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An Integrated European ‘Flagship’ Program Driving Mechanism-based Toxicity Testing and Risk Assessment for the 21st Century (EU-ToxRisk)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The vision of EU-ToxRisk is to drive a paradigm shift in toxicology towards an animal-free, mechanism-based integrated approach to chemical safety assessment. The project will unite all relevant disciplines and stakeholders to establish: i) pragmatic, solid read-across procedures incorporating mechanistic and toxicokinetic knowledge; and ii) ab initio hazard and risk assessment strategies of chemi ...
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Quantum Information Access and Retrieval Theory (QUARTZ)

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

Quantum Information Access and Retrieval TheoryWe aim to establish an European Training Network (ETN) on QUantum information Access and Retrieval Theory (QUARTZ). Towards a new approach to Information Access and Retrieval (IAR) addressing the challenges of the dynamic and multimodal nature of the data and user interaction context, QUARTZ aims to educate its Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to adopt ...
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Low energy ELEctron driven chemistry for the advantage of emerging NAno-fabrication methods (ELENA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Chemistry is fundamental to nanotechnology, as chemistry can prepare specifically tailored molecules to serve, in a bottom-up approach, as the building blocks for the fabrication of functional and structured nano-materials. Nanotechnology is the technology of the 21st century with applications from electronics to biotechnology and medicine. The next decade will thus be characterized by an increasi ...
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Next Generation GEOSS for Innovation Business (NextGEOSS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

...ibution and exploitation. NextGEOSS engages main providers of Earth Observation data, including Copernicus Collaborative Ground Segments and Core Services. While continuing to support the GEO-DAB and OpenSearch as the middleware components in charge of interconnecting the heterogeneous and distributed capacities contributing to GEOSS, NextGEOSS focuses on a fundamental change to facilitate the con ...
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Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Society (ISOTIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

ISOTIS addresses the nature, causes and impact of early emerging social and educational inequalities in the context of socioeconomic, cultural and institutional processes. The aim is to contribute to effective policy and practice development to combat inequalities. Quasi-panels and pooled longitudinal datasets will be used to examine the variation in early educational gaps and developmental trajec ...
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Automatic Diagnostics with Intermediate Steps in Mathematics Education

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

...e, skills, and competences.The expected results of the project are threefold. (1) We develop innovative technology for calculating detailed diagnostics in mathematics education, offered as an open, reusable set of feedback and assessment services. The diagnostic information is calculated automatically based on the analysis of intermediate steps. (2) The detailed diagnostics are fully integrated in ...
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Enhancing Learning In Teaching via e-inquiries

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

...aborative inquiry learning, developed in the frame of the weSPOT project (under FP7 framework). The platform is embedded on an IBL model, supports all types of inquiry (from structured to open), allows flexibility to the user to adapt the environment to the needs of the specific inquiry and can be used for synchronous and asynchronous learning. A number of tools are integrated in the platform supp ...
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Advanced Use of Learning Technologies in Higher Education

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

Until now established LMS are rather a database for files like Power Point, PDF or Word than used in a sophisticated way. The consortium reviewed multiple studies which are dealing with this issue and the reasons why lecturer at the Universities use Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) only very basically. The main barriers the consortium could identify in these surveys are the following: (1) time, ...
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EUROPLANET 2020 Research Infrastructure (EPN2020-RI)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure (EPN2020-RI) will address key scientific and technological challenges facing modern planetary science by providing open access to state-of-the-art research data, models and facilities across the European Research Area. Its Transnational Access activities will provide access to world-leading laboratory facilities that simulate conditions found on planetar ...
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Sarcopenia and Physical fRailty IN older people: multi-componenT Treatment strategies (SPRINTT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

...ysiological and clinical foundations, to assist in the design and implementation of specific interventions aimed at restoring robustness and delaying the onset of adverse outcomes. The present “Sarcopenia and Physical fRailty IN older people: multi-componenT Treatment strategies” (SPRINTT) project is specifically designed to overcome the existing barriers for an efficient public health interventio ...
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Biobased self-functionalised self-reinforced composite materials based on high performance nanofibrillar PLA fibres (BIO4SELF)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

