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The wild forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) of Finland: Conservation and recovery of historic range (WildForestReindeerLIFE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2023,

Background The Finnish forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) is a subspecies of the large and widespread reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) population. The (sub)speciation took place during the last ice age, and since then, there have been major changes in the Finnish forest reindeer’s range. Once commonplace in Fennoscandia and North-western Russia, b ...
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Towards integrated management of freshwater Nature 2000 sites and habitats (FRESHABIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2022,

Background Freshwater habitats are among the most threatened habitat types globally. In the 2007-2012 conservation status assessment of the EU Habitats Directive (Article 17), none of the freshwater, coastal, and groundwater dependent wetland habitats in Europe fully met favourable conservation status, and most are in unfavourable conservation status. Alm ...
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Smart Transition of EU cities towards a new concept of smart Life and Economy (mySMARTLife)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

...g process and a structured business approach, from the city business model perspective, to the economic framework for big companies and local SMEs and Start-Ups.Nantes (France), Hamburg (Germany) and Helsinki (Finland) are the lighthouse cities and Varna (Bulgaria), Bydgoszcz (Poland), Rijeka (Croatia) and Palencia (Spain) the followers. All of them will be involved in the overall project developm ...
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Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry Master's Course

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

...ities that form the ASC Consortium: Alma Mater University of Bologna (Italy), University Lille1 (France), Jagiellonian University of Krakow (Poland), University of Leipzig (Germany) and University of Helsinki (Finland). The ASC programme includes a mandatory mobility of students within the ASC Consortium based on their choice of a specialization according to our partners' expertise.ASC focuses on ...
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YOUNG OPERA MAKERS Programme by enoa

Start date: May 11, 2016, End date: May 10, 2020,

YOUNG OPERA MAKERS PROGRAMME by enoaThe role of creation, development of new forms, exploration of innovative creative processes and audience renewal are all major challenges facing today’s European opera world. Young artists must be the drivers of this change: their training and employability are crucial issues. In a globalized and competitive sector young artists should be fundamentally mobile a ...
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Optimising Agricultural Land Use to Mitigate Climate Change (OPAL-Life) (OPAL-Life)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Background Emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) from agricultural production and carbon dioxide (CO2) from agricultural land use constitute some 20% of the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of Finland. According to the Climate Convention and Kyoto Protocol, the European Union has committed to reduce its GHG emissions. In Finland, reducing ...
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SynchroniCity: Delivering an IoT enabled Digital Single Market for Europe and Beyond (SynchroniCity)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

SynchroniCity represents the first attempt to deliver a Single Digital City Market for Europe by piloting its foundations at scale in 11 reference zones - 8 European cities & 3 more worldwide cities - connecting 34 partners from 11 countries over 4 continents. Building upon a mature European knowledge base derived from initiatives such as OASC, FIWARE, FIRE, EIP-SCC, and including partners with le ...
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European Network on Soft Law Research

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

Soft law is present in nearly every EU policy. The term captures instruments that are not legally binding, but produce legal and practical effects. While it is acknowledged that soft law is an essential tool of EU policy-making, difficult questions concern its nature and scope of effects. With most of the research conducted at the EU level, there is little analysis on EU soft law in Member States. ...
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Inclusive STEM Education to Enhance the capacity to aspire and imagine future careers

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

...wo well-established and effective school-university partnerships: one between the Liceo A. Einstein and the Department of Physics of the University of Bologna (UNIBO), and the other between Helsinki Normal Lyceum and the Department of Physics of the University of Helsinki (UH). The Icelandic Environment Association (IEA) brings to the SP their expertise in environmental and sustainability educatio ...
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Designstem: integrated design + STEM education

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

...ation. The number of participants is 10, along the 3 strategic lines of the project:1) Research and development of innovative STEM educational methods and tools, using ICT: the LUMA Centre of Helsinki University, Finland; University of Piraeus Research Centre (UPRC), Greece.2) Applied/vocational design education: the design department of Kuressaare Regional Training Centre, HMC College, The Nether ...
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Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship+

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

... actively in European society by including a variety of international as well as local students and teachers.The seven participating universities are: Humanistic Studies Utrecht, Barcelona, Bath Spa, Helsinki, Prague, Tallinn, and Thessaloniki.The concrete objectives of the project are:To develop a curriculum for Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship (EDIC), formally recognised and su ...
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Learning from Innovation and Networking in STEM

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

The LINKS project (Learning from Innovation and Networking in STEM - science, technology, engineering and mathematics) aims at improving inquiry-based STEM teaching through the continuing professional development (CPD) of teachers and their educators, both at primary and secondary levels. The project is carried by a partnership composed of 9 institutions involved in STEM CPD of teachers and their ...
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Time, Talent and Technology - across 3 countries and philosophies - shaping the future

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

Project summary• Context and background. The extension and continuation of the previous exchange between Bedford and Copenhagen. To include a third country (Helsinki) and have a specific focus on the elements of “Time, technology and talent”. How can we improve our use of all three by studying and working with other countries and viewing how they develop their pupils in these areas. The idea is fo ...
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Building an IoT OPen innovation Ecosystem for connected smart objects (bIoTope)

