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licy Learning to Unlock Skills in the TEXtile sector (PLUSTEX)
Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
...the evaluation criteria provided by the methodology were Maisons de Mode - providing support to young fashion brands in the area of Lille and Roubaix (France) - and SPINPARK business incubator at the University of Minho - providing support to technological entrepreneurship in different stages of corporate life via a diverse range of services in the area of Guimarães (Portugal). Their full details ...
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Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon (UHI)
Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2014,
As population of our cities grow, so does land area and this result in increase of an average temperature. The buildings and roads absorb temperature produced during the day, like giant heaters, and store it. The energy is then released during the night time. This often means a big difference in the temperature between city and its surrounding areas.This phenomenon is called the Urban Heat Island ...
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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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Rail Baltica Growth Corridor (RBGC)
Start date: Jun 10, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,
The RBGC is led by the City of Helsinki and coordinated by the Aalto University Small Business Center. The project has in total of 21 partners from 6 BSR countries. Target groups of the RBGC are City and regional authorities, Transport service providers, Logistics centers, Intermodal terminals, Public transport authorities, Universities and other research centers. RBGC's partner composition is bas ...
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Innovative Development of European Areas by Fostering Transnational Knowledge Development (IDEA)
Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Feb 27, 2013,
...impemented. Furthermore study orientation has to become strongly connected to occupational orientation. Therefore events with children and pupils for occupational orientation have been connected with university cooperation: events like "Early shift" informed kids about how science can explain their environment and lectures at an event for study orientation in Poland, Slovakia and Germany was used ...
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Making Knowledge Work (MKW)
Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
The Making Knowledge Work (MKW) consortium consists of 12 ambitious regions wishing to improve their regional innovation capacity. They all observe that excellent research does not always find its way into commercially valuable innovations and excellent ideas are often not used. Policy action is needed to bridge the gap in the innovation chain. It asks for projects on micro level and meso level st ...
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Innovation Policy in University City Regions (INNOPOLIS)
Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
...at can be used by regional authorities in transfering best policy practice, and thus actively supporting knowledge co-creation between universities & enterprises. The activities of INNOPOLIS focus on university city-regions, defined here as localities with at least three multi-departmental universities and at least 60,000 students (students used as a proxy of university knowledge endowments). This ...
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Qualification, Innovation, Cooperation and Keybusiness for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR QUICK)
Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,
SMEs represent 99% of all enterprises in BSR and provide up to 70% of all jobs, being an important economic but also socio-cultural factor. SMEs present the biggest potential for job creation also in future. QUICK aims at unleashing this potential to its full extent by addressing the following challenges undermining the competitiveness of the BSR SMEs:- limited benefit from innovation processes an ...
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FIRST MOTION - driving BSR regional development by innovating the high-skill growth sector "creative/AV industry" (FM) (FM)
Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,
...STER/REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT (WP5); EDUCATION AND TRAINING (WP6) in one holistic project in order to start effective developments in the concerned areas. The project is structured as a Triple-Helix (University, Industry, and Government) to ensure solutions of high practical relevance and their implementation. The close bond of the industry to all work packages ensures hands-on solutions to relevant p ...
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From theory and plans to eco-efficient and sustainable practices to improve the status of the Baltic Sea (WATERPRAXIS)
Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,
Eutrophication caused by nutrient load is the biggest environmental problem of the Baltic Sea. Practical measures to restrict it are included in River Basin Management Plans (RBMP), outputs of the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive. However, putting general-level RMBPs into practice, i.e. applying water pollution control methods and changing land-use practices, is hindered by many ...
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Entrepreneurial Diversity (ENTREDI)
Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2011,
Entrepreneurial activities have quite an enormous impact for the economic performance of regions and the renewal of regional knowledge. Fostering entrepreneurship with (semi) public funding contributes to a more prosperous regional economy and can reduce the unemployment rate significantly. The experiences of the project partners as well as acknowledged studies show that entrepreneurial initiative ...
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Regions for Better Broadband connection (B3 Regions)
Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Oct 30, 2010,
...m, Greece, and Spain) and 4 new MS (Poland, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Hungary). Among the partners there are 8 Regional Managing Authorities (MAs), 5 ICT implementing Agencies, 1 Local authority and 2 ICT University Departments. The partnership composition reflects the willingness of matching less experienced with more advanced regions with regard to Broadband implementation through Structural Funds in ...
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FOCUS ON HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING IN THE BALTIC SEA REGION (HEPRO)
Start date: Jun 11, 2005, End date: Jan 10, 2008,
Along with the rest of Europe, the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) is facing enormous challenges when it comes to an ageing population, migration of young people from rural areas to the cities, unemployment, increase in alcohol and drug abuse and mental illness. An increasing part of lifestyle diseases and injuries from accidents will make great demands on the future treatment capacity of the health servi ...
