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Develop Business and Economic Research Centers Capacity at Palestinian Higher Education Institutions

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Develop Business and Economic Research Centers Capacity (BERC) aims to develop the quality of business and economic research environment in West Bank and Gaza strip. The literature shows that production of research is not according to the quality standards and suffering from many challenges. Researchers as well as teaching staff have inconvenient experience in contribution in the knowledge parad ...
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The MEDiterranean Public HEALTH Alliance (MED-HEALTH)

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

A solid public health system constitutes a pillar of advanced societies, capable of providing their citizens with an enabling environment for development and smart and inclusive societies. All countries in Europe and beyond need to address increasingly global health challenges with the support of innovative approaches and skilled professionals. To do so, HEIs need to introduce programmes with a wi ...
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Generating Renewable Energy Business Enterprise (GREBE)

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

Description (EN): GREBE will focus on the challenges of peripheral and arctic regions as places for doing business and help develop renewable energy (RE) business opportunities provided by extreme conditions. It will support successful development of SMEs and start-ups in this sector through analysis of advanced RE options, expert business mentoring, transnational models of successf ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and Innovative (TARGET)

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

Description (EN): This project will develop tools to enhance capacity of manufacturing companies in the NPA region to adapt and embrace new technologies and innovation. The toolbox developed will consist of subsets such as Digital manufacturing (robotics and simulation), New ideas and thinking (human centered and environmental thinking, competitiveness), Business models and modern P ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

Erasmus+ program KA103 enabled the first cycle of students at College of Applied Sciences “Lavoslav Ružička” in Vukovar (VEVU) to take a part in studies and /or to carry out professional practice in foreign higher education institutions and companies as well as teachers and administrative staff to benefit from mobility, job shadowing, conducting lectures or participating in trainings. Throug the ...
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Supportive international approach to increase and improve the mobility and exchange (MED-MOBIL)

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

Project in brief Although the Mediterranean territories have any cultural and economic similarities, there is a gap in the mobility of students and professionals compared to other areas of the world with less comparable features. The gap is even wider when looking at the intensity of mobility of young people within European Union. Specific EU funded initiatives, such as ERASMUS and Leonardo da Vin ...
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uro-meDiterranean cAreer & Employment aDvisor portAl for the mobiLity of yoUng residentS (DAEDALUS)

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

Project in brief The large young population entering the job market in the Mediterranean area will represent a major challenge in the upcoming years. Qualified young people who should enhance the competitiveness of the Mediterranean area need to overcome numerous barriers while seeking career and employment opportunities. Building professional profiles, finding opportunities, matching successfully ...
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An Open Innovation Local Business and Students network in the Barents Region (PRACTICE FUTURE)

Start date: Jul 6, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

PRACTICE FUTURE is an investment in cross-border competence enhancement in entrepreneurship and a support for small and medium-sized local firms. The goal is to strengthen cross-border cooperation of SME in the region, especially small local firms which have limited resources on marketing and research; international knowledge and competence transfer between Higher education and local business; pro ...
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Use of Heat Pump Promotion in Barents Region (HePuPro)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2015,

Energy Efficiency is one of the central objectives for 2020 which aims to save the energy 20% by 2020. One of the key technologies of the Renewable Energy Source (RES) seen in the market is heat pumps. It is a key technology to achieve the European Union’s energy saving and climate protection targets. The HePuPro project aims to promote use of heat pumps in the Barents region and to increase econo ...
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Cross Border Research and Trade Facilitation (Sustainable Buildings for the High North)

Start date: Dec 21, 2012, End date: May 25, 2015,

To accommodate for increased cross border activity and development within sustainable building technology, cooperation and business for the high north. Achievements: The project did a lot of research: two master dissertations were written on the project. It has lifted a ...
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Cargo Securing to prevent cargo damages on road, sea, rail and air (CARING)

End date: May 16, 2015,

A study on fatal accidents of professional drivers in Finland (Laapotti & Peräaho 2011) has revealed that the risks in loading and securing of cargo comprised 12 % of all vehicular risk factors. This was more than the proportion of risks connected to tires and brakes together (10 %). Europe is an area where goods and products can move around freely, without any checks at the national borders. Thi ...
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Novel cross-border solutions for intensification of forestry and increasing energy wood use

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Objective of the projectThe overall objective of the project was to strengthen cross‐border cooperation for novel solutions in forestry and bioenergy. Main activities• Modification of Metla's Motti simulation programme to Russian conditions for assessing different forest management practices on stand development.• Development of GIS-based decision-support tools for industrial and energy wood harve ...
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Cross-border Tourism Development in Northern Finland and the Republic of Karelia (WHITE ROAD)

Start date: Oct 29, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Objective of the projectThe objective of the project was to increase inbound tourism in Kainuu, Oulu Region and the Republic of Karelia by creating new, high quality travel products that correspond to the requirements of and are easily obtainable by the modern customer from Russia, Finland or Central Europe. Main activities• To tighten co-operation and networking between tourist service companies ...
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Empowering School e-Health Model in the Barents region (ArctiChildren InNet (2012-2014))

