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Advanced Networking for Nuclear Education and Training and Transfer of Expertise (ANNETTE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The present situation of nuclear energy in Europe asks for a continuing effort in the field of Education and Training aimed to assure a qualified workforce in the next decades. In this scenario, the present proposal is aimed at enhancing and networking the Europe-wide efforts initiated in the past decades by different organisations belonging to academia, research centres and industry to maintain a ...
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Developing an open online course in European social pedagogy

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...are:• ThemPra Social Pedagogy, a pioneering social enterprise providing organisational capacity-building through vocational courses in social pedagogy, strategic consultancy and team development• University of Central Lancashire, one of the largest Schools of Social Work in the UK and recently developed a BA in Social Pedagogy, Advocacy and Participation• Professionshøjskolen UCC, leading provider ...
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Performance-based Innovation Rewards (REWARD)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

REWARD will open up new horizons in complementing the international intellectual property rights (IPR) system. The project's ambitious output is an ethically and legally sound performance-based reward mechanism for pharmaceutical innovation, which complements the existing patent regime, yet mitigates its considerable disadvantages for the global poor.The current IPR system impedes access to life-s ...
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Joint Programs and Framework for Doctoral Education in Software Engineering

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

...hD project approaches SE based on the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, the SWEBOK, as 15 key knowledge areas and 7 closely related disciplines. Introducing such a broad based discipline in any university is a major challenge, and the PWs@PhD project supports the development, modernization and internalization of higher education in the target countries by helping them to train the university ...
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Advancing Skill Creation to ENhance Transformation

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

...4) Increase international cooperation by partner HEIs on research programmes that tackle ways to increase societal resilience to disasters; 5) explore, promote and initiate opportunities for fruitful university / industry partnerships to increase societal resilience to disasters; and 6) publicise the project progress, successes and outcomes as far as possible, and raise awareness across the field ...
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Lean and Agile Practices linking Engineering Higher Education to Industry

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Rationale: Higher education prepares learners for their future role as professionals and active citizens in multiple ways: it builds field specific knowledge; it builds learning-to-learn capacity that empowers students to develop knowledge in life-long learning contexts throughout their careers in a constantly evolving job market; it prepares students to effectively transition from the educational ...
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Creating and enhancing TRUSTworthy, responsible and equitable partnerships in international research (TRUST)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The goal of the TRUST Project is to catalyse a global collaborative effort to improve adherence to high ethical standards around the world. Achieving equity in international research is one of the pressing concerns of the 21st century. Many international groups and organisations are working on governance frameworks and standards to guide research activities after progressive globalization. Howeve ...
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Deaf Enterprise: Entrepreneurship Training for Deaf Sign Language Users

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

... can be used for individual study, for dedicated training programmes for Deaf sign language users, and to supplement / support mainstream entrepreneur education activities with Deaf participants. The University of Central Lancashire is the main contractor and has an international reputation for its Deaf Studies and Interpreter Training programmes, its International Institute for Sign Languages and ...
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History of Nuclear Energy and Society (HoNESt)

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

HoNESt (History of Nuclear Energy and Society) involves an interdisciplinary team with many experienced researchers and 24 high profile research institutions.HoNESt’s goal is to conduct a three-year interdisciplinary analysis of the experience of nuclear developments and its relationship to contemporary society with the aim of improving the understanding of the dynamics over the last 60 years. HoN ...
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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: Jul 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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Black Women/Black Nationalism – Feminist Discourses on Nation-building in American and British Literature and Visual Arts (BWBN)

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

My research aims to make a significant contribution to the scholarship on contemporary Black women artists in the US & the UK. It will pose a polemical formulation of Black feminist literature and visual arts of the 1980s and 90s in light of postcolonial scholarship. These two decades saw a flowering of talent of Black British and American women: in the US they are described as Black Women’s Rena ...
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Designing and Testing new management skills for the development of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Recycling and Re-use System in Europe

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

EWASTER Project will develop and establish a new high-quality interdisciplinary curriculum in E-Waste Recycling and Re-Use management sector in Europe creating the link between the production phase and the waste phase of a product and increasing the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship as well as the quality and potential of employability and mobility. EWASTER Consortium, supported by the Dir ...
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Visualisation Tools and Analytics to monitor Online Language Learning & Teaching

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

... with other learning environments (e.g. mobile apps, games) and reporting tools. After a piloting phase, the learning behavior of several student groups enrolled in distance learning or university programmes with an important self-study component will be tracked during one semester. The data will be collected in a central repository (Learning Record store). An important point of concern in the pro ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

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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Sign Language Teachers in Europe: an Open Educational Resource

