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Connectivity of the Natura 2000 network across the Belgian-Dutch borders in the Meuse basin (LIFE Pays mosan)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

Background This project’s area contains 40 Natura 2000 sites (covering 24 566 ha) in Belgium and the Netherlands, within the basin of the Meuse River and its tributaries between Andenne and Maastricht. The river basin has supported highly species-rich habitats related to former pastoral systems. But these habitats have become extremely fragmented and ar ...
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Duurzaam En geïntegreerd bodembeheer om MilieuEffecten TE Reduceren (Sustainable and integrated soil management to reduce environmental effects) (DEMETER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Mar 30, 2016,

...es) for which they fear they may be fined. The agricultural sector needs practical know-how and tools to optimise both fertilization and organic matter management towards achieving both goals. Ghent University has carried out research on sustainable nutrient management in combination with the management of organic matter and the impact on the environment. Unfortunately this research does not link ...
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COMBINE: Converting Organic Matters from European urban and natural areas into storable bio-Energy (COMBINE)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The utilisation and development of environmentally friendly technologies are key factors for the achievement of the ambitious aims of EU to increase the share of renewable energies. The ener-getic utilisation of biomass has an important role. as in contrast to other renewables (wind/PV). biomass is storable and it is possible to produce storable bio-fuels. However. at present the energy productio ...
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Energetic Algae (EnAlgae)

Start date: Oct 31, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Aim Energetic Algae aims to reduce CO2 emissions and dependency on unsustainable energy sources in NWE. by accelerating the development of sustainable technologies for algal biomass production. bioenergy and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation from pilot phase to application and marketable products. processes and services. This is achieved by bundling know-how. finance and political support. The plan ...
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Blue Energy Production in Ports (BEPPo)

Start date: Jan 5, 2013, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

Energy is a sector that may act as future driver for competitiveness in the NSR. BEPPo focuses on Blue Energy (wave/tidal) and its complementarity with traditional (gas/oil/coal) & new (wind/biomass) sources of power, building on the innovation capacity of NSR ports to become bases for the production of integrated sustainable renewables, thus ensuring reliable & affordable supplies of clean, green ...
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Advanced Materials & Pharmaceutical TEChnologies (AMPTEC)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The Advanced Materials and Pharmaceutical Technologies cluster will gather some of the world leading researchers who want to undertake an innovative project by joining forces and pooling their respective skills.With their expertise on materials sciences, pharmaceutics, continuous processing technologies and medical devices, they will meet new challenges in pharmaceutical and medical development. C ...
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Research, Innovation and Business Support for a Low Carbon Economy (Safe-Ice)

Start date: Sep 30, 2013, End date: May 15, 2014,

The aim of the cluster is to develop a common understanding of what the low carbon economy is across the 2 Seas region, highlighting good practice in terms of research, innovation and business support.Subsequently, four expert working groups were established:-market and policy conditions,-business/building,-business park,-and business to businessThe aim of the cluster is to develop a common unders ...
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Accelerating Renewable Energies through valorisation of Biogenic Organic Raw Material (ARBOR)

Start date: Sep 24, 2009, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

The project aim is to foster and accelerate development and use of biomass in North West Europe. to facilitate the sustainable achievement of 2020 energy objectives. and to make EU a world-class centre for Biomass utilisation. This will be conducted in an innovative and sustainable approach across NWE to developing energy from biomass. It involves organisations from UK. Ireland. Germany. Luxembou ...
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Improving the enabling environment and public awareness for innovation in the South-East-European food sector through transnational collaboration (CAPINFOOD)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

