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Uncertainty Treatment and OPtimisation In Aerospace Engineering (UTOPIAE)

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

In an expanding world with limited resources and increasing uncertainty, optimisation and uncertainty quantification become a necessity. Optimisation can turn a problem into a solution, thus the main focus of this ETN is to explore and develop new approaches to treat uncertainty in complex engineering systems and use novel optimisation techniques to efficiently deal with large scale problems with ...
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My Active and Healthy Aging (my-AHA)

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

BackgroundWe propose a holistic view of interrelated frailties: cognitive decline, physical frailty, depression and anxiety, social isolation and poor sleep quality, which are a major burden to older adults and social and health care systems. Early detection and intervention are crucial in sustaining active and healthy ageing (AHA) and slowing or reversing further decline.Aims and RelevanceThe mai ...
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GrowSmarter

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

GrowSmarter aims to:• Improve the quality of life for European citizens by better mobility, housing and the quality of urban infrastructure while improving the citizens economy by lower energy costs and creating as much as 1500 new jobs (on the demonstration level).• Reduce the environmental impact by lower energy needs by 60 % and increased use of renewable energy thus reducing GHG emissions eve ...
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New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

The importance of European cultural heritage has been generally acknowledged. A significant part of this heritage, however, modern and contemporary art, runs a great risk of getting lost for future generations, because it is particularly difficult to preserve. Proper care requires resolving fundamental questions concerning the identity and authenticity of modern and contemporary artworks and the c ...
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Service Design for Innovation (SDIN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Service Design for Innovation (SDIN)-ETN aims to integrate service design and service innovation approaches that are now dispersed into an innovative research training framework; doing so leverages the creative power of service design to foster innovation. Specific objectives are: creating a mass of researchers who can drive widespread application of service design to leapfrog innovation in Europe ...
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Voices for truth and dignity - Combatting sexual violence in European sport through the voices of those affected

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Many European communities have been shaken by revelations of sexual abuse through trusted members of their community. Rates of sexual violence against children and adults in Europe are clearly unacceptable, and sexual violence is still a hidden deed often surrounded by silence and denial.Sport enhances the lives of individuals in many ways, however, reports of sexual violence within sport are more ...
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Standard method and online tool for assessing and improving the energy efficiency of wastewater treatment plants (ENERWATER)

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

Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTPs) is one of the most expensive public industries in terms of energy requirements accounting for more than 1% of consumption of electricity in Europe. EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) 91/271/CEE made obligatory waste water treatment for cities and towns. Now within the EU-27, the total number of WWTPs is estimated as 22.558, for which we can estimate a total ene ...
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Social Inclusion and Volunteering in Sports Clubs in Europe

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

There is only a limited knowledge on the political conditions for and structural characteristics of sports clubs that promote social inclusion and volunteering in sport. Most of the existing knowledge is, furthermore, context-specific tied to individual member states within the EU. There is, therefore, a distinct lack of knowledge on social inclusion and volunteering that is comparable across Euro ...
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PHYSICAL ACTIVITY THROUGH SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT APPROACHES (PASTA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

This project focuses on the systematic promotion and facilitation of active mobility (AM) (i.e. walking and cycling including the combination with public transport use) as an innovative approach to integrate physical activity (PA) into individuals’ everyday lives. In contrast to sports or exercise, AM requires less time and motivation, since AM provides both convenience as a mode of transport, and ...
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CoachLearn - Enhancing sport coaches' learning, mobility and employment within the context of a European Sport Coaching Framework

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

CoachLearn seeks to enhance sport coaches' learning, mobility and employment through the development of a European Sport Coaching Framework (ESCF) and associated research data and implementation and dissemination tools to act as recognised reference points across the Union for the development of coach education programmes and coaching systems. The Framework will also enhance national systems of vo ...
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Inclusion-More Europe in Cologne's Youthwork

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

This year the topic of our project will be “Inclusion-More Europe in Cologne's Youthwork”. Through our volunteering program we would like to put the focus on "European awareness" as well as "inclusion". Six young volunteers from Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Hungary, Georgia and Turkey will serve as volunteers in an after- schools-club of IN VIA for 10 - 12 months. This way IN VIA is enabling those ad ...
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Advanced Technologies for Biogas Efficiency Sustainability and Transport (ATBEST)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

"The ATBEST ITN will develop innovative research and training for the biogas industry in Europe. It comprises eight training sites located in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Sweden and is a multidisciplinary collaboration between internationally-renowned research teams and industrial partners, each with complementary expertise in a wide range of environmental technologies. 12 ESRs and 2 ERs will be r ...
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My international skills Pro

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

The project aims to respond to the challenging vision of the North Karelia Educational Development document to become known as a national and international player by the excellent learning outcomes and competences. This means to get PKKY to be known as an active international partner for trustful cooperation and further educational development. The aim of the project is to promote the goals of No ...
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REsource innovation Network for European Waste (RENEW)

