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LIFE SUSTAINHUTS: SUSTAINABLE MOUNTAIN HUTS IN EUROPE (LIFE SUSTAINHUTS)
Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2020,
Background
Measures to increase the energy resilience of mountaineering tourism infrastructure are vital for the development of mountainous regions. Recent studies suggest important impacts of climate change on the energy sector and underpin the need for adaptation, notably in the electricity sector.
Mountain huts are usually isolated from heating and e ...
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My Health - My Data (MH-MD)
Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,
Issues of data subjects’ privacy and data security represent a crucial challenge in the biomedical sector more than in other industries. The current IT landscape in this field shows a myriad of isolated, locally hosted patient data repositories, managed by clinical centres and other organisations, which are subject to frequent and massive data breaches. Patients are disenfranchised in this process ...
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European framework for ‘Knowledge Triangle’ in the logistics sector
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,
ContextThe idea of this project came out of several discussions and analysis of European and national policies in supporting 'knowledgetriangle' implementation at large scale in order to assist the international, European and national targets related to logistic and chainmanagement sector. Partners conducted a desk research, data analysis and organised workshops and Skype meetings among them in or ...
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EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE ON MARKETING AND ECONOMICS OF ECOSYSTEMS AND BIODIVERSITY
Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,
Most of innovative businesses base their success on creating value through better use of intangible assets. Ecosystem Services constitute the most valuable intangible assets on earth and forests are the most precious Natural Capital in Europe. Therefore, ECOSTAR alliance aims to develop entrepreneurship and innovation skills and opportunities among Forest and Environmental Policy and Economics (FE ...
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Library Network Support Services: modernising libraries in Western Balkan countries through staff development and reforming library services
Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,
Reason for the project: Reinforce and modernize libraries and improve the level of competencies and skills of library staff in HEI’s in Western Balkan countries. The level of competencies and skills of library staff is not of a high standard in the target PC's. Library staff need to be trained in modern library standards & practices. The main challenge they face is to transform themselves into mod ...
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Library Network Support Services: modernising libraries in Armenia, Moldova and Belarus through library staff development and reforming libraries
Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,
Reason for the project: Reinforce and modernize libraries and improve the level of competencies and skills of library staff in HEI’s in Armenia, Moldova and Belarus. The level of competencies and skills of library staff is not of a high standard in the target PC's. Library staff need to be trained in modern library standards & practices. The main challenge they face is to transform themselves into ...
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Enhancing Quality in Primary Physical Education
Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,
Background of EQuiPPE project:
P.E. is recognised as the most effective means of providing children with the skills, attitudes, values, knowledge and understanding that are essential to participation in society. It is critical to the development of physical literacy and civic engagement, academic achievement and good physical and mental health (UNESCO, 2015). Despite the UNESCO Charter for Physica ...
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Space for Agricultural Innovation (AGRISPIN)
Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
AgriSPIN: creating SPace for INnovationThe project name reflects the overall aim of this project: to strengthen support systems in creating space for innovating farmers. Innovative farmers are everywhere, but their environment determines the rate of success. The project aims to create more space for innovations, through amplifying good examples of innovation support systems and through multi-acto ...
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NUTritional LABeling Study in Black Sea Region Countries (NUTRILAB)
Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,
"Health professionals agree that the relationship between diet and health is important. Our eating habits can help or hurt our overall health and well-being. Good eating habits include being a smart shopper and selecting foods that reflect the Dietary Guidelines.The food label was designed to help people choose foods for a healthful diet. By using the food label, we can compare the nutrient conten ...
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SUSTAINABLE NETWORKS FOR THE ENERGETIC USE OF LIGNUCELLULOSIC BIOMASS IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE (FOROPA)
Start date: Nov 30, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,
Biomass constitutes a sector of the highest energy potentials both, in South East Europe and in the EU27. It covers more than half of the renewable energy sources for heat applications, and as heat covers more than half of the final energy consumption in Europe, biomass obviously is a key domain to meet the ambitious 2020 targets of the Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC). The project FOROPA a ...
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PLANT food supplements: Levels of Intake, Benefit and Risk Assessment (PlantLIBRA)
Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,
Plant food supplements, or botanicals, have high acceptance by European consumers. Potentially, they can deliver significant health benefits, safely, and at relatively low costs. New regulations and EFSA guidance are also now in. However, concerns about safety, quality and efficacy of these products remain, and bottle-necks in risk and benefit assessments need to be solved. PlantLIBRA (PLANT food ...
