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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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Common Good First - digital storytelling for Social Innovation

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

In order to support and grow the emerging South African social innovation sector, we will a create a digital network – Common Good First - to capture and showcase social impact projects in South Africa, connecting them to each other, academics and HEIs around the world. In doing so, we will also address the issue of the ‘digital divide’, as identified by the country’s National Development Plan 20 ...
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Global Studies - A European Perspective

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

...nagement. Diploma Successful students of the European Master 'Global Studies' will receive a Master of Arts in Global Studies. Depending on their mobility track a double degree (in case it contains Roskilde and/or London School of Economics) or joint degree (in all other cases) will be issued. The degree will be accompanied by a diploma supplement, which contains further information about the educ ...
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Engagement Art: Regional Islamic and Global Pragmatist Aesthetics (ENART)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

ENART is an integrated research and training programme for innovative knowledge transfer and career development. It will be implemented at the Department of Society and Global Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark (Beneficiary, host of the Incoming Phase), the Department of History of Art at the University of Michigan, USA (Partner Organisation hosting the Outgoing Phase), and SALT, research and ...
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DiasporaLink

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

DiasporaLink is a 4-year exchange program between 24 universities and research institutes representing EU, the Americas, Africa and Australia and will investigate, evaluate and facilitate transnational diaspora entrepreneurship, TDE as driver of development and wealth creation in countries of origin and residence. • The partners in DiasporaLink have together a unique possibility to have a substant ...
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Preventing and responding to conflict: developing EU CIVilian CAPabilities for a sustainable peace (EU-CIVCAP)

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

The goals of preventing the outbreak of conflict and promoting sustainable peace remain a fundamental challenge to policymakers and analysts alike. The European Union (EU) and its member states require an adequate set of capabilities if they are to address this challenge in a timely and effective manner. EU-CIVCAP will provide a comprehensive, comparative and multidisciplinary analysis of EU civil ...
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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: Jul 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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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

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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Social Protection Innovative Investment in Long Term Care (SPRINT)

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

SPRINT project intends to give meaning to the concept of social investment as applied to long-term care provision. Its objective is to articulate in more detail the aspirations of the Social Investment Programme, to provide a means for assessing the social costs and benefits of various ways of providing long-term care for the frail elderly, and to present examples of approaches that do indeed, fa ...
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SOLIDUS: “Solidarity in European societies: empowerment, social justice and citizenship” (SOLIDUS)

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

The current crisis has indirectly contributed to questioning the efficiency of financial markets and democratic institutions at European and national levels. Recent data from the Eurobarometer (July 2013) shows a continuous decrease in the trust levels that citizens from the European Union have on national governments and parliaments, radically decreasing in more than 25 points in the last six yea ...
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Improving the Effectiveness of the Capabilities (IEC) in EU conflict prevention (IECEU)

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

The European Union (EU) is increasingly affected and challenged by geopolitical changes, increasing impact of conflict on civilians, globalized impact of local conflicts, technological developments and budgetary constraints challenges the Radicalization, the growing potential for individuals to create large security threats and transnational criminality further complicates the security landscape o ...
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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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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 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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Co-ordinating Research Efforts of the ICT-Energy Community (ICT-Energy)

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

The goal of this proposal is to create a coordination activity among consortia involved in the ICT-ENERGY subject with specific reference to bringing together the existing "Toward Zero-Power ICT" community organized within the ZEROPOWER C.A. and the novel "MINECC" (Minimising energy consumption of computing to the limit) community recently funded under the FET Proactive Call 8 (FP7-ICT-2011-8) Obj ...
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Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environements (LIPSE)

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

"The LIPSE project (Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environments) identifies drivers and barriers to successful social innovation in the public sector. Through studying social innovation and co-creation practices and processes in 11 European countries and 7 policy sectors, LIPSE will create and disseminate essential knowledge about public innovation. The LIPSE consortium consists of lead ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

Roskilde University (RUC) has participated in the Erasmus LLP Program since the beginning and has built up an extensive partner portfolio. Partners and activities represent an academic and geographic diversity according to different objective set forth in RUC’s International Education Strategy (2013-2015). In 2014 we focused on the following areas: - High Quality and balanced student mobility - Th ...
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"Development of Tools and Techniques to Survey, Assess, Stabilise, Monitor and Preserve Underwater Archaeological Sites" (SASMAP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

