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Integrated inter-sector framework to increase the thermal resilience of European workers in the context of global warming (HEAT-SHIELD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Environmental heating is a growing challenge for our community and problems are already experienced by millions of Europeans during the summertime and aggravated during heat waves or occupational settings. In addition to the well-known health risks related to severe heat stress, a number of studies have confirmed significant loss of productivity due to hyperthermia. Even if countries adopt the EU ...
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Designing for People with Dementia: designing for mindful self-empowerment and social engagement (MinD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

This project aims to help people with dementia engage in social contexts to improve psychosocial wellbeing. People who are affected by Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias often face cognitive, behavioural and psychosocial difficulties, including impairment and degeneration of memory and of perceptions of identity. In a social context, this can cause difficulties of recognizing, relating to and ...
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Massive Open Online courses eNhancing LInguistic and Transversal skills for social inclusion and Employability

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

In the past two years, MOOCs have moved into the mainstream of European Higher Education. According to the European MOOC Scoreboard, 675 courses have been offered freely by European universities between March 2015 and February 2016. However, despite this impressive offering, there are few examples within the EHEA of institutions strategically deploying MOOCs to complement their own educational off ...
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Aerospace Engineering ECVET Resources Online

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

Aerospace is a vital industry sector across the EU. Recognising and addressing skills gaps and enabling the personal development of well-trained and skilled employees to support growth will make a significant contribution to the advancement of the key Europe 2020 aims of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. In particular, the AEERO project will contribute towards the objectives of the 'Agenda ...
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Inhibiting Stress in the Construction Industry (INSTINCT)

Start date: Jan 3, 2017, End date: Jan 2, 2019,

Work-related stress is costing the UK economy about 10 million man-hours and €16 billion. An intervention to curb the advent of stress is proposed: ‘Stress-Blocker’ (Streblo). Cognitive psychology identifies five main personalities (Big-5): extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. How these Big-5 differ in the dynamics of stress are unexplored, particularly in the ...
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Traditional Organised Crime and the Internet: The changing organization of illegal gambling networks (OCGN)

Start date: May 22, 2017, End date: Nov 21, 2018,

Transnational criminal networks utilise Information Communication Technology (ICT) to commit ‘old’ and ‘new’ types of crime. ICT assists in transnational crime (i.e., hacking) and also as a way to exchange information or plan new crimes. Empirical research has provided ample evidence that social and familial networks play a crucial role in the formation and growth (recruitment) of criminal networ ...
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Modernization of tEaching meThodologies in higher educatiOn: EU experience for jorDan and paleStinian territory

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

The project aims at modernization of Higher education methodologies with cooperation of EU experiences, by establishing well equipped center, which engage technology with teaching process and it will be used to train Professors, Lecturers, Trainers whom already exist in Partner countries and Trainees in best practices of ICT in education. The project aims to ensure that universities in Jordan and ...
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Trans-Regional Environmental Awareness for Sustainable Usage of Water Resources (TREASURE-WATER)

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

The project, aiming at strengthening cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan, addresses one of their common regional priorities – ‘Development of partnerships with enterprises’ which is on the lists of national priorities for both countries. The project is also consolidated by the shared environmental theme - a cross-cutting topic in the national and regional priorities for RU and KZ. The consor ...
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Assessment and enhancement of vocational language skills in the wellness sector

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

One of the major economic activities of the European Union is the tourism sector. It has an expansive impact on economic growth, employment and social development. Nevertheless the tourism sector faces a series of challenges, e.g. difficulty of finding and keeping skilled staff or growing demand for customised experiences, new products and growing competition from other EU destinations. In June 20 ...
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Promoting Internationalization Through European Mobility

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

The project stems from the university's on-going commitment to internationalise the experience of its students in line with key aspects of the university's Internationalisation sub-strategy. The ever increasing importance of instilling a European and more widely 'globalised' identity of the university and ambition among it's students and staff is a necessity in the evolution of our role, regionall ...
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D.O.I.T.

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

The D.O.I.T project revolves around european mobility in two fields such us Gastronomy and Cooking VET and Restaurant Services VET. It is destinated to a group of 14 young people from 3 different training centres who will be able to enjoy an intership abroad in two hosting countries, Italy and United Kingdom. In this framework it is also considered the possibility that 2 teachers could carry out a ...
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KA-1 Project. Learners and staff Learning abroad

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

This project involves Nova College students and staff/teachers that will follow an internship or training abroad. Many will take (part of) their Aptitude Test in an international company. The project involves Senior Secondary Vocational Education students at levels 3 and 4. The experience gained during the international practical vocational training (IPVC) can help students pass this test.From yea ...
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Multi-source Big Data Fusion Driven Proactivity for Intelligent Mobility (OPTIMUM)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Transportation sector undergoes a considerable transformation as it enters a new landscape where connectivity is seamless and mobility options and related business models are constantly increasing. Modern transportation systems and services have to mitigate problems emerging from complex mobility environments and intensive use of transport networks including excessive CO2 emissions, high congestio ...
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Arte, Cultura e Turismo Oggi