Project aims at building the capacity of institutions supporting innovation in the food sector and promoting public awareness on benefits of innovation, making the sectoral innovation easier through transnational cooperation of the national food technology platforms and related institutions. Although food industry has specific importance in SEE economies, the level of innovation in the region is n ...
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The positive effects of quiet facades and quiet urban areas on traffic noise annoyance and sleep disturbance (QSIDE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Background About 20% of the European population is exposed to environmental noise at levels that experts consider unacceptable. The health impacts include annoyance, sleep disturbance, and stress-related problems such as cardio-vascular disease. Road traffic is the main source of environmental noise pollution; other sources include aircraft, trains and in ...
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Innovative Management for Europes Changing Coastal Resource (IMCORE)

Start date: May 31, 2007, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

Aim: To promote a transnational. innovative and sustainable approach to reducing the Ecological Social and Economic impacts of climate change on the coastal resources of NWE. To achieve: A demonstration of how the innovative expert couplet approach (i.e. collaboration between coastal practitioners and scientists using the principles of sustainability science). can help with the effective implem ...
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Adaptive and Sustainable Water Management and Protection of Society and Nature in an Extreme Climate (CLIWAT)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

The project will focus on the effects of climate change on groundwater systems. CLIWAT aims to identify the challenges caused by the higher water levels and to develop climate scenarios focussing on surface water and water supply as well as the impacts on buildings. This will enable the North Sea Region to react more efficiently to the consequences of climate change. The project will build on and ...
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Climate Proof Areas (CPA)

Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

CPA aims to create a portfolio of climate adoption strategies for the North Sea region. This will be done by carrying out multi-focused pilot projects across the North Sea Region in order to analyse the impacts of climate changes as a first step. Subsequently, diverse climate adoption strategies will be developed, implemented and tested in order to compile and analyse the findings on a transnation ...
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European Regions for Innovative Productivity (ERIP)

Start date: May 31, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2011,

The project identifies an increasing pressure on EU manufacturers to be more efficient and innovative in their manufacturing processes. The cause of this pressure is identified by the project as increased production capacity in low-cost economies (LCE) and increased innovation and level of sophistication of supply chains in high-cost economies. The main problems undermining the competitiveness of ...
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Improved management of nitrate pollution in water using isotopic monitoring (ISONITRATE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2006, End date: Jan 31, 2010,

Background Nitrate pollution is a serious and well recognised problem for the sustainable management of surface and groundwater in many European river basins. There is a clear impact of agricultural practices, such as the use of fertilisers, manure or sewage sludge for crop fertilisation on quality of surface and ground-water with regard to nitrate conc ...
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Science education through earth observation for high schools (SEOS)

Start date: Aug 1, 2007, End date: Oct 31, 2009,

Earth observation from space is relevant in science education already in high schools since it sharpens the sensibility to the natural environment and thus stimulates the willingness to learn of its relevance to everyday life conditions. This covers a broad field of experience, ranging from daily weather data to long-term climate change, from local nature to environmental hazards, with local relev ...
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COREPOINT - Creating a Sustainable Framework for ICZM (COREPOINT)

Start date: Jan 9, 2004, End date: Dec 31, 2007,

...oastal information management system for NW Europe and promote shared social and political responsibility for the coastal environment. The lead partner is the Coastal and Marine Resources Centre of University College Cork. Together with 11other bodies from across North West Europe it will establish a virtual Coastal Resource Centre for North West Europe housing a Geographic Information coastal atl ...
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Connected Cities (CC)

Start date: Jun 30, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

European citizens travel much further to work and leisure facilities today than in the past. Despite bringing benefits, this huge increase in mobility has led to traffic congestion and pollution, holding back efforts to achieve sustainable development. Public transport can form the basis of more sustainable approaches to mobility. However, the mismatch between older public transport networks and m ...
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City Parking in Europe (City Parking)

Start date: Mar 31, 2005, End date: Oct 29, 2007,

The Humboldt University of Berlin in cooperation with Berlin located companies has initiated the idea for this project to help cities in Europe overcome their problems of inner-city parking. Within the project the partner cities should share knowledge and experience of developing stationary traffi c policies, strategies and projects, to learn about new, effective solutions. Local and municipal pub ...
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LANARCH II (PLANARCH II)