"SASMAP’s purpose is to develop new technologies and best practices in order to locate, assess and manage Europe’s underwater cultural heritage in a more effective way than is possible today. SASMAP will take holistic- and process- based approaches to investigate underwater environments and the archaeological sites contained therein.SASMAP will benefit the management of underwater cultural heritag ...
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BeltLogistics

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Jul 30, 2015,

...nsestadt Lübeck und Kreis Ostholstein) ein grenzüberschreitendes Netzwerk zwischen den derzeit auf deutscher und dänischer Seite aktiven Logistiknetzwerken Fe-mern Belt Platform (Universität Roskilde), der Brancheninitiative logRegion (Wirtschaftsförderung Lübeck GmbH) sowie lokal/regionale tätigen Logistik-Branchenorganisationen, Wissenseinrichtungen und logistikbranchenrelevanten Einrichtungen d ...
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Tourism innovation mangement Fehmarnbelt (TIM Fehmarnbelt)

Start date: Mar 31, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Ziel des Projektes ist es, durch den Aufbau einesPartnernetzwerks, touristische Unternehmen zurEntwicklung von Geschäftsideen undKooperationen anzuregen, um dieFehmarnbeltregion im Wettbewerb mit anderenDestinationen zu stärken.Durch das Identifizieren der Bedürfnisse desTourismusgewerbes und der Touristen in derRegion, sowie die Arbeit in 4Schwerpunktthemen wird das Wissen von- undübereinander ge ...
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Employment 2025: How will multiple transitions affect the European labour market (NEUJOBS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The objective of NEUJOBS is to imagine future, or rather various possible futures, under the conditions of the socioecological transition (and incorporating other key influences), map the implications for employment overall, but also in key sectors and relevant groups and integrate all of this together under a single intellectual framework. It will do so by combining EU-wide studies based on exist ...
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Oresund Media Platform

Start date: May 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Oresund Media Plattform works to gain the integration within the Oresund Region through new journalistic work methods that will increase the general knowledge about the cross-boundary development in the region. Expected Results: ...
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Oresund Event Center

Start date: Jan 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The project gathers for the first time the main players in the regional event industry in one network. This will make the whole region more competitive and more attractive for international event organizers, tourists and talents. Expected Re ...
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Mechanistic Effect Models for the Ecological Risk Assessment of Chemicals (CREAM)

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

There is widespread concern about how production and use of chemicals affect the environment. Yet food production and benefits of chemical products are vital for the functioning of European societies. In order to ensure sustainable use, EU regulations require extensive risk assessment before a chemical is approved for use. Current risk assessments focus on risk at the level of individual organisms ...
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Innovative Social Services platform (InnoServ)

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

Our consortium will investigate innovative approaches in three fields of social services: health, education, and welfare. To do so, we will focus on two levels: (i) the status quo of research in these fields and (ii) the input from practitioners who have developed innovative social services. Special attention will be paid to the transferability of elements, the European value, effects on gender an ...
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Promoting inquiry in mathematics and science education across Europe (Primas)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

This project aims to effect a change across Europe in the teaching and learning of mathematics and science with teachers supported to develop inquiry-based learning (IBL) pedagogies so that students gain experience of IBL approaches. Ultimately, our objective is a greater number of students with more positive dispositions towards further study of these subjects and the desire to be employed in rel ...
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Highland aquatic resources conservation and sustainable development (HighARCS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Project partner will complete a detailed multidisciplinary situation analysis of highland aquatic resources, focused on values, livelihoods, conservation issues and wise-use options at five sites in Asia (Guangdong, China; Uttrakhand and West Bengal, India and northern and central Vietnam). Factors assessed will include biodiversity and ecosystem services, including provisioning, regulating, suppo ...
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Cluster for Accelerator Technology (CATE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

With the prospects of big labs ESS and MAX IV, and the coming need of accelerator technology, companies in the region need to learn how to provide the required technology. To enable companies to compete internationally regarding design, construction, maintenance of high technology accelerator related equipment, close cooperation between Danish, Norwegian and Swedish universities and companies is e ...
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Modelling nanoparticle toxicity: principles, methods, novel approaches (ModNanoTox)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

ModNanoTox will develop a number of well-documented and technically advanced models describing the behaviour of engineered nanoparticles in organisms and the environment. Background to these models will be a thoroughly documented database, constructed based on: (1) an advanced evaluation of physicochemical properties of nanoparticles and in silico modelling of their reactivity; and (2) assessment ...
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INDEX: Education program (INDEX)

