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Information and CommunicationTechnologies Solutions for Improvement of Quality inMunicipal Utilities (E-utilities)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Project “E-Utilities” aims to improve quality of municipal utilities services by using ICT tools and creating new electronic services for consumers in water and heating supply, sewerage collection and street lighting systems.Project unites 16 partners in Latvia and Lithuania who will also engage in joint experience exchange, training and communication activities.
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Joint resistance to bioinvasions for sustainable agriculture and management of natural resources (TEAMWORK)

Start date: Jun 2, 2013, End date: Dec 1, 2014,

The TEAMWORK project brings together a team of scientists (Siauliai and Daugavpils Universities) and society to fight against the spread of invasive organisms. Invasions have a negative impact on regional sustainable development – impoverish the biodiversity, reduce the value of agri-land (forest areas), pollute rivers with the biogenic substances and lead to spread of diseases. The danger increas ...
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Strategic Age Management for SME in the Baltic Sea Region (BestAgersLighthouses)

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

The extension stage project “Best Agers Lighthouses” focuses on implementation of age management interventions in selected small and medium-sized enterprises and public organisations in different Baltic Sea Region countries. The interventions will follow a jointly developed methodology which is based on the results of the “Best Agers” project, and they will be monitored and evaluated scientificall ...
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Development of Renewable Energy Resources and Improvement of Environmental Conditions (ENECO)

Start date: Jan 8, 2012, End date: Jul 8, 2014,

... the usage of bio-degradable waste and wood ash;- to train potential energy forest and plantations cultivators, farmers and representatives of agricultural companies, in the region. Project partners: Šiauliai University (Lithuania) and Latvia University of Agriculture, Jelgava. Feasibility studies on energy forest and plantations cultivation will be done within the framework of the project. The re ...
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Development of cooperation network between farm animal researchers and practitioners in Ziemgale (FARA)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

Siauliai University (SU) and Latvia University of Agriculture (LUA) are two institutions which actively take part in the regions’ development, strategic planning, provide intellectual services and products for the regions. Universities are multi-profiled - the studies as well as research deal with economics, education, social sciences and information technologies, agriculture, civil and environmen ...
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Improvement of the vocational education according to the needs of labour market (VocEdu)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

Project idea is aimed at improvement of vocational education through curricula improvements, by involving industry associations, enterprises and stakeholders related to vocational education. Project cross-border experience exchange and joint events will support professional and personal growth of students and teachers; promotional activities will serve for the improvement of image of vocational sc ...
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Designing a Model Geared towards Participation of People at Social Risk Groups in the Labour Market (MODPART)

Start date: Jan 3, 2012, End date: Jan 2, 2014,

The project contribute to further sustainable development of the LT-LV cross-border regions by cooperating and promoting research activities, common knowledge about vocational rehabilitation and health promotion,solving problems of participation in the labour market of socially disadvantage people. Both in Lithuanian and Latvian region there is no sufficient diagnostic material, base for education ...
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RECO Baltic 21 Tech (RB21T)

Start date: Sep 16, 2010, End date: Dec 15, 2013,

RECO Baltic 21 Tech (RB21T) has aimed to facilitate for local and regional decision makers to perform sustainable waste management investments. RB21T has developed a Joint BSR Strategy for Waste Management that makes use of 'best practices' from regional and national strategies. All together RB21T has contributed towards sustainable waste management and development by putting into practice a syste ...
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Synergetic approach with eLearning, TV and mobile technologies to promote new business developments (eBig3)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

Project aims at creating a network for cross-border research cooperation in technology enhanced learning (TEL) and developing a strategy for educational business promotion service. Project will begin implementing the strategy and pilot a set of innovative learning solutions for inclusive human resource development and promote the spirit of entrepreneurship in border regions. The project will combi ...
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Competitive Entrepreneurship By Lifelong Learning And Business Cooperation (COOP EDU-SHIP)

Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2013,

Business ineptness and poorly equipped life-long learning centres are the main cause for dissatisfaction among region’s entrepreneurs. The aim of the project is to enhance the competitiveness of Latvia–Lithuania border regions by eliminating the obstacles to its development. Therefore, business and education support centres will be created by renovating premises of life-long learning institutions ...
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Cross-border network for adapting mathematical competences in the socio-economical development (MatNet)

