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Valorization of alcoholic wastes to produce H2 to be used in the sustainable generation of electricity (ECOELECTRICITY LIFE)

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background New technologies play an essential role in helping to mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Impure alcohol fractions with low commercial value are a waste product of bioethanol manufacturing. A new technology has been designed to reuse these waste fractions to produce gaseous hydrogen-rich streams for the productio ...
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iBUS – an integrated business model for customer driven custom product supply chains (iBUS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The overall objective for iBUS is to develop and demonstrate by 2018 an innovative internet based business model for the sustainable supply of traditional toy and furniture products that is demand driven, manufactured locally and sustainably, meeting all product safety guidelines, within the EU. The iBUS model focuses on the capture, creation and delivery of value for all stakeholders – consumers, ...
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Developing make spaces to promote creativity around STEM in schools

Start date: Dec 31, 2016, End date: Dec 30, 2018,

Therefore the project aims to improve the basic skills in STEM in pupils of primary and secondary level. To do this, a formal Makerspaces or STEM Labs will be created in Schools. All activities in these areas will enhance pupils in terms of confidence and engagement in STEM, having initiative, developing their creativity, being practical and safe, enabling collaborative work, improve their leaders ...
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Healthy Lifestyles for Elderly People

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

The general objective of the HELP project is to empower older people (65+) in Europe to adopt healthy lifestyles which include a healthy diet, physical activity, and social participation. Together with supporting older people on an individual level, HELP aims to develop the quality and cost-effective-ness of services for older people by promoting cooperation between service providers and recommend ...
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Development and validation of mould design and manufacturing OER from experienced labourers' know-how to complement VET

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

MOULVET project aims at developing and validating Open Educational Resources (OER) stemming from the knowledge of experienced professionals to complement Vocational and Educational Training (both I-VET and C-VET) in the mould sector. According to the study by the European Commission 'Advancing Manufacturing - Advancing Europe' - Report of the Task Force on Advanced Manufacturing for Clean Producti ...
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Making and designing a toy drone through multidisciplinary collaborative work

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

The project objective is to work on the concepts of product innovation, project-based learning, multidisciplinary working relationships, improving language proficiency and knowledge of technology and trends. The aim is to generate high-quality curriculum materials that allow students to approach to the World of Work. Consortium wants to help motivate future professionals in STEM careers. In order ...
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Enabling an Open Innovation Model for EU Toy Industry SMEs through Co-Creation with FabLabs, Safety Experts and Customer Communities (ToyLabs)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Toys market in EU (and globally) is characterized by the domination of a limited number of huge global brands, even though 99% of EU toy manufacturing companies are SMEs. Thus SMEs need to find new ways to strengthen their position, against large competitors. In this context, ToyLabs envisions to introduce a new model that will innovate on the value network of SMEs, towards the direction of changi ...
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Sustainable Urban FUrniTURE: Tool design to perform environmental assessments in the green procurement framework (LIFE FUTURE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Background Green Public Procurement (GPP) is an important instrument to accomplish the general goal of sustainable development, since it enables public authorities to address current challenges relating to legislation and sustainability. GPP criteria can contribute to reductions in energy consumption, greenhouse gases and waste production, and can promote ...
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Innovative training on design, installation and maintenance of safe and challenging play areas

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Children and youth are not always considered in the planning process of cities and towns. They often play in less than ideal conditions. Even the play areas intended for children often do not satisfy minimum safety requirements and they can lead to serious non-intentional child injuries. The lack of regular inspections and maintenance has resulted in equipment collapsing and killing or severely in ...
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NEw Tools for NEw Targets: a challenge for youth workers

Start date: Jan 18, 2016, End date: Jan 17, 2018,

The project aims to respond to two key priorities: promoting high-quality of youth work and strengthening education and training paths of youth workers. The selected priorities match the project framework by the following points of view.The project is going to design, implement and disseminate a ludic and educational kit (The NET NET kit) composed by a board game and supporting tools (a cartoon vi ...
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PROPHETIC:An innovating Personal Healthcare Service for a holistic remote management and treatment of Parkinson patients. (PROPHETIC)

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

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a movement disorder characterized by muscle rigidity, tremor, physical movement slowing and in extreme cases, loss of physical movement. Primary symptoms result of decreased motor cortex stimulation caused by insufficient dopamine formation in the brain’s dopaminergic neurons. Secondary symptoms include high level cognitive dysfunctions and subtle language problems. PD ...
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Move to Enhance the Gamified Applications in Vocational Education Training (VET)

Start date: Nov 2, 2015, End date: Nov 1, 2017,

Gamification is the process of using game mechanics and game thinking in non-gaming contexts to engage users and to solve problems and increase users' self contributions. Gamification allows learners to have fun while attaining information, and encourages them to share that information with their peers. Further developing high quality VET pathways can indeed motivate some young people to remain l ...
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EDUTRONIX – Interactive Education Module for Mechatronics

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

The development of technology gives you a new perspective on the flow of information processes in machines and training the future mechatronics skills that are necessary in such work. At the outset, the partners identified in detail the real needs of market participants in training and mechatronic market, made a diagnosis of the problem of vocational training in this field, which allowed to constr ...
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All Special Kids - Parents

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

There are several million EU citizens with a disability (a term used for adults at post-school level) or with special educational needs (a term used for children at school level). They are one of he largest groups of disadvantaged citizens in the EU. Every ten minutes another parent receives the news that their child is disabled. For parents, raising a child with a disability can cause more daily ...
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Demonstrative pilot plant for the valorisation of non-ferrous metal waste (LIFE GREENZO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2017,

