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European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

...es, the programme is fully accredited since 2013.The two-year programme begins in Oldenburg. In the second semester, all students move to Stavanger. In the third semester, students attend the partner university of their choice, linked to their project-based internship. Before the final semester, a joint proposal colloquium leads to the formation of supervision groups continuing in the fourth semes ...
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The Role of Universities in Innovation and Regional Development (RUNIN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

...ontribute to innovation and economic growth in their regions through research seeking to examine how universities fulfill their third mission in relation to regional industry and explore the range of university engagement with regional firms and institutions. The project operationalises the main research question of how universities can contribute to innovation and regional development through fou ...
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Triangulum: The Three Point Project / Demonstrate. Disseminate. Replicate. (Triangulum)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The Triangulum project will demonstrate how a systems innovation approach based around the European Commission’s SCC Strategic Implementation Plan can drive dynamic smart city development. We will test the SIP across three lighthouse cities: Manchester, Eindhoven and Stavanger, which represent the main typologies of European cities. They will be complemented by our follower cities Prague, Leipzig ...
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EnhANcing emergencY management and response to extreme WeatHER and climate Events (ANYWHERE)

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

The ultimate purpose of ANYWHERE is to empower exposed responder institutions and citizens to enhance their anticipation and pro-active capacity of response to face extreme and high-impact weather and climate events. This will be achieved through the operational implementation of cutting-edge innovative technology as the best way to enhance citizen's protection and saving lives.ANYWHERE proposes t ...
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Enhancing the Education and Wellbeing of Disadvantaged Toddlers through the development of training and materials to support Early Years Practitioners

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

The early years of a child’s life (birth—5) are a major determinant of future educational success. Those who start formal education at a disadvantage compared to their peers are likely to remain at a disadvantage throughout their life, and be in greater danger of economic and social exclusion. They are also more likely to contribute to the education drop-out rates the EU wishes to reduce, and les ...
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Leiðbeinendur nemenda og nýráðinna

Start date: Jun 30, 2016, End date: Jun 29, 2018,

Every year there are 1600 students in vocational training at the University Hospital. In addition, approximately 150 people recently graduated start working at the hospital. The role of the University Hospital as an educational organisation must be strengthened to contribute to effective learning and successful start in the labour market. Department of Education at the University Hospital is respo ...
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LEAN: Training by doing and training on the go as effective approaches to lean manufacturing

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

...lls' development training subject for employability goals, upgrading existing LM training tools with a concrete application to transversal training and working environments: high school, VET centre, university and company. LM is becoming more and more studied in VET schools, VET courses and university courses and applied in companies. It is becoming a new specialisation with a high rate of employa ...
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Development and Implementation of Interactive Mobile E-learning Apps for European Nursing Education

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

...port of information and communication technology (ICT) and cohesion of the nursing education in Norway, England and Spain. The partnership of this project consists of three European universities. The University of Stavanger (Norway): Department of Health Studies and the Department of E-learning Development (NETTOP), which is the lead partner and initiator of the project. The participating organisa ...
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Education for Data Intensive Science to Open New science frontiers (EDISON)

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

The EDISON project will focus on activities to establish the new profession of ' Data Scientist', following the emergence of Data Science technologies (also referred to as Data Intensive or Big Data technologies) which changes the way research is done, how scientists think and how the research data are used and shared. This includes definition of the required skills, competences framework/profile, ...
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Peroxisomes: key to cell performance and health (PERFUME)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The PERFUME (PERoxisome Formation, Function, MEtabolism) program is an interdisciplinary and intersectoral ITN providing state-of-the-art research training at the interface of medicine, plant and fungal biology. The PERFUME S&T specifically aims at unraveling the principles of peroxisome biology.Peroxisomes have been discovered relatively recently (in 1954). Consequently, the level of understandin ...
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Accelerate SSL Innovation for Europe (SSL-erate)

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

The aim of SSL-erate is to accelerate the uptake of high-quality SSL technology in Europe by means of open innovation with and by bringing validated information to all relevant stakeholders. A coordinated European effort is required to address the European societal challenges (in particular health & quality of life in an ageing society, energy consumption and resource efficiency), to resolve the s ...
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Social sustainability / samfélagsleg sjálfbærni

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Verkefnið nefnist "samfélagsleg sjálfbærni" eða Social sustainability og er í samstarfi fjögurra hópa frá Íslandi, Danmörku, Englandi og Noregi. Verkefnið og feril þess verður hannaður af Kaospiloterunum Björt Sigfinnsdóttur og Hilmari Guðjónssyni. Almennt er viðurkennt að núverandi framganga mannsins á jörðinni beri skýr merki ósjálfbærni. Verkefni jarðarbúa felst í því að breyta hugsun sinni og ...
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Addictions and Lifestyles In Contemporary Europe – Reframing Addictions Project (ALICE RAP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

