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A VET course for Cultural Mediators to address the refugee crisis’ skills needs

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

BACKGROUND & CHALLENGESWith over 310 million adults & children, legally defined as refugees, asylum seekers and migrants on the move within EU territories on their way to a destination country, there is soaring demand for a relatively new kind of humanitarian professional: the Cultural Mediator. Due to the current and emerging refugee crisis in Europe, skills requirements are changing rapidly call ...
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Social Entrepreneurship in a European Dimension

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

A social enterprise is a firm with social impact mission managed in accountable, transparent and innovative way.Social enterprises are crucial for EU: the social economy is 10% of EU GDP and employs 4.5% of EU workers. At 1.43 trl € value and 11 ml workers in 2014, social economy is a unique engine for growth and employment (“Map of Social Enterprises & Their Ecosystems”,DG EMPL, 2014).Social ente ...
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Strengthening and widening the European infrastructure for social science data archives. (CESSDA-SaW)

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

After CESSDA's successful launch we must now achieve full European coverage, and strength and sustainability for the widened network. European coverage:In each country the barriers to, and the potential value and benefits from, membership will be examined, and existing relevant infrastructure mapped. Bespoke coordination, networking activities, and stakeholder forums, all designed to address the ...
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Governing Urban Diversity: Creating Social Cohesion, Social Mobility and Economic Performance in Today's Hyper-diversified Cities (DIVERCITIES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The central hypothesis of this project is that socio-economic, socio-demographic, ethnic and cultural diversity can positively affect social cohesion, economic performance and social mobility of individuals and groups. A better social cohesion, higher economic performance and increased chances for social mobility will make European cities more liveable and more competitive. In this period of long- ...
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Data without Boundaries (DWB)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

While access to anonymised official microdata for researchers is still uneven both at national and at European level, access to highly detailed and sensitive microdata is now increasingly on the agenda. Different member states have substantially different outcomes for research access to Official data, and the issue is not just efficiency, but real harm to the contribution of the social sciences to ...
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PREPARATORY PHASE PROJECT FOR A MAJOR UPGRADE OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA ARCHIVES (CESSDA) RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE (CESSDA-PPP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

"This proposal for a major upgrade to the CESSDA Research Infrastructure is a response to the general principles and vision set out in the 2004 Blueprint for the European Research Obsrvatory for the Humanities and Social Science and will meet the goals set out in that report to ‘strengthen interdisciplinary and cross-border collaboration and comparative research on a European dimension… enhance th ...
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