Background Zamak is a family of alloys, with a base metal of zinc (Zn) and alloying elements of aluminium (Al), magnesium (Mg) and copper (Cu). It is used in injection-moulding in various industries (e.g. ironwork, automotive parts, die-cast toys). According to data from the European Foundry Association, 3.5 million tonnes of zamak was smelted in Europe ...
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REJuvenate European Design

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 30, 2017,

REED aim is to develop an EU Platform to promote a new international breed of up and coming young eco-friendly product designers. The platform will encourage a new wave of young international designers working on innovative closed loop/ circular economy design. It will provide a platform for these young designers to launch careers, it will provide visibility and mobility for these young designers ...
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Training on Safety Assessment and Management for New and Innovative Children’s Products

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

Due to the growing internationalisation and globalised competition, this industry is forced to continuously develop new products and innovate in order to maintain the share of the market and the business activity. Along with this need to continuously generate innovative products, the volume of the internal market legislation and technical specifications for children’s products as industrial produc ...
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Pedagogical Resources IN Teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Among the causes of early secondary school leaving by students with a low level of basic skills, there are failures in learning the skills of mathematics and scientific literacy, and more generally of formal ​​and coded. languages ​​. According to the "Strategic Framework for European Cooperation in Education and Training (ET 2020) Council Conclusions", the goal is to increase the number of 15 yea ...
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Clear Cyber Bullying

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...ve Industry Exporters Union Technical and Industrial Vocational High School (Turkey) , WSBINOZ ( Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu i Nauka he Zdrowiu, Poland) , EPRALI my ( Portugal ) , EURO- NET (Italy), AIJU ( Asociacion de INVESTIGACION INDUSTRIE DE LA del Juguete , CONEXAS Y AFINES , Spain) , in Emergent Cooperazione of Paea (Italy), Glafki sro ( Czech Republic ) , IDS Institute ( Portugal ) . When select ...
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New biodegradable and eco-friendly almond shell based masterbatches for traditional sectors (MASTALMOND)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Background Until the 1950s most children’s toys were made from wood or metal. The introduction of plastics that were cheaper, more colourful, robust and easy-to-mould revolutionised the industry and greatly increased both the number of products available and sales figures. Today, plastic toys account for some 90% of the market. Approximately 80-90% of ...
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Sustainable Hydrogen Evaluation in Logistics (SHEL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"Materials handling vehicles are currently powered by either electric motors based on lead-acid batteries or combustion engines employing diesel or liquefied petroleum gas. A number of disadvantages have been encountered with these current power systems and many efforts have been undertaken to find new ways to power the vehicles..Here, fuel cells offer advantages over the competing electrochemical ...
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Support Action for Standardisation in Additive Manufactruring (SASAM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

SASAM's mission is to drive the growth of AM to efficient and sustainable industrial processes by integrating and coordinating Standardisation activities for Europe by creating and supporting a Standardisation organisation in the field of AM.The Additive Manufacturing (AM) concept is based on additive freeform fabrication technologies for the automated production of complex products. Additive Manu ...
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Virtual and Augmented Environments and Realistic User Interactions To achieve Embedded Accessibility DesignS (VERITAS)

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

VERITAS aims to develop, validate and assess an open framework for built-in accessibility support at all stages of ICT and non-ICT product development, including specification, design, development and testing. The goal is to introduce simulation-based and VR testing at all stages of product design and development into the automotive, smart living spaces, workplace, infotainment and personal health ...
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Motivating platform for elderly networking, mental reinforcement and social interaction (SOCIABLE)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

Description SOCIABLE introduces a radically new approach for ICT assisted cognitive training and social activation for a wide range of senior citizens including cognitive intact elderly, older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment, as well as patients suffering from mild Alzheimer’s disease. SOCIABLE supports personalized cognitive training ...
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RTD-based Cluster iniciative to target future challenges of the Valencia plastic processing industry (PLASTIVAL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

"The plastic processing industry faces many challenges, although the use of plastics grows with new opportunities and applications To take advantage, SMEs have to innovate and diversify their business offer. Clusters assist this process by joining technical centres to monitor technological development, and suppliers of equipment and materials to improve competitiveness. The plastic processing indu ...
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GAMING TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM FOR SOCIAL REINTEGRATION OF MARGINALISED YOUTH (REPLAY)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

The aim of project REPLAY is to develop a gaming technology platform to provide young people who have become marginalised in society as a result of anti social behaviour with a learning environment to facilitate their reintegration into society. Although scalable to a range of marginalised groups such as immigrants, children with learning disabilities, retirees etc, REPLAY will focus on the rehabi ...
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Innovation Strategic Initiatives Platform for SME in children's product industries

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

In all European sectors, skills needed by workers and employers are changing rapidly due to diverse factors: technological change, global competition, ageing populations and evolving social structures. Furthermore, Europe foresees an increasing demand for a high-qualified and adaptable workforce and more skills-dependent jobs with a decline of the proportion of jobs requiring low levels of educati ...
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Compile New Competencies and Implement them to Teaching

CNC&IT Leonardo da Vinci partnership project includes four secondary vocational schools from Slovenia, Poland, Turkey and Croatia, as well as partners from the World of work which are Slovenian company CADCAM Lab , Spanish company Talleres Tibi and a non-profit research center AIJU also from Spain.The goal of the Project is to raise the professional competence of teachers and students skills of ...
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