ALICE RAP is a Europe wide project of 43 partner research institutions involving 107 researchers from 25 European countries providing 1000 months of a plurality of scientific endeavour to analyse the place and challenges of addictions and lifestyles to the cohesion, organization and functioning of contemporary European society. Through integrated multidisciplinary research, a wide range of factors ...
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Accountability For Cloud and Other Future Internet Services (A4CLOUD)

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

Cloud and IT service providers should act as responsible stewards for the data of their customers and users. However the current absence of accountability frameworks for distributed IT services makes it difficult for users to understand, influence and determine how their service providers honour their obligations.A4Cloud will create solutions to support users in deciding and tracking how their dat ...
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European North Sea Energy Alliance (ENSEA)

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

The European North Sea Energy Alliance (ENSEA) aims to increase the competitiveness of research-driven energy clusters through better coordination and exploitation of research. A key driver for cluster policy definition in ENSEA will be the adoption of an energy system approach by all four partner regions, focusing on how to handle the rising share of renewable energy production in the existing en ...
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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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A systems BIOlogy Study to TAilored Treatment in Chronic Heart Failure (BIOSTAT-CHF)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Heart failure is common in Europe and its prevalence is increasing as our population ages. Despite major improvements in care since the early 90s, it is still related to a poor prognosis, an impaired quality of life and high health care costs. Many new therapies have failed to improve outcome further. One obvious reason is that the response to treatment is not homogenous. Treatment may need to be ...
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Self learning Energy Efficient builDings and open Spaces (SEEDS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

... the relationships between key variables to be continuously learned, facilitate prediction and enable control.SEEDS' results will be validated in two pilots at opposite sites of Europe: i) part of a university campus (Stavanger, Norway) including several buildings and open spaces and ii) an office building plus parking area (Madrid, Spain).The Consortium includes organisations from the building, ...
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"Aquaculture for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Nutrition" (AFSPAN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"Aquaculture is widely considered as important for enhancing food security, alleviating poverty and improving nutrition. However, little information is available concerning the direct and indirect impacts of aquaculture on food security and poverty alleviation in most developing countries and LIFDCs. Strengthening the knowledge base surrounding aquaculture and food and nutrition security through t ...
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Improving Transport and Accessibility through new Communication Technologies (ITRACT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

ITRACT aims to improve the connectivity and accessibility of remote areas in the North Sea Region through the integration of innovative transport and communication infrastructure. The project will focus on the development and use of novel ICT applications and brings together technology experts - in the fields of ICT, satellite, wireless broadband and sensor technology - with socio-economic experts ...
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Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society (PERARES)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

PERARES strengthens public engagement in research (PER) by developing multi-annual action plans, involving researchers and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the formulation of research agendas and the research process. It uses debates on science to actively articulate research requests of civil society. These are forwarded to research institutes, and results are used in a next phase of the deb ...
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You, me and society - Ég, þú og samfélagið

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

We want to take the first steps and look in to our selves. We are going to do that via various exercises and processes that enable each individual to understand him/her self better as well as realise what the best version of who you are could look like! In order to improve the society we live in it needs to change, and all change starts with the individual. To be able to change we need to understa ...
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Low Emission Gas Turbine Technology for Hydrogen-rich Syngas (H2-IGCC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The overall objective of this project is to provide and demonstrate technical solutions which will allow the use of state-of-the-art highly efficient, reliable gas turbines in the next generation of IGCC plants, suitable for combusting undiluted hydrogen-rich syngas derived from a pre-combustion CO2 capture process, with high fuel flexibility. The recognised challenge is to operate a stable and co ...
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Sustainable value creation in manufacturing networks (SustainValue)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

The increasing demands for sustainability have created new challenges and emerging opportunities for society and for business. To be successful manufacturers must be pro-active and creative in thinking about the opportunities that the sustainable economy will present to develop new products and markets and optimize their value networks according to the new sustainability criteria.The overall goal ...
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Treatment of reperfusion injury using a mitochondrial targeted approach: towards a better understanding of the disease (MITOCARE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"Current interventional treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) focused on re-establishing cardiac reperfusion has significantly improved clinical outcome by reducing infarct size and mortality due to cardiac ischemia.It is now recognized that events triggered at reperfusion also result in cell death and may account for as much as 50% of the infarct volume, this being termed ischemia-reperf ...
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Strategic collaboration with China on super-computing based on Tianhe-1A (SCC-Computing)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

In 2010, the TOP500 project, which ranks and details the 500 (most powerful known computer systems in the world since the year of 1993, announced that the world's most powerful computer system is Tianhe 1A in China (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500). This project aims at establishing a strategic collaboration with the host and developer of this computer system in China to explore a range of res ...
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MIN-NOVATION Mining and Mineral Processing Waste Management Innovation Network (MIN-NOVATION)

