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Improving the local governance processes through exchange of good practices, pilots and training in geospatial technologies (LOCAL-SATS)

Start date: Dec 23, 2013, End date: Dec 22, 2015,

Project in brief The rapid pace of urbanization in the Mediterranean area over the last decades have raised a series of issues mostly related to air quality, energy efficiency, waste recycling, pressure on natural resources, pollution and social welfare of urban inhabitants. While cities population will continue to grow in the next years, it is of fundamental importance to ensure the transition fr ...
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Accessibility improved at border CROSsings for the integration of South East Europe  (ACROSSEE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The EC has recently published the Proposal for a Regulation on Union guidelines for the development of the trans - European transport network -COM (2011) 650/2, that defines the long term strategy for the Ten-T policy up to 2030/2050 and proposes Corridors relevant for the SEE area. By creating a multilevel formed by Transport Ministries, Regions, Universities, Chambers of Commerce, transport stak ...
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Economic Crises: Resilience of Regions (ECR2)

Start date: Jan 31, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

...aft Final Report - Scientific Report PDF Draft Final Report - Scientific Report Annexes PDF Article "Economic Crisis and the Structural Funds", Dr. Adrian Healy and Prof. Gillian Bristow, Cardiff University September 2013 PDF Interim Report PDF Inception Report PDF Project Specification PDF http://www.espon.eu/main/Menu_Projects/Menu_AppliedResearch/ECR2.html
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Adriatic - Danube - Black Sea multimodal platform (ADB multiplatform)

Start date: Mar 31, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The idea of the project is to develop and promote environmentally friendly, multimodal transport solutions from the ports in the SEE programme area (Black Sea, Aegean, Adriatic) to inland countries and regions along a selected pilot transnational network. This will be done by developing and establishing a "multimodal transport development platform", which integrates different regions and stakehold ...
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Particulates monitoring, modelling and management (PM3)

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

Background Air quality is a major environmental problem in Europe, especially in urban conglomerates. For Mediterranean and Balkan countries, and Cyprus in particular, the semi-arid climate with dry summers, sparse vegetation, open-cast mines and uncovered soils are conducive to wind entrainment of dust. Long-distance transport from North Africa and the e ...
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Development of a common branding scheme for the promotion of organic local products of the cross-border region (BIO BRAND)

Start date: Mar 13, 2011, End date: Mar 12, 2013,

Organic agriculture is a constantly growing sector in the EU and globally. It produces high quality products and provides numerous other public benefits, especially those in the area of environment, management of natural resources and viability of rural areas. Implementation of local development models based on development of endogenous resources, will allow the local communities to keep in the ar ...
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European Consortium for Modelling of Air Pollution and Climate Strategies (EC4MACS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2007, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

Background The EU needed a better information base for the Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution and the negotiations of post-Kyoto climate agreements. Reaching political acceptance of further environmental measures required: identification of the most cost-effective measures; demonstration of their full range of environmental benefits taking into account si ...
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Demonstration of a Sustainable & Effective 2nd Generation Biofuels Application in an Urban Environment (BIOFUELS-2G)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

...and implementation at pilot level of an advanced second-generation biofuels production system, driven by local and regional public-private partnerships. CERTH worked alongside a research group at the University of Thessaloniki, the Municipality of Thessaloniki, and the Association of Restaurant Owners of Thessaloniki; the letter mobilised local enterprises to provide the raw material for the fuel ...
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Inter-regional cooperation for valorisation of research results (INTERVALUE)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Mar 30, 2012,

INTERVALUE is rooted to the Digital Research Centre (DRC) of Central Macedonia aiming to contribute in the exploitation of academic research and other projects which has set the basis for its European expansions. We have experienced that cooperation between R&D supply and demand is quite a dynamic process stimulated by the current trends in business and the academia. Any long term concentration in ...
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The Development of Pay as You Throw Systems in Hellas, Estonia and Cyprus (HEC PAYT)

