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Divergent modes of ritual, social cohesion, prosociality, and conflict. (RitualModes)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

The project aims to establish an authoritative scientific framework for understanding the relationship between group ritual, social cohesion, and pro-group behaviour. Rituals have shaped human societies for millennia, but the exact social consequences of rituals are poorly understood. The proposed research will identify the fundamental components of rituals worldwide and chart their effects on pat ...
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Sexual Humanitarianism: understanding agency and exploitation in the global sex industry (SEXHUM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

The humanitarian fight against trafficking in the sex industry legitimizes the enforcement of increasingly restrictive migration laws and controls, which often exacerbate sex workers’ vulnerability to being trafficked. SEXHUM adopts an art-science interdisciplinary approach bringing together visual anthropology, sociology, gender and queer studies and human geography to study the relationship betw ...
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Cosmological Tests of Gravity (CosTesGrav)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

...ng our theoretical knowledge of the models and our state-of-the-art simulations.This grant will exploit and develop the world-leading position of the group initiated by Kazuya Koyama at the University of Portsmouth funded by the ERC starting grant (2008-2013).
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EMMC Mechatronic Engineering

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2020,

...optics, bionics and robotics.Course durationTwo years (120 ECTS credits).Brief descriptionThe EU4M EMJMD is promoted by a well-integrated partnership fully supported by five partner Universities (the University of Oviedo, Spain, the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany, the National Engineering Institute in Mechanics and Microtechniques, France, the Ivanovo State Power Engineering Uni ...
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Culture Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor Systems for Elderly Support (CARESSES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The groundbreaking objective of CARESSES is to build culturally competent care robots, able to autonomously re-configure their way of acting and speaking, when offering a service, to match the culture, customs and etiquette of the person they are assisting. By designing robots that are more sensitive to the user’s needs, CARESSES’ innovative solution will offer elderly clients a safe, reliable and ...
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Integrating Entrepreneurship and Work Experience into Higher Education

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The project responds to the concerns expressed by stakeholders on the shortcomings in the labour market orientation of Higher Education (HE), focusing on the balance between practical and theoretical learning in HE and to mismatches between the skills sets of graduates and the skills they require during their early careers. EU countries have experienced a substantial increase in graduate unemploym ...
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Anti-Doping Values in Coach Education (ADVICE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

...tibility, and reduce current and future intentions to dope among young athletes. The consortium contains experienced and recognized organizations, including four National Anti-Doping Organizations: University of Hull, International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education, KEA Fair Play Code Hellas, The Association for International Sport for All, Agence Francaise de Lutte Contre Le Dopage, ...
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Global trends in social inequalities in Europe and Latin America and exploring innovative ways to reduce them through life, occupational and educational trajectories research to face uncertainty (INCASI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The overall aim of this project is to create an International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities (INCASI) with 19 universities, 10 from Europe and 9 from Latin America. The purpose is to conduct comparative research in the area of social inequalities. Through this network we hope to foster a space for collective reflection and the development of synergies between network partn ...
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A Large-Scale Systems Approach to Flood Risk Assessment and Management (SYSTEM-RISK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Flood risk systems are characterised by physical and socio-economic processes acting at different space-time scales, by non-stationary and non-linear behaviour, and by a significant degree of interdependence between processes. This may lead to surprising developments and unanticipated side effects of risk reduction measures. A novel systems approach is needed that captures this dynamics and accoun ...
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Guiding European Policy toward a low-carbon economy. Modelling Energy system Development under Environmental And Socioeconomic constraints (MEDEAS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The transition to a low carbon economy needs to achieve multiple aims: competitiveness, protection of the environment, creation of quality jobs, and social welfare. Thus policy-makers and other key stakeholders require tools that need to focus beyond the energy sector by including these other domains of economy, society and the environment. Currently, most available tools lack integration of these ...
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Dream-like simulation abilities for automated cars (Dreams4Cars)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Dreams4Cars takes inspiration from the Simulation Hypothesis of Cognition – notably in the sense of Hesslow – and in particular from the idea that thoughts are chains of simulated actions and simulated perceptions. The main objective of Dreams4Cars is to set up an offline simulation mechanism in which robots, by recombining aspects of real-world experience, can produce an emulated world, with whic ...
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Management Of Networked IoT Wearables – Very Large Scale Demonstration of Cultural Societal Applications (MONICA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The SoundCity Project MONICA aims to provide a very large scale demonstration of multiple existing and new Internet of Things technologies for Smarter Living. The solution will be deployed in 6 major cities in Europe.MONICA demonstrates a large scale IoT ecosystem that uses innovative wearable and portable IoT sensors and actuators with closed-loop back-end services integrated into an interoperab ...
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MULTIscale SENTINEL land surface information retrieval PLatform (MULTIPLY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

