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COP21: Results and Implications for Pathways and Policies for Low Emissions European Societies (COP21 RIPPLES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

The COP21 outcome represents an important new strategic context for EU climate policy. Analysing the implications of this new context requires an interdisciplinary approach, combining analysis of the evolution of the international climate regime as well as of NDCs and their socio-economic implications. Such analysis is also urgent, given the timelines imposed by the Paris Agreement for a “facilita...
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Electronic International Forum for Teacher Educator Development

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

Teacher educators impact directly on the quality of teaching, as the European Commission (2013) emphasises: ‘...the competences of those who educate and support teachers (teacher educators) must be of the highest order’. Yet, across Europe, teacher educators are, typically, not formally prepared for their jobs, not supported during their induction phase, and lack ongoing professional learning opp...
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CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN FORMAL AND INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE BALKANS (INFORM)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

"Southeast Europe has seen a century of continuous transformation and “transition” – the disappearance and emergence of states, political and legal systems, ideologies, institutions, and social classes. This has been accompanied by a stability of social practices resistant to change. Shaken by radically changing ideological and legal structures, citizens rely on customary and informal social netwo...
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Japan and Europe Network for Neutrino and Intensity Frontier Experimental Research (JENNIFER)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

European particle physics groups interested in searching signals of new physics both with neutrinos, at T2K experiment, and at the intensity frontier, with the Belle-II experiment at the SUPERKEKB machine, want to share between them and with KEK laboratory their knowledge in data analysis and detector technologies. Such knowledge sharing will enhance skills and competences of all participants, wil...
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DiasporaLink

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

DiasporaLink is a 4-year exchange program between 24 universities and research institutes representing EU, the Americas, Africa and Australia and will investigate, evaluate and facilitate transnational diaspora entrepreneurship, TDE as driver of development and wealth creation in countries of origin and residence. • The partners in DiasporaLink have together a unique possibility to have a substant...
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Managing Affective-learning THrough Intelligent atoms and Smart InteractionS (MATHISIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The MaTHiSiS learning vision is to provide a product-system for vocational training and mainstream education for both individuals with an intellectual disablity and non-diagnosed ones. This product-system consists of an integrated platform, along with a set of re-usable learning components (educational material, digital educational artefacts etc.), which will respond to the needs of a future educa...
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Working with volunteers in migrant language education: roles and competences

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

In the context of increased migration to European countries the VIME project will develop a model to optimise the use of volunteers working alongside, and in collaboration with, professionals within migrant language and literacy education provision. Language and literacy education is vital in supporting the integration of adult migrants. Not only because proficiency in the language and literacy of...
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Integracja przez Edukację. Innowacyjne metody asystentury rodzinnej narzędziem wyrównywania szans rodzin zagrożonych wykluczeniem społecznym.

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

The fight against unemployment and social exclusion is one of the major challenges modern Europe is fighting with. Integrated guidelines concerning Europe’s 2020 Strategy clearly indicate priority steps aimed at improvement of the socio-economic situation of the EU member countries. One of the guidelines indicates to "promote social inclusion and combat poverty." In order to combat social exclusio...
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I am a Sport Entrepreneur – what R U?

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

THE PROJECT RECEIVED A VERY POSITIVE EVALUATION WHEN IT WAS SUBMITTED TO THE BRITISH NA IN 2015. THE EVALUATION IS ATTACHED TO THE APPLICATION. HOWEVER, THE APPLICATION WAS PUT ON THE RESERVE LIST, DUE TO SOME APPLICATION ELEMENTS IN NEED OF IMPROVEMENT. THE EVALUATION OFFERED USEFUL AND PRECISE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SUCH IMPROVEMENT.ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCES AND CAPACITY AMONG YOUTH, IN PARTICULA...
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Operational Potential of Ecosystem Research Applications (OPERAs)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Human use and exploitation of the biosphere is increasing at such a pace and scale that the sustainability of major ecosystems is threatened, and may not be able to continue to function in ways that are vital to the existence of humanity. Re-framing environmental resource use has led to the emergence of the concepts of ecosystem services (ES) and natural capital (NC). This discourse indicates not ...
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High-End cLimate Impacts and eXtremes (HELIX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"With the target of limiting global warming to 2ºC increasingly difficult to achieve, policymakers, businesses and other decision-makers need to plan to adapt to changes in climate under higher levels of global warming. This requires coherent information on the future climate conditions, and the consequences of different adaptation actions. International negotiations on limiting global warming a...
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Social Entrepreneurship Training via ICT Learning Environments

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

If it is to make a success of the Lisbon strategy for growth and employment, Europe needs to stimulate the entrepreneurial mindsets of young people, encourage innovative business start-ups, and foster a culture that is friendlier to entrepreneurship and to the growth of SMEs. The important role of education in promoting more entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviours has become widely recognised. Th...
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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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Open The Doors - New Directions in NEET prevention through teacher capacity building

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

Open The Doors - New Directions in NEET prevention “Teachers cannot teach how to be entrepreneurial without themselves being entrepreneurial. Entrepreneurial competency and skills can be acquired or built only through hands-on, real life learning experiences.” Commission, Entrepreneurship Education: A Guide for Educators, 2013 NEET youth is becoming one of the most important challenges to the Eur...
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Puzzle. Developing easy to read formats for people with intellectual disabilities.

