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Building shared knowledge capital to support natural resource governance in the Northern periphery (BusK)
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,
Description (EN): This project develops planning tools that enhance the use of participatory techniques, and gives assistance for decision makers concerning land use planning and natural resource governance. Concretely, the development of participatory tools such as participatory GIS (PPGIS) is needed. Until now, these tools have been developed for urban areas and utilized successfu ...
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Northern Runoffs into Profits (WaterPro)
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,
Description (EN): While the agriculture and mining extractive industries are important sectors for the economy of Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) areas, their activities cause significant risk to the vulnerable environment through water and land pollution. Nutrients in agricultural runoff are one of the major contributors to eutrophication and algae blooms. The overreaching goal ...
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Generating Renewable Energy Business Enterprise (GREBE)
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Description (EN): GREBE will focus on the challenges of peripheral and arctic regions as places for doing business and help develop renewable energy (RE) business opportunities provided by extreme conditions. It will support successful development of SMEs and start-ups in this sector through analysis of advanced RE options, expert business mentoring, transnational models of successf ...
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Northern Cereals – New Markets for a Changing Environment (CEREAL)
Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,
Description (EN): Warmer growing conditions, improved varieties and technologies, and concerns about sustainability are creating new opportunities in northern areas for greater cereal production. In few areas, it has already been possible to produce higher value cereals for milling and malting which has allowed SMEs to develop new “local” products to meet a growing demand from touri ...
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Praxiserfahrungen in Laboren Europas
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,
Project backgroundLise-Meitner-Schule is a vocational school/technical college in Berlin, Germany. We are specialized in the training of laboratory technicians (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Pharmacy, Micro Technology).Since more than 20 years the school is conducting EU projects (Leonardo da Vinci Mobilities, Pilot Projects and Innovation Transfer Projects as well as Comenius-Grundtvig training co ...
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Creative Momentum
Start date: May 11, 2015, End date: May 10, 2018,
Description (EN): Creative Momentum (CM) tackles the peripherality and distance to market challenges experienced by entrepreneurs in the creative and cultural industries across the Northern Periphery and Arctic area, as well as low economic diversity in these regions. It provides enterprise development and market expansion spaces, services and supports with a transnational focus. ...
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Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and Innovative (TARGET)
Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,
Description (EN): This project will develop tools to enhance capacity of manufacturing companies in the NPA region to adapt and embrace new technologies and innovation. The toolbox developed will consist of subsets such as Digital manufacturing (robotics and simulation), New ideas and thinking (human centered and environmental thinking, competitiveness), Business models and modern P ...
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Smart Labels for High-quality Products (SMART FISH)
Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,
Description (EN): The core product developed in Smart-Fish is an electronic label (an electronic device printed onto a thin, flexible label) that will be put on individual food packages. Also developed, is a service for collecting and presenting data from the electronic labels. It can be used for monitoring and tracking location and temperature of packages during transport, and the ...
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Slow Adventure In Northern Territories (SAINT)
Start date: Apr 13, 2015, End date: Apr 12, 2018,
Description (EN): Slow Adventures in Northern Territories (SAINT) will work with SMEs to make them more aware of how to capitalise on the business opportunities in guided slow adventure experiences, offering simple nature-based, immersive journeys, living and travelling in wild places, through marketing to new, distant customer markets. Nothern Europes wide-open, wild spaces provid ...
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Social Enterprises in Community Renewable Energy (SECRE)
Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,
SECRE is a transnational network of renewable energy and social business expertise in Northern Periphery. SECRE works for social enterprises. Social enterprises provide significant amount of net profit to fulfill social goals or invest to own business to enhance social impact.SECRE challenges renewable energy businesses and communities to find and define social goals in the field of renewable ener ...
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Services of General Interest (SeGi)
Start date: Oct 31, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,
Services of general interest traditionally comprehend electronic communications, postal services, electricity, gas, water and transport. Policymakers more recent documents tend to be more comprehensive and also look at labour market services, education, health care, child care, social care, culture or (social) housing. Socio-economic policies much focus on ensuring the provision of services of gen ...
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Opportunities for Community groups Through Energy Storage (OCTES)
Start date: Mar 14, 2011, End date: Mar 14, 2013,
The project will develop a business model that can deliver a new Integrated Renewable Energy Management Service (IREMS) that can be adapted to suit local needs in a transnational context. The developed Renewable Energy Management Service incorporating smart grid technology with existing renewable energy (RE) know-how will be made available to existing advisory services across the NPP region.The co ...
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Nordic-Baltic Dialogues on transnational perspectives in spatial planning (NORBA)
Start date: Feb 15, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
The aim of this project is to facilitate transnational dialogues on spatial planning between policy makers and practitioners, scientists and young academics and students in the Nordic-Baltic countries. Cooperation with Nordic and Baltic organizations dealing with spatial planning issues and territorial cohesion, Vision and Strategies in the Baltic Sea Region (VASAB) and the Nordic Section of the R ...
