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REnaissance of Places with Innovative Citizenship and TEchnolgy (REPLICATE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2021,

The objective of REPLICATE is to demonstrate Smart City technologies in energy, transport and ICT in districts in San Sebastia, Florence and Bristol addressing urban complexity and generate replication plans in other districts and in follower cities of Essen,Nilufer and Lausanne.Main challenges for cities are to increase the overall energy efficiency, to exploit better local resources in terms of ...
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Demonstrating Remote Sensing integration in sustainable forest management (FRESh LIFE)

Start date: Sep 7, 2015, End date: Sep 6, 2019,

Background The compiling of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) indicators is usually accomplished by ground surveys. This approach, based on forest inventory techniques, ensures accurate statistical assessments of forest attributes and how they change over time. However, surveying is generally expensive and time-consuming for medium to large forest manag ...
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Culture And RISkmanagement in Man-made And Natural Disasters (CARISMAND)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

As risks are not “objective” but socially and culturally constructed, disaster management which is aware, respects, and makes use of local cultural aspects will be not only more effective but, at the same time, also improve the community’s disaster coping capacities. CARISMAND is setting out to identify these factors, to explore existing gaps and opportunities for improvement of disaster policies ...
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Citizen Interaction Technologies Yield Community Policing (CITYCoP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

Theories underlying community policing received new impetus with the recent advent of smartphones and social media and especially user-generated content (UGC) where citizens engage in closer interaction with their local community and law enforcement agency (LEA). The years 2010-2014 have seen a rapid upsurge of smartphone apps aimed at improving crime reporting and other forms of UGC and interacti ...
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RESilience management guidelines and Operationalization appLied to Urban Transport Environment (RESOLUTE)

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

Increasing Europe’s resilience to crises and disasters is a topic of highest political concern in the EU and its Member States and Associated Countries. Regarding the specific case of transport systems, it can be said that those have developed a prominent safety and business critical nature, in view of which current management practices have shown evidence of important limitations in terms of resi ...
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EWIT: Developing an e-waste implementation toolkit to support the recycling and the secondary raw material recovery strategies in metropolitan areas in Africa (EWIT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Urbanization is on the rise in Africa and this trend is expected to continue in the future. The fast growing use of technology is creating a rising e-waste stream, for which there is limited recycling capacity. Waste management infrastructures and public awareness of the health issues is largely non-existent. Basic environmental precautions are almost absent and health and safety regulations are l ...
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Digital Natives for democracy

End date: Oct 1, 2016,

Through the project was experienced an educational-training program for a sample of students from selected schools to help them to bridge the indifference and detachment from politics that seems to permeate a significant part of the younger generation.The project, with the collaboration of the Local Institutions, developed and implemented an educational path about democracy and participation whi ...
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Increasing Employability and Standards of Elderly Caregivers through Specialized Training and Innovative Empowerment

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

In most European countries inside the partnership, since a long time, the caregiver is the one who is placed under the full responsibility to care for, supervise, guide and monitor the elderly person who needs care. Very often caregivers lack specific training and the support they offer is based on empirical and tacit knowledge. This background supports the urgent need to map and understand the si ...
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Cities demonstrating cybernetic mobility (CITYMOBIL2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

European cities face four main mobility problems: congestion, land use , safety and environment. One of the main causes of such problems is the car-ownership rate. The centres of large cities address this issue combining efficient mass transits with car restriction policies but peripheral areas and smaller cities remain dominated by private cars.CityMobil has demonstrated how automating road vehi ...
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Mobility and Transport Digital Wallet (MobiWallet)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Fare management schemes in transport are increasingly becoming more digitized in most large cities. However, most suffer from a siloed approach, as each transport mode is owned, operated or maintained by a range of different actors. The fact that these actors often come from public, private or even mixed backgrounds adds a layer of complexity to the issue of interoperable fare management. However, ...
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Development Of RegiOnal clusTers for researcH and implementation of environmental friendlY urban logistics (DOROTHY)

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

Dorothy Project is targeted to develop the potential of innovation and research in the four Regions Tuscany (Italy),Valencia (Spain),Lisbon and Tagus (Portugal) and Oltenia (Romania) composing the Consortium in the field of Urban Logistics, one of the main focus of attention of the Flagship Initiative. In fact UL could reach 40% of the total cost of transportation and has great relevancy for ener ...
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Growing up with Europe