BIO4SELF aims at fully biobased self-reinforced polymer composites (SRPC). To produce the SRPCs two polylactic acid (PLA) grades are required: a low melting temperature (Tm) one to form the matrix and an ultra high stiffness and high Tm one to form the reinforcing fibres. To reach unprecedented stiffness in the reinforcing PLA fibres, we will combine PLA with bio-LCP (liquid crystalline polymer) f ...
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Critical Infrastructure Protection using Adaptive MILS (CITADEL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Critical infrastructures (CI) rely on complex safety- and security-critical ICT systems placed into unpredictable environments and forced to cope with unexpected events and threats while exhibiting safe adaptive behavior. Recent security trends stress continuous adaptation to increase attacker work factor and to confound reverse-engineering. Critical CI systems must undergo extensive and costly sc ...
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Astronomy ESFRI and Research Infrastructure Cluster (ASTERICS)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

ASTERICS (Astronomy ESFRI & Research Infrastructure Cluster) aims to address the cross-cutting synergies and common challenges shared by the various Astronomy ESFRI facilities (SKA, CTA, KM3Net & E-ELT). It brings together for the first time, the astronomy, astrophysics and particle astrophysics communities, in addition to other related research infrastructures. The major objectives of ASTERICS ar ...
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Rebuilding an Inclusive, Value-based Europe of Solidarity and Trust through Social Investments (RE-InVEST)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

In 2013, as a response to rising inequalities, poverty and distrust in the EU, the Commission launched a major endeavour to rebalance economic and social policies with the Social Investment Package (SIP). RE-InVEST aims to strengthen the philosophical, institutional and empirical underpinnings of the SIP, based on social investment in human rights and capabilities. Our consortium is embedded in th ...
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Realising an Applied Gaming Eco-system (RAGE)

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

...on, and through disseminating RAGE in their partner networks. The game companies in RAGE anticipate adding RAGE-based products to their portfolio, in order to improve their competitive advantage by opening a new product line for applied games and developing new revenue streams.Actual deployment of RAGE results will generate direct impact on the competitive positioning of the few thousand of Europe ...
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MicroElectronics Cloud Alliance

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

... 18 higher education institutions (HEIs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to develop Cloud-based European infrastructure and organisation for education in microelectronics providing a range of open educational resources (OERs), remote access and sharing of educational and professional software, remote and practice-based learning facilities. Neither university can afford the necessary infras ...
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Integrating Learning Analytics and Semantics in Problem Based Learning

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...ct a new educational approach that combines PBL with LA respecting legal and ethical considerations (termed PBL_LA)-design a semantic model for PBL_LA for the annotation of learning resources-adapt open source tools to support PBL_LA and develop an intuitive semantic annotation tool-create relevant, semantically annotated educational materials and perform trials to draw evidence-based conclusions- ...
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An Adaptive Trust-based e-assesment System for Learning (TeSLA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...arning environment systems providing a scalable and adaptive solution. The TeSLA system will be developed to reduce the current restrictions of time and physical space in teaching and learning, which opens up new opportunities for learners with physical or mental disabilities as well as respecting social and cultural differences.Given the innovative action of the project, the current gap in e-asse ...
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Wearable Experience for Knowledge Intensive Training (WEKIT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

OBJECTIVES: Build on multi-discipline research (e.g., human-centred methodology integrates cognitive models, ergonomics, understanding of worker’s well being) to accelerate how we identify, acquire and exploit skills valued by industry. Get high take-up by early adopters (e.g., in manufacturing). Augment training in situ with live expert guidance, a tacit learning experience and a re-enactment of ...
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Introduction of part-time and short cycle studies in Serbia

