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Rotterdam, Umea and Glasgow: Generating Exemplar Districts In Sustainable Energy Deployment (Ruggedised)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

... are: - to manage peak load variation in thermal and electrical energy supply and demand; - to develop appropriate cooperation structures and business models for exchange of energy;- to develop Smart City (open) data platforms and energy management systemsRUGGEDISED has derived 10 specific objectives and planned 32 smart solutions to meet the challenges. The development of solutions in the lightho ...
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TRANSATLANTIC TRADE AND INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP-INTERNATIONAL TRAINING NETWORK (TTIP-ITN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2017, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

... of the proposed TTIP Innovative Training Network (TTIP-ITN) is to foster interdisciplinary research into TTIP with a view to create a significantly increased European knowledge base and research capacity on TTIP, thus helping Europe to reap the benefits of TTIP (wealth, jobs, etc.) while addressing its challenges (democracy, accountability, environmental- and labour standards, etc.).The network i ...
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Lifecourse biological pathways underlying social differences in healthy ageing (LIFEPATH)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

"The dramatic differentials in healthy ageing, quality of life and life expectancy between individuals of different socioeconomic groups, is a major societal challenge facing Europe. The overarching aim of the LIFEPATH project is to understand the determinants of diverging ageing pathways among individuals belonging to different socio-economic groups. This will be achieved via an original study de ...
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BuyZET – Procurement of innovative solutions for zero emission urban delivery of goods and services (BuyZET)

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

...hest "transportation footprint" - i.e. the number of motorised vehicle trips to transport goods and people generated in delivering the goods or services, and the related emissions. Based on this each city will select two procurement areas to focus on for the project.For each priority area, the cities will then:a) Instigate in-depth market consultation activities with all relevant supply chain acto ...
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Enhancing ASE, Progression, Personal Development and Recent Graduate Employment

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

This project focuses on improving the youth development of male footballers in England and Wales. The background and context to this is wide and complex but includes the following key factors: 1. Male National Teams in international tournaments have underachieved given levels of investment in the game 2. European trained players are increasingly entering English/Welsh Senior teams instead of home ...
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City Logistics in Living Laboratories (CITYLAB)

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

Goods, waste and service trips in urban areas impose negative traffic and environmental impacts, and there is a need for further roll-out of cost-effective and sustainable solutions. The CITYLAB objective is to develop knowledge and solutions that result in roll-out, up-scaling and further implementation of cost effective strategies, measures and tools for emission free city logistics in urban cen ...
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SPP Regions

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

...oject is aimed at promoting strong networking and collaboration at both the European and sub-national regional level on sustainable and innovative procurement (SPP/PPI), to help promote and embed capacity building and knowledge transfer. At the regional level networking will be promoted to build capacities and transfer skills in sustainable and innovative procurement implementation, and to collabo ...
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FREVUE VALIDATING FREIGHT ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN URBAN EUROPE (FREVUE)

Start date: Mar 15, 2013, End date: Sep 14, 2017,

Eight of Europe’s largest cities, will demonstrate that electric vehicles operating “last mile” freight movements in urban centres can offer significant and achievable decarbonisation of the European transport system. Demonstrators will be deployed in Amsterdam, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Oslo, Rotterdam and Stockholm. The demonstrators have been designed to ensure FREVUE covers the breadth of ...
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VET mobility

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

MCAST is promoting the VET mobility project to reach a fundamental aim regarding our work in the vocational sector. We aim at giving our students an international dimension to their vocational education programmes. Together with their local work experience this project will give these students an unforgettable and unequalled international experience that will boost their working knowledge, their ...
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SKILLS +

