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Conservation arrangements for Lesser Spotted Eagle in Latvia (LIFE AQPOM)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

Background The total population of lesser spotted eagle (Aquila pomarina) in Latvia at the end of the previous century was estimated at 2 800 to 5 200 breeding pairs. This represented roughly 45% of the total EU population and 24% of the population for the whole European continent. Unfortunately, the number of breeding pairs has decreased since 2000. Dur...
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Reduction of CO2 emissions by restoring degraded peatlands in Northern European Lowland (LIFE Peat Restore)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

Background Some 25-30% of carbon stored in ecosystems is found in peatlands, twice as much carbon as is stored in forests. Peatland degradation, however, leads to the decomposition and mineralisation of peat and consequently to the release of the stored carbon in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2). According to Wetlands International, there are at least 500...
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Soil Care for profitable and sustainable crop production in Europe (SOILCARE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

European crop production is to remain competitive while reducing environmental impacts, requiring development and uptake of effective soil improvingcropping systems. The overall aim of SOILCARE is to identify and evaluate promising soil-improving cropping systems and agronomictechniques increasing profitability and sustainability across scales in Europe. A trans-disciplinary approach will be used ...
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REnaissance of Places with Innovative Citizenship and TEchnolgy (REPLICATE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2021,

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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DAFNE: Use of a Decision-Analytic Framework to explore the water-energy-food NExus in complex and trans-boundary water resources systems of fast growing developing countries. (DAFNE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Global trends in population growth and rising economic prosperity will increase the demand for energy, food and water, with more severe impact in fast-growing economies, such as in several African countries. The constraints on water, energy, and food could well hamper economic development, lead to social and geopolitical tensions, and cause lasting environmental damage. DAFNE advocates an integrat...
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Roads and the politics of thought: Ethnographic approaches to infrastructure development in South Asia (Roads)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

New roads are being constructed at unprecedented rates in certain parts of the world. The proposed research will ask: Why? To what end? Who benefits? What ideas lie in the foundations of this new infrastructure? Roads are presented as solutions to poverty, ‘development’ and economic growth? Are they? In what ways? What else might roads do? As cheap oil dwindles and questions of climate change rema...
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EW-Shopp - Supporting Event and Weather-based Data Analytics and Marketing along the Shopper Journey (EW-Shopp)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

In this project we aim at supporting companies operating in the fragmented European ecosystem of the eCommerce, Retail and Marketing industries to increase their efficiency and competitiveness by leveraging deep customer insights that are too challenging for them to obtain today. Improved insights will result from the analysis of large amount of data, acquired from different sources and sectors, a...
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INter-sectoral Health Environment Research for InnovaTions (INHERIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The overarching aim of INHERIT is to define effective inter-sectoral policies and interventions that promote health and well being across the social gradient by tackling key environmental stressors and related inequalities in the areas of living, consuming and moving.INHERIT will bring together relevant stakeholders from different sectors, including the private sector. It will support inter-sector...
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Political and sOcial awareness on Water EnviRonmental challenges (POWER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

POWER is a user-driven project to share knowledge and experience of water related issues in different EU local authorities to create a tool for EU water policy. It addresses four of the eight EIP WATER priorities:1. Water reduction consumption2. Water quality 3. Extreme weather events (surface water flood risk) 4. Variables related to water conservationIt will develop a common DSP sys...
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EU Calculator: trade-offs and pathways towards sustainable and low-carbon European Societies (EUCalc)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

EUCalc replies to topic a) Managing technology transition. The EUCalc project will deliver a much needed comprehensive framework for research, business, and decision making which enables an appraisal of synergies and trade-offs of feasible decarbonisation pathways on the national scale of Europe and its member countries + Switzerland. The novel and pragmatic modelling approach is rooted between p...
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Collaborative Recommendations and Adaptive Control for Personalised Energy Saving (enCOMPASS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

Achieving the European environmental objectives for 2020 requires not only technological progress, but also a major change in energy consumption behaviour. The enCOMPASS project will implement and validate an integrated socio-technical approach to behavioural change for energy saving, by developing innovative user-friendly digital tools to make energy consumption data available and understandable ...
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Accessible Resources for Cultural Heritage EcoSystems (ARCHES)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The popularisation of digitisation techniques has boosted the generation of digital cultural heritage assets in recent years. However, such techniques should not be regarded as an end in and of themselves, but as a means for enabling European citizens to engage with cultural heritage more closely and in different ways. ARCHES aims to create more inclusive cultural environments particularly for tho...
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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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Turning silver into gold through management strategies that effectively address an ageing and multi-generational workforce

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

EC Europe 2020 Strategy points to increased ageing and low employment, especially of older workers, as two of Europe’s main structural weaknesses. EC proposed a target for 75% overall employment rate for 2020, which specifically needs greater involvement of older workers and for Member-States to promote innovative active ageing policies. The adoption of this Strategy was followed by the Council co...
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T@ndem : Tisser des Actions autour du Numérique à travers des Duo d'acteurs de l'Education aux Médias

