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Rotterdam, Umea and Glasgow: Generating Exemplar Districts In Sustainable Energy Deployment (Ruggedised)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

The RUGGEDISED project will create urban spaces powered by secure, affordable and clean energy, smart electro-mobility, smart tools and services. The overall aims are:1. Improving the quality of life of the citizens, by offering the citizens a clean, safe, attractive, inclusive and affordable living environment.2. Reducing the environmental impacts of activities, by achieving a significant reducti ...
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Adaptation to extreme rainfall; demonstration of FHVI to prevent damage by urban pluvial flooding (LIFE AERFIT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

Background Climate change scenarios predict more frequent and larger extremes in rainfall. Already, cities in the EU face damage from pluvial flooding. Damages will increase due to climate change and continuing urbanisation. Urban pluvial flooding is a major problem that urgently requires effective, sustainable and cost-effective solutions. Putten regul ...
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Triangulum: The Three Point Project / Demonstrate. Disseminate. Replicate. (Triangulum)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The Triangulum project will demonstrate how a systems innovation approach based around the European Commission’s SCC Strategic Implementation Plan can drive dynamic smart city development. We will test the SIP across three lighthouse cities: Manchester, Eindhoven and Stavanger, which represent the main typologies of European cities. They will be complemented by our follower cities Prague, Leipzig ...
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CAPACITY BUILDING IN THE SOCIAL SECTOR through the Development of Volunteer Programs at Social Institutions in the CEE Region

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

Our vision is that the social sector in the CEE region realises and learns to utilize the untapped potential that lies in the cooperation with local community. Through the SoVol European project social institutions (run by government or local government) will be able to develop and implement volunteer programmes involving local citizens into their operations thus enabling them to provide higher qu ...
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Global Skills Through Experience in Peace and Solidarity

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

Our European society is currently dealing with a multitude of problems : intolerance, disengagement, radicalisation and economic exclusion are on the rise. These problems are strengthened by feelings of disillusionment and in some cases a lack of perspective. One of the causes is the inability of many people, especially young people, to find suitable jobs or even any job at all. Many people are co ...
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Methods for ESD-competencies and curricula

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is thematically interdisciplinary and not formally integrated within the school subject curricula of (secondary) vocational schools. Curricular challenge ESD is not only environmental education, the areas of economics (as defined by equitable distribution of resources) and social/cultural challenges/topics (social justice, lifelong learning, civic engage ...
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Equipping Professionals for Supporting LGBT Migrants & Refugees

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

EpsiLon is responding to two current and urgent educational needs in Europe i.e. (1) the rise in migrant and refugee numbers (2) the persistent inequality and persecution of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans-gender groups (LGBT). Combined together these two characteristics make LGBT migrants and refugees one of the most vulnerable groups in modern Europe. Our project aims to help address this issue by i ...
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Enhancing ecoSysteM sERvices mApping for poLicy and Decision mAking (ESMERALDA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

Mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services (ES) are core to the EU Biodiversity (BD) Strategy. They are essential if we are to make informed decisions. Action 5 sets the requirement for an EU-wide knowledge base designed to be: a primary data source for developing Europe’s green infrastructure; resource to identify areas for ecosystem restoration; and, a baseline against which the goa ...
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Restart Entrepreneurship

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

Setting up a business is increasingly easy but keeping it going is much tougher: 50% of enterprises don’t survive the first 5 years and bankruptcies account for 15% of business closures. The recent financial crisis caused a peak in business failure in Ireland, Netherlands, Spain and Bulgaria. Since recognising the need to enable honest, failed entrepreneurs to start over in business in the Small ...
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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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Act for Career

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

Unemployment hurts at any age. Unemployment at a young age, however, generates a long-lasting negative impact. School leavers that fail to find adequate apprenticeship training position stand in danger of acquiring only insufficient vocational training or none at all. As a consequence, many will find themselves being trapped in the low-paid-sectors of the labor market, make ends meet with zero-hou ...
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YES Academy

