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A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities (Danube:Future)

Start date: Jan 9, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2020,

Danube:Future is a joint contribution of the Danube Rectors’ Conference (DRC) and the Alps-Adriatic Rectors’ Conference (AARC), thus tapping the largest pool of institutionalized knowledge in the Danube River Basin. Based on this network, interdisciplinary research and education in the DRB will be undertaken. Any path towards a sustainable future of the region has to account for the solution of p ...
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Detecting changes in essential ecosystem and biodiversity properties – towards a Biosphere Atmosphere Change Index: BACI (BACI)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The alarming rate of biodiversity loss and ecosystem transitions make it clear that new strategies are required to sustain functioning of the coupled ecological-societal system. Existing space data archives and data streams from the ESA Sentinels, offer unprecedented opportunities to provide rapid, high quality indicators necessary for informed management of key ecosystem services. Yet, it remains ...
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Promoting Attainment of Responsible Research and Innovation in Science Education (PARRISE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The overall aim of the EC call is building up a scientifically literate society, which enables its citizens to participate in the research and innovation process as part of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). This calls for democratic citizenship education, in which two educational approaches, often presented independently in schools, are integrated, viz. Inquiry-Based Science Education (IB ...
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Open Models Initiative

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

...ling Tool Engineering” using a blended learning approach. • Test, adapt and implement the materials in three consecutive intensive programs, each one to take place at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (Austria) including the right mix of blended learning/personalized learning in the context of virtual laboratories • Pilot the concept and the materials in an Open Models Laboratory at the Univ ...
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OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: FROM CONCEPTS TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS (OPENNESS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

Despite improved understanding of the links between ecosystem health, provision of ecosystem services and human well-being, further conceptual and empirical work is needed to make the ideas of ecosystem services (ESS) and natural capital (NC) operational. OpenNESS will therefore develop innovative and practical ways of applying them in land, water and urban management: it will identify how, where ...
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Dependable Embedded Wireless Infrastructure (DEWI)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

DEWI (dependable embedded wireless infrastructure) envisions to significantly foster Europe’s leading position in embedded wireless systems and smart (mobile) environments such as vehicles, railway cars, airplanes and buildings. These environments comprise wireless sensor networks and wireless applications for citizens and professional users. Therefore the consortium introduces the concept of a “s ...
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Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization (MINO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"Complex decision making in enterprises should involve mathematical optimization methods, because a “best choice” has to be made out of a huge number of feasible options. A mathematical description of such decision processes typically involves both “continuous” and “discrete” decisions. If the latter are present, the customary modelling approach is to use integer variables, which are also used to ...
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Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe (WWWFOREUROPE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"The objective of this 4-year project is to provide the analytical basis for a socio-ecological transition in Europe: the change to a new growth path with smart, sustainable and inclusive growth as is envisaged in the EU 2020 strategy. In order to support the transition, we analyse the need, the feasibility and best practice for change, specifying the institutional changes needed at all policy lev ...
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BRIDGE: Bridging resources and agencies in large-scale emergency management (BRIDGE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

"The goal of BRIDGE is to increase safety of citizens by developing technical and organisational solutions that significantly improve crisis and emergency management. The key to this is to ensure interoperability, harmonization and cooperation among stakeholders on the technical and organisational level.Therefor BRIDGE delivers:- Resilient ad-hoc network infrastructures, focussing on the requireme ...
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Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT)

