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Strategic Planning for Alpine River Ecosystems – Integrating protection and development (SPARE)

Start date: Dec 16, 2015, End date: Dec 15, 2018,

Description (EN): The Alps are Europes WATER-TOWERS, providing MULTIPLE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES such as water for human consumption, agriculture, industry, energy and maintaining tourism, recreation & quality of life not only for the residents but also for surrounding lowlands & big metropolitan areas. Alpine rivers are the BLUE BACKBONES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, but only healthy rive ...
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Inspiring CitizeNS Participation for Enhanced Community PoliCing AcTions (INSPEC2T)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

INSPEC2T projects’ scope is to develop a sustainable framework for Community Policing that effectively addresses and promotes seamless collaboration between the police and the community. INSPEC2T approach bases its conceptual foundations on EU crime prevention and Member States specific Internal Security Policies, validated research results and best practices from cooperation between police and lo ...
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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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Creating an Agenda for Research ON Transportation sEcuity (CARONTE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Easy, efficient, safe and secure transportation is a core factor for European growth, collaboration and employment and therefor an item in the Europe 2020 strategy. Land transportation has two main challenges concerning security: avoiding interrupts of transport itself to assure the flow of freight and passengers to guarantee supply of the population and avoiding that transportation modes themselv ...
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EUROPEAN NETWORK for CANCER research in CHILDREN and ADOLESCENTS (ENCCA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"ENCCA aims to establish a durable, European Virtual Institute clinical and translational research in childhood and adolescent cancers that will define and implement an integrated research strategy and will facilitate the necessary investigator-driven clinical trials to introduce the new generation of biologically targeted drugs into standard of care for children and adolescents with cancer. This ...
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Development of a Next Generation European Inland Waterway Ship and Logistics System (NEWS)

Start date: Feb 28, 2013, End date: Aug 30, 2015,

At the moment, waterways as a transport mode are not used to their full potential; hence cargo transported on the Danube is only 10-20% of that transported on the Rhine (cf. DG REGIO leaflet "The EU Strategy for the Danube Region", December 2010). The NEWS project will be able to contribute to the Danube Region Strategy's (EUSDR) aim to increase cargo transport on the river by 20% by 2020 compared ...
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African Programme for Advanced Research Epidemiology Training (APARET)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The APARET fellowship programme will catalyse independent research activities of graduates of Field Epidemiology Training Programmes (FETP) and Field Epidemiology Laboratory Training programmes (FELTP) in Africa. APARET fellows will be employed as research associates by African APARET partners for 2 years (salary provided by host institute). During the first year of their contract they will be emb ...
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Climate Neutral Urban Districts in Europe (CLUE)

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

The project idea Climate Neutral Urban Districts in Europe (CLUE) was formulated by a team of experts at the City of Stockholm and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The project idea was first presented during the EU Interregional Cooperation Forum, 20/21 September 2007, Lisbon. The objective of the CLUE regional development project is increased regional capacity in policy development ...
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SUSTAINABLE NETWORKS FOR THE ENERGETIC USE OF LIGNUCELLULOSIC BIOMASS IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE  (FOROPA)

Start date: Nov 30, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

Biomass constitutes a sector of the highest energy potentials both, in South East Europe and in the EU27. It covers more than half of the renewable energy sources for heat applications, and as heat covers more than half of the final energy consumption in Europe, biomass obviously is a key domain to meet the ambitious 2020 targets of the Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC). The project FOROPA a ...
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latform to Form Opinions Related to Mobility (PLAT.F.O.R.M.)

Start date: Aug 31, 2013, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

PLATFORM aims at integrating social sustainability into infrastructure planning decision making, considering community needs, equitable accessibility and polycentric design that enhances social participation. As EU policies underline, social impacts and interests of local authorities and civil society affected by a common project should be taken into account to prevent conflicts. In this policy fr ...
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PlanetData

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Description The PlanetData project aims to establish an interdisciplinary, sustainable European community of researchers, helping organizations to expose their data on the Web PlanetData will push forward the state-of-the-art in large-scale data management and its application to the creation of us ...
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South East Europe improved virtual accessibility through joint initiatives facilitating the rollout of broadband networks  (SIVA)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

1. Background and objectives Access to information, broadband connectivity and financing of virtual accessibility are key components necessary for the development, adoption and use of ICT in the economy and society. Inadequacies in the telecommunication infrastructure and accessibility to services among the individual countries and regions of the programme area hamper significantly competitiveness ...
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lycentric Planning Models for Local Development in Territories interested by Corridor 5 and its TEN-T ramifications (POLY5)