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Throughout the EU, young people are the category of persons hit hardest by unemployment, underemployment and feel discouraged to look for work. Furthermore the last European elections and numerous elections in the Member States in recent times show, that there is a growing absenteeism of young people combined with an increasing European scepticism. This development and the complex situation of you ...
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SME and Higher Education Institutes in Innovation Partnerships

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

SME and Higher Education Institutes in Innovation Partnerships (SHIP) will strengthen the knowledge triangle, building sustainable collaborative relationships between universities, SMEs and innovation support organizations. It responds to the problem of increasing fragmentation in the field of innovation promotion, especially the dislocation between those who generate knowledge that could spur inn ...
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Alternative Curriculum Education out of the Wild

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

At present, there is a gap in the education and support for school-based outdoor and environmental vocational learning for young people with challenging behaviour. The outdoors and other sustainable development contexts are often far more engaging for more vulnerable pupils than the traditional 14-19 curriculum. At the same time, young people who understand concepts around sustainable resource use ...
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The capacity of civil society organisations (CSOs) and their networks in community based environmental management (CiVi.net)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The CiVi.net project aims to analyse, transfer and disseminate successful and sustainable community based solutions with regard to ecosystem service management in Latin America. The main focus is placed on institutional settings in terms of original rules and related governance models which help to prevent and resolve tensions arising from a necessary new repartition and use of natural resources. ...
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Ecological restoration of the Pond area M-L through a close participation of the private and public landowners and a tripple E-approach (Triple E Pond area M-L)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

Background The Vijvergebied Midden-Limburg is located in north-east Belgium, in the region of Limburg. The area forms part of the Demer river basin and is crossed by two main rivers, the Roosterbeek and Laambeek. These are typical lowland, seepage-fed rivers, meandering through a sandy plain. Historically, large parts of the area were drained by a network ...
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Scientific Approach to Finding Indicators of and REsponses to Radicalisation (SAFIRE)

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

The goal of SAFIRE is to improve fundamental understanding of radicalisation processes and use this knowledge to develop principles to improve (the implementation) of interventions designed to prevent, halt and reverse radicalisation. SAFIRE will develop a process model of radicalisation, describing the process from moderation to extremism, based on a non-linear dynamic systems approach and a typo ...
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The Water Emissions Inventory, a planning Support System aimed at reducing the pollution of water bodies (WEISS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Background Despite significant investments made over the past decade in the treatment of wastewater from industries and households, challenges remain in achieving a good water quality across the whole of Europe. While the most discernible polluting sources are now being tackled, there is still a need for a more detailed analysis to determine remaining pro ...
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Edutainment (EDUTAINMENT)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

Au sein de l’Euregio, de nombreuses personnes ne se rendent pas suffisamment compte de l’impact de leur comportement sur l’environnement et la nature.Le projet Edutainment est destiné à susciter cette prise de conscience et à proposer des alternatives. Pour ce faire, des « edutainment platforms »seront mises en place en plusieurs endroits de l’Euregio. Grâce à une présentation attrayante et ludiqu ...
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RIS services for improving the integration of inland waterway transports into intermodal chains (RISING)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

River Information Services (RIS) are operational in European waterway corridors in a variety of sophistication levels. Their major objective is to collect and distribute river related information in order to support not only public waterways authorities, but also commercial operators in the Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) sector. The use of such information for logistics purposes is still quite un ...
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Combating social exclusion among young homeless populations: a comparative investigation of homeless paths and reinsertion programmes for young men and women of different ethnic and migrant statuses (CSEYHP)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

"This research project meets the EU guidelines for youth policy and the Lisbon strategy by focusing on socially excluded youth – homeless young people and those at risk of homelessness - and through promoting a dynamic understanding of their life-trajectories. It takes into account gender, ethnic minority and migrant status and its policy outcomes and programme recommendations will also apply to t ...
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CSO Engagement with Ecological Economics (CEECEC)

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

"Ecological economics (EE) and, in general, sustainability sciences make important contributions to the analyses of sustainability policies in Europe and worldwide. EE develops physical indicators and indices, provides economic valuation of environmental services and negative externalities, applies tools of multi-criteria evaluation to resource use, and promotes environmental policy instruments su ...
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HST Connect