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

With the advent of digital technology in the tourism and culture sector, new professionals have been created. It is crucial that when training young people we give them some transversal competences coupled with cultural education at European level. Young people need the right mix of professional skills, including entrepreneurial skills and language skills, and transversal skills (eg. Problem solvi ...
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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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App.t

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...tion and progression; Pilot; Potential commercialisation informed by market testing and quality assurance; user guides; dissemination; effective management. The project consortium will be led by the University of Wolverhampton, UK. The university aims to be a University of Opportunity – renowned for creativity and innovation – developing students and staff who are entrepreneurial, eminently emplo ...
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C.I.L. - Cultura e Inovação em Línguas II

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The CIL II Project aims to respond to both the common needs of a consortium of 3 training organisations (Centro Europeu de Línguas, Casa Pia de Lisboa and Câmara Municipal de Lisboa) and to the individual needs of each of the 3 organisations. As a backdrop to the project, in recent years Europe has had to come to terms with high rates of unemployment in all age groups, but most particularly among ...
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Global Network of Excellence for Research on Adipose Tissue Plasticity and Human Thermogenesis (FUEGO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"Our aim is to create a multiannual joint programme dedicated to exchanges of research staff between European (Sweden, Greece, UK) research entities and other third countries (Brazil, Belarus, and In-dia) to increase knowledge on adipose tissue plasticity and human thermogenesis. The proposal stems from recent reports suggesting that mammalian adipose tissue has the ability to alter its structure ...
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Multi-national network of excellence for research on genetic predisposition to cardio-metabolic disorders due to UCP1 gene polymorphisms (U-GENE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

"Cardio-metabolic disorders (CMD) represent a heavy public health burden for Europe which has one of the highest adult mortality rates in the world, primarily due to a very high incidence of CMD. The 2011 FP7 Health Work Programme included three Calls targeted specifically on understanding CMD nature and pathophysiology, while the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe recently recog ...
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Boosting Employment Through European Vocational Placements

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

The project stems from the university's on-going commitment to internationalise the experience of its students in line with key aspects of the university'siInternationalisation sub-strategy. The ever increasing importance of instilling a European and more widely 'globalised' identity among it's students and staff is a necessity in the evolution of our role, regionally, nationally and international ...
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C.I.L. - Cultura e Inovação em Línguas

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

This project will promote co-operation between training organisations at both national and European levels, with the aim of rapidly transforming the current relative disadvantages of young people who have concluded vocational training into a competitive advantage on the labour market, thereby improving their level of employability and establishing a clear link between the training path they have f ...
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Theatres for All

Start date: Sep 9, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

...on of the services of audio description among blind and visually impaired people. The partnership is composed by 2 local public authorities, 1 cultural association/provider of audio-description and 1 university. The project will last 20 months.
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Risk Management Software System for SMEs in the Construction Industry (RIMACON)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The construction sector is one of Europe's biggest industries accounting for 10% of Gross Domestic Product with approximately 92% of manufacturers being SMEs. This sector directly employs 12 million EU citizens and 26 million workers are dependent on the sector. However, due to the global economic crisis, the last few years have been full of uncertainty for many companies in the construction and ...
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POP DRAMA: Circulating of European Playwriting through people's choice

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

...nguages and then circulated among European theatres. In order to guarantee a good quality level of the selected playwrights, a panel of experts will be committed for each Country.The involvement of university students as new audience for EU dramaturgy will be reached by implementing a structured audience development strategy. They will be involved in order to take part to the panel of judges (peop ...
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EnhAnced Government LEarning (EAGLE)

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

Public administrations (PA) need to cope with various challenges: new regulations, an aging workforce and the need for adopting their ICT. Technology-enhanced learning (TEL) represents thus a sensible option notably for rural local governments (RLG) that need to keep up with such changing environments, but do have limited ac-cess to training courses.From interviews of a pre-study with RLG in 5 Eur ...
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VET4Start-Up

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

REASON FOR THE PROPOSAL In the wake of the economic and financial crisis, the European Union has taken significant steps to fight rising levels of unemployment and return to economic growth. The European Commission (ref. A Budget for Europe 2020) proposed to increase the amounts allocated to innovation and SME development through the stimulation and support to new entrepreneurs. In effect, a Star ...
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Potential Antimalarial and Anticancer Lead Compound Discovery from Cameroonian Medicinal Plants (PLANTMEDs)

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Cameroon enjoys a rich biota including a plethora of medicinal plants, which have traditionally been used for hundreds ofyears to treat various ailments, and form the basis of the country’s primary healthcare system. Medicinal plants of thegenera Fagara (F: Rutaceae), and Hannoa and Pierreodendron (F: Simaroubaceae) belong to the Cameroonian flora, andare used by the local people to treat malaria, ...
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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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EXPloiting Empirical appRoaches to Translation (EXPERT)

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

Automatic translation is an undeniable need in a globalized world where communication using several languages becomes increasingly more relevant. Translation Memory (TM) and Machine Translation (MT) systems are the two most elaborate technologies to support human translation. Recent developments in the area of Example-based and Statistical Machine Translation (EBMT and SMT), in particular, have sh ...
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Ontente: "How can we use creativity to add value to SMEs?"

