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DESIGNS - VET approaches to Creating Employment for Sign Language Users in Europe

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

...identification with the wider community (National Disability Authority, 2005). However, Deaf people in Ireland, as well as throughout the world, continue to face barriers in education, employment and access to services such in healthcare, legal and social welfare settings. In a report on poverty in the Deaf community, Conama and Grehan (2001) stated that Deaf people experience higher rates of pove ...
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Developing programs for Access of disadvantaged groups of people and Regions to higher Education

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

... education for individuals, families, and society at large, is common to see low enrolment and high first-year dropout . Low enrolment and high dropout can be understood as the result of inadequate accessibility of HEIs, lack of support, adverse social attitudes and social isolation, as well as low financial capacity. Thus, DARE project would be the first initiative of this kind in IL and GE. Lik ...
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Furthering Less Congestion by creating Opportunities for more Walking and cycling (FLOW)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

FLOW sees a need for a paradigm shift wherein non-motorised transport (often seen from a transport policy perspective simply as a nice “extra”) is placed on an equal footing with motorised modes with regard to urban congestion. To do this, FLOW will create a link between (currently poorly-connected) walking and cycling and congestion by developing a user-friendly methodology for evaluating the abi ...
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MappED!

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

...ppED! is a social project which aims at improving the everyday life of students with disability by creating an online platform where they will easily: - find an interactive online map indicating the accessibility level of European Higher Education Institutions, campuses around Europe, city centers and much more - be able to map the accessibility level of their University, their favourite shop in ...
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New Ideas

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

The Youth Exchange "New Ideas" will bring together 40 young participants from 5 different European countries to compare their perspectives and visions related to the topic of unemployment and employability today. We believe that unemployment among young people remains a serious problem within the European Union which causes many negative consequences in social, economic, political and individual. ...
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Green in Everyday Life

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The project Green in Everyday Life arises from the interest of some of the participants of Spanish Green Homes Network (Columbares and CENEAM) to test the national Spanish program Green Homes (GH) on international level. The project follows the first such experience – a training course in the mark of Youth in Action program, which was highly successful, confirmed the interest of international part ...
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Universal Design in Higher Education - Licence to Learn

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

...eminated through a conference about Universal Design and Universal Design of Learning in Higher Education, and through the UDLL partners national and international networks. All materials will be accessible on-line. The UDLL project will aim for change in awareness, increased knowledge and better practice in the development of an inclusive learning environment in Higher Education.
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The Power of Media

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The theme of the youth exchange was proposed by two young people who participated previously in our projects and decided they would like to organise their own project. We believe that the topic of media and critical thinking about the information we get from media is extremely important for young people nowadays. It is important that young people are able to shape their own opinions independently ...
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Alliance Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe Network (APARSEN)

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

...t preservation support structures are built on projects which are short lived and is fragmented. The unique feature of APARSEN is that it is building on the already established Alliance for Permanent Access, a membership organisation of major European stakeholders in digital data and digital preservation.These stakeholders have come together to create a shared vision and framework for a sustainabl ...
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SiS Catalyst: Children as Change Agents for the future of Science in Society (SiS CATALYST)

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

This ambitious SiS CATALYST project seeks to identify how children can be change agents in the Science and Society relationship, and from this starting point, to indicate how they can be catalysts in the longer term solutions to the grand challenges faced by society - their future. It will contextual this in Global, European, national, regional and local arenas. The Action Plan involves refining ...
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19th century fashion show

Start date: Jun 25, 2013, End date: Oct 24, 2014,

Development of better social cohesion through cultural understanding. Establishment of a partnership between schools at rural areas of the CBC region. Performance of folklore, historical cultural traditions and ethnical variety as a mean to provoke young generation. Achievements: ...
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Opportunities for Data Exchange (ODE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

... be involved in its design this layer: policy makers, funders, infrastructure operators, data centres, data providers and users, libraries and publishers.ODE is proposed by the Alliance for Permanent Access and four of its members: CERN, Finnish Computer Centre for Science, Helmholtz Association and UK Science and Technology Funding Council. Collectively, we represent all the stakeholder groups li ...
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FoodNet-Cooperation for sustainable economic and social development of the cross-border area Vilcelele-Sitovo-Isperih through encouraging networking among authorities, agri-businesses and research institutes (FoodNet)

Start date: Oct 25, 2010, End date: Apr 24, 2012,

To contribute to sustainable economic and social development of the RO-BG cross-border area by encouraging networking and innovation exchange among local authorities, agri-businesses, business-support NGOs and research institutes. Specific: 1. Cooperation and networking among RO –BG local administrations, agri-businesses, business-support NGOs and research institutes; 2. Support to the implementat ...
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ADD ME! - Activating Drivers for Digital eMpowerment in Europe (ADD ME!)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

