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A secure, modular and distributed mobile border control solution for European land border crossing points (MOBILEPASS)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

MobilePass will focus on research and development towards technologically advanced mobile equipment at land border crossing points. This will allow border control authorities to check European, visa-holding and frequent third country travellers in a comfortable, fast and secure way. The mobile solution incorporates new technologies needed in mobile scenarios and embeds them in the actual border cr ...
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Boosting the Impact of Social Innovation in Europe through Economic Underpinnings (SIMPACT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

SIMPACT advances understanding of social innovation’s economic dimensions, creating new concepts, models and instruments for policy makers, innovators, investors and intermediaries. It systematically investigates how social innovations can enable the most vulnerable in society to become economic assets, integrating critical analysis of current and previous work with future-oriented methodologies, ...
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Environmental Macro Indicators of Innovation (EMININN)

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

EMInInn aims at assessing the environmental impacts associated with innovation.In a first step EMInInn will assemble and set out coherently, on the one hand, macro-indicators and data of environmental impacts and, on the other hand, indicators and data to measure innovations. The definitions and delineations will be the basis for selecting appropriate analytical frameworks to operationalize assess ...
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Social IMpact Policy Analysis of Technological Innovation Challenges (SIMPATIC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The objective of SIMPATIC is to provide policy makers with a comprehensive and operational tool box allowing for a better assessment of the impact of research and innovation policies in Europe. SIMPATIC represents a unique bottom-up project proposal, bringing together micro and macro researchers with expertise in evidence-based policy analysis and impact assessment of research and innovation poli ...
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Western Balkan Countries INCO-NET (WBC-INCO.NET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The Western Balkan countries INCO-NET assists to develop the relationship between the EU and the WBCs in the area of science and technology (S&T). The project supports the Steering Platform on Research for the Western Balkan Countries in the facilitation of interaction between the Western Balkan countries, the EU Member States, states associated to the Framework Programmes for RTD and the European ...
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Advancing knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and innovation for growth and social well-being in Europe (AEGIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The proposed research project will study the interactions between knowledge, economic growth and social wellbeing in Europe. It focuses on knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship as a necessary mechanism and an agent of change mediating between the creation of knowledge and its transformation into economic activity. Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship is perceived herein as a core interface between ...
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Open Source Software Reuse Service for SMEs (OPEN-SME)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

The proposed project aims to develop a set of methodologies, associated tools, and business models centred on SME Associations, which will enable software SMEs to effectively introduce Open Source Software Reuse practises in their production processes. In this scope, software reuse is regarded as the sharing of software modules across different development teams, organisations, and diverse applica ...
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SCience, Innovation, FIrms and markets in a GLObalized World (SCIFI-GLOW)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

In 2000, EU leaders committed to the objective of making Europe ‘the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and better jobs, greater social cohesion and respect for the environment.’ They drew up the ‘Lisbon agenda’ to achieve this goal by 2010. The central strategy was based on policies to encourage investment in knowle ...
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A web-based repository of nanoscience and nanotechnology publications, database of researchers and online forum, to inform and facilitate networking between EU and ICPC RTD (ICPCNanoNet)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

The ICPCNanoNet project aims to provide an electronic archive of nanoscience and nanotechnology research publications and support the networking of researchers in the EU and ICPC. The electronic archive will be based on open-source software (EPrints) that is widely used by scientific institutions across the globe, and allows the incorporation of full-text open access publications (submitted by au ...
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European observatory for science-based and economic expert analysis of nanotechnologies, cognisant of barriers and risks, to engage with relevant stakeholders regarding benefits and opportunities (observatoryNANO)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

observatoryNANO brings together leading EU organizations who collectively have expertise in the technological; economic; societal/ethical; health, safety, and environmental analysis of nanotechnologies. Its primary aim is to develop appropriate methodologies to link scientific and technological development of nanotechnologies with socio-economic impacts. Both of these aspects will be enhanced by e ...
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Good Practices in Innovation Support Measures for SMEs: facilitating transition from the traditional to the knowledge economy (GPrix)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

The GPrix project - Good Practices in Innovation Support Measures for SMEs: facilitating transition from the traditional to the knowledge economy - will provide a comprehensive insight into the design and implementation of SME research and innovation support programmes, actions, services and networks especially at national and regional level, and on its impact, in particular amongst the traditiona ...
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The changing nature of Internationalization of Innovation in Europe: impact on firms and the implications for innovation policy in the EU (GlobInn)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2011,

The overall purpose of the GlobInn project is to improve our understanding of the changing nature of internationalization of Europe’s innovation systems by studying the international knowledge sourcing strategies of European firms and their effect on performance. The starting premise of the project is that Europe’s knowledge resources and its role in the global economy will be increasingly shaped ...
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DEvelopment of MEthods and Tools for Evaluation of Research (DEMETER)

End date: Jan 1, 2009,

The Lisbon Agenda of increasing competitiveness of European countries by the «knowledge» has focussed attention on RTD and education policies.The evaluation of such policies is in the state of the art very difficult;if there exist quantifications of RTD increase on economic performance at a firm or sectoral level,the assessment of such performance on a whole community or a group of countries is le ...
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Science communication (Wissenschaftskommunikation)

Start date: Mar 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

Das Kompetenzzentrum Wissenschaftskommunikation ist eine breit angelegteKooperationsgemeinschaft, die alle wichtigen Akteure und Zielgruppender Wissenschaftskommunikation umfasst. Innerhalb dieses Zentrums solltenneue Wissenschaftskommunikationsmodelle entwickelt und getestet werden.Das Projekt war hauptsächlich auf die Entwicklung von außerschulischenPraktikantenstellen ausgerichtet. ...
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