Start date: Jan 5, 2009, End date: Jul 4, 2011,

Background Increasing waste production and the increasingly hazardous nature of waste have led to ever higher waste-management costs. Waste management has now become one of the largest industries in the world. Pricing mechanisms in this industry based on the ‘polluter-pays principle’, the ‘precautionary principle’ and the ‘producer-responsibilit ...
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SATELLITE-ASSISTED MANAGEMENT OF AIR QUALITY (SMAQ)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2009,

Background The accurate assessment of the atmospheric pollution loading in European regions is necessary to comply with EU atmospheric pollution legislation (Framework Directive 96/62/EC and its daughter directives). This need became even more pressing following recent policy developments at Community level, in particular the Environment and Health Action ...
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Futures for Regional Development (FUTURREG)

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

Regions and their public authorities can use futures tools to deal with important challenges and trends in an intelligent and strategic way. However, to date, relatively little use has been made of futures tools within regional policy-making. The FUTURREG partnership aims to provide regional authorities with access to these tools and build upon previous successful projects to improve the impact of ...
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CONSTRUCT-IT GREEN - Multi-media e-Learning Material on the European approaches to the design and construction of environmentally sustainable buildings

This project addresses a major shortcoming by bringing together construction training educationalists and experts in the field of green architecture, from across Europe, in order to prepare appropriate training material. This new proposal builds on the success of the partnership and products of the previous Leonardo Project called "Construct-IT Europe" (UK/01/B/F/PP-129324). The new project, "Cons ...
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Passport to Trade 2.0

This P2T 2.0 project transferred the innovation of the previously successful Passport to Trade Project (P2T) by:a) increasing the number of European countries covered by the existing P2T project website www.businessculture.org from 25 to 31 countries by b) augmenting the resource with social media guidesc) adding guidelines and training material on industrial placements for both SMEs and placement ...
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CHEMLAB2 - European apprenticeship training for chemical laboratory technician

The CHEMLAB Transfer-of-Innovation project aimed at providing and fostering a "European Quality Standard in Analytical Vocational Education" for young apprentices in non-academic chemical training on-the-job. To that effect, an innovative VET-concept was developed based on a combined integrative approach of theoretical education and market-orientated training close to practice on analytical strate ...
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Testing English for Specific Purposes in Science

...wice to create models and meansfor future, internationally valid examinations.The former Leonardo project ESP:C (www.esp-c.org) will be the basis of the proposedwork, but to widen its scope Aristotle University will co-operate to create examinationmaterial for renovation chemists and Jagiellonian University for therapists.Guidelines for developing B2 and C1 ESP examinations will be provided and mo ...
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AQUA'Lingua - European compendium of words in the water sector

Professionals in the water sector have a water-specific vocabulary (water supply, purification of urban, rural and industrial effluent, and the integrated management of water resources). Foreign language courses do not include the specialised vocabulary.The AQUA'Lingua project is designed to create a language learning tool for water professionals. To this end the partnership includes sectoral play ...
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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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Q.LIME - Quality in Licensing and IPR Management Education

The project Q.LIME has the objet to develop a vocational training opportunity related to "IRP and licensing management". Specifically the project aims at producing innovative training materials that will be designed by a partnership made up of six partners.In order to achieve quality of the above mentionned materials ther partnershipwill share their experience of "creating sustems" sa as to encour ...
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Q.LIME – Quality in Licensing and IPR Management Education

The project Q.LIME has the objet to develop a vocational training opportunity related to “IRP and licensing management”. Specifically the project aims at producing innovative training materials that will be designed by a partnership made up of six partners.In order to achieve quality of the above mentionned materials ther partnershipwill share their experience of “creating sustems” sa as to encour ...
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ESTIA-EARTH - To Sustain the Women's Careers as Academics, Researchers and Professionals in Engineering, Computers and Sciences

