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Social Enterpreneurship in Structurally Weak Rural Regions: Analysing Innovative Troubleshooters in Action (RURACTION)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

Structurally weak rural regions are faced with major social and economic problems. In comparison to urban or intermediate regions, predominantly rural regions are economically less productive and they provide a less extensive scope of desired goods and services. As a consequence, the regions experience a loss of inhabitants, especially of young and highly skilled people. Thus, downward spirals are ...
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Semantic EO Data Web Alert and Retrieval Framework (SEO-DWARF)

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

Technological advances in remote sensing have increased the availability of satellite images with different spatiotemporal and spectral characteristics.There is difficulty for retrieving the most appropriate data for each user's needs.One key challenge is to connect the quantitative information of the EO images with the qualitative (high-level user queries) and be able to mine these connections in ...
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Governance, Pluralism and Trans-Nationalisation in Europe

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

The proposed project brings together 8 European Universities with considerable but diverse experience in EU-related studies, under the thematic umbrella of “Governance, Pluralism and Trans-nationalisation in Europe”. The creation of the GovUnet guarantees the strengthening of the cooperation among the partners and provides the necessary academic, technical and financial support for the realisation ...
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The EU in Public International Law: Selected Case-studies

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

“The EU in Public International Law: Selected Case-studies” is a Module concentrating primarily on delivering lectures on the role and relevance of the EU in specific areas of great interest to the everyday life of the European citizen. The selected case-studies will provide students with the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of the workings of specific international organizations and fora and ...
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European Port Policy Jean Monnet Module

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

EPP-JM is a pluri-disciplinary postgraduate Module on “European Port Policy”, part of the curriculum of the one-year MSc in Shipping Transport & Trade (STT), degree, offered at the Business School, University of the Aegean, Greece since 1998. 49 teaching hours (30h teaching, 16h tutorials, and 3h exams) spread over the second term of the academic year. Teaching activities to 40-50 students that at ...
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Jean Monnet Module of Social and Economic Coherence in the European Area

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

The proposed Jean Monnet Module on Social and Economic Cohesion in the European Area will provide a coherent undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training program both for undergraduate and postgraduate students with the goal to generate and disseminate knowledge regarding the European integration process and the challenges it confronts nowadays, especially after the outburst of the current ...
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LAND DEGRADATION AND REHABILITATION IN MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENTS

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

Context /background of Project The Mediterranean region is vulnerable to land degradation, which affects important sectors of the economy (agriculture, fishing, tourism) and the supply of vital goods (water, food). Although “actions to restore ecosystems and biodiversity have significant potential to create new skills, jobs and business opportunities” ((ED 2011/2307(INI)), there is a considerable ...
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Multi-source Big Data Fusion Driven Proactivity for Intelligent Mobility (OPTIMUM)

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

Transportation sector undergoes a considerable transformation as it enters a new landscape where connectivity is seamless and mobility options and related business models are constantly increasing. Modern transportation systems and services have to mitigate problems emerging from complex mobility environments and intensive use of transport networks including excessive CO2 emissions, high congestio ...
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O krok vpred s digitálnymi technológiami

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The priority of school ZS Dargovských hrdinov in Humenné is to enhance a quality of education using digital technologies, especially tablets, computers, to up-grade a computer literacy, to improve language and communication abilities using multimedia technology in school teaching. Execution of a project " A Step Further With Digital Technologies" will help us to achieve these aims: to extend key ...
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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: Sep 30, 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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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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MOOC Accessibility Partnership

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

The purpose of the project is to implement a sustainable strategic partnership between European universities that excel in both teaching accessible design in ICT and providing an inclusive learning environment to students with disabilities. The project will devise and implement a joint curriculum framework on accessible design in ICT, by means of massive open online courses (MOOCs) directed to the ...
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More entrepreneurial life at European schools

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

Entrepreneurship in European higher education is widely taught in economics departments, but only a few schools have implemented curricula to shape entrepreneurial attitudes in technical and scientific departments. On the other hand, the most innovative companies are technological companies. Therefore, following the example of American universities, there is an urgent need to improve the entrepren ...
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ENRICHING FISHERS' KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND COMPETENCES

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

The proposed project aims to contribute to the improvement of the quality and attractiveness of the Continuing VET for fishers and to address existing needs of the fisheries and the CVET sectors. The fisheries sector is recognized as one of the pillars of development at national, European and international level. The extent of its contribution to sustainable development, economic growth and food ...
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Ports Observatory for Performance Indicator Analysis (PORTOPIA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

