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New commercial EUropean RICE (Oryza sativa) harbouring salt tolerance alleles to protect the rice sector against climate change and apple snail (Pomacea insularum) invasion (NEURICE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

About 2/3 of the rice consumed by European citizens is produced in EU, and its productivity is affected by abiotic and biotic stresses. Of particular concern, global temperature has increased over the last century, especially during the last 50 years (0.13° C / decade). One consequence has been a clear tendency toward salinization, which affects rice as one of the most salt sensitive crop in the r ...
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Developing organisational and financial models for including non-formal sector qualifications in National Qualifications Frameworks

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

The EQF Recommendations, and other EU strategic documents on VET and LLL policies, recommend that Member States implement overarching NQFs. All of the member states declared their willingness to implement NQFs, and most have already presented referencing reports to the EQF AG. According to Cedefop (2015), the first stage of EQF implementation is reaching its final stage. However, in most EU countr ...
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Asisttel en Europa

Start date: Dec 31, 2016, End date: Dec 30, 2017,

Asisttel en Europa is a project promoted and managed by Asisttel, organisation focused on services to the community, and trainingthe project consists in 9 weeks work experience for 30 students selected from vocational training courses implemented by Asisstel. countries where the internships will be possible are: Germany, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, and United Kingdom.Participants will develop intern ...
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M.I.C.R.O.

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

... not bankable, plus the lack of adequate preparation or the failure of business and management. Another critical point was seen in the retrieval of specific information as the means of access to microcredit and entrepreneurial documentation necessary to support the request and the procedure for preparing a business plan. Furthermore, the excessive fragmentation of information and therefore the nee ...
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C.I.L. - Cultura e Inovação em Línguas II

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The CIL II Project aims to respond to both the common needs of a consortium of 3 training organisations (Centro Europeu de Línguas, Casa Pia de Lisboa and Câmara Municipal de Lisboa) and to the individual needs of each of the 3 organisations. As a backdrop to the project, in recent years Europe has had to come to terms with high rates of unemployment in all age groups, but most particularly among ...
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Street Workout Innovation

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

“Street Workout Innovation" is a follow-up of the successfully implemented youth exchange of AFSSC in 2015, called « SStay Healthy & LIve Healthy » that combined the elements of sport, healthy diets and first aid training. The young people, who took part in this project came to a conclusion that a deeper education as well as the promotion of healthier lifestyles among young people as well as the h ...
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Digipay4Growth: Governments, SMEs and consumers make expenditures through a digital payment system that stimulates economic growth and job creation by increasing sales and access to credits for SMEs (Digipay4Growth)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

...ustrate the various possibilities of Cyclos for a) conditioning the flows of purchasing power to increase the multiplier effect and thereby creating income and more jobs and b) creating an innovative credit guarantee fund for mutual credit to SMEs.The project strategy makes use of a structure where 9 pilot partners test the application. Knowledge on the applicability, preconditions, best practices ...
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In-field wireless sensor network to predict rice blast (RICE-GUARD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The RICE-GUARD monitoring system is a tool designed to assist rice-growers in their rice blast management decisions. Rice blast is the most serious disease of cultivated rice. It is caused by the fungus Magnaporthe grisea (Pyricularia oryzae Cav.), which in favourable conditions can produce yield losses of up to 100 %. The fungus affects all the rice-growing regions of the world, including all ric ...
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MOVinVET

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The MOVINVET project is targeting two main groups: training center's staff (short-time job shadowing in training centers) and young graduates that have obtained an accredited training certificate during the previous year to the departure (3 month internships). Hosting countries are Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Lithuania and the Czech Republic. Job shadowing activities for staff wi ...
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Preventing Educational Mismatch

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

'What do I do, what will I do?' is often what young people/children think, they: • not necessarily have a professional ideal • have limited knowledge of the “working world” • do not always identify and understand the spectrum • struggle to identify career directions The PEM-project is an enormous challenge that needs tot be conducted in a concerted & realistic way. The main objective of the projec ...
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NanoStreams: A Hardware and Software Stack for Real-Time Analytics on Fast Data Streams (NanoStreams)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

