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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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Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society (PERARES)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

PERARES strengthens public engagement in research (PER) by developing multi-annual action plans, involving researchers and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the formulation of research agendas and the research process. It uses debates on science to actively articulate research requests of civil society. These are forwarded to research institutes, and results are used in a next phase of the deb ...
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Furthering Strategic Urban Research (URBAN-NEXUS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

European cities face many significant challenges, including the current economic crisis, urban sprawl, and the longer-term implications of climate change and resource scarcity. To face up to and overcome these challenges, it has become urgent for all concerned stakeholders to collaborate.URBAN-NEXUS, a coordination action, will develop and use structured dialogues to encourage communication, exch ...
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Improved Drought Early Warning and FORecasting to strengthen preparedness and adaptation to droughts in Africa (DEWFORA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The principal aim of the DEWFORA proposal is to develop a framework for the provision of early warning and response to mitigate the impact of droughts in Africa. The proposal has been built to achive three key targets:1. Improved monitoring: by improving knowledge on drought forecasting, warning and mitigation, and advancing the understanding of climate related vulnerability to drought – both in t ...
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Highland aquatic resources conservation and sustainable development (HighARCS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Project partner will complete a detailed multidisciplinary situation analysis of highland aquatic resources, focused on values, livelihoods, conservation issues and wise-use options at five sites in Asia (Guangdong, China; Uttrakhand and West Bengal, India and northern and central Vietnam). Factors assessed will include biodiversity and ecosystem services, including provisioning, regulating, suppo ...
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Baltic Sea cooperation for reducing ship and port emissions through knowledge and innovation-based competitiveness (BSR InnoShip)

Start date: Jun 9, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

Maritime transport constitutes a vitally important part of trade and services for the countries around the Baltic Sea and Europe. Baltic shipping is constantly growing and some of the busiest shipping routes in the world go through the Baltic Sea. Consequently, the sensitive environment of the Baltic Sea is threatened by increasing pollution from the shipping industry. Through international agreem ...
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Chemical Munitions Search & Assessment (CHEMSEA)

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

...w.chemsea.pl websites. Finally, CHEMSEA produced also a policy paper to better transport its recommendations to HELCOM and national ministries.Agreement on the foundation of the International Center of Excellence for Dumped Chemical Munitions (CoE-DCM) was developed and signed by all PPs, thus committing themselves to long-term cooperation within the results and investments obtained during CHEMSEA ...
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Geographic Specificities and Development Potentials in Europe (GEOSPECS)

Start date: Jan 31, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

The EU Cohesion Policy debate has included a focus on regions with specific territorial features. The Treaty of Lisbon (2007), being in the process of ratification, mentions already some of these types of regions and territories. It states that “(...) among the regions concerned, particular attention shall be paid to rural areas, areas affected by industrial transition, and regions which suffer fr ...
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ENergy Efficiency and Renewables ? SUPporting Policies in Local level for EnergY (ENER - SUPPLY)

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

In South East Europe the introduction of innovative processes characterized by the transfer, experimentation and consolidation of know-how related to the use and production of energy following a good planning and employing the appropriate management methods is a way to improve the energy balance. The aim of the ENER-SUPPLY project is to assist the local territories towards this direction through t ...
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Climate Change: Impacts, Costs and Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region (BaltCICA)

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

Climate change was recognized not only in terms of mitigation but also because of the need of adaptation as a major challenge that cannot be solved solely by single actors and territorial restricted actions, but asks for a coordination and support at a higher level. This is highlighted by the EU Green Paper on Adaptation to Climate Change, but also by other documents such as the EC Thematic Strate ...
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Capacity Building for Creating Sustainable Communities in Israel according to Local Agenda 21 principles (CBCSCIL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2006, End date: Dec 31, 2008,

...ural resources and lack of urban planning necessitates the implementation of sustainable development planning at municipal level. In co-operation with the Israeli Ministry of Environment, the Heschel Center has conceptualised 10 principles for municipal sustainable development, which will form a basis for the implementation of the project. Objectives ...
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GRINMED

