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INTRODUCTION OF WATER FOOTPRINT (WFTP) APPROACH IN URBAN AREA TO MONITOR, EVALUATE AND IMPROVE THE WATER USE. (URBAN_WFTP)
Start date: Oct 31, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2012,
Climate change, a growing world population, and industrial pollution are only some of the factors leading to an increased debate on the availability of fresh water for our future. The European Union recognised water to be a key resource for the sustainable development of its countries and is setting specific measures and directives to support the diffusion of eco-friendly technologies and practice ...
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Joint SME Finance for Innovation (JOSEFIN)
Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,
The Baltic Sea Region (BSR) shows a strong knowledge based and innovative economy. Accordingly, SMEs play a significant role as drivers of the innovation process. In the context of future-oriented understanding of territorial co-operation, regional development highly depends on the ability of key-actors to participate in international markets. However, especially SMEs often focus their business ac ...
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Regions for Sustainable Change (RSC)
Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,
The Regions for Sustainable Change (RSC) project is a partnership of 12 organisations working together to develop the potential of regional development programmes to stimulate mitigation and adaptation to climate change in order to deliver sustainable socio-economic development. European regions have great potential to contribute to the overall sustainability of growth in Europe through lower emis ...
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From Research to Enterprise (FREE)
Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2011,
Looking at the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS) and at European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) of 2007, none of the regions involved in the FREE project are among the Top-50 EU regional performers. Bearing this in mind and also the fact that investing more in knowledge and innovation is one of the goals of the renewed Lisbon strategy the project will support this priority by improving innovative ...
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Cities and science communication: innovative approaches to engaging the public (CASC)
Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2011,
Science cities are becoming increasingly important across Europe. Their central strategic aim appears to be boosting the knowledge economy nationally and to support the goals defined in the Lisbon strategy. In order to do this, it is important that the ‘triple helix’ of universities and research organisations, business and the public sector work together to ensure that research and development (R& ...
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European Development Corridor III "Via Regia" (ED-C III)
Start date: Apr 30, 2006, End date: Aug 30, 2008,
Over centuries the "Via Regia" had been one of the most important trading routes in Europe, connecting the East and West of the continent. Due to the political situation after World War II, it almost completely lost this function. Some years ago, with the fall of the Iron Curtain, new opportunities emerged for a development axis contributing to European integration and improved relations to neighb ...
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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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Support to the international development of new innovative entrepreneurs (INNOVINT)
Start date: Aug 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
INNOVINTs overall objective is threefold. It aims to design new tools that help SMEs and entrepreneurs develop their activities internationally to develop regional and interregional financial and consulting networks which facilitate the internationalisation of SMEs and entrepreneurs; and which disseminate best practice in this field at regional and EU level. By disseminating best practice, it will ...
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Hydrological cycle of the CADSES regions (HYDROCARE)
Start date: Dec 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
The project HYDROCARE wishes to develop an integrated system capable of assessing the impact of hydrometeorological events on the water resources in the CADSES region. Emphasis will be put on the development of effective transnational tools for a rational exploitation of the water resources, with the purpose of preserving and enhancing economical and environmental welfare. Such managing tools will ...
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Greening Regional Development Programmes (GRDP)
Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Oct 30, 2007,
GRDP’s overall aim is to deal with this issue by enabling regions to collaborate and share best practice on how the environment can be better integrated into all programmes benefiting from Structural Funds. This is intended to lead to the development of more effective regional programmes that deliver sustainable results for local people. GRDP will also draft a common European methodology for integ ...
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Technology, Enterprises, Innovation, Cooperation - Network (TEICO-Net)
Start date: Sep 30, 2004, End date: Sep 29, 2006,
Recent studies have found that exports of goods and services from the Berlin/Brandenburg area to accession countries are stagnating. Reacting to this trend, regional policies are being introduced to better link the Berlin/Brandenburg regional economies to the neighboring western Polish economies and promote knowledge-based regional economic development. . Objectives The border regions operation "T ...
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A shot in the arm for the health sector : The METE project aims to analyse and evaluate medical and paramedical training within the EU. The project intends to then propose a methodology for continuous training for adoption by the partner countries, aiming to ensure an equally high level of treatment for all patients. This project started in 2002 and lasted 36 months.