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

In the years until 2020, the EU youth generation will diminish from 90 to 81 million. This will have a profound impact on education, the economy and society in the future. Technological changes will be even more pervasive and global competition will increase, not least the competition for talented people. Thus, there is an urgent need to strengthen policies to make EU ready for this competition an ...
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Transitioning towards Urban Resilience and Sustainability (TURAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The “TURaS” project aims to bring together urban communities, researchers, local authorities and SMEs to research, develop, demonstrate and disseminate transition strategies and scenarios to enable European cities and their rural interfaces to build vitally-needed resilience in the face of significant sustainability challenges. To ensure maximum impact, the TURaS project has developed an innovati ...
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VET mobility

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

MCAST is promoting the VET mobility project to reach a fundamental aim regarding our work in the vocational education sector. We aim at giving our students an international dimension to their vocational education programmes. Together with their local work experience this project will give these students an unforgettable and unequalled international experience that will boost their working knowle ...
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Scientific Approach to Commercial Product Development and Assessment for the Maritime Industry (COMPASS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

... players in the maritime information industry – Lloyd’s List Intelligence – with some of the main players in maritime economics research: the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, City University London/Cass Business School and the university of Antwerp/ITMMA. By exchanging personnel between Lloyd’s List Intelligence and these academic partners, a dedicated group of researchers is fo ...
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(EU)QUALITY

Start date: Dec 22, 2014, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

(EU)quality wants to respond to the european legislative situation in the field of civil rights, common law couples, gender equality, sexual orientation stereotypes and discomforts, and homophobia. Laws about it are very different in each european Country: there are more flexible Countries like Netherlands, Spain or United Kingdom, and less tolerant countries like Italy, Poland, Slovakia and Greec ...
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Towards Sustainable Zero Carbon Transport through Innovation Procurement (TRANS-FORM)

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

...by innovation procurement experts from the UK and the Netherlands that will provide practical know-how and proven methodologies. The public/private sector procurement community will be represented by City Councils from Barcelona, Birmingham and Rotterdam for the public sector and also the EU Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change. Innovation Agencies from Poland, Spain and the UK will complete ...
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Ray of Light

Start date: Jan 5, 2015, End date: Sep 4, 2015,

"Ray of Light" has a clear objective and Membrillos Por el mundo is firmly convinced that the realization of this exchange will be useful to break down prejudices about LGBT people, promoting social integration and mutual understanding. In July 2015, 30 young participants between 18 and 30, from United Kingdom, Estonia, Holland, Czech Republic, Italy and Spain will meet and stay in a residence lo ...
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Creative Spin

Start date: Jan 31, 2013, End date: Apr 29, 2015,

Culture and Creative Industries (CCIs) are recognised as an important sector for economic growth. The challenge now is how to best connect CCIs with other sectors to stimulate “spillover” (or indirect) effects. Cities can act as a “testbed” for culture as a new source of innovation and inspire a sustainable and integrated model of socio-economic development. Partners will identify beneficial compl ...
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My Generation at Work

Start date: Jan 31, 2013, End date: Apr 29, 2015,

The main objective of My Generation at Work is to promote the employability of young people in a changing labour market, with special focus on enterprising skills and attitudes. The network will produce three sets of practical results: reduced drop-out and brain drain with new connections between education and work, (self) employment for young people in identified economic sectors and creation of ...
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AXES - Access to Audiovisual Archives (AXES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The goal of AXES is to develop tools that provide various types of users with new engaging ways to interact with audiovisual libraries, helping them discover, browse, navigate, search and enrich archives. In particular, apart from a search-oriented scheme, we will explore how suggestions for audiovisual content exploration can be generated via a myriad of information trails crossing the archive. T ...
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Involving the private sector in Mobility Management (INVOLVE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...11 ambitious Regional Implementation Plans.Expected RESULTS are: extensive media coverage of issue and project, at least 6 good practices successfully transferred, 33 staff members with increased capacity, 6 regional/local policies and instruments improved, 1 good practice methodology also published as a smartphone app. ...
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Communities and Families Tackling Addiction (CAFTA)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