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

Despite the progress made there is still a significant gap in the opportunities that young adults and adults with intellectual disabilities in European countries such as Greece, Poland, and Lithuania have for education and training or for participation in the social and economic spheres of life. Among the contributing factors are: a) the lack of trained educators or other staff working with people...
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Innovative Training and New Business opportunities in the Energy Market

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Companies will need to adapt their business models to respond to a power environment that could be transformed by changes such as decentralised power, technological changes and a very different customer outlook. The objective of the IBM+ project is to design an elaborate a Training Plan to increase the energy sector agents and future professional skills for the identification of new energy market ...
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Inclusive Education with Tablets

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Context and background: Smartphones and tablet computers as widespread representatives for mobile information and communication technology (ICT) are expected to innovate learning and teaching in numerous ways, including individualised, anytime and mobile access to learning opportunities for all. Research suggests a profound effect of mobile ICT on pedagogy and on learners. For learners with specia...
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Datacenter EURECA Project (EURECA)

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

The EURECA project tackles the lack of knowledge and awareness of how to identify and procure environmentally sound and greener data centres. The work will encompass solutions for pre-commercial procurement (PCP) and procurement of innovative solutions (PPI). This will be achieved by consolidating recognised and emerging benchmark criteria into an easy-to-use tool that can be deployed by non-expe...
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Go Europe+

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

Modern vocational training should include opportunities for transnational learning mobility. Practical experiences abroad empower people in different ways and at different levels. In addition to the acquisition of new professional skills, intercultural and language experiences can positively affect personality development and independent living. In times of inclusion disadvantaged target groups s...
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Computerbetrug und Gegenmaßnahmen

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

Partners: A. Staatliche Berufsschule 2 Landshut (sending institution) B. School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering (“ACE”) (receiving institution) at the University of East London (UEL) C. 20 Sstudents of the Staatliche Berufsschule 2 Landshut per flow Describing the Needs: - "Hacker steal Rewe's customer data"(18.07.2011); - "Trojans by fraud emails from Telekom und Vodafone" (Focus, 14....
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Governing Urban Diversity: Creating Social Cohesion, Social Mobility and Economic Performance in Today's Hyper-diversified Cities (DIVERCITIES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The central hypothesis of this project is that socio-economic, socio-demographic, ethnic and cultural diversity can positively affect social cohesion, economic performance and social mobility of individuals and groups. A better social cohesion, higher economic performance and increased chances for social mobility will make European cities more liveable and more competitive. In this period of long-...
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Advanced Model Development and Validation for Improved Analysis of Costs and Impacts of Mitigation Policies (ADVANCE)

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

Integrated assessment and energy-economy models have become central tools for informing long-term global and regional climate mitigation strategies. There is a large demand for improved representations of complex system interactions and thorough validation of model behaviour in order to increase user confidence in climate policy assessments. ADVANCE aims to respond to this demand by facilitating t...
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Eco-friendly digital advertising display, based on novel printable electrochromic polymers (ECOPIX)

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

Advertisers have always looked to new and creative ways to reach their audience, via print media, billboards and retail signs, radio, television, or the internet. Today, despite the internet revolution, one of the fastest growing advertising mediums is outdoor advertising, otherwise known as“out-of-home” advertising or “OOH”.Digital OOH (DOOH) is a major component of this growth However, these dis...
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"Financialisation, economy, society and sustainable development." (FESSUD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"The research programme will integrate diverse levels, methods and disciplinary traditions with the aim of developing a comprehensive policy agenda for changing the role of the financial system to help achieve a future which is sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms. The programme involves an integrated and balanced consortium involving partners from 14 countries that has unsurpa...
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TRADEIT: Traditional Food: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology Transfer (TRADEIT)

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

The TRADEIT project is a multidisciplinary, multi-sectorial collaborative project supporting a Network of Traditional Food SMEs and Food Researchers in the areas of Collaboration, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge and Technology Transfer to increase the competitiveness and inter-regional advantage of Traditional Food Producing SMEs. This will be achieved through focused regional coordination...
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Advanced Software Protection: Integration, Research and Exploitation (ASPIRE)

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

Traditional security solutions based on custom hardware like smart cards, set-top boxes, and dongles, are not convenient on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Software protection is therefore utterly important; it can be a maker and breaker in domains like multi-screen mobile TV, software licensing, and credentials and sensitive data stored on mobile devices. However, current software pr...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