Start date: Mar 15, 2011, End date: Mar 14, 2015,

Environmental Justice Organizations (EJOs) are civil society organizations locally or globally involved in conflicts over resource extraction or waste disposal. Such conflicts increase in number as the world economy uses more materials and energy. The EJOs focus on the link between the need for environmental security and the defence of basic human rights. The project EJOLT unites a consortium of i ...
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Sviluppo di un sistema online innovativo di guida personalizzata agli itinerari ed escursioni nelle regioni alpine Entwicklung eines innovativen Online-Systems für individuelle Touren- und Routenempfehlungen in alpinen Regionen (O-STAR)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Innovazioni nel settore dell informazione e della comunicazione possono contribuire a facilitare le attività del tempo libero. Lobiettivo del progetto e quindi lo sviluppo di un tecnologia per generare suggerimenti, considerando gli aspetti logistici e geografici, in maniera tale da poter offrire allutente finale delle gite personalizzate.Innovationen im Informations- und Kommunikationsbereich kön ...
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PM10 reduction by the application of liquid Calcium-Magnesium Acetate (CMA) in the Austrian and Italian cities Klagenfurt, Bruneck and Lienz (CMA+)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Background Numerous studies have confirmed the correlation between the concentration of particulate matter (PM) with respiratory disease, heart/circulation disorders and premature death. It is not only fine and ultrafine particles, found in PM2.5, but also the coarse fraction found in PM10 that can cause negative health effects. This project focuses on re ...
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Il design del futuro: materiali, forme, colori ed emozioni per un prodotto di successo Das Design der Zukunft: Materialen, Formen, Farben und Emotionen für ein erfolgreiches Produkt (DESIRE)

Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Aug 30, 2012,

Il progetto è finalizzato a trasferire alle piccole e medie imprese dell’area transfrontaliera la cultura, le conoscenze, le tecniche e le metodologie proprie del design industriale supportandole nella fase di analisi del mercato, progettazione o sviluppo e comunicazione dei loro prodotti anche in un’ottica di sostenibilità ambientale. Per aumentare la loro competitività, alle PMI vengono messe a ...
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Gospodarjenje z naravo v evropski regiji prihodnosti / karawanken@future.eu - Naturbasierte Wirtschaft in der europäischen Zukunftsregion Karawanken (karawanks@future.eu)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Oct 30, 2011,

to evaluate natural potentials in Karavanke area,- to identify development opportunities in Karavanke area,- to prepare a guidelines for sustainable development and nature protection zones,- to create a dialogue on sustainable development of Karavanke region between the public and the professionals,- to increase awareness of local people and visitors,- to support the process of joint cross-border ...
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Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

The Preparatory Phase for a pan-European Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) will focus on technical, legal, governance, and financial issues to • prepare to construct BBMRI, building on existing biobanks, resources and technologies, specifically complemented with innovative components and properly embedded into European scientific, ethical, legal and societal fra ...
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CSO Engagement with Ecological Economics (CEECEC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

"Ecological economics (EE) and, in general, sustainability sciences make important contributions to the analyses of sustainability policies in Europe and worldwide. EE develops physical indicators and indices, provides economic valuation of environmental services and negative externalities, applies tools of multi-criteria evaluation to resource use, and promotes environmental policy instruments su ...
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Sound and Particle Absorbing System (SPAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

Background Fine-dust or particulate matter are able to penetrate deep into the lungs, triggering not only respiratory diseases but also damaging the cardiovascular system. Children and elderly people are particularly vulnerable. Fine dust pollution is caused primarily by local road traffic, more specifically combustion-related diesel exhaust emissions on ...
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Environmental Governance for Environmental Curricula

Start date: Oct 15, 2010,

In the former USSR environmental protection was understood as a set of engineering measures; interests and expertise of stakeholder groups were often ignored. As a result, even the best engineered solutions led to unexpected socio-economic problems. This attitude also drove the development of environmental sciences and professional training. Issues of environmental policy (or rather environmental ...
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TINY SIGNERS

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

The main reason for TINY SIGNERS project is to create possibilities for the communication for deaf, hard of hearing and hearing children in the very early stages of their life and to overcome the gap which exists in this field in the majority of European countries. The overall objective of the project is to implement an innovative approach with hearing and deaf babies through the development and ...
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University Network for Innovation in Guidance