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

The project T@ndem, focuses on supporting digital uses children by the establishment of an educational continuum between schools and families through a educational approach of media education, in coordination with specialized agencies in media education.Background and ObjectivesToday, media use are not confined to the private sphere of the family. They fall in the school's field. This represents a...
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Aerospace Engineering ECVET Resources Online

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

Aerospace is a vital industry sector across the EU. Recognising and addressing skills gaps and enabling the personal development of well-trained and skilled employees to support growth will make a significant contribution to the advancement of the key Europe 2020 aims of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. In particular, the AEERO project will contribute towards the objectives of the 'Agenda...
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Our 'Voices' create impact through mobilisation of data

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

We’re very excited about our project. Most of the strategic partners have extensive experience of working with their stakeholder communities to enable their voice to be heard, but our project takes this to the next level.Our aims are:• to develop core curricula of informal, non-formal and formal learning and development - including validation of prior learning, to support the acquisition of compet...
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EUROPE COMICS

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

The Project EUROPE COMICS consists in the cooperation of 13 publishing players working together to create, diffuse and promote worldwide a digital, English-language European comics catalogue aiming to give European works and authors international visibility and widen the comics audience in Europe and abroad. This is to be achieved through the reinforcement of the cultural players in terms of know-...
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Hands-free Voice-enabled Interface to Web Applications for Smart Home Environments (LISTEN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

Nowadays, it is becoming increasingly affordable to enhance the home environment with several automation schemes, allowing remote control of e.g., heating/cooling, communication, lighting, media, etc. Such smart home functionalities are essential for people with disabilities and the elderly, as they not only provide assistive control of important everyday functionalities, but may prove to be life-...
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PECKLES

Start date: Nov 25, 2015, End date: May 24, 2019,

Peckles is a wild new preschool series built upon the adventures of four, six-year-old friends. Viewers join the Wild Bunch on their exciting exploits through a tactile world made of real world materials. With personality-driven humor and timeless themes like curiosity, friendship, and teamwork, Peckles is sure to inspire future young adventurers.Peckles is a little bird with a big appetite for ad...
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Study of Religions Against Prejudices and Stereotypes

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

Religious and cultural diversity are today more than ever a critical and political challenge as the recent emergencies related to geo-political and economical global transformations show. Stereotypes and prejudices about religions and in religions can jeopardize an already fragile social fabric and lead to discrimination, ghettoization and radicalization. Responses to these challenges can be repre...
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Führung macht Schule: Schulentwicklung durch gezielte Personalführung

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Leadership makes school: school development through focused personnel managementStudents grow in a world of radical social changes. Strong influence by media, changing family structures, increasing percentage of families with migration background and floods of refugees characterise our living environment. The primary schools, as authentic collective schools, represent an exhaustive spectrum of soc...
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Engaging European Start-ups and Young SMEs for Action for Sustainable Energy (START2ACT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

START2ACT aims to reduce residential energy consumption in the EU via changing the behaviour of consumers in their everyday lives by approaching them at their workplace. With a focus on European start-ups and young SMEs, the project aims at triggering action by young entrepreneurs and their emerging enterprises as well as by the owners and staff of young SMEs to introduce energy efficiency measure...
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Realising an Applied Gaming Eco-system (RAGE)

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

The EU based industry for non-leisure games (applied games) is an emerging business. As such, it´s still fragmented and needs critical mass to compete globally. Nevertheless its growth potential is widely recognised and even suggested to exceed the growth potential of the leisure games market.RAGE will help to seize these opportunities by making available 1) an interoperable set of advanced techno...
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Green Awareness in Action (GAIA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The GAIA project focuses on the educational community; faculty, staff, students and parents at all levels of education: primary/secondary/high schools and universities. Targeting Energy Efficiency in the context of the educational community is clearly very important due to a number of reasons since raising awareness among young people and changing their behaviour and habits concerning energy usage...
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Bilateral Coordination for the Enhancement and Development of STI Partnerships between the EU and the USA (BILAT USA 4.0)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The EU and the USA have highly-productive, immensely-innovative and excellence-driven research and innovation systems. Acknowledging the particular strengths of each landscape, a balanced transatlantic STI partnership of equals bears great potential and contributes to the ultimate goal of tackling societal challenges and boost economic competitiveness. International cooperation between power nodes...
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Youth Sport Development Ambassadors Project 2016

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

This 2 year project will focus on peer led voluntary action in sport to promote social inclusion in sport for young people aged between 16 and 24. The focus will be on working with groups of young people from ethnic minority and migrant populations.At an EU level the need to develop sport for social inclusion and migrant populations is seen as a priority. The challenge facing young people from Et...
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TrustwOrthy model-awaRE Analytics Data platfORm (TOREADOR)

