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Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-Course: structures and processes (DIAL)

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

Existing and rising inequalities pose fundamental challenges to European societies and economies. Large disparities in human and social capacities are counterproductive to a sustainable and creative economy and participatory governance and inclusion. The increasing gulf between rich and poor, exacerbated by the recent financial and economic crises, is a key concern. The sources of inequalities in ...
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Welfare State Futures (WSF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...evements up until now have been three transnational initiatives: three rounds of the NORFACE Seminar Series in 2005, 2006 and 2007, the pilot research programme “Re-emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe?” (€ M 5,4) in 2006 and the transnational research programme “Migration in Europe - Social, Economic, Cultural and policy Dynamics” (€ M 23 and M € 6 ERA-Net Plus contribution) in 2008. ...
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Empowering Young Disadvantaged Individuals to Trigger Change in their Communities - You.Change.Com

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

... unrest in relation to the economic system placing young people at a disadvantaged socio-economic position with heightened youth unemployment, and also due to political distrust, a fall of values and socially-oriented causes as well as reduced belief in bottom-up social change. Similarly, feelings of exclusion or inequalities diminish further the will to participate. At the same time, young people ...
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EP-DeM Labs - Equity, Participation, Decision making Labs (Youth in Transition in European cities)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

... that can influence and play an active role as model also in formal education, training and employment frameworks and not only, as traditionally is meant, in “leisure” and in tackling “anti-social” behaviours; 3. Adopt, adapt and develop innovative dialogue and self-empowerment experiences and approaches targeting excluded youth, typically relegated to the informal and youth work contexts, to enga ...
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Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change (SI-DRIVE)

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

SI-DRIVE extends knowledge about social innovation (SI) in three major directions:- Integrating theories and research methodologies to advance understanding of SI leading to a comprehensive new paradigm of innovation.- Undertaking European and global mapping of SI, thereby addressing different social, economic, cultural, historical and religious contexts in eight major world regions.- Ensuring rel ...
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Volunteers Fighting Against Xenophobia

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

By this project we aim to provide non-formal learning opportunities- social integration, sense of anti discrimination for youngster inclduing youth with fewer opportunities and then we will let them learn about the opportunities after short term EVS such as Long term EVS,This project has also beed designed to be able to host long term EVS volutneers. Our Long Term voluneters will assist our camp ...
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Youth Activator: Make it happen

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

...rkers and youth leaders who want to be the spark which will light the change and activate the youth in their societies. Aim of the project is to increase the active citizenship of youth with focus on social participation in the community and volunteering; exercise project management skills in order to support the boost of community projects and activities in the participants’ realities and provid ...
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OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: FROM CONCEPTS TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS (OPENNESS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

...tem services, habitat banking, biodiversity offsetting and land and ecosystem accounting. These types of interventions have potential for sustaining ESS and NC, and for the design of new economic and social investment opportunities. Finally, OpenNESS will assess how current regulatory frameworks and other institutional factors at EU and national levels enable or constrain consideration of ESS and ...
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Special care for special needs

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

...ect. All planned activities (long-term EVS and study visit) aim to enable an exchange of experience in order to improve the quality of youth work with volunteers and further promote solidarity and social inclusion. The project puts special attention to one of the main features of Erasmus+ program - promoting inclusion of disadvantaged or fewer opportunities groups. The project also aims to streng ...
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HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters (HERA JRP CE)

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

The HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters (HERA JRP CE) consortium will establish a single joint transnational programme for multi-disciplinary research into the causes and consequences of cultural encounters. To understand cultural encounters is to understand the history and meaning of Europe itself, from the earliest periods of human settlement to the present day. Its effects impact ...
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Advancing SSA-EU cooperation in research and innovation for global challenges (CAAST-Net Plus)

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

...ing eight priority areas for Africa-Europe cooperation. The contribution of scientific and technological research, development and innovation, and the centrality of capacity research for economic and social growth and poverty alleviation, and for addressing global societal challenges of mutual interest is explicit. The value of cooperation between the continents is central and under JAES has alrea ...
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Advancing Research and Innovation in the Danube Region (Danube-INCO.NET)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2016,

...orting the policy dialogue, the creation of networks, and providing analyses and support to R&I activities.By joining forces from 19 project partners under the coordination of the Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Danube-INCO.NET seeks to overcome obstacles hindering the social and economic development of the Danube region. The project will be putting in all effort to ensure that events, publi ...
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"Youth for all...all for Humanity"

Start date: May 2, 2016, End date: Nov 1, 2016,

...migrating groups and their cultural and religious backgrounds: during the project local campaigns will be run by young people with the support of youth workers, teachers, social workers, psychologist, etc. These campaigns will happen in online and offline forms and addressing all parts of societies in order to spread the true facts from immigrants instead of lies and find more humanitarian aids fo ...
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#rightfactor

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Our training course, #rightfactor, results from the quests/needs and interest of many participants, youth workers, NGO staff, that we noticed from other programs/projects/actions that we carried out, on the difficulty to mainstream human rights within their work and to assess if they were inclusive or not.Confronted many times with the mentioned questions, we thought that the best way to address t ...
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X-LIBRIS- SMART ICT 3.0 LIBRARIES SERVICES to address on Future Skills and Competences -Learning Spaces 2025