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

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings opportunities for creating new services and products, reducing costs for societies, increasing the service level for the citizens in a number of areas, and changing how services are sold and consumed. Despite these opportunities, current information system architectures create obstacles that must be addressed for leveraging the full potential of IoT. One of the ...
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INTERNACIONALIZACION DE LA ENSEÑANZA DE CUIDADOS AUXILIARES DE ENFERMERIA-2

Start date: Dec 31, 2016, End date: Dec 30, 2018,

The project continues another KA1, still active, that aims at internationalization of training in Nursing Assistant Course through the students traineeships and teachers mobilities. The main problem associated with this qualification is high unemployment. We consider as essential to increase work and academic chances for our students by offering them the curricular FCT (work placement) abroad, in ...
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SELECT for Cities (Standardized, opEn, data-driven, service-oriented user-centric pLatform Enabling large-scale Co-creation, Testing validation of IoE services for Cities) (SELECT for Cities)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Internet of Everything is recognised to be one of the dominant ways transforming the way we manage and live in our urban environments in the future. The extension of the Internet to the physical spaces and objects is a massive opportunity for new services and business for example in the areas of logistics, transport, environment, security and wellbeing.Internet of everything is directly linked to ...
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Adaptive learning environment for competence in economic and societal impacts of local weather, air quality and climate

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The project aims at building capacity at universities in Ukraine and Russia for improving the educational level of society in the area of local weather, air quality and climate change impacts on modern life towards more resilient social and economic development.To that end the following specific objectives are set:• To develop educational content for the learning environment on economic and societ ...
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Integrating Finno-Ugric Studies in Europe: Innovative resource pooling for a low-volume discipline

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

... Studies in Europe: Innovative resource pooling for a low-volume discipline“ (InFUSE) has established a strategic partnership between eight European universities (Munich, Hamburg, Vienna, Szeged, Helsinki, Turku, Tartu and Uppsala) focusing on a specific discipline, ostensibly minor, but important in the wider European context: the Finno-Ugric languages are the second largest language family in Eu ...
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The East within Europe: An Eastern angle to European Studies

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

The module aims to theoretically and methodologically synthesize Eastern European area studies and European integration studies. Typically European studies have mainly concentrated on the development of Western Europe. Today the study of European integration also covers the Eastern enlargement process and countries of Central Eastern Europe, but nevertheless to a large extent, the area has been in ...
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'Education of International Newly Arrived migrant pupils at primary and secondary school level'

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

The project EDINA (EDucation of International Newly Arrived migrant pupils) brings together policy makers, schools and researchers from Finland (Helsinki), Belgium (Ghent) and The Netherlands (Rotterdam and Utrecht). The main objective of EDINA is to provide support to municipalities, schools and teachers in the reception and the integration into the school system of Newly Arrived Migrant pupilS ( ...
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Developing life and employability competences through mobility

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

This project aims to contribute to Europe 2020 Strategy, Rethinking Education and the Youth Guarantee by helping to address high rates of youth unemployment and skills gaps. Through the development of a new employability and entrepreneurship course unit of e-learning materials for use before, during and after a mobility, participants will develop their international and soft skills such as team w ...
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Promoting innovative Learning Approaches for the Teaching Of Natural sciences

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

Today’s school science education is faced with a number of interrelated obstacles like the lack of relevance between what is taught in school and everyday life, the tight curricula which do not allow for practical implementation, reflection and consolidation of knowledge as well as the outdated teaching methods that leave little room to students for enjoyment and a search for meaning. Students are ...
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Support Procurements for Innovative transport and mobility solutions in City Environment (SPICE)

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

The ever increasing demand for implementation of sustainable and innovative transportation solution in order to reach the cities service goals, dictates the need for more advance methods of procurement to address key parameters such as innovation, scalability, interoperability etc. Therefore, there is a strong need to establish a domain for understanding the public buyers’ needs and the market per ...
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Quantification and valuation of ecosystem services to optimize sustainable re-use for low-productive drained peatlands (LIFEPeatLandUse)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Background The natural state of mires in Finland has deteriorated as a result of large-scale drainage, the consequent overgrowing of open mires and the isolation of pristine mires. Large-scale drainage has also significantly increased environmental loading (i.e. the leaching of nutrients, suspended solids and organic matter from peatlands to downstream wa ...
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Praxiserfahrungen in Laboren Europas

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

Project backgroundLise-Meitner-Schule is a vocational school/technical college in Berlin, Germany. We are specialized in the training of laboratory technicians (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Pharmacy, Micro Technology).Since more than 20 years the school is conducting EU projects (Leonardo da Vinci Mobilities, Pilot Projects and Innovation Transfer Projects as well as Comenius-Grundtvig training co ...
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IFA VET mobility+ 2016