Start date: Jan 2, 2011, End date: Jan 1, 2013,

Siauliai University and Latvian University of Agriculture are interested in focusing their expert skills on regional socio-economic development to make studies and research more pragmatic by implementing research in areas relevant for the Baltic Sea Region. Therefore, both institutions decided to develop a project to create cooperation network - a platform for educational products, new initiatives ...
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The Cognition and Preservation of the Distinctive Identity Through the Environment of Zemgale Region (Green Environment)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

Universities and schools are interested in contributing to the preservation of region's biodiversity and solving environmental challenges. Project partners will investigate the preserved green landscape objects and ways of accumulating the collection of vanishing plants, creating a seed bank for returning plants to the nature. Project will create a collection of useful environment items from Zemg ...
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Best Agers - Using the knowledge and experience of professionals in their primes to foster business and skills development in the Baltic Sea Region (Best Agers)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

With demographic change and the current economic crisis looming, the cities and regions of the Baltic Sea Region have to find creative ways of disclosing and utilizing unused opportunities. One of these hidden potentials are the people in the prime of their lives – the so called “Best Agers” (defined in the project as people aged 55 and older). As previous projects have shown, the BSR population w ...
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CREATIVE, ECOLOGICAL USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES FOR DECORATION OF THE CLOSEST ENVIRONMENT (ECOART)

Start date: Nov 30, 2010, End date: May 30, 2012,

The main aim of the project is for partners from Latvian University of Agriculture and Siauliai University to communicate and search for synthesis between environment and art. Several seminars, training courses and exchange visits will take place in scope of the project. These activities will maintain and extend the ties between universities and rural communities. The project activities will be im ...
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Development of joint strategy and cooperation network for promotion of creative industries (Creative industries)

Start date: Oct 31, 2010, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

Project aims at creating supporting environment for the development of creative industries in the project areas and fostering the sustainability of economy. It will also facilitate the commercialization of creative business ideas in the audio-visual, multimedia and design by establishing cooperation networks and supporting infrastructure at the level of local municipalities. It is planned to impro ...
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Fostering cooperation among the science and industry in Jelgava and Siauliai (Science ft. Industry)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2012,

The aim of the project is to improve technical base and develop technology transfer centres in order to provide access for every individual who is interested in it and enhance development of entrepreneurship in cross-border areas of Jelgava and Siauliai regions. During the project four project partners, two local municipalities and two universities, plan to improve the educational programme for bu ...
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The promulgation of Latvian–Lithuanian chamber musical culture by cross-border youth events (PRELUDIA)

Start date: Sep 30, 2010, End date: Mar 30, 2012,

Todays cultural ties between Latvia and Lithuania are not sufficient. Cooperation networks are fragmented. Even though Latvia and Lithuania have common beginnings of professional music that evolved in the 19th and 20th century when choir music, other classical music works were created, chamber music (composed by Latvian and Lithuanian composers) is performed rarely. This is the reason why dissemin ...
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Joint Research& Technology Unit of Universities for entrepreneurs to diversify rural economic's (JOINT RT UNIT)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

The project area, Kr?slava, Daugavpils, J?kabpils and Prei?i districts in Latvia and Utena, Panevezys and Siauliai districts in Lithuania, has bad quality soil and large protected nature areas. This means fewer opportunities for traditional agriculture and pressing need for diversification of the rural Newly established Joint Research and technology unit of Daugavpils and Siauliai Universities sup ...
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Reduction of administrative burden for enterprises in Latvia-Lithuania border regions (REDBURDEN)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Jul 28, 2011,

The aim of the project is to reduce administrative burden for entrepreneurs in Latvia-Lithuania cross-border regions by improving business environment and making region better for the businesses. The first phase of the project analysed the administrative burden in Jelgava and Siauliai cities and estimated that directly or indirectly business-related administrative burden in Jelgava and Siauliai am ...
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The Unity of the Balts under the Sun (UBUS)