Start date: Sep 16, 2010, End date: Dec 15, 2013,

MIN-NOVATION aims to create a trans-national network with regional networks as building blocks of effective multi-lateral cooperation. The activities carried out on the regional and transnational level will secure better access to knowledge, state-of-the-art technologies and good practice to SMEs active in the mineral waste management & prevention sector. The project will address all the waste man ...
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Quality and safety in European Union hospitals: A research-based guide for implmeenting best practice and a framework for assessing performance (QUASER)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"This translational study aims to design and disseminate an evidence based guide for hospitals to implement quality and safety improvement programmes, and an evidence based framework for payers to assess and monitor the quality and safety of hospitals across the EU. These outputs will be based on empirical findings from research in five partner countries. However, in addition, the development of t ...
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European Collaborative Innovation Centres for broadband media services (E-CLIC)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2012,

E-CLIC aims to develop research and innovation networks related to broadband media services in order to stimulate the commercialisation of the participating regions’ knowledge base and encourage the development of new employment opportunities. Building on experience from NSR IIIB, E-CLIC aims to enhance the provision of broadband services that are perceived as the engine for stimulating economic g ...
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Developing the North Sea Offshore Wind Power Cluster (POWER cluster)

Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2011,

As a direct successor of NSR Interreg IIIBs POWER project, it is centred on the development of a strong Offshore Wind Industry (OWI) cluster in the NSR. Core activities include a strengthened stakeholder and business-to-business network, leading to knowledge transfer and bringing together complementary expertise to create more innovation in the sector, energy grid reinforcement across the NSR, dev ...
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Greenhouse – an integrated approach on entrepreneurship promotion for specific target groups (Greenhouse)

Start date: Dec 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2008,

The Greenhouse project aims directly at the know how transfer on new approaches for entrepreneurship promotion from Norway to Russia.The Norwegian experiences will be completed by practical experiences gathered in Tartu Science Park in Estonia and the NETZ Center for innovative technologies in Osterholz, Germany, which as incubator centres, have developed practical models for start-up promotion in ...
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Broadband Access for Innovation and Regional Development (BIRD)

Start date: Nov 29, 2005, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

The main aim of the BIRD project was to exchange experience and expertise on broadband implementation to enhance regional (rural) broadband access and usage. Achievements: and local level, recommendations for broadband as a tool for regional development and has given re ...
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ToLearn

Start date: May 7, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

The aim of the ToLearn project was to initiate a learning process and a learning structure within and between different tourism destinations in the North Sea Region (NSR) as well as equip tourism entrepreneurs with better knowledge & tools to support their learning experiences. Achiev ...
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Baltic Rural Broadband Project (BalticBroadband)

Start date: Jun 23, 2005, End date: Apr 29, 2008,

The Baltic Rural Broadband Project contributed to the improvement of broadband access in selected rural areas of all BSR EU member states and Norway. Means of the project were the identification and dissemination of best practice examples, (further) development of local or sub regional broadband strategies. Furthermore importance was paid to awareness rising and encouragement of local stakeholders ...
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ICTs for SMEs: Regional Strategies and Solutions to Enhance ICT-Access and Use for SMEs (ICTs for SMEs)

Start date: Feb 27, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

Main aim of the ICTs for SMEs project was the strengthening of the region by spatial and structural changes in order to form a balanced region. The tools to reach this aim were Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The project worked towards enhancing the implementation and usage of ICT in SMEs. In particular the formation of a SME support structure was an important aim of the project. ...
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GAME-iT

In the Bordeaux Communiqué EU ministers of education agree that the cooperation process launched in Copenhagen, 2002 has proved effective. However, the ministers also agreed that to achieve the goals set for 2010 in the Lisbon Strategy, a number of major challenges must be tackled. Among these are the T-VET teaching methods which need to be made more creative, innovative and motivating, and teache ...
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Sound Identifying Learner's Values in Europe

Schools have always aimed at highlighting and transferring values to their pupils. Butpupils often construct their own identity and values outside school contexts in the realmof popular and youth culture. Music in particular is an important means of identityconstruction and value sharing which mass media has known for several decades.The goal of this project is to introduce the music important to ...
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Innoguide: Innovation in LLL Tourist Guide Training Tourist guides as partners for a sustainable, diverse and exciting Europe!

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

Tourist guides work in a local, regional, national and European context. They can play a very important role in the European integration process in increasing the understanding of the different cultural backgrounds and by promoting the European identity. They can also increase the awareness of the tourists regarding a sustainable tourism for the future of Europe. In addition, tourist guides can f ...
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Towards Opportunities for Disadvantaged and Diverse Learners on the Early-childhood Road

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

High quality education and care from a very early age creates a good foundation for lifelong learning, especially for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Equity in education is not yet realized for children from poor backgrounds, migrant families or parents with low education. The project's aim is to strengthen the education of reflective practitioners to give toddlers (18-36 months) a fair c ...
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Basic Curriculum for Teachers’ In-service Training in Content Area Literacy in Secondary Schools

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

The project intends to develop, test and implement a Basic Curriculum for Teachers' In-service Training in Content Area Literacy in Secondary Schools [BaCuLit].The reason for this project is stated in the 2010 general call for proposals (second priority): "Improving reading literacy and other basic skills: The level of reading literacy skills among school students across the EU is not improving, a ...
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