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inciples, tools and systems to extend spatial planning on water courses (WATERSKETCH)
Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2007,
River basin planning has a long tradition in water protection terminology, but new whole Europe approach has been adopted when Water framework directive (WFD) come into force. According to WFD all European river basins should be covered by river basin plans with ultimate goal to reach good ecological status or potential in all waterbodies. Baltic Sea is one of the most fragile marine areas in Euro ...
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art II: Baltic University Urban Forum - Implementing Sustainable Development in Urban Areas - Urban Forum (BUUF II)
Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: May 30, 2006,
The Baltic University Urban Forum, BUUF, aims to contribute to a sustainable development in the Baltic Sea region by developing local sustainability strategies. The project is of special relevance for spatial planning, building strategies, and infrastructure development, where the role of the municipality is large. The project aims to develop integrative tools for urban management.The project addr ...
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Baltic University Urban Forum - Implementing Sustainable Development in Urban Areas - Urban Forum (BUUF )
Start date: Feb 28, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2003,
The Baltic University Urban Forum (BUUF) is a cooperation between cities/towns and universities in the Baltic Sea region to promote sustainable development. The BUUF project aims to develop strategies for sustainable development for cities and towns. 20 cities and towns, and 15 universities in 9 countries take part in the project. Through the Union of Baltic Cities the results will be available fo ...
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Immigrants have a special tendency for self-employment (and, consequently, for entrepreneurship). However, the way towards opening their own business is jeopardized by cultural and linguistic barriers, as well as by lack of knowledge of legislation (in tax and labor, for example) and of other entrepreneurial aspects. Mainstream entities and migrant-oriented associations intend to contribute to sur ...
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United States of Europe - A travelling exhibition about European identity and diversity
Start date: May 1, 2011,
United States of Europe (USE) is a travelling exhibition about diversity and identity, about unity in diversity. USE consists of three main project dimensions that will be presented in the public space and in museums: 1. Interpretations of multimedia, cyberculture, video and installation artists’ on European Identity that will be exhibited in the public space and in traditional exhibition venues.2 ...
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PLAYING IDENTITIES : MIGRATION - CREOLISATION - CREATION
Start date: Nov 1, 2009,
This poroect aims at interpreting migration phenoma and socio-cultural transformations that leads to new cultural identities (concept of creolisation). It involves performing arts, methodological sets in social sciences and humanities. It works on thte diverse theatrical background (negotiation of expressive codes, practices and meanings. It aims at developing new conceptual tools and an integrate ...
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The proposed plan moves in the axis of promoting life learning and the valorisation of informal learning. More specifically it refers to the valorisation of qualifications that were acquired informally by executives of consulting institutions in the sector of the social economy with the creation of a certificate of European scope. The reason the specific plan was chosen is primarily for the enhanc ...
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...who have been trained, CWC has now created a Centre for Emotional Literacy - the Applied Centre for Emotional Literacy, Leadership & Research (ACELLR). The Centre Works with a local university to accredit CPD and EL courses.EL4VET has transferred CWC’s innovative and successful EL methodology and toolkit to VET teachers in six EU countries adapting them to meet the specific cultural and technical ...
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Eurocarers define a carer as “a person that looks after family, partners, friends or neighbours in need of help because they are ill, frail or have a disability. The care they provide is unpaid.” In the EU27, 3% of people state that they care for an elderly or disabled relative several times a week, 4% do it once or twice a week and 8% do so less than once a week. Altogether, a quarter of people r ...
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The Establishment of a Foundation for the Integration of Disabled People into HEIs of Azerbaijan
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
The project aims to improve access for students with disabilities into HEIs of Azerbaijan in line with the best EU practices and policies, supported by the Ministry of Education, through the development and implementation of the guidelines and polices and raised awareness of the students, staff and other stakeholders.
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EURICA - EURope and latin ameRICA: Enhancing University Relationships by Investing in Cooperative Actions
Start date: Jul 15, 2013,
EURICA: EUrope and ameRICA – Enhancing University Relations by Investing in Cooperative Actions, is an EU-Latin American network for the advancement of Higher Education coordinated by the University of Groningen (NL) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (MX). It consists of 20 full member HEIs targeting a total of 15 countries: 7 in Europe and 8 in Latin America. These are: Czech Repub ...
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ELIEMENTAL: Breaking Down Barriers to Enterprise
Start date: Jan 1, 2013,
ELIEMENTAL is an innovative approach to the problem of developing enterprise skills and entrepreneurship in social groups that are under-represented in SME start-ups across the EU. These are the same social groups who are often also under-employed or unemployed. ELIEMENTAL will target young people not in education, training or employment (NEETS), older women who have been made redundant or who are ...