All partner areas covered by the CAFTA project have a history of drug-related problems, often related to their coastal location - either as a commercial shipping port or a sea-side tourist resort. The CAFTA project aims to create a cross-border network bringing together professionals, families, and communities who suffer the impacts of drug addiction, from Calais, Rotterdam and Brighton & Hove. ...
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Zero-Impact Cultural Heritage Event Network (ZEN)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

...ZEN - Zero Impact Cultural Heritage Event Network is a project aimed at finding common solution to reduce the envornmental impact of music events and festivals, especially those taking place within city centers and historical locations. As events are big attractions throughour Europe for tourists and residents alke and often constitute an important part of regional identity in the area where they ...
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Safer Neighbourhood Approach (SNAP)

Start date: Sep 30, 2014, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

SNAP's main objectives are to strengthen, develop, pilot and sustain activities to resolve area based community safety issues and social exclusion by engaging, involving and giving ownership to residents.Cluster partners have experience of and expertise in: community safety; resident engagement and ownership; drug & alcohol prevention and treatment; health & well-being. There will be a particular ...
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Mitigation in Urban areas: Solutions for Innovative Cities (MUSIC)

Start date: Apr 8, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

... and create solutions for innovative cities. The main achievements to date for the three main interventions are:1. Development of an urban sustainable energy vision, strategy and action plan for each city with the use of the transition management method developed by DRIFT.In MUSIC, the methodology used to reach this common perspective and to mobilise stakeholders is Transition Management (TM). TM ...
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CRUISE GATEWAY - towards sustainable growth of cruise shipping in the NSR (Cruise Gateway)

Start date: Sep 30, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2013,

Cruise Gateway will increase the maritime accessibility by developing the NSR as a cruise destination of its own and promoting it as a "lighthouse" for sustainable cruise. Main outputs are the creation of a brand for cruise in the NSR, the improvement of service quality in ports and environmentally friendly economic growth. Within the work packages, the brand will be jointly designed and best prac ...
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RICHE – a platform and inventory for child health research in Europe (RICHE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

...will develop formal processes for finding gaps in research, and for making roadmaps. We will use these to find current gaps, and make roadmaps for the future, including for the necessary research capacity. We will promote our work and our results in a series of meetings open to researchers and other stakeholders. Our consortium is a multi-disciplinary team, with great experience in doing innovativ ...
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Tackling Social Exclusion (TSE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

...from the results?All project partners benefitted from the activities undertaken and their results, as all project partners were involved in all the activities of the project. In particular, partner city representatives from all three partner were present at all project meetings / study visits / discussions and talks.In addition to this, all three partner cities hosted a visit to their city per yea ...
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TRansferring Actions iN Sustainable mobility For European Regions (PIMMS TRANSFER)

Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Oct 30, 2011,

BACKGROUND Mobility Management uses soft measures (e.g. information or coordination of existing user services), which enhance the effectiveness of hard measures of traffic planning to improve sustainable mobility. It faces resistance from key decision makers and remains a minority policy field that is established in very few European regions. PIMMS (INTERREG IIIC) developed a transfer methodolog ...
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CIVITAS transfer action leading to innovation & sustainable transport (CIVITAS CATALIST)

Start date: Aug 1, 2007, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

The objective of CIVITAS CATALIST is to ensure that the experiences of the CIVITAS Initiative are exploited up to a maximum level. This means deploying actions aiming to:- consolidate, validate and deepen the knowledge of the wider impacts of CIVITAS through an integrated assessment of the CIVITAS measures;- promote the results of CIVITAS through a continuing knowledge transfer process;- increase ...
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My Generation

Start date: Nov 20, 2008, End date: Jul 18, 2011,

... Achievements: Documents/reports:Overview of outputs18/02/2015My Generation - Gothenborg study visit Rotterdam 201020/01/2015My Generation – Gothenburg city visit to Rotterdam and Antwerp – March 201020/01/2015My Generation – Gothenburg city visit to Rotterdam and Antwerp – March 201020/01/2015My Generation – Local support group Gothenburg – March 2010 ...
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Managing Migration and Integration at Local Level (MILE)