Start date: Mar 9, 2012, End date: Dec 8, 2014,

The health and well-being of children and youth on the region is challenged in many ways. Some of these are common for the region, and some are also in connection to the regions´s special features such as sparse population and limited availability of services. Youths' traditional sources of health information are no longer satisfying their needs, and they are increasingly using the internet for he ...
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Life-long learning in cultural management to promote creative industries and tourism

Start date: Feb 7, 2013, End date: Oct 6, 2014,

...e Finnish and Russian educational institutions, was created as a tool for further education of culture professionals working on both sides of the border.The participating universities and colleges also enjoyed the valuable benefits from the project. Having received new study modules, the educational institutions got a tool to attract new students. Also, the technical and educational facilities, su ...
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Renewable Energy Training and Demonstration Network for Remote Communities in the NPP Area (REMOTE)

Start date: Sep 29, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The REMOTE project will increase and support local capacities in renewable energy solutions across the NPP area. By building on the results of NPP Renewable Energy Cluster projects and networks, the REMOTE will establish an unique International Network of Best Practise Demonstration Sites, and integrate it to a Training for Trainers Service. The sustaining network will support the capacity develop ...
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Sustainable Living Assistant (SuLA)

Start date: Jan 31, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

The SuLA project is the vision of a home supervising service which will enable house-owners and social housing providers to provide a service that will allow householders to reduce energy use in their homes and save on energy costs for space heating. This is particularly important in the Northern Periphery region where many of the inhabitants are in a position of fuel poverty because of the harsh ...
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Innovative approaches towards sustainable forested landscapes (Baltic Landscape)

Start date: Sep 28, 2011, End date: Mar 27, 2014,

Forests in the Baltic Sea Region are either dominating in the landscape (FIN, NOR, Russia, SWE) or are its important part (POL, Belarus, EST, LV) (annex 1). The long-term goal of the project is to foster good governance in forested landscapes. These landscapes are facing new challenges caused by i.e. globalization, climate change, demands of both more intensive use of natural resources and enhance ...
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Social Enterprises in Community Renewable Energy (SECRE)

Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

SECRE is a transnational network of renewable energy and social business expertise in Northern Periphery. SECRE works for social enterprises. Social enterprises provide significant amount of net profit to fulfill social goals or invest to own business to enhance social impact.SECRE challenges renewable energy businesses and communities to find and define social goals in the field of renewable ener ...
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Improvement of the vocational education according to the needs of labour market (VocEdu)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

Project idea is aimed at improvement of vocational education through curricula improvements, by involving industry associations, enterprises and stakeholders related to vocational education. Project cross-border experience exchange and joint events will support professional and personal growth of students and teachers; promotional activities will serve for the improvement of image of vocational sc ...
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ntial and competitiveness of biomass as energy source in Central BSR (Pure Biomass)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Overall objective of the project is to build the public understanding about the economical and technical benefits on the use of biomass for energy production, based on studies of biomass availability, technical-economic aspects and environmental protection. In order to achieve the project aims there are defined following tasks: 1. To make the resource assessment analysis on regionally available b ...
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"Fluid, Ions and Radiation Ensemble in Integrated Plasma Modelling" (FIRE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"Fast particles and nanoclusters are produced directly in energetic plasmas, with desirable results as in nanopowder production and undesirable results as in debris and fast particle damage in EUV light sources. The phenomena cover diverse disciplines, from plasma physics to atomic physics, from radiation transport to quantum mechanics, from magnetohydrodynamics to non-equilibrium chemistry. Model ...
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Low Carbon Regions in the North Sea (LOWCAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 2, 2013,

The LOWCAP cluster will develop a process for the exchange of knowledge and experiences in carbon reduction and energy efficiency projects in the NSR. This process brings together key results & identifies the synergies between the partner projects & related NSRP projects. The findings will be consolidated & discussed with other stakeholders in the NSR drawn from decision makers & implementers in t ...
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Concepts for using reed biomass as local bioenergy and building material (COFREEN)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

...n methods and hard down-to-earth work. Concepts are created with the help of three different pilot cases, where the use of reed will be tested and developed. In Finland, the Southwest Countryside College executes one of the pilot cases with its own boiler house, a biogas plant and a local unused reed bed. In Estonia the pilot cases are located in Värska and Muhu municipalities. Their focus is to f ...
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International Food and Activity Tourism (InFActo)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Tourists are increasingly demanding linked & coordinated activities of higher quality not only at local level but also regionally & internationally. Local food linked to active tourism is increasingly popular but demand is for products of high quality with an authentic experience. Few operators can provide all that is demanded in todays markets thus necessitating linked or complementary products, ...
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Creating Healthy and Secure Environment for the Elderly with Dementia (ELDEM)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The full title of the project should be "Creating healthy and secure environment for the elderly with dementia via supporting community work in Estonia and Finland". The population in Estonia and Finland is ageing rapidly - the proportion of people aged 65 and over in Estonia has grown from 13,7% to 17,1% and in Finland from 14,3% to 16,4% in the past ten years. Therefore, the social sectors in bo ...
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Opportunities for Community groups Through Energy Storage (OCTES)

