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Factories of the Future Resources, Technology, Infrastructure and Services for Simulation and Modelling 2 (Fortissimo 2)

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

Fortissimo 2 will drive the uptake of advanced modelling, simulation and data analytics by European engineering and manufacturing SMEs and mid-caps. Such an uptake will deliver improved design processes, better products and services, and improved competitiveness. For the European Union as a whole this means improved employment opportunities and economic growth.The importance of advanced ICT to the ...
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Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimization for Societal Challenges with Scientific Computing (MSO4SC)

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

The challenges of society show rising complexity and their solution process increasingly requires a holistic approach. It is necessary to provide decision makers with tools that allow long-term risk analysis, improvements or even optimization and control. One of the key technologies in this process is the use of mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation (MSO) methods, which have proven e ...
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Developing and testing innovative blended work based learning in VET

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

The aim of the project is to embed and mainstream the innovation and adaptation of work based delivery models, piloted as part of the Leonardo MOVE IT (2012-1-GB2-LEO05-08040) project, whilst continuing to advance and understand more about pedagogical approaches in the workplace, opportunities through collaborative learning and advances in the application of new learning technologies. In doing so ...
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Phenologit: spatial data analysis and mobile learning for schools

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

Understanding and taking care of our environment is a topic that appears across the curriculum in European schools. It is a close-to-the-heart subject, which attracts the students’ attention and can lead to rich and enjoyable educational activities while building positive attitudes in the citizens of the future. It is also a topic that can provide deep intellectual stimulation and satisfaction thr ...
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Knowledge-Based Innovative Solutions to Enhance Adding-Value Mechanisms towards Healthy and Sustainable EU Fisheries (LIFE iSEAS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Background Discards refer to the practice of dumping overboard dead unwanted fish that are accidentally caught as by-catch during commercial fishing practices. Most conventional fishing operations produce discards (ranging from between 2 and 10% for long-line methods and increasing by as much as 90% for trawling systems). New measures within the Common Fi ...
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Augmented Reality for Science Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Efficient investments in education has been identified as one of the keys to maintaining and expanding EU's global position, and developing new ways of teaching and learning are important. Furthermore, prioritizing STEM subjects is seen as necessary as they are part of the “key foundations for further learning”. In addition, teachers and teacher educators alike continually face new demands that r ...
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Create your Future

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Whilst unemployment in general has increased in Europe, these increases have been disproportionately high amongst young people. And there is a group of people threatened by exclusion from the labour market and society at large which is often neglected: Young people between 15 and 25 years who have survived childhood cancer and are trying to find their way back to life, work and education. Research ...
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Supercomputing Expertise for SmAll and Medium Enterprise Network (SESAME NET)

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

Network of HPC Competence Centres for SMEs
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Factories of the Future Resources, Technology, Infrastructure and Services for Simulation and Modelling (FORTISSIMO)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The importance of advanced simulation to the competitiveness of both large and small companies is well established. The principal objective of Fortissimo is to enable European manufacturing, particularly small to medium enterprises (SMEs), to benefit from the efficiency and competitive advantage inherent in the use of simulation. However, the simulation of, for example, high-pressure gas cylinders ...
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Mejorando la competitividad de las PYMEs a través de la innovación apoyada en herramientas TIC y Cloud. (0682_CLOUDPYME2_1_E)

Start date: Jun 30, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Crear una infraestructura para apoyar la innovación de las PYMES mediante las siguientes acciones: - Facilitar el acceso a infraestructuras de HPC (High Performance Computing) a las PYMES de la región para mejorar su competividad, en consonancia con las recomendaciones de la unión europea. - Fomentar la implantación de PLM (Product Lifecicle Management) para mejorar la eficiencia en el desarrollo ...
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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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Building service testbeds on FIRE (BonFIRE)

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

Description BonFIRE will design, build and operate a multi-site Cloud prototype FIRE facility to support research across applications, services and systems at all stages of the R&D lifecycle, targeting the services research community on Future Internet.The BonFIRE vision is to give researchers in these areas access to a facility that support ...
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European Middleware Initiative (EMI)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The European Middleware Initiative is a collaboration of the three major middleware providers in Europe, ARC, gLite and UNICORE, and other consortia. EMI aims to deliver a consolidated set of middleware components for deployment in EGI, PRACE and other DCIs; extend the interoperability between grids and other computing infrastructures; strengthen the reliability of the services; and establish a su ...
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Integral networking of fishing actors to organize a responsible optimal and sustainable exploitation of marine resources (FAROS)