Start date: Oct 31, 2010, End date: Oct 30, 2013,

Design to Improve Life Education is a largescale education project. Education experts suggest a correlation between students lack of motivation and a school system that is designed for industrialsocietys mindset and structure. The project is addressing this by using global challenges as learning resources in school and by activating schools as a resource in society.
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Center for evacuation security in the Oresundregion (KESO)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 30, 2013,

The Öresund region share issues with regards to complex building constructions, i.e. buildings and constructions that are complicated from an evacuation point of view. The project will lead to a cross border evacuation strategy, applicable and equally relevant in Denmark and Sweden. ...
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BeltScience

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2013,

Mit dem Projekt „BeltScience“ soll ein grenzüberschreitendes Netzwerk der Hochschulen Fachhochschule Lübeck (FHL) und Roskilde Universität (RUC) aufgebaut werden. Dieses soll dazu dienen, die Chancen der verbesserten Erreichbarkeit durch die feste Fehmarnbelt-Querung auf Hochschulebene und den verschiedensten Fachgebieten zu nutzen und somit ein Zusammenwachsen der Grenzregionen und insbesondere d ...
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Coasts of the Future

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

The project Coasts of the Future is a co-operation project between actors engaged in costal area development in the Oresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak-region. The coastal areas have experienced an extensive industrial change – from traditional enterprises such as fishing boats to tourism. A challenge is to adapt to the change in a way that leads to economic growth, and at the same time preserve environmen ...
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Oresund Materials Innovation Community (Phase 2)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The projects partners intend to develop the Oresund innovation system within materials science, to create the fundament to make the region a world leading materials science centre. To reach this goal, the project will work with linking the regional strengths, making use of the innovation capacity within materials science, and integrating the innovation system across Oresund. ...
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Centre for Scandinavian Studies (CSS)

Start date: Jul 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The long-term goal is to make the resulting centre into the leading institution worldwide for research and education in Scandinavian Studies, encompassing the fields of language, literature and culture. Expected Results: Co-op ...
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THE REACTIVITY AND TOXICITY OF ENGINEERED NANOPARTICLES: RISKS TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH (NanoReTox)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

NanoReTox will identify the potential risks to the environment and human health posed by free engineered (i.e. manmade) nanomaterial by comprehensively addressing five key questions: (1) How does the environment into which nanoparticles are released affect their physicochemical properties and their bioreactivity? (2) How does this impact on their ability to interact with and/or penetrate mammalia ...
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Work and Life Quality in New and Growing Jobs (WALQING)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"In order to explore the linkages between ‘new jobs’, conditions of work and employment in these jobs and more or less favourable outcomes for employees’ quality of work and life, WALQING combines data analysis on the chief European data sources, in-depth comparative investigation of stakeholder policies, organisational arrangements and strategies, and the perspectives and agency of individuals in ...
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Towards the next generation of the Geological Time Scale for the last 100 million years – the European contribution to EARTHTIME (GTSnext)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Geological time is inextricably linked with Earth Sciences and the Geological Time Scale (GTS) is the yardstick to measure it. As such the GTS is the key to reconstruct Earth history. Recent developments in numerical dating now permit to build a much improved next generation GTS for the last 100 million years by integrating independent state-of-the-art techniques; this time scale will have an unpr ...
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WORKCARE SYNERGIES - Dissemination of Synthesized Framework Programme Research Findings (WCS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"WORKCARE SYNERGIES is a support action with the aim of disseminating research findings of previous EU Framework Programme projects in the field of work-care. Our dissemination scheme is based on the concept of local key mediator teams, which are based in each of the seven countries where dissemination will take place and the mediator teams consist of local researchers, knowledge transfer and comm ...
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Strategies for the protection of shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea against forthcoming attack by wood degrading marine borers. A synthesis and information project based on the effects of climatic changes (WreckProtect)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

Today the Baltic sea is a brackish marine environment, enclosing a unique well preserved historical collection of wooden shipwrecks and settlements. These objects and constructions are protected from aggressive marine borer due to the low salinity in the waters, and therefore it is one of the few localities in the world where historical shipwrecks are found so intact and available for historical ...
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"The Contribution of Public and Private Services to European Growth and Welfare, and the Role of Public-Private Innovation Networks" (SERVPPIN)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

"Services are the dominant economic sector in modern economies and are a crucial component of competitiveness strategy and welfare in Europe. In the past public and private services have been studied in isolation of one another. At best this is misleading. At worst it produces a false understanding of the drivers, dynamics, and impact of services. The ServPPIN project addresses this problem by ana ...
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