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Innovative approach to soil management in viticultural landscapes (LIFE+ SOIL4WINE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background The vineyard landscapes of North Apennines areas are affected by various soil threats, such as erosion, decline of organic matter, local and diffuse contaminations, sealing, compaction, decline in biodiversity and landslides. All these are generated by environmental factors (such as geomorphology and slopes, climate change and soil types) and b ...
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Improve Resilience of Industry Sector (LIFE IRIS)

Start date: Sep 15, 2015, End date: Mar 15, 2019,

Background Extreme weather events related to climate change, which directly affect industrial areas, can be extremely damaging for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In the case of flooding, enterprises face potentially large economic losses (e.g. through stoppages to production and damage to equipment and buildings), while heatwaves increase ener ...
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Games And Mathematics in Education for Adults - Compendiums, Guidelines and Courses for Numeracy Learning Methods Based on Games

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

The project "MathGAMES - Games And Mathematics in Education for Adults – Compendiums, Guidelines and Courses for Numeracy Learning Methods Based on Games" is producing a compendium and a guidebook in 9 languages, which should give the answer to two main questions while rising numeracy in education: 1. How can we reduce the number of under skilled adults to promote social integration and participa ...
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MEDIA AND HISTORY. From cinema to the web. Studying, representing and teaching European History in the digital era

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

Digital integration in teaching and learning is a necessary step for European schools, especially when it comes to the teaching of History. Actually, despite the majority of European students being native digitals, audiovisual and multimedia sources still represent an unexploited potential for the teaching of History in a European perspective. E-STORY objective is that of enriching teaching of Hi ...
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EĞİTİME ALTIN DOKUNUŞ

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

... touch with other schools in Europe through E-Twinning Portal and signed Mandate with two European schools ( Heinrich Böll Sekundarschule - Cologne,Germany and Instituto Comprensivo Cena - Cerveteri,Italy ) which have been successful in values education and the success of these schools have been confirmed academically. The reason why we have chosen these schools is that : Moral and Value Ed ...
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Digital Generation Gap in Migrant and Low educated Families

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Mira Media, Ervet, the Migrant Resource Centre and Active Watch work in multicultural and socially marginalized neighborhoods in Utrecht, Amsterdam, London, Bologna en Bucharest with schools, migrants, Roma and socially marginalized families on media literacy- and education related issues. They observe the growing attention for safer Internet use and digital skills in general, but also notice an ...
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Europe Web Walking -

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

..."The main target of the project is to enhance in students those competences which are considered as key strength for a complete realization of the person as citizen, to affirm the right to a respectable life and to gain admittance in the world of the job. They are those necessary skills required by the labor market of tomorrow. The main skills to be implemented will be the ICT, the foreign lang ...
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Zero Waste Adriatic net for events and festivals (Zero Waste)

Start date: May 31, 2012, End date: Feb 27, 2015,

Events and festivals are an important element of the tourism offering, and an opportunity to increase tourist flows and offer a variety of entertainment opportunities for local residents and tourists, even outside seasonal tourism.In the Adriatic area, there are different events that attract thousands of people and, in turn,have a positive impact on the local economy. At the same time, however, th ...
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Improving Regional Policies promoting and motivating non-technological Innovation in SMEs (InnoMot)

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

Innovation in SMEs is one of the big challenges of the European economy to compete in the global markets. Even if different policies and programmes have been put in place in different Regions to push SMEs in this line, the lack of motivation to innovate in SMEs has been identified by all the actors involved in the innovation system.And for the major part of the European SMEs, the non-technological ...
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Design of a decision support tool for sustainable, reliable and cost-effective energy strategies in cities and industrial complexes (CitInES)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

The overall objective of CitInES is to design and demonstrate a multi-scale multi-energy decision-making tool to optimise the energy efficiency of cities or large industrial complexes by enabling them to define sustainable, reliable and cost-effective long-term energy strategies. Demonstrations will take place in two cities in Italy, Cesena and Bologna, and in one oil refinery in Turkey, Tupras.In ...
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ACMAn - Promoting attractiveness, competitiveness and internationalisation of Agro-food Clusters of the Med Area (PACMAn)

Start date: Sep 30, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2013,

PACMAn aims at stimulating the innovative&dynamic capacities of the agrofood sector in MED regions able to promote its attractiveness & competitiveness at transnational level.Through collaboration between transnational economic development actors&public authorities engaged in growth & innovation issues, PACMAn will focus on key factors of agro-food clusters in MED areas, in light of the latest eco ...
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motion of ICTs usage by SMEs as an enabler of Value Networks (ICT-VN)

