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Interwork between Generation Z and Employers

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

A survey, conducted for the European Business Forum on Vocational Training (Brussels, 2014) concludes that „Employers, education providers and youth live in parallel universes. Each have different diagnoses of the problems, because they do not engage with one another.” The main goal of our project is to try and close this gap, building up cooperation between the two major players of job markets - ...
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Brachiopods As SEnsitive tracers of gLobal marINe Environment: Insights from alkaline, alkaline Earth metal, and metalloid trace element ratios and isotope systems (BASE-LiNE Earth)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

"Data on seawater composition since the start of the Phanerozoic eon ~540 million years ago provide essential information for understanding long-term chemical processes of socio-economic dimension like the evolution of life, land-ocean interaction, atmospheric chemistry, ecosystem adaptation to climate change, oceanic trace metal cycling, and for applied geological processes like the formation of ...
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Enhancing Competencies of Central Asian Universities in Agricultural Policy focused on Environmental Protection & Land Management

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Agricultural activities significantly affect all components of natural environment and thus directly influence living of population around the world. Agricultural sector significantly contributes to national economies of Central Asian countries which have inherited major environmental challenges from the Soviet era. Moreover, extensive irrigation agriculture is responsible for more than 90% of the...
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Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Most agricultural rural areas in the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan are characterized by drastic changes in the agriculture and nutrition sector, due to privatization, modernization and increasing differences between large-scale agro-holdings and small holder farms. The importance of rural development and the need to develop perspectives for agricultural land use is both recognized by politics ...
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Freely Accessible Central European Soil

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

Globalization and global environmental issues, as well as unification of scientific researches and teaching on EU level necessitate harmonization and correlation of technical languages, such as the one used in soil science. Despite the passage of years and the development of unified European system of soil description it is still not used in a satisfactory manner among teaching staff at EU univers...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

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

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Progressing towards the construction of METROFOOD-RI (PRO-METROFOOD)

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

The general objective of PRO-METROFOOD is to bring the emerging METROFOOD-RI ESFRI project to the level of maturity required for entering in the active project list, strengthening the Consortium and planning the future phases. The specific objectives have been set up in close relationship with the “ESFRI SWG & IG Recommendation”. 4 specific objectives have been identified: OBJ1 – design strategies...
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Enhancing capacities in implementation of institutional quality assurance systems and typology using Bologna process principles

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2017,

Quality of higher education (HE) is the basic priority of HE development during last decades in many countries of the world. In Europe, the Bologna process (BP) has declared the quality of HE as one of the major priorities. In CA region the quality assurance (QA) systems and mechanisms are the national priorities while the BP type reforms constitute one of the regional priorities. The consortium 5...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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On-the-job, on-the-go

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

CIFP Aguas Nuevas submits its third mobility project directly aimed at VET, basing it in the experience acquired in the last two (presented under the Leonardo da Vinci action in the now extinct Lifelong Learning Program), but introducing the important novelties that the new Erasmus+ allows. The main innovative aspect incorporated is the inclusion of staff mobility for training purposes (apart from...
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Cyfroinnowcyjni-nieprzeciętni

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

The project faces to identified needs of the people in the elderly age. The problem of the digital world as a barrier to increasing intergenerational distance, requiring urgent solution, was seen at the level of the partner organizations. Students of Universities of the Third Age from the Czech, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Turkey will take part in the project. The main target group will consist...
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Resource Preservation by Application of BIOefFECTORs in European Crop Production (BIOFECTOR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

BIOFECTOR is an integrated project that develops alternative fertilisation strategies by the use of various bio-effectors (BEs, plant growth promoting microorganisms and natural extraction products). BEs stimulate root growth, solubilise and mineralise sparingly available nutrients, or protect plants from abiotic and biotic stresses. Novel BEs will be isolated, characterized and applied in strateg...
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Biotechnologie in Praag

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

1. What is BIOPRA 2017? BIOPRA stands for Biotechnology in Prague. The project is a 2-week long mobility-project of the European program Erasmus + Leonardo da Vinci. The partner in Czech Republik is the Forest establishment in Kostelec nad Cernymi Lesy. The Forest establishment is a company of the University of Lifesciences in Prague. The tutor is Dr. Pavel Karnet, assistant director of the Fore...
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Discipline Echange Mobilité Expérience Transfert Europe Ressources

