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Erasmus Mundus Master in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Start date: Sep 20, 2015, End date: Sep 19, 2019,
Objective The objective of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology is to provide a top quality and broad multidisciplinary education in the emerging field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, coupled with an individual top-level specialization in one of five defined areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology: nanophysics, nanochemistry, nanoelectronics, biophysics or nanobiotechnolo ...
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Electronic International Forum for Teacher Educator Development
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,
Teacher educators impact directly on the quality of teaching, as the European Commission (2013) emphasises: ‘...the competences of those who educate and support teachers (teacher educators) must be of the highest order’. Yet, across Europe, teacher educators are, typically, not formally prepared for their jobs, not supported during their induction phase, and lack ongoing professional learning opp ...
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Homo'poly
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,
Homo'poly seeks to promote understanding and acceptance of diversity, especially homosexuality.Because sustained gender specific inequalities in education and upbringing have been exposed in numerous studies, national and international organizations are looking for approaches to complement their co-educational infrastructure for the specific needs of both genders, to fight discrimination and to pr ...
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Critical Thinking Across the European Higher Education Curricula
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,
CRITHINKEDU derives from the experiences of partners’ institutions and from the need to link higher education institutions with the labor market and society, meeting the needs and challenges of the 21st century in the development of critical thinking skills in students. It aims to: 1) connect Higher Education Institutions (HEI), NGO’s and companies in order to identify curricular goals and outcome ...
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Increasing Gender Diversity in STEM
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,
Lack of gender diversity in STEM studies and careers remains a persistent problem in most western countries, for example most western countries have 20% or less of graduating engineers as female, and often less than 10% of the engineering workforce.Much research has been done on the reasons for this imbalance, with a general consensus that a resolution is highly challenging, requiring multifaceted ...
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Stworzenie kursów z elementami grywalizacji do nauki zjawisk akustycznych dla inżynierów (Acoustics Course for Engineers)
Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,
The aim of the project is to develop acoustics course for engineers with elements of gamification that enable specialist from rail, machinery and automotive industry to build improvement in the fields of vibroacoustics, through essential knowledge base and vocational competence across partner countries. These courses will provide a source of expertise on acoustic issues in terms of specific needs ...
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Implementation of a Business & Innovation module in Science Programs
Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
The project develops a Business and Innovation module for science programs. In particular the project focusses on 18 credits of the minor and the necessary tools to offer the minor through an open online learning platform with interactive features which integrates Open Educational Resources (OER) and delivers parts of the minor as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). For this project an innovativ ...
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Tools for Teaching Quantitative Thinking
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Quantitative thinking is at the heart of modern societies. Skills and programming competences related to quantitative thinking increase a student's employability and allow an enlightened citizen to make informed decisions.
Every day we are bombarded and challenged by quantitative information: How long will a journey be delayed due to traffic? What are the chances of a change in weather conditio ...
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Achieving Benefits from LEarning analytics
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
The ABLE Project (Achieving Benefits from LEarning analytics) has been developed to exploit the opportunities becoming available due to the rise of learning analytics technology. Learning analytics is the practice of using institutional data to improve students’ learning experiences. The technology is potentially transformative, however, there are early indications that the sector is not yet certa ...
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TecCOMFrame – A Joint European Academic Competence Framework and Curricula for the Training of Technical Communicators
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
What is Technical Communication (TC) and why is it important?
For the safe and efficient use of products – whether devices, machines, software, entire production plants or service provider products – users require information. The manufacturers or providers of the products are obligated to make this information available across the entire product life cycle in a suitable media format. The creation ...
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Empowering Eportfolio Process
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
The critical points of the quality of learning in competence-based education are assessment practices, which should be aligned with desired competences in Higher Education. EEP has identified a need to develop assessment of competences towards student centered direction by ensuring empowerment of students in their learning process, and develop digital competences of students, teachers and HE insti ...
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Developing pedagogical approaches and tools for innovative ‘internationalisation at home’ practice in higher education
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
The goals of higher education (HE) internationalisation should extend beyond the economically-driven motivation to recruit international students and staff to European universities, and the benefits of an internationalised university experience should not be limited to the minority of EU students and staff who are internationally mobile. For universities seeking to graduate interculturally compete ...