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e-Learning has been around us since the Internet emerged. The beginning in programmed instruction and computer-based training has expanded to encompass distributed learning environments and virtual communities of practice. The introduction of new, interactive, web-based technologies, such as social media and smartphones have also had their impact on the idea of e-learning. Technological and educat ...
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The project aims at development of the National action groups of Bologna Practitioners in the Partner Countries together the four main groups of stakeholders - Academia, Market, Government, Students - to work out and implement the strategy of Bologna Promotion in their home countries. The specific objectives are: "Creation of ""Government -Univesrity - Student - Market (GUSM) Tetragons"" - collab ...
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Professional books on architectural acoustics are aimed chiefly at readers with mathematical or technical background, usually graduates of electronics or physics faculties. Such studies have only a limited usefulness to architects, who intend not to study architectural acoustics as a separate area of knowledge, but to search for an inspiration regarding acoustically correct architectural solutions ...
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Purpose of the project was to develop transferable modules for geriatric care and evaluate its appropriatness for vocational training.The project had a focus on different culturel backgrounds and the different modules have been made comparable by a credit point system accordng to ECVET. The project was based on a German curriculum that has been transfered and adapted according to specific national ...
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This new European grouping of architecture centres, Faculties of Architecture and vocational training organisations aimed to develop closer links between vocational education and training (VET) and the world of work in the areas of urbanism/town planning, architecture, landscape architecture and other built environment professions. Through five seminars, each hosted by different partners, interspe ...
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Using biomedical physics to improve medical training for all levels of health care. : The medical profession struggles to keep pace with changes in medical technology and this is particular true for those running training courses. A new training structure, based on biomedical physics, is making an important contribution to medical diagnoses through more sophisticated vocational training which can ...
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Mechatronik verbindet Mechanik, Elektrik und Informatik. Mechatroniker werden v.a. firmen-und länderübergreifend eingesetzt. Sie sind die ersten an den Brennpunkten der industrieller Fertigung, d.h. bei Störungen und Ausfällen an hochautomatisierten Anlagen, deren Stillstand in jeder Minute hohen wirtschaftlichen Schaden auslöst.Obwohl der fach- und länderübergreifende Einsatz von Mechatronikern r ...
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S1-L05-MULTIC-Multidisciplinary capacity-building for an improved economic, political and university co-operation between the EU and the Russian Federation
Start date: Jul 15, 2010,
The Erasmus Mundus External Co-operation window gives the consortium of 8 EU and 12 RF partners the opportunity to build up a blueprint for a university exchange scheme modelled after the Bologna acquis and the guidelines of the Erasmus programme. The number of mobility flows, the broad coverage of various thematic priority fields, the integration into several existing co-operation projects will g ...
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FELLOW-MUNDUS - Fostering Education and Learning mobilities for Latin-American academics Outgoing Worldwide with ERASMUS MUNDUS - Strand 1, Lot 14 (Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Brasil, Colombia, Panama,Uruguay)
Start date: Jul 15, 2013,
...curriculum, enhancing the transfer of know-how and the sharing of experiences and good practices. It will provide the Latin-American (LA) Higher Education Institutions the opportunity to build up a university exchange scheme, modeled under the principles of the Bologna Accord and the guidelines of the Erasmus Programme.The specific goals for these mobilities are:• To develop and intensify student, ...
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Social Inclusion of Students/Learners with Special Needs into Mainstream VET and Labour Market
Start date: Nov 1, 2011,
VET providers all over Europe experience the same problem: students leave education or training without completing it. Most of these early school leavers struggle with social, mental or learning problems and many end up being not in education, employment or training (NEET). In a society with lurking demographic challenges and economic and social problems NEET is not a solution, neither to the youn ...
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Environment protection through development and application of sustainable Agriculture Technologies
Start date: Oct 15, 2011,
The general aim of the project is to establish in KZ, KG,UZ,TJ an advanced integrated three level system BA-MA-PhD in environmental friendly agricultural technologies based on specially designed methodologies according to the best European practices.The reason of the selected topic for the proposed project lays on the CA territorial characteristics, the fast change of the society according to a ...
