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PROMoting youth Involvement and Social Engagement: Opportunities and challenges for 'conflicted' young people across Europe (PROMISE)
Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,
The challenges faced by young people across Europe have been the focus of public, political and academic debates at local, national and international levels. Young people face tough choices in key areas of social life that affect their participation in society, and their potential marginalisation from it: from structural issues of unemployment, lack of access to affordable housing and debt problem ...
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Development and implementation of decentralised solar-energy-related innovative technologies for public buildings, in the Mediterranean Basin countries (DIDSOLIT-PB)
Start date: Dec 12, 2012, End date: Dec 11, 2015,
The project in briefThe rise in energy demand has aggravated the dependence on fossil fuels imports of most of the Mediterranean countries. With a forecasted increase by 70% in energy consumption over the next 20 years, there is an urgent need to secure alternative energy sources especially for buildings - commercial and residential - which share of total energy used is higher than 40%, i.e. super ...
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European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (EGI-InSPIRE)
Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
Scientific research is no longer conducted within national boundaries and is becoming increasing dependent on the large-scale analysis of data, generated from instruments or computer simulations housed in trans-national facilities, by using e Infrastructure (distributed computing and storage resources linked by high-performance networks).The 48 month EGI-InSPIRE project will continue the transitio ...
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ESPON Database 2013 - Phase II (ESPON Database 2013 - Phase II (M4D))
Start date: Jan 31, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,
Taking as starting point the achievements of the Project “ESPON Database 2013” (Phase I) and the results and discussions from the ongoing ESPON Project on “Territorial Indicators and Indices” (INTERCO), this project shall maintain, update, develop and further expand the ESPON 2013 Database. In this framework, the main European activities carried out to promote data comparability and data quality, ...
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European Territorial Monitoring System (ETMS)
Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,
The stronger focus on a territorial dimension in policy highlights the need to create a European Territorial Monitoring System that on a regular basis can provide and promote territorial information and evidence to main target groups on key trends in European regions, specific type of territories, metropolitan regions, cities and towns in relation to the policy aims and priorities of European poli ...
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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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The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching (Pathway)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,
"Following the recommendations of the ""Science Education Now: A renewed Pedagogy for the Future of Europe"" report, the Pathway Supporting Action is bringing together experts in the field of science education research and teachers´ communities, scientists and researchers involved in pioneering scientific research, policy makers and curriculum developers to promote the effective widespread use of ...
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European Land Use Patterns (EU-LUPA)
Start date: Jun 30, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,
Land use has changed drastically during the last fifty years (ESA SP 2006) sometimes with important negative effects such as urban sprawl, soil sealing, loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, soil degradation, floods or desertification. The type of land use change varies among different types of regions. Based on the hypothesis that socio-economic activities are reflected in land use the project unde ...
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Knowledge, Innovation, Territory (KIT)
Start date: Jan 31, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,
New scientific and technological powers outside the European territory are attracting considerable and increasing amounts of R&D investments. Against this background new opportunities arise but also the question of Europes ability to sustain a competitive edge in knowledge and innovation. The EC recognises the territorial dimension of the innovation and knowledge economy and its role in potential ...
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Institutional Capacity for Territorial Development (SMART-IST)
Start date: Sep 30, 2010, End date: May 31, 2012,
The targeted analysis will address the institutional factors explaining the efficiency of public institutions in designing and implementing successful territorial development strategies and policy in the framework of EU Cohesion Policy. The main objective of this targeted analysis is to develop a common methodology aiming at recognizing, assessing and enhance institutional efficiency. This methodo ...
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Climate Change and Territorial Effects on Regions and Local Economies in Europe (ESPON CLIMATE)
Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2011,
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been pivotal in raising awareness on the costs of human inaction and interference with the climate system. The IPCC also indicated the urgency for studies disaggregated to the regional and even local scale. Furthermore, the IPCC identified a strong need for scenarios at regional and local scales to enable appropriate impact assessments. In i ...
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ESPON Database 2013
Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,
At the European level several initiatives have been carried out to promote data comparability and data quality, e.g. the INSPIRE Directive which aims at making available relevant, harmonised and quality geographic information for the purpose of formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Community policy-making and the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) initiative ...
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Future Orientations for Cities (FOCI)
Start date: Jul 31, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2010,
Cities and urban development are a focal point of current territorial development policy. Against the background of the Lisbon Agenda’s aim of growth and jobs, cities are seen as the main potential motors for the achievement of the set goals, which was also acknowledged in EU Cohesion policy documents for 2007 – 2013, including the Community Strategic Guidelines, as well as the Territorial Agenda ...
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Spatial Scenarios: New Tools for Local-Regional Territories (SS-LR)
Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: May 31, 2010,
The capacity to transfer methodologies of spatial scenarios to the local-regional scale is a subject of major relevance. Policy makers and the main stakeholders involved in strategic planning processes need territorial forecasting instruments to detect the main critical factors and trends in order to anticipate changes in the environment. There is a need to develop and apply regional forecasting m ...
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Managing European Shoreline and Sharing Information on Nearshore Areas (MESSINA)
Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,
The overall objective of this project is to set up a network of local authorities, national administrations, and coastal interest groups located in six European countries, in order to find new and innovative techniques for managing coastal erosion and coastal planning processes. Ultimately, MESSINA aims to maximise the benefit of future investments in coastline management and to raise public aware ...
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The Comenius network "Partnership and Participation for a Sustainable Tomorrow",SUPPORT, has been established in order to address the need to enhance the quality ofeducational practices and material in line with the challenges of sustainabledevelopment (SD). The overall objective is to promote education for sustainabledevelopment (ESD) in European schools. The project will bring concepts and issue ...
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This project is concerned with providing academic support for the development of solar cell technology in TM, considered to be a high national priority in conjunction with sustainable development policies. The work is carried on using EU expertise from a variety of countries, plus local expertise. In addition the project will development the specific methodology of distance teaching and content an ...
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The project aims to enhance and modernize the capabilities of the Jordanian Partner Universities to effectively lead in facing the challenging water resource problems that are impacting Jordan and the neighboring area. This will be achieved by development of a M.Sc. Program in Water Management and Desalination Engineering at BAU, Development of competences at MU for offering of Continuing Educat ...
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CiCe is a well established thematic network linking institutions concerned with citizenship education and the development of identities in young people. Our partners are in teacher education, the education of social pedagogues, early childhood educators, youth workers, sociologists & psychologists. We develop curriculum and processes for students at all levels, from undergraduate to PhD level. ...
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Language learning and social media: 6 key dialogues
Start date: Jan 1, 2010,
By placing “language learning and social media” at the core of the network, the 13 partner institutions of national, European and international reach will examine 6 key dimensions of this combination. These fundamental dimensions are:1. Language learning, social media and social inclusion2. language learning, social media and development of language resources 3. language learning and teaching thro ...
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Collaboration of schools and communities for sustainable development
Start date: Oct 1, 2011,
We are building a community in our own network by using European stimulants with all envisioned stakeholders to collaborate for sustainable development. We all live the development circle within the multilateral network. We aim to collect and examine existing good practices of school-community collaboration in order to foster the formation of similar networks working together for sustainability th ...
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