Estia-Earth aims to develop new educational structures, friendly to women, by introducing joint multidisciplinary postgraduate curricula in partner universities, involving Engineering, Computers and Sciences, and will: - develop a new framework for professional development of women, leading to courses at postgraduate level and further promote the mobility of women academic staff and students throu ...
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EUROBIOTECH -European Biotechnology

The project intends to pursue the objective of Lisbon declaration by developing Biotechnology sector at European level. Its aims are to develop a formation more pertinent to the modern needs of enterprises, to avoid academic constrains by favouring international courses which are capable to attract students from outside Europe. On the other hand we are expecting an increase on employability of you ...
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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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open educational framework for computer science Software Engineering

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

Traditionally, in closed formal education, students cannot fully benefit from and build upon the achievements of previous student cohorts or firms and learners outside of the institution. Similarly, learners outside traditional educational institutions cannot benefit from students’ learning processes and outcomes inside these institutions.In contrast, the Web 2.0 offers opportunities for open and ...
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EUROPEAN CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION NETWORK

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

This TN project brings together within a single network all actors in HE in chemistry and chemical engineering in Europe. There are schools, universities, industries, national chemical societies, and accreditation bodies. The project brings all these actors together to collaborate in the development of a knowledge based economy, specifically in chemistry and chemical engineering. The project:- wil ...
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Development of Environment and Resources Engineering Learning

Start date: Oct 15, 2010,

The project main objectives are:1. To develop new, up-to-date, postgraduate curricula in Environment and Resources Engineering at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, FYR of Macedonia, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania, based on the European Credit Transfer System and in accordance with the Bologna Process, following the criteria and condit ...
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digitalearth.eu: geomedia in schools

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

There are pockets of activity in using geo-media with geoinformation (GI) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Two Comenius projects supported some developments. Those involved are not networked, so the digitalearth.eu project will do this and be a place for new initiatives. An early focus will be the founding of a European Centre. This will be based at the Austrian Centre of Excellence, di ...
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Erasmus Mundus Europe Asia (Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, China)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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Innovation Laboratories: using an open innovation learning platform & action research in enterprise education in order to enhance the engagement & innovative capabilities of Universities in Post-Socialist Societies

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

...ery low incidence of innovation in both countries (Radosevic, 2008).INNOLAB aims to adopt a new approach in addressing this challenge, embedding links between education, research & innovation in core University activities. This will be achieved through the development of a network of five innovation laboratories (by UzNU, NaUKMA, NTU'KhPI", YKSUG, PSU) that will be part of undergraduate curricula, ...
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HERMES - Development of a Higher Education and Research Area between Europe and the Middle EaSt (EU - Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria)

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

The overall aim of HERMES is to develop training and scientific exchanges between European and the Middle East higher education institutions which will build and strengthen links between them and result in a strong sustainable contribution to the construction of a Euro-Mediterranean Higher Education and Research Area.The specific objectives are: - To develop higher education teaching and learning ...
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Development of a new master program in geodesy

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

...d reform, agricultural development, forestry management, urban and rural planning, and environmental protection.The specific objectives of the project are to create a new master program in geodesy at University of Pristina before Autumn 2015, establish a new geodesy laboratory at University of Pristina, provide re-training to 48 Kosovar staff during 2014-2015, develop 8 new teaching materials duri ...
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Tuning Middle East and North Africa

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

Tuning MEDA project is aimed at the implementation of the Bologna tools in Southern Neighbouring Area universities through building of a framework of comparable, compatible and transparent programmes of studies. In order to achieve this, four specific objectives have been identified: to apply the Tuning methodology in universities of SNA in four subject areas – Law and Good Governance including Hu ...
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Implementation Strategies for Innovations in Teachers´ Professional Development

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

The ISIT project addresses two of the crucial needs defined by the Education and Training Benchmarks for 2020 and by the High Level Group of Experts on Literacy (HLGEL 2012):a) the problem of low literacy skills in many European countries b) the unsatisfying status of teachers' continuous professional development (CPD) in the EU.Thus ISIT pursues two goals:a) a specific goal: training 30 teacher e ...
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