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Strengthening European Food Chain Sustainability by Quality and Procurement Policy (Strength2Food)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

Strength2Food is a 5-year, €6.9 million project to improve the effectiveness of EU food quality schemes (FQS), public sector food procurement (PSFP) and to stimulate Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC) through research, innovation and demonstration activities. Our 30-partner consortium representing 11 EU and 4 non-EU countries combines leading academic, communication, SME and stakeholder organisations ...
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Community-Based Policing and Post-Conflict Police Reform (ICT4COP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2020,

The challenges of international police reform assistance are formidable. Conventional top-down institutional reform has proven neither effective nor sustainable. Community-based policing (COP) holds promise, however evaluations have pointed to a lack of in-depth understanding of police-community relations in police reform assistance. This project will conduct integrated social and technical resear ...
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Teacher Well-Being and Diversity: Managing language and social diversity in classrooms

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

IInclusive education has become increasingly pivotal in Europe given the exponential rise in immigration. In order to effectively meet the needs of especially refugee children, quality inclusion approaches are essential. Many schools are unprepared for this changing context and many teachers are increasingly overwhelmed by the challenges. As a result, children might drop out of school, or their a ...
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Digital community and Innovation in aduLt educAtion and Basic Skills

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Our project DILABS aims at supporting trainers/teachers, staff and organizations involved in adult education in the field of key competences, including literacy and digital skills, in an active process of developing European cooperation.The consortium is made of 8 partners:- Université de Lille 1 (HEI), Collegium Balticum (HEI), Oslo and Akershus University College (HEI), Futuro Digitale (Associat ...
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Responsible Research and Innovation in Practice (RRI-Practice)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The RRI-Practice project will bring together a unique group of international experts in RRI to understand the barriers and drivers to the successful implementation of RRI both in European and global contexts; to promote reflection on organisational structures and cultures of research conducting and research funding organisations; and to identify and support best practices to facilitate the uptake ...
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Multilingual early childhood education and care for young refugee children

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Many children in Europe grow up with a home language other than the official or majority language of the country they live in. Especially now that in the past few months a lot of refugee families have come to Europe, there is an urgent need to provide a first shelter to these families, not only in terms of housing and food, but also in terms of safety, care and education. There is a strong need fo ...
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Families and food poverty in three European Countries in an Age of Austerity (FFP)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Food poverty in the global North is emerging as an urgent social and moral concern, increasingly recognized as a central issue in the field of health inequalities in industrialized countries. With widening income disparity in Austerity Europe and ‘the end of cheap food’, these effects are being exacerbated. International media report an increase in the number of children arriving at school hungry, ...
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Career guidance for young refugees – escaping NEET status with good counselling towards training and employment

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Background By end of February 2016, Europe has experienced over 1.1 million refugees, displaced persons and other migrants escaping from serious threats in their country or in search of better lives. At the same time, there is a historical high level of NEETs in Europe; youth aged 15-29 and Not in Employment, Education or Training. Many migrants are young men competing for jobs in line with the al ...
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Qualification assessments for refugee training and employment: Fasttrack with ECVET and Skillsbank

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The world is facing an unprecedented displacement crisis. Today, almost 60 million people are forcibly displaced as a result of violent conflicts and natural disasters. By end of February 2016, over 1.1 million people – refugees, displaced persons and other migrants – have made their way to Europe either escaping conflict and serious threats in their country or in search of better economic prospec ...
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Let’s Make It Happen – a Shift into Learning Outcomes in the Welding Sector

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The main aim of Let’s Make It Happen – a Shift into Learning Outcomes in the Welding Sector / MAKE IT project, set to address the Manufacturing & Engineering sector, is to develop a European sector-oriented qualification system through the exchange among EU partners of an innovative training curriculum.The curriculum is designed for an intermediate level of qualification named “Welding Practitione ...
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Relevance in practice placements - inclusion of marginalized people

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

This project will develop a new practice placement model for sports and physiotherapy students in their work with people of marginalized groups. The project aims at establishing a link between undergraduate education and new practice placements in particularly in new practice placement arenas such as prisons, soccer for the homeless, rehabilitation centres, thus being a pilot project. The links d ...
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Promoting Integrity as an Integral Dimension of Excellence in Research (PRINTEGER)

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

Research integrity is a growing concern among scientists, research organisations, policy makers, and the public, expressed in a proliferation of ethical codes, guidelines, and procedures. While this proliferation calls for harmonisation and coordination, there is little factual knowledge about the actual processes leading to misconduct or the effectiveness of current integrity policies.PRINTEGER a ...
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SOLIDUS: “Solidarity in European societies: empowerment, social justice and citizenship” (SOLIDUS)

