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Embedding Entrepreneurship Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Current EU economic and social policy places a high value on nurturing entrepreneurship among young people. Yet levels of student entrepreneurship in universities and colleges across Europe remain low. Those HEIs that wish to improve entrepreneurship education often find they lack the skilled human resources and funding needed, and are impeded by staff’s narrow vision of entrepreneurship as a fie...
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Community of Responsible Recreational Initiatives in Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Tourism is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing economic sectors. Within this continuing growth of tourism there is a growing trend & a raising consumer awareness for sustainable and responsible tourism. The CORRIE project aims to: • Create awareness on the topic of responsible tourism, an understanding of the business opportunities it brings and how to capitalise on it individually or a...
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Support for small and medium sized enterprises engaging in apprenticeships: Regional Apprenticeship Alliances for SMEs

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Today when SMEs face problems related to start up, innovation and growth, they find help in a proactive ecosystem of intermediary organizations: Yet the vast majority of these organizations do not currently provide guidance to SMEs on the subject of apprenticeships. RAISE seeks to address this situation by building the capacity of intermediary bodies to develop and operate support structures which...
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Smart Data, Smart Regions

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The volume of data that governments, businesses and organizations manage has grown exponentially and, if turned into actionable, “smart” data, presents vast opportunities to drive productivity, innovation and competitiveness in Europe. The EC 2014 Big Data Strategy recognises that data-intensive sectors of the economy are growing by 40% per year. However, even while the UK, Germany, Ireland and N...
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Creative Entrepreneurs Online

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Digital communications are revolutionising our economy and society, enabling disruptive innovation and creating new business models. In the words of JC Juncker, President of the European Commission, “Europe's path to growth is paved with tablets and smartphones.” (1) Yet the digital landscape is complex and as new business models emerge, our education and VET systems are lagging behind. The gap b...
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Enterprise in Interface

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

One of the legacies of the conflict in Northern Ireland is the existence of numerous Catholic-Protestant interfaces. Unfortunately, growing immigration and ethnic diversity is generating new interfaces, causing ethno-religious tension in urban centres across Europe. If not addressed, these tensions can spiral downwards causing ghettoization, poverty and even open conflict, threatening the European...
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Food Incubators Transforming Regions

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Food and drink represents the largest manufacturing sector in the EU and encouragingly has sustained positive growth. Even during the economic downturn, levels of employment in the food and drink industry remained quite stable. The majority of the 287,000 EU food companies employing employ 4.25 million people are SMEs or micro-enterprises. While the sector has excellent potential for artisan and...
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Mobile & Digital Elearning Toolkit

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Web 2.0, cloud computing and the rapid adoption of internet-enabled phone and tablets have revolutionised the we live and work, but not yet the way we learn as students of vocational training or higher education. This is regrettable since many digital and mobile resources are proven to increase adult learner engagement and information retention, as well as being suited to “hard to reach” learners ...
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Creative Communities Igniting Change

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The creative sector has a major role to play in creating entrepreneurial opportunities which tackle discrimination and inequality in the field of entrepreneurship and employment. A leading driver of dynamic and innovative economies and an area of focus for EU development, it represents 6.8 % of European GDP (approximately €860 billion) and 6.5% of European employment (approximately 14 million). ...
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Value of Failure

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

There is a clear economic and social rationale to promoting a second chance for failed entrepreneurs and deriving positive experience from negative situations. First and foremost, businesses set up by re-starters grow faster than first timers in terms of turnover and jobs created (Stam, Audretsch, Meijaard 2006; Enterprise Europe Network), and approximately one fifth of all successful business peo...
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Regional Education and Employment Alliances

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Youth unemployment remains persistently high in Ireland and across Europe and is increasingly impacting young university students, who after graduating, struggle to find employment commensurate to their knowledge and skills. REAL aims to empower young unemployed or underemployed graduates to become entrepreneurs and high value employees in a short period after leaving university. In order to do ...
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SME and Higher Education Institutes in Innovation Partnerships

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

SME and Higher Education Institutes in Innovation Partnerships (SHIP) will strengthen the knowledge triangle, building sustainable collaborative relationships between universities, SMEs and innovation support organizations. It responds to the problem of increasing fragmentation in the field of innovation promotion, especially the dislocation between those who generate knowledge that could spur inn...
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Developing Educational Tools for Healthy & Creative Food Regions

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Developing Education Tools for Healthy & Creative Food Regions DECREE is motivated by two closely-related challenges. Firstly, chronic EU obesity figures (OECD) show that more than half (52%) of the adult population in the EU is overweight or obese. Secondly, food poverty is on the rise in Europe. 2013 statistics show that 116 million Europeans are now at risk of poverty or social exclusion an...
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Pathways to Work: an Employment Upgrade Training Programme for Young Immigrants

The project developed a training resource to help young immigrants (aged 18-30) to overcome barriers and “upgrade” their employment level. The project transferred existing UK materials and amended these to meet a new target group and a blended learning format within an integrated, multilingual e-learning website. The project resulted in a specific training needs analysis, pilot test phase and adap...
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Pathways for Graduates

The PfG project will have a very significant impact on Graduates as it will assist them to get a job. It will do this by greatly improving their employability through developing their soft skills (communications, team work etc); improving their job search skills; building a deep understanding of what employers are looking for in potential new employees; & developing their interview and presentatio...
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Collaborate to compete (C2C)

Innovation is one of the principal means by which businesses can contribute to reaching the goals established by the Lisbon Council in 2000. Recent studies reveal that innovation is generated by exchanges of knowledge between businesses. Indeed, business collaboration is widely supported by academics, large companies and multilateral organisations and is at the heart of EU enterprise policy. Ye...
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