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Small and medium-sized TOWNs (TOWN)

Start date: Jan 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Balanced and polycentric development of the European territory is a key challenge of territorial development and cohesion policy. ESPON has already paid considerable attention to the geographical spread of urban and economic activity throughout the European territory. This includes among else the applied research projects on cities and urban agglomerations, the roles of cities in territorial devel ...
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Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon (UHI)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2014,

As population of our cities grow, so does land area and this result in increase of an average temperature. The buildings and roads absorb temperature produced during the day, like giant heaters, and store it. The energy is then released during the night time. This often means a big difference in the temperature between city and its surrounding areas.This phenomenon is called the Urban Heat Island ...
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TRansport ACCessibility at regional/local scale and patterns in Europe (TRACC)

Start date: Jan 31, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Dynamic territorial development depends on an optimal combination of access to services and resources. Good accessibility and connectivity is one of the most crucial factors in deciding on a location for economic activities. This leads to the fact that fast, relatively cheap, reliable but also sustainable freight and passenger transport, has become one of the essential prerequisites for the compet ...
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Spatial aspects of the Information Society (Information Society)

Start date: Jun 9, 2005, End date: Mar 18, 2007,

The development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the liberalisation of the telecom sector have given a growing number of people the possibility to access to all type of information and also have contributed to promote the communication among citizens, businesses and public administrations, removing the constraints of time, place and distance, making the world a "global vill ...
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European Clinical Specialisation in Motor Speech Disorders

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

This project’s principal aim is to develop a post-graduate module for motor speech disorders (MSDs) that aims to add an advanced European perspective to one of the essential ares in Speech-Language-Therapy (SLT) treatment. This ECSMSD will be developed and taught by staff from a wide range of European countries, including those from new member states. Two institutions will be involved in administe ...
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Medical Education in Europe 2

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

The MEDINE2 Thematic Network in Medical Education in Europe will build on the work of the MEDINE Network 2004-2007. The Networks is requiered because the education and training of medical doctors to high standard is critical to the physical health, well-being, productivity and social cohesion of European society. Variours issues must be addressed. Despite facilitative legislation, mobility of med ...
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3 LENSUS - Lifelong learning network for sustainable development

Global society is undergoing rapid social and technological change, and facing the widely acknowledged need to achieve sustainable development (Bereiter / Scardamalia 2003; UN Division for Sustainable Development 1992). In response the importance of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is widely accepted, as is the need for lifelong learning, emphasized in Agenda 21 and integrated in a numb ...
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EUROBIOTECH -European Biotechnology

The project intends to pursue the objective of Lisbon declaration by developing Biotechnology sector at European level. Its aims are to develop a formation more pertinent to the modern needs of enterprises, to avoid academic constrains by favouring international courses which are capable to attract students from outside Europe. On the other hand we are expecting an increase on employability of you ...
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PASDEL - PrActising Sustainable development Through E-Learning

The project intends to develop an e-learning platform and course content on the themes of sustainable development and human development. The target user group lies within public and private organisations and ranges widely in terms of levels of qualification. The process will entail the introduction of five practical on-line modules, initially in five countries, and their subsequent extension to ot ...
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Lingoland

Lingoland developed an attractive Internet platform to promote linguistic and cultural exchanges between schoolchildren in different European countries. By enabling communication with native speakers in the same age group, the project succeeded in bringing the way of life of other countries to children in an immediate and meaningful way, thereby increasing their appreciation of other European cult ...
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Developing the competences and mobility of senior nursing staff to improve the quality of patient care in hospitals

Develop the competences of senior nursing staff in Europe : The new pilot project of the Leonardo da Vinci community programme aimed to develop and reinforce the competences of senior nursing staff in Europe by setting up tools for in-house training, based on a joint system of reference for the senior nursing staff profession jointly developed by the 7 participating countries. This project started ...
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Lifelong Learning System - Nutrition at the Level of Molecular Medicine