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

The Ecole nationale de formation agronomique (ENFA) is a higher education institution under administrative supervision of the French Ministry of Agriculture. The ENFA has 156 employees (civil servants and professors). Initial and continuous training of employees from public agricultural technical and vocational institutions constitutes the main activities of ENFA. It's the only french HEI in char...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

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

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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„Pedagogické praxe českých učitelů odborných předmětů a praktického vyučování v zahraničí“

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

The aim of the project “Teaching experience of Czech VET teachers abroad” is to enable VET teachers teaching practice in an international environment, specifically at secondary technical and vocational schools or university centers in the Netherlands and the Slovak Republic. The project consortium will consist of three European institutions dealing with training of teachers of vocational subjects ...
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Towards a long-term Africa-EU partnership to raise sustainable food and nutrition security in Africa (PROIntensAfrica)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

PROIntensAfrica intends to develop a proposal for a long term research and innovation partnership between Europe and Africa, focusing on the improvement of the food and nutrition security and the livelihoods of African farmers by exploring and exploiting the diversity of pathways to sustainable intensification of African agro-food systems. The exploration will include environmental, economic and s...
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Play & Learn Entrepreneurial Skills in the Agricultural Sector

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

Improving Entrepreneurial Skills in the Vocational Training of Agricultural Students by Digital Game Based Learning. The project aims at developing a digital tool to promote the improvement of entrepreneurial skills in students studying at agricultural technical colleges. Entrepreneurial skills are compulsory elements in the curricula of vocational training courses in several member states. The...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Erasmus+ is a very well established and popular programme at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. It increased international mobility at our university manifold (also in internationalisation, sharing experience with universities, etc.). In the past few years the number of outgoing students averaged 300. There were more than 500 incoming students. The main motivation for students to take a...
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FORest management strategies to enhance the MITigation potential of European forests (FORMIT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"Forest management can lead to continuous carbon sequestration, while timber as a renewable energy source can used as a substitute for fossil fuel, thus multiplying this mitigation effect. FORMIT aims to develop forest management scenarios for carbon sequestration in Europe, including mitigation measures and management strategies for different regions, and accounting for trade-offs with other fore...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The Erasmus+ student and academic staff mobility programme is well established at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, ever since the programme started in the Czech Republic. In recent years the number of outgoing students has reached more than 300 per academic years, a fact that documents the success and popularity of Erasmus+ amongst our students. The added value of Erasmus+ student mob...
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International comparisons of product supply chains in the agro-food sectors: determinants of their competitiveness and performance on EU and international markets (COMPETE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"The project will deliver a coherent and innovative evaluation of competitiveness of European food chains by integrating various new approaches. Based on this, the research results allows to deduce a congruent, coherent and consistent set of policy recommendations aiming at improving competitiveness and promoting the Knowledge Based Bio-Economy in Europe.The analysis is conducted along two lines, ...
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PRactical Implementation of Coexistence in Europe (PRICE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"Coexistence is still a controversial topic within the EU. Member States, farmers, and participants within the food chain have expressed an interest on the implications of different coexistence polices on costs, feasibility of achieving segregated supply chains, as well as implications for labeling and traceability. While a number of issues have already been addressed in previous projects, informa...
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Data network for better European organic market information (ORGANICDATANETWORK)

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

The project, European Data Network for Improved Transparency of Organic Markets (OrganicDataNetwork) aims to increase the transparency of the European organic food market through better availability of market intelligence about the sector to meet the needs of policy makers and actors involved in organic markets.This overall objective will be broken up into key objectives:1. Bring together stakehol...
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Farming Transitions: Pathways Towards Regional Sustainability of Agriculture in Europe (FarmPath)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2014,

In FarmPath, we propose that increasing sustainability in agriculture is best addressed by enabling flexible combinations of farming models, which vary to reflect the specific opportunity sets embedded in regional culture, agricultural capability, diversification potential, ecology, and historic ownership and governance structures. We will enable progress towards this goal of increased regional s...
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Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository: Sharing Scientific and Scholarly Research related to Agriculture, Food, and Environment (VOA3R)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

The general objective of the VOA3R project is to improve the spread of European agriculture and aquaculture research results by using an innovative approach to sharing open access research products. That will be achieved by carrying out innovative experiments with open access to scientific agriculture and aquaculture contents and by developing and providing services that integrates existing open a...
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Regional pilot platform as EU contribution to a Global Soil Observing System (e-SOTER)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

