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Coordination of the Agricultural Research in the Mediterranean (ARIMNET2)
Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
Agricultural research in the Mediterranean is characterised by three main features: it is scattered within the EU members and in Mediterranean Partner Countries as well as most of the problems and challenges that the Mediterranean agriculture is facing are shared by all the countries in the area and even further, its objectives are largely the same in the whole area, even if priorities can vary fr ...
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Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research & Innovation Gateway (MED-SPRING)
Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2017,
The main aim of the Project is to contribute to the quality of the Euro-Mediterranean research area, with a particular focus on the bi-regional Euro-Mediterranean S&T cooperation, research & innovation, policy dialogue and cooperation monitoring. The proposal aims at tackling the key issues and policy objectives outlined in the Work Programme by creating a dialogue and coordination platform of gov ...
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Advancing SSA-EU cooperation in research and innovation for global challenges (CAAST-Net Plus)
Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,
In 2007, heads of state and government from Africa and Europe launched the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) formulated in response to geopolitical changes, globalisation and the processes of integration in Africa and Europe. At the heart of the JAES is an overtly political relationship and among the features distinguishing JAES from previous Africa-Europe policy initiatives is the associated actio ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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Venture Initiative in the Balkan Europe (VIBE)
Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
The VIBE project addresses the challenge of developing the innovation and entrepreneurship system across the SEE by enabling private investment into innovative entrepreneurial companies in partnership with smart public initiatives and investment. VIBE offers a transnational integrated approach by avoiding unnecessary duplication, mobilizing a critical mass of the regional investment, innovation ag ...
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CLusters Orientation towards Up-to-date technologies and models for common Development (CLOUD)
Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,
For the South-East European industrial clusters to survive in the global market, it is crucial the creation of a critical mass where to address suitable interventions, to streamline necessary innovation capacity and to enhance competitiveness. In a way to define joint, optimised and harmonised policies and to implement concrete instruments enabling cluster-based economies to compete at the global ...
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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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Knowledge Transfer joint forces for efficient innovation policies (KTForce)
Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2014,
The idea to submit a project to INTERREG IVC emerged in 2008 when several European entities decided to make a joint effort to contribute to a more collaborative and aligned environment capable of harmonizing Knowledge Transfer (KT) mechanisms and boosting innovation at European level. In fact, KT was recognized by the EU as a key tool for boosting innovation and competitiveness in Europe. In line ...
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Trans-national Cooperation among NCPs (NCP) (PeopleNetwork+)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2014,
The PEOPLE Programme under FP7 aims to strengthen the human potential in research and technology in Europe, by stimulating people to take up the profession of researchers, encouraging European researchers to stay in Europe, and attracting to Europe the best researchers from the entire world. The international dimension is well addressed by the Marie Curie Actions (MCAs) by providing a number of op ...
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Regional ICT Foresight exercise for Southeast European countries (FORSEE)
Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,
The FORSEE project targets ICT RTD policy reform in the South-eastern Europe (SEE) region, proposing a focused effort on introducing a Foresight culture in the region, which is necessary in order to accelerate target countries' socioeconomic growth on their way to matching the challenges of the global networked economy and participating on equal footing in the European Research Area. The project w ...
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Mediterranean Innovation and Research Coordination Action (MIRA)
Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2013,
The present Coordination Action aims at developing the objectives of the INCO-Net MPC action as described in the Call for proposals, to further enhance regional S&T dialogue in the Mediterranean Region and the complementarities with activities carried out by other European Policy instruments, notably the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). These objectives are focused on creating a dialogue platfor ...
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Science and Technology International Cooperation Network for Gulf Cooperation Countries aiming at the promotion of bi-regional dialogue (INCONET-GCC)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,
"INCONET-GCC aims to develop and support the bi-regional dialogue by bringing together policymakers and stakeholders of the GCC and EU Member States. It aims to create a dialogue and action platform to identify common interests in research areas, set up S&T priorities, support capacity building activities, and enhance the interaction between different cooperation instruments of the EC and EU Membe ...
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Learning the language of logistics : Teaching international logistics in several European languages This project started in 2001 and lasted 30 months.
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International Medical School 2020
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
... & Training Task Force (Leader: Charité): Train the Trainer Programme for Intercultural Awareness & Language Training (Year 1), Multiplication at Partner Institutions (Year 2), Establishing Training Centres at the Partner Institutions (Medical Faculties) (Year 3).- Accountability Task Force (Leader: Paris V): Comparative Study on Strategies (Year1), Identification & Implementation of Best Practice ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Qualification Framework for Higher Education
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
The main objective of the project is to support the structural reform of higher education system in BiH, supporting the development of the BiH Qualifications Framework for Higher Education in (BHQFHE) in line with national priorities, and its implementation at different institutional levels. The project shall provide models for full formal implementation of the BHQFHE at institutional levels, base ...
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Innovation in Rural Tourism
Start date: Dec 1, 2012,
...l resources or their exploitation by third parties. Research shows that Rural Tourism (RT) is an important way of economic development and diversification of rural livelihoods in the mountain areas - centres of natural and cultural heritage. But in many EU areas RT is still lacking. The gaps are: poor knowledge of the locals of ways to use local resources for RT; low awareness of market and actors ...