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

The current crisis has indirectly contributed to questioning the efficiency of financial markets and democratic institutions at European and national levels. Recent data from the Eurobarometer (July 2013) shows a continuous decrease in the trust levels that citizens from the European Union have on national governments and parliaments, radically decreasing in more than 25 points in the last six yea ...
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Negotiating early job-insecurity and labour market exclusion in Europe (NEGOTIATE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Through an innovative use of four key concepts (resilience, capability, active agency and negotiation) and primary data (life course interviews, vignette experiments), NEGOTIATE will deliver gender-sensitive comparative knowledge about consequences of early job insecurity. We move beyond the state-of-the-art by investigating the linkages across macro, meso and micro levels as mechanisms of early j ...
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RENEWABLE FUTURES

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

In response to recent quests for a more sustainable future, The Renewable Futures (RF) project aims to invent new avenues for developments of tomorrow - in culture and creative sector on the European level. We believe that the key of success for achieving cultural sustainability lies into our ability to become more open and susceptible to new ideas, approaches and collaborations. The RF project wi ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 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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MOOC Accessibility Partnership

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

The purpose of the project is to implement a sustainable strategic partnership between European universities that excel in both teaching accessible design in ICT and providing an inclusive learning environment to students with disabilities. The project will devise and implement a joint curriculum framework on accessible design in ICT, by means of massive open online courses (MOOCs) directed to the ...
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An interdisciplnary approach to working with children and young people with complex intellectual and developmental needs.

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

The population of children and young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities is growing with many more living with complex multi-morbidities. Due to their complexity of need children and young people with complex intellectual and developmental disabilities require access to practitioners across education, healthcare and social care who have a shared knowledge of their complex need ...
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European Media Cloud Campus

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

There are ongoing and even disruptive changes in the media industry. Young media professionals are facing a volatile professional environment with new ways of multiplatform content production. Thus enhanced competences in digital production workflows are essential for their employability. Digitalization also offers a lot of opportunities to collaborate remote and in across boarders in a creative a ...
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Augmented Reality for Science Education

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

Efficient investments in education has been identified as one of the keys to maintaining and expanding EU's global position, and developing new ways of teaching and learning are important. Furthermore, prioritizing STEM subjects is seen as necessary as they are part of the “key foundations for further learning”. In addition, teachers and teacher educators alike continually face new demands that r ...
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Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (STYLE)

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

The overriding aim of this project is to conduct a comparative EU wide analysis on youth unemployment that is sensitive to gender, ethnic and class differences and the historical legacies of multi-level institutions shaping relevant policies.This aim will be achieved through 10 objectives organized around 12 research, management, dissemination and scientific coordination work packages.There are th ...
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Auslandspraktikum für Schülerinnen und Schüler der Berufsbildenden Schulen

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

The primary aim of the placements abroad is to give 62 participants the possibility of acquiring different competences concerning knowledge, skills and attitudes. In this way, not only the personal development of the learners is promoted but also the possibility of getting a job on the (European) labour market. Additionally, it counteracts prospective youth unemployment. Therefore, the Elisabeth-S ...
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NATural Language Energy for Promoting CONSUMER Sustainable Behaviour (NATCONSUMERS)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

Residential energy consumption represents the 28% of all EU consumption and if commercial buildings are also considered this percentage increases to 40% (36% of EU CO2 emissions). In this context, is clear that the reduction of consumption in the residential sector should play an important role in energy efficiency programmes and policies as is stated in the recent Energy Efficiency Directive 2012 ...
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Skillstube: Video recordings of skills performance linked to ECVET descriptions

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Context/background: The context of the Skillstube project is the implementation of the ECVET principles of precise descriptions of Learning Outcomes (LOs) structured into units. Even though descriptions of LOs are highly precise through differentiating them into specifications of Competences, Knowledge and Skills, however this form of competence documentation may still fail to capture tacit knowle ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

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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Learning Analytics Community Exchange (LACE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

LACE partners are passionate about the opportunities afforded by current and future views of learning analytics (LA) and EDM but we are concerned about missed opportunities, undesirable consequences of mis-application, investment funding failing to realise value, market failure, etc. LACE is our response, a project proposal to reduce risk and to increase benefit through an approach that accounts f ...
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Developing Innovative Outreach and Dialogue on responsible nanotechnologies in EU civil society (NANODIODE)

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

Stakeholder engagement and dialogue are essential to the responsible development of nanotechnologies in Europe. NANODIODE establishes an innovative, coordinated programme for outreach and dialogue throughout Europe to support the effective governance of nanotechnologies. The project integrates vital engagement activities along the innovation value chain: it combines ‘upstream’ public engagement (b ...
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Making Persons with Disabilities Full Citizens - New Knowledge for an Inclusive and Sustainable European Social Model (DISCIT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

