Housing-related problems faced by the Roma include high overcrowding rates, lack of access to improved forms of sanitation and high levels of urban segregation thus limiting access to healthcare services. These issues reinforce existing health inequalities among the Roma – increased risk of disability, chronic illness, being overweight.
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TEN-T EA showcases ERTMS projects in Copenhagen
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By the end of March field research has been completed in two airports out of the eleven border crossing points covered by the study, namely Schiphol in the Netherlands and Paris Charles de Gaulle.
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The European Union will co-finance with almost €16.5 million two Polish projects aimed at deploying ERTMS infrastructure in the country.
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The European Union will support with almost €23 million from the TEN-T Programme two rail projects in Spain.
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The European Union will co-finance with over €7 million from the TEN-T Programme a series of studies to investigate certain key aspects related to the concept of Rail Freight Corridor.
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Two projects to upgrade Italian infrastructure and rolling stock in terms of ERTMS will be supported by the European Union to the tune of almost €20 million.
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The European Union will support two projects in The Netherlands aiming to further the implementation of ERTMS, one of the EU’s key priorities for rail transport.
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The EU will finance with €15 million a project to facilitate and speed-up development of ERTMS.
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The European Union will co-finance with over €5 million a project to assess and develop RIS applications within Europe.
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The European Union will co-finance to the tune of almost €4 million a project to create VTM centres.
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The EU will provide over €500,000 from the TEN-T Programme to support a project extending the range of River Information Services (RIS) in the Western Scheldt region of both Belgium and the Netherlands.
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The EU will support to the tune of almost €6.5 million the ERTMS retrofit of 70 locomotives in France.
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The European Union will support with almost €20 million from its TEN-T Programme a key project aimed at reducing the environmental impact of navigation.
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The EU will co-finance with over €2.5 million from the TEN-T Programme a project to upgrade the current ERTMS version on ERTMS Corridor D
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A project to develop an ERTMS testing software will be supported by the European Union to the tune of over €1 million.
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The European Union will finance with almost €2.5 million a Motorway of the Sea study to develop Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) bunker filling infrastructure in the Baltic Sea region.
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The European Union will support with over €1.5 million of TEN-T co-financing a Motorway of the Sea study to develop framework conditions for the use of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) for ships in Southern Europe.
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The European Union will grant over €7 million to a project aimed at improving the Motorways of the Sea connections between the ports of Bilbao, Spain and Tilbury, United Kingdom.
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A project to reduce polluting emissions from ships moored in ports is set to receive over €3 million in EU co-financing from the TEN-T Programme.
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A study to develop a Master’s degree on Motorways of the Sea (MoS) will be co-funded by the EU to the tune of over €1 million.
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The European Union will co-finance a project to implement River Information Services (RIS) applications within the Belgian region of Flanders.
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A project to upgrade a key stretch of German rail infrastructure is set to receive over €2.5 million in EU co-funding from the TEN-T programme.
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The European Union will support with over €12 million of TEN-T funding a project aimed at enhancing a viable, regular and reliable sea-based transport service between the port of Venice in Italy and the Greek port of Igoumenitsa.
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Europe must continue to pull together to combat Roma discrimination, prejudice, poverty and social exclusion, says the FRA on the occasion of the International Roma Day on April 8.
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Find results of the skills forecast by occupation, qualification, age and gender: just click on the link or the skills forecast banner on the right. On each page you can also search for data by country.
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The world needs to move away from measuring success in purely economic terms, and should instead consider other criteria, including distribution of resources, sustainability, health, human rights and education. These were the discussions in a landmark meeting of the United Nations (UN), calling for new measurements of wellbeing beyond GDP in the run up to the Rio sustainability summit in June.

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As the European Commission publishes its proposals on the future of the posted workers directive, Eurofound highlights its findings on the extent of the phenomenon, the roles played by national and European level legislation and the interplay between legislation and the domain of social dialogue and collective bargaining.
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Besides occasional news reports about the discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people, there is very little comparable data collected across the EU about the everyday experiences of LGBT people with respect of discrimination. In response to this situation, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has launched the first ever online EU-wide survey to establish an accurate picture of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people (18 years or older) that will try to capture their experiences.
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The Trento Node of EIT ICT Labs will officially open its Co-location Centre as the central EIT ICT Labs in Italy and home of the Italian Node management team.
The Co-location Centre is based in Povo, in the outskirt of Trento, and clusters its core Partners, Engineering, Telecom Italia and TrentoRise, and connects with its affiliated Partners: CRF, STMicroelectronics, Politecnico of Milan, Politecnico of Turin, Istituto Superiore Sant’Anna – Pisa, Bologna…
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Key questions not only for the EIT to learn from and to use as a basis for developing and preparing for its next wave of Knowledge & Innovation Communities, but also for the wider innovation community.
This conference will serve as a forum to answer precisely these questions, within the framework of a wider discussion on the future of innovation policies and the integration of the knowledge triangle (business,…
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Main responsibilities:

• Effective implementation, performance monitoring and cost reporting on simplified grant management
• Management of effectiveness, efficiency, planning and co-ordination of all elements of KIC operational activities
• Providing executive support to the KICs in facilitating business processes and annual cycle preparations
• Strengthening the capacity of the EIT in Knowledge Management
• Management and planning of the Unit and its…
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Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, whose responsibilities include the EIT and its innovation networks, congratulated the KIC InnoEnergy team after meeting them at the Regional Finals in London in February 2012. "Their success underlines the excellence and strong innovation potential of EIT students, who we hope will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow."
The team is now preparing to participate in the Global Finale of HULT Global…
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KIC InnoEnergy is the EIT Knowledge and Innovation Community that focuses on sustainable energies, and a European company fostering the integration of education, technology, business and entrepreneurship. Within the activities of CC Sweden, the node for Smart Grids and Storage within KIC InnoEnergy, the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Ericsson have collaborated to increase the reliability of electricity grids through the use of wireless information technology.

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Protecting a company or organisation against known cyber-security threats is one thing; protecting them against unknown cyber-threats is quite another.
But that is exactly the goal of Trifense, a Technical University of Berlin spin-out named as the EIT ICT Labs winner of the EIT Awards. Trifense is working together with EIT ICT Labs in one of their thematic action lines: “Future media and content…
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• Account management and supervision
• Accounting development
• Planning and programming management in the EIT
• Supervision of the programming function
• Presentation of the accounts, budgetary and financial reporting
• Financial procedures
• Inter-institutional procedures

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