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S1-L12 Strengthening Training and Research through networking and Globalization of teaching in Engineering Studies
Start date: Jul 15, 2011,
The main objective of this proposed project is to provide a quality international experience through the mobility of high quality students and emerging, early stage and established researchers between Europe and South Asia, with the objective of widening existing knowledge on electronics, energy, computing, sustainability and security of electronic communications systems, rational use of communica ...
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S1-L06 Multidisciplinary capacity-building for an improved economic, political and university co-operation between the EU and the Russian Federation
Start date: Jul 15, 2011,
The Erasmus Mundus Action 2 programme gives the consortium of 8 EU and 12 RF partners the opportunity to build up a blueprint for a university exchange scheme modelled after the Bologna acquis and the guidelines of the Erasmus programme. The number of mobility flows, the broad coverage of various thematic priority fields, the integration into several existing co-operation projects will greatly enh ...
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EM2-STEM
Start date: Nov 30, 2010,
By exposing Scientists, Engineers and those working and studying in technology related disciplines to training and work practices in other countries, the project has an overarching aim to develop the entrepreneurial and business skills capacities within these disciplines. Furthermore, the project will equip early career researchers with specialist knowledge in the area of entrepreneurship and prov ...
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Quality System of S&T Universities for sustainable Industry
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
Cooperation is a critical element in the triangle of Universities, Industry, and Knowledge. This is especially true when dealing with environmental issues and sustainability in a EU context. Efforts are being made to improve the preparation of students for industrial careers; examples include German Excellenzinitiativ, French Pôles de Compétitivité... The training of tomorrow's industry leaders r ...
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The SLEST project aims to create an innovative European standard relating to language knowledge. Project partners will develop a common linguistic examination framework, for recognition across all participating countries; will develop and introduce a series of preparatory training modules leading to the above-mentioned examination and will introduce a series of open and distance learning (ODL) mod ...
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ProInterNet
Start date: Jan 1, 2010,
The fast evolving ICT sector is one of the most promising and economically important business sectors in the EU, contributing to a large extent to the major objective of the Lisbon agenda. The most recent OECD report on IT reveals that "ICT skills are an important contribution to growth […] Over 4% of total employment is in ICT specialist occupations, over 20% in intensive ICT-using occupations.[. ...
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Menu for Justice. Toward a European Curriculum Studiorum on Judicial Studies
Start date: Oct 1, 2009,
This project is framed in the current debate concerning the impact that education may have (and should have) on the well being of developed democratic society (USAID, 2007; UNESCO, 2006) and focuses this crucial aspect of contemporary life by paying particular attention to the role that legal and judicial education play in European societies. Within the EU legal and judicial education perform an ...
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This project will address the results of a training and information needs analysis carried out by a previous project for the meat sector in pre-accession countries. That study identified that continuous in-service training was required for workers in the industry, especially those in middle management. Many enterprises, especially SMEs, need up-to-date technologies and skills. A training system w ...
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Mechatronik verbindet Mechanik, Elektrik und Informatik. Mechatroniker werden v.a. firmen-und länderübergreifend eingesetzt. Sie sind die ersten an den Brennpunkten der industrieller Fertigung, d.h. bei Störungen und Ausfällen an hochautomatisierten Anlagen, deren Stillstand in jeder Minute hohen wirtschaftlichen Schaden auslöst.Obwohl der fach- und länderübergreifende Einsatz von Mechatronikern r ...
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18 language-learning modules : The Leomep-Multi 2000-2003 project led to the creation of 18 multimedia foreign language learning modules, intended for senior officials involved in technical services, and engineers in particular. These modules are available in seven sources languages (French, Dutch, English, Spanish, German, Hungarian and Polish) and three target languages (French, French, Dutch). ...
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The project aims to design and implement assessment tools and procedures of Labelling and scoring EU institutions and programmes in the engineering field. It will establish a Label to certify the quality of the assessed institution, a Framework of Reference for the target groups, a Methodology of assessment to determine the criteria and measurement procedure and an Agency and Foundation for the s ...
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The European Medskills project aims to create online training materials for the teaching of medical skills to medical and nursing students/employees and related medical intervention groups. A broad-based, educational tool will be developed using evidence-based medicine related to real-life scenarios that are relevant for a range of user groups. Modules will cover frequently occurring medical emerg ...
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