specific information not captured by national datasets. The EURO-URHIS (www.urhis.eu) project funded by DG SANCO, identified urban health indicators and their availability. EURO-URHIS 2 aims to develop methodology and validated tools useful to policy makers at all levels to make health gains via evidence based policy decisions for urban popu ...
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The project originates from the development of the traffic of chemicals in the Mediterranean and aims to reach these main objectives: 1) promote cooperation among chemical districts and between them and the main harbours 2) improve integration between harbours/hinterlands 3) sustain intermodality 4)reinforce the railways/waterways transportation for chemical products 5) promote a transfer o ...
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CITY VOLUNTEERS

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2013,

The project has the objective to enable the inhabitants of Slovene-Croatian border region, in particular deprived groups and minority representatives more accessible and more connective forms of voluntary work and to raise the quality of life.The project will create a network of voluntary organisations on Slovene-Croatian border region and a solid long-term structure of voluntary work ...
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Identification of the innovation potential in companies and research institutions in the bordering area, enhancement of cross-border connections between companies with innovation potential and creating relationships in order to increase knowledge flow, improve cooperation among the economy, research and education institutions in the region. Promotion of joint development ideas, assessment of their ...
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The main project objective is to foster the competitiveness of MED SMEs promoting a new public-private partnership to support innovation based on a more open approach of knowledge and technology transfer and a strong public-private cooperation. The main activities are: innovation providers’ quality certification system analysis of existent public-private mechanisms of cooperation to fund innov ...
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Biodiversity is threatened by habitat degradation and destruction. Human activity comprising intensification of agriculture, urbanisation and expanding infrastructure is the main driver for ongoing habitat loss. Core zones and controlled natural zones in National Parks or Sites of Community Importance (SCI) within the Natura 2000 network are established to halt the loss of biodiversity by providin ...
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Connecting the territory through the innovation network (INOLINK)

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

The INOLINK project focuses on regional policies and practices for the diffusion of innovation. It tackles the issue of innovation activities being usually concentrated on a limited number of innovative firms, typically concentrated in some geographical areas, while most of the European firms, generally SMEs, never undertake innovation. The overall objective of the INOLINK project is improving the ...
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ENERSCAPES - Territory, landscape and renewable energies (enerscapes)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: Nov 29, 2012,

The growing use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) is leading to a new awareness about their compatibility with landscape and heritage preservation policies. This project wants to investigate and evaluate the impacts that a non-regulated diffusion of RES could cause on Mediterranean territories and landscapes. By connecting energy and territorial planning, partners will identify suitable strategi ...
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The overall concept of the CD-MEDICS IP is to develop a technology platform for point-of-care diagnostics, capable of simultaneous genomic and proteomic detection, with embedded communication abilities for direct interfacing with hospital information systems. This will be achieved by exploiting breakthroughs at the confluences of bio-, micro- and nano- technologies to create a low-cost non-invasiv ...
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In order to preserve the traditional culinary heritage such as typical characteristic types of wine and food and a rich cultural heritage in the project area between the Drava, Mura and Zala rivers, a tourist facility needs to be developed which will stir up the tourists’ interest in buying traditional high quality tourist crops and products as well as using the services. The aim of project is to ...
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