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The SignTeach project will develop, implement and evaluate an Open Educational Resource (OER) for sign language teachers and their trainers in EU member states. The OER will include information for new and experienced sign language teachers about a.o. didactics, class management, the CEFR for sign languages, meta-linguistics, ICT and entrepreneurial skills, as well as interviews with beginning and ...
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MILK BANKING AND THE UNCERTAIN INTERACTION BETWEEN MATERNAL MILK AND ETHANOL (MUIMME)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Donor human milk banks are expanding around the world at an exponential rate, which is directly linked to global increases in premature births. The importance of human milk for prematurely born infants has been extensively identified, even among the recent social scientific work that has questioned the efficacy of human milk and health considerations. In addition, research also shows that a signif ...
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SEMEiotic Oriented Technology for Individual's CardiOmetabolic risk self-assessmeNt and Self-monitoring (SEMEOTICONS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

According to medical semeiotics, human face is a precious revealer of key information about the healthy or unhealthy status of individuals, as a combination of physical signs and expressive features. The central idea in SEMEOTICONS is to exploit the face as a major indicator of individual's well-being for the prevention of cardio-metabolic risk and cardiovascular diseases (CVD), for which healthca ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

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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Automated Sorting and Recycling of Waste Lamps (ILLUMINATE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

In order to facilitate lamp waste treatment, maximize the recovery rates and improve working environment, an automated, sealed sorting unit will be required. The concept of the ILLUMINATE proposal is to develop automated systems that are able to effectively sort bulbs into different classes and remove foreign objects. This is essential for an economically viable process. The unit will be based on ...
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BUSINESS MODELS FOR ENHANCING FUNDING AND ENABLING FINANCING OF INFRASTRUCTURE IN TRANSPORT (BENEFIT)

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

BENEFIT takes an innovative approach by analysing funding schemes within an inter-related system. Funding schemes are successful (or not) depending on the Business Model that generates them. The performance of the Business Model is affected by the implementation context and the transport mode. It is matched successfully (or not) by a financing scheme. Relations between actors are described by a go ...
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Multilingual Behaviours In Sign Language Users (MULTISIGN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

This project examines a range of complex multilingual behaviours in sign language users and pursues three thematically related studies: a) Cross-signing : The development of improvised communication (ad hoc pidgins) between users of different sign languages in language contact situations; b) Sign-speaking : The simultaneous production of sign and speech, where the different structures of both la ...
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Optimisation of Integrated Solid Waste Management Strategies for the Maximisation of Resource Efficiency (WASTECOSMART)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

WASTECOSMART - Optimisation of Integrated Solid Waste Management Strategies for the Maximisation of Resource Efficiency addresses the priority areas of a “Resource Efficient Europe” and relates to the EcoAP, by boosting innovation based on research and technology development within the field of integrated waste management. Through cross border cooperation and collaborative research activities betw ...
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Transatlantic Politics of Horror and Terror in Gothic Narratives of the Haitian Revolution, 1791-2011 (GOTH-NAR-HAITIAN-REV)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Silenced in hegemonic historiography, the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was one of the key transformations of the Age of Revolution. As the first & only successful slave revolution & one of the first anti-colonial revolutions in modern history, it has mounted multiple challenges to the transatlantic colonial economy and hegemonic North Atlantic ideologies which continue to assume the cultural su ...
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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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Development of safe and eco-friendly flame retardant materials based on CNT co-additives for commodity polymers (DEROCA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Currently, best flame retardant formulations are still often based on halogenated flame retardants (FR). Those halogneted FR are supsected to endcrine disrupters when leaching from the material and produce toxic fumes and acids (HBr, HCl, organoirritants, PCDD/Fs etc.).DEROCA project aims at (i) developing and introducing new safer and more eco-friendly FRs through exploiting the synergistic effe ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

To improve the quality and to increase the volume of student and teaching staff mobility throughout Europe. To contribute to the overall strategy of the University in Students undertaking a global experience. UCLan is actively promoting opportunities for students to study abroad and especially through ERASMUS. ERASMUS is promoted through open days, event days, intranet, leaflets, brochures,websi ...
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"RESPECT – Rules, Expectations & Security through Privacy-Enhanced Convenient Technologies" (RESPECT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

"Convenience and cost-effectiveness are the two key considerations for both citizens and security forces when deciding which technologies to embrace or avoid in the Information Society. State actors and private corporations adopt information communication technologies (ICTs) because they are cost-effective. The motivation for adoption may be different in the private and public sectors but once ado ...
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"Let's talk about us - youth trail of national heritage"

