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Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

SIMRA seeks to advance understanding of social innovation (SI) and innovative governance in agriculture, forestry and rural development (RD), and how to boost them, particularly in marginalised rural areas across Europe, with a focus on the Mediterranean region (including non-EU) where there is limited evidence of outcomes and supporting conditions. These objectives will be achieved by: 1. Develop ...
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Euro-African Network of excellence for entrepreneurship and innovation

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

The Euro-African Network of Excellence for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - INSTART – aims at improving the knowledge triangle by promoting an effective Innovation culture in Higher Education, and starting up Innovative modes of association and interaction between Universities, Businesses and Society in order to enhance the socio-economic environment across the South Mediterranean Region (MED).Th ...
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MEDRESET.A comprehensive, integrated,and bottom-up approach to reset our understanding of the Mediterranean space, remap the region,and reconstruct inclusive, responsive,and flexible EU policies in it (MedReset)

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

Euro-Mediterranean policies, as well as research on them, have been characterized by a Euro-centric approach based on a narrow geopolitical construction of the Mediterranean. Moreover, stakeholders, policy instruments, and policy issues have been defined from a European standpoint, marginalizing the perspectives and needs of local states and people, and ignoring the role played by new and powerful ...
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The Future of EU-Turkey Relations. Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios (FEUTURE)

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

The EU and Turkey face mounting challenges both in relation to one another and internationally. The EU is confronted with an economic crisis which is likely to make differentiation a growing phenomenon. Turkey faces polarisation between different political forces, the state and civil society. The neighbourhood is unravelling to the east and south and a power shift is under way at global level. Thi ...
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Interuniversity learning in Higher Education on Advanced land management-Egyptian Country

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

Productive land resources in Egypt are under multiple natural and human pressure that are leading to soil degradation and desertification. Agriculture land conservation is a high priority for Egypt. Several efforts have been undertaken by the government authorities of Egypt to reduce desertification processes and preserve land productivity but they have faced a wide range of obstacles, mostly rela ...
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A bottom-up approach for opening up education in South-Mediterranean countries

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

The project explores the adoption of strategies and channels that embrace the principles of openness and reusability within the context of South-Mediterranean HEIs. The project intends to foster the adoption and pilot of open educational practices (OEP), and open educational resources (OER) in South-Mediterranean countries as a bottom-up approach to support the modernisation, accessibility and int ...
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Development of higher Education teaching modules on the Socio-economic Impacts of the Renewable Energy implementation

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

Better understanding of the socio-economic impacts of implementing renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) technologies enables faster and more sustainable development of the REEE market. However, this knowledge field is underrepresented in the existing technically overwhelmed teaching curricula at universities and hence, is considered a deficit that should be reduced. By doing this, a prope ...
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Master in Health Informatics

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

This project proposes the development of an MSc degree program that covers the core and new trends in Health Informatics (HI) and incorporate expertise at EU institutions and six MENA universities. The program will use modern learning and research approaches to support the program curriculum on new HI trends. Improving the efficiency of the care process, and enhancing the quality and outcome of me ...
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IT-Based International Diploma and Professional Certificate in Clinical Toxicology

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

An IT-based, multi-disciplinary diploma accompanied with 4 professional certificate programs in clinical toxicology targeting both pharmacists, physicians (and nurses in the certificate programs) in a cross-cutting education discipline is at hand with a goal to introduce a new line of qualified professionals capable to manage, attend and deal with increasing threat of natural and synthetic poisons ...
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E-Learning Novelties towards the Goal of a Universal Acquisition of Foreign and Second Languages

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

...lion of native speakers in EU) - University of Heidelberg (German, 100 million of native speakers in EU) - University of Poitiers (French, 80 million of native speakers in EU) - Non-EU partner HEI: Cairo University (Arabic, 5 million of native speakers in EU) Some of the most widely spoken languages of Western Europe have many more speakers outside the European continent than within it. This is th ...
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Fostering Human Rights Among European (external and internal) Policies (FRAME)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

FRAME, a 4-year multidisciplinary project, represents a consortium of 19 internationally recognized and globally networked human rights institutes from across Europe and strategic regions around the world. Through FRAME, more than 100 leading researchers and practitioners - with a strong gender balance - aim to provide the necessary building blocks for a coherent EU human rights policy comprised ...
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‘Freedom, dignity and justice’: A comprehensive approach to the understanding of youth exclusion and the prospects for youth inclusion and overall change in the South and East Mediterranean (POWER2YOUTH)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The 2010-2011 youth-led wave of protests in the South and East Mediterranean, could be described as the coming on the scene of a new generation united by a shared experience of marginalisation and by new ways to protest and act. Important as this phenomenon could be for the future of the SEM, it still escapes the main frames of analysis utilised by academic research. Youth studies in the SEM, whil ...
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Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The project ‘Media, Conflict and Democratisation’ investigates the role of traditional media and ICTs in conflicts that accompany and follow transitions to democracy. Our research focuses on three major arenas of contentious politics in emerging democracies: constitutional conflicts, accountability conflicts and election conflicts.We argue that the media cannot be sufficiently understood in isolat ...
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Researching Arab Mediterranean Youth: Towards a New Social Contract (SAHWA) (SAHWA)