With the start of the SENTINEL era, an unprecedented amount of Earth Observation (EO) data will become available. Currently there is no consistent but extendible and adaptable framework to integrate observations from different sensors in order to obtain the best possible estimate of the land surface state. MULTIPY proposes a solution to this challenge. The project will develop an efficient and ful ...
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European Network for Research, Good Practice and Innovation for Sustainable Energy (ENERGISE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Considerable challenges remain today regarding Europe´s transition towards a decarbonised energy system that meets the economic and social needs of its citizens. Rebound effects, that is, a full or partial cancelling-out of efficiency gains over time through increased overall energy use, highlight the centrality of consumption in multi-scalar decarbonisation efforts, urgently requiring attention f ...
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Earth Observation based services for Monitoring and Reporting of Ecological Status (EOMORES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

EOMORES (Earth Observation-based Services for Monitoring and Reporting of Ecological Status) aims to develop new highly efficient commercial services for operational inland and coastal ecological water quality monitoring. Inland and coastal water bodies constitute essential components of ecology and biodiversity, they buffer climate change and influence many aspects of economy (recreation, fisheri ...
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Information Theoretic Evaluation of Random Content Generation in Games (INTERCOGAM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

INTERCOGAM’s goal is to develop and use information theory based intrinsic motivation formalisms to evaluate automatically generated game mechanics. Content generation is one of the production bottlenecks of professional game design, which has begun to be addressed by procedural content generation. In this field, search based procedural content generation uses the idea of evolutionary algorithms t ...
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Assessment and mitigation of liquefaction potential across Europe: a holistic approach to protect structures / infrastructures for improved resilience to earthquake-induced liquefaction disasters (LIQUEFACT)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

Over the past decade, earthquakes proved to be the deadliest of all European disasters, with almost 19,000 fatalities and direct economic losses of approx. €29 billion. Earthquake Induced Liquefaction Disasters (EILDs) is responsible for tremendous amounts of the structural damages and fatalities; with experiences from recent events giving example of where approx. half of the economic loss was dir ...
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Introducing modules on law and rights in programmes of teacher training and educational sciences: a contribution to building rights-based education systems in countries in transition

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

ELA starts from the idea of inclusive education and equity of access and equality of educational opportunity. Teacher training in countries in transition do not equip their students with knowledge about law. ELA’s underlining assumption is that enhancing equality in education requires a collaboration between educators and lawyers to promote rights based teaching, learning, school leadership and go ...
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Knowledge FOr Resilient soCiEty

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

WBR needs to improve the resilience to hazards are recognized as needs for experts capable to improve regional capacity/cooperation in risk prevention and response.In 3-year 7 curricula will be modernized/developed/implemented at WBC HEIs:4 Disaster Risk Management & Fire Safety Engineering (DRM&FSE) academic master programs/modules (MP), DRM&FSE PhD program (DP), Protection Engineering vocational ...
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Knowledgde, Curricula and pratctice for the Educational Support Worker in Vietnam

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

Project CLEMA aims to introduce the first profession in Vietnam to focus on Inclusive Education. In collaboration with Hanoi National University of Education and 3 National Colleges of Education, CLEMA will develop eight pioneering study programmes aimed at educating ‘Education Support Workers for Persons with Disabilities’. The Education Support Workers will support Inclusive Education by providi ...
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Students' Mobility Capacity Building in Higher Education in Ukraine and Serbia

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

MILETUS addresses capacity building in the field of virtual, real and blended mobility runs (MR) at Serbian and TURIL (Territory of the Ukraine as recognized by international law) higher education institutions (HEI). By creating the needed governance on a ministerial and institutional level, MILETUS achieves the improvement of Master graduates’ employability chances in companies working internatio ...
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Development of master curricula for natural disasters risk management in Western Balkan countries

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

The severity of natural disasters significantly affect environment, causing extensive damage. The countries of Western Balkan are exposed to a variety of natural hazards including floods, droughts, forest fires, earthquakes, and landslides. The general situation in WB countries is inadequate professional qualification and technological disciplines for education of human resources, the lack of spec ...
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European Human Rights Law for Universities of Ukraine and Moldova

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

Wider objective is to enable Ukraine and Moldova to face the challenges of dealing with Human Rights policies in accordance with EU and international standards through capacity and institutional building measures. By developing and introducing new Bologna-compliant case-oriented master and doctoral curricula, intensive capacity building mechanism and establishing Offices of Student Ombudsman suppo ...
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TUnisian Network for Employability and Development of Graduates' Skills

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

...o include the new coming universities of Tunis, Carthage, Kairouan and Sfax, in the integrated demand supply matching model, designed as to achieve the following results: -collect and analyze data on university and graduates performances -facilitate the placement of graduates in the labour market -develop monitoring tools for encouraging the application of quality assurance measures -improve inte ...
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INternationaliSation of master Programs In Russia and China in Electrical engineering

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

Nowadays Russian and Chinese universities have to offer programs which facilitate graduates’ adaptation to the real manufacturing and business environment and raise their competitiveness at the labor market. In order to develop a qualitative program is necessary to establish close links with business community as well as European universities which have rich experience in development of similar pr ...
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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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Pathway in Forensic Computing