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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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TEACH CVI
Start date: Sep 14, 2015, End date: Nov 13, 2017,
The background of this project is that several professionals were working together on an EU project and identified the need for development of training and materials of educators of children with cerebral visual impairment. Since then the project idea has developed and the group became bigger because it's necessary to connect health care and education professionals together to address this area of ...
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LEAN: Training by doing and training on the go as effective approaches to lean manufacturing
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
LEAN project intends to meet Europe 2020 growth strategy priorities on employment and education. The project takes into account also the EU Roadmap "Opening up Education" (04/2013) enhancing education and skills development through new technologies and underlining "insufficient supply of quality digital contents across languages, subjects and needs" and "lack of teachers' skills for a real digital ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Early identification of STEM readiness and targeted academic interventions
Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
For Europe to remain at the forefront of scientific and technological development, the current shortage of persons trained in these fields at secondary and higher education has to be overcome. While some progress has been made in increasing enrolment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs in most European countries as stipulated by the Lisbon Objectives, the most press ...
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“TRODEU: FORMACIÓN PARA ABRIR LAS PUERTAS A EUROPA”
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
TRODEU was born when a group of European teachers, after meeting and checking their common interests in reversing the current situation of adult education in their respective countries, decided to join together to achieve common goals. Previously it had been found that problems in their respective countries were similar and the work each partner performed separately towards this improvement was co ...
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App-titude
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
Youth unemployment is a major problem across Europe and a hot political issue in all European countries.
In the countries involved in this project, the following youth unemployment rates are registered: The Netherlands: 15,5%, Belgium: 21,6% , France: 25,2%, Luxembourg: 18%. Despite the crisis, there are over 2 million unfilled job vacancies in the EU. Marianne Thyssen, Commissioner for Employmen ...
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MedInvent: educating for innovation and standards in medical device design and integration using novel online tools
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
The Horizon 2020 growth strategy states that the competitiveness and innovation potential of European enterprises relies on fostering and harnessing new skills in innovation and creativity in the European workforce. One such area is the medical devices sector. It is recognised at Commission level that there is greater need for increased sharing of European best practices in this area, increased tr ...
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European Format for Exchange of Social Security Education
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
This project responds to the need for and current absence of a truly comprehensive curriculum on social security. The latter means that all disciplinary (law, economics and social policy) and national perspectives are combined into one EU-wide curriculum. The only way to develop a widely accessible, comprehensive and European curriculum is to work with the virtual exchange of courses between diffe ...
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Sign Language Teachers in Europe: an Open Educational Resource
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
The SignTeach project will develop, implement and evaluate an Open Educational Resource (OER) for sign language teachers and their trainers in EU member states. The OER will include information for new and experienced sign language teachers about a.o. didactics, class management, the CEFR for sign languages, meta-linguistics, ICT and entrepreneurial skills, as well as interviews with beginning and ...
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Open Models Initiative
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
Information systems engineering is currently taught and practiced on code-level. This means that programmers codify all functionalities needed in an information system by hand. While there are approaches to automate programming they have not proven to be efficient or scalable. Domain-specific languages and problems add to this efficiency loss as terminology in i.e. health care and product engineer ...
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Quantitative Tools for Sustainable Food and Energy in the food chain
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
The food chain comprises agricultural production, manufacturing, distribution, retail and consumption. The agro-food sector is not only one of the largest manufacturing sector in Europe but also has a direct impact on the (environmental) health and vitality of the population. Food security and energy sustainability worldwide faces increased challenges arising from the globalisation of food trade, ...
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Innovation in teaching, training and dissemination of virology
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
Like viruses themselves, the scientific discipline of Virology has evolved from the study of viruses, to overlap and intertwine with many other scientific disciplines, both traditional and contemporary. As these developments into new areas of science such as gene therapy in treating cancers, reverse genetics in biotechnological assay development and nanotechnology in vaccine design continue to gr ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries
Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2017,
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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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries
Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2017,
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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Focus on Automatic Institutional Recognition
Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,
The objective of the Focus on Automatic Institutional Recognition (FAIR) project is to improve European recognition as practiced by higher education institutions by implementing elements of automatic recognition.Experimentation measureThe measure to be tested is the introduction of automatic recognition in institutional recognition procedures. Automatic recognition is a fairly new concept that is ...
