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mySMARTLife project aims at the development of an Urban Transformation Strategy to support cities in the definition of transition models, as a suitable path to reach high level of excellence in its development process, addressing the main city challenges and progressing to the smart people and smart economy concepts.The main instrument to achieve this very ambitious strategy will be the definition...
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The objective of REPLICATE is to demonstrate Smart City technologies in energy, transport and ICT in districts in San Sebastia, Florence and Bristol addressing urban complexity and generate replication plans in other districts and in follower cities of Essen,Nilufer and Lausanne.Main challenges for cities are to increase the overall energy efficiency, to exploit better local resources in terms of ...
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Current research and practice on Open Innovation (OI) has not given emphasis on the ability of SMEs to develop and implement OI strategies - the lessons learned from large firms are not readily transferable to their context. INSPIRE aims to thoroughly investigate how OI is managed and organised in SMEs in order to leverage and expand the existing scattered initiatives and professionalize their ser...
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Middle East Research and Innovation Dialogue (MERID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The MERID project (Middle East Research and Innovation Dialogue) proposes a comprehensive action to intensify and encourage research and innovation cooperation between the EU and the Middle East region, directly involving partners from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine, directly involving partners from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine. The project intends to build up...
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EnReMilk will achieve significant water and energy savings in representative dairy case studies, mozzarella and milk powder production, across the supply chain. The dairy industry is an important food industry sector with sales of €124.3 billion and added value of €17.4 billion p.a. It is a high energy and water consumer, both overall and per unit production: up to 6.47 MWh (5.55 MWhth and 0.92 MW...
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Typically, end users or “consumers” are perceived as adopters of sustainable products and services, developed by companies. Thus, a lot of attention is paid to the (non-) diffusion of sustainable products and services. From this perspective end users are seen as – more or less – passive recipients of sustainable products and services.We propose to investigate the active roles of end users in shapi...
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Innovation in Action: Studying Innovation in Times of Crisis (INNO-ACT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Dec 20, 2016,

INNO-ACT brings sociocultural anthropology and innovation studies together to tackle the following interrelated questions: (i) How did innovation arise to its current prominence, particularly in the European Union? (ii) What are the different meanings, discourses, and values used by different actors when referencing innovation? and (iii) Under which circumstances does innovation emerge and make a ...
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Accelerate SSL Innovation for Europe (SSL-erate)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The aim of SSL-erate is to accelerate the uptake of high-quality SSL technology in Europe by means of open innovation with and by bringing validated information to all relevant stakeholders. A coordinated European effort is required to address the European societal challenges (in particular health & quality of life in an ageing society, energy consumption and resource efficiency), to resolve the s...
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Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environements (LIPSE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

"The LIPSE project (Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environments) identifies drivers and barriers to successful social innovation in the public sector. Through studying social innovation and co-creation practices and processes in 11 European countries and 7 policy sectors, LIPSE will create and disseminate essential knowledge about public innovation. The LIPSE consortium consists of lead...
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European Cloud Marketplace for Intelligent Mobility (ECIM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

ECIM will develop a state-of-the-art solution that combines the strong cloud capabilities of an existing CIP cloud-based platform, EPIC, with new functionalities that facilitate the easy migration of existing city services and innovative creation of new ones. In so doing, ECIM will 1) provide a pathway for cities and businesses to easily migrate services to the cloud, 2) open these services to inn...
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ALICE RAP is a Europe wide project of 43 partner research institutions involving 107 researchers from 25 European countries providing 1000 months of a plurality of scientific endeavour to analyse the place and challenges of addictions and lifestyles to the cohesion, organization and functioning of contemporary European society. Through integrated multidisciplinary research, a wide range of factors...
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Smart UrbaN ServIces for Higher eNergy Efficiency (SUNSHINE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

SUNSHINE – "Smart UrbaN ServIces for Higher eNergy Efficiency" delivers innovative digital services, interoperable with existing geographic web-service infrastructures, supporting improved energy efficiency at the urban and building level. Specifically, SUNSHINE delivers a smart service platform accessible from both a web-based client and from an App for smartphones and tablets. In particular, the...
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Mainstreaming EU Knowledge in Business Studies and Strategy

