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Art / culture / economy to democratize society. Research in placemaking for alternative narratives (trans-making)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The project trans-making aims to establish a multilateral network of research and innovation staff active in the fields of placemaking/place-based art activities as a space to create alternative narratives for social, economic and democratic renewal.It will investigate and experiment with placemaking to contribute actively to the democratization/well-being of society, educating and empowering indi ...
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Refugees Education Support in mena CoUntriEs

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

The partner countries involved in this proposal, namely Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq (but also some of the Programme Countries involved, such as Turkey and Germany) are experiencing a very critical situation due to the high number of refugees present on their territory: most of these are Syrian citizens, and include a high percentage of former University students who had to interrupt their academic ...
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European Digital Online-Game for Intercultural Learning and Translanguaging

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

The increasing number of refugees and migrants within EU countries forces all stakeholders involved in language education and integration to rethink traditional concepts of language education. Successful integration of migrants, especially in participatory processes, strongly depends on learning local foreign languages and intercultural competencies, without neglecting heritage languages and cultu ...
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Networking Innovation Room for Added Value Networking Alliances (NIR-VANA)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

The use of online collaboration platforms facilitates the access of SMEs to Open Innovation environments where they can collaborate, co-create and co-participate in innovation projects.Despite these benefits, European SMEs have so far failed to embrace the use of online platforms to facilitate open innovation.The Europe Enterprise Network, the most widespread innovation support service in Europe, ...
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Roadmaps for Energy (R4E)

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

Within the Roadmaps for Energy (R4E) project the partners will work together to develop a new type of energy strategy through visions and roadmaps for the 8 partner cities, in co-creation with local stakeholders. The stakeholders include the benefactors of the strategy, such as citizens, as well as relevant research and industry partners, to offer a clear picture of the future potential of the cit ...
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Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change (SI-DRIVE)

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

SI-DRIVE extends knowledge about social innovation (SI) in three major directions:- Integrating theories and research methodologies to advance understanding of SI leading to a comprehensive new paradigm of innovation.- Undertaking European and global mapping of SI, thereby addressing different social, economic, cultural, historical and religious contexts in eight major world regions.- Ensuring rel ...
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PRACE 4th Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-4IP)

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

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing, was established in May 2010 as a permanent pan-European High Performance Computing service providing world-class systems for world-class science. Six systems at the highest performance level (Tier-0) are deployed by Germany, France, Italy and Spain providing researchers with over 9 billion core hours of compute time. HPC experts from twenty-five membe ...
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PRACE - Third Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-3IP)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

PRACE-3IP supports the accelerated implementation of the pan-European HPC Research Infrastructure (RI) created in April 2010. It continues, complements, and extends the work of the PRACE-1IP and -2IP projects.PRACE-3IP addresses the computational and simulation needs of European scientific communities and of industry to keep them at the forefront of discovery. Our vision is the formation of an int ...
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BEAN – Bridging the European and Anatolian Neolithic: Demography, Migration, and Lifestyle at the Advent of Civilization (BEAN)

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

One of the most interesting questions in prehistory is that of the origins of European peoples following the introduction of settled farming life to the continent some 8,000 years ago. The interdisciplinary BEAN network will address this by combining teaching and research in three different fields: i) Anthropology and genetics, ii) computer simulation and modelling, and iii) prehistoric archaeolog ...
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Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern EUropean Seas (PERSEUS)

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

The overall scientific objectives of PERSEUS are to identify the interacting patterns of natural and human-derived pressures on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, assess their impact on marine ecosystems and, using the objectives and principles of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive as a vehicle, to design an effective and innovative research governance framework based on sound scientific knowl ...
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"Innovative Multi-purpose off-shore platforms: planning, Design and operation" (MERMAID)

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

"European oceans will be subject to massive development of marine infrastructure in the near future. The most obvious is the energy facilities e.g. offshore wind farms, exploitation of wave energy, expansion of electricity connections, and also further development and implementation of marine aquaculture. This will also lead to an increased need for marine infrastructure to support installation an ...
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PRACE - Second Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-2IP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

PRACE-2IP supports the accelerated implementation of the pan-European HPC Research Infrastructure created in April 2010 as the result of the preparatory phase PRACE project. It complements and extends the work of the PRACE-1IP project that was started in July 2010.PRACE-2IP addresses the computational and simulation needs of European scientific communities to keep them at the forefront of discover ...
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PRACE - First Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-1IP)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Large scale simulations are the third pillar of science today alongside theory and experiment. They produce scientific insights, technological advances, and solve problems in many fields of society. Their tools are high-end computers and effective software. PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing, has been created as a not for profit association in May 2010 as a permanent pan-European High P ...
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"Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion. Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe" (ACCEPT PLURALISM)

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

"In recent times, Europe has experienced increasing tensions between national majorities and ethnic or religious minorities, more particularly with marginalised Muslim communities. In some countries challenges relate more to immigrant groups while in other countries they refer to native minority claims. It is in this geopolitical context that the ACCEPT project responds to Topic 3.3.1 and notably ...
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Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System supporting Sustainable Development (EnviroGRIDS)

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

The Black Sea Catchment is internationally known as one of ecologically unsustainable development and inadequate resource management, which has led to severe environmental, social and economic problems. EnviroGRIDS @ Black Sea Catchment aims at building the capacities of regional stakeholders to use new international standards to gather, store, distribute, analyze, visualize and disseminate crucia ...
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Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