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

Young people in the South and East Mediterranean area are enduring a multiple transitions. In addition to the political and socioeconomic transformations, there is the transition to adulthood from the famous tripartite division of the life cycle in preparation for professional life, working life and retirement. Other experiences of socio-economic transformation, as in East Europe, may give us lear ...
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Soft Matter at Aqueous Interfaces (SOMATAI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Soft nanotechnology is generally considered as a field that will have a major impact on technological developments in near future. However, the fundamental understanding of the wealth of new structures lacks far behind, despite supporting activity from material science. Such an understanding is indispensable for sustainable growth of this important research domain and its applications. A physics-o ...
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DEferiprone Evaluation in Paediatrics (DEEP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"β-thalassaemia major is one of the most severe forms of chronic congenital anaemia. The recommended treatment consists in regular blood transfusions combined with chelating therapy to remove harmful iron accumulation in the body. The use of deferoxamine, the first chelating agent only available for subcutaneous administration is limited due to toxicity and the lack of compliance, despite its sat ...
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PROMOTING ICT DIALOGUE AND COOPERATION WITH THE MPC TOWARDS HORIZON 2020 (MED-Dialogue)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

In line with the new concept in Horizon 2020 which integrates industrial cooperation and innovation, and the need to go beyond the old "extended workbench" principle, two are the most important aspects of such ex-tension:1) to incorporate ETPs2) to increase the participation of innovation driven SMEs from both sides.In this transition between FP7 ending and the launch of HORIZON 2020, comes the ME ...
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"Reinforcement of the Adult stem cell research are through Mobility and Scientific networking between Egypt, Romania and a German consortium for Strengthening the international scientific competency" (RAMSES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"INTRODUCTION. RAMSES comprises partner institutions from Germany (FMC), Romania (ICBP) and Egypt (CU) in order to promote closer S&T cooperation opportunities between Europe and Egypt. The concept of RAMSES is to build capacities by improving scientific relationships, networking and development of the S&T Human Potential, exchanging of know-how and experience between the participating partners, a ...
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NEW INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE BASED APPROACHES TO THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE FROM EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED RISK (NIKER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"The project tackles the problem of earthquake-impact on Cultural Heritage assets starting from basic consideration that efficient protection, with substantial guarantee of compatibility and low-intrusivity, can only be achieved with ‘minimum intervention’ approach. This requires that potentialities of existing materials and components are as much as possible exploited in terms of strength and ene ...
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megaCITY - Zoom for the ENvironment (CITYZEN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

... future changes for various climate scenarios. Focus is on ozone and particulate matter with chemical and physical characterization, and their precursors. The Eastern Mediterranean (Istanbul, Athens, Cairo), the Po Valley, the BeNeLux region, the Pearl River Delta in China (with megacities Guangzhou and Hong Kong) and the hot and polluted European summer 2003 are chosen for intensive case studies. ...
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Integrating civil, scientific and stakeholder knowledge towards African sustainable energy policy (SustainergyNet)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

Sustainable development is closely linked to the issues of Environment and Energy and their interdependencies. Sustainable economic growth and social development are only possible if secure, constant and equal access to energy sources is guaranteed. However, intensive energy use is likely to present serious implications for the environment and the climate. Especially in developing countries, promo ...
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New forms of territorial governance for the promotion of landscape policies in the field of water resources management at water territories (NETWET3)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Jul 30, 2008,

Main objective of NetWet 3 project is the development of transnational co-operation in Archimed geographic zone for the elaboration of common methods that contribute to: (a) the promotion of a creative territorial policy for the management of Mediterranean landscapes (ESDP, European Landscape Convention, European Governance), (b) in connection to the promotion of sustainable management practices o ...
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Erasmus Mundus for Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Lybia

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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Excellence in Nanoscience Education for the MENA Region

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

This proposal aims at the establishment of a regional Master program in Nanoscale Science and Engineering for postgraduate students from MENA region. The program will be taught in English and will provide the students with up-to-date theoretical and experimental knowledge available for nanoscience and nanotechnology. The development and the delivery of the program will be achieved in close collabo ...
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ENTERPRISE-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP

The objective of this project is to bridge the gap between university and society, through the establishment of 4 Technology Transfer Offices in four Egyptian universities, including e-learning activities and other capacity building activities to establish the TTO’s. The universities' faculty, administrators and students will be educated about technology transfer and its aspects. An awareness prog ...
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University Chair on Innovation

The overall objective of this project is bridging the gap between the innovation needs ofindustry and the supply of universities by establishing a “University Chair on Innovation” in 5 MEDA Countries. The project has been identified because of the emphasis in MEDA countries on the role of education in the need to create a workforce that is comfortable with technology and capable of knowledge work. ...
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International Accreditation of Engineering Studies

