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Heightening University-Business partnerships FOR smart and sustainable GROWTH in Asia ( HUB4GROWTH)

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

In the last two decades, and particularly since the onset of the global financial crisis, providing innovation-oriented knowledge has become a priority at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to address the widespread challenges of high unemployment towards smart and inclusive growth.At the global level, Asia is undergoing rapid changes and integrating into fast-evolving networks but growth is sev ...
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Evidence based policy for post crisis stabilization: bridging the gap (CAERUS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The CAERUS consortium aims to identify humanitarian relief actions that pave the way for human development and stability in post-conflict societies. Why have some countries successfully escaped the cycle of violence and conflict where others seem to be trapped? What has been the specific role of national, international and particularly European post-conflict relief action and development cooperati ...
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moting socio-economic sustainable development through innovative technological actions for Mediterranean tourism heritage and landscapes protection clusters (HELAND)

Start date: Aug 28, 2012, End date: Dec 28, 2015,

The Mediterranean region is currently being affected by increasing environmental and cultural deterioration. Although it is still one of the foremost tourist areas in the world, the Mediterranean is progressively losing attractiveness. In order to regain competitiveness, Mediterranean countries need to modernise the management of touristic assets, investing in new technologies and innovative polic ...
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Collaborative Action towards Societal Challenges through Awareness, Development, and Education (CASCADE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

CASCADE aims to provide the foundation for a future INCONET programme targeting South Asian Countries, which will promote bi-regional coordination of Science &Technology (S&T) cooperation, including priority setting and definition of S&T cooperation policies. The objectives of CASCADE, as an 18-month supporting action, are to: compile a regional position paper that identifies global challenges and ...
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Creation of a networked infrastructure for innovation on sustainability in the home enviroment that enables user-centred testing and development in a living laboratories and testing houses at 5 locations (SusLabNWE)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Mar 29, 2015,

SusLabNWE aims to set up in North-West Europe a networked infrastructure of houses and living laboratories for studying technology-user interaction in real-life home environments at 5 locations around NWE: Rotterdam (NL). Ruhr area (DE). London (UK). Gothenburg (SE) and Zurich (CH). The objective is to become a world-leading networked knowledge hub. well-embedded in the local knowledge infrast ...
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hosphorus from the seabed and water quality in archipelagos - modeling attempt (SEABED)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

Despite of extensive water protection measures, the state of the Baltic Sea is poor. Nutrients levels in the water and sediments are high, and anoxic dead bottoms are widespread in the sea floor. Even shallow archipelago waters are suffering from oxygen deficiency, though effective water protection measures have cut nutrient discharges from coastal areas. The phenomenon is supposed to be caused by ...
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Living North Sea (LNS)

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Sep 29, 2012,

The Living North Sea project will solve problems surrounding the management of fish species which rely on moving between the North Sea and freshwater systems of partner countries. These species are under considerable threat, some even in hazardous decline. Living North Sea brings together representatives from every North Sea Interreg partner country, in a programme which will make long lasting cha ...
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Quadruple Helix Central Baltic (Quadruple)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

Quadruple addresses the need to integrate a gender perspective in policies and practices for cluster and innovation promotion in the Central Baltic Region (hereinafter called CBR). Although the innovation system in CBR is considered as one of the most advanced in Europe it has weaknesses when it comes to the involvement of women. Prior cooperation among project partners has highlighted the importa ...
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Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Asia (ISSOWAMA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

The general inadequate, when existing, methods of collection and disposal of solid waste in most Asian cities are causing important environmental and social harms, as human diseases spreading, environmental pollution and ground and water pollution. In order to raise awareness, promote an adequate waste collection and treatment system and the economic growth of this activity sector in a technologic ...
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A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI)

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

PESI provides standardised and authoritative taxonomic information by integrating and securing Europe's taxonomically authoritative species name registers and nomenclators (name databases) that underpin the management of biodiversity in Europe.PESI defines and coordinates strategies to enhance the quality and reliability of European biodiversity information by integrating the infrastructural compo ...
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Regional Cooperation in Waste Management (RECO)

Start date: Jan 12, 2005, End date: Jan 11, 2008,

RECO is a waste management and spatial planning project in cooperation between partners from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Its Central Objective is to support the development of efficient Institutions for management of municipal waste in the BSR in order to minimize negative environmental effects, lower life cycle costs for waste managem ...
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Transnational River Basin Districts on the Eastern Side of the Baltic Sea Network - TRABANT (TRABANT)

Start date: Jul 10, 2005, End date: Dec 31, 2007,

Project Transnational River Basin Districts on the Eastern Side of the Baltic Sea Network - TRABANT endeavours to improve basis for the integration of significant ecological and management aspects in the Eastern Baltic Sea region, including links to spatial development. The conditions in the Baltic Sea result to a large extent from the activities in river basins. The activities have been and will ...
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Development of an Information System for Natural Risk Management in the Mediterranean (SYNARMA)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Earthquakes, landslides, forest fires are a permanent threat for Greece, Sicily and Calabria, causing fatalities, material damage at regional, national and trans-national level. Especially earthquakes are the mostly feared by local populations, causing paralysis of local socio-economical activities. Landslides can be predicted and prevented by taking appropriate actions a priori. Earthquakes and f ...
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DestiLink: Network on Sustainable Tourism Destination Development-Linking Rural Regions and Research Institutions in Europe (DestiLink)