Soil and land information is needed for a wide range of applications but available data are often inaccessible, incomplete, or out of date. GEOSS plans a global Earth Observation System and, within this framework, the e-SOTER project addresses the felt need for a global soil and terrain database. As the European contribution to a Global Soil Observing System, it will deliver a web-based regional p...
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Interactions between soil related sciences - Linking geophysics, soil science and digital soil mapping (iSOIL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

As formulated in the Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection prepared by the European Commission soil degradation is a serious problem in Europe. The degradation is driven or exacerbated by human activity and has a direct impact on water and air quality, biodiversity, climate and human life-quality. High-resolution soil property maps are one major prerequisite for the specific protection of soil fu...
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Economic analysis of certification systems for organic food and farming (CERTCOST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

"With the ongoing growth of the organic sector and the spread of organic production across the EU, the field of organic certification has become a maze of competing labels and logos, involving different private and public standards, in addition to European law. This diversity reflects the specific conditions for organic operators in countries or regions but can also lead to confusion for both prod...
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Managing and conserving forests for multiple values

Start date: Sep 16, 2010,

The project's goal is to provide students, and other participants, with a broad and comprehensive understanding of forest resources, issues, opportunities, and approaches for managing forests for a broad range of values (conservation, ecological services, aesthetics, recreation, timber/fibre production, non-timber forest products, and others) and to better equip students with the skills needed to ...
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S1-L12-EURASIA 2 (CAMBODIA, MYANMAR, MONGOLIA, VIETNAM, LAOS + GROUP B)

Start date: Jul 15, 2010,

Project activities include ensuring permanent internal and external communication and information exchange, project webpage management, selection of students and staff by common selection committee, managing mobility flows, performing respective financial management, preparing the regular project reports. Hosting institutions for incoming Asian students and staff are responsible to carry out all a...
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Growing With Compost

Start date: Oct 1, 2005,

Aiming to mobilise local communities to provide an environmentally-friendly solution to waste disposal, the Growing with Compost project actively promoted home composting and the localised collection and processing of organic waste. With networking an important goal, especially in terms of linking organic waste management to social employment and training opportunities, the project brought togethe...
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FADERTIC : E-Learning for Rural Development Agents

FADERTIC aims to provide an alternative means for the continuous training of Rural Development Agents, more specifically a self-training (workplace training) and guidance system (specialised support in the implementation of practical rural development projects) based on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT).Activities will include: analysis and identification of the continuou...
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TRANEE -Transport in e-Europe

The TRANEE project will design, test and introduce a series of web-based modules on e-transport management, for SME's (managers and employees). Contents will draw on the results of a recent fifth framework-funded research project into innovative service models and "intelligent" transport systems. The primary product of the project will be a modular curriculum comprising modules on: basics of the k...
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New Methods of Evaluating Students' Performance in the Vocational Training System

The project will test new methods of teacher and student assessment relevant to key skills and competencies in vocational education amongst nine project partners in six countries. The core assessment components to be covered will include self-assessment (printed and electronic versions), project assessment, portfolio assessment, teacher assessment (internet/intranet-based), diploma work assessment...
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EU-DAIRY: FACILITATE VISIBILITY AND RECOGNITION OF PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS OF DAIRY SECTOR IN EU

SPECIFICS GOALS:- To improve the knowledge of VET in the dairy sector and about the National Systems of Qualifications and the European Qualifications Framework.- To exchange experiences and to promote the cooperation between European countries.- To promote sectorial and geographical mobility of dairy workers.- To disseminate the qualifications and the systems of recognition of the qualifications ...
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ERABEE-TN - Education and Research in Biosystems (or Agricultural and Biological) Engineering in Europe; a Thematic Network

The main objectives of this Thematic Network is to initiate and contribute to the structural development and the assurance of the quality assessment of the emerging discipline of Biosystems (or equivalent Agricultural and Biological) Engineering in Europe. The need for such development was established by the USAEE Thematic Network, which was concluded with the end of its dissemination year (30.09....
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Transfer of Innovative Learning Techniques over Forestry Education

The general level of integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in teaching haD increased greatly over the past years. However, forestry education in Slovakia have been using traditional didactical approaches such as theoretical class teaching, set of lectures more or less mixed with practical field training and excursions. It has relied mainly on traditional learning tools e....
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