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Rural Innovation and Business Systems (RIBS)
Start date: Jun 30, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
The Rural Innovation and Business Systems (RIBS) project will specifically help SMEs in rural regions of Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, Sweden and Finland to address the effects of the economic downturn and strengthen their competitiveness and growth potential. Based on the needs analysis of the SMEs and the business support community in the target regions, RIBS will develop Business Growth Programme ...
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New Plants for Northern Periphery Market 4.4 (NPNP)
Start date: Jun 30, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2012,
... National seminars have been carried out in each country Products and services:Title: Prunus padus 'Anne' Finland Bird Cherry (Prunus padus) Anne, micro-propagated in the Botanical Gardens of the University of Oulu in Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland, and tested in Orkney and Sweden. More information see: http://nppoutcomes.eu/,Title: Viburnum edule Finland Squashberry (Viburnum edule), micropropa ...
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Solutions for Microgeneration to ALLow Energy Saving Technology 4.8 (SMALLEST)
Start date: Jun 14, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2012,
The SMALLEST project will establish an innovative service across all Northern Periphery Programme (NPP) partner regions to raise the scale and quality of training, mentoring and support for rural communities needed to help them convert from traditional energy generation to renewable energy generation. The SMALLEST service will assist rural communities by increasing their awareness of the potential ...
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The Sea as Our Neighbour: Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Communities and Habitats on Europe’s Northern Periphery 3.11 (CoastAdapt)
Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2011,
CoastAdapt is a project aimed to safeguard people living in North Atlantic coastal communities and help them adapt to the impacts of climate change. Five pilot study sites in Iceland, Norway, Ireland and Scotland have been identified to determine the issues experienced by local communities. Municipalities and citizens, working together with project partners, will develop and trial adaptation strat ...
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ELLETime - Solutions for competitive pellet production in medium size enterprises 1.6 (PELLETime)
Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2010,
... Associate partners have contributed to the technical development work, for instance, by designing a new type of harvesting machinery that has been further applied in PELLETime trials. North Karelia University of Applied Sciences (NKUAS) has established small-scale pelletizing unit to the Centre for Natural Resources, Joensuu. Pelletizing service of alternative raw materials will be available in ...
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Northern Environmental Education Development 1.3 (NEED)
Start date: Jan 6, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2010,
The NPP/NEED -project develops the educational use of geo-scientific knowledge for the tourism to reinforce the sustainable rural development in high quality nature sites called Parks (especially World Heritage sites, European Geoparks and national parks and their visitor centres). Special environmental focus is on geo-learning, for example the scientific evidence of glacial geology and climate ch ...
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Spatial Planning in Northern Peripheral Regions (Spatial Planning)
Start date: Feb 28, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
Spatial planning and development have been developed as a method in the EU over a long period, and have resulted in the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP). However, the specific conditions in the NPP area make it important to develop methods for spatial planning and development that are adapted for the region. In orderto achieve this, exchange of knowledge and experience in the field ...
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Northern Environment for Sustainable Tourism - NEST (NEST)
Start date: Sep 30, 2004, End date: Sep 29, 2007,
Protected areas, whether they are national parks, World Heritage Areas or other European or national government designations, create particular challenges. On one hand such natural and cultural resources are spectacular and offer a perfect resource for tourism development, yet on the other hand the resource merits particular protection and careful management from development. For some this protect ...
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Rural Business Information Exchange System - RUBIES (RUBIES)
Start date: Sep 14, 2003, End date: Sep 13, 2006,
With the rapid expansion of ICT and increased business use of the internet, rural (especially peripheral) SMEs should no longer be disadvantaged in the knowledge economy as they are able to access a wide variety of business information to generate knowledge. However, Rural SMEs often lack the skills and knowledge of ICT needed for sustainability and growth, while they also lack support for these s ...
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SCRI In Action (SCRI in Action)
Start date: Jul 31, 2005, End date: Jul 30, 2006,
The original SCRI project aimed to fill a gap perceived in rural, peripheral regions of elements required for the successful generation and growth of micro and small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). Building on the success of the SCRI project (which ended in January 2005), the extension implements the process emerging from joint understanding of the various international experiences. While the ...
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...tudes, and- Building a culture of diversity in educational institutions and SMEs based on the knowledge gained whilst on training.The DARE 2 consortium consisted of four institutions:The Jagiellonian University and the University of Iceland are public schools of higher education with major achievements as regards supporting disabled students and work with academic staff in this field. The Cyprus A ...