In challenging existing barriers for the application of the scientific knowledge of molecular medicine in giving nutrition advice, and further responding to the growing demand for such advice, the project will develop a semi-virtual system of lifelong learning able to adopt an advanced approach to nutrition as a preventive and curative measure (based upon the molecular mechanisms of disease). Targ ...
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Development & Piloting of Basic Online Training Courses - BATCOS

Improving online skills online : The project has designed an open distance learning course on business-related ICT skills. By improving these skills, employees will help their companies to remain competitive and productive. This project started in 2000 and lasted 36 months.
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Bulgarian for Foreigners

‘Bulgarian for foreigners’ is an interactive multimedia Bulgarian course that takes the learner from level A1 to level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). The course is designed for young and old alike. It features the rock band FSB as well as the traditional folk singer Valya Balkanska with her famous song ‘Izlel e Delyo Haidutin’. Young actors from the Bulgarian National Aca ...
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Internet as a potential source of new employment possibilities for the deaf

Internet job prospects for the deaf : Training materials have been produced to enable the hard of hearing to take up new employment opportunities provided by the internet. The deaf will now be able to acquire new skills which will greatly enhance their prospects. This project started in 2000 and lasted 36 months.
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ICT for Innovative Science Teachers

The IT for US Pack (result of the project IT for US – program Socrates – Comenius 2.1) was the subject of transfer of innovation. The IT for US Pack contained didactical materials for innovative science teaching with using ICT. The IT for US Pack was expanded by new activities and new languages (German and Czech), hotlinks to online experiments and streamed videos. New ICT for IST Pack was tested ...
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CHEMLAB2 - European apprenticeship training for chemical laboratory technician

The CHEMLAB Transfer-of-Innovation project aimed at providing and fostering a "European Quality Standard in Analytical Vocational Education" for young apprentices in non-academic chemical training on-the-job. To that effect, an innovative VET-concept was developed based on a combined integrative approach of theoretical education and market-orientated training close to practice on analytical strate ...
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Conducting graduate surveys and improving alumni services for enhanced strategic management and quality improvement (CONGRAD)

Start date: Oct 15, 2011,

The CONGRAD project’s wider objective is to enable higher education institutions (HEIs) in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina to continuously conduct graduate surveys for the purpose of enhancing study offerings and facilitating permanent modernisation processes. CONGRAD is expected to contribute to the improvement of institutional self-evaluation processes by collecting systematic and ...
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Do it yourself in Education: expanding digital competence to foster students' agency and collaborative learning

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

DIYLab seeks to explore the change (and its educational effects) occurred in the last decade regarding digital competencies, specially the emergence of a culture of collaboration, connected to youth learning environments, technology and DIY. Young people's efforts to create and disseminate digital media have been associated with the growing do-it-yourself (DIY) movement. Starting in the '90s with ...
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The development of human resources, evidence base and quality standards in addictology (trans-disciplinary addiction science) in Georgia

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

The project aims to increase the potential of Georgia to pursue a modern, evidence-based drug policy and thus to tackle the acute problem of drug addiction and its negative consequences by means of developing and implementing MA and BA curricula and a lifelong learning framework in addictology (addiction science). The project substantially broadens the current medical scope of addiction treatment ...
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Developing Medical Genetics Education through Curriculum Reforms and Establishment of Postgraduate Training Programs (MedGen)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

Armenia and Israel are countries with high prevalence of genetic disorders. However, health care systems in these countries have not responded appropriately to the rising needs of genetic services. Although in both countries medical profession and public health officials consider genetic conditions as a priority, there is a scarcity of workforce trained in clinical genetics, genetic counseling and ...
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TransStar: raising transcultural, digital and multitranslational competences

Start date: Jan 1, 2013,

The project wants to promote less used European (in this case: Slavic) languages and less known cultures from the Central and East European regions in order to enlarge the “European mentalmap” which focuses on prominent cultures, mostly of Western Europe. European enlargement has been an impetus in drawing the new neighbours together, yet this has not been completely successful as the continued E ...
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Social Networks in Teacher Education

Start date: Dec 1, 2012,

Within the EU there is more and more stress on improving quality of teaching and of education in different ways. One of the ways involves (student) teachers who do research and study specific educational topics that are of interest for their own teaching. This can result in a PhD, although this happens still very seldom. A problem in teacher education and teachers’ research is that knowledge of t ...
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Learning Mathematics through new communication factors