DISCIT aims to produce new knowledge enabling Member States, affiliated European countries and the European Union to achieve full and effective participation of persons with disabilities in society and the economy. In investigating the social and political conditions for making such participation a reality, the project adopts a multifaceted understanding of Active Citizenship. Adopting a multileve ...
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Developing alternative understandings of security and justice through restorative justice approaches in intercultural settings within democratic societies (ALTERNATIVE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

"The overarching objective and expected impact of this project is to provide alternative and deepened understanding based on empirical evidence of how to handle conflicts in intercultural contexts within democratic societies in order to set up security solutions for communities, which are carried by the active participation of the citizens. ALTERNATIVE has at its core 4 intensive case studies (whi ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Oct 1, 2015,

Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences focuses on internationalisation with an increased number of student and staff exchange as an important part of this. Through the participation in all four categories of exchange, we also aim at achieving internationalisation at home. With the introduction of Erasmus + came a more strategic approach to both the selection of partners and to th ...
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Open Discovery Space: A socially-powered and multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adoption of eLearning resources (Open Discovery Space)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Open Discovery Space aims to serve as an accelerator of the sharing, adoption, usage, and re-purposing of the already rich existing educational content base. First of all, it will demonstrate ways to involve school communities in innovative teaching and learning practices through the effective use of eLearning resources. It will promote community building between numerous schools of Europe and emp ...
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Disability Rights Expanding Accessible Markets (DREAM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The purpose of the proposed ITN is to explore options for EU disability law and policy reform in light of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2007). In particular, it will focus on the core rights of the individual, on expanding markets for European ICT business by making it more accessible to consumers with disabilities and on the need to find ways to embed ...
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Combating Poverty in Europe: Re-organising Active Inclusion through Participatory and Integrated Modes of Multilevel Governance (COPE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

"To combat poverty, European strategies propose implementing active inclusion policies. However, these policies face serious conceptual questions and governance challenges. Practical implementation is problematic in that social exclusion is a multidimensional problem that goes far beyond financial poverty, necessitating the participatory co-production of individual opportunities. In addition, the ...
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Integrated EST Framework (EST-Frame)

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

The aim of the EST-Frame project is to contribute to socially robust and ethically sound research and technology development by providing further methodological development of appropriate tools for social impact assessment and technology evaluation. The project will appraise current assessment methods for evaluating emerging science and technology with the objectives of mapping their strengths and ...
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Multifactorial evidence based approach using behavioural models in understanding and promoting fun, healthy food, play and policy for the prevention of obesity in early childhood: ToyBox (ToyBox)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

Objective The ToyBox proposal addresses KBBE-2009-2-1-03 - Behavioural models for prevention of obesity, with a particular focus on children. It will primary aim to influence children’s behaviours and prevent obesity in early childhood. Strategy The proposal will identify key behaviours related to early childhood obesity and their determinants and evaluate behavioural models and educational strate ...
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Generations and Gender Programme: A European Research Infrastructure on the Causes and Consequences of Demographic Developments (GGP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"The proposed project aims at improving the ability of the social sciences to explain the causes and consequences of demographic developments, and in particular of the changing relationships between genders and generations, in a manner that would allow working out sustainable responses to policy challenges. The project develops an infrastructure that provides for a breakthrough towards better und ...
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Future gazing TEL: the roadmap for the unknown Learning landscape (TEL-Map)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

This proposal focuses on topic f) of call 5: 'exploratory/Roadmapping activities for fundamentally new forms of learning' to support take-up of those new forms, via 'Awareness building and knowledge management on the results of EU RTD projects in TEL' and 'socio-economic evaluations in education and for SMEs'. We gather information on the current, desired and emerging position of TEL, and on aware ...
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Partnership for the Education and Research about Responsible Living

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

PERL (Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living) is a partnership of researchers and educators, aware of the urgent need for individuals and society to significantly rethink and reorient the choices they make and the manner in which they live their lives in order to reduce the negative impacts of climate change and financial instability, ensure more just distribution of resou ...
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SCIENCE AND THE TREATMENT OF AUTISM: A multimedia package for parents and professionals

The project addressed the acute shortage of suitably qualified professionals in behaviour analysis in Europe who could design, implement, and monitor interventions to address individual needs of children with autism through the science of Applied Behaviour Analysis. Parents of these children also needed training to help maximise the potential benefits of the treatment. In addition, there was a nee ...
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Permeability in post-secondary VET: Creating the EQF - ECVET bridge: PERMEVET

Lack of permeability - between sectors and levels - is one of the main challenges in vocational education and training (VET). Existing systems are mainly targeting a training perspective, whereas the industry itself requires relevant skills and competences in a flexible and changing business environment. The difference between applying learning objectives or learning outcomes when comparing is cru ...
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