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European Research Area on Sustainable Animal Production Systems (SusAn)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

This proposal seeks funding under the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2014-2015 to establish an ERA-NET for joint European research coordination on Sustainable Animal Production (SusAn). The scope for this ERA-NET has been developed under the SCAR Collaborative Working Group on Sustainable Animal Production (CWG-SAP). Funding organisations from 22 European countries initially seek to support one co-fu ...
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Implementing Alpine Governance Mechanisms of the European Strategy for the Alpine Region (AlpGov)

Start date: Jun 7, 2016, End date: Jun 6, 2019,

Description (EN): The AlpGovs’ main objective is to support effective and efficient EUSALP implementation in a systematic transnational approach through designing and testing appropriate governance structures and mechanisms mainly on the level of Action Groups (AGs), at the same time to create synergies with the other EUSALP implementing bodies General Assembly and Executive Board a ...
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Coordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming Systems (CORE ORGANIC PLUS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Organic agriculture is considered to be one of the important development pathways for improving agriculture’s relation with the environment while at the same time ensuring food safety and future food security. This role is dependent on continuous research and innovation.CORE Organic Plus will continue, update and consolidate the series of transnational research calls which support a focused and co ...
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Information and Communication Technologies and Robotics for Sustainable Agriculture (ICT-AGRI 2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Information and Communication technologies (ICT) and robotics for sustainable agriculture
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Tackling the challenges in sustainable and multifunctional forestry through enhanced research coordination for policy decisions (SUMFOREST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The important climatic, environmental, socio-economic and land-use changes taking place at global, regional and local levels, pose new challenges for meeting the multifunctional demands on European forest resources, and for their sustainable management. In the European Union the formulation of forest policies is in the competence of the Member States and although the Treaties of the EU make no pro ...
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LIFE ObservaTREE - an integrated early warning system for tree pests and diseases using citizen science (LIFE ObservaTREE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Oct 1, 2017,

Background Preserving tree health is vital to human health and the natural environmental. It is also fundamental to combating climate change. However, trees in all situations are increasingly affected by health threats, with research showing across-the-board increases in damaging fungal infections. Around 11 million ha of EU forests (6%) are affected by f ...
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Coordinated Integrated Pest Management in Europe (C-IPM)

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

Europe faces the challenge of responding to the mandatory implementation of the principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) as called for by Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides. Most European countries are investing in research and extension to face this challenge, reduce reliance on pesticides, and reduce risks associated with their use. Added value and synergies can be ...
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Enhancing FOrest RESearch in the MediTERRAnean through improved coordination and integration (FORESTERRA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Forest research in the Mediterranean region is currently handicapped by its fragmentation, its limited means, and occasional outdating and isolation. In addition, the low benefits that Mediterranean forests provide to forest-based industries--compared to other European forests--make it difficult to attract interest and funds from the private sector. For this reason, new ways to overcome this situa ...
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Energy Sustainability for Adriatic Small Communities (ALTERENERGY)

Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Aug 30, 2015,

The ALTERENERGY Strategic Project aims to provide a significant contribution to the widely agreed objective of achieving a higher level of sustainability with regards to energy production and usage in the Adriatic area. This objective is strictly connected, as we all know, to creating a better environment and the protection of life and the natural environment. In pursuing this overall general obje ...
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Sustainable Mobility Information Network for the Alpine Space (AlpInfoNet)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Lacking information about public transport is often an obstacle for travellers to use public transport at all. This is an even bigger challenge when travelling by sustainable transport modes to and within destinations of the Alpine Space, where often cross-border information is needed. This project aims to provide travellers with comprehensive information about sustainable transport modes beyond r ...
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SedAlp - Sediment management in Alpine basins: integrating sediment continuum, risk mitigation and hydropower (SedAlp)

Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

SedAlp contributes to integrated management of sediment transport in Alpine basins directed to an effective reduction of sediment-related risk while promoting the enhancement of riverine ecosystems and reducing the impacts of hydropower plants (balancing the implementation of EU Directives e.g. RES, Floods and WFD). The project includes piloting actions in various representative Alpine river basin ...
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Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR-IDAZ)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