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One of the most important outcomes of the operation of the Cross-border Centreof Expertise in Rural Development is the monthly electronic newsletter, whichnow has two thousand regular readers on both sides of the Hungarian-Romanianborder. Another significant result is the ongoing operation and regular updatingof the project website. Key contents on the website include the funding applicationopport ...
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IRIS - Fostering Academic International Relations in Israeli Colleges to promote education, research and innovation
Start date: Oct 15, 2012,
IRIS’s wider objective is to promote internationalization policies, practices, capacities and culture within Israeli public academic colleges, and thereby to improve the quality and innovation of teaching, learning and research in colleges and reduce the gap between the two tiers of Israel’s higher education system.The specific objectives are: (i) Development of a strategic plan for internationali ...
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The European Council Resolution (November 2007) clearly recognises the need to accelerate reforms in HEIs to foster their competitiveness,
and explicitly invites Member States to take the necessary measures to enable HEIs to improve their management practices. However, national
progress reports on the Lisbon Agenda fail to address the issues of the modernization of Higher Education. In HEIs, not e ...
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The project stresses the lack of methods for fostering and supporting youth creativity, entrepreneurship in VET system’s institutions, lack of synergy of formal and non-formal education methods, scarce cooperation among VET institutions and NGOs in seeking the same goals. EVE’s activities seek to contribute to the solution or relief the problems concerning the readiness of formal education system ...
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Within the objectives and the priorities selected within the referring Call for Proposals, the partnership has realized an intervention aiming to the review, upgrading, adaptation (both technological as well as targeted oriented), translation, transfer and dissemination of the final outcomes ofthe selected good practice of “CON-PARI E GENERIO" project, which consisted in the experimentation of gui ...
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Development of an International Model for Curricular Reform in Multicultural Education and Cultural Diversity Training
Start date: Oct 15, 2012,
DOIT enhances the quality of education in participating IL and GE HEI by:• designing, piloting and implementing curricular reform which promotes ME (Multicultural Education) and CDT (cultural diversity training) and • Facilitating the exchange and sharing of knowledge among professionals involved in education. DOIT's Principal multi-dimensional program includes design, piloting and integrating in ...
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Credit where credit's due : The project has developed a vocational qualification transfer system that allows for cross-border recognition of acquired skills and competences. The system improves the mobility of students in vocational training and leads to improvements in vocational education and training throughout Europe. This project started in 2003 and lasted 36 months.
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Guidance for a rewarding work placement : By undertaking case studies and surveys the partnership has come up with a framework and competency units which are useful for both students and employers. These tools will ensure that work placements provide students with the kind of skills needed to enter the labour market. This project started in 2002 and lasted 34 months.
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The project focuses on training for maritime personnel (working on ships and in ports) and intends to elaborate a competence portfolio of new professions in the sector and disseminate it in order to promote professional mobility. The main aims of the project are: to analyse and address emerging training needs in various aspects of marine transport in the partner countries, with a view to identifyi ...
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Erasmus Mobility Quality Tools
Start date: Oct 1, 2009,
Mobility is at the heart of the Bologna Process. New numerical targets for Erasmus student mobility and new partnerships at local level are more and more felt as essential for individual personal growth, for shaping European identity and citizenship and for internationalization of HEIs.The relevance of student mobility in the Coimbra Group universities is witnessed by the fact that those universit ...
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Indicators for Mapping and Profiling Internationalisation
Start date: Oct 1, 2009,
Bologna and Lisbon call for increased competitiveness and globalisation in higher education is developing rapidly, but so far no European-wide approach has been made to measure internationalisation. Transparency and accountability in internationalisation are not in place yet. To this end, a set of indicators will be developed with relevance to all European HEIs. It provides options for comparison ...
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Practice oriented Master Programmes in Engineering in RU, UA and UZ
Start date: Oct 15, 2010,
The main features aim improving of Master Programmes in Electrical Engineering according the needs of modern society of target partner countries RU, UA and UZ bringing the universities closer to changing Labour Market and European Education Area; allow them to stay responsive to employers' needs; to ensure employability throughout professional lives of graduates. The wider objectives are: to ensur ...
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Building Capacity for Structural Reform in Higher Education of Western Balkan Countries
Start date: Oct 15, 2010,
To strengthen capacity for higher education structural reform in Western Balkan countries and facilitate a coherent convergence of the Region towards EHEA, as a prerequisite for genuine implementation of Bologna agenda. Specific Project Objectives:- To enhance Regional cooperation in higher education issues and address questions concerning coherent convergence of the Region towards EHEA, (to be la ...
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Education for Sustainable Development beyond the Campus
Start date: Oct 15, 2010,
...(ESD) in the Egyptian society. The project is the first initiative in Egypt that brings universities and schools together in a structured mechanism. The specific objectives are; a) establishing seven Centres of Excellence inside the Egyptian universities to offer ESD services, b) Developing ESD teaching kits for basic education, c) developing innovative ESD teaching methodologies for school childr ...
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