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

The TOREADOR project is aimed at overcoming some major hurdles that until now have prevented many European companies from reaping the full benefits of Big Data analytics (BDA). Companies and organisations in Europe have become aware of the potential competitive advantage they could get by timely and accurate Big Data analytics, but lack the IT expertise and budget to fully exploit BDA. To overcom...
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MOVING Languages - Mobile Virtual Learning for Languages

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

The migration in the EU is recently rapidly growing, especially in light of the troubled political situation in the Middle East and Asia. Thus it is of extreme importance to provide additional tools to enhance the integration of the immigrants and refugees arriving in Europe. Language learning is one of the key priorities of successful integration, and mobile applications are an effective educatio...
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Teaching in Diversity

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Respect for and tolerance to diversity are fundamental European values. Nevertheless, the recent economic and financial crisis reinforced significantly the negative attitudes towards the „others“ that the increased mobility evoked after the EU Enlargement. Nowadays, the flow of refugees has fueled into the existing hostility towards people with different cultural background. Diversity has become a...
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OPENing UP new methods, indicators and tools for peer review, impact measurement and dissemination of research results (OpenUP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Open Access and Open Scholarship have revolutionized the way scholarly artefacts are evaluated and published, while the introduction of new technologies and media in scientific workflows has changed the “how and to whom” science is communicated, and how stakeholders interact with the scientific community. OpenUP addresses key aspects and challenges of the currently transforming science landscape a...
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frontierCities2 - Another Level of Impact (frontierCities2)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

frontierCities2 – Another Level of Impact represents a quantum leap in the scope, ambition and service. This acceleration programme focused on FIWARE-supported solutions in the Smart Cities area, answering to new opportunities to achieve significant success and impact in promoting FIWARE-supported solutions across European cities and city environments. frontierCities2 – Another level of impact res...
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Displaced in Media - building an infrastructure to support participation of young refugees through media

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Young migrants and refugees have entered European countries but they haven’t entered the public sphere. When they do, it is as characters in other people’s stories - desperate faces, surging hoards and floating bodies - something ‘other’. We rarely hear from young refugees as experts or legitimate voices - even when the news agenda concerns their country of origin. Migrants, it seems are only allo...
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Den digitala bron

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

In a society where we are increasingly communicating with image, the need for deep visual communication skills becomes essential. Requirements for quality in visual communication are high because of the complexity of realities and stories being communicated. At the same time, we are facing major changes in today's media landscape. Digitization has moved over a part of media consumption from paper ...
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Overcoming and Breaking Stereotypes: Looking for social cohesion in Europe

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

"Overcoming and Breaking Stereotypes: Looking for social cohesion in Europe" Three-year project Erasmus+, Strategic Partnerships for school education Our students face the challenge of the European continent coalescing on the political, economic, social and ecological levels and to contribute to its forming. This coalescence of the varied cultures and ethnic groups of Europe has changed the manner...
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EU-Assistant: Development of a VET curricula for Personal Assistant professional profile based on the European Framework of Qualifications

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

Full economic and social participation of people with disabilities is essential if the EU’s Europe 2020 strategy is to succeed in creating smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Building a society that includes everyone also brings market opportunities and fosters innovation. However, policy and regulatory frameworks do not reflect the needs of people with disabilities adequately, neither does ...
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THERAPY 2.0 - Counselling and Therapeutic Interactions with Digital Natives

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

The integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in counselling and therapy is yet an incomplete process. The only activities pursued up to now in this area have been related in most of the cases to applications of personal computers for emails and internet tools. Counsellors and therapists still rely almost exclusively on traditional talking and interaction with their clients (...
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Speaking out loud - Empowerment through community based media

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

- Background and Objectives"Speaking out loud - Empowerment through community based media" is a project that aims at improving the qualifications of the people who produce community media, especially women and migrants. Community media as a low threshold tool seeks to empower common people to make themselves heard. It is a media from the people for the people, giving them the opportunity to be act...
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TransForm@ - Game based learning course to boost digital transformation of rural commerce sector

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

The project TransForm@ is aimed at impulse digital transformation of rural commerce sector through the creation of a serious game based training on e-commerce in rural areas. The EU's rural areas are a vital part of Europe physical make-up and its identity. According to a standard definition, more than 91% of the territory of the EU is "rural", and this area is home to more than 56% of the EU's po...
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Capitalising the full potential of on-line collaboration for SMEs innovation support in the Agri-Food ecosystem (INNO-4-AGRIFOOD)

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

INNO-4-AGRIFOOD will deliver a new generation of innovation support services that will assist European SMEs across the vast Agri-food ecosystem to create value from on-line collaboration for innovation, access a broader range of potential innovation partners beyond their national and sectoral borders and timely mobilise them to seize opportunities to launch concrete innovation projects. INNO-4-AGR...
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