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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Transitioning towards Urban Resilience and Sustainability (TURAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The “TURaS” project aims to bring together urban communities, researchers, local authorities and SMEs to research, develop, demonstrate and disseminate transition strategies and scenarios to enable European cities and their rural interfaces to build vitally-needed resilience in the face of significant sustainability challenges. To ensure maximum impact, the TURaS project has developed an innovati...
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Innovative Bildungsansätze für digitale und kulturelle Inklusion

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

atempo is one of the leading inclusive social enterprises in Austria and advocates the equality of all people. A core area of atempo is inclusive adult education for people with learning difficulties and disabilities. People with learning difficulties and disabilities are individuals who need more time when learning or cannot learn or do certain things and therefore need support in learning and be...
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"Bordering, Political Landscapes and Social Arenas: Potentials and Challenges of Evolving Border Concepts in a post-Cold War World" (EUBORDERSCAPES)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

"In order to gauge its significance, conceptual change in the study of borders must be seen in relation to fundamental social, economic and geopolitical transformations that have taken place in the past decades. In addition, major paradigmatic shifts in scientific debate, and in the social sciences in particular, must also be considered. Recognising the close interrelationships between social chan...
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Genomic and lifestyle predictors of foetal outcome relevant to diabetes and obesity and their relevance to prevention strategies in South Asian peoples (GIFTS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Despite a strong genetic component to diabetes and obesity, the rapidly rising prevalence of these disorders is due to adaptation to a changing environment. The epicentre of the ‘diabetes epidemic’ is in South Asia and this is reflected in the migrant populations in Europe. Current prevention strategies are focused on adult life and target over-nutrition in high-risk adults. However, for many popu...
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Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe (EMBRACE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

In an interdisciplinary, socially inclusive and collaborative context, emBRACE aims to improve the framing of resilience in the context of disasters in Europe. It will develop a conceptual and methodological approach to clarify how the resilience capacity of a society confronted with natural hazards and disasters can be characterized, defined and measured. On the basis of a systematic evaluation o...
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Sustainable Urbanisation in China : Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mega-trends towards 2050 (URBACHINA)

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

"""Sustainable Urbanisation in China : Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mega-trends towards 2050 (URBACHINA) combines the knowledge and expertise from a number of different disciplines to provide new and innovative insights and scenarios that can be used guide urbanization in China over the next 40 years. A key strength of the proposal is the use of 'thematic pairs' of European and Chine...
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PEDCA Pan-European Data Centre Academy (PEDCA)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Data centres are the cornerstones which underpin the digital economy, and create the essential environment for both business and employment to flourish. It is becoming urgent for established data centre states to contribute to R&D, share and develop skills, define standards and promote strategies for network investment. All of these activities will lead to increased trust of new technology such as...
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Climate change - Learning from the past climate (Past4Future)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Past4Future will combine multidisciplinary paleoclimate records from ice cores, marine cores, speleothems, pollen and other records, concentrating on a global distribution of the records, to reconstruct climate change and variability during the present interglacial (the Holocene) and the last interglacial (known as the Eemian in northwestern Europe and as marine isotope stage 5e in the marine sedi...
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Advanced Materials & Pharmaceutical TEChnologies (AMPTEC)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The Advanced Materials and Pharmaceutical Technologies cluster will gather some of the world leading researchers who want to undertake an innovative project by joining forces and pooling their respective skills.With their expertise on materials sciences, pharmaceutics, continuous processing technologies and medical devices, they will meet new challenges in pharmaceutical and medical development. C...
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Zero-Impact Cultural Heritage Event Network (ZEN)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

Zero-impact cultural heritage Event Network – ZEN is a project aimed at developing a shared methodology to reduce the impact of events and festivals in historic centers and on cultural heritage through the exchange of significant experiences and lessons learned by the particpating partners. All over Europe, events and festivals have the ability to draw positive effects on tourism, cultural diversi...
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Sharing KnowledgE Assets: InteRegionally Cohesive NeigHborhoods (SEARCH)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

"The EU has experienced successive enlargements in recent years with the incorporation of new countries. These have changed the EU map, broadening frontiers and thus appearing new neighbouring countries. The integration of them offers new opportunities but also implies some risks. Even though the ENP has demonstrated to be an integration tool, which has provided an effective and clear framework to...
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Adaptive Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems (REFRESH)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

Understanding how freshwater ecosystems will respond to future climate change is essential for the development of policies and implementation strategies needed to protect aquatic and riparian ecosystems. The future status of freshwater ecosystems is however, also dependent on changes in land-use, pollution loading and water demand. In addition the measures that need to be taken to restore freshwat...
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Knowledge-based Sustainable Management for Europe's Seas (KnowSeas)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Europe’s four regional seas (Baltic, Black, Mediterranean and NE Atlantic) have suffered severe environmental degradation due to human pressure. Existing measures to manage pressures have proven inadequate and the EC has responded by proposing a new policy (Maritime Strategy Blue Book) and environmental legislation (Marine Strategy Directive), both currently close to adoption. These instruments re...
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