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The Art of Facilitation II: Non-Formal Education and Conflict Transformation

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Non-formal education in conflict transformation can exert a big influence at different levels: in general population conception of conflicts, in small confronted communities, in youth organizations and CSOs, or in societies facing both, low and high intensity violence. Different organizations and institutions have been working on this field at different levels for decades, and the work with youth ...
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Enter.Hub

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

ENTER.HUB promotes the role of railway hubs/multimodal interfaces of regional relevance in medium cities as engines for integrated urban development and economic, social and cultural regeneration. The network of local actors will redefine territorial/functional systems around these hubs, by exploiting these “agglomerates of flows” to strengthen connectivity at a local/ regional/ EU level for citie ...
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Observatory Network to Enhance ICT Structural Funds Absorption (ONE)

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

ONE aims at improving the regional capacity of planning ICT investments under Coeshion Policy Programmes through the setting up of a Federated network of regional ICT observatories in Poland, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, UK, France and Cyprus. Capacity to plan, assess and manage investments in the field of ICT represents a crucial aspect of Innovation policy activity as accessibility, both in t ...
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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,

...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 (UHI) and is known and studied since eighties. It is caused by various factors like physical characteristics of the surfa ...
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Rail Baltica Growth Corridor (RBGC)

Start date: Jun 10, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

The RBGC is led by the City of Helsinki and coordinated by the Aalto University Small Business Center. The project has in total of 21 partners from 6 BSR countries. Target groups of the RBGC are City and regional authorities, Transport service providers, Logistics centers, Intermodal terminals, Public transport authorities, Universities and other research centers. RBGC's partner composition is bas ...
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Innovative Development of European Areas by Fostering Transnational Knowledge Development (IDEA)

Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Feb 27, 2013,

Certain innovation processes cannot be realized without people and their ideas. The project focuses on development of strategies that will safeguard human capital for these processes and establishes transnational cooperation for coping with this challenge, especially in the sector of engineering technology and science.Project partnership decided to look for a holistic European solutions by overcom ...
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Making Knowledge Work (MKW)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The Making Knowledge Work (MKW) consortium consists of 12 ambitious regions wishing to improve their regional innovation capacity. They all observe that excellent research does not always find its way into commercially valuable innovations and excellent ideas are often not used. Policy action is needed to bridge the gap in the innovation chain. It asks for projects on micro level and meso level st ...
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Innovation Policy in University City Regions (INNOPOLIS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

...sed by regional authorities in transfering best policy practice, and thus actively supporting knowledge co-creation between universities & enterprises. The activities of INNOPOLIS focus on university city-regions, defined here as localities with at least three multi-departmental universities and at least 60,000 students (students used as a proxy of university knowledge endowments). This choice is ...
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FIRST MOTION - driving BSR regional development by innovating the high-skill growth sector "creative/AV industry" (FM) (FM)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

...ndustry actors are in many cases unable to build up and expand necessary innovation due to their size and fragmented and small domestic markets. FM combines the four relevant domains INDUSTRY CAPACITY BUILDING/MARKET DEVELOPMENT (WP3); INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY BUILDIND/POLICY DEVELOPMENT (WP4); CLUSTER/REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT (WP5); EDUCATION AND TRAINING (WP6) in one holistic project in order to start ...
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Building Healthly Communities (B.H.C.)

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

Urban factors influencing health (indicators and criteria for a healthy sustainable urban development; healthy sustainable lifestyles; use of structural funds in addressing health issues) Achievements: Documents/reports:Bacau LAP Presentation20/02/2015BHC A Cardone pres ...
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Regions for Better Broadband connection (B3 Regions)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Oct 30, 2010,

B3 Regions aims to improve the effectiveness of regional development policies in the Information Society area, by optimising the expert partners' good practices (mainly achieved through Structural Funds Plans 2000-2006) that are related to broadband implementation in disadvantaged areas.This capitalisation process will be achieved thanks to two main activites:1. A transfer process which aims to sh ...
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Fostering Sustainable Integrated Regeneration of Deprived Urban Areas (URBAMECO)

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

Regeneration of deprived areas and city-wide/ regional growth and competitiveness (fostering economic growth opportunities; integrated neighbourhood development plans; local partnerships and involvement of local communities, etc.) Achievements: Documents/reports:Baselin ...
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FOCUS ON HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING IN THE BALTIC SEA REGION (HEPRO)

Start date: Jun 11, 2005, End date: Jan 10, 2008,

...e cities, unemployment, increase in alcohol and drug abuse and mental illness. An increasing part of lifestyle diseases and injuries from accidents will make great demands on the future treatment capacity of the health services.The problems require imaginative, complex and diverse solutions. It also requires transnational cooperation and shearing of knowledge across national borders.HEPRO is a pro ...
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Baltic Spatial development Measures for Enterprise (B-SME)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

This project has set itself the following overlapping goals: strengthening of competitiveness in the whole Baltic area generally as well as for SME especially strengthening of co-operation between the old and the new member countries of the European Community as well as with the neighbouring countries Russia and Belarus; promotion of economic and cultural identity, development of intellectually me ...
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inciples, tools and systems to extend spatial planning on water courses (WATERSKETCH)

Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

River basin planning has a long tradition in water protection terminology, but new whole Europe approach has been adopted when Water framework directive (WFD) come into force. According to WFD all European river basins should be covered by river basin plans with ultimate goal to reach good ecological status or potential in all waterbodies. Baltic Sea is one of the most fragile marine areas in Euro ...
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art II: Baltic University Urban Forum - Implementing Sustainable Development in Urban Areas - Urban Forum (BUUF II)

Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: May 30, 2006,

...g committee consised of members from the Baltic University Programme, BUP; the Union of Baltic Cities, UBC; the Division of Urban Studies at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, and the city of Nacka.2. Conferences. 10 best practice conferences on the ten key theme areas in urban management were organised in 2003-04, and 10 conferences on integration and application of management dur ...
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Baltic University Urban Forum - Implementing Sustainable Development in Urban Areas - Urban Forum (BUUF )

Start date: Feb 28, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2003,

The Baltic University Urban Forum (BUUF) is a cooperation between cities/towns and universities in the Baltic Sea region to promote sustainable development. The BUUF project aims to develop strategies for sustainable development for cities and towns. 20 cities and towns, and 15 universities in 9 countries take part in the project. Through the Union of Baltic Cities the results will be available fo ...
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URBAN PROJECT/METROPOLITAN, AREA DEPRIVED AREAS/DEVELOPMENT ECO (URBAMECO)

...mme forphase II and a framework for local action plan. The outputsof phase II project financed through URBACT II will bethe setting up of Local Support Group and local action planfor each partner city. Achievements: Please refer to the 'Description' field, which also in ...
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Teachers First - Using Emotional Literacy to Improve VET Teaching in the 21st Century

...training have been neglected (Kassem, 2002; Bohlinger, 2005). Teachers’ EL is ‘significantly and positively’ correlated with pupil attainment (Powell and Kusuma-Powell, 2010, 2009). City of Wolverhampton College (CWC) has created an EL toolkit and questionnaire which has been used with over 300 teachers since inception. Because of the success of this work and the teachers who have been trained, CW ...
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FALCON - the Family Learning Conference

Start date: Oct 1, 2004,

The FALCON project aimed specifically at the organisation of a conference on the theme of family learning. The resulting event took place in Oslo in September 2005 and covered a range of topics such as didactical approaches to family learning, quality criteria, cultural adaptation and learning infrastructure. An additional goal for the FALCON project was to establish a European platform for family ...
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