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TransStar: raising transcultural, digital and multitranslational competences
Start date: Jan 1, 2013,
The project wants to promote less used European (in this case: Slavic) languages and less known cultures from the Central and East European regions in order to enlarge the “European mentalmap” which focuses on prominent cultures, mostly of Western Europe. European enlargement has been an impetus in drawing the new neighbours together, yet this has not been completely successful as the continued E ...
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European history crossroads as pathways to intercultural and media education
Start date: Nov 1, 2012,
The project reacts to the growing importance of mass-media commercial ways of dealing with history in public space that in many respects does not comply with the EU standards for history teaching. However, mass media verifiably influence the historical perception of pupils, and therefore they constitute an important factor in history teaching. Thus, an irrefutable demand in history and civic educa ...
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Curriculum Development and Capacity Building in the field of EU Studies
Start date: Oct 15, 2012,
...Studies in accordance with European standards; • Develop or build teachers’ professional capacity in the field of EU Studies;• Establish a permanent EU Studies Centre in Azerbaijan (at Khazar University), which will function as a resource centre and think tank in this field;• Develop double and/or joint degree programmes in EU Studies with interested institutions. In accordance with these objecti ...
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Curricula Development for New Specialization: Master of Engineering in Microsystems Design
Start date: Oct 15, 2012,
The general objective of the project is restructuring the academic system of technical universities in Ukraine according to the standards of EU higher school system and Bologna principles. This project will focus on transferring technologies, knowledge and experience of the EU consortium members to the beneficiary Ukrainian universities.The main project's objective is to create conditions in Ukrai ...
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Green IT for the benefit of civil society ( Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt)
Start date: Jul 15, 2012,
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The virtual Anti-Bullying-Village for Kids
Start date: Jan 1, 2011,
The ABV4Kids project aims to establish a virtual village on school bullying and violence, racism and xenophobia within OpenSim, a 3D virtual learning environment (3DVLE). The project builds on the educational potential 3DVLEs offer. More than other online platforms they give users a sense of real time involvement, promote new forms of social interaction and give them room for creative processes wh ...
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Impact of Policies for Plagiarism in Higher Education across Europe
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
A key target of the Bologna Process is to achieve consistency in standards and quality of higher education (HE) across the European Union (EU). The availability of textual e-material and associated technologies has changed the way students study, learn and prepare for assessment. The ease of access to information, and ease of direct transfer into a student's work, have necessitated that higher ed ...
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Employability: Learning through International Entrepreneurship
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
The emergence (across the EU) of a myriad of successful entrepreneurs in cultural settings different from those they originate in (Kloosterman & Rath, 2001) offers a unique opportunity to capture the specificities of internationalization and mixed embeddedness and to use this knowledge as a tool for skills development within SMEs across the EU. Capturing the components of success of immigrant entr ...
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ICT Employee empowerment : A portal and online learning tool are in the process of being refined. They will provide work guidance counselors with the skills to train ICT company employees in personalised career management. This project started in 2003 and lasted 36 months.
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The project aims at producing innovative training methodologies and strategies useful to foster self confidence and self consciousness in the professional lives of people with mental handicap. The partners have a great experience in the field of the individual use and re-use of specific formal and informal competences, know how and communicative skills of mental handicapped people. An independent ...
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Putting the disabled on an equal footing : The project has produced a training curriculum together with an assessment tool aimed at both professionals working with the disabled and the beneficiaries themselves. It will contribute to improved standards of care for the disabled. This project started in 2003 and lasted 36 months.
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The aim of the project is to design and verify a model of objective quality assessment, effectiveness and efficiency of educational activities in the area of life-long vocational education. To this effect tools for self-evaluation and quality evaluation will be developed as well as models for periodical and reciprocal quality benchmarking of educational institutions.
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E-Core MANAGERS aims to integrate Virtual Collaboration Management e-competencies learning in current Managerial Business Administration training, at university and master (MBA) levels. The objective will be to improve its quality and innovation by its adecuacy to learn of emergent e-competencies - related to organisational and attitude issues in the efficient use of ICT to manage e-Teams, proje ...
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The project transferred innovation, shared learning and practical experience to integrate the programme within the Educational training systems within each member state. The project was aimed to develop a transferable model to reduce business failure through lack of skills transfer at succession. The project also created a framework for retention of older workers in new roles to share experience.
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...ner's countries (direct beneficiaries).The consortium consists of 4 organisations from 4 EU countries: Group One from Belgium (owner of the transferred tool), 2 organisations from new EU countries: University of Łódź, Faculty of Management (Poland), TIME-Ecoprojects Foundation (Bulgaria) and BEST (Austria). This is a kind of coalition of NGOs and private enterprise but lead by the university staff ...
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