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

The project focuses on three themes: social inclusion, active citizenship, communication. With the realization of the project will give the opportunity for young participants to discover new cultures, develop language skills, to move in environments other than the usual ones, thus ensuring significant personal growth through the development of values such as solidarity, friendship, democracy and ...
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SYSTEMS THINKING FOR COMPREHENSIVE CITY EFFICIENT ENERGY PLANNING (STEEP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The partners of the project are 3 cities with similar characteristics, experience and policies in specific sustainable use and production of energy and very ambitious carbon and energy reduction targets, aligned with Europe’s targets. In each city, initiatives to reduce energy inefficiency are already in place; however each of them has been aimed at a specific sector objective, while overlooking t ...
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Future Policy Modeling (FUPOL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The FUPOL project proposes a comprehensive new governance model to support the policy design and implementation lifecycle. The innovations are driven by the demand of citizens and political decision makers to support the policy domains in urban regions with appropriate ICT technologies. It will specifically target domains such as urban economy, community facilities, urban mobility and sustainable ...
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Quiet areas definition and management in action plans (QUADMAP)

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

Background A range of studies have demonstrated that noise influences our sense of our social surrounding. EU Directive 49/2002/CE on Environmental Noise (END) defines a “Quiet Area” (QA) as an area that is delimited by a competent authority and is not exposed to a noise above a certain threshold (set by the Member State), from any noise source. This ...
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Raising Awareness on Climate change and Energy Savings for teachers, families and stakeholders. (R.A.C.E.S.)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

Background The European Union has agreed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 compared with 1990 levels as a step towards reducing the negative impacts of climate change. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its fourth assessment report (published in 2007), warned that "warming of the climate system is u ...
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GREENLINK

Start date: Jun 30, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

Le projet GeenLink se propose comme objectif d’étudier et partager des concepts et principes et d’élaborer des actions démonstratives pour l’optimisation des stratégies et la planification sage et respectueuse des espaces verts périurbains. GreenLink se propose concrètement d’effectuer une comparaison entre les tendances locales dans les sites verts périurbains des partenaires, une évaluation des ...
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Space : System to protect the environment and the cultural inheritance in the Mediterranean Spaces (Space)

Start date: Jul 31, 2005, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

L'objectif du projet SPACE est de créer un Modèle de Monitorage de contrôle urbanistique, de lenvironnement, culturel et économique de certains espaces de la Méditerranée Occidentale ayant une grande sénsibilité environnementale (pour la pluspart zones cotières, zones humides territoires formés par de couches fluviales ou marines) menacés par lexpansion urbanistique et/ou économique. Il s'agit éga ...
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Transfer of Employment Suppport Tools for People with Disabilities

It is one of the key areas of the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 to allow full accessibility to education as well as to the labour market for people with disabilities. In many European countries and beyond accessibility to the labour market is still not given because of the lack of suitable and powerful support concepts. The main aim of the T-EST project was the transfer of a well elaborat ...
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EURIALO LEarning and gUidance tools against discRIminAtion: respect for alL different sexual chOices and cultural identities

EURIALO starts from the GP produced by the project “TRIANGLE, transnational project which had the aim of exchanging information and good practice within the framework of the “Community Action Programme to Combat Discrimination” of the EU. Starting from GP Triangle, the EURIALO project propose the realization of an intervention aiming to the review, upgrading, adaptation (both technological as well ...
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European citizeNShip lifElong MoBile LEarning

The ENSEMBLE Project aims to provide an answer, through the use of ICT, to thesearch for new ways to integrate social groups that are at risk of being marginalised.The target group is represented by group of migrants of first and second generations.For many years now, EU countries have been undergoing huge change, even if withdifferent characteristics, and are becoming more and more multicultural ...
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COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (CKM)

Improving customer support across Europe : The Project has developed a model of customer support that brings a number of environments together that would not normally interact. It has set up a help desk which can be used for all manner of public services. This project started in 2002 and lasted 28 months.
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LINK - PER LO SVILUPPO DELLE COMPETENZE RELAZIONALI DEI DOCENTI

LINK's objectives are to define criteria in the role of mentors (including all professionals) and to enhance particularly the teacher-student relationship. Current training given to teachers, many a time, gives little importance to this issue; however, this is an ever urgent need in today's society which needs immediate attention. Primarily this project will focus on a self-assessment, being call ...
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EUROPASTAGE

The Europastage project aims at creating a European model for the organisation and management of transnational placements. A particular focus will be upon developing the skills of individual tutors having a role the development of in-company placements. In addition to the development of the European model for the organisation and management of transnational placements, two CD-Rom will be produced, ...
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VOCI CHE CONTANO: esperienze di partecipazione giovanile a confronto

Start date: Feb 1, 2008,

Voci che contano aims at giving to youngsters, youth workers and public institutions the opportunity to reflect about the meaning of "youth participation", by sharing concrete experiences, best practices, working methods, and possible approaches for the structured dialogue between youngsters and institutions.We plan 3 levels of work:1.young participants: working spaces for sharing the experience o ...
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Disability and Active Citizenship

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

the D-ACTIVE project aims at fostering active citizenship and learning among a particolar adult target group at high risk of emargination: persons with intellectual disability.The project partners (both institutional and private) have recognized the following problems concerning the target group:- difficulty in implementing activities aimed at developing key and specialistic competencies (accordin ...
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