Start date: Nov 4, 2007, End date: May 4, 2009,

Migration and integration in Operational programmes (enterprise development for ethnic minorities and active inclusion in the labour market;·cultural diversity and social cohesion;· access to key services, etc.) Achievements: Documents/reports:First action plan Synthesi ...
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EUROPEAN NETWORK OF CITY-REGION COMPETITIVENESS (COMPETE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...ence about the economic relationship between cities and their regions. This means that urban and regional planners have little experience to draw on when deciding how best to drive competitiveness in city regions. The COMPETE network focuses on enabling cities to fulfil their potential as drivers of urban renaissance and as critical economic assets in their regions. Its main purpose is to allow a ...
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Common Information to European Air (CITEAIR)

Start date: Feb 29, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...from outside the cities involved in the project. The work on environmental reporting is progressing. CITEAIR has prepared drafts of separate guidebooks, one on Urban Air Quality Management and one on City Annual Air Quality Reporting.
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CRII: Cities Regain Identity and Image (CRII)

Start date: Apr 30, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

...ean cities are increasingly threatened by the pressures of standardization (eg. standard design of buildings and urban spaces, building materials). The end objective of this 4 year project led by the city 35 of Hagen (D) together with 7 other medium-sized cities in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, is to enhance their attractiveness by building and improving their image and identity. T ...
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B-SURE: Building on Small Scale Regeneration of Urban Heritage along Rivers and Canals (B-SURE)

Start date: Feb 26, 2004, End date: May 30, 2007,

The B-SURE project was set up to come to a co-operative international effort aimed at improvement of the quality of life in the town-harbour zones. The aim of the B-SURE project was to find out in what way small investments (so called "Pin Point Initiatives (PPI)") can be used optimally to improve the quality of public spaces in neighbourhoods along rivers and canals. Spatial elements such as wate ...
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IPPN - InterPortsPromotioNet (IPPN)

Start date: Jan 6, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

...oth encourage a shift from road to water transport and increase the use of rail in port hinterlands where inland waterways cannot be used. The three and a half year project, which is being led by the City of Mulheim in the Ruhr, will promote multi-modal integrated transport chains designed to make better use of ship transport and rail connections with port hinterland areas. The 17 partners will an ...
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ReUrba II (Restructuring Urbanised Areas) (ReUrba II)

Start date: Jan 31, 2002, End date: Jul 31, 2006,

...formation and exhibition centre; the conservation of a disused car repair hall for rental use by SMEs; the interior renovation of a former school to upgrade a quayside area; park landscaping in inner city areas to improve its attractiveness for residential purposes; and the transformation of a derelict church into a community art space and gallery. ...
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ECO-FIN-NET

The network was approved as one of the first URBACTprojects focussing on access of SMEs to finance throughinnovative financial instruments and in particular on theaccess of the smallest companies in less favoured urbanareas.The ECO-FIN-NET partners identified the following threeissues which formed the structure for the three workinggroups:1. Access to Finance for SMEs – generally through banksor o ...
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MANAGING MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION AT LOCAL LEVEL/CITIES AND REGIONS (MILE)

...MILE).The proposal has two closely interrelated sub themes:Migration and Integration. In practice there will be a numberof structured and sequenced actions to address each subtheme: > Each partner (city and region equals one partner)would seek to identify 3 participants (cross-sectoral) whowould form an Action Learning Group (ALG) for the specificsub-theme.> Each sub-theme will involve each ALG un ...
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Let's Bridge The Gap!

Start date: Feb 1, 2013,

Let’s Bridge The Gap! (LBTG) is a training course under Action 3.1 of the YiA, that will be hosted by CESIE in Palermo, Italy in a course of 9 days. The TC will involve 42 participants from 15 EU&EECA-Eastern Europe&Caucasus countries (Italy, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Netherlands, Ukraine). TC will promote the ...
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