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Single Point Of aTtachment communications empowered by cLoud computing and bIG data analytics running on-top of massively distributed and loosely-coupled Heterogeneous mobile data neTworks (SPOTLIGHT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

To handle the unprecedented demand for mobile data traffic, different vendors, operators and research programmes have aimed to develop radio access technologies (RATs) that boost physical-layer link capacity, utilize millimeter wave radio, or further densify network topology. Notable steps have also been made towards shifting baseband processing from the (currently) ultra dense network edge to a c ...
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Reinventing Democracy in Europe: Youth Doing Politics in Times of Increasing Inequalities (EURYKA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2017, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The proposed project aims to study the relations between inequalities and young people's ways of doing politics as well as to advance scenarios for future democratic models and political systems in Europe that are more inclusive for young people. It has three main objectives: (1) To provide systematic evidence on the ways in which inequalities are lived by young people and (re)acted upon, explorin ...
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Demonstration of a scalable and cost-effective cloud-based digital learning infrastructure through the Certification of digital competences in primary and secondary schools (CRISS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

CRISS is a user-driven, flexible, scalable and cost-effective cloud-based digital learning ecosystem that allows the guided acquisition, evaluation and certification of digital competences in primary and secondary education, and easily scalable to other educational levels. CRISS proposes an innovative adaptive learning solution supported by the most advanced pedagogical methodologies and technolog ...
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Decentralised Citizens Owned Data Ecosystem (DECODE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Today’s Internet is becoming increasingly centralised, slowing innovation and challenging its potential to revolutionise society and the economy in a pluralistic manner. DECODE will develop practical alternatives through the creation, evaluation and demonstration of a distributed and open architecture for managing online identity, personal and other data, and collective governance in a citizen-fri ...
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DEvelop COmpetences in Digital Era. Expertise, best practices and teaching in the XXI century

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

DECODE “DEvelop COmpetences in Digital Era” moves from: a) the awareness that the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is an increasingly important economic sector in Europe and both the integration of ICT in teaching practices and teachers’ digital competences could be strategic in this field; b) and the need to fill a void of information on real teaching practices.ICT Competences in Di ...
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Evaluation Framework for Promoting Gender Equality in Research and Innovation (EFFORTI)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

"EFFORTI is responding to the topic GERI-3-2015, “Evaluation of initiatives to promote gender equality in research policy and research organizations” in context of Horizon 2020 - Science with and for Society (SWAFS). EFFORTI (Evaluation Framework for Promoting Gender Equality in R&I) seeks to analyse and model the influence of measures to promote gender equality on research and innovation out-puts ...
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Matching graduates' skills and labour world demands through authentic learning scenarios

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Skill Up answers the urgent priority established by Europe 2020 policies of promoting graduates' employability by means of strengthen ties between higher education and VET curricula and the labour world through authentic learning scenarios and career counselling and guidance. The project sets the stage for scaling up innovative learning approaches, ICT-based methodologies, greater inter-sector coo ...
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RECOVERING LIFE WELLBEING THROUGH PAIN SELF-MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES INVOLVING ICTs (RELIEF)

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

RELIEF aims to link European health procurers in order to create the innovative and sustainable solutions that will improve chronic pain control/relieve through ITC self-management techniques.Chronic pain diseases is costing to healthcare systems annually over €300bn in Europe; 1.5%-3% of GDP (gross domestic product). Chronic pain entails a significant direct cost to healthcare systems. Consultati ...
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Collective Awareness Platform for Tropospheric Ozone Pollution (CAPTOR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Air pollution is the environmental topic that European citizens worry about most (Eurobarometer 2013). It puts considerable damage to health, agriculture and our natural environment. Despite these facts, the readiness and power of European citizens to take actions themselves is limited. The drivers of the CAPTOR project are three large civil society organizations. Being the interface between minis ...
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An Adaptive Trust-based e-assesment System for Learning (TeSLA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Although online education is a paramount pillar of formal, non-formal and informal learning, institutions may still be reluctant to wager for a fully online educational model. As such, there is still a reliance on face-to-face assessment, since online alternatives do not have the deserved expected social recognition and reliability. Thus, the creation of an e-assessment system that will be able to ...
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Participatory Engagement with Scientific and Technological Research through Performance (PERFORM)

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

The PERFORM consortium aims to investigate the effects of the use of innovative science education methods based on performing arts in fostering young peoples’ motivations and engagement with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in selected secondary schools in France, Spain and the United Kingdom. A considerable percentage of young people in Europe is not interested in STEM car ...
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Implementing a Central Asian Centre for Teaching, Learning and Entrepreneurship

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

Currently universities of economics and business in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have to master a series of challenges. They have• to demonstrate that they are reliable providers of good quality higher education by providing graduates with competencies required to evolve their professionality and to develop capacity for the labor market• to enrich the qualification-portfolio of HEI-teache ...
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Creating an Online Dimension for University Rankings