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

This project will address converging roles in the creative industries by sending six multi-disciplinary teams of six recent VET graduates and professional VET staff on a variety of two-week digital work placements to media and outdoor festivals and events across the EU. A staff training assignment will build the capacity of our host partners to deliver VET programmes and share UK expertise through ...
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Ambrosia: Europeana Food and Drink (Ambrosia)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

AMBROSIA: Europeana Food and Drink is a Best Practice Network under 'Objective 2.1 Europeana and creativity b) Promoting the use of Europeana by creative industries' of the ICT Policy Support Programme.The objective of AMBROSIA is to promote the wider re-use of the digital cultural resources available through Europeana by the Creative Industries to boost creativity and business development across ...
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Nano-technology enabled repositioning of Disulfiram as an anti-cancer stem cell agent (NANODISCAN)

Start date: Jun 5, 2014, End date: Jun 4, 2016,

Most cancers remain ‘incurable’ and life-thretening. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are the source of chemo/radioresistance and responsible for cancer recurrence which suggests the urgent requirement of CSC-targeting drugs. Drug development is a slow (15 years/drug) and costly (US$1.5bn/drug) procedure with only 5-25% of new oncology drugs in clinical development actually reaching the market mainly due ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

One of the key 'Goals' in achieving the University of Wolverhampton vision is to internationalise the experience of our students and staff by offering all students the opportunity to participate in exchanges, study trips, placements or work experience with international partners or employers who work in global markets, volunteering and curriculum development. The University of Wolverhampton has a ...
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Enhanced employability and entrepreneurship for adult learners

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

The International Academy (IA) works with adult learners in two main areas: • through courses in modern foreign languages, British Sign Language and English as a Foreign Language (including some CLIL elements); and • through European projects (e.g. large partnerships through the Lifelong Learning Programme and Erasmus+, in-service training workshops). The IA has identified a need to enhance and ...
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Targeted delivery for liver cancer treatment (HEPTAG EXCHANGE)

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

The Liver cancer drugs market is expected to become an active ground for competition in the future. According to recent market analysis, the liver cancer market in 2009 was valued at approximately US$0.4bn, indicating a growth rate of 27.1% between 2001 and 2009. It is estimated that the liver cancer market in 2017 will be $1.2bn, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.5% between 2009 an ...
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DEVELOPING SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Our proposal is a consequence of the results of an analysis conducted jointly by the three organizations IKASLAN, TKNIKA and the Deputy Ministry of Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning of the Basque government . While the evolution otrainees´ mobility level has reached 10% of the total amount , teachers´ mobility is very low and does not meet the minimum desired .We need to boost the mobili ...
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Production of Sustainable Self-Compacting Concrete (ProSeC)

Start date: Feb 4, 2013, End date: Feb 3, 2015,

Concrete is the most widely consumed material in the world, after water. However, conventional concrete technology requires slow, heavy, noisy, expensive, energy-consuming and often dangerous mechanical vibration to compact the concrete and to develop strength and durability. Modern technology; Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) is now available, where concrete can simply flow freely into the pre-form ...
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Cradle to Cradle Business Innovation & Improvement Zones (C2C-BIZZ)

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

Cradle to Cradle® is a holistic framework that creates systems that are not only eco-efficient but essentially waste-free: a revolutionary change from traditional industrial ‘cradle to grave’ approach. Rather than minimizing material & energy flows. C2C proposes transforming products & material flows so that a workable relationship between ecological systems & economic growth is made possible. Thi ...
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European Schoolnet Living Schools Lab (LSL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The LivingSchoolsLab project is a 24-month Coordination Action with 15 partners, including 12 Ministries of Education (MoE) or organisations nominated to act on their behalf. It is coordinated by European Schoolnet (EUN) that has extensive experience of demonstrating and showcasing best practice involving ICT use in schools and in coordinating large-scale, pan-European school pilots and validation ...
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A Flexible Interactive Reading Support Tool (FIRST)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The FIRST project uses innovative language technology to simplify documents for people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). These people can have problems when reading such as difficulty understanding complex instructions, misinterpreting literal meanings, or being confused by uncommon words, figures of speech and lack of precision.Using the language technology created in the FIRST project, users ...
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