Start date: Jun 30, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

Le projet entend à travers une analyse de la problématique nitrates en agriculture, et suite à une comparaison entre les différentes approches méthodologiques mises en œuvre selon les espaces, définir les territoires vulnérables à ce risque et développer à partir d’études des actions qui permettent de promouvoir les adaptations nécessaires auprès des agriculteurs et des techniciens agricoles. ...
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Advanced techniques for SEismic RISK reduction in Mediterranean Archipelago Regions (SE RISK)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: May 29, 2008,

In the last years there has been a growing concern in the scientific community working on seismic hazard regarding the need for widening the scope of hazard studies, in order to achieve a better understanding not only of the physical direct damage due to earthquakes, but also of the comprehensive response of a geosystem at different scales. Another important issue should be to improve the communic ...
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Regional Cooperation in Waste Management (RECO)

Start date: Jan 12, 2005, End date: Jan 11, 2008,

RECO is a waste management and spatial planning project in cooperation between partners from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Its Central Objective is to support the development of efficient Institutions for management of municipal waste in the BSR in order to minimize negative environmental effects, lower life cycle costs for waste managem ...
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Baltic SeaBreeze (BSB)

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

The goal for the Baltic SeaBreeze (BSB) project was to increase awareness of the marine pollution situation in the target sectors of fishing, shipping, and leisure craft owners. Focus areas have been environmental issues in guest harbours and marinas, Blue Flag activities, courses for fishermen and seamen, and a media campaign. The ultimate goal of Baltic SeaBreeze was to change the attitudes and ...
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European Space - Territorial Indicators and Actions for a Spatial Planning Observatory in Southeast Europe (ESTIA-SPOSE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

ESTIA-SPOSE builds upon the experience accumulated by its predecessor ESTIA project and intends to develop Actions for a Spatial Planning Observatory in Southeast Europe, based on an integrated system of territorial indicators fully compatible with the approach of ESDP and ESPON. This system of indicators will be tested in a series of pilot applications in selected sectors and areas with the aim t ...
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Innovation and Ecodesign in the Ceramic Industry

Ecodesign is a well established concept amongst environmental specialists in Europe, but there is a lack of know how to support the systematic integration of environmental considerations in the design of ceramic products. Despite its economic importance, the ceramic industry is suffering the effects of the slowing down of the European economy and it reports the effects of the competition of produc ...
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EDUCATIONAL KIT FOR YOUNG FARMERS IN CANDIDATE COUNTRIES

Ensuring competitive candidates : An educational kit in electronic and printed format has been developed and is aimed at young farmers in accession countries to bring them up to speed with EU agricultural policy in a variety of different areas. It will also enable them adapt to changing conditions in the agricultural sector. This project started in 2003 and lasted 26 months.
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Sustainable Cities - Promoting Urban Sustainable Development in Local Authorities

In the 6th Environmental Action Programme (2002-2006), a Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment was defined as a priority action. The strategy aims at improving the quality of the urban environment. The proposed project aims at promoting the concept and practice of urban sustainable development through training on basic environmental issues, thus encouraging the local authorities (in particula ...
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Crossing Borders Euromed Youth Climate Ambassors' Training Course

Start date: Jun 1, 2009,

The training course is focussing on green growth as an overall theme with housing, transportation, energy and food production as specific themes towards mitigating the threats of negative climage change and global warming. The action is planned to take place as part of the Com2gether project in connection with COP 15 Climage Summit in Denmark 2009. The objectives of the project is to capacitate a ...
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Lessons from Nature: innovation towards teaching and learning for a green economy and society

Start date: Dec 1, 2010,

We live in an unsustainable world. Pressure on natural resources to drive the European economy is increasing year on year. We cannot continue to meet the needs and aspirations of Europe without significant changes to the way we live and consume. There is a need to promote learning that will change the way we design our economies, businesses and products. LfN (Lessons from nature) takes a unique ap ...
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Leaders not followers

Start date: Feb 15, 2013,

Training course "Leaders not followers" will take place in Bitola, Macedonia and it will last for 7 working days during March 2013. Training will gather 46 participants, from 19 partner organizations from 12 countries, young people that are youth workers or volunteer coordinators involved in various forms of voluntary work and leadership.The main theme of this training course is young people’s com ...
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