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

...Librarianship is now based on participatory culture. The library of this century is not only a place to passively consume information but a place where knowledge is created, explored, shared and new social relationships are forged. Libraries today begin to redesign their services and even their physical space. Participatory librarians are expected to invite users to co-curate collections, physi ...
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Simulated Practice for Skills Development in Social Services and Healthcare (Digital_Bridges)

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

Needs The importance of health & social services is increasing as European society grows older and unemployment and relocation across Europe increases. This growing demand for services, a public sector provision in many Member States, is creating unprecedented pressures on health & social care systems. Despite differences in political approaches and institutional frameworks, health and social serv ...
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3R Reduce Reuse Recycle

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

This EVS Project will bring 3 groups of 10 volunteers from EU and Neighbour Countries , France, Bosna Herseqova, Spain, Italy and Hungary, The activities will be carried out in the south east of Turkey, Gaziantep City. The Theme of the Project is Environment. We aim to establish a sustainable awareness among the people living in rural areas about Reducing-Reusing and Recycling to protect the e ...
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Transnational Network for Social Innovation Incubation (TRANSITION)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Transnational Network for Social Innovation Incubation – TRANSITION – is a 30-month project that supports the scaling-up of social innovations across Europe by developing a network of incubators which brings together established partners within the fields of social innovation (SI) and innovation-based incubation (IBI). TRANSITION will also provide learning output on which scaling methodologies are ...
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kNOWledge vol.1

Start date: Nov 15, 2014, End date: Feb 14, 2016,

The idea for this project stems from the recognition of the need for better networking and developing the skills of people working in the youth sector, and to improve the services offered by youth structures, particularly in regard to supporting young people with fewer opportunities to develop skills and competencies both at personal as well as professional level. Wanting to have a more holistic a ...
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PROmoting Global REsponsible research and Social and Scientific innovation (PROGRESS)

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

Delivering European Renewal relies heavily on the advancement of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) – that is, research and innovation which is:- is ethically acceptable,- is sustainable by avoiding significant adverse effects and- drives towards the common good, i.e. societal desirability.To achieve maximum impact where it is most needed, ProGReSS concentrates on the underexplored and leas ...
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EUROLYS 2015 - In-Difference

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

...countries INTRODUCTION about the project IDEA: Unfortunately, cases of racism and discrimination are increasing and the phenomenon does not spare even the young and youth groups. Xenophobia becomes socially acceptable....so we should use: Rights, Equality and Citizenship in preventing and combating racism, xenophobia, homophobia and other forms of intolerance, starting by the PAST. The project a ...
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Youth Leaders+

Start date: Jan 15, 2015, End date: Aug 14, 2015,

...d local community. In particular the project’s aim is to empower youth workers that work with young people from minority backgrounds, enabling them to overcome situation of discrimination and social exclusion caused by racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance with the use of leadership skills. The Training Course will involve 27 participants (youth leaders, youth workers, youth activist ...
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Cooperation for better Youth Centers

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

Our project took place in Bursa between 1 and 8 of May 2015 by Volunteer Movement who host 3 different organization from Polond, Armania and Ukraine. The group was total more than 25 people from 4 countries (one group leader 4 participants from each & Host team and volunteers) Our project was inspired by Görükle Youth Center which is one of the results of our field studies. Our youth center is th ...
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Combating Unemployment and Social Exclusion

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Apr 1, 2015,

...g young people at work in several EU countries (participating countries), the employment policies of each country and finding good practices and ways to promote youth employability (employment) and social inclusion. To achieve the objectives of the project and to have the best possible learning outcomes, non-formal learning will be used as the main working method of the seminar. Among others, work ...
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Improvement the effectiveness of regional development policies in eco-INNovation for smart hOme and independent liVing to increase the quality of life of Aging people (INN.O.V.Age)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...Spa the Regional Development Agency acting as General Secretariat; ADEBAG (FR); Culminatum Innovation Oy Ltd (FI);Sofia Municipality (BG); Region of Central Macedonia (EL); Regional Management of Social Services–Junta de Castilla y León (ES); Geroskipou Municipality (CY); SEHTA (UK); Development Centre Litija(SI);Lithuanian Innovation Centre-LIC(LT); INTRAS Foundation (ES); Regional Development Ag ...
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Realising a Transnational Strategy against the brain-drain of well-educated young women (WOMEN)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

... migration of well-educated young women. This results in severe sex-ratio imbalances among the working-age population of these regions and a lack of highly skilled labour. Whereas the first endangers social cohesion on territorial level, the second one negatively impacts economic competitiveness, growth and consequently employment. In regard to the regional demographic development, the outbound mi ...
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Clustering, Innovation technologique et Développement des compétences dans le domaine des industries créatives et culturelles (TRANSCREATIVA)