Start date: Sep 30, 2002, End date: Jun 2, 2006,

Although North-West Europe has an immensely rich archaeological heritage, its population density puts an enormous strain on this sensitive historical legacy which can disappear once and for all if it is not carefully preserved. Planarch II builds on the conclusions of an earlier IIC project to protect and enhance historic environment and 26 archaeological heritage within the framework of spatial p ...
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Environmental curricula at agricultural universities

Start date: Jan 15, 2010,

.../upgraded and library resources will be updated. Selected course modules will be developed as distance and e-learning resources. New study programs will be approved by the authorities of each Partner University and they will be accredited by respective units of Ministries of Education and Science in Russian Federation and in Ukraine.
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The Uses of Art - on the legacy of 1848 and 1989

Start date: May 1, 2013,

In the 5-year project the UoA, the consortium L’Internationale, drawing from previous experience in EU-collaboration, will publicly develop a new European model for content-driven, sustainable collaboration in the museum field. It does this through a rich program of 20 exhibitions, 10 publications, 8 symposia, 4 new commissioned art projects, a vibrant online platform, an innovative education prog ...
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Open Innovation for New Food Product Development in the European Food Industries

The main objective of the Open New Food project is to increase the awareness and competences of the managers of the Traditional Food Industries SMEs, about Collaborative Food Product Development in order to boost the “integrated value chain model” of food production, through the cooperation of transnational partners.
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Development of a Standard Interactive Template for Innovative Training in Textiles (TEMPTEX)

Multi-media gives new dimensions to textile training : A new interactive training structure has been developed for the textiles industry, giving students the opportunity to solve real-life production problems through computer simulations and a wealth of practical information. The package can be adapted to a wide range of users from students through to managers. This project started in 2000 and las ...
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ICT – Innovative Caregivers’ TrainingRethinking competences for a sustainable and effective homecare system

In Europe seniors and particularly elderly people (> 60/80 years old), are a growing component of the population. Health and psychological fragilities are strongly linked to age progression and do often appear in a context of comorbidity. The need of personal support and health care for older persons is therefore growing constantly, especially in the home care sector (Nolte and McKee, 2008; Baylis ...
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EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

The EUGENE Network aims at improving the impact of European Engineering Education (EE) on competitiveness, innovation andsocio-economic growth in a global context. This goal will be achieved by setting–up and a top-level “discussion & action” forum tomonitor and support the continuous evolution of EE in the EHEA and to open its competition and cooperation borders beyondEurope. Indeed, although Eur ...
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MA European Youth Studies

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

This project develops a full Bologna MA in European Youth Studies (MA EYS) to enhance the quality of the human resources available to youth research, policy and practice in Europe, in line with the Lisbon Strategy and the European Youth Pact and towards a transversal youth strategy. It contributes to the modernisation of higher education by designing an integrated course for an international and m ...
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Good Practice for Dissemination and Valorization for Educational Projects in Europe

Start date: Dec 1, 2009,

Many innovative and successful educational projects have been initiated in Europe in the last years, (e.g. The year of intercultural dialogue 2008). Looking back we can say that many of these projects and initiatives were a huge success in terms of dissemination, valorization or sustainability. Europe has invested a lot of effort, time and money in developing them and many could be used as good pr ...
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AGORA: Transnational Placement Scheme for Translation Students

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

AGORA is a project created within the European Master in Translation with the aim of setting up a solid system for international internships. The project, which includes 10 universities, 5 language service providers and the European Union of Association of Translation Companies (EUATC), will be developed over the 3 years. The project originated in the context of student mobility and in the coopera ...
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European Action on Disability within Higher Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

15% of European population – i.e. about 80 Millions persons - live with some form of disability. Nevertheless, disabled people result an underrepresented group within higher-education all over Europe. The reasons of that are to be found in a complex range of socioeconomic, cultural and historical elements, differing for each single country. Overall, it can be stated that in Europe there's the lack ...
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A European Module on Undergraduate Teaching in Occupational Medicine

