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RESCCUE - RESilience to cope with Climate Change in Urban arEas - a multisectorial approach focusing on water (RESCCUE)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

RESCCUE aims to deliver a framework enabling city resilience assessment, planning and management by integrating into software tools new knowledge related to the detailed water-centred modelling of strategic urban services performance into a comprehensive resilience platform. These tools will assess urban resilience from a multisectorial approach, for current and future climate change scenarios and ...
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Development of a multi-stakeholder dialogue platform and Think tank to promote innovation with Nature based solutions (ThinkNature)

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

Nature-based solutions (NBS) aim to help societies to address a variety of environmental, social and economic challenges in sustainable ways. They are actions which are inspired by and supported by nature. Some involve using and enhancing existing natural solutions to challenges, while others are exploring more novel solutions, for example, based on how non-human organisms and communities cope wit ...
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Climate Resilient Cities and Infrastructures (RESIN)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

With most of its population and capital goods concentrated in urban areas, cities are key to the European economy. One of the major challenges cities face are more frequent extreme weather events due to climate change.The current diversity of approaches and methods available for cities developing an adaptation strategy limits the comparability between cities of vulnerabilities, adaptation option ...
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Consortium de l'Académie de Paris pour la MOBilité européenne des élèves et des apprentis de l'Enseignement et de la Formation Professionnels

Start date: Sep 3, 2016, End date: Sep 2, 2018,

Over the first two years of the new Erasmus + program, few Parisian vocational schools benefited from such mobility opportunities. A recent assessment of international school pairings in the Académie shows 10 times less pairings in vocational schools than in other schools. Although these pairings do not necessarily lead to mobilities, it shows how difficult it is for vocational schools to work on ...
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Ocean Citizens of the Future

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

The cities of Plymouth and Brest have been twinned successfully for over 50 years with a strong background of successful joint initiatives. This project aims to strengthen understanding of the importance of the maritime culture in the lives of our young people and what their responsibilities will be, growing up as Ocean Citizens of the Future. Activities will directly address targets set out in th ...
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City Logistics in Living Laboratories (CITYLAB)

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

Goods, waste and service trips in urban areas impose negative traffic and environmental impacts, and there is a need for further roll-out of cost-effective and sustainable solutions. The CITYLAB objective is to develop knowledge and solutions that result in roll-out, up-scaling and further implementation of cost effective strategies, measures and tools for emission free city logistics in urban cen ...
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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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Integrative energy planning of urban areas: collective learning for improved governance (URBAN LEARNING)

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

URBAN LEARNING gathers capitals and other large cities across Europe facing the common challenge of considerable population growth while being committed to significantly reduce fossil energy consumption and CO2 emissions. E.g. Stockholm grew by more than 12.000 people / a (1.5%); in the next 10 years Vienna has to build for 200.000 new people. Efficient and effective planning processes will be cru ...
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WEST 14

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

The project is for 53 students attending The last years of Itsos specialization courses: • n. 4 students of Chemistry, and bio-technologies • n. 6 students of Business, Finance and Marketing • n. 6 students of Human Sciences • n. 2 students of Electronics and electrotecnologies • n. 31 students of Modern Languages TRAINING NEEDS AND CONTEXT The training needs this transnational mobility project ...
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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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ECVET EN FRANCAIS !

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

As part of the implementation of the ECVET Recommendation, the project "ECVET in French !" aims to share the practices of the ECVET experts, members of the national teams, able to use French as a working language to : - strengthen their capacity to sustain the implementation of ECVET in their VET system(s) and in relation with the VET system(s) of the partners ; - make easier using ECVET in the f ...
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Daguerreobase

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

The daguerreotype was the first successful photographic process in the history of photography and can be seen as the'Incunabula of Photography'. On January 7, 1839, the daguerreotype was presented at the Académie des Sciences inParis. The daguerreotype is named after its inventor Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, was widely used in Europe and represents the first photographic images of Europe and its ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

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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Joint Air Quality Initiative (Joaquin)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2015,

Air pollution (AP) constitutes a risk to human health. It is thought that lung conditions. exacerbated by AP cost the EU €50 billion per year and reduce life expectancy by an average of 6 months. Contrary to popular believe. air pollution is increasing. Factors such as rising industrial activity. energy production and increased traffic have all contributed to increased AP. Furthermore. air poll ...
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VALUEADDED (VALUE+)

Start date: Jun 30, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Cities throughout North West Europe (NWE) welcome the challenge to increase public involvement in decision-making and planning. However. the major problems facing Europe cannot be addressed using entirely local approaches. This also requires strategic. coordinated responses. VALUE+ will demonstrate how cities can best integrate bottom-up and top-down approaches. It will show how we can both deepen ...
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GREEN RENOVATION CLUSTER (GREENOV)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The project aims at developing the economic sector of sustainable renovation mainly by stimulating the innovation capacity of SMEs working in this field. The project will contribute to the transition to low-carbon cities and sustainable economy and will improve the knowledge and expertise on sustainable renovation of existing buildings. Partners of this project are key stakeholders involved in ...
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SEACONOMICS (SEACO)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The Seaconomics projects aim is to make the 2 Seas coastal tourism offer more dynamic and to find innovative solutions to the common problem of a changing environment and a decline in the traditional touristic industry that no longer meets current visitor demand. The Seaconomics project will focus on 3 main activities:- Encouraging investment and progressive initiatives in the tourist industry by ...
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improved integration of increased urban development and flood risks in major cities - FloodResilienCity (FloodResilienCity)

Start date: Apr 30, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

To integrate the increasing demand for more houses and other buildings with the increasing need for more and better flood risk management measures in North West European cities along rivers. Objectives to achieve that aim: 1. Awareness: To enhance the awareness and engagement in all aspects of flood risk and the means of managing it at: - the Policy level (politicians/decision makers). - amo ...
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Technologies for the cost-effective Flood Protection of the Built Environment (FloodProBE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The principal aim of FloodProBE is to provide cost-effective means for the flood protection and damage mitigation in urban areas. To this end, FloodProBE will develop, test and disseminate technologies, methods, concepts and tools for risk assessment and mitigation, focussing particularly on the adaptation of new and existing buildings (retrofitting) and on infrastructure networks. The three main ...
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Heritage and Maritime Memories in the 2 seas Region (HMS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

HMS wants to establish a solid crossborder partnership, to jointly improve, develop and promote the common maritime heritage and shared history in the 2 Seas area. Together, these maritime heritage organisations from all four countries of the area wish to contribute to the growth and competitiveness of the 2 seas area.The 30 partners form a tight, diverse and complementary network of maritime heri ...
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Coordination Of Network Descriptors for Urban Intelligent Transportation Systems (CONDUITS)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"The main objectives of this project are to develop Key Performance Indicators that assist European municipalities in business decisions for ITS projects and to facilitate best practice experiences between municipalities on experiences with ITS. An important aspect of the research is further to link the performance indicators to the current traffic situation in the cities. The project consortium c ...
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For an Environmental Accounting Tool (FEAT) (FEAT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2002, End date: Oct 30, 2005,

... to result in decision-making aids. Five local authorities were involved and were supported by an experienced national team consisting of a specialised research organisation, the 'Fondation des Villes', and Eco-Maires. Expected results: • creation of a transferable method for measuring expenditure and assessing local environmental actions currently dispersed between different city departme ...
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