NanoStreams co-designs a micro-server architecture and software stack that address the unique challenges of hybrid transactional-analytical workloads, which are encountered by emerging applications of real-time big-data analytics. To this end, NanoStreams brings together embedded system design principles, application-specific compilers, and HPC software practices.The processor technology that unde ...
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Green and Smart Data Centres Network Design (GreenDataNet)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...de additional optimisation modules and ensure the long-term sustainability of the project. Three demonstration sites will be utilised to test and validate the GreenDataNet concept: a data centre from Credit Suisse in Switzerland, a data centre from CEA in France that includes a large photovoltaic area and a smart grid test platform, and a pilot site in the Netherlands that is being used by a Dutch ...
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STI's Education

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

"STI's Education" training course is the result and a follow-up of the previously developed youth exchange by our association about sexual health of young people. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) constitute a pandemic and affect all populations, but it is the young people, who are the main victims. 50% of new HIV infections in the world, for example, occur among young people between 15 and 2 ...
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Health in all its expressions

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

"Health in all its expressions" is a youth exchange that aims to raise awareness of young people about drug abuse and related social problems. Drug abuse is a recurring and constant problem. It is influenced a lot by the general attitude of the society against drugs. This project should provide young people with a forum where they can discuss about their points of view, talk about their experience ...
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Euroopa parimad praktikad ECVETi rakendamisel

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

The problem targeted with this project: insufficient and ineffective co-implementation of RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) and ECVET principles. The goal is to use the knowledge gathered through this project to enhance the adoption of ECVET across Estonia. Studies conducted so far within the Estonian framework of ECVET project have demonstrated that the awareness of ECVET among the VET institu ...
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Life as Theatre

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

"Life as Theatre" is a ground-breaking international training seminar which will take place in Lyon, France and bring together 36 young people from France, Poland, Spain, Bulgaria, Italy and Turkey. This project is a follow-up after the youth exchange organised with the same topic by our organisation in summer 2014. This project will provide opportunity for young people to work on intercultural le ...
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Community Currency In Action (CCIA)

Start date: Jan 31, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The CCIA aim is to transfer diverse and regionally dispersed knowledge relating to the design. development and application of community currencies (CCs) in a variety of contexts through cooperation. co-working and effective communication. The goal of this transfer is to provide for the innovative development of a centralised. formalised and empirically driven set of tools that can be picked up a ...
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Development of interregional financial assistance to SMEs and of non-grant instruments (DIFASS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

DIFASS aims to unlock potential for innovation, internationalisation and sustainable growth of SMEs in Europe by improving access to finance.Innovative SMEs are often faced with problems when obtaining loans from commercial banks and intermediaries as valuing risks in technology innovation or foreign markets is problematical and as SMEs often cannot provide sufficient collateral. Resulting from th ...
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Baltic Metropolises Accelerating Branding and Identity Building of the Baltic Sea Region (ONE BSR)

Start date: Jun 12, 2012, End date: Sep 11, 2014,

The main aim of the ONE BSR Project is to increase the competitiveness of the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) by marketing it as one unity. ONE BSR functions as an umbrella project and calls together actors, who market themselves as part of the Baltic Sea Region. In the absence of a strong common brand, the project aims to search for common commercial and cultural characteristics with a concrete hands-on ...
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moting the innovative Baltic Fashion industry throughout the Baltic Sea Region (Baltic Fashion)

Start date: Sep 16, 2010, End date: Dec 15, 2013,

The Baltic fashion sector is mainly composed of SMEs, with large share of females not only in services & administration but also production (80% in new member states). Despite dramatic changes within the last decade resulting in a loss of a third of its volume and jobs textile, clothing and leather industries still highly contribute to employment esp in the E-BSR, where the sector counts for appro ...
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Smart on-line water salinity measurement network to manage and protect rice fields (SMART-PADDY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"Rice is the main crop in wet areas such as river deltas and is an essential tool in Europe in managing protected ecosystems. Irrigation water is a key factor in the production of rice and water quality has a major impact on crop yield as a result of tolerance of rice to factors such as dissolved salts. Rice is more water consuming than many other crops: in continuous flooding cultivation it takes ...
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Measures to Accelerate the Mediterranean Business Angel Market (MACC BAM)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Mar 29, 2012,