Start date: Jul 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The project aims to build a dynamic trans-national. cross-sector innovation network. transforming the waste sector of North West Europe by improved innovation in the recovery of valuable resources. It will stimulate the collaboration of researchers and SMEs together with public bodies in North West Europe working to develop recovery processes meeting future market needs and will accelerate innovat ...
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FAll Repository for the design of Smart and sElf-adaptive Environments prolonging INdependent livinG (FARSEEING)

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

Description FARSEEING wants to provide an information basis for research and therapy development for fall prediction, prevention and support, by building the world’s largest fall repository. This database will facilitate the collection, analysis and processing of behavioural and physiological data related to falls, daily activity and physiol ...
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Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society (ACCESS)

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

The Arctic is engaged in a deep climatic evolution. This evolution is quite predictable at short (year) and longer scales (several decades), but it is the decadal intermediate scale that is the most difficult to predict. This is because the natural variability of the system is large and dominant at this scale, and the system is highly non linear due to positive and negative feedback between sea ic ...
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ICT based System to Predict & Prevent Falls (iStoppFalls)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Description ISTOPPFALLS develops and implements ICT based technologies for fall prediction and prevention and integrates them in daily life practices of older people living at home. They allow for exercise training and fall risk assessment with discrete measuring technologies and adaptive assistance functions. The Senior Mobility Monitor (SM ...
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Terminology as a Service (TaaS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2014,

The aim of the TaaS project is to create a cloud-based platform for acquiring, cleaning up, sharing, and reusing multilingual terminological data, one of the most important language resources for industry, academia, and society in general. The motivation of the TaaS project is to address an evident need for instant access to the most recent terms and direct user involvement in the creation and sha ...
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Smart Metropolitan Areas Realised Through Innovation & People - SMARTiP (SMARTiP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

The idea of the SMARTiP project is to take the experience developed by a wide range of existing user-driven, open innovation initiatives in Europe, particularly those developed through Living Labs, and to apply this experience to the challenge of transforming public services by empowering 'smart citizens' who are able to use and co-produce innovative Internet-enabled services within emerging 'smar ...
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European Thematic Network on Assistive Information and Communication Technologies (ETNA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

This Thematic Network will facilitate and co-ordinate the implementation of a European Web Portal able to provide information on ICT-based Assistive products which are available in Europe, and on related organisations and services. The Portal will also allow access to repositories of freeware, open source software products and tools for developers of accessibility and assistive solutions, or for m ...
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Compliance and effectiveness in HF and CHD closed-loop management (HeartCycle)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Each year Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) causes over 1.9 million deaths in the EU, causing direct health costs of €105 billion. Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), half of all CVD deaths, is the single most cause of death in Europe. Heart Failure (HF) – a CHD being the most frequent cause of hospitalization for people over 65 – has 10 million patients in the EU. Current treatment of HF entails recommendat ...
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A Process Chain and Equipment for Volume Production of Polymeric Microtubular Components for Medical Device Applications (POLYTUBES)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Uses of innovative polymer microtubular components render opportunities to innovate the product design to meet new social and economical needs. Potential applications include specially shaped functional components for an instrument innovated by the Polytubes consortium for electrophysiological study on human sperms, heat transfer structural and functional parts for micro-heat-exchangers, parts for ...
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SPECIAL SHOES MOVEMENT (SSHOES)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

This project addresses the development and demonstration of new sustainable production capabilities for diabetic feet and fashion high added value consumer-centred product concepts, such as footwear and insoles and the conception and definition of industrial paradigms and infrastructures which relate to the footwear industry, characterised by large numbers of traditional SMEs exposed to global com ...
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Technologies and Tools to prioritize assessment and diagnosis of air pollution impact on immovable and movable Cultural Heritage (TeACH)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

Most buildings of cultural/historical interest are located in urban environments. They undergo a number of different external forcings, which need to be addressed separately. It is important to consider local-scale variations of the urban environment, such as changes in pollutants, temperature field, relative humidity cycles, wind field, urban heat island effect etc. The most important challenge ...
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Developing a Common Assessment of Skills and Competencies of Specialists in Occupational Medicine across Europe

The project aims to develop new innovative on-line standards and Vocational Certificate for Trainers and officers working within the field of Social, Economic, Environmental and Physical Regeneration. The qualification will provide the beneficiaries with the knowledge to undertake their roles and provide them with the skills to develop volunteers and trainers from primarily voluntary, community an ...
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OPTIMISING PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR TRAINING IN A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

OPTIMALE addresses one of the key challenges of a multilingual and multicultural Europe: how to ensure that Its universities continue to produce the high-level professionals that the Community translation services and the translation Industry need, to adapt to rapidly changing societal and market conditions. As recent reports have highlighted, the rapid technological changes of the past decade, fa ...
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Transfer of ECVET instruments into the fields of Trade, Hospitality, Electronics/Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics