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European Platform for Innovation and Collaboration between Engineer Students
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,
EPICES (European Platform for Innovation and Collaboration between Engineer Students) will allow developing a European collaborative at a distance project-based learning framework and method, based on already existing and still developing technical platforms, i.e. collaborative and engineering tools. A special focus will be made on teachers' role and students' coaching, from the analysis of what a ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Undergraduate curriculum and e-course on Evidence-Based Dentistry
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
Harmonizing dental education and mutual recognition of dental degrees has been always on the agenda of dental associations since the EEC Directives in 1978. Besides the increase in the numbers of dental schools and students, new tools introduced to health care necessitate integrating the crucial subjects and tools to undergraduate dental education to promote convergence. Exponential rise in scient ...
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Opening Universities for Virtual Mobility
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
The project addresses the key innovations highlighted in the Communication adapted by the European Commission in September, 2013, which are also inevitable conditions for modernization of higher education: open educational resources (OER), technology enhanced learning (TEL) curriculum designing, and virtual and blended mobility forms.
The aim of this project is to open university stu ...
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Individual CAReer Development
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
The need for a better skilled and creative workforce for the European labour market has been identified as one of the strategic goals in EU policy statements and recommendations. The aim is to raise the level of education throughout Europe and to foster forward-looking and innovative citizens with ability for divergent and visionary thinking. The best result for enhancing these skills would be pro ...
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Towards a European Framework of Reference for the Education and Training of Literary Translators
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
"It is important for one to be able to read Pessoa without knowing Portuguese, Tsvetaeva without knowing Russian or Auden without knowing English, and still have the impression that one is hearing their voice, even if it is conveyed in the language with which one is most familiar."
Jacques De Decker (In: Preface for the PETRA Recommendations)
In multicultural and multilingual Europe, it is difficu ...
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Chinese for Business
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
In Europe, over 98 % of companies are entities from SME sector. These companies produce more than 70 % of EU GDP and employs nearly 70% of employed citizens. What is crucial, SMEs are a major source of innovations and creativity. It is similar in China, Chinese SMSs increasingly influence the country's economic development. These numbers confirm the need to promote and motivate the SME sector in E ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,
Erasmus mobility for students and staff is one of the core activities in KU Leuven's internationalization policy. All faculties and all layers of the students (Ba/Ma/PhD) and staff (both junior and senior) participate. The university's objectives are not only to provide an added value to the academic experience of the participants, but also to strengthen international cooperation at the institut ...
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Incubatorennetwerkt
Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,
Het project Incubatorennetwerk(t) wil een meerwaarde bieden bij de economische valorisatie van onderzoeksresultaten door een interregionale en interuniversitaire samenwerking op te zetten. Daarbovenop versterkt dit project de reeds bestaande soortgelijke steunprogrammas en acties in Vlaanderen en Nederland.Concreet zullen hiervoor de nodige detectie-, opvolginstrumenten en samenwerkingssystemen on ...
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Fablabs in de grensregio (Fablabs)
Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,
Een FabLab (Fabrication – of Fabulous – Laboratory) is een kleinschalige werkplaats met een aanbod van computergestuurde gereedschappen met het doel om “bijna alles” te kunnen maken. Het basisconcept ontstond aan het Massachusetts Institute of Technology, waarbij aan iedereen de mogelijkheid wordt geboden om van zo een werkplaats met gespecialiseerde apparatuur gebruik te maken.“De krachtlijnen va ...
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Aqua-VLAN
Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Aug 30, 2012,
Het project beoogt het bouwen van de fundamenten van een economisch, sociaal en ecologisch duurzame aquacultuursector binnen de grensregio zodat de huidige beperkte aquacultuursector verder kan uitgroeien.Hierbij wordt gewerkt volgens het concept “Fork to Farm” zodat een breed draagvlak voor de regionale aquacultuursector kan ontstaan. Het verbeteren van de kennisoverdracht binnen de driehoek: ken ...
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Training modules to help the designers of electrical installations address the lack of power quality and EMC problems will be developed by this project. The economic costs of poor power quality and EMC problems in electrical installations are hidden in operational costs, but are believed to affect the economic performance of at least 30% of companies and are the cause of increasing concern in the ...
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