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Dynamics of the labour market force both employees and unemployed to adopt their qualifications to employers’ new needs. Part-time studies (PT) aim to provide, to mostly adult employed students, appropriate modes of study. Short cycle higher education programs (SCHE) provide mostly professional studies, lasting up to two years, aiming to prepare students for specific jobs. They are suitable to st ...
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Soft Skills for Hard Hats- Developing managerial skills for construction workers

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Oct 2, 2018,

As construction workers progress through their career through promotion their managerial responsibility tends to increase, without the necessary skills to manage and lead workers. they tend to therefore rely on the management experience they have personally received. The SSHH project aims to develop construction workers initial managerial skills through on-line ‘scenarios’ by focusing on transfera ...
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Work process oriented, interactively enhanced and APP supported learning and training in construction VET in Europe

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

...pprentices and VET-trainers/teachers. The new form (APP) will cope with the need for updating the form of media and thus the acceptance to work with the contents and methods. Eventually this should open new chances for young people to enter the labour market and lower youth unemployment rates.As the construction sector labour markets are not isolated any more but flexibility is required by compani ...
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Empowering education systems in information security

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

Context/background: Young people and children are today amongst the biggest user groups of ICT in Europe. 75% of European children using the internet. Therefore, ICT is becoming embedded in everyday life to stimulate innovation, education and participation, in line with the current recommendations of the Digital Agenda for Europe, May 2010 (DAE) and EU2020 goals. In order to stay safe, children ...
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European Distance Education in Law Network

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

...n Law Network CONSORTIUM: The EDELNet project is the first building block of the Strategie Partnership between the FernUniversität in Hagen, the Universidad Nacional de Educaci6n a Distancia and the Open Universiteit Nederland. This Partnership has been created to further cultural exchange and best practices in legal education and research. The partners cooperate in the development of high quality ...
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Massive Online Open Εducation Quality

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

... into the life-cycle of MOO design, implementation, and delivery with emphasis on learning content and its provisions towards innovative learning settings and experiences for all. MOOQ addresses the open issue of integration of quality approaches and mechanisms into the design of MOO education by pursuing the following objectives: • Analysis on existing practices for integrating quality approach ...
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Open Mining INfrastructure for TExt and Data (OpenMinTeD)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

...g them at multiple levels and in several dimensions to discover hidden and new knowledge. However, text mining solutions are not easy to discover and use, nor are they easily combinable by end users. OpenMinTeD aspires to enable the creation of an infrastructure that fosters and facilitates the use of text mining technologies in the scientific publications world, builds on existing text mining too ...
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Supporting Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

To assist European universities to become more mature users and custodians of digital data about their students as they learn online, the SHEILA Project will build a policy development framework that promotes formative assessment and personalized learning, by taking advantage of direct engagement of stakeholders in the development process. The field of learning analytics (LA) with its associated m ...
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EU SPACE AWARENESS (EUSPACE-AWE)

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

EUSPACE-AWE uses the excitement of space to attract young people to science and technology and stimulate European and global citizenship. Our main goal is to increase the number of young people that choose space-related careers.We shall target diverse groups that influence career decisions, showing teenagers the opportunities offered by space science and engineering and inspiring primary-school ch ...
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European Data Science Academy (EDSA)

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

Data explosion on the web, fuelled by social networking, micro-blogging, as well as crowdsourcing, has led to the Big Data phenomenon. This is characterized by increasing volumes of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, originating from sources that generate them at an increasing rate. This wealth of data provides numerous new analytic and business intelligence opportunities to variou ...
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Raising Open and User-friendly Transparency-Enabling Technologies forPublic Administrations (ROUTE-TO-PA)

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

...latforms for transparency. ROUTE-TO-PA envisions that Information and Communication Technologies for Transparency must improve the engagement of citizens by making them able to socially interact over open data, by forming or joining existing online communities that share common interest and discuss common issues of relevance to local policy, service delivery, and regulation; moreover, ROUTE-TO-PA ...
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Let's learn how to learn!- Raising awareness to the importance of and providing an innovative solution for the inclusion of the training of learning skills in existing higher education curricula