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

The main problem addressed is the marginalization that a major transport infrastructure (MTI) can cause to alpine areas. The project aims at making mountain areas catch the opportunities of MTIs, rather than just suffer their environmental and social impact, targeting the phases of piloting and policy implementation.The project foresees the elaboration of an unbiased method to measure the value of ...
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Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon (UHI)

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

As population of our cities grow, so does land area and this result in increase of an average temperature. The buildings and roads absorb temperature produced during the day, like giant heaters, and store it. The energy is then released during the night time. This often means a big difference in the temperature between city and its surrounding areas.This phenomenon is called the Urban Heat Island ...
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Enhancing Multimodal Platforms, Inland waterways and Railways services Integration in Central Europe (EMPIRIC)

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

The Northern Adriatic region, going clockwise from Rijeka/Koper to the Emilia Romagna region coast represents the Southern terminal of the Adriatic Baltic transport corridor. The relevance of this corridor increased in the last years because of the economic growth of the Central European regions and with this connected continuous increase in transport demand. However the transport supply has been ...
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BEtter management and implementation of NATURa 2000 sites (BE-NATUR)

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

One of the current most important and demanding challenges is to face the loss of biodiversity, encompassing the diversity of both habitat and species types. A strong EU legal basis for the nature conservation provides the foundation for the preservation of the EU natural heritage. We refer in particular to Habitats and Birds Directives, whose design of Natura 2000 network is based on. The SEE Cou ...
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Services of General Interest (SeGi)

Start date: Oct 31, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Services of general interest traditionally comprehend electronic communications, postal services, electricity, gas, water and transport. Policymakers more recent documents tend to be more comprehensive and also look at labour market services, education, health care, child care, social care, culture or (social) housing. Socio-economic policies much focus on ensuring the provision of services of gen ...
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Tools for Transnational Innovation Support in Centrope (CENTROPE_TT)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2012,

...s, especially considering the high proportion of SMEs and the high number of universities (36 universities and estimated 1000 research institutes in the cities of Brno, Bratislava, Trnava, Györ and Vienna Region). In the field of innovation the involved regions are facing different weaknesses but share one common issue: the insufficient connectivity of regional RTI systems. The project directly ad ...
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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,

...nube 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 five cities therefore wish to strengthen ...
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Transnational Ecological Networks in Central Europe (TransEcoNet)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

Protected areas, like national parks, nature parks or biosphere reserves, are often isolated islands for the protection of the worlds biodiversity. They are separated by less or unprotected landscapes, traffic corridors or settlements. Often animal and plant species dispose of less space for migration, dispersion and reproduction than necessary. To preserve natural and cultural heritage in the lon ...
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Urban spaces - enhancing the attractiveness and quality of the urban environment (UrbSpace)

Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Oct 30, 2011,

...ages on the project web page. Moreover the e-learning modul has been placed on the project as well and is interlinked with the "Le:Notre" thematic network website, under the responsability of the Vienna Technical University. The project has been extensively publicly promoted and disseminated through 3 thematic seminars and final conference, presentations and it continues to receive extensive media ...
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LNG Power Train for Danube Inland Navigation (LDS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: May 29, 2011,

The project constitutes a feasibility study on the sustainable reduction of CO2 emissions as well as particle and NO2 emissions by using LNG (liquefied methane and bio methane) for Danube navigation. The study serves as preliminary planning for an experimental development project for a retrofit solution, contributing to short-and medium-term achievement of the Austrian climate targets.
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Semantics of Gödel logics (GOEDELSEM)

Start date: Aug 1, 2007, End date: Jul 31, 2008,

The study of different semantics is actually the study of the very objects of mathematics the logic is related to. What we call today `Gödel logics' was developed from and for the analysis of very different mathematical objects: The real numbers, Kripke frames, and Heyting algebras. Purpose of this project is the relations between these semantics.The semantics based on subsets of the real interval ...
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Multifunctional Intensive Land Use in Europe (MILUNET)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The overall objective of MILUnet is to create an effective partnership network, aiming to promote Multifunctional Intensive Land Use as a means to achieve more sustainable (urban) development in the EU. By utilising expertise and know-how on MILU, regional and local governments have the possibility to increase the effectiveness of both urban policy implementation and planning towards sustainabilit ...
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E-Learning for Improving access to Infomation Society for SMEs in the SEE Area (ELISA)

Start date: Sep 30, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The ELISA proposal aims at improving the access to knowledge and the information society of SMEs in South-East Europe, through close cooperation of academic and business communities at a transnational level, by transferring EU best practice training know-how and by developing national training strategies. Emphasis is given to SMEs from rural and distant areas in Albania, FYROM, Bulgaria and Serbia ...
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LAnners NETwork for CENtral and South East Europe (PLANET CENSE)