PORTOPIA aims to develop, next to extensions of existing indicators within the different perspectives of port performance, innovative approaches for the industry's stakeholders, such as:• Development of a forecasting dimension in port performance management within the market trends and structure category;• Development of top-down methods for harmonised socio-economic impact calculation;• Developme ...
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Noile medii dintre noi: Experiențe de Învățare Digitale

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

Our organisation provides secondary vocational education in the field of arts. Every year over 1000 pupils attend our classes, while our staff comprises over 150 teachers. Today’s children are considered digitally native and, given the ubiquity of digital media in their every-day lives, a crucial point in our development strategy is improving the digital competences of our teaching staff.As such, ...
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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: May 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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ACT - ACTIVITY - CREATIVITY - TRAINING

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

The aims of the project are to help accommodate within labour-market successfully, improving a set of skill, which will be beneficial base of life long learning, propagate innovative methods supporting adult education. The project will contribute to improve employment rate in a long term. The project will broaden the knowledge of different innovative and creative methods, skills and tools and inc ...
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electronic Regenerated Freirean Literacy through Empowering Community Techniques (e-Reflect)

Start date: Feb 16, 2015, End date: Feb 15, 2017,

Reflect Approach is defined as a structured, collaborative and participative learning process which facilitates people to critical analyze their environment, construct a personal understanding of local and global reality and challenge dominant development paradigms. In the core of this process rests the need for people’s empowerment as well as reflect and action for social change. Our project aims ...
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Sustainable futures for Europe’s HERitage in CULtural landscapES: Tools for understanding, managing, and protecting landscape functions and values (HERCULES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

European cultural landscapes are valued as everyday living environment, countryside, heritage, scenery with aesthetic and recreational qualities and unique biodiversity, and as a source of ecosystem services that they provide to society. Cultural landscapes, however, are undergoing rapid and fundamental transformations across Europe, mainly as a result of an on-going polarization of land use, with ...
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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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EU Community

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

EU COMMUNITY MERGES ICT AND SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKING WITH ESTABLISHED ONLINE MEDIA AND STAKEHOLDER GROUPS TO CULTIVATE TRANSPARENCY, ENHANCE EFFICIENCY AND STIMULATE FRESH IDEAS FOR EU POLICY-MAKING.THREE CHALLENGES are identified to reduce complexity and leverage under used technologies.1. Ever more complex policy processes, thousands of contributors and documents, not easily understandable by peo ...
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BUSINESS MODELS FOR ENHANCING FUNDING AND ENABLING FINANCING OF INFRASTRUCTURE IN TRANSPORT (BENEFIT)

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

BENEFIT takes an innovative approach by analysing funding schemes within an inter-related system. Funding schemes are successful (or not) depending on the Business Model that generates them. The performance of the Business Model is affected by the implementation context and the transport mode. It is matched successfully (or not) by a financing scheme. Relations between actors are described by a go ...
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Let’s make it better! Raising the awareness of the triad nutrition-health-food safety in school education

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

The reason of the project is the identified need to restore the place of food science and related subjects education in the culture of young people, in order of their personal development and wellbeing. The high incidence of diet-related diseases and also food borne diseases is a major challenge nowadays, being obvious that the problem rooted largely from the early childhood education. In this c ...
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Shared Standards for Open Data and Public Sector Information (Share-PSI 2.0)

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

Share-PSI 2.0 brings together a critical mass of government agencies and organisations responsible for implementing the new PSI Directive. Lead by the W3C, the consortium includes the Open Group and Open Geospatial Consortium as fellow standards bodies plus the PSI Alliance, Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Data Institute and PwC as the primary contractor in the ISA Programme's work on interoperabi ...
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Protection Measures for Merchant Ships (PROMERC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

There is a bewildering array of ongoing actions in the field of countering pirate assaults and there are a large number of options available to shipping companies to mitigate the risk of piracy and to deter pirates. However there is scant information regarding their operational effectiveness or the cost benefits of their use, particularly when employed in combination as part of a holistic approach ...
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Global Model and Observatory for International Responsible Research and Innovation Coordination (RESPONSIBILITY)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

The RESPONSIBILITY project aims to create a network of stakeholders that would adopt and diffuse a common understanding in Responsible Research and Innovation between different actors in Europe and around the globe. In doing so it will develop a model and provide a tool for international cooperation, the RESPONSIBILITY Observatory, involving the societal, policy and research stakeholders to these ...
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Towards COast to COast NETworks of marine protected areas ( from the shore to the high and deep sea), coupled with sea-based wind energy potential (COCONET)

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

Environmental policies focus on protecting habitats valuable for their biodiversity, as well as producing energy in cleaner ways. The establishment of Marine Protected Area (MPA) networks and installing Offshore Wind Farms (OWF) are important ways to achieve these goals. The protection and management of marine biodiversity has focused on placing MPAs in areas important for biodiversity. This has p ...
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Towards a Clean, Litter-Free European Marine Environment through Scientific Evidence, Innovative Tools and Good Governance (CLEANSEA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

