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Intercultural learning in mathematics and science initial teacher education

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

With the proposed project, we offer a constructive contribution to tackle one of Europe’s greatest challenges: Education for an increasing number of refugee and immigrant youth. To integrate them into European educational systems and to provide for stable, socially cohesive societies we need well-educated teachers who are prepared for and able to deal with diversity in classrooms.Our project focus ...
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The thick shelled river mussel (Unio crassus) brings Life+ back to rivers (UC4LIFE)

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

Background Numerous thick shelled river mussel (Unio crassus) populations have become extinct in Sweden. The remaining populations of this endangered species have a fragmented (some 140 sites) and narrow south-eastern distribution in Scandinavia. The decline of the species can be linked to adverse physical changes to its habitats (including fragmentation ...
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Outdoors as a tool 'Outdoor Living'

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

We believe in experiential learning, and being outdoors is a great way of sharing, experiencing and connecting with each other. We believe that nature is important in people's lives. For health, growth and happiness. And we see that a lot of organizations all over Europe try to bring youth outdoors to let them experience and discover what more there is than life in the city. But we also see the s ...
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Personalised nutrition: An integrated analysis of opportunities and challenges (Food4Me)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The present proposal sees the development of business and value creation models as central to the development of personalised nutrition and thus it is intended to engage in a series of interviews with key stakeholders, which will generate a number of scenarios to be considered by these stakeholders. Parallel to that we will run some focus groups with consumers and develop a tool to ascertain consu ...
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Novel Self-cleaning, anti-bacterial coatings, preventing disease transmission on everyday touched surfaces (SELFCLEAN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Hygiene/antimicrobial issues in public places (hospitals, schools, hotels, public transportation etc) are of crucial importance as inattention could lead to spread of viral diseases or epidemics and consequently to deaths. A typical example is that of hospital acquired infections (HAI). According to The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in the EU, about 3,000,000 are infect ...
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Quality and safety in European Union hospitals: A research-based guide for implmeenting best practice and a framework for assessing performance (QUASER)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"This translational study aims to design and disseminate an evidence based guide for hospitals to implement quality and safety improvement programmes, and an evidence based framework for payers to assess and monitor the quality and safety of hospitals across the EU. These outputs will be based on empirical findings from research in five partner countries. However, in addition, the development of t ...
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Science and Technology International Cooperation Network for Gulf Cooperation Countries aiming at the promotion of bi-regional dialogue (INCONET-GCC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"INCONET-GCC aims to develop and support the bi-regional dialogue by bringing together policymakers and stakeholders of the GCC and EU Member States. It aims to create a dialogue and action platform to identify common interests in research areas, set up S&T priorities, support capacity building activities, and enhance the interaction between different cooperation instruments of the EC and EU Membe ...
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Territorial Impact of Globalisation for Europe and its Regions (TIGER)

Start date: Jan 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

Globalisation is accelerating with European competitiveness becoming more and more interwoven and dependent on the rest on the world. Understanding Europe in the world is a prerequisite for policy making and for promoting Europe in this international competition.Integration, cooperation and smart exploitation of resources are key factors for improving the competitiveness of European regions in the ...
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Female Entrepreneurs´Meetings in the Baltic Sea Region (FEM)

Start date: Aug 14, 2004, End date: Aug 13, 2008,

FEM has promoted womens access to labour markets and entrepreneurship and strengthened the role of women in local and regional development by e.g. training, mentoring, networking and creating meeting-places. Gender sensitivity and gender mainstreaming have been key issues in the project. The aim has been to produce sustainable positive changes in the attitudes, processes and methods of economic an ...
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Baltic Tangent

Start date: Jan 3, 2005, End date: May 2, 2007,

The Baltic Tangent (BT) project derives from the unsatisfying socio-economic situation in large parts of the BT area. The peripheral location in relation to the main transport infrastructure corridors in the BSR, constitutes a serious disadvantage for economic and labor market development of partnership regions in the Baltic States, Scandinavia and Russia. The BT project therefore has focused on h ...
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Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences: New Postgraduate Programs

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

This aim of the project is to develop and implement new curricula of Masters of Engineering in 4 different fields of concentrations of industrial engineering (IE) each adopted by a PC university. Target concentrations include operations management,logistics and supply chain,human factors engineering and Quality.The project aims at establishing and equipping different labs at PC universities to be ...
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Product Development and Innovation: A New Postgraduate Curriculum for Engineering

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

The major objective of this project is to enhance engineering product development including entrepreneurship to fulfil market demands and to promote Egypt’s participation in worldwide engineering trading. This is to be realized by reaching several milestones. The first represents the basis for cooperative work between universities and industries, in which communication channels and trust between b ...
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Engineering a New Global Environment

Start date: Sep 16, 2010,

The challenge of engineering a sustainable economy that does no irreparable damage to the environment in the 21st century is clearly a global one. This proposed consortium seeks to educate the future engineers of the world in this vein by exposing them first hand to how engineering the environment is carried out in other parts of the world. In particular, we propose a partnership among universitie ...
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Mosaic - Management of Social Care/Work In a Changing Society

Caring for the elderly in a European context : E-learning tools are to be developed for a curriculum in management of social care for the elderly. This initiative will raise standards in the sector and also give it more of a European dimension. This project started in 2002 and lasted 30 months.
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European Sustainable Innovation License (for SME's) - ESIL

ESIL (The European Sustainable Innovation Licence) aims at consolidating successful training programmes for SMEs in the fields of innovation and sustainability from several EU member states (Austria, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Estonia) as well as disseminating the method by means of a defined procedure to other member states such as Ireland, Czech Republic, and Romania. Previous projects – partly d ...
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Social Work Virtual Campus

Europe has the ambition to develop into a competitive knowledge based society and economy of which social cohesiveness is a dominant feature. Social cohesion, though, is not self evident. Social exclusion and ethnocentrism are challenges the EU has to deal with in realizing its ambition. These challenges in their international context are affecting the social work profession and as a result educat ...
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