Start date: Mar 14, 2011, End date: Mar 14, 2013,

The project will develop a business model that can deliver a new Integrated Renewable Energy Management Service (IREMS) that can be adapted to suit local needs in a transnational context. The developed Renewable Energy Management Service incorporating smart grid technology with existing renewable energy (RE) know-how will be made available to existing advisory services across the NPP region.The co ...
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Improvement of public health by promotion of equitably distributed high quality primary health care systems (ImPrim )

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

ImPrim – a Primary Health Care flagship project. There are substantial health differences between the countries in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). These inequalities have a relationship to social problems. The ImPrim project aims at promoting equitably distributed high quality Primary Health Care services in the BSR in order to increase the cost-efficiency of the public health system and more efficie ...
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E-GOvernment solutions as instruments to qualify the public sector for the specific needs of small and medium sized enterPRISEs (SMEs) in the rural BSR (Egoprise)

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

The overall aim of Egoprise is to turn public administrations in rural BSR areas to more business oriented service suppliers, to relieve SMEs from administrative burdens, improve their access to information & qualified staff and as a consequence to increase attractiveness of rural areas as places to live, work & invest in. BACKGROUND:E-government potentials are not exploited so far: The developmen ...
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Creative City Challenge (CCC)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Nov 29, 2012,

CCC aims to build and implement an integrated evidence-based strategy for cities to strengthen their innovative capacity by means of a methodology of joint development and pilot testing of new tools and instruments in the fields of skills development, business cooperation and the development of urban creative clusters. CCC focuses on the catalyst role of creative industries in building and strengt ...
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North Sea Sustainable Energy Planning (North Sea - SEP)

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

During the last years the costs for fossil energy resources are heavily increasing. A possibility to absorb rising costs is to critically question the status quo of energy consumption in order to be able to use existing energy saving potentials. Rising energy costs are contributing to a steadily increasing financial pressure for public utilities. This leads to a negative cycle: the public bodies h ...
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Northern Maritime University (NMU)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

The NMU project is building on the broad range of knowledge and expertise in the North Sea area which is being harnessed within a common and lasting transnational network of universities, The "Northern Maritime University" will directly address the needs of the maritime industry: To better prepare maritime business managers to cope with growing maritime traffic, port development, and rising enviro ...
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Solutions for Microgeneration to ALLow Energy Saving Technology 4.8 (SMALLEST)

Start date: Jun 14, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

...e information see: http://nppoutcomes.eu/Title: SEAM Centre training facilityDescription : A training, information and research facility for sustainable energy and micro-renewables based at Inverness College UHI. The centre provides short course training for experienced plumbers, electricians and heating engineers to give them the skills required to install small-scale renewable energy systems (su ...
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Flexible working culture - Rethinking of work, place, time and life (FLEX)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

The development of attractive island communities requires competitiveness and innovation. It also requires the development and recognition of island communities and the archipelago as a whole, in regional, economical, and political terms. Because of the geographic heterogeneity of the islands as well as the regional inequality within the archipelago, flexible work arrangements offer one possibil ...
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North Sea Screen Partnership (NSSP)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Mar 30, 2012,

NSSP seeks to tap the potential of the creative industries (i.e. the film industry) to promote innovation and growth in the NSR and increase the regions competitiveness in a global context. Transnational cooperation is concentrated on common challenges, such as marketing, financing and SME support is proposed to tackle issues such as fragmented national markets inhibiting critical mass creation (d ...
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European Collaborative Innovation Centres for broadband media services (E-CLIC)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2012,

E-CLIC aims to develop research and innovation networks related to broadband media services in order to stimulate the commercialisation of the participating regions’ knowledge base and encourage the development of new employment opportunities. Building on experience from NSR IIIB, E-CLIC aims to enhance the provision of broadband services that are perceived as the engine for stimulating economic g ...
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Educational cooperation for a joint mechatronic engineering degree (MECHEDU)

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

...nical engineering, Electronic engineering, Computer engineering), which would contribute to the overall human capital development of the region. At this moment there is no integrated approach at the colleges to these subjects neither in North Backa district nor in Bacs-Kiskun. Activities: 1. jointly develop, accredit, and implement in the future a mechatronic engineering programme on bachelor and ...
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CENTRAL BALTIC INNOVATION TOOLS FOR PRACTISE (INTO PRACTISE)

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

In a globally interdependent environment strategic cooperation is a key policy in developing relative competitive advantage of CB- region. The principles of the European social model (work for all, social equality&safe environment) can be maintained by investing in the high level of education, applications of science&technology and establishing strategic networks. Yet the existing capacity of inv ...
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