Start date: Nov 3, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The project titled "Let's talk about us - youth trail of national heritage" led by the University College of Tourism and Ecology - Sucha Beskidzka, Poland in co-operation with the University of Central Lancashire - Preston, England will take place from 3 to 9 March 2015. Participants of this project come from Poland and from the United Kingdom (20 people in each group). The group will comprise of ...
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Collaborative Action towards Societal Challenges through Awareness, Development, and Education (CASCADE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

CASCADE aims to provide the foundation for a future INCONET programme targeting South Asian Countries, which will promote bi-regional coordination of Science &Technology (S&T) cooperation, including priority setting and definition of S&T cooperation policies. The objectives of CASCADE, as an 18-month supporting action, are to: compile a regional position paper that identifies global challenges and ...
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Epidemiological Studies of Exposed Southern Urals Populations (SOLO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

This project aims to improve estimates of the risks of long-term health effects associated with protracted external and internal radiation exposures, through further studies of exposed populations in the Southern Urals (Russian Federation). Specific objectives of the project are as follows: 1. To develop improved modules for estimating external doses to exposed cohorts in the Southern Urals. It is ...
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Scalable Measures for Automated Recognition Technologies (SMART)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2014,

Automated recognition of individuals and/or pre-determined traits or risk factors/criteria lies at the basis, indeed is the very raison d’être, of smart surveillance systems. Yet new EU regulations and specifically those on information sharing between police and security forces explicitly prohibit automated decision-taking regarding individuals unless “authorised by a law which also lays down meas ...
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Global Ethics in Science and Technology (GEST)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

"GEST aims to explore the role of ethics in science and technology (S&T) policy as it is currently developing both in Europe and in the two main global emerging economies of China and India. S&T ethics has been widely debated in Europe in the last two decades leading to a number of policy initiatives that have influenced the development of new technologies in the European Research Area. The way in ...
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COronal Mass Ejections and Solar Energetic Particles: forecasting the space weather impact (COMESEP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

"This project develops tools for forecasting geomagnetic storms and solar energetic particle (SEP) radiation storms based on scientific data analysis and modeling. During the solar cycle, the Sun goes from quiet conditions at minimum to levels of high activity at maximum, where energetic phenomena, particularly coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and SEPs, are common. These are accompanied by explosive ...
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Consumer sentiment regarding privacy on user generated content services in the digital economy (CONSENT)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

One of the key changes in societal trends and lifestyles witnessed over the past few years has been the move on-line of many consumers and the way they have become increasingly sophisticated in their media consumption habits. Have these recent changes to consumer and commercial practices developed in such a way that consumers are (in)voluntarily signing away their fundamental right to privacy? Thi ...
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Europen Nuclear Education Network Training Schemes (ENEN-III)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The project covers the structuring, organisation, coordination and implementation of training schemes in cooperation with local, national and international training organisations, to provide training to professionals active in nuclear organisations or their contractors and subcontractors. The training schemes provide a portfolio of courses, training sessions, seminars and workshops for continuous ...
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Critical Response in Security and Safety Emergencies (CRISYS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2012,

"The EU regularly suffers from natural and man-made disaster, the social and economical consequences of which may adversely affect its growth and competitiveness. There is a growing vulnerability to disasters and subsequently an urgent need to improve operational capacities and capabilities of Member States. Furthermore, the Lisbon Treaty will enlarge the role of the EU and allow for stronger coor ...
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Bilateral Support for the International Linkage with Kina (BILAT SILK)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

"BILAT SILK will raise the EU’s science and technology profile in China by a series of promotional activities to disseminate the EU’s research policies and actions among Chinese scientists and research institutions. Strategic partnerships between 4 EU countries and China will be promoted through collaboration schemes and identification of new activities. BILAT SILK will identify and demonstrate mu ...
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Usability of Music for Social Inclusion of Children (UMSIC)

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

The aim of this multidisciplinary and trans-national SandT project is to develop and use up-to-date technology in a coordinated, intelligent and accessible way to support social inclusion. Whilst intended for all children, UMSIC aims to particularly support, through music, those children who are at increased risk of being marginalized. These include children with social or emotional disorders (or ...
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Science, Etchics and Technological Responsibility in Developing and Emerging Countries (SET-DEV)

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

The project general aim is to support the research systems of two countries, India (an emerging economy/EE) and Kenya (a Developing Country/DC), by assisting them in developing their own research ethics perspective within the context of an initiative in favour of research activity and in the sharing of responsibility on scientific and technological research (STR). The promoters intend to contribut ...
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Pharma-Innovation - Patent-2 (Innova-P2)

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

We seek to develop a plan for amending the current Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime for rewarding pharmaceutical innovations. The existing IPR regime is highly problematic. This has become obvious in the wake of a series of public health emergencies, most notably the AIDS crisis, which pits the vital needs of poor patients against the need of pharmaceutical companies to recoup their inves ...
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