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

The Higher Education arena is becoming an even more competitive market. It is in this context in which rankings become an important tool. It is no longer enough to be good and to do things well. One should be the best and make things much better than others. Rankings are being used as a means of becoming more visible, reputable, and “marketable”. Online universities do not currently have a specifi ...
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Gender Diversity Impact – Improving research and innovation through gender diversity (GEDII)

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

The impact of gender diversity on research productivity, quality and innovation is very unevenly evidenced. Incremental insights from gender studies, team science and research evaluation exercises do not transcend these separate areas and are therefore of restricted analytical value. This can be seen, for example, in the understanding of 'gender' as simply concerned with the numerical representa ...
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Cultures of Disaster Resilience among children and young people (CUIDAR)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Cultural sensitivity is essential to effective disaster management and disaster risk reduction, yet disaster plans still largely ignore the needs and capacities of children and young people. Addressing Topic 2 of this call, the ‘given cultural group’ is therefore children, not viewed as a homogenous group, but one which offers diverse cultural perspectives and diverse experiences of roles taken on ...
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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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Exploiting transmedia skills and informal learning strategies to improve formal education (TRANSLITERACY)

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

The aims of the TRANSLITERACY project are to understand how teenagers are learning outside the school and to introduce those experiences into it. The ethnographic identification and analysis of the (trans)media skills will be at the centre of the research program. Once identified the informal learning strategies applied by young people outside the formal institutions, the team will translate them ...
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Checking Assumptions aND promoting responsibility In smart Development projects (CANDID)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

This project will study aspects of the 'smart' agenda in which practitioners from the Social and Human Sciences (SSH) offer unique and valuable insights of relevance to innovators and researchers in the ICT - LEIT[1] areas. Centred on topics concerning of users, design, digital rights and critical infrastructures, CANDID will engage SSH and ICT - LEIT researchers in ‘extended peer communications’ ...
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eLene4work: Learning to learn for new digital soft skills for employability

Start date: Dec 22, 2014, End date: Oct 21, 2017,

Many reports issued by the European Union, by University researchers and human resources experts point out that the so called “soft” skills are closely connected with employability of young people entering the labour market. Further studies argue that companies are in vital need of the digital skills the generation that grew up with the internet have. OERs (Open Educational Resources) and MOOCs ( ...
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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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DigiTal Resources As a New Strategical Factor for a Renovation of Modernization in higher education

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

The (KA2) D-TRANSFORM program is a first attempt to set up a "University Leader Program" (addressed to university presidents and vice-presidents) at the European level on the role of e-Education in shaping University strategies. EU-ordered foresight studies on the issues raised by learning modernization in higher education in the 21st century clearly shows that the major bottleneck found is the st ...
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An internet portal for sharing knowledge and inspiring collaborative action on gender and science (GENPORT)

Start date: May 15, 2013, End date: May 14, 2017,

Though the wealth of gender and science resources developed in Europe over the last decade offers enormous potential for knowledge sharing and informed, these resources are dispersed, and have varying degrees of visibility and usability. Globally, too, major gaps in the dissemination of past and present knowledge persist, while new knowledge is constantly being produced. This information needs to ...
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Smart ICT-enabled Rural Grid innovating resilient electricity distribution infrastructures, services and business models (SmartRuralGrid)

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

The Smart_Rural_Grid project is aimed at developing an innovative smart grid approach targeted to the particular conditions of rural electricity distribution networks. The project will devote particular attention to highlight the differentiated specificities of rural electricity distribution and will target the need of gaining substantial improvements in terms of efficiency, quality and network re ...
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Decrease of cOgnitive decline, malnutRition and sedEntariness by elderly empowerment in lifestyle Management and social Inclusion (DOREMI)

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

Description The DOREMI project focuses on three main health aspects related to frailty in older people: unhealthy nutrition, sedentariness and cognitive decline. These aspects are the main items at the basis of the DOREMI environment: a context-aware and smart system able to learn and reason about older people, their intentions, preferences ...
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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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EU Community

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

EU COMMUNITY MERGES ICT AND SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKING WITH ESTABLISHED ONLINE MEDIA AND STAKEHOLDER GROUPS TO CULTIVATE TRANSPARENCY, ENHANCE EFFICIENCY AND STIMULATE FRESH IDEAS FOR EU POLICY-MAKING.THREE CHALLENGES are identified to reduce complexity and leverage under used technologies.1. Ever more complex policy processes, thousands of contributors and documents, not easily understandable by peo ...
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OER uptake in adult education institutions