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

... est de faire des Industries Culturelles et Créatives (ICC) de l'espace SUDOE une bonne pratique européenne capable de concilier développement économique (transfert de technologie) et cohésion sociale (jeunes au chômage).Les ICC sont ces industries qui combinent la création, la production et la commercialisation de contenus créatifs intangibles pouvant prendre la forme d'un bien ou d'un service. E ...
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Facilitating Responsible Innovation in SEE countries  (FaRInn)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

... Responsible Innovation in SEE countries" is to enhance framework conditions and pave the way for a responsible innovation model in South East Europe, which respects the principles of sustainability, social responsibility and better quality of life. Responsible Innovation is a "transparent, interactive process by which societal actors and innovators interact and collaborate, aiming to ethical acce ...
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NORFACE Transnational Programme on Migration in Europe (NORFACE PLUS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

During recent years persistent rates of international migration have generated a very high level social, economic and policy concern in Europe. Migration has become a multi-faceted phenomenon, transcending traditional explanations. There is much still to be understood about the causes, actualities and effects of these movements of people. The NORFACE transnational programme “Migration in Europe: S ...
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Fostering Evaluation Competencies in Research, Technology and Innovation in the SEE Region (EVAL-INNO)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2014,

In front of more and more differentiating innovation policy and funding mixes in SEE, which increasingly leverage national budgets and bridge between different policy fields, the absence of sufficient endogenous RTDI evaluation capacities causes a serious bottleneck for the entire innovation management cycle. Thus, the key objective of EVAL-INNO is to strengthen regional as well as national evalua ...
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Regions benefitting from returning migrants (Re-Turn)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2014,

Economically motivated migration of people from the New Member States to high-income countries is currently dominating international migration flows in Europe thanks to the free right to work in any other EU Member State. This is intensifying a brain drain process of many regions. On the other hand statistics show willingness of people to come back to their countries, however this process is ofte ...
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HERA Joint Research Programme (HERAJRP)

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

...HERA JRP, the 13 national funding partners want to create collaborative, trans-national research opportunities that will derive new insights from humanities research in order to address major social, cultural, and political challenges facing Europe. In consultation with their national researcher communities, they have jointly defined and developed common research priorities, and created a new tran ...
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Balanced European Conservation Approach – ICT services for resource saving in social housing (BECA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The BECA (Balanced European Conservation Approach – ICT services for resource saving in social housing) project addresses the need to reduce energy consumption in European social housing by a very significant amount to meet overall emission reduction targets. To substantially reduce peak and overall demand for energy and water across EU social housing, BECA will develop a full set of innovative se ...
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Central European Knowledge Platform for an Ageing Society (CE-Ageing Platform)

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

...ved from cooperation between various partners and their desire to jointly contribute to improved framework conditions in their regions in order to foster economic growth, regional development and social cohesion. It is built on the belief that challenges faced in the cross-cutting issue "ageing" can only be solved in working together. The CE-Ageing Platform aims to jointly develop a CE-Ageing Stra ...
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OBSERVATORY ON STATE AID IMPACT (OSAIS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

...some partners with detailed specific aid schemes focusing on the most efficient way to support the SME system with the full band witdth of state aid in all contrivable economic, environmental and social areas.The Action Plans will be submitted to the relevant regional legislative/executive bodies. ...
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Regional ICT Foresight exercise for Southeast European countries (FORSEE)

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

The FORSEE project targets ICT RTD policy reform in the South-eastern Europe (SEE) region, proposing a focused effort on introducing a Foresight culture in the region, which is necessary in order to accelerate target countries' socioeconomic growth on their way to matching the challenges of the global networked economy and participating on equal footing in the European Research Area. The project w ...
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New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe II (NORFACE II)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

...ion in Europe. The ERA-NET NORFACE Co-ordination Action started in January 2004 and has developed a close partnership and network of European national agencies responsible for funding research in the social sciences. The NORFACE Co-ordination Action formally ended in September 2009. The NORFACE-SA Partners together provide the capacity for significant levels of co-operation and exchange. They are ...
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Preparing for the construction of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (PREPARINGDARIAH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

The grand vision for the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) is to facilitate access to research material for the humanities and for supporting the preservation of digital heritage material in Europe. DARIAH connects information users (researchers), information managers and information providers. It gives them a technical framework that enables enhanced data sharin ...
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Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points for Socio-economic sciences and the Humanities (NET4SOCIETY)

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

A strong and efficient Network of National Contacts Points (NCP) is not only elementary to the success of the Seventh EU Framework Programme but also to the realization of the European Research Area. The trans-national project “NET4SOCIETY” will strive to achieve this declared goal. For its proposed duration of three years, “NET4SOCIETY” will support the creation and establishment of a functional ...
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Specific support action for the advancement and the implementation of the eco-building concept (ECO-BUILD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2007, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

The overall objectives of the ECO-BUILD project are to provide policy makers and stakeholders with an overview of the internationally most advanced concepts and technologies for Eco-buildings, best practice solutions for implementing those concepts and an assessment of the potential of and problems faced by different sets of policy measures adopted at the European and national levels. The latter p ...
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