Start date: May 31, 2003, End date: Feb 29, 2008,

High speed transport has a key role to play in promoting balanced spatial development across NW Europe. Therefore any attempt to improve HST needs to work on a transnational basis. The prime objective of the 15 partner, 21.893m euro HST Connect project is to forge closer connections between regional rail services and the trans-European High Speed Train network, with the aim of increasing the latte ...
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European InfoNet Adult Education II

The main objective of European InfoNet Adult Education (European Information Networkfor Adult Education = InfoNet) is to disseminate information about trends, project andresearch results, the latest developments, best practices and the latest news from themember countries of the European Union. It also seeks at a European level to developand establish European awareness among the network members.I ...
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PACE - Partial Certification for Lower and Medium Level Vocational Training

The PACE project will develop guidelines and supporting materials for the development and recognition of partial certification, to support those with minimum levels of education in improving their position within the labour market, and to potentially provide a gateway to lifelong learning opportunity. The project expects to benefit the long-term unemployed, women-returnees, migrants and persons wi ...
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Integration Citizenship - Integration of Immigrants and Refugees - Towards Citizenship in a Democratic Society

The Integration Citizenship project will design, pilot and promote new training courses for social workers, or similar field workers, able to present new approaches for the integration of immigrants and refugees having citizenship or a residence permit. Developed with the participation of immigrant communities and organisations, the approach will be an empowerment approach, pointing to networking ...
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Enhanced vocational opportunities, knowledge and education

The EC launched an action plan to help EU 27 ensure that 90% of young people leave school with upper secondary degrees by 2020. Today unveiled that almost 14.4% of all 18 to 24 year olds in Europe leave school with a lower secondary degree or less which is hampering EU's goals of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. "Europe cannot afford that so many young people who have the potential to cont ...
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WRITING READING INCLUSION TOWARDS EUROPEAN REINASSANCE

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

The importance of ‘writing and reading’ in a lifelong learning/training action (from basic skills of expression to creative writing) is in the ‘core business’ of many education and culture projects (WRITERS IN SCHOOL SCHEME, MORE ART!, LITTERATURNET, PROMOTION OF READING, EUROLITERATUR, BABEL WEB ANTHOLOGY- see "Réalisation d'une étude relative à l'inventaire des meilleures pratiques liant la cult ...
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Developing OPen EDUCAtional regions for future-oriented learning and teaching Anytime, Anyplace, with Anybody, through Any device

Start date: Oct 1, 2013,

The project will work on a well-structured and structural pedagogical approach fully integrating science education in schooling through the establishment of enquire based learning based on an entrepreneurial attitude and practice of pupils and students towards their future. Partners see thereto the necessity and opportunities to thematically connect all sources of knowledge and experience in an Op ...
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Experiences Entrepreneurial Spirit Challenge in School Education_ PERSPECTIVE

Start date: Oct 1, 2013,

The expressed activity of the PERSPECTIVE project consortium is to gather knowledge about models, methodologies, best practice and advices for teacher education.The main aim is to create European models for primary and secondary school teachers to support the development of their skills and methods in applying entrepreneurial learning to different teaching subjects and to different contexts. Entre ...
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Farmers Build to the Landscape (Boeren bouwen aan het landschap)

...ndbouwers. De sector kon daarbij rekenen op begeleiding en advies op het gebied van natuur- en landschapsbeheer. De landbouwer zelf kreeg een beter inzicht in de rol die hij kan spelen bij de verdere ontwikkeling van de open ruimte. Achievements: Please refer to the 'De ...
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Zuwanderer integrieren 2006 (Integrating immigrants 2006)

Auf der Grundlage der Ergebnisse des Projektes Integrationsmodell für Zuwanderer/Neueinwanderer Entwicklung und weitere Erprobung nachhaltiger Mechanismen und Strukturen im Bereich von Integration und Einbürgerung und die Anwendung auf einen möglichst großen Kreis von Zuwanderergruppen sowie weitere Migrantengruppen und Evaluierung, ob die aktuellen Erfolgsergebnisse tragfähig bleiben und kompatib ...
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