Start date: Oct 31, 2003, End date: Feb 17, 2007,

PLANET CENSE is a network of national spatial planning institutions and experts established as a consequence of the VISION PLANET project. It aims at pursuing and developing further the policy options laid down in the VISION PLANET project documents. The network will foster spatial integration and a cross-sector dialogue with: - The European Spatial Planning Gateway (ESP GATEWAY): an expert dialog ...
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Spatial Information Systems for Transnational Environmental Management of Pro-tected Areas and Regions in CADSES (SISTEMaPARC)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

Protected cross-border regions in the CADSES area face similar problems. Often frontiers divide one region of cultural and natural heritage into more than one national park, biosphere reserve, nature reserve or protected landscape area and they are situated in two or more countries. As a consequence, two or more administrations, management structures and - if existing - spatial information systems ...
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Consolidation of Polycentric Urban Systems through the Promotion of the Settlement of Retail Trade Businesses in Inner Urban Areas (VITAL CITIES)

Start date: Jan 31, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2006,

The development of new retail locations in green fields far away from urban centres promotes rapid urban sprawl and leads to traffic congestion and environmental problems and contradicts sustainable regional development. The settlement of retail enterprises in city centres can lead to a healthier development structure. The project VITAL CITIES aimed to strengthen polycentric urban systems and to c ...
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SInnDesign - Sustainable Innovation through Design

Measures to improve the sustainability of buildings are a priority in EU policies. This requires the appropriate choice of building materials and products that are used indoor, and design plays a major role in this context, since it is at the design stage that the sustainability profile of products is mostly determined.Therefore, the aim of SInnDesign was to develop training materials and tools fo ...
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Sport Professions – Education, Employment, Development in the Balkan Region

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

Sport is a powerful tool for socioeconomic development and personal & collective wellbeing. In research & higher education this involves the expansion of Physical Education (PE) into Sport Science (SpS), accounting for much wider scope & new science, implications & job market needs: in teaching, training, management, health, social work, etc. Many West Balkan (WB) countries, with their growing ec ...
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Master in Management of Nuclear Security

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

In Europe, and worldwide, there is a renewed interest in developing nuclear power programmes as a result of an increased demand for nuclear energy. This will increase the number of reactors at a time when potential malicious acts involving nuclear material are a continuing threat. The consortium will address the need for highly-qualified professionals in the field of Nuclear Security by successful ...
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Science and Technology – European Cooperation in Education and Training 2012

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

The STECET project is an accompanying measure uniting European networks in science and technology, dealing with educational matters. It is the successor of the TechnoTN projects which organised successful fora in 2009 and before. The main activity is the organisation of a two-day forum in May 2012, bringing together delegates from a large number of networks. The presentations of the forum and the ...
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Technological Toolkit for Entrepreneurs @ 40

Innovative training for traditional business : The project aims to create target oriented, internet-based training programmes. These should be comprehensive and easy for traditional entrepreneurs to assimilate. By developing multimedia training resources, providing business planning support and exchanging good practices, mid-career entrepreneurs will enhance their entrepreneurial performance. Mult ...
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Strengthening higher education in the sphere of Finance in Siberia and Far East of Russia

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

The wider objective of EduSFE is to modernize higher education in Finance on Master-level in the remote Russian regions Siberia and Far East in line with the Bologna process. The regional focus of the project was chosen, as Siberia and Far East are underprivileged territories which have not received much attention so far. This is also reflected in intentions of the Russian government to enhance hi ...
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Quality signet for modular VET for disadvantaged young people

The project's objective is to find high-quality ways of improving theintegration of socially disadvantaged youth as a target group intoeducational systems and labour markets. Failure to provide young peoplewith vocational training opportunities means greatly restricting theirparticipation in society and isolating them socially. Specially structuredtraining courses, special learning programmes (for ...
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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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EUE-Net - European University – Enterprise Network

EUE-Net – European University-Enterprise Cooperation - is an initiative to create a European Network able to assemble and to coordinate the efforts towards a better cooperation between universities and enterprises at European level, to disseminate the cooperation models and to promote best practice in Europe. The target groups of the project are graduates, students and learners in European univer ...
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Waste Training Tool - An interactive Waste Training Tool for the Management and Minimisation of Non-Domestic Solid and Aqueous Wastes

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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Fit for E-Commerce: New-Business-Training-Programme for Disadvantaged

E-Commerce training opens doors to labour market : The project offers comprehensive E-Commerce information and training for the unemployed, providing them with a new outlook for work options. It has developed complex training methods and launched a pilot training programme. The online shop has been launched, giving trainees the opportunity to put into practice their theoretical knowledge.The outco ...
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REDILEM - Regional Development by Distance Learning of SME Managers

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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