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Energy Efficiency with Performance Guarantees in Private and Public Sector (guarantEE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) is a proven model for modernizing mostly public buildings by ESCOs with guaranteed energy and cost savings. Nevertheless, a broad roll-out of EPC is being prevented mainly because of two unresolved issues: the split incentives dilemma and the lack of adequately flexible contract models.The guarantEE project will address prevailing barriers to EPC in a team of 1 ...
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Regional Policy Improvement for Financially Sustainable Creative Incubator Units (InCompass)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...local, regional, national and EU policy could have significant impact in the bid to help creative industries start-ups beat the recession, and to flourish against the odds, thereby increasing the capacity across the EU to create more spaces for experiment, innovation and entrepreneurship in the creative industries. And to enable them to continue provide a driver for sustainable growth and job crea ...
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Surpassing Energy Targets through Efficient Public Buildings (SERPENTE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...ficiency in public buildings.Through intense dissemination of project results SERPENTE has a direct impact on 10 public policies focused on energy efficiency and increases awareness and capacity among relative policy makers and end users. SERPENTE also spreads results outside the consortium. In this way, SERPENTE contributes to improved environmental conditions across the EU. ...
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DIGITAL COOPERATIVES (E-COOP)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...ff meeting, on the following themes:- Participation of all citizens and stakeholders : University of Bratislava (SK) / Mazovian Agricultural Advisory Centre (PL) / ERNACT (IR) / City of Iasi (RO) ;- Missions, budgets and training for intermediaries to public e-services :Computer Technology Institute (GR) / Cambridgeshire County Council (UK) / OTEN (FR) / Gironde County Council (FR)- Co-building e- ...
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Rail Hub Cities for South East Europe (RAIL4SEE)

Start date: Apr 30, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

The challenge that the RAIL4SEE partners share is the development of models, concepts, measures, harmonised strategies and policy actions targeted to the improvement of rail and intermodal transport in SEE. In particular partners call for complementary interventions facing the alleviation of barriers for rail hubs integration in the local, regional, transnational and TEN-T systems, transport servi ...
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Enabling Private Owners of Residential Buildings to Integrate them into Urban Restructuring Processes (EPOurban)

Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Jan 29, 2014,

The project partner cities (Praha, Leipzig, Sopot, Bolzano, Celje, Presov) face severe problems in parts of their urban areas. Economic decline, vacancies and decay lead to social tension and segregation. Consequently these areas of privately owned housing have become unattractive to real estate investors. A downwards spiral of weak financial capacities and spreading decay has lead to market failu ...
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Circular flow land use management (CIRCUSE)

Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Feb 27, 2013,

CIRCUSE partner regions are confronted to massive urban sprawl, the current economic crisis and the effects of the demographic change that cause land use patterns that are neither competitive (e. g. in attracting viable economies, efficiently providing infrastructures) nor sustainable. Dispersed land use patterns with their high demands of land, soil and energy accelerate the process of climate ch ...
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Sustainable urban and regional cooperation for a polycentric territorial development in a competitive CENTROPE region (CENTROPE CAPACITY)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

...egal barriers the mobility of labour will increase – bringing about challenges for local labour markets and social cohesion in particular in the urbanised parts of the region.Centrope Capacity seeks to overcome these divergences by using the differences at the same time and calls for a parallel evolution of transnational policy-making in several fields of action. However, the stark differences in ...
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REVITALISING AND PROMOTING TRADITIONAL MARKETS IN CENTRAL EUROPE (CENTRAL MARKETS)

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

... are nowadays experiencing a serious decline, thus threatening a tradition that stretches back to medieval times and in some cases even beyond. Markets have indeed been the backbone of many towns and city centres as well as the oldest form of commercial exchange. They still can play an important role in the regeneration of city centres and promoting 'greener' lifestyles among citizens.The basic id ...
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Green management plans for European urban and peri-urban Landscapes (EUROSCAPES)

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

...rban areas at an interregional level and in a sustainable way. In dense and contrasting urban environments, tackling the concept of landscapes and its related issues will prevent their loss of specificity and identity, and help to make best use of these areas. In urban and peri-urban areas facing demographic changes, climate change issues, increasing economic constraints, environmental challenges… ...
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European Digital Traffic Infrastructure Network for Intelligent Transport Systems (EDITS)

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

Real -time travel information improves mobility in cities and regions. Journey planners and similar systems reduce congestion and fuel costs and contribute to reducing the effect of transport on the environment. These systems, however, often end at borders and cross-border solutions do not exist even though there is high demand. Multimodal traveller information is key to enabling and keeping up s ...
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Municipal PROperty Management In South-Eastern Cities (PROMISE)

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

Municipal real estate is one of the most underutilized local resources in many cities, especially in the SEES countries. The object of the PROMISE transnational cooperation project is the development of integrative tools and methods and the implementation of a comprehensive system for the efficient municipal property management. The projects outputs and results will support cities in developing to ...
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TRansferring Actions iN Sustainable mobility For European Regions (PIMMS TRANSFER)

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

BACKGROUND Mobility Management uses soft measures (e.g. information or coordination of existing user services), which enhance the effectiveness of hard measures of traffic planning to improve sustainable mobility. It faces resistance from key decision makers and remains a minority policy field that is established in very few European regions. PIMMS (INTERREG IIIC) developed a transfer methodolog ...
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Transnational Action for Public Private Partnership (ACT4PPP)

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

Financial, structural and territorial challenges in Central Europe ask for a strengthened teamwork of public and private actors to create and maintain attractive and competitive living conditions. Due to economic and demographic changes and limits to public resources (financial, know-how) the provision of public tasks and regional/urban restructuring can no longer be provided efficiently by public ...
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Emergence of Research Driven Clusters in Central Europe (ERDC)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2010,

"The project aims to contribute to the development of research driven clusters in Europe with specific focus on convergence regions in central Europe. The objectives of the project are: a) Development of a methodology for establishment of research driven clusters in new member states in the Central European region and in other convergence regions; b) Dissemination of the developed methodology thro ...
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Common Information to European Air (CITEAIR)

Start date: Feb 29, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...from outside the cities involved in the project. The work on environmental reporting is progressing. CITEAIR has prepared drafts of separate guidebooks, one on Urban Air Quality Management and one on City Annual Air Quality Reporting.
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Transfer of Qualifications and Learning Standards in Plastic Sector Standplast VET

Plastic industry is the fastest growing industry in the whole EU. According to survey analysis, there is no National Occupations or Qualifications Framework created in SR regarding this specific plastic sector. Also, there is no suitable offer of educational activities and this non-systematic approach causes practical impact:- Inability to absorb new knowledge within this specific field from diffe ...
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Higher education Online: MOOCs the European Way

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are a new approach to lifelong learning which provides free access to selected courses and some services for very large audiences. MOOCs now are accepted as part of LLL provisions opening up HE, improving access to HE and responding to the needs and interests of people. However, it needs to be recognised that, to date, most investment in OER and in MOOCS has tak ...
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