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

The FORC project seeks to build capacities to develop an integrated curricula in forensic computing as pathways within the undergraduate degrees of the faculties of Information Technology and Law, using a student-centred adaptive learning approach based on the bologna processes. It aims to develop a pathways, integrated within the current curricula, to bring continuity and achieve harmony across ...
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REady for BUSiness - Integrating and validating practical entrepreneurship skills in engineering and ICT studies

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

European business sector pays an ever more increasing attention to competences such as sense of initiative and entrepreneurship. The recommendation 2006/962/EC on key competences for lifelong learning highlights paramount importance of these key competences for employability. These competences related to entrepreneurship play a paramount role in EU neighbouring countries in their development proc ...
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“Multilingualism: the EU Dimension in Language Policy and Education”

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU) located in the city of Arkhangelsk, North-West Russia, is a dynamically developing university providing training for over 20 thousand bachelor, master and PhD students. The project is initiated by the NArFU Institute of Philology and Cross-Cultural Communication (IPCCC).The goal of the project is to foster interest on EU studies in the field of language ...
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Green Guest

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

... in Paris. Green Guest which gathers a partnership composed of hospitality businesses' associations ( France, Italy) , Vocational Education and Training organisations (France , Italy, Estonia), a University ( Hungary) , an ICT company (Poland) is to develop several learning tools : elearning course on sustainablity in Hospitality, inspired from serious games, a Green Challenge for VET schoo ...
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Legal Foundations of the EU-Russia Relations

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

After Russia’s joining to the Bologna process, The Kutafin Moscow State Law University introduced framework master’s and bercelor’s degree programs on EU law. This proposal has a goal to make further steps to implement the curriculum in European Law on the ground of new European orientated courses.This Project aims to implement new academic courses (114 hours per year):- “Legal Foundations of the ...
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European Expertise and Technology for Environment Protection and Sustainable Forestry

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Jean Monnet Center of Excellence (JM CoE) at Volga State University of Technology is proposed to develop the European level research and education in the field of Environment Protection and Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). The JM CoE would provide a tool for focusing substantial effort directly on specific studies and research needs for practical applications and teaching in forestry and envi ...
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Jean Monnet Chair on Best European Practices of Quality Assurance

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...the joint master study programme on quality assurance. Traditionally DSTU develops study programmes in collaboration with industry representatives and there are some corporate departments in the university which train specialists according to the current industrial needs. In this case the staff involved into the project realization is highly aware about European integration process and well-qualif ...
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Intercultural learning in mathematics and science initial teacher education

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...arning for prospective maths and science teachers. These modules will be purposefully designed (flexible structure, modular, user guidance) so that they can be easily used in existing university courses and curricula. Piloting and peer review of the modules will ensure high quality.Two international summer schools will give prospective teachers the opportunity to experience interculturality first- ...
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KidVenture – increasing the entrepreneurial culture of children through gaming

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

As referred in a recent document - Entrepreneurship Education at School in Europe (EACEA, 2012) – “Europe faces a number of challenges that can only be met if it has innovative, well-educated, and entrepreneurial citizens who, whatever their walk of life, have the spirit and inquisitiveness to think in new ways, and the courage to meet and adapt to the challenges facing them. Moreover, a dynamic e ...
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Realising the potential of the international mobility of staff in higher education

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Internationalisation is a key element in raising Higher Education Institutions profile and in contributing to their modernisation. It enhances creativity and innovation in all activities and services they provide. At European level, policies for Higher Education and their resulting initiatives have significantly intensified over the last years. Among the tools available for EHEIs, the Erasmus+ Pro ...
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ELIS - evidenzbasierte Leseförderung in Schulen

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Society, the EU and other communities place multiple developmental tasks on the educational system. For the present project, the following developmental tasks will be focused upon: advancement and consolidation of reading literacy, advancement of participation in society through reading literacy and advancement of readiness for life-long learning.Through these developmental tasks, it will be possi ...
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Standardization in Product Quality Management: EU Experience and Cooperation Prospects

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Modern market economy is characterized by a trend towards integrated regional markets, with the main emphasis on standardization and elimination of national market barriers. The experience accumulated by the European countries in the field allows EU members to base their national standards on EU common guidelines and directives.With Russia having transited to market economy, EU directives and inte ...
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Interaction of environment and human health: Experience of the European Union

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

here is a growing body of evidence that the environment can affect human health and health care can affect the environment. The increasing complexity of environmental and health interactions requires close collaboration of environmental scientists, physicians, public health professionals, policy makers, whose combined expertise in environmental reporting and scientific research can contribute to r ...
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The European Union Social Policy

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...of teaching materials “EU social policy” and its wide dissemination in academic, business communities, regional authorities and civil society as a whole. Implementation of education courses for university students, providing them with the appropriate knowledge and skills on the EU social policy, in particularly based on historical and political analysis results.
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