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Education - Employment Partnership for VET in the fashion sector

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

ContextThe Bruges Communiqué for 2011 - 2020 underlines the importance of investing in people’s skills and ensuring they remainrelevant to labour market needs. Moroever, it is pointed out that today's pupils and students will still be in the beginning of theircareer in 2020 with at least 30 years to go in their professional live, and some of them in occupations that do not exist today andothers pe ...
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Fit to Comfort – Skills Alliance for comfort & healthy footwear manufacturing - new qualification profile and innovative training opportunities

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The European footwear sector continues growing steadily, being responsible for the 4% of the worldwide footwear production, employing more than 260.000 people distributed by approximately 25.000 companies, mainly SMEs, adopting a development strategy based on higher quality of products and services, flexibility and short time to market, product differentiation and added value. Consumption will con ...
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Master Degree in Innovative Technologies in Energy Efficient Buildings for Russian & Armenian Universities and Stakeholders

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Establishment and development of a new Master on “ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS” in 3 RU and 2 AM Universities with affiliation of other 2 RU Universities, according to features and learning outcomes delivering graduates environmental and “green buildings” technological issues’ skills. 1. Curricular reform: to implement an effective curricular development oriented towards ...
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Knowledge Platform for Transferring Research and Innovation in Footwear Manufacturing

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Knowledge 4Foot (K4F) project aims to contribute at fostering the excellence in training for footwear manufacturing by linking the three areas of education, research and business oriented innovation in order to demonstrate good practices of cooperation and to bridge the worlds of education and work. In order to achieve this aim, the project has following objectives: 1) to set-up a new Knowledge P ...
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Politiche Abitative per l'Edilizia Sostenibile

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

PROJECT DESCRIPTION The project Housing Policies for Sustainable Construction aims to incorporate four important characteristics in sustainable building: 1 ) Economic sustainability: ability to generate income and employment for the people's livelihood ; 2 ) Social sustainability: ability to ensure human well-being (security, health, education) equally distributed by class and gender; 3 ) Environm ...
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Matrix of knowledge for innovation and competitiveness in textile enterprises

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

Many textile enterprises face difficulties in finding the best solutions to compete on the global market. They face the challenge of skill development and innovation without having the focused resources and the strategic vision to adapt to the rapid changes of trends and technology in the textile field.A solution to these needs is given by spreading of creative and innovative organizational cultu ...
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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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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 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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Developing New Skills for the Extroversion Specializations of Fashion Industry in Europe

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Over the years, fashion industries have played and continue to play key role in the competitiveness of the European economy. With almost 850 000 companies, 5 million jobs, and another 3 million jobs to be found throughout the supply chain, the Fashion industry can contribute to further economic growth and a strengthening of the competitive position of the EU economy as a whole. Due to pressures fo ...
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Natural sense of vision through acoustics and haptics (Sound of Vision)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Sound of Vision (Vision restoration through sound and haptics) will design, implement and validate an original non-invasive hardware and software system to assist visually impaired people by creating and conveying an auditory representation of the surrounding environment. This representation will be created, updated and delivered to a blind person continuously and in real time. This system will he ...
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Innovative Reuse of All Tyre Components in Concrete (ANAGENNISI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

An estimated one billion tyres are discarded each year. Post-Consumer tyre arisings for EU countries (2010) are 3.4M tonnes per year. At the moment nearly 50% of all recycled tyres/components still end up as fuel, in low grade applications or in landfill.All tyre constituents (rubber, high strength steel cord and wire, high strength textile reinforcement) are high quality materials and deserve to ...
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Textile and Clothing Knowledge Alliance. Future textile and clothing managers for export, marketing, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship oriented companies.

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

This Knowledge Alliance aims at modernising EU’s higher education systems in the field of textiles and clothing (T&C) through a better anticipation of skill needs, based on development of sustainable partnerships between education and employment. This Alliance will result in a facilitated sector adaptation during crisis processes through a better anticipation and positive management of change, via ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

In the context of internationalization and to establish a strategy of internationalization at our university, by participating in the Erasmus+ program takes place an exchange of experiences beneficial to all categories of beneficiaries of Erasmus grants (students, academic staff and administrative staff), and the mobility beneficiaries return to our university with a significantly higher opening t ...
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e-Carpet-School: Online training school for machine carpet weaving

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

Carpet manufacturing is an important field in Europe in terms of economical and employment figures. Turkey is capable of manufacturing %20 of whole world’s carpet need while whole Europe’s manufacturing share is approximately over %45. It is estimated that the number of employment in the carpet manufacturing sector is over half a million people across European countries such as Turkey, Belgium, Un ...
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E-learning course for innovative textile fields