There is an urgent need for an improved knowledge base for the management of marine litter. CLEANSEA aims to generate new information on the impacts (biological, social and economic) of marine litter, develop novel tools needed to collect and monitor litter and protocols needed for monitoring data (litter composition and quantities) and evaluate the impact of mitigation strategies and measures in ...
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Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern EUropean Seas (PERSEUS)

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

The overall scientific objectives of PERSEUS are to identify the interacting patterns of natural and human-derived pressures on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, assess their impact on marine ecosystems and, using the objectives and principles of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive as a vehicle, to design an effective and innovative research governance framework based on sound scientific knowl ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

This Project was implemented by the University of the Aegean (G ATHINE 41) with a grant from the National Agency Erasmus+, and a duration period of sixteen months. Implementation time: 01-06-2014 to 30-09-2015. This project targets at the realization of the planned mobilities with a grant, at the academic recognition of the mobility periods, student and staff exchanges, encouragement of the stude ...
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Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed 2.0 (STORK 2.0)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed 2.0" builds on the success and results of STORK by taking further steps to decisively push the lines for wider uptake of eID in Europe, aiming at realising a single European electronic identification & authentication area. Its highly innovative focus lies on the convergence of private and public sectors in an operational framework and infrastructure encompass ...
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Web Information Quality Evaluation Initiative (WIQ-EI)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

Today’s information and data pools on the Web focus on the quantity of information rather than its quality; a fact observable through the increasing size of the blogosphere, the number of growing artificially created data, the well established copy & paste syndrome and the lack of semantically enriched data. The research underlying WIQ-EI’s knowledge transfer addresses information quality in terms ...
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Visions Of LANd use Transitions in Europe (VOLANTE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

VOLANTE aims to develop a new European land management paradigm, providing an integrated conceptual and operational platform which allows policy makers to develop pro-active and context-sensitive solutions to the challenges for the future, rather than to react on largely autonomous external land systems developments.Objective of VOLANTE is to provide European policy and land management with critic ...
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Status and Trends of European Pollinators (STEP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

Pollinators form a key component of European biodiversity, and provide vital ecosystem services to crops and wild plants. There is growing evidence of declines in both wild and domesticated pollinators, and parallel declines in plants relying upon them. STEP will document the nature and extent of these declines, examine functional traits associated with particular risk, develop a Red List of some ...
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Policy Formulation and Validation through non moderated crowdsourcing (NOMAD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Collaboration and crowdsourcing are the realities of today's public Internet. The so-called "Web 2.0" represents a precious repository of thematic information, thanks to the heterogeneous content that is inserted daily and spontaneously updated by its users. Very recently, a big commercial interest has started to arise – especially within industries that manufacture consumer goods and services – i ...
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EXTRApolation and technical and economic study of a LASER beam welding technology (extra-laser) (extra-laser)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Recent developments in the metallurgical field offer now laser weldable Al-alloys of the 2xxx series such as 2198 (Al-Cu-Li) with high structural efficiency index due to their high strength and low density. In the present project, butt and T shape welds from third generation Al-Li aluminum alloys will be manufactured with the available in-house laser beam welding facilities. Upon on the informatio ...
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"THE EUROPEAN ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRY NETWORK FOR INNOVATIVE MARITIME TRAINING, EDUCATION AND R&D" (KNOW-ME)

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

"The Community’s maritime sector must sustain and improve its competitive advantage, with the groundwork for future international competitiveness resting with high quality and innovative education and training. Employees in the maritime transport sector need innovative educational opportunities that focus on their special working conditions. The KNow-ME project addresses this need by engendering a ...
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Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales (SCALES)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

Our capacity to effectively sustain biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales is an essential component of European environmental sustainability. Anthropogenic and environmental pressures on biodiversity act differently at different scales. Consequently, effective conservation responses to these threats must explicitly consider the scale at which effects occur, and therefore it is crucial th ...
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Mathematical studies on critical non-equilibrium phenomena via mean field theories and theories of nonlinear partial differential equations (MANEQUI)

Start date: Apr 15, 2010, End date: Apr 14, 2014,

The aim of the present project is to unite, in a cooperative and synergetic way, the work of researchers from 5 European institutions, 2 in Italy (Naples Federico II and Naples Second University) and 3 in Greece (FORTH Heraklion, University of Crete and University of the Aegean), in order to consolidate and definitely establish scientific collaborations with a Third Country (Japan). The focus of t ...
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