Start date: Jan 3, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

The students of Siauliai University, the Latvian University of Agriculture and Liepaja University are very active in the cultural life of their own area, but lack knowledge about the culture of their nearest neighbour. United by a common Baltic culture and history, the universities have begun renewing long-standing traditions of cooperation among the Balts. The aim of the project is to develop cro ...
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HINTERLAND potentials for a spatial development under the aspects of decline (HINTERLAND)

Start date: Dec 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The BSR is characterised by various Hinterland areas in a distance of 50 km and more to coastal zones and to metropolitan areas and larger cities. Most of these Hinterland areas suffer from a long-term decline in population, Europe has not experienced for hundreds of years. Decreasing demand of employment in agriculture and in lesser competitive SME structures with an increasing mobility makes peo ...
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Integrated Solutions for Sustainability Management in Baltic Cities (SUSTAINMENT)

Start date: Dec 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The SUSTAINMENT project aims to meet the needs and challenges of local authorities in moving towards a more integrated sustainability process. The intention is to further develop the current sustainable development processes of the municipalities by creating models for Sustainability Management Centres (SMC), including cross-sectoral policy integration, increased stakeholder participation, and mon ...
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City-hinterland cooperation as motor for regional development in the SE-Baltic (SEBco)

Start date: Jan 26, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

SEBco enables medium-sized cities to become motors for regional development in the South Eastern Baltic Sea Region. It uses and establishes networks of cooperation on regional level between cities and their hinterland as well as on international level within the so-called South Baltic Arc. Furthermore, SEBco concentrates on issues that are in the competence of local and regional partners in order ...
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Studies on Transitional Electronic Programmes

Start date: Dec 1, 2007,

Transition from school to university and transition between universities’ programmes(bachelor/master) is very significant for students and does not always run smoothly.Students considering taking a next step in their lifelong learning programme have to findways to determine if the new learning programme they are applying for will meet theirexpectations, their knowledge and skill level. The increas ...
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Industrial Heritage for ToURism and BusINess DevElopment (TURBINE)

Šiauliai County (LT) and Latgale,Zemgale (LV) regions are distinguished fortheir industrial history, however only smallnumber of industrial heritage objects hasbeen identified and used for the regionsdevelopment. The project aims to develop cross-bordercooperation in Northern Lithuania (Šiauliai)and South Western Latvia (Latgale, Zemgale)by establishing cooperation network,products, projects and n ...
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High Objectives of National Organizational Reform

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

The development of a training and retraining system for high level civil servants of the Kyrgyz Republic will help to build a strong, modern and efficient civil service. The project will contribute to this wide objective through developing and implementing a new training scheme that will significantly improve the management of the public sector and the promotion of principles of transparency, et ...
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EUPHONY - Implementing Teacher Knowledge

Start date: Oct 1, 2005,

The EUPHONY project aimed at the development of an innovative teaching model which relied upon the use of sound and music to enhance listening and intuition skills and to overcome barriers to communication. The developed model whilst targeted at adult educators working with a variety of learners was perceived as particularly useful for those working with adults with special learning needs. Finding ...
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Development of cooperation network of intercultural studies in borderland (Interstudy)

Universities participating in the projectare located in the borderland and theyoffer high quality education to youngpeople living in border area in the fieldsof international relations, comparativeliterature, comparative and contrastivelinguistics, intercultural education, whichcannot be developed only on nationalbases.The project develops base for the long termcooperation between two universities ...
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Intervention through ARTS Education in Universities, Schools and European Society in General

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

Lebenslanges Lernen wird durch stetig neue Erkenntnisse, Soziale Wandels und dabei insbesondere interkulturelle Phänomenen vor eine Herausforderung gestellt, denen ITAE (ein internationales Konsortium von Hochschulen, Schulen, Sozialeinrichtungen und Galeristen) durch die Mittel der Kunst begegnen will. Ausgehend von soziologischen Feldstudien erarbeitet das multinationale Konsortium Methoden d ...
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Red 31 REM - European Network for Mainstreaming