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DIGITAL CITIES: A network for rapid and sustainable ICT regional adoption (DC)
Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,
The main objective of the Digital Cities (DC) project is to tackle the very low rate of ICT (Information Communication Technologies) penetration at local level by providing the organizational structures, strategies/policies and tools (called altogether DC model) for enabling the rapid and sustainable adoption of ICT at local level and the development of digital cities in a broad European level. Th ...
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Control of renewable integrated systems targeting advanced landmarks (CRISTAL)
Start date: Dec 10, 2007, End date: Dec 9, 2009,
The CA aims to contribute to the integration and strengthening of European research on Renewable Energy Sources and associated power converters, controllers and combined use. The proposal is a step forward in securing a leading role for Europe in sustainable energy systems, strategically important to some EC Programme objectives: large scale implementation of Distributed Energy Resources (DER), en ...
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The project aims at creating a transnational network in the domain of virtual and remote experiments for e-learning based on integration and optimization of existing products (some of them created in the framework of the pilot project “Virtual-Electro-Lab”, RO/01/B/F/PP141024) with the multilateral use of the transnational network capacities. The main target groups are trainers in the field of tec ...
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MSc Programme in Management of Ecological and Sustainable Tourism
Start date: Oct 1, 2013,
Tourism is one of the world's fastest growing industries and an important source of foreign exchange and employment for many developing countries. In reviewing the first five years' implementation of Agenda 21 in 1997 at its nineteenth Special Session, the General Assembly indicated the need to give further consideration to the importance of tourism in the context of Agenda 21. In 2002, the World ...
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Doctors, nurses and public health workers in Europe have an influential role in addressing health concerns in public health, for example, to address growing levels of obesity and coronary disease. To date, there is no one European VET programme that provides training for doctors, nurses and public health workers in this area of public health. The HELP project addressed this gap by transferring an ...
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The project responds to an identified need for physics teaching in schools, where there are either too few teachers, or non-specialist teachers, teaching physics and will further develop ICT teacher training tools for application in the classroom. SUPERCOMET 2 builds upon the previously fundedLeonardo da Vinci project, SUPERCOMET, which established computer-based training materials for the target ...
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In most of vocational training schools, there are many radio communications related courses for teaching the theory but not enough laboratory equipments/experiments to support and demonstrate the application of the theory. The project aims to develop, produce and exploit a feasible practice-oriented remote laboratory training in using high frequency radio communications systems, for engineers and ...
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The project intends to educate and support vocational teachers to adapt and develop new learning methods, new e-e-learning modules and new pedagogical aspects in order to provide flexible and lifelong learning at the workplace.The title “LEARN AT WORK” implicates that the main objective is to move supplementary training from school to workplace.The main objectives of the projecs are: 1) to establi ...
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Due to the increasing international cooperation between different industrial companies it is necessary to get insight into the requirements to the competences of maintenance staff. This project intends to contribute to the innovation of the vocational practice within the maintenance sector by upgrading the instruments by international consensus about educational material, and by designing a compet ...
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The MIGRATOOLS project intends to address two different, yet complementary needs within the current labour market, these are the growing shortage of manpower in European SMEs and the need to integrate an increasing number of non-EU immigrants into the labour market.The target groups represented include both immigrants (having identified problems in labour market integration) and social workers, tu ...
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Fostering an entrepreneurial spirit : An interactive CD-ROM, a website complete with learning materials and a video based product to provide guidance to instructors have all been produced with the aim of contributing to improvements in entrepreneurship training at secondary and tertiary level. This project started in 2000 and lasted 36 months.
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IT tools for electronic training : The development using existing technologies of virtual laboratories for use in electronics teaching will be a cost-effective way to widen access and drive up standards. This project started in 2001 and lasted 36 months.
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The EUTRANEX project aims to meet a recognised need within education and training professionals, to reinforce their capacity for responding to an increasing need to develop an entrepreneurial culture. The project will further address the problems faced by young people preparing for labour market insertion, in particular in depressed areas. Project activities, to be undertaken via a series of techn ...
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Schools have to change in order to adapt themselves in changing environment and tobring up students for knowledge based society. However, some schools are losingstudents because they are considered unsuccessful by parents and society. It is a wellknown fact that school managers who are capable of adapting schools into changingenvironment and who are equipped with good leadership characteristics ar ...