ADD ME! is a pan European network bringing together into a common framework and learning environment – by means of a community of practice- the different social and institutional organisations that support or can support disadvantaged groups in becoming major beneficiaries of public services to which they are entitled. In this context, three main groups of people are being addressed:a) elderly poo ...
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Specification of symbols used on audio-tactile maps for individuals with blindness

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

Nowadays, information technology offers the means to convert information into audio, tactile or audio-tactile form. The benefits of tactile graphics have been combined with those of the voice aids through the use of special devices, such as audio-touchpad tablets. An audio-touchpad tablet is a device which can simultaneously provide its users with spatial and acoustic information, while at the sam ...
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Practicing Citizenship – Making a Change

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

All societies are based on their citizens. If we want to build a Europe that considers its citizens the foundation of any progress and development, we need to create and nurture a culture of participation. It is our deep conviction that this society must create space for the ones that are coming, the ones that will inherit it and carry it on their shoulders one day, the European youth. Active part ...
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Réseau des Universités Marocaines pour l'enseignement Inclusif

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

L'objectif élargi de ce projet est d’introduire une véritable stratégie pour l’inclusion et l’égalité des chances dans l’enseignement supérieur marocain et dans la société marocaine en général. Nous proposons d'évaluer la situation de l'inclusion et de l'égalité des chances dans les universités marocaines en s’intéressant à 4 groupes d’étudiants avec des problèmes liés à: - l’handicap- la diversit ...
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KITE - Knowledge, Integration and Transparency in Education (EU-ACP Countries)

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

...ims and ideas. The partners consider the issue of brain-drain very seriously since the emigration of educated people is substantial in the region. The project seeks to offer equal opportunities and access to the programme to all candidates regardless of their gender, language or socio-economic status. Special attention is also paid to reaching people in vulnerable situations as well as people belo ...
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Universités du Maghreb: Enseignement Inclusif

Start date: Oct 15, 2011,

...e projet propose de mettre en place des outils et procédés pour pallier ces carences et pour participer à démocratiser l'accès à l'enseignement supérieur en le rendant accessible à tous. Le choix porté à l’enseignement inclusif s’inscrit dans une logique de travail et de sensibilisation pour mettre en place une démarche de concertation, de coopération et de partenariat entre les différents interv ...
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Shaping Inclusive and Responsive University Strategies

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

The project will enhance the capability of universities to develop specific institutional strategies for Lifelong learning and contribute to the dissemination of good practice and promotion of LLL in higher education in Europe. Universities need to respond to growing societal demands, the changing demography of Europe and global competition. While a core issue both under the Lisbon Agenda and the ...
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LINK - Learning Inclusively - Network + Know - how

The aim of the network would be to create and establish a viable network of organisations whose objective it is to promote and advocate for the access and inclusion of students with special needs in third level. These organisations are umbrellas organisations (with a national brief) in each of the EU states and work with students with special needs and the third level sector. The rationale for the ...
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EQM-PD

Putting the disabled on an equal footing : The project has produced a training curriculum together with an assessment tool aimed at both professionals working with the disabled and the beneficiaries themselves. It will contribute to improved standards of care for the disabled. This project started in 2003 and lasted 36 months.
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e-Access II - Supporting Vocational Education and Training of Disadvantaged User Communities

The main objectives of the e-Access II Project are the following:- Development of tools for integrating the user-related accessibility requirements into the production of e-Training Resources and e-Training Courses.- Representation of established training practices in a formal and technically reusable way using international specifications and Standards (such as IEEE LOM and IMS Learning Design), ...
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Tutor Competence Development for RIAPs Managers

The main objective is to create the unified e-learning course and social networking tools that would ensure an accessible and life long training for telecottage managers in LT, HU, BG and FI.
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Transfert Certification Agent Technique Cordiste - TSC

In the end of the 20th century climbers and speleologists have brought into the working environment the rope access techniques and lifting equipment, borrowed from the sports practices. Through these methods, specific problems has been solved in which it was not possible the use of normal equipment. Now days, these techniques are spread in Europe, replacing other methods of access. The sectors in ...
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(Y)our Divercity

Start date: Mar 1, 2014,

"(Y)our Divercity" is youth exchange for 36 participants from 3 European Union countries and 3 Eastern Europe and Caucasus countries - Moldova, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Cyprus and Portugal. The aim of the project is to increase the competence of young people in the field of diversity and build tolerance, by:- increasing knowledge of the participants about the concept of diversity, stereotype ...
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