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FROM MARGINAL TO RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES SITES Recovering marginal territories, making them regain their lost value by pursuing sustainable development programs (M2RES)

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

The EU territory has an enormous under-valorised natural asset: marginal terrains (exhausted landfills, mines & quarries, brownfields & contaminated terrains, former military sites, etc). The project aims at re-qualifying marginal areas through investments programmes that focus on the installation of RES (PV, Wind, Biomass, geothermal, biogas, etc) that will contribute to a significant amount of r ...
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Regional ICT Foresight exercise for Southeast European countries (FORSEE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

The FORSEE project targets ICT RTD policy reform in the South-eastern Europe (SEE) region, proposing a focused effort on introducing a Foresight culture in the region, which is necessary in order to accelerate target countries' socioeconomic growth on their way to matching the challenges of the global networked economy and participating on equal footing in the European Research Area. The project w ...
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Urban Soil Management Strategy (URBAN-SMS)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Mar 30, 2013,

Central Europe is characterised by a relatively high population density. In some of the countries a quarter of the total national population lives in the capital agglomeration, in the other countries urban networks of larger towns exist. These urban areas have a high economic potential, but they are facing a concentration of environmental, social and economic problems often triggered by increasing ...
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Actinide reCycling by SEParation and Transmutation (ACSEPT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"Actinide recycling by separation and transmutation is considered worldwide and particularly in several European countries as one of the most promising strategies to reduce the inventory of radioactive waste, thus contributing to make nuclear energy sustainable. Consistently with potentially viable recycling strategies, the Collaborative Project ACSEPT will provide a structured R&D framework to de ...
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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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Eradication of Ruddy ducks in the UK to protect the white-headed duck (ERDUK)

Start date: Sep 1, 2005, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

... breeding population is in Spain, where it is strictly protected (over 82% are on Natura 2000 sites); there is also a wintering population in Greece, Romania and Bulgaria, which breeds in western and central Asia. The greatest threat to their survival is now the risk of interbreeding with the ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis), an American species, introduced to the UK in the 1940s. The UK is current ...
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Reduction of pest control impact of horticulture on ground and surface water through a system of constant crop monitoring, early diagnoses, prevention and early treatment (CEPE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2005, End date: Dec 31, 2007,

Background The use of pesticides in horticulture is widespread. Many of these chemicals end up in ground and surface water. In order to use pesticides in an optimal way it is necessary to know when and in what quantity these have to be applied, and for how long. Currently, application decisions for soil born diseases are made by the grower based on visibl ...
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Berisp - Breaking Ecotoxicological Restraints In Spatial Planning (Berisp)

Start date: Mar 31, 2003, End date: Jun 30, 2007,

This project aims at developing new approaches to soil contamination. There are about 2,000 km2 of brownfield sites in Europe today and the NWE region, with its high population density, faces increasing demand for open natural space. Many local authorities are confronted with problems regarding site conversion and soil pollution. The transnational partnership led by the University of Antwerp, brin ...
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Mink control to protect important birds in SPAs in the Western Isles (Mink control)

Start date: Apr 1, 2001, End date: Jun 30, 2006,

Background The Western Isles of Scotland are of particularly high national and international nature conservation importance for their breeding populations of several species of wader and other water birds. Consequently, 5 SPAs covering almost 150 km² have been designated to protect the vast assemblages of breeding birds present in the islands Unfortunat ...
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