Start date: Oct 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

DestiLink wants to increase the competitiveness of rural regions by creating a network of sustainable tourism development practitioners and researches, and thereby linking the regions with the research community. The aim is to facilitate capacity building in the regions through the exchange of experience and best practice examples. Further aims are to develop efficient destination management tools ...
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Safety at Sea (S@S)

Start date: Feb 26, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

The project aims at harmonising risk management strategies for the North Sea Region and at transforming these strategies into practical methodologies for spatial planners, decision makers and operational entities dealing with safety at sea. The strategies will be put into practice in six demonstration projects, including classification and risk assessment of oil transport in the North Sea, practic ...
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Territorial impact of EU transport and TEN policies (Transport Policy impact)

Start date: Sep 5, 2002, End date: Apr 20, 2005,

Major questions under this project are how and to what extent TENs provide the right answers for a balanced and polycentric territorial development as described in the ESDP, regarding infrastructures, level and quality of services provided on the infrastructures, but also in terms of regulation and pricing policy. The measures proposed in the White Paper "The European transport policy by 2010" (CO ...
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Vocationally Oriented culture and language in the Medical Emergency Sector

The aim of the VOCAL-Medical project was to transfer innovation from the LdV TOI project VOCAL (2007-2009) and other relevant EU projects which relate to language learning in vocational contexts to a new area, namely the healthcare sector. The project targeted those healthcare professionals who find themselves having to communicate with patients who are non-nationals in emergency situations where ...
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Creation of third cycle studies - Doctoral Programme in Renewable Energy and Environmental Technology

Start date: Oct 15, 2010,

The project is designed to advance capacity in education, research, innovation and exploitation of knowledge in the area of Renewable Energy and Environmental Technology in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Ukraine through cooperation with European Universities within a framework of Doctoral Programme.To meet this overall objective, the project team will:- introduce advanced Bologna- ...
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S1-L12 Innovation and Design for Euro-Asian Scholars

Start date: Jul 15, 2011,

The IDEAS project will primarily focus on collaboration in science and high technology domains with a special focus on the thematic fields Innovation, Computer Enginering, Financial Engineering, and Environmental Science. It will be implemented through the following main activities: • Focus on innovation and entrepreneurship in cooperation with Asian universities for facilitating easier and bett ...
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S1-L10 Academic Relationship for Central Asia with Destination Europe

Start date: Jul 15, 2011,

The Partnership is submitting a proposal for a project named ARCADE (Academic Relationship for Central Asia with Destination Europe) the main objective of which is to promote higher education cooperation between EU and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) in coherence with the EU general goal of improving the bilateral cooperation in the field of education. T ...
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Institute for Strategic Management of Universities

Start date: Oct 15, 2011,

Overall aim:Improve the governance and management of higher education institutions by ensuring a high level of qualified middle and top managers through the creation of an international institute for strategic management of universities.Specific objectives:- To map the university management competencies and needs in central asian universities.- To set up an institute for strategic management of un ...
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ECDL National Operator and Test Centers in Azerbaijan

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

The wider objective of the project is to set up ECDL National Operator and Testing Centres in partner universities and to build computer skills capacity needed for the integration of key competencies of lifelong learning into the development strategies of higher educational institutions in Azerbaijan. The rationale of this project is based on "2009-2012 State Program on the reform of higher educat ...
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Elaboration of Qualification Framework for Land Management Studies at Russian Universities

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

ELFRUS project purpose is elaboration of sectoral Qualifications Framework for Land Management Studies at Russian Universities. Project will contribute towards its wider objective “Enhancement of quality and relevance of higher education in Russian Federation and increasing convergence with EU developments through elaboration of qualifications framework”. There are three specific project objective ...
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EXPERTS 4 Asia - Exchange by Promoting Quality Education, Research and Training in South and South-East Asia

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

One of the main goals of Experts4Asia is to give continuity and sustainability to the successful multilateral collaboration created in previous projects while including new players in the Erasmus Mundus program. The consortium is composed of 5 countries from group A (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan) and 7 countries from group B (China, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, the ...
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EMMAE14 - Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia East 2014

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia-E14 is an exchange programme for students and staff between 7 European and 10 Asian Universities.The grantees are selected in 3 cohorts. The online application period for the 1st cohort is Nov.-Dec. 2013; 38 EU and Asian staff and 15 doctorates are selected in Jan. 2014. The 2nd cohort with 75 Asian students and 6 postdocs is selected in Dec. 2014. The 3rd cohor ...
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