The project aims to build and test a coherent framework for planning and implementing joint sustainable measures in order to accelerate the Business angels Market in the MED space. The MED cooperation framework is ideal to reinforce the cooperation between interested partners that form the current consortium and demonstrate proven experience and activities towards the establishment and reinforceme ...
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Joint SME Finance for Innovation (JOSEFIN)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

The Baltic Sea Region (BSR) shows a strong knowledge based and innovative economy. Accordingly, SMEs play a significant role as drivers of the innovation process. In the context of future-oriented understanding of territorial co-operation, regional development highly depends on the ability of key-actors to participate in international markets. However, especially SMEs often focus their business ac ...
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Energy Efficient and Integrated Urban Development Action (Urb.Energy)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

The European housing stock is a major contributor to energy waste and CO2 emissions. At the same time the refurbishment rate in the new EU member states still is extremely low and sustainable urban development concepts are barely addressed, neither in local, nor regional or national policies in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). The project Urb.Energy addresses these issues and aims at the elaboration a ...
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CENTRAL BALTIC "SOFT LANDING" ZONE FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE COMPANIES (SMEDGE)

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

In order to improve the overall economical competitiveness and to support internal harmonization of the Central Baltic (CB) region (SWE, FIN, LV and EST) joint concept for cooperation and expansion of local SME-s must be created. It is crucial to prepare the companies for entering (and help them to determine their readiness for) other CB markets. After the respective decision is made by a firm, th ...
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Baltic Energy Efficiency Network for the Building Stock (BEEN)

Start date: Jun 20, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Buildings account for more than 40% of the overall energy consumption in the EU, of which two-thirds are consumed in residential buildings. Thereby, the standard of the buildings varies greatly and low thermal quality primarily occurs in the prefabricated multi-storey housing stock in the Central and Eastern European member states. This fact also implies huge potentials for energy savings and the ...
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Go Network : Credit Guarantee Organization (Go Network)

Start date: May 1, 2005, End date: Oct 29, 2007,

Le projet vise à mettre en place une forme d’assistance technique à la création d’un système de garantie spécifique commun aux pays du Nord et du Sud de la Méditerranée. Ce projet entend créer un réseau parmi les organismes de garantie situés dans les pays membres et non-membres. GO NETWORK s’adresse aux organisations de garantie des zones MEDOCC et MEDA mais aussi aux entrepreneurs des PME. Un te ...
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Scientific Observatory of Artisan Fishing (OCP)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

Certain towns of the Atlantic Area are highly dependent on traditional fishing, which is currently in crisis, so they are suffering from depopulation and a lack of services. In order to improve the local economy, protect the natural resources, and preserve the social and cultural heritage and motor of initiative that traditional fishing represents, it is important to react to this crisis. With thi ...
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WeReurope - European LLL by Intercultural Dialogue

The reason for our project:The expanding EU needs innovative instruments to promote social cohesion amongmember states. (Everyday) culture and art can serve as intermediaries for a sustainableapproach to learning and for bridging cultural gaps. Can we identify a common culturalheritage on which a shared future vision of Europe can be built and can we put suchfindings into transferable training too ...
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Promoting the recognition of learning in national and European contexts

Start date: Mar 1, 2012,

Project ProLeNE - Promoting the recognition of learning in national and European contexts – is a straightforward project aimed at promoting the benefits of credit-rating informal, non-formal and non-accredited learning to a range of audiences - learners, employers, training providers and national policy-makers - and at expanding the number and range of credit-rated informal and non-formal learnin ...
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Recognition of Experiential & Accredited Learning Project

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

...rs, the REAL project will develop a toolkit and work with a group of adult educators to level their experiential and informal learning against their national qualifications framework. This proposed accreditation will start to make a change to the power relationships which are present in RPL practices which currently favour the awarding institutions or bodies and tend to work against both the appli ...
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