Animal diseases can cause serious social, economic and environmental damage and in some cases also threaten human health. An increasing number of the major disease problems or threats faced by the livestock industry and zoonoses are of a global nature. The overall aim of the global strategic alliances for the coordination of research on the major infectious diseases of animals is to improve coordi ...
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A structured network for integration of climate knowledge into policy and territorial planning (ORIENTGATE)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The OrientGate project will foster concerted and coordinated climate adaptation actions across the SEE region. The project will explore climate risks faced by coastal, rural and urban communities; contribute to a better understanding of the impact of climate variability and change on water regimes, forests and agro-ecosystems; and analyse specific adaptation needs in the hydroelectricity, agro-ali ...
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Mitigating Vulnerability of Water Resources under Climate Change  (CC-WARE)

Start date: Nov 30, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

Water resources are under increasing pressure originating from land use and climate change. Accompanied with economic changes in the SEE region the land use pattern is expected to change, too. Both processes will have severe impacts on water resources in general and drinking water resources in particular. CC-WARE aims at developing an integrated transnational strategy for water protection and miti ...
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Coordination of European Research on ICT and Robotics in Agriculture and Related Environmental Issues (ICT-AGRI)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

This horizontal ERA-NET proposal is cutting across several themes in the Cooperation Programme: Theme 2 (Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology), Theme 3 (Information and Communication Technologies) and Theme 6 (Environment including Climate Change). The overall strategic objective - also beyond the time frame of the ERA-NET proposal - is a contribution to increase quality, effectivene ...
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Guardians of Environment Framework: An Integrated Approach of Strategies for Prevention of Soil Pollution and Rehabilitation of Harmed Territories  (GuardEn)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

... of Northern Greece, Agricultural University of Plovdiv, Bulgarian Chamber, Szent István University-Institute of Environment and Landscape Management, Chamber of Potenza, Veneto Agricoltura-Regional Agency for Agriculture, Forestry and Agro-food Sectors, Regional Institute for Education and Co-operatives Studies of Veneto, National Research Regional Agency for Environmental Prevention and Protecti ...
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Sustainable Mobility and Tourism in Sensitive Areas of the Alps and the Carpathians (ACCESS2MOUNTAIN)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2014,

...ing major ecological impacts caused by individual vehicles . Based on this fact, EU-, national strategies and INTERREG-outcomes a project was jointly developed under the leadership of the Environment Agency Austria. The proposed project aims at achieving 'Durable environmentally friendly tourism accessibility and connection to, between and in sensitive regions of the Alps and Carpathians, benefiti ...
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EUROPEAN PHYTOSANITARY RESEARCH COORDINATION II (EUPHRESCO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

The Community Plant Health Regime (CPHR) aims to prevent the introduction, establishment and spread of regulated and quarantine plant pests. These pests pose increasing risks to European agriculture, horticulture, forestry and the environment. This is due to increased globalisation of trade (volume and diversity), but is exacerbated by climate change and EU expansion (increased pathways). In compa ...
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f Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation, Development (POWERED)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

POWERED aims to define a set of strategies and shared methods for the development of the off-shore wind energy in all the Countries overlooking the Adriatic Sea. Such energetic choice could allow a rapid increase of installations, thanks to the reduction of the problems related to landscape topic that are frequently the main obstacles to the creation of wind parks in high density population territ ...
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motion of residual forestry biomass in the Mediterranean basin (PROFORBIOMED)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

PROFORBIOMED promotes renewable energies in rural areas by developing an integrated strategy for the use of forest biomass as a renewable energy source, improving forest management systems, recovering forest biomass potential and developing new opportunit Achievements: ...
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motion of a Joint Implementation of the Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC) within the TranSbountary River Basin of Aoos/ Vjosa (JointWaterS)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

JointWaterS aims to promote joint action within the transbountary River Basin of Aoos/Vjosa, in cooperation with the overall national authorities on the matter in Greece and Albania. The objectives of the project are: - promote cross-border communication and improvement of knowledge regarding the requirements of WFD, - ensure that common ground between the two countries is achieved through the imp ...
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From strategies to activities (Bioenergy Promotion2)