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

... which add their expertise regarding the target groups of the project. We have is a private institute offering training, vocational qualification and career services, while a partner provides open higher distance education. They will add their expertise regarding the training to the project. The private regional development body that joined the Consortium, its knowledge on the regional development ...
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Materials’ Innovations for a Safe and Sustainable nuclear in Europe (MATISSE)

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

The European Energy Research Alliance, set-up under the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan, has launched an initiative for a Joint Programme on Nuclear Materials (JPNM). The JPNM aims at establishing key priorities in the area of advanced nuclear materials, identifying funding opportunities and harmonizing this scientific & technical domain at the European level by maximizing complementarit ...
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International Media Studies: Media Literacy as a Media Competence for Social Change

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2017,

The main agenda of this project is to establish learning systems for the field of media literacy (ML) and to provide the public of Southeastern-Asia (Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, consciously chosen because of their difference in socio-political systems and media cultures) with a set of ML-competencies that helps them to handle social change (equal media change) through developing a media habitu ...
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Serious games on Health and Safety for mobile learning

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

... entities experts in VET and/or the application of ICT to training will participate: -Fundación Laboral de la Construcción (Leader, Spain) -Satakunnan Koulutuskuntayhtyma (Finland) -Open Universiteit Nederland (The Netherlands) -Westdeutscher Handwerkskammertag (Germany) -Warrington Collegiate (United Kingdom) -Centro Edile A. Palladio (Italy) METHODOLOGY The project methodology is structured alon ...
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Learning Analytics and Learning Process Management for Small Size Organizations in Higher Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

...d youth work at various levels, supporting the implementation of reforms in line with the 2011 EU Modernisation Agenda's priority areas, and supporting the implementation of the 2013 Communication on Opening Up Education, just to name a few. The project brings together leading LA research institutions and leverages their potential to boost executive education in an area that is highly important f ...
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Digital skills and tools for Young Female Entrepreneurs

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The PROJECT contributes to the efforts for reduction of youth unemployment specially among women and for recognition and certification of skills developed in environments of non -formal and informal training/education that can be adapted to different work needs and environments. Through the production of a structured product Digi Fem accompanied by MOOC courses, women will be enhanced to start up ...
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Open Badges for informal/intercultural learning in European and global school projects

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

What is the benefit of the Go2B project? The research question is focussed on the project’s central hypothesesis: whether Open Badges are an effective tool to recognise informal/intercultural learning in European and global school projects and whether the labour market is interested in Open Badges earned by students. Open badging (OB) is an evidence based online system that allows students to show ...
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European Astrobiology Campus

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

Astrobiology is a fairly new, but rapidly growing branch of science. It is not only of great interest to the scientific community, but also captures the attention of the general public to a large extent. Important astrobiological themes like the origin of life on Earth and the possibility of life on other planets have engaged thinkers at least since antiquity and will not be solved by one single d ...
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Reducing Barriers and Increasing Uptake of Text and Data Mining for Research Environments using a Collaborative Knowledge and Open Information Approach (FutureTDM)

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

...rovided with targeted recommendations in the Roadmap for TDM’s uptake. The knowledge distilled from quantitative and qualitative research will be integrated into a Collaborative Knowledge Base and Open Information Hub (www.FutureTDM.eu) using insightful visualisations. This dynamic platform will showcase excellence in TDM research and data-driven innovation and serve as reference for current and f ...
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Equipping the Next Generation for Active Engagement in Science (ENGAGE)

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

...coaching and feedback. At the next stage, Adapt, they learn an expert’s toolkit of examples, explanations, anecdotes and activities to help students learn effectively, In the third step, Transform, open-ended Projects put teachers and students into partnership with practising scientists, to learn about RRI directly.Our partners bring extensive track records in teacher development and curriculum de ...
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