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Business in Europe Hosting Apprenticeships for Youth
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), have a big role and potential in combatting youth unemployment by providing development and employment opportunities, such as offering apprenticeships. SMEs however often lack information, resources and/or experience in providing high quality apprenticeships. To support SMEs this BEHAppY project aims to create support structures in the form of European & nation ...
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LOcal Waste Market for second life products (LOWaste)
Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,
Background
Waste volumes are increasing exponentially in the European Union, outpacing even economic growth. Each year, 3 billion tonnes of waste, including 90 million tonnes of hazardous waste, are thrown away, equivalent to about 6 tonnes of solid waste per person. According to OECD estimates, these volumes will increase by a further 45% by 2020. The EU ...
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Green Areas Inner-city Agreement "GAIA" (GAIA)
Start date: Oct 10, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,
Background
Climate change is one of the most challenging environmental, social and economic threats we face today. The international community is trying to tackle this problem through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. Global warming is a reality and, as confirmed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha ...
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Local Alliance for Climate Responsibility (LACRe)
Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2010,
Background
The EU has set targets in its energy policy to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20% up to 2020. It also has the medium-term objective of reducing GHG emissions by 8% by 2012 compared with 1990 levels.
Each Member State is contributing to these efforts. In Italy actions are under way at local levels to address the global issue of climat ...
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The STRIKERS project aims to establish new training approaches, based upon existing ethical behaviour within SMEs, to improve knowledge of social and environmental responsibility. In particular, the project aims at structuring existing ethical behaviour in SMEs, in terms of skills and training needs in order to meet identified training and information needs within SMEs in Europe. The main results ...
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The gravity of environmental and social problems (such as climatechange, chemicals, obesity etc.) is commonplace in the EU. It is alsowidely accepted now that companies have to play a (pro)active role inpreventing and solving these problems, they need to adoptenvironmentally and socially responsible (corporate social responsibility,CSR) operating practices. This is all the more important as the EU ...
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