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Addressing the divide between EU indications and their practical implementation in the green construction and eco-social re-qualification of residential areas in South East Europe regions (BUILD SEE)
Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
WHY ARE SEE CITIES SO FAR FROM SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DESPITE EU INDICATIONS ? WHY DO URBAN PLANNING AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS LACK A TRUE GREEN APPROACH? "BUILD SEE" answers these questions. It supplies public administrations, enterprises and citizens with practical tools, recommendations and action plans (from SEE local country case-studies) to bridge the gap to achieve low environmental impact and ...
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AlpStore: Strategies to use a variety of mobile and stationary storages to allow for extended accessibility and the integration of renewable energies (AlpStore)
Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
Sun, water and biomass are a natural capital of the Alpine Space. It is a must to use them for the production of energy. Besides intelligent grids, storage systems will be key enablers for a future mostly renewable energy supply.Electric vehicles (EV) will be integral elements of the future energy system. Their batteries can be charged with excessive power from intermittent energy sources and elec ...
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Local economic development in airport catchment areas (airLED)
Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
Aviation is deemed to be one of the most dynamic industries in the world and airport planning requires intensive study and fore thought. The most efficient plan for an airport has to take into account many variables and still there are adjacent areas that are not considered yet but increasingly regarded as catalysts for local economic development. Integrated economic development linked to airports ...
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MOVE ON GREEN (MOG)
Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
Sustainable transport is vital to maintaining the environmental and economic health of rural areas, as well as to ensuring the access of both inhabitants and potential visitors to key services such as employment, education and healthcare.Rural areas policy-makers have come to realise that the lack of sustainable mobility schemes is a cross-cutting element which affects every development strategy i ...
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Smart Work Centres in Non-Metropolitan areas (Micropol)
Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
The MICROPOL project brings together partners from non-metropolitan regions that face the EU-wide challenge of loss of human capital due to increasing unemployment. The common pattern is that qualified people move to the big cities in search for job opportunities in the knowledge economy which leaves formerly thriving communities far from metropolitan centres with problems of depopulation and litt ...
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Local food as engine for local business (LOCFOOD)
Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
The SMEs in the local food sector are often micro SMEs that have low involvement in clustering, cooperation and innovation, and they have a great potential of playing an important role in creating jobs and opportunities in rural areas. All participating regions have various degrees of policies and experiences regarding the local food sector, and will benefit from sharing knowledge and good practic ...
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Green IT Network Europe (GreenITNet)
Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
GreenITNetInformation and communication technologies (ICT) have become a driving force of economy and society sustaining growth and prosperity. On line data processing has in the last decade developed into a truly new infrastructure. ICT is ubiquitous and will become more so in the coming years. Also ubiquitous however has become the question of the sustainability of ICT. ICT has been singled out ...
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Integrated Tourism Action Plans for SEE excellence (InTourAct)
Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,
Tourism is a key economic activity for the SEE region that generates growth and employment. InTourAct project aims at ensuring an integrated approach in tourism development planning in terms of synergies with the sectoral policies related to tourism; in particular, InTourAct wants to promote not only the central tourist destinations but also the surrounding areas, towards the extension of the tour ...
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South East Europe jointly developed common advanced virtual accessibility solutions to support public services (SECOVIA)
Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,
1. Background & problem to be addressed Cloud-based, virtualised IT platforms & infrastructures offer a strong potential to deliver cost-effective, scalable digital public services and to unlock regional growth and competitiveness. EC promotes a common EU Cloud Strategy as a means to help governments and citizens to access and develop advanced online services. The South East Europe (SEE) area suff ...
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Energy Savings in Urban Quarters through Rehabilitation and New Ways of Energy Supply (EnSURE)
Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Apr 29, 2013,
Integrated energy concepts which increase the energetic and economic efficiency of rehabilitation projects, and which are embedded in integrated urban development concepts, are hardly applied in Central Europe. Integrated approaches for an energy efficient urban development are an essential part for an effective energy-efficiency policy at local and regional level.Integrated approaches for an ener ...
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Innovation transfer in the medical sector from clinics to companies (INTRAMED-C2C)
Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Mar 30, 2013,
The innovation processes in the medical sector have specific features and dynamics. However, the results of the medical research from companies is transferred into results only to its limited extend. When it comes to the single entity in the process, the hospital that functions as driving force for a bottom-up approach in the innovation transfer procedure, it enjoys a good service from the side of ...
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Innovative Development of European Areas by Fostering Transnational Knowledge Development (IDEA)
Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Feb 27, 2013,
Certain innovation processes cannot be realized without people and their ideas. The project focuses on development of strategies that will safeguard human capital for these processes and establishes transnational cooperation for coping with this challenge, especially in the sector of engineering technology and science.Project partnership decided to look for a holistic European solutions by overcom ...
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Best shared services for regional cluster inititative needs (POOLING4CLUSTERS)
Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
Throughout Europe, clustering of companies and R&D organisations is acknowledged as an effective tool for regional development. There are hundreds of cluster initiatives in existence aiming to foster innovation and internationalisation of companies using collective actions. Cluster initiatives are mainly closely tied to national, regional or local development or innovation agencies but they are a ...
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Alpine Forest FIre waRning System (ALP FFIRS)
Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Aug 30, 2012,
The project aims to improve forest fire prevention in the AS with the creation of a shared warning system based on weather condition affecting fire potential. Main goal is the development of a decision support tool for actors involved in forest fire prevention and suppression, consisting in a daily fire danger level assessment and forecast to identify critical periods in advance of their potential ...
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Virtual Power Systems as an Instrument to Promote Transnational Cooperation and Sustainable Energy Supply in the Alpine Space (AlpEnergy)
Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,
At present, the Alpine Space is characterised by strong territorial discrepancies with regard to (conventional) energy supply. Rich endogenous renewable energy sources (RES) like hydropower, solar and wind energy, wood and other biomass exist throughout the Alpine Space, but equal access to their use is even more restricted because the need to balance electricity production and use requires a stro ...
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The European production of shoes and footwears is at risk of decline, due to the aggressive competition of China. The shelter is named “high quality and fashion” and must be forged through a robust injection of new tech in the products and processes.What should be possible only if the concerned SMEs and their workforce are prepared: i.e. if he SMEs are prepared to develop R&D and the workers to su ...
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