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Mainstreaming EU Knowledge in Business Studies and Strategies (MEKBiz) is a one-year, multi-phased and multi-dimensional project which aims to promote discussion, research and teaching on EU issues within the specific context of its host institution, ESADE business school. Later, by providing open access to the teaching resources developed, other EU teaching institutions will be able to do the sam...
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Description Social creativity in learningMuch social creativity involves human collaboration through and about artefacts that embody collective knowledge resulting from the collaboration. It can be a catalyst to enable European SMEs and large organizations to adopt and sustain new approaches to learning by fostering non-linear and non-sta...
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Apps 4 Europe - Turning Data into Business (Apps4EU)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Apps for Europe - turning Data into Business will create a thematic network to organise competitions for using open data, stimulate the winners to start business ventures, and maximise the socio-economic impact and overall benefits of open data. It will contribute to the open data policy of the Commission and stimulate the reuse of public sector information from governmental, scientific and cultur...
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Commons for Europe (Commons4EU)

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

Cities face a scenario characterized by shrinking budgets, increasing demands of services from their citizens and the need to reinvent themselves in their quest to become Smart Cities.Simultaneously, the Internet brought new opportunities to orchestrate collaboration, fostering the creation of a large base of commons in code, user generated contents and even telecom infrastructures with the emerge...
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Smart City Service Development Kit and its Application Pilots (CitySDK)

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

We will produce three large-scale pan-European smart city service pilots in the eight partner cities. The pilots are in the domains of smart mobility, smart participation and smart tourism. A combination of city organisations' leadership, collaboration between the cities, and a large amount of partners' relevant existing services, interfaces, software, practices and standards in these domains are ...
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Game and Learning Alliance (GaLA)

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

The GaLA motivation stems from the acknowledgment of the potentiality of Serious Games (SGs) for education and training and the need to address the challenges of the main stakeholders of the SGs European landscape (users, researchers, developers/industry, educators). A foundational fault issue in this context is the fragmentation that affects the SG landscape.GALA aims to shape the scientific comm...
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COmparative POlice Studies In The Eu (COMPOSITE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

"Police forces in the EU face serious challenges. Integration in the EU has increased the need for cross force collaboration. Technology has created new capabilities for criminals but also possibilities for the police. Changes in the public opinion and in political expectations have created extra challenges. Responses to these challenges and exploitation of opportunities require major changes to t...
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OPEN INNOVATION Mechanisms in Smart Cities (Open Cities)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The success of cities is linked to their efficiency, in reducing transaction costs and providing services. However, in order to maintain this success, cities have reinvented themselves many times through history.Today, Information Technologies are doomed to be the key driver of a new wave of innovation in cities that will lead, one more time, to their reinvention.However, public procurement and ma...
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"In this study I will assess faculty perceptions of European higher education accreditations’ legitimacy and significance and the extent to which these perceptions influence the ways in which accreditations are actually implemented. My research will also assess the role that other factors such as identification with the school and faculty background have on faculty perceptions’ formation. The main...
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The over-all objective of the FIREBALL project is to coordinate and align methodologies and approaches in the domains of Future Internet (FI) research and experimentation testbeds and user driven open innovation towards successful innovation in "smart city" environments.In doing so, and in covering the whole FI research and innovation value chain driven by smart cities being the users of the FI, F...
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The European Business Growth Catalyst (EBGC) project will develop a new blended learning programme for managers and owners of European Small to Medium Sized Businesses (SMEs), to grow their businesses, innovate and become more European in their focus and trade.EBGC responds directly to the contemporary European context of the crisis, in which business growth for SMEs in partner countries of UK, ES...
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The aim of the project is to develop, deploy and assess personalized training program focused at enhancing creativity, innovation and the development of talent as well as transferable coaching skills and based on blended learning and Serious Games methodologies. The training program is tailored for SMEs of the ICT sector and its scope is to contribute to improve the innovation performances of the ...
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