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Global trends in social inequalities in Europe and Latin America and exploring innovative ways to reduce them through life, occupational and educational trajectories research to face uncertainty (INCASI)

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

The overall aim of this project is to create an International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities (INCASI) with 19 universities, 10 from Europe and 9 from Latin America. The purpose is to conduct comparative research in the area of social inequalities. Through this network we hope to foster a space for collective reflection and the development of synergies between network partn ...
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REFLECT LAB - Supporting lecturers in applying inquiry based learning

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

...tudents will be fostered adequately.c) PupilsFuture teachers are able to create inquiry based learning settings for their pupils, also at the extra-curricular learning environment university. As such the project contributes to offer a pre-university education at school.Further results:- A movie which gives concrete insights into a REFLECT-LAB, it documents the procedures and challenges of a teachi ...
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Improving digital health literacy in Europe (IC-Health)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Citizens' digital health literacy is an essential element for successful eHealth deployment. However, citizens often do not have the necessary skills to find, understand and appraise online health information and apply their knowledge to make health decisions. Digitally health literate citizens are empowered to play a more active role in their health self-management, resulting in improved preventi ...
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Transatlantic Open Government Virtual Education

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

Public bodies’ workers are currently facing an enormous challenge: a growing public demand for the creation of an opener and more inclusive governance and the emergence of several and social information and communication technologies (ICTs).As a result of the meetings and the debates that took place in the “1st Iberoamerican Conference on Public Innovation” (congresonovagob.com), which hosted lead ...
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Developing Employability Skills Through INnovative education using MOOCs for Youth

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Our consortium consists of 4 HEIs and 4 Youth Organisations in 4 EU countries: STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY, Bitjam Limited (UK) UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA, EVM Project Management Experts S.L. (Tenerife) TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE, Sentiment Analysis Market Research(Crete) DOBA Fakulteta za uporabne poslovne in druzbene studije Maribor, KADIS, kadrovsko izobrazevalni inzeniring d.o.o., ...
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Shared Standards for Open Data and Public Sector Information (Share-PSI 2.0)

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

Share-PSI 2.0 brings together a critical mass of government agencies and organisations responsible for implementing the new PSI Directive. Lead by the W3C, the consortium includes the Open Group and Open Geospatial Consortium as fellow standards bodies plus the PSI Alliance, Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Data Institute and PwC as the primary contractor in the ISA Programme's work on interoperabi ...
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Data without Boundaries (DWB)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

While access to anonymised official microdata for researchers is still uneven both at national and at European level, access to highly detailed and sensitive microdata is now increasingly on the agenda. Different member states have substantially different outcomes for research access to Official data, and the issue is not just efficiency, but real harm to the contribution of the social sciences to ...
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Exploring Marine Resources for Bioactive Compounds: From Discovery to Sustainable Production and Industrial Applications (MAREX)

Start date: Aug 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

"Biodiversity in the seas is only partly explored, although marine organisms are excellent sources for many industrial products. Through close co-operation between industrial and academic partners, the MAREX project will collect, isolate and classify marine organisms, such as micro- and macroalgae, cyanobacteria, sea anemones, tunicates and fish from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans as well ...
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Puzzled by Policy

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Many Governments today recognise that to deliver effective public policy they need to enhance citizen and community involvement in the policy making process. Unfortunately, many citizens and communities feel that policy development is a process that they do not understand and have little control over.Policy making can be seen by many as an elitist process, taking place only amongst government and ...
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Tackling the Gradient: Applying Public Health Policies to Effectively Reduce Health Inequalities amongst Families and Children (GRADIENT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

"Health inequalities are currently regarded as one of the most important public health challenges in the EU. There is however not sufficient knowledge of what actions are effective to reduce the gradient in health inequalities. 'Tackling the Gradient' aims to address this, to ensure that political momentum is maintained and that operational strategies can be developed to make progress on this issu ...
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Restoration of Juniperus spp. forests on Tenerife (Juniperus Tenerife)

Start date: Jan 1, 2005, End date: Dec 31, 2008,

Background Thermophilous forests once covered vast areas on the Canary Islands, Spain. The forests include several priority habitats listed in the EU Habitats Directive, including Macaronsian juniper woods, which is the Canaries’ variety of the priority habitat *9560. The habitat is also important for some bird species such as the rare laurel pigeon, (C ...
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European Citizenship Learning in a Programme for Secondary Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

The Project ECLIPSE aims to develop, test, and implement a European Citizenship Curriculum in European dimension for pupils of grade 8 and 9 in the secondary school. The reasons for this project are in the need (s. Survey ICCS and Eurobarometer) of improving the education for citizenship and the European dimension in the member countries of the EU. The project is linked with the 1. priority: ‘Scho ...
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MSc Programme in Environmental Security and Management

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

Europe is facing an accelerated climate change as a result of global warming and as a result population departure and consequent abandon of rural areas due to the increase floods, forest fire, lack of water, land slide, etc, and there is a need to find ways to support management of such hazards by providing adequate training on environmental security and management. Romania, Hungary, Estonia, Spai ...
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Green Technology European Virtual Gateway

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

... to support development and deployment of green technology, improve carbon reduction and environmental impacts, support and promote ideas and concepts through spin-offs based on collaboration between University graduates and Industry. The University partners will transfer and valorize the expertise in the learning material support and enterprises and associations involved will inform such courses ...
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Law and ICT Shared Virtual Campus

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

UIT the new economic and trading environments created alter the incorporation of new countries to the common market within the European Union, the harmonisation of legal frameworks for electronic commerce and electronic government is essential. This project will target the following actions and results: 1. Creation of an European Shared Virtual Campus on Law and ICT (Law and Information and Commu ...
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Law and ICT Shared Virtual Campus

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

UIT the new economic and trading environments created after the incorporation of new countries to the common market within the European Union, the harmonisation of legal frameworks for electronic commerce and electronic government is essential. The main aims of this project are thus: to create European Shared Virtual Campus on Law and ICT (Law and Information and Communication Technologies), the d ...
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Maritime English Learning Tool (MarEng Plus)

The original web-based maritime English learning tool MarEng was finished in the spring 2007 as a result of a transnational Leonardo da Vinci project MarEng. During the first year of its existence, the learning tool was widely taken into use by different user groups (e.g. maritime students and workers) all over the world. However, based on the feedback received, the tool was missing some relevant ...
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Web-based Maritime English Language Learning Tool

...es of a 'typical' journey from port to port, including emergency procedures. The language will range from ‘intermediate’ through to ‘advanced’ level and will be aimed at a range of users from university students through to professionals (officers) working for shipping companies. The 'Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping' Convention by the International Maritime Organisation will b ...
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MSc Programme in Climate Change and Restoration of Degraded Land

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

Much of the land in Europe is being degraded by human activity. Although in principle the land is a renewable resource, the natural processes that form it are very slow. Degraded land can take thousands of years to fully recover. Europe suffers an accelerated degradation of lands as a result of climate change and other causes such as land clearance, clear cutting and deforestation, agricultural de ...
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