Start date: Nov 1, 2009,

Preamble The foundation of an academic ERASMUS network of HEI in Europe in the filed of career guidance degree and study programs can be seen as the implementation of the recommendations of the European Commission and the OECD made on the basis of their comprehensive studies carried out in the last eight years.» The planned ERASMUS network emphasises the unique wide-ranging scientific responsibili ...
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Quality of Life, creative pathways for family learning

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

The project “Qoflife, creative pathways of family learning” wants to improve quality of life through creativity and innovation targeting the growing number of European citizens who deal with dementia and all its often negative consequences like depersonalisation and isolation. Artists offer professional staff, volunteers and family members informal learning environments in which they can practise ...
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SignOn - Beginners' English for the Deaf

Background:Due to inadequate educational methods, it is harder for deaf people to learnspoken/written languages than for hearing people. This is especially the case withforeign languages, even English. The success of the bilingual “SignOn!” model(www.sign-on.eu) proved that deaf people can be motivated to learn English if thecourse respects their needs and preferences. The feedback to “SignOn!” sh ...
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Always on the Right Track

The project will develop a comprehensive training programme for career counsellors in different partner countries. The training programme will be web-based and will be delivered via the project's 'multimedia workshop centre'. The contents of the training programme will be module based and will explore various themes in relation to the psychology of work and personalities and their impact on career ...
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Development and Evaluation of a path-depending, learner-centered blended learning concept as a best-practice for the field of E-Business

Therefore the main objective of the project is the elaboration and testing of a learner-centered and therefore more target group and user orientated learning and teaching material as well as a blended learning concept, which is not longer orientated towards the structure of a classical curricular, but towards the individual needs and interests of each student. As to understand the actual needs of ...
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DEAL - Deaf people in Europe acquiring languages through e-learning - A passport for deaf people to cross the borders of the labour market

The project will produce protocols and teaching materials for distance learning of three languages (including Italian as a second language), the target group being young people and adults with impaired hearing. Emphasis will be placed on the production and understanding of written language and the project will be geared towards the functions of a business secretary. Languages: IT, ES, DE. Level: B ...
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Internet as a potential source of new employment possibilities for the deaf

Internet job prospects for the deaf : Training materials have been produced to enable the hard of hearing to take up new employment opportunities provided by the internet. The deaf will now be able to acquire new skills which will greatly enhance their prospects. This project started in 2000 and lasted 36 months.
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Development and Evaluation of a path-depending, learner-centered blended learning concept as a best-practice for the field of E-Business

The main objective of the project is the elaboration and testing of a learner-centered and therefore more target group and user orientated learning and teaching material as well as a blended learning concept, which is not longer orientated towards the structure of a classical curricular, but towards the individual needs and interests of each student. This learning material and concept shell especi ...
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digitalearth.eu: geomedia in schools

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

There are pockets of activity in using geo-media with geoinformation (GI) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Two Comenius projects supported some developments. Those involved are not networked, so the digitalearth.eu project will do this and be a place for new initiatives. An early focus will be the founding of a European Centre. This will be based at the Austrian Centre of Excellence, di ...
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Sign Language European Frame

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

The aim of the project is to develop a common basis for studying the sign languages of Europe in accordance with the guidelines of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Thanks to the Framework - http://www.coe.int/T/DG4/Portfolio/documents/Framework_EN.pdf - the Directives for learning and teaching languages in the European Union (EU) have been unified. A set of language levels ...
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The Deaf Literacy

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

In modern-day society, written language is an extremely valuable means of communication and of gaining access to culture and employment. The deaf have many difficulties in learning to read and write, and many deaf people are functionally illiterate. In a social context in which hearing is the priority mechanism for receiving information, the deaf population has a high risk of unemployment and marg ...
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Developing Key Competences by Mathematics Education

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

"KeyMath" aims at innovations of mathematics education on the European level in four target areas. The project develops, tests, evaluates, disseminates and exploits(1) strategies for pupils’ active, exploratory, self-regulated, autonomous, communicative and collaborative learning to develop key competences (mathematical competence, communication in the mother tongue, digital competence, learning t ...
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