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

The funding applied for within the framework of the project will be used to finance stays abroad for a total of 555 individuals and 8 accompanying persons.337 apprentices will complete a 2 to 6 week internship specifically suited to their profession, individual level of training, knowledge and skills at a company active in their professional field. IFA will organize internships in small groups sta ...
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Sharing Approaches to Result in Excellence

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

Project SummaryBridgwater College provides excellent teaching and learning to a wide range of students from a diverse set of backgrounds. The socio-economic characteristics of many students represents a challenge in promoting a European wide awareness that can support wider employability. Staff are focused on the student experience and benefit from networking and applying different pedagogical app ...
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Europakaufmann und European Business Baccalaureate Diploma

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

As a VET college with a focus on business located in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region with global players such as BASF, SAP and IBM an international orientation is essential for a distinctive profile of our college. It also gives us a competitive edge compared to upper secondary education in colleges providing general education. Continuation in creating this international profile is crucial. H ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Valmiina Maailmalle!

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

...s ensure also better employability. This project makes a significant contribution for the vision of our VET institution which addresses the focus point of training competent professionals for the Helsinki metropolitan region, in Business Administration as well as in Information and Communication Technologies.We want to ensure the international experiences also for those students who need encourage ...
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Working & Learning Experience Abroad

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

Offering students and professionals an international orientation / experience is very important to Koning Willem l College.An important goal in this project is offering students an international workexperience in an accredited place where he/she can acquire labourmarket relevant learningcontent. Student will be also chaallenced to improve his language skills and thesocial skills too.Activities d ...
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Internacionalización de la educación inclusiva de personas con discapacidad funcional auditiva en entornos normoyentes.

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

This project stems from the need to meet other academic environments with students with special educational needs, such as deafness or hearing impairment, working in an integrated environment. The main objective is to acquire new skills, strategies, resources and materials that enable the adaptation and integration of such students in all modules and classes they take; paying particular attention ...
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EMPOWERING a reduction in use of conventionally fueled vehicles using Positive Policy Measures. (EMPOWER)

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

The main objective of EMPOWER is to substantially reduce the use of conventionally fueled vehicles (CFV) in cities by influencing the mobility behaviour of CFV drivers and users towards fundamental change. To achieve this objective EMPOWER will create a set of tools for industry, policy makers and employers. These will empower them beyond the lifespan of this project to understand, help choose and ...
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Keidas - Urban Oases: Shaping a Sustainable Future through Environmentally Functional Landscape Features (Urban Oases)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Background Watersheds in urban environments are largely invisible and altered from their natural state. Widespread impervious surfaces, such as concrete and asphalt, and underground stormwater sewer networks have adversely altered watershed boundaries and lead to the rapid flow of untreated stormwater and snowmelt water into receiving bodies of water. Bec ...
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Reconciliation through DialogueCreating a Shared Understanding of the Past

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Youth projects aimed at peacebuilding often fall short on addressing the historical memory of a conflict. When legacies of violence are not addressed, historical wounds are left to fester and diverging narratives of an otherwise common past continue to haunt relations between antagonizing communities (e.g. negative stereotypes, fixed enemy images and propaganda in the Caucasus region). Reconciliat ...
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Space for Science – Implementing Innovations in Science Education

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

... education is brought together in this project. Our unique team consists of two universities, the University of Stavanger, focusing on educational research and teacher training; and the University of Helsinki, focusing on the biological research of the project. The three participating schools represent three European countries, namely Norway, Romania and Finland. Our project's consultant, the AMSE ...
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Coming to school with a SMILE: reducing dropout in school

Start date: Dec 16, 2015, End date: Dec 15, 2017,

The role of Today´s School is not easy and very different from what it was just few decades ago. The school finds itself facing the challenge of responding to the demands of the complex society we live in: a globalized highly competitive, constantly changing and increasingly complex world that demands professionals capable of innovating and managing innovation and flexible to adapt to the changing ...
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Intercultural learning and mobility for young people VII plus

Start date: May 18, 2016, End date: Nov 17, 2017,

Two volunteers coming from Spain and Serbia will be hosted in the association Mimosa (Padua) for 10 and 12 months and Ture Nirvane (Ventimiglia, IM) will host two volunteers from Spain for 3 months. During their stay in Italy they will support the host organizations with activities in the youth, social and cultural field, in contrast with social exclusion and marginalization and for the exchange ...
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MOVE - merkonomien ja datanomien liikkuvuutta lisäämässä

Start date: Oct 21, 2015, End date: Oct 20, 2017,

...ngths and weaknesses. This ensures better employment and helps in reaching our college's vision, which is to educate competent professionals of ICT and business and administration to the needs of the Helsinki metropolitan area. With this mobility project we want to ensure a possibility to experience internationality also for the students, who need more encouragement and support in their studies. ...
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Re-use of surplus foundry sand by composting (LIFE-FOUNDRYSAND)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Background The capacity of landfill sites to receive waste remains limited and new ways must be found to reuse waste. While cleaned and recycled soil material can be valuable for agricultural and geo-engineering (e.g. road construction) applications, its acceptance needs to be better established. In Europe, around 18 million tonnes of foundry waste sand i ...
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