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Support Tourism And Reduction Strategy (+20) : STARS (+20) (LIFE STARS (+20))
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
Background
Based on Eurostat and World Trade Organisation (WTO) statistics, the tourism sector in the EU accounts for 9.7 million jobs (12% of the EU workforce) and more than 10% of the EUâs total GPD. It supports around 1.8 million enterprises, most of which are SMEs and micro-enterprises.
The EU is the worldâs no.1 tourist destination, with more th...
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Improving the Knowledge in Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology for Technicians and Workers (KNOWHY)
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
KnowHY aims to provide the FC&H2 sector with a training offer for technicians and workers featuring quality in contents, accessibility in format and language, practicality for the targeted audience, ease of scalability and update, and at competitive costs which make the training offer economically sustainable after project completion. Thanks to this project both OEMs as well as professionals can r...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 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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Arrowhead (ARROWHEAD)
Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,
"Our society is facing both energy and competitiveness challenges. These challenges are tightly linked and require new dynamic interactions between energy producers and energy consumers, between machines, between systems, between people and systems, etc. Cooperative automation is the key for these dynamic interactions and is enabled by the technology developed around the Internet of Things and Ser...
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Passport to your Future
Start date: Sep 8, 2014, End date: Sep 7, 2016,
In order to equip our students with the necessary employability skills to meet the needs of current and future employers, we as education providers must understand these needs and improve our current practice to safeguard and nurture prosperous futures for our teenagers today, regardless of their socio-economic or academic backgrounds.
Despite our best efforts, the cohort we often in the UK refer ...
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Reducing CO2 footprint of Information and Communication Technologies (LIFE GREEN TIC)
Start date: Sep 2, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
Background
The EU has set three strategic goals around climate change and energy to be achieved by 2020: a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions; 20% of energy from renewable sources; and a 20% increase in energy efficiency.
The total footprint of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector was estimated in 2007 to be 830 million tonn...
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COMMUTING EUROPE ACROSS WORK EXPERIENCE
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
Work-related experience for students has become more and more popular and important for any increased future employability. The project aims to provide post-16 Language students in Spain/Germany/England to gain invaluable insight into the European job market by completing a week-long work placement in a local business of the host country as well as increase their linguistic skills, which will bene...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,
From March 2015 till June 2015, seven vocational training students travelled with Erasmus+ to United Kingdom so as to do the 3 month work experience which is part of their compulsory curriculum. 5 students were in Sheffield, and 2 were in Manchester, working in differente companies.
One teacher travelled to Dublin (Ireland) in summer so as to do a course to improve her CLIL teaching skills.
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Innovation and Modernisation of STEM teaching & learning at Meadowhead.
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2015,
Our project will be mainly one of raising the profile of the STEM subjects of Science, Technology and Maths as well as improving the staff competences / expertise with CPD for specific staff within the STEM subjects of Science, Maths and Technology.
We are aiming to have two key staff within each of these three areas who are keen to improve their practice and are able to job shadow staff within t...
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Demonstration Of Models for Optimisation of Technologies for Intelligent Construction (DOMOTIC)
Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,
Background
The environment and health problems associated with the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere are one of the main concerns of the EU. Atmospheric pollution is the primary cause of environment-related disease in Europe and is the principal cause of global climate change. European environmental regulations and strategies are dedi...
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Creation Of New Network for Electric Cars Technology (CONNECT)
Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,
Background
The transport sector is one of the main sources of CO2 emissions in the EU. Passenger-car use accounts for about half of the overall CO2 emissions generated by the transport sector, representing 12% of the total CO2 emissions in the EU and 13% in Spain.
The number of cars on EU roads has tripled in the past 30 years, increasing at a rate of ar...
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Project for Optimisation of Water and Emissions Reduction (POWER)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,
Background
The European IRENA programme, coordinated by the European Environment Agency, identified the agriculture sector as having the highest water consumption (50%) in Southern European countries. Spain has the biggest irrigation area in the EU and 68% of available water is consumed by the agricultural sector. However, there is a high percentage of in...
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Development of educational programmes and training initiatives related to hydrogen technologies and fuel cells in Europe (HYPROFESSIONALS)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,
"Today’s technicians and students are the next generation of potential fuel cell users and designers, and education now is a critical step towards the widespread acceptance and implementation of hydrogen fuel cell technology in the near future.Development of training initiatives for technical professionals will be started aiming to secure the required mid- and long-term availability of human resou...
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Demonstration of water saving for watering uses through the experimentation of artificial intelligence integrated in traditional systems of water control (OPTIMIZAGUA)
Start date: Oct 1, 2003, End date: Sep 30, 2006,
Background
The relevant policy objectives for water quantity are to ensure and promote sustainable water abstraction and sustainable use of surface and ground waters.
With the exception of south-west Europe, total water abstractions have decreased over the last decade in Europe. Most sectors have cut their water use through measures such as greater water...
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Integral sustainability of Tourism (SITUR)
Start date: Oct 1, 2001, End date: Sep 30, 2004,
Background
Rural tourism is a new product in expansion throughout Europe. It has similar features in every area, particularly in southern Europe where these policies are undergoing vigorous growth at present.
However, tourism is not an innocuous business. Europe has long experience of the environmental deterioration that accompanies tourism, especially...
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Innovative approach for the participation of the farming sector in EMAS and the experimentation of new formulas to create specialized employment formulas (EMAS FARMING)
Start date: Oct 1, 2001, End date: Sep 30, 2004,
Background
The agricultural and livestock sector at local level is characterised by small size operations, with smallholdings being equivalent to the size of a micro-company in 99% of cases.
However, the sector has a significant environmental impact and affect on different natural resources (water, land-use and air quality).
The agricul...
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According to information from the European Commission, a quarter of 14 to 25 year-olds in Europe are unemployed. In November 2012, 5.799 million young people (under 25) were unemployed in the EU-27, the youth unemployment rate was 24.4 % in the euro area. The lowest rates were observed in Germany (8.1 %) and Austria (9.0 %). Spain has the second highest rate 56.5 % followed by Portugal with the 38...
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This project transfers the results of two projects of innovation carried out at international level in the ambits of the Life Plus Programme and Intelligent Energy for Europe, since their applications, techniques and methodologies have a high pedagogical value and they bring a practical approach for reinforcing the vocational competencies ; in the context of the new Community Directive on "energ...
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Therefore, the international results "H2 training" project initially aimed at training of trainers and significant job demand detected in more than 50 organizations and companies integrating their international observatory to identify the main priorities of the manual transfer of and curricula for training and employment for the employability of workers and professionals. As an extra added value t...
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The project tackles certain needs of continuous training for professions and key sectors related to the effective water management. This training is based on transfer of innovation, already validated by two pilot projects of international reference developed one of them in the framework of the LIFE Programme (www.life-optimizagua.org)and the other one under the Leonardo da Vinci framework and whos...
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The project is aimed to design a curriculum and to elaborate the associated training materials for trainers and trainees in the professional profile “technicians for fuel cell installation and maintenance”. The approach will address the need for a new professional profile related to hydrogen-based technologies and fuels cells, adapted to the technological developments and in agreement with the Eur...
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