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

The strong competition in the textile industry on international level, imposes a better flexibility of the industry as well as the investment in education and the adaptation of new skills for young textile specialists. This is the reason for the need to enhance the quality and relevance of the learning offer in education towards the latest developments in textile research and innovation. The Advan ...
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BOOSTING COLLABORATION BETWEEN RESEARCH CENTRES AND INDUSTRY TO ENHANCE RAPID INDUSTRIAL UPTAKE OF INNOVATIVE FUNCTIONAL TEXTILE STRUCTURES AND TEXTILE RELATED MATERIALS IN A MONDIAL MARKET (2BFUNTEX)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

2BFUNTEX will exploit the untapped potential in functional textile structures and textile related materials. It will bring together all innovation actors in the field fostering a multidisciplinary approach between universities, research institutes, SMEs (in textile 95% of the companies are SMEs) and sector associations. The 2BFUNTEX team will identify technological gaps and will eliminate barriers ...
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Low-cost and energy-efficient LTCC sensor/IR-UWB transceiver solutions for sustainable healthy environment (SENSEIVER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Today, more than ever, the public demands credible and understandable information about the quality of the environment in which they live or work. However, the environmental parameters monitored by commercial sensors do not give information about pollutants presence but about general state of our surroundings. Accordingly, innovative and multidisciplinary methods are needed to carry out efficient ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

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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SEISMIC ENGINEERING RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES FOR EUROPEAN SYNERGIES (SERIES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

"European seismic engineering research suffers from extreme fragmentation of research infrastructures (RI) between countries and limited access to them by the S/T community of earthquake engineering, especially that of Europe’s most seismic regions. A 23-strong Consortium of the key actors in Europe’s seismic engineering research (including 3 industrial partners) addresses these problems in a sust ...
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Achieving Real Change with Innovative Transport Measures Demonstrating Energy Savings (ARCHIMEDES)

Start date: Sep 15, 2008, End date: Dec 14, 2012,

ARCHIMEDES is an integrating project, bringing together 6 European cities to address problems and opportunities for creating environmentally sustainable, safe and energy efficient transport systems in medium sized urban areas. The objective of ARCHIMEDES is to introduce innovative, integrated and ambitious strategies for clean, energy-efficient, sustainable urban transport to achieve significan ...
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ASSET Advanced Safety and Driver Support in Essential Road Transport (ASSET-ROAD)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"As the European objectives of integration and economic growth are achieved, there is a corresponding vigorous growth in road traffic volumes. This results in congestion and increased numbers of road fatalities. The objective of the ASSET project is to reverse these negative effects by developing a number of promising technologies and integrating them into a new holistic approach to road safety. ...
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Recovered Paper Sorting with Innovative Technologies (SORT IT)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

SORT IT aims at developing new technologies for a more efficient and profitable sorting of recovered paper and board from various collection systems. These include: * New sensors based on near infrared spectrometry, image analysis and colour measurement (WP 2) * New physical separation devices like robots (WP 3) * New sorting concepts (WP 4) The new sorting devices will be implemented into an indu ...
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Design Study of a European Facility for Advanced Seismic Testing (E-FAST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

"Earthquakes regularly occur throughout the world, frequently causing catastrophic harm and injury and always resulting in significant damage and widespread disorganization in the area. Modern society is increasingly vulnerable to external hazards, it is readily apparent that, in developed countries, although the numbers of victims of major earthquakes is tending to drop, the costs of the consequ ...
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Young European Arena of Research - 2010 (YEAR-2010)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

"This is a proposal for an early-stage research student competition – a kind of Transport Research ‘Olympics’ – to complement the goals of the Transport Research Arena conference, TRA, in Brussels in 2010. The goal is to stimulate interest among young researchers in the conference and contribute to establishing it as the premier Transport event in the world. This activity will directly support the ...
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STEP TO SUSTAINABILITY - How to Implement Sustainable Manufacturing in Footwear - new occupational profile and training opportunities

Start date: Oct 1, 2013,

Footwear worldwide production reached 21 billion pairs in 2011 with Asia in the top, with and overall share of 87%. Europe with its 3% share of production is responsible for 11% share of exportations with the highest worldwide average price close to 25 USD, against Asia’s 5 USD. European Footwear Industry definitely found its positioning in terms of price but the potential of Asia shouldn’t be ove ...
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