16 European Projects Found
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Supercomputing Expertise for SmAll and Medium Enterprise Network (SESAME NET)
Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,
Network of HPC Competence Centres for SMEs
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Employability and knowledge based economy : tools for innovative culture (TOOL QUIZ)
Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
... better use of the European Social Funds. Covering 7 regions and 7 countries, the partnership is based on a complementarity between regional authorities, technical experts (CRRAV, Technocité, Bangor University, Simetrias Foundation, Ars Cameralis) and scientific experts (University IUAV of Venice and Relais Culture Europe). ...
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Using cognitive neuroscience to understand how consumers make and maintain healthy food choices (NEUROSCIENCE AND FOOD)
Start date: Oct 1, 2007, End date: Sep 30, 2011,
Europe is experiencing an alarming increase in overeating and obesity. Increased awareness of the significant impact of diet on health and well-being has driven the food industry to develop healthier products; in particular those with less salt, sugar and/or fat. Industry faces a challenge - such ingredients are inherently rewarding; the healthy alternatives may initially be selected and liked, bu ...
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Multidisciplinary approaches to biodiversity analysis: testing evolutionary hypotheses in south-east Asian freshwater taxa (BIOASIA)
Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2010,
The origins of biodiversity have intrigued evolutionary biologists since the earliest times, and have resulted in a plethora of theories to explain these origins. To date, there has been a tendency to use distribution patterns of biota to confirm preferred hypotheses (a field known broadly as historical biogeography), instead of a genuine attempt to test between competing hypotheses.A recently eme ...
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Atlantic Arc Aquaculture Group 2 (AAAG 2)
Start date: Dec 31, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,
AAAG2 will help ensure that aquaculture can continue to grow and provide much needed economic activity in isolated Atlantic Area coastal communities while at the same time ensuring natural habitats are protected. Specific sub-projects are aimed at: -Reducing estuarine pollution by using waste nutrients from cage and land-based fish farms to produce valuable secondary crops such as samphire, sea ur ...
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Atlantic Salmon Arc Project (ASAP)
Start date: May 31, 2003, End date: Jan 21, 2008,
The ASAP project proposes an innovatory approach to the conservation of the salmon by the utilisation of genetic analyses and data-bases to respond to well-defined challenges, such as the maintenance of genetic diversity to ensure the species’ capacity for adaptation, the understanding of genetic differentiation, which may be linked to the needs of adaptation to local conditions, as well as the co ...
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Treating Waste for Restoring Land Sustainability (TWIRLS)
Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Sep 30, 2007,
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Europe is facing a number of large-scale environmental problems related to waste and land-use. The amount of waste currently produced is estimated to be in the region of two billion tonnes a year, and this is increasing by some 10% annually. A significant proportion of this waste (approximately 410 million tonnes per year) relates to industrial ...
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Tourism Learning Network (TourismNet)
Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Mar 30, 2007,
The TourismNET project aims to develop the Tourism Industry through the provision of key networking and learning opportunities to business practitioners. This is a pilot project which will be developed and delivered jointly by University College Dublin and University of Wales Bangor.
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Cooperation and Valorization of the Rural Patrimony (AGRO)
Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Aug 30, 2006,
This project is related to the rural sector and to exploiting the resources native to each region to create a level of economic growth that allows improvement of living conditions in rural areas and creation of new SME to avoid the rural exodus. Another objective is to produce the tools necessary for sustainable development of natural resources. In general terms, the project's strategic objectives ...
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Aquaculture Group from the Atlantic Space (AAAG)
Start date: Jul 31, 2003, End date: Jul 30, 2006,
Aquaculture presents an important potential for growth and diversification in the Atlantic Area, which could make it possible to compensate for the job losses engendered by the reduction of fishing quotas. The AAAG project aims to support the development and modernisation of this industry and to encourage practices which respect the environment of the Atlantic Area, by means of the creation of a n ...
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The Comenius network "Partnership and Participation for a Sustainable Tomorrow",SUPPORT, has been established in order to address the need to enhance the quality ofeducational practices and material in line with the challenges of sustainabledevelopment (SD). The overall objective is to promote education for sustainabledevelopment (ESD) in European schools. The project will bring concepts and issue ...
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The LAS-SME's project aims at the development and introduction of training methods and support tools, able to respond to the language communication needs of SME's, particularly those in the manufacturing sector. In order to achieve this, an audit system will be designed, developed and tested in addition to the design and introduction of new training paths for the sector. The audit system will comp ...
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Teachers and trainers who are confronted with intercultural classes due to the presence of students from different nationalities need further teaching skills to deal with difficulties they come across in such situations. The purpose of this project is to identify specific methodologies and training plans for teachers and trainers who work with multi-ethnic classes including a high proportion of fo ...
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The Home-care in Europe project has three primary aims: to meet a fast growing demand for better trained labour in the home-care of the elderly, to provide better opportunity for labour market access to certain underprivileged groups and to implement technology-supported, flexible training for the sector.Many employees working in home-care of the elderly do not have the formal competencies for the ...
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This projects aims at introducing innovation and improvement of the quality of the teaching and learning processes. More specifically, this project aims to plan, test out, approve and disseminate a course in acquisition of basic computer literacy skills as well as vocational know-how for employees in the metal engineering sector. The course will use blended training methodologies and an open-sourc ...
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The EURORUBIK project aims at improving the quality and access to continuous vocational training (CVT) with a view to improving the adaptability of minimally qualified workers with particular regard to technological and organisational innovation. The project will establish local networks, responsible for the analysis and ongoing development of existing experience towards the creation of new, indiv ...
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