The ultimate goal of CLARIN is the construction and operation of a shared distributed infrastructure that aims at making language resources and technology available to the humanities and social sciences research communities at large. The preparatory phase will pave the way for implementation along 4 dimensions: Funding and governance: The aim is to bring together the funding agencies and to work o ...
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III (EGEE-III)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

A globally distributed computing Grid now plays an essential role for large-scale, data intensive science in many fields of research. The concept has been proven viable through the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project (EGEE and EGEE-II, 2004-2008) and its related projects. EGEE-II is consolidating the operations and middleware of this Grid for use by a wide range of scientific communities, such as ...
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Landscape Education:New Opportunities for Teaching and Research in Europe III

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

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BrainTrainer 2012

Start date: May 2, 2012,

"BrainTrainer 2012” is a project set up by Bilkent Universitesi Endustri Muhendisligi Operational Research Kulubu in association with ESTIEM (European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management), a network of youngEuropeans, which aims to empower and enthuse young people from different countries to take anactive and responsible role in society.The five-day intercultural event will gather 26 ...
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Promotion and Networking of EU Projects on Sustainable Tourism

Start date: Nov 1, 2013,

Tourism is one of Europe’s largest economic sectors providing approx. 27 million jobs and growing by another 100,000 new jobs per year. Especially for less developed areas, tourism seems to be the only hope for economic development.However, at the same time Europe’s tourism is a sensitive and problematic sector facing severe challenges such as:• quickly changing demands and needs of the markets ca ...
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Kooperative Lehr- und Lern-Methoden in der Lehrer_Aus- und Weiterbildung

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

Kooperatives Lernen ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur europäischen Bürgerbildung (european citizenship), bei dem wesentliche Schlüsselkompetenzen für komplexere Formen der demokratischen Kommunikation vermittelt werden. In internationalen und nationalen Studien (PISA 2006, OECD 2005 & 2009) wird ausdrücklich auf die hohe Bedeutung von kooperativen Lernformen hingewiesen. Nach Brophy (2000) ist die Fäh ...
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Multiliteracy virtual

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

The two major changes in our society emphasized by the scholars-members of the New London Group (1996: 64), are the rapid change of new communications media and the steady growth of cultural and linguistc diversity. These changes force us, as educators, to rethink literacy learning and teaching in the sense of a pedagogy of multiliteracies. Against this background the work with multilingual talkin ...
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Sustainable and Nature based Tourism IT Course and Handbook

Start date: Jan 1, 2010,

• Background:Tourism is one of the strongest driving forces for economic development in Europe. It represents 12% of Europe’s GDP and “with two million enterprises, the tourism sector is responsible for 20 million jobs and capable of creating 100,000 new jobs per year” (CEDOP; PS 115; 2005). Especially for less developed areas, tourism often offers the only promising economic opportunities - such ...
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Law and ICT Shared Virtual Campus

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

UIT the new economic and trading environments created alter the incorporation of new countries to the common market within the European Union, the harmonisation of legal frameworks for electronic commerce and electronic government is essential. This project will target the following actions and results: 1. Creation of an European Shared Virtual Campus on Law and ICT (Law and Information and Commu ...
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Law and ICT Shared Virtual Campus

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

UIT the new economic and trading environments created after the incorporation of new countries to the common market within the European Union, the harmonisation of legal frameworks for electronic commerce and electronic government is essential. The main aims of this project are thus: to create European Shared Virtual Campus on Law and ICT (Law and Information and Communication Technologies), the d ...
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History On Line

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

The main aim of this project is to promote integration between University history professors, researchers, and students of different European countries involving them in a common effort for the development of an Internet Portal that will become the common point of reference for the innovation of materials and methodologies for history writing, teaching and learning based on the effective use of IC ...
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European Higher Education Management and Development

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

Professional management is an important prerequisite to enable the higher education institutions to perceive themselves as autonomous organizations and act entrepreneurially rather than as subordinate to the central government. Professional management will also enable higher education institutions to increase and simplify cooperation with partners such as enterprises. As higher education instituti ...
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European Higher Education Management and Development

The EHEMD project is a curriculum development project (article 2.2.1 in the call), but simultaneously aims to promote modernization of Higher Education (article 2.2.2 in the call) and Co-operation between Universities and Enterprises (article 2.2.3 in the call). Professional management is an important prerequisite to enable the higher education institutions to perceive themselves as autonomous or ...
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History On Line

Objective: Promote integration between University history professors, researchers, and students of different European countries involving them in a common effort for the development of an Internet Portal that will become the common point of reference for the innovation of materials and methodologies for history writing, teaching and learning based on the effective use of ICT potential. The Portal ...
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Bila-Train in in-company training practice – Development, testing and certification of bilingual primary vocational training curricula / modules in Europe

Bila-Train in Practice developed, tested and evaluated in AR, DE, GR, RO and TR bilingual programmes for primary vocational training in the fields of legal assistance professional, insurance brokerage and automobile mechanics. Target group are young adults with bilingual background, especially migrants and young people in border areas. All products and curricula, training modules etc. developed du ...
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CITY CULTURES IN FOCUS

Start date: Dec 1, 2009,

'City Cultures in focus' aims to interpret migration phenomena as instances of creolisation as a specific mode of socio-cultural transformation connected with cultural encounter that leads to the construction of a new cultural identity. Several modules will address those questions: Views of the city, a multimedia exhibition, a diary, design worshops, presentation and discussion forums are foreseen ...
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