Start date: Sep 28, 2011, End date: Dec 27, 2013,

The aim of the project "Bioenergy Promotion 2- from strategies to activities" was to promote and increase the sustainable production and use of bioenergy in the Baltic Sea Region.Bioenergy Promotion 2 was a follow-up to the Main stage project Bioenergy Promotion. The Main stage project started in 2009 and concluded in 2011. The initial project consortium consisted of 33 partners, who were involved ...
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Coordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming Systems (CORE ORGANIC II)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Organic agriculture and food markets have grown considerably and organic agriculture addresses important challenges of European agriculture, such as sustainable production of high quality food, reducing dependency on high energy inputs, improving environmental and nature conservation, climate change adaptation, animal welfare and rural livelihoods. Organic farming and food systems still have a big ...
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Chemical Munitions Search & Assessment (CHEMSEA)

Start date: Jun 8, 2011, End date: Mar 7, 2013,

Around 55 000 tons of chemical warfare agents (CWA) were dumped into the Baltic Sea after the World Word II. Official dumpsites are Bornholm Deep and Gotland Deep, but there is evidence for their presence also in other places on the seafloor. Their metal shells are corroding and leaking to the environment at a rate that has not been measured so far. Moreover, a large-scale leakage in case of distu ...
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European Forest Fire Monitoring using Information Systems (EFFMIS)

Start date: Oct 31, 2010, End date: Oct 30, 2012,

This project aims to pool good practices (GPs) on exploitation of the usage of information systems in order to early detect, efficiently manage and handle forest fires and assess the damage caused and ways for regeneration. It aims to exchange good practices between the participating regions, so as to strengthen their position and capacities to respond better to the Lisbon and Gothenburg agendas o ...
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Living North Sea (LNS)

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Sep 29, 2012,

The Living North Sea project will solve problems surrounding the management of fish species which rely on moving between the North Sea and freshwater systems of partner countries. These species are under considerable threat, some even in hazardous decline. Living North Sea brings together representatives from every North Sea Interreg partner country, in a programme which will make long lasting cha ...
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imProved Accessibility: Reliability and security of Alpine transport infrastructure related to mountainous hazards in a changing climate (PARAmount)

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

Transport security and accessibility are essential for a balanced and sustainable development of ASP. Due to current climatic trends, the vulnerability of transport infrastructure to natural hazards has increased. But the specific threats to transport infrastructure have not yet been tackled in a systematic joint effort. Therefore the goal of PARAmount is to improve risk management strategies for ...
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MANFRED - Management strategies to adapt Alpine Space forests to climate change risks (MANFRED)

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

With the expected Climate Change (CC), the ecological conditions for forests in the Alpine Space will be fundamentally changing – with unknown effects on the forests essential protective, ecological, economical and social functions. Under different climate and land-use change scenarios only an adaptive management can provide the conservation of the natural heritage and the multiple functions. MANF ...
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actical Use of MONITORing in Natural Disaster Management (MONITOR II)

Start date: May 31, 2009, End date: May 29, 2012,

Management of natural hazards constitutes a common challenge in the SEES. Until now, neither hazard mapping nor contingency planning have been transnationally coordinated and defined in a sufficient manner. These gaps will be tackled in MONITOR II with the development of a common methodology and a CSA ("Continuous Situation Awareness") system. The integration of monitoring systems facilitates peri ...
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Improve the governance and the quality of forestry management in the Mediterranean protected areas. (QUALIGOUV)

Start date: May 14, 2009, End date: May 13, 2012,

Beyond its traditional functions, the Mediterranean forest areas are concerned with new uses, notably in periurban or protected contexts, such as biodiversity, soil and water conservation, carbon storage, leisure… This multitude of functions requires the implementation of new strategies of common actions and participative policies, which imply the different concerned stakeholders. The aim of QUALI ...
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Climate Change and Impacts on Water Supply (CC-WaterS)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