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The main target groups for the project are teachers, trainers, mentors and guidance counsellors working with young people in Upper Secondary Schools or in Vocational training. The beneficiaries will be the young people at risk of dropping out from the education and training system. The envisaged impact of the project will be an increased number of young people carrying out their education and trai ...
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University studies are becoming an increasingly important part of vocational training and education. As the number of university graduates increases demand rises for individual courses and degrees accessible online or after working hours. People in the knowledge age demand that the vocational training they pursue after completing initial vocational training is credited within the university system ...
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The PPS project (www.p-p-s.org) focuses on finding at-risk individuals, evaluating their needs and providing them with flexible support. It consists of three tools that counselors and administrators can use at various school levels, educational centres and other institutions. The tools are based on a holistic approach with the focus on the individual and his/her future opportunities and can be use ...
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Educational units for swimming teachers and coaches will be transferred from a similar existing program used at the University of Edinburgh in the Centre of Aquatic Research and Education and upgraded to ‘on-line’ delivery for the Icelandic Swimming Federation with a view to implementation throughout Europe. This will be facilitated through transfer of existing continuing professional development ...
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Kultur Sheep have played a great role in landscape management, nature conservation, in regional economies and in rural culture in nearly all European countries. Meadows and nature grazed by sheep are amongst the richest biotopes as regards diversity of different plants and insects. Beyond the contribution of sheep to landscape management and nature conservation sheep farming has a potential for th ...
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As in many other aspects of education, teachers are expected to play a pivotal role in the delivery and promotion of enterprise in schools, but more often than not, they bear the brunt of translating policies into practice. Hence greater efforts should be made to build up teachers’ confidence and skills to promote creative and entrepreneurial learning skills and abilities and active-learner centre ...
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Facing up to facts : There is a lack of teachers who are trained specifically to deal with children with learning difficulties from disadvantaged backgrounds. This project highlights this inadequacy in the education system by compiling data which should raise awareness and lead to a change at policy level. This project started in 2001 and lasted 36 months.
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Lingu@net World Wide
Start date: Dec 1, 2009,
Lnet EU was developed over the last 12 years with support from the EU (in 1998-2001, and 2003-2006). In 2007 it was awarded the MERLOT prize for being ‘exemplary on-line learning material for all disciplines’ (www.merlot.org) and in 2008 L’net EU was awarded the European Commission’s Gold prize in the "European Lifelong Learning Awards for quality in mobility" (http://ec.europa.eu/education/langua ...
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OPTIMISING PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR TRAINING IN A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
OPTIMALE addresses one of the key challenges of a multilingual and multicultural Europe: how to ensure that Its universities continue to produce the high-level professionals that the Community translation services and the translation Industry need, to adapt to rapidly changing societal and market conditions. As recent reports have highlighted, the rapid technological changes of the past decade, fa ...
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SHARE Academic Network
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
Through the SHARE Academic Network (STEP CHANGE HIGHER ARTS RESEARCH + EDUCATION), the European Higher Arts Education sector delivers a systematically coordinated STEP CHANGE in realising an EU-wide integrated enhancement of 3rd cycle creative education. The 3rd cycle in higher arts education is the essential education and research bed for the creative industries, a key fast growing sector in Euro ...
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Digital video streaming and multilingualism
Start date: Oct 1, 2008,
Online video streaming has developed enormously over the last two years in terms ofboth numbers and popularity. Youtube for example had 72.6 million videos online inFebruary 2008. Its potential, however as a resource for education and in particular forlanguage learning has yet to be realised. Video is used regularly in schools and digitalawareness is becoming an educational priority. A systematic, ...
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European clusters to promote the exchange of knowledge and best practices in fighting early school leaving through IT
Start date: Nov 1, 2010,
The rationale behind the IT-CLEX project is to respond to the need for reducing the drop-out rates and improving the quality of education and training in Europe. IT-CLEX intends to identify and transfer best practices and provide tools, mechanisms and methodologies, especially focused on active co-operation between educational and non-educational actors. It will also provide a framework for these ...
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Dynamical and creative Mathematics using ICT
Start date: Nov 1, 2010,
In the last few decades the nature of mathematics and its evolution over time have been influenced by the new technologies. Future and in-service teachers need some concrete examples, hints and good practices on how to apply dynamical ICT and at the same time to develop effectively the dynamical thinking, reasoning and creativity of their pupils. We plan to look for and produce such examples and d ...
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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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Multinational Undergraduate Team Work
Start date: Oct 1, 2009,
Modern economy is highly dependent on technology requiring engineers to excel in collaborative and communication skills at an international setting. But these competences are not addressed in most engineering curricula. There is a general absence of an international context across engineering curricula.Thus, developing working habits at an international setting as early as possible may be a very v ...
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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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