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

OERup! takes up the need of promoting and fostering successful implementation of practices with OER in adult learning institutions in Europe, with the aim of raising awareness of the value to be derived from OER, as well as supporting an OER-friendly environment in education institutions to increase participation in Open Education. The core of OERup! will be the development of a training package c ...
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"Uncoordinated network strategies for enhanced interference, mobIlity, radio resource, and energy saving management in LTE-Advanced networks" (CROSSFIRE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"The aim of the CROSSIRE project is to provide forward-looking solutions for Long-Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) network co-existence including aspects ranging from the physical layer such as co-channel interference and cognition to the user perception of the service, i.e., Quality of Experience (QoE). The project will analyze and propose network virtualization solutions for LTE-A networks a tech ...
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European Multiple MOOC Aggregator (EMMA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

The objective of this proposal is to pilot a number of trusted elements to put in place a unique platform to support ICT-based innovation in higher education and training approaches, thus scaling up existing trials and translation solutions. Validation and evaluation processes will also be tested during the pilot. Emma aims to showcase excellence in innovative teaching methodologies and learning a ...
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Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies (D-CENT)

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

D-CENT will accelerate innovation in the use of the Internet to help communities share data and collaborate to address major societal challenges. Despite its huge potential to transform everyday democratic decision making or to enable citizens to shape their own economic destiny, today's Internet is becoming highly centralised.D-CENT will accelerate the development of practical alternatives, thro ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

A partir de los resultados obtenidos, la UOC considera que las actividades realizadas han dado respuesta (en mayor o menor grado) a las prioridades estratégicas identificadas: ofreciendo un modelo de formación personalizado y multidisciplinar mediante las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC); fomentando la investigación y la transferencia de conocimiento sobre la sociedad del cono ...
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Linked Open Apps Ecosystem to open up innovation in smart cities (iCity)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The iCity project aims at making a step forward in fostering the co-creation of services of public interest by third parties pushing for their space as services provisioners in Smart Cities' urban spaces. This will be done by bootstrapping the involvement of open innovation ecosystems such as Living Labs in bringing the users together in the whole co-creation process using a self-centred methodolo ...
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Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet (CONFINE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Community networks are an emerging and successful model for the Future Internet across Europe and far beyond. The CONFINE project complements existing FIRE infrastructure by establishing a new facility built on the federation of existing community IP networks constituted by more than 20,000 nodes and 20,000 Km of links. These community networks incorporate a large and wide variety of commodity ...
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A Community networking Cloud in a box (CLOMMUNITY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Community networking (also known as bottom-up networking) is an emerging model for the Future Internet across Europe and beyond where communities of citizens can build, operate and own open IP-based networks, a key infrastructure for individual and collective digital participation. The CLOMMUNITY project aims at addressing the obstacles for communities of citizens in bootstrapping, running and exp ...
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Mobile Assistance for Social Inclusion and Empowerment of Immigrants with Persuasive Learning Technologies and Social Network Services (MASELTOV)

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

MASELTOV recognises the major risks for social exclusion of immigrants from the European information society and identifies the huge potential of mobile services for promoting integration and cultural diversity in Europe. Mobile – everywhere/everytime - persuasive assistance is crucial for more efficient and sustainable support of immigrants. MASELTOV researches and develops novel ICT instruments ...
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Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies (IRISS)

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

"IRISS (Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies) will investigate societal effects of different surveillance practices from a multi-disciplinary social science and legal perspective. It will focus on the effects that surveillance practices introduced to combat crime and terrorism can have on citizens in open and democratic societies. It will review surveillance systems used in fighting cri ...
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Thematic Network on Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information (LAPSI)

Start date: Mar 22, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Information generated and collected by public sector entities represents a veritable minefield; it might make a much greater contribution to EU economies and societies, if current legal barriers to access and re-user were removed. The LAPSI project will deal both with established PSI areas (geographic, land register data, etc.) as well as novel areas (cultural data from archives, libraries, scien ...
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Adaptive Learning via Intuitive/Interactive, Collaborative and Emotional systems (ALICE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

Despite a great potential and some initial successes, e-learning systems do not yet have the impact that many believe is possible. Moreover, the gap seems to be increasing because of the greater expectations of the current generation (Digital Natives) who have grown up with modern technology. There are also more general problems. In particular, an over-emphasis on cost effectiveness has meant that ...
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CONtent Creation Excellence through Dialogue in Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

User generated content (UGC) poses a number of challenges to the current understanding of education and its institutions, very much due to its success. The concept of “authority” should be rethought. The “ivory tower” of higher education should be opened to the wider world. Knowledge management becomes even more fundamental than in the past. Moreover, the rapidly growing number of learning resourc ...
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Free Technology Academy

... problem, the Free Technology Academy (FTA) aims to set up a distance learning programme for upgrading knowledge and skills on FS and OS. With this purpose, the learning experience of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (in terms of virtual campus, educational materials and methodology) will be transferred and adapted at the European level with particular emphasis on the lifelong learning of IT pr ...
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