Start date: Jan 15, 2010, End date: Apr 14, 2013,

Background Fish discards and by-catch cause environmental and economic impacts and are a priority issue under EC fisheries and environmental policies. Reduction of discards and by-catch are serious challenges in European fisheries and the new Common Fisheries Policy calls for the progressive elimination of all discards, obliging the fishing industry to br ...
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moción e inserción en las Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas del sector manufacturero ( PYMEs) de tecnología Open Source Software (OSS) para la simulación numérica y CAD/CAE (0448_CLOUDPYME_1_E)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

OBJETIVOS: El objetivo del proyecto es diseñar, crear y probar una infraestructura sostenible de soporte a las Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas del sector manufacturero, para mejorar su competitividad internacional a través de la inclusión de software libre de CAD y CAE que les ayuden a mejorar el diseño de sus productos y procesos. ACCIONES: ACTIVIDAD 1-PREPARACIÓN DEL ENTORNO. ACTIVIDAD 2-EJECUCIÓN ...
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Grid-friendly software licensing for location independent application execution (SmartLM)

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

The existing licensing models for commercial applications are focusing on software used on compute resources within an administrative domain. A problem occurs when we want to use this software in a distributed service oriented infrastructure where the resources are often not in the same administrative domain that hosts the license server which is authorizing the application use. Today licenses usu ...
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III (EGEE-III)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

A globally distributed computing Grid now plays an essential role for large-scale, data intensive science in many fields of research. The concept has been proven viable through the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project (EGEE and EGEE-II, 2004-2008) and its related projects. EGEE-II is consolidating the operations and middleware of this Grid for use by a wide range of scientific communities, such as ...
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E-SCIENCE GRID FACILITY FOR EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA (EELA-2)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

EELA-2 aims to build, on the current EELA e-Infrastructure, a high capacity, production-quality, scalable Grid Facility providing round-the-clock, worldwide access to distributed computing, storage and network resources for a wide spectrum of applications from European and Latin American scientific communities. The project will provide an empowered Grid Facility with versatile services fulfilling ...
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LEVERAGING CESGA TO RESEARCH CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (NextCESGA)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2009,

Fundación CESGA is a public foundation which has been nominated as singular research infrastructure by the Spanish Government in 2007. It is a 14 years old centre who has been devoted to provided high performance computing and networking facilities to the researchers of three regional universities, the research centres in the region and to the research centres of the National Research Council of S ...
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Analysis penetration of ITC and promotion of e-commerce within the SME's belonging to the aquaculture strategic sector of the Atlantic area (e-AQUA)

Start date: Oct 31, 2003, End date: Apr 29, 2005,

The project is intended to strengthen and promote the aquaculture sector through use of new information/communication technologies and e-business. There are three steps to the project: ·Establish a research centre on IT use in the aquaculture sector. ·Establish a training and information scheme for small and medium enterprises in the sector. ·Perform feasibility studies on implementing an e-commer ...
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WIKI-SKILLS : Empowering and fostering social, professional, cultural and civic skills though pedagogical use of Wiki technologies and methodologies.

Start date: Jan 1, 2012,

REASON : worlds of work and education are increasingly using collaborative platforms to develop cooperation. This includes the use of Wikis, which have been part of the enterprise scene longer than blogs. This is probably because they are not individual tools, but are usually set up for a team of community of people working together. According to study of Netstrategy JMC on global internet trends ...
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Parents as family vocational adviser for children

The project is set out to offer support to parents to develop their skills and competencestowards the vocational guidance of their children, thus enabling them to assist pupils intheir professional choices. Also the project advocates the concept of peer-parents withinparents education. The project partnership is aiming to:- develop a training course (30 hrs) available on CD-Rom, accompanied by tra ...
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Youth Employment Support

In many European countries integration into the labour market of early school leavers, young people who have failed to complete vocational education and training and other groups of youth with socio-economic and/or personal disadvantages is rather difficult. Most businesses, especially SME, are very reluctant to employ and/or train such young people or give them a second chance for vocational trai ...
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ICT-Go-Girls! Promoting Entrepreneurship among Secondary School Girls through ICT.

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

It is a fact that entrepreneurship is a underrepresented skill in secondary schools, being this one of the crucial skills in today's world, as stated by the European Commission and other international institutions. Moreover, when facing gender perspective, research reports show that girls tend to have less motivations in becoming future entrepreneurs. We believe that ICT can provide a flexible and ...
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Cloud Computing for School Networking & Learning

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

This project aims to improve the quality of learning and teaching in small rural / dispersed schools in Europe, by exploring, adapting and improving several innovative European ICT based methodologies, that allow to respond to the different needs that teachers face when designing their classes, as well as improving their professional competences. The Consortium counts on a relevant background in i ...
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