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

Many pupils as well as parents unfortunately consider Mathematics as a difficult and boring subject. Education systems and teachers have to compete with what students find as fun and enjoyment outside the school system. One way to bring pupils back to the ‘playing field’ of education is to use similar tools (weapons) like the ‘opponents’, that is activities that will enjoy to do but through them ...
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Ph.D - EU GrAd Students University Skills

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

The rationale of PEGASUS is to develop a genuinely integrated EUropean joint Ph.D degree. It starts from the commonly identified need for a transnational Ph.D training on topical EU issues. PEGASUS will pool the excellence in Ph.D training and scientific research of a consortium with a history of long-standing successful cooperation in centres of excellence in EUropean teaching and research.The PE ...
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The acquisition of science competencies through ICT real time experiments

Start date: Jan 1, 2012,

The main reason for starting COMBLAB Multilateral project is to find new sinergies among the partners to support the initial and continuous training of teachers related to basic competencies in Science and Technology. All the members of the consortium have worked with ICT in science teaching, but having different experiences both in science teaching and in teacher training. In the project, they ...
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OPTIMISING PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR TRAINING IN A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

OPTIMALE addresses one of the key challenges of a multilingual and multicultural Europe: how to ensure that Its universities continue to produce the high-level professionals that the Community translation services and the translation Industry need, to adapt to rapidly changing societal and market conditions. As recent reports have highlighted, the rapid technological changes of the past decade, fa ...
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S2-L03 Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

Start date: Jul 15, 2011,

Project objective:Europe and South East Asia are two areas where multiple cultures meet and many languages arespoken, often in the same city. All partners in this project are experts on multilingualism andmulticulturalism by academic training as well as by the nature of their local society, with differentAsian and European perspectives. We aim to bring these different academic and cultural perspec ...
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Impact of school inspections on teaching and learning

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

Evaluation and accountability are key issues in ensuring quality provision for all.. In Europe, the dominant arrangement for educational accountability is school inspections. Annually an average amount of 68.559.103 euros is spent on inspecting schools in every country in this project. Inspectorates of Education assess the quality of education and hold schools accountable for a broad range of goal ...
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S2-L02-EUOSSIC-EU-Oceania Social Science Inter-regional Consortium (AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND)

Start date: Jul 15, 2010,

As a result of the financial crisis the architecture of international economic governance is in flux. Between a putative G2 (China and the US) and a burgeoning G20, multilateralism, bilateralism and interregionalism are under threat. The creation of the External Action Service of the European Union comes in a period of both dangers and opportunities.Informed by this context, this proposal directly ...
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Induction for Novice Teachers

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

During the past years, the challenges faced by the teaching profession are dramatically increasing. Educational environments become more complex and heterogeneous; changes to social and family structures, the increasingly diverse mix of students within multicultural societies and the need to pay more attention to the learning needs of individual pupils, attended by the increased autonomy of school ...
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INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL FOR PEDIATRIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION NURSES

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

Allogeneic hematopoetic stem cell transplantation(HSCT) is associated with significant morbidity/mortality.Nursing care is of utmost importance for the success of transplantation, to sustain patient health and for economical efficiency. Suboptimal nursing care in HSCT practice may cause undesired effects. This is particularly important for the pediatric field since there is very limited amount of ...
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Literature Framework for Teachers Secondary Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

Within literature education it is often difficult to distinct different levels in literature and to relate literature to the reading level of the reader. In the past there have been some attempts to link the literature level to the readers level (see for example Witte, 2008), but these attempts have always been national and local. Such framework makes for example a distinction between levels of li ...
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Master in International Sport Tourism Management

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

The idea of the Master in International Sport Tourism Management (MISTOUR) is born during conversations noting a lack of specific qualification in sport tourism and its relations with local sustainable development. In the same time, Sport tourism sectors (Being actor or spectator) are developing very quickly during the last years and recent researches of the International Work Organization focused ...
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