Climate change (CC) affects fresh water resources and may have significant influence on public drinking water supply. Land use activities exert pressure on water resources and will change according to CC. It is crucial for safeguarding future water supply to anticipate these climate and land use changes and to assess their impacts on water resources. Transnational action is needed to prepare SEE f ...
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Stakeholder oriented flood risk assessment for the Danube floodplains (DANUBE FLOODRISK)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

The Danube River is one of the most important natural axes in South-East-Europe. It links most of the countries in the SEE area. Thus the improvement and good examples of transnational cooperation of all countries at this river will be a brilliant signal for the whole region. This project has a far reaching strategic focus beyond risk management and could become a flagship project for the SEE prog ...
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Drought Management Centre for South East Europe (DMCSEE)

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

...ermanent representatives with World Meteorological Organization decided to address a threat of drought and desertification and to establish a Drought Management Centre for SEE (DMCSEE). Environmental Agency of Slovenia was selected by agreement of all parties to organise sustainable, long term work of DMCSEE once its functions will be established through the execution of this kick-off project. DMC ...
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Danube River Network of Protected Areas - Development and Implementation of Transnational Strategies for the Conservation of the Natural Heritage at the Danube River (DanubeParks)

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Feb 27, 2012,

Based on existing partnership among Protected Areas (PA) along the river Danube the "Danube River Network of Protected Areas" will be established in accordance with the appeal launched by the "Declaration of Tulcea" in April 2007 (http://www.ramsar.org/mtg/mtg_danube_regional_2007a.htm). For the first step, the partnership includes 10 PAs from 6 Danube countries, additional partners (e.g. in Germa ...
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The Baltic Sea Region Bioenergy Promotion Project (Bioenergy Promotion)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

The project aimed to: Raise awareness that there is a significant potential of employment and business possibilities within bioenergy in the Baltic Sea Region, facilitate conditions for the reduction of emissions by sustainable use of bioenergy, develop regional management plans and tools for planning within bioenergy, exchange experiences through up-t-date conferences, seminars and workshops in b ...
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Coordination of European Research on Emerging and Major Infectious Diseases of Livestock (EMIDA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"The disease threats to the livestock industry have increased steadily over the past decades as a result of globalisation, evolving pathogens and climate change. Responding to animal disease threats relies heavily on science; research makes a significant contribution to the development of disease control policy and the translation of policy, and other drivers for improving animal health, into prac ...
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Water Management Strategies against Water Scarcity in the Alps (Alp-Water-Scarce)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

The main challenges of this project are to create local Early Warning Systems against Water Scarcity in the Alps based on sound and perennial monitoring and modelling and anchored strongly and actively within a Stakeholder Forum linked across comparative and contrasting regions across the Alps. The Early Warning System is based on the linkage and improvement of field monitoring and assemblage of q ...
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Climate Change Adaptation by Spatial Planning in the Alpine Space (CLISP)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 30, 2011,

Climate change impacts, esp. growing risks from natural hazards, increasingly threaten settlements, infrastructure, lives and future development in the Alpine Space. CLISP aims at preventing increasing climate change-related spatial conflicts, vulnerability, damages and costs by providing "climate proof" spatial planning solutions as a substantial basis for future sustainable territorial developme ...
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Adaptation to Climate Change in the Alpine Space (AdaptAlp)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 30, 2011,

Climate change is to a large extent constituted by increasing temperatures and changed precipitation patterns. Any change of these critical factors has implications on the frequency & extent of natural hazards. The uncertainties and the increase of natural hazards due to the impacts of CC requires concerted management in the Alpine Space. AdaptAlp will improve information on impacts of CC esp. on ...
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maNET - Permafrost long-term monitoring network (PermaNET)

Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Jul 13, 2011,

Permafrost is highly sensitive to climatic changes. Permafrost degradation and related natural hazards affect traffic routes, tourism areas, settlements and infrastructures. The main problem is a lacking strategy for the consideration of these newly observed specific impacts of climate change in risk prevention and territorial development. With the joint development of a common strategy for dealin ...
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