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

...innovation sector: LP: (Spain) Navarra Fundación Dedalo para la Sociedad de la Información. P2: (Greece) Regional Development Sector, R.A. Computer Technology Institute. P3 (Italy) Emilia Romagna ERVET Economic Development Agency L.t.d. P4: Malta Communications Authority.P5: (Denmark) Agro Business Park. P6: (Belgium) TeleRegions Network. P7: (Slovenia) RDA of Northern Primorska Ltd Nova GoricaP ...
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Product Main Impacts Sustainability through Eco-communication (PROMISE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

Background Information and communication tools are required to help ensure that society’s consumption patterns become more environmentally sustainable. Altering the behaviour patterns of the market and the general public is particularly important when it comes to raw material use, greenhouse gas emissions, waste minimisation, energy efficiency and biodi ...
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Environmental Compliance based on Cluster Experiences and Local Sme-oriented Approaches (E.C.C.E.L.S.A.)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

Background Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up a large part of Europe’s economy, representing some 99% of all enterprises and 57% of economic value added. SMEs therefore have a significant impact on the environment and a primary role to play in shifting the European economy to more sustainable production and consumption patterns. As broa ...
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Biofuel chain Enhancement for Territorial developmenT of European Regions (BETTER)

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

Strategies to use renewable energies, such as biofuels, as an alternative to conventional energy sources are not only an opportunity to improve the environment. They can also support the social and economic development of rural areas. The BETTER project addresses these aspects and aims at promoting renewable energies with a focus on biofuel chain integration in rural regions. It includes a new con ...
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Wireless Cities - Services avancées d'accès Wireless pour les citoyens (Wireless Cities)

Start date: Sep 30, 2005, End date: Nov 29, 2007,

Information technologies are an ideal tool for improving citizens quality of life, but they have to be affordable, reliable and user-friendly. The regions and cities in the consortium are all interested in the use and promotion of new technologies and citizen training. This interest is evident in regional plans and policies on information technologies (ICT). Such plans of action have been supporte ...
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Welfare housing policies for senior citizens (Wel_hops)

Start date: Mar 31, 2005, End date: Sep 29, 2007,

The EU is presently facing unprecedented demographic changes that will have a major impact on society and economy. One important factor of demographic change are todays longer life expectancy. The improved health profile of younger generations holds out the hope that senior citizens of the future will remain self-sufficient for longer and will thus be able to remain in their own homes, a trend alr ...
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Interregional Co-operation for Development of Innovative Regional Economic Clusters (INNOFIRE)

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

In recent years proactive cluster management has become one of the standard tools of regional development. It is important for promoting technology-oriented economic development and for helping small and medium-sized companies to meet the challenges of global competition. However, approaches to cluster management differ widely and information gaps still exist in many regions. Overall objective / O ...
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Implementation of solvent management systems as trans-national approach to reducing VOCs pollution (SMS VOSLESS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

With the implementation of the Solvent Emissions Directive (Directive 1999/13/EC), which aims at reducing the direct and indirect effects of the emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the environment, a call for action exists for implementation in the industrial sectors. There is also a need for developing the implementation of environmental management systems in some industrial European ...
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Achievements of the Lisbon and Gothenburg Strategy Objectives by INTERREG (ALSO)

Start date: Jun 15, 2005, End date: Jun 14, 2007,

Problems addressedThe problem addressed by the ALSO project lays on the following urgent needs:• to boost the Lisbon and Gothenburg Strategy Objectives at regional level and more specifically, to exploit current INTERREG and future Territorial Cooperation Funding within the framework of INTERACT;• A strong coordination between regional planners and INTERREG operators/project managers in order to b ...
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CIBERSTRATEGY - Nouveau modèle de Télé Centres comme moteurs de promotion stratégique de la Société de l'Information en Europe (CIBERSTRATEGY)

Start date: Mar 31, 2004, End date: Sep 29, 2006,

The entities forming part of CYBERSTRATEGY aim to define and adopt a new, sustainable telecentre model, with an adapted organisation and a strategy allowing the creation of a community for work and exchange among local actors and the centers offering services. Following the guidelines for eEurope 2005, it is important that telecentres become more professional and offer more specialised services th ...
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European Union Regions Benchmarking, Economic Strategy and Transfer (EURBEST)

Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2006,

The objective of EURBEST is to benchmark best practice in the area of business support at regional and sub-regional levels. Following on from this is the need to create tools and mechanisms that will transfer this best practice from one of the exemplar regions to another in the project. The project builds on a previous project conducted under the auspices of EURADA that involved 14 regions across ...
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