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Flight Simulator for internet Safety
Start date: Jan 1, 2009,
The project will address Internet safety issues with the aim to achieve an in-depthunderstanding regarding safety breaches and protective measures and actions,primarily within the school and family environment. For this purpose, an Online VirtualGame Environment will be developed, supporting i) role-playing game scenarios,offered in real-time to ii) dynamic groups of online users, iii) exposed to ...
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Lean Learning Academies
Start date: Oct 1, 2009,
Reason for the project:The right way for our companies to survive today’s economical crisis is to focus on production efficiency and cost reduction. This is what lean manufacturing accomplishes. The maximum benefit from lean manufacturing is gained by considering all its elements (principles, tools, mindset) together as a system and by practicing them every day in a very consistent manner.That’s w ...
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EU standards for accreditation of study programs on BH Universities
Start date: Jan 15, 2010,
Main aim of the project concerns the introduction of European standards in evaluation and accreditation procedures of study programs in BH Universities. This is an essential step in the further implementation of the Bologna process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this way this Structural Measures proposal focused on Governance Reform fully supports the structural reform of Higher Education in the wh ...
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Managing and conserving forests for multiple values
Start date: Sep 16, 2010,
The project's goal is to provide students, and other participants, with a broad and comprehensive understanding of forest resources, issues, opportunities, and approaches for managing forests for a broad range of values (conservation, ecological services, aesthetics, recreation, timber/fibre production, non-timber forest products, and others) and to better equip students with the skills needed to ...
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MSc technology-enhanced Forest Fire Fighting Learning
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
Europe is confronted with the problem of population departure and consequent abandon of rural areas due to the increase in wildfire incidence, and there is a need to to find ways to support rural development by providing adequate training on fire and disaster related management. Romania, Hungary, Estonia, Spain and UK have recorded between 2004-2007, 21500 fires which affected almost 150,000ha of ...
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Industrial Cooperation and Creative Engineering Education based on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation
Start date: Oct 15, 2012,
iCo-op was initiated to equip engineering students in Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine with the skills necessary for a successful career. The program will forge partnerships between universities and industry to modernize engineering education that provides direct access to top-notch facilities with remote and virtual instrumentation. The program will be based on EU best practices, partners’ industry ...
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CITCOM – Citizenry and Community
Start date: Nov 1, 2013,
2013 is the European Year of the Citizen and as such the focus of activity should be on understanding & promoting the idea and practice of citizenship, in terms of European as well as more local forms of citizenship. The partnership has identified a number of issues which limit such an idea and practice and prevent ‘Europe’ and its constituent communities, groups and people reaching their full pot ...
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MSc Programme in Climate Change and Restoration of Degraded Land
Start date: Oct 1, 2012,
Much of the land in Europe is being degraded by human activity. Although in principle the land is a renewable resource, the natural processes that form it are very slow. Degraded land can take thousands of years to fully recover. Europe suffers an accelerated degradation of lands as a result of climate change and other causes such as land clearance, clear cutting and deforestation, agricultural de ...
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Teaching Programming Towards Early Development of Analytical, Structural, and Creative Minds
Start date: Dec 1, 2010,
Analytical and critical thinking are transversal learning skills that help an individual excel in wide areas, professional, social, civic, and personal. They facilitate the establishment of objectives, the evaluation of alternatives, and sound decision making. In academics they offer benefits in wide subjects, ranging from science and technology to humanities and art. Introducing engaging methods ...
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The increasing movement of people in Europe implies proper strategies aimed atcultural and social inclusion in receptor countries, in particular an efficient system oflinguistic integration. The mediterranean region is an ideal laboratory to promote a pluraland inclusive multilingualism, also functional to occupational needs in a moderneconomy.MERIDIUM aims to support in the region the goals of EU ...
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MSc Programme in Environmental Security and Management
Start date: Oct 1, 2011,
Europe is facing an accelerated climate change as a result of global warming and as a result population departure and consequent abandon of rural areas due to the increase floods, forest fire, lack of water, land slide, etc, and there is a need to find ways to support management of such hazards by providing adequate training on environmental security and management. Romania, Hungary, Estonia, Spai ...
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OPTIMISING PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR TRAINING IN A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
OPTIMALE addresses one of the key challenges of a multilingual and multicultural Europe: how to ensure that Its universities continue to produce the high-level professionals that the Community translation services and the translation Industry need, to adapt to rapidly changing societal and market conditions. As recent reports have highlighted, the rapid technological changes of the past decade, fa ...
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