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Bridging the Spatial and Temporal Gaps in Threatened Oak Habitats (LIFE BTG)

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2022,

Background Poor maintenance and a complete lack of management have led to a decline in the conservation status of Fennoscandian wooded pastures and meadow habitats (listed in Annex I of the EU Habitats Directive). The same problem is occurring in other rare deciduous forest habitats, such as oak and natural old broad-leaved forests. Some sites have been ...
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Reintroduction of burning in Boreal western taiga woodlands (LifeTaiga)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background Controlled burning can support the conservation of many sites of priority habitat type 9010 (*Western Taïga) and, to some extent, habitat 9060 (Coniferous forests on, or connected to, glaciofluvial eskers) Up until 150 years ago, 1% of the wooded area burned annually. Today less than 0.016% burns annually. The reduction in the frequency of fir ...
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Restoration of ancient agricultural landscape, natural forests and wetlands at the Baltic coast (LIFE Coast Benefit)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Background The majority of the project areas are protected as nature reserves, or bird sanctuaries, as well as being Natura 2000 network sites. In recent years, the habitats have begun to deteriorate because of a lack of management. The grassland habitats and grazed forests have become overgrown with bushes and trees, following the ending of grazing and h ...
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The thick shelled river mussel (Unio crassus) brings Life+ back to rivers (UC4LIFE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Background Numerous thick shelled river mussel (Unio crassus) populations have become extinct in Sweden. The remaining populations of this endangered species have a fragmented (some 140 sites) and narrow south-eastern distribution in Scandinavia. The decline of the species can be linked to adverse physical changes to its habitats (including fragmentation ...
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Life to ad(d)mire – Restoring drained and overgrowing wetlands (Life to ad(d)mire)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Background Wetlands have an important role to play in preserving biodiversity. Many plants and animals depend on wetland biotopes, and nearly 15% of Sweden’s threatened species live in peatlands or on freshwater margins. Hydrological changes and plant invasion in wetlands adversely affect the animals and plants that live there. Tall plant- and forest in ...
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Joint Work for Better Water Quality in the Baltic Sea Region (JOBWAB)

Start date: Oct 31, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

...c environment. The importance of transnational cooperations has never been greater in order to understand the changes in the sea and to improve the Baltic Sea env. The County Administrative Board of Östergötland (CAB) therefore initiated this project together with the Government of Aland (ALR). The Swedish county of Östergötland and Aland are two areas with similar geography and problems with env ...
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Benchmarking on contaminated sites (BECOSI)

Start date: Nov 30, 2010, End date: Nov 29, 2013,

The industrial heritage of the Central Baltic countries has caused countless areas with contamination from chemicals and from waste. The contamination is a severe threat and because of that there is a direct need to decrease the risks for environment, human health and economy caused by contaminated sites. Finding solutions is a joint issue for all Central Baltic countries. The environmental sta ...
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Beneficial Business Relations between the Central Baltic Region and China (BENCH)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The overall objective with the BENCH project is to increase the trade with China as well as inward investments from China for the benefit of trade and industry in the Central Baltic region, and to better take advantage of the business support actors’ established contacts with China. Together the regions in Finland, Sweden and Estonia have a lot more to offer than on their own when it comes to tech ...
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Baltic Archipelago and Islands Centres (BACES)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Eleven partners connected to seven Baltic Archipelago and Islands Centres (BACES) located in the southwestern, northwestern and eastern part of the sub-programme area have after networking met and togeter developed a project for targeting cross-border experiences and growth of their respective BACES area. The partnership has different points of departure but common challenges and sees the growth d ...
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moting women’s entrepreneurship in social and health care sector (Forte)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Increased opportunities does not automatically mean more businesses! Regions Päijät-Häme and Östergötland, recognises and shares the ambition with the Central Baltic programme, the importance of developing new business opportunities. The transmission from a public health care to a mix of public and private provides a wide range of new business opportunities, especially for women’s entrepreneurship ...
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Business to Nature - Interregional Approach to SMEs and Entrepreneurship Policies in Natural Areas (B2N)

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

The considerable lack of entrepreneurial initiatives in some European regions makes it essential that the public sector takes an active role in supporting the small and medium-sized enterprises, in particular in those less developed regions both in EU-15 and new member states territories performing below EU average in terms of productivity, employment rate and R&D expenditure. Most of these territ ...
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Youth Entrepreneurship Strategies (YES)

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

The overall aim of YES, Youth Entrepreneurship Strategies, is to increase the number of entrepreneurs and accelerate European competitiveness. The method for reaching the objectives is integrating an entrepreneurial perspective in the one forum that gathers all European youth, the education system. Studies show that Entrepreneurship in school is an effective way to increase the number of entrepren ...
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Wood Energy and Cleantech (Woodenergy)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

...erall objectives are to use more bio energy in order to reduce climate effect. In the Baltic States fossil gas and oil are the dominating fuels when heating houses, official buildings and industries. Östergötland County in Sweden has transferred its use of fossil fuels to bio energy to a large extent. At the same time the industrial content of cleantech (environmental friendly techniques) has refi ...
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Waste to Energy (W2E)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

The W2E project will focus on the potential to improve the sustainable management of waste in Europe's regions, and to produce energy from waste.Its objective is to exchange knowledge and good practice about regional policies for sustainable waste management, by changing the perception of waste as a potential resource, and to increase energy recovery from waste. The project will lead to the devel ...
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TOWER - Towards Sustainable Excellence by Innovating Regions. (TOWER)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The overall aim of TOWER is to create and improve strategies, methodologies and tools for sustainable economic growth and to establish a platform for a long-term exchange of experiences and best practices between the regions involved. Achievements: TOWER has been perfom ...
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Tools for integrated regional and business development (Advantage Hardwood )

Start date: Feb 28, 2003, End date: Mar 8, 2006,

The full title of the project ‘Advantage Hardwood – tools for integrated regional and business development’ illustrates the wide approach chosen. By promotion of hardwood species (birch, oak, alder, beech etc.) in forestry environmental aspects (biodiversity, outdoor life) are provided for. The amount of hardwood timber available will increase which is essential for hardwood business (processing, ...
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Rock Art in Northern Europe (RANE )

Start date: Jun 25, 2002, End date: Sep 24, 2005,

Rock art (paintings and carvings on rock formations) is the oldest form of human art. The remaining examples of this historical art form are threatened both by a natural development and our modern way of living. The central objectives of RANE were to initiate measures and promote research that would improve the management and sustainable use of prehistoric rock art in the Baltic Sea Region. The pr ...
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