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

The proposed project is based on the need for improvement and harmonization of the training in occupational health issues for undergraduate students. Occupation has a large impact on health in Europe. In order to prevent and recognize occupational diseases, all health professionals should know about the potentially causal relationship between work and health. Until now, different aspects complicat ...
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Network forTuning Standards & Quality of Educ.progs. for SLT in Europe

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

...f informal agreement amongst professionals across the EU of the expected competences of qualified SLTs, the reality shows significant variation in levels of initial education qualifications (from non-University diplomas to Masters) & a lack of agreed benchmarks for minimum standards of education & clinical competencies of newly qualified SLTs.This proposal aims to address these shortcomings by app ...
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PROject-Based SCHOOL Management

Schools have to change in order to adapt themselves in changing environment and tobring up students for knowledge based society. However, some schools are losingstudents because they are considered unsuccessful by parents and society. It is a wellknown fact that school managers who are capable of adapting schools into changingenvironment and who are equipped with good leadership characteristics ar ...
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School on Cloud: connecting education to the Cloud for digital citizenship

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

The Cloud is a major technological breakthrough with huge potential for education. It allows students and their tutors/teachers to interact productively in formal and informal education situations. Hosted Cloud communities mean that learners themselves can become creators and developers. Laptops and tablets will be everywhere, eBooks will replace text books as a normal part of classroom learning. ...
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Higher Education Structures to Enhance Public Health Learning and Teaching in the Republic of Uzbekistan

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

UZHELTH is designed to develop the capacity of Uzbek Higher Education Institutions to train public health personnel of various levels of responsibility and autonomy and in the relevant disciplinary sectors in order to enhance the level of human health in the broadest sense.Using Tuning Methodology, UZHELTH will implement a structured process of mapping, consultation, restructuring, monitoring and ...
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Restructuring of doctoral studies in Serbia

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

...dies in RS in order achieve a synergy between scientific research Institutes and Universities and compatibility with the needs of industry c) to develop the concept of joint doctoral studies at intra university and inter university levels in the form of Doctoral Schools, and to implement four models in the selected fields (Material Sciences, Cyberphysical Systems, Arts and Humanities, Natural Sci ...
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Implementation of National and Sectorial Qualifications Frameworks in Armenia

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

ARMENQA - Implementation of National and Sectorial Qualifications Frameworks in Armenia is a three year national project under the 6th Call for Proposals EACEA 35/2012 and Higher Education and Society, Structural Measures action. ARMENQA's wider objective is to enhance the employability of Armenian HEIs’ graduates and facilitate the recognition of Armenian qualifications in the labour market natio ...
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Strengthening of Internationalisation Policies at Universities in Serbia

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

...n and Research and National Strategy of Academic Mobility and Recognition of Degrees (in line with the Serbian Strategy of Educational Development by 2020).2) Creating and implementing individual university strategies on internationalisation and academic mobility along with coherent institutional measures capable of steering internationalisation, improving institutional capacities for the growing ...
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LOTUS UNLIMITED - Linking Organizations Through University Synergies (EU - Asia)

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

...with high interest in research will be involved in the development of doctoral schools and technology transfer offices. Trainings for administrative staff in the context of internationalisation and university–enterprise cooperation will be foreseen to exchange good practices- Project results and experiences: transparent dissemination through various communication tools to all (non)academic stakeho ...
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Towards a Central Asian Higher Education Area: Tuning Structures and Building Quality Culture

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

The broad aim of TuCAHEA is to contribute to building a CA Higher Education Area, aligned with the EHEA, able to take into account and valorise the specific needs and potentials of the Region and of the partner countries, thus responding to the needs of the higher education community and society at large.The project is organised as a CA Tuning Process based on the methodology developed worldwide b ...
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