The project aims at improving engineering education in RS and EG through quality control procedures and external accreditation. This will be done by providing quality a assurance model for all technical universities in the region, the development of knowledge based economy by improvement of human resources and by forming the basis of integration of the region’s universities into the EU family of ...
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L02- Egypt

Start date: Jul 15, 2009,

The FFEEBB project has a long term socio-economical dimension: besides ensuring equal opportunity to all the candidates (gender issue, students from vulnerable groups) it will assist Egyptian Universities to create course on entrepreneurship, to create professionalized curricula and to develop work placements. One of the projects objective's is to develop the Egyptian students employability in the ...
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Diploma Public Policy and Child Rights

Start date: Jan 15, 2010,

The Wider objective of the project Diploma in Public Policy, Children's Rights and Advocacy (DPPCR) to promote a culture in Egypt and Jordan where children’s rights are respected, protected and fulfilled through improved policies and practices. The first Specific objective is to build a cadre of practitioners working with and for children that are effectively using their skills and knowledge to in ...
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Advanced Engineering Systems: Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry

Start date: Oct 15, 2010,

This project aims at developing and strengthening a specialization in advanced engineering systems focussing on automation, control and mechatronics in Egypt and producing a new generation of engineers capable of performing constructive engineering work in such field to complete the cycle started with two former local TEMPUS projects "MEKATRON-2004" for undergraduate and "DIMPTOT-2005" for trainin ...
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Education for Sustainable Development beyond the Campus

Start date: Oct 15, 2010,

...ents. The indirect beneficiaries are the schools, teachers, & children. The proposed mechanism enables transferring and sharing ESD knowledge and promoting SD in at least seven governorates including Cairo. The project work plan consists of 9 work packages. Each of the first 5 packages is aiming to achieve one of the five objectives. The other 4 packages are covering dissemination, sustainability, ...
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EMII A2 S1L2-Flow by flow EU-EGYPT BRIDGE BUILDING (FFEEBB)

Start date: Nov 30, 2010,

The overall aim of this proposal is to contribute to the sustainable development of Egypt in the field of Higher Education by using mobility flows to improve the career prospects of students and promoting intercultural understanding through institutional cooperation. The development of teaching and learning will occur through the student mobilities. The great variety of thematic fields offered by ...
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S1-L02 MEDASTAR - MEditerranean Area for Science Technology And Research

Start date: Jul 15, 2011,

MEDASTAR is a project committed to bring opportunities to students from both public and private universities of Egypt and Lebanon, paying attention to develop the capacity of public administrators in Lebanon and unemployed graduate population in Egypt. Gender balance and equal opportunities is enhanced in the project. The particular goal is to promote Science and Technology initiatives in these tw ...
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S1-L02 - WELCOME - Widening Egyptian and Lebanese COoperation and Mobility with Europe

Start date: Jul 15, 2011,

The WELCOME project aims at strengthening the relations between European, Egyptian and Lebanese HEIs, promoting the achievement of academic excellence; furthermore, one of its related goal is the alignment of third country Higher Education Systems to the European system, giving a boost to the Egyptian and Lebanese education reforms in a framework always respectful of the cultural specificities. Th ...
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European-Mediterranean Postgraduate Program on Organ Donation and Transplantation

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

Our main objective is to improve the postgraduate training of healthcare professionals in organ donation and transplantation in Morocco, Egypt and Lebanon, setting the base for a Euro-Mediterranean Training Model of Specialists in Organ Donation and Transplantation. The EMPODaT is conceived as a blended training program, in accordance with the European Space for Higher Education guidelines. It wil ...
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Green IT for the benefit of civil society ( Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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PRO-GREEN: Joint/Dual Professional Graduate Diploma and Professional Degree in Green Technologies

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

According OCED FORUM 2009, the Green technology job sector is expecting to see substantial increases in employment in the upcoming years and will also begin to see significant changes in the composition of its workforce. Some of the key indications of a growing and changing workforce include:• Three out of every four clean technology employers will increase their number of permanent employees and ...
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Innovation and Development in Spanish as a Second Language.

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

...ng at all levels of education in North Africa. As part of the development of this project, a stable and complementary consortium was created and composed of the six principle universities of Egypt (Cairo, Ain-Shams, Al-Azhar, Helwan, Minia and Alexandria) and three of the most longstanding universities in Europe (Salamanca, Bologna and Coimbra). Additionally, the Institute of Islamic Studies in S ...
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Green Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programme

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

Egypt is facing key environmental challenges, including air and water quality, waste management, coastal pollution, and desertification. Egypt is in an urgent need for Sustainable Development linking the growth to the environmental preservation avoiding more deterioration of lands and additional diseases for the population.The wider objective of this project is to make Sustainable Development and ...
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Solar Energy System Design using Advanced Learning Aids

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

This project aims to develop a certified technical training programme for graduates and technicians in the field of decentralized solar energy systems. Such a project fits within the Lisbon strategy, which aims to stimulate growth and create more and better jobs, while making the economy greener and more innovative. The decentralized systems to be taught during the programme will rely on using PV ...
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