The mobility of VET students is important to open their mind for the European labour market as a whole and to increase their chances for future qualified employment. However, the different VET systems with their country-specific rules and ideas as well as the lack of transparency and comparability that complicates the recognition and validation are still big obstacles for VET students` mobilities. ...
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Further Development & Transfer of Sectoral Qualifications Frameworks (MatchingFrames)

One of the greatest challenges for the implementation of the national and the European Qualification Frameworks (EQR) is the assignment of qualificational profiles to the individual levels according to comparable principles. This should be envisaged in a way to safeguard comparability and transparency of differently structured qualificational profiles. Therefore the main target of the project was ...
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The English Speaking Sportsworld

The sports world interacts in a context which is more and more international (an increase in international competitions, in training courses abroad) and in which the language of communication is essentially English. Because of the opening of the borders and under the aegis of the community law, more and more players and coaches negotiate contracts abroad.There is an increasing number of internatio ...
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DUALHVE - New Developments in Work Linked Training - Dual Education in Higher Vocational and Professional Education

The project will produce a research-based, reference material on Dual Vocational Education (DVE), addressing issues such as; the relative position of dual education in the higher vocational education system; the costs and benefits of dual education for stakeholders; the role of labour market stakeholders in dual education (development of dual education, models of learning, theory-practice relation ...
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Modular teaching and learning offers for contemporary and needed further education

Im Projekt „Microteaching“ sollen multimodulare Qualifizierungen entwickelt werden, welche sich auszeichnen durch:− hohe kurzfristige Einsetzbarkeit (just-in-time, learning-on-demand),− verschiedene an das Erfahrungs- und Problemwissen der Mitarbeiter anknüpfende Themen- bzw. Lerneinheiten,− dem Selbstlernen unterstützende, modulare und dem individuellen Lernverhalten angepasste Vermittlungsformen ...
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ICT Learning and Training - An Exploration of Data in the EU

ICT Learning and Training will both investigate policies and ascertain types of information (data) held within EU countries in relation to ICT learning and training.The project will establish data availability and gather examples of good practice at individual Member State and at EU level as regards: ICT learning/training policies and initiatives, the acquisition of ICT skills, provision for train ...
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OpenDock – Open and shared materials repository for e-learning in VET

Using Free and Open Source Software in the development of e-learning can provide higher quality, reduce costs and increase availability of platforms. But very few educational materials are available for use with these systems today. The OpenDock project wants to support the use of Open Content (a platform at which individuals and institutions can share and adapt educational materials) in vocationa ...
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Educational Measurements Adapted to EU Standards

The project is concerned with developing and updating advanced curricula for new specialization Educational Measurements in Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics, adapted to ECTS System in UA Universities, with the participation of partners from four EU countries: SE, FI, IT, DE The new curricula would be accompanied by a large amount of course materials, both printed and electronic, and would be ...
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ESTIA-EARTH - To Sustain the Women's Careers as Academics, Researchers and Professionals in Engineering, Computers and Sciences

Estia-Earth aims to develop new educational structures, friendly to women, by introducing joint multidisciplinary postgraduate curricula in partner universities, involving Engineering, Computers and Sciences, and will: - develop a new framework for professional development of women, leading to courses at postgraduate level and further promote the mobility of women academic staff and students throu ...
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Retail Sector Competencies: Developing self and social competencies in vocational training for the retail sector

The primary objective of the project was a qualitative improvement of education in the retail sector, in order to come up with the subsequent tasks of the apprentices in professional practice. The attention was focused on personal and social skills, so that a (further) development of specific skills in this area was considered to be necessary.The apprentices should be disposed for the training of ...
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Teaching Culture! Teacher Training in Intercultural Awareness

Start date: Oct 1, 2003,

Bringing together a range of European partners, Teaching Culture! focused on the development of a training course for adult educators which responded to an identified need for increased intercultural awareness in the sector. Partners shared knowledge and expertise across the realms of formal and less formal adult education and actively considered the presence of differing cultures within adult tea ...
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Joint Interface Third-Cycle Degrees in Chemistry

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

The closer alignment of the European Higher Education Area with the European Research Area is asking for innovative doctoral programmes at the interface of traditional disciplines; while transparent structures enhancing mobility are the most efficient way for opening the European job market to all young researchers. In this frame, the project is addressing curricular reform at third-cycle level fo ...
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European Master in Neuroscience

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

Brain disease, psychiatric and neurologic diseases, combined represents a large social and economic burden in Europe. An analysis by the European Brain Council in 2005, estimated the total costs of brain disease throughout Europe in 2004 to be Euro 386 billion. That burden is set to grow, mainly due to the fact that the European population is ageing. The need for innovative treatments has never be ...
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Basic Curriculum for Teachers’ In-service Training in Content Area Literacy in Secondary Schools

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

The project intends to develop, test and implement a Basic Curriculum for Teachers' In-service Training in Content Area Literacy in Secondary Schools [BaCuLit].The reason for this project is stated in the 2010 general call for proposals (second priority): "Improving reading literacy and other basic skills: The level of reading literacy skills among school students across the EU is not improving, a ...
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