Putting an end to stereotypes : The partnership carried out research to ascertain the extent of gender stereotyping in vocational education and then created a network and tools which were designed to raise awareness in order to overcome these sterotypes. This project started in 2000 and lasted 36 months.
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MODERNISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION Intervention through ARTS Education in Universities, Schools and European Society in General

Increasingly globalised and rapidly changing societies where knowledge is ageing at a very fast rate pose major challenges to teaching in schools and universities. Future teachers will need a broad range of key skills in order to have a flexible impact on intercultural conditions in schools. Discrimination of all kinds, fear of foreigners, learning disorders, behavioural problems, addiction, racis ...
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Cross-border initiative for creation of emergency management system of disasters in neighbouring Latvia and Lithuania (CBRM)

...ment information system, technicaldesign of Risk Management Co-ordinationCentre in Jelgava City (LV), and technicaldesign for construction works of EmergencyMedicine Co-ordination Centre’s garage inŠiauliai (LT), developed Institutional and HRDpublic awareness strategy, 140 specialiststrained in areas related to risk management,purchased and installed risk managementequipment.
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Cross-border Cooperation of Universities of Latvia - Lithuania - Belarus in Environmental Protection (CBC Eco-House)

...f of Riga and the Baltic Sea, the Daugavariver flows into.The overall project objective is to developcross border environmental cooperationbetween the 3 border region universitiesin Daugavpils (LV) Šiauliai (LT) andNovopolotsk (BY).Project results are: Strategy of EnvironmentalProtection of Cross-border Regions for 2007 –2012 including joint monitoring systems;trained students, academic staff ands ...
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The road for tomorrow - Innovative and flexible ways, interventions and instruments for qualification and continuous training of management in the vocational training sector

This project specifically targets managers of professional training: it aims to enhancing both their managerial and relationship qualities through the development of a system of qualification and professional development in the context of Life Long Learning. Target group are managers at the level of directors and heads of firms, and support managers (i.e. those dealing with staff). The primary aim ...
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PRECIOUS - Professional Resources in Early Childhood Intervention: Online utilities and Standards

PRECIOUS zielt darauf ab, mittels Ressourcepool und Transfer eines entwickelten Onlineinstrumentes zur Erhebung eines individuellen Ausbildungsportfolios im Rahmen der Frühförderung, die Qualität der Ausbildung im Bereich früher Präventionsprogramme für Kinder zu erhöhen.
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European Competence Initiative -Early Childhood Intervention

European Competence Initiative – Early Childhood Intervention (ECI 2.0) aims to increase professional skills of professionals working in ECI. ECI provides developmental and parental support to children with established disabilities or at risk to prevent further impairments and empower full participation (6% of children per birth year in EU27). Due to the complexity of intervention “a team around t ...
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EUPALT - European Passport for the Education of Therapists/Teachers Working with People with Dyslexia

Reason: Dyslexia (specific impairment regarding reading/writing skills) is an increasing problem affecting children as well as adults (estimated prevalence 8-20%). The long term effects contain higher youth unemployment rates, functional illiteracy, more unfinished vocational trainings. Even latest PISA results proof that there are high problems especially concerning reading skills (AT, TR) . Earl ...
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SDI-EDU for regional and urban planning

Planning and mainly spatial planning is about the spatial dimension of development. It is concerned not only with architecture work, but also with where people live and work, the location of social and economic activity, and the way in which resources we possess in limited supply are exploited to achieve socio-economic objectives. Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is the base collection of techno ...
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NetKnowing 2.0: Enabling SMEs to use Web 2.0 and networking to acquire and generate informal learning

The Net Knowing 2.0 project aims to enable entrepreneurs, managers and supervisory staff of European SMEs and organizations:1. To use Web 2.0. technologies and net collaborative practices to obtain informal learning. 2. To learn how to put in place sustainable informal learning strategies in their companies that are based on knowledge sharing supported by Web 2.0 and net collaborative practices.
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Bildungspass Frühförderung

EBIFF analyses the current professional education and further education in the field of Early Childhood Intervention (=ECI). Based on the analysis contenc-clusters will be identified and operationalized by means of ETCS-points. Within pilot runs (based on an electronic assessment instrument)professionals, training institutions and political decision makers have the possibility to assess their curr ...
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