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Urban metabolism accounts for building Waste management Innovative Networks and Strategies (Urban_Wins)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

The scope of the project is to develop and test methods for designing and implementing innovative and sustainable Strategic Plans for Waste Prevention and Management in various urban contexts that will enhance urban environmental resilience and guarantee progress towards more sustainable production and consumption patterns together with improvements waste recovery and recovered materials use. Ur ...
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Towards We-Government: Collective and participative approaches for addressing local policy challenges (WeGovNow)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

WeGovNow will tap into emerging technologies for effectively supporting coproduction by civic society stakeholders and collective proposition development, whereby citizens are partners as opposed to customers in the delivery of public services. By integrating a set of innovative technologies within a unified citizen engagement platform, the project will overcome the current limitations of existing ...
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Semi-natural dry-grassland conservation and restoration in Valle Susa through grazing management (LIFE Xero-grazing)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Background The Natura 2000 site, “Oasi xerotermiche della Val di Susa - Orrido di Chianocco e Foresto”, is important for its “seminatural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (important orchid sites)” habitat, which is listed as a conservation priority in Annex I of the Habitats Directive. The site is e ...
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New cooperative business models and guidance for sustainable city logistics (NOVELOG)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

Urban areas represent the greatest challenges for freight transport and service trips, both in terms of goods distribution and service allocation performance, and environmental impacts (air emission, traffic congestion, road safety, accidents and noise). The salient scope of the proposal is the enabling of knowledge and understanding of freight distribution and service trips by providing guidance ...
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Monitoring air pollution effects on children for supporting Public Health Policy (MAPEC_LIFE)

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

Background Several epidemiological studies have demonstrated the association between exposure to air pollution and mortality and morbidity in humans. In 2005, an estimated 5 million years of life were lost due to fine particle pollution in 32 European countries (European Environment Agency Technical report no. 12/2011, Air quality in Europe). Urban pollut ...
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FOREST4LIFE 2014

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The FOREST4LIFE project is promoted by the Vocational Secondary School ‘Services sector for agriculture, rural development and forestry’, of Ormea (Cuneo), on behalf of the other three partner Schools that form the Italian Schools of Forestry Board, situated in as many Alps and Appennine Mountains areas. These four Secondary Schools train technicians with a professional competence in the forest se ...
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TER.ME 2014 - Territorio e mercati, le nuove competenze

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The TER.ME Project wants to renew the proposal of 5 weeks mobility abroad in response to the needs of the sending high schools net, territorially expressive of the various souls of Alessandra Province. The beneficiary schools are wondering about how to better prepare their students so that they will be able to read the surrounding reality, recognise and propose innovative ideas as part of an integ ...
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OPTIMising the energy USe in cities with smart decision support system (OPTIMUS) (OPTIMUS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Cities are expected to play a key role in the implementation of Europe 2020 strategy. The city authorities need to lead relevant actions towards energy-efficient neighborhoods. Engaging city authorities in this respect is of paramount importance.Although there are plenty of energy and other related data sets available in city level, their appropriate integration for local authorities' decision sup ...
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CLoud approach for Innovation in Public Services (CLIPS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

The CLIPS project aims at introducing a new approach to deliver innovative public services, through the cloud-computing approach involving the community in the process (PPPP public-private-people-partnership). The main idea of CLIPS is to provide to the community a methodology and a toolkit which allow civil servants and other external stakeholders (both citizens and businesses) to co-operate in ...
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Smart and Sustainable Insular Electricity Grids Under Large-Scale Renewable Integration (SINGULAR)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

A large share of the recent renewable energy sources (RES) installed capacity has already taken place in insular electricity grids, since these regions are preferable due to their high RES potential. However, the increasing share of RES in the generation mix of insular power systems presents a big challenge in the efficient management of the insular distribution networks, mainly due to the limited ...
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Openly Accessible Services and Interacting Society (OASIS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

In many regions of Europe, citizens and businesses are faced with the difficulty or impossibility of finding information and services provided by local public authorities on the internet. Any such information currently available is often segmented and isolated in a non-user friendly manner. The current project will facilitate access to information, public services and economic promotion by groupin ...
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Improvement of comprehensive bio-waste transformation and nutrient recovery treatment processes for production of combined natural products (REFERTIL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The objective driven goal of this SME targeted project is to improve the currently used compost and biochar treatment systems, towards advanced, efficient and comprehensive bio-waste treatment and nutrient recovery process with zero emission performance. The improved output products are safe, economical, ecological and standardized compost and bio-char combined natural fertilizers and soil amendme ...
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Design, Monitoring and Operation of Adaptive Networked Embedded Systems (DEMANES)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Large scale societal challenges require large scale monitoring and control solutions. Technological developments will make it possible to design and build these large systems. A major obstacle in realizing these systems is the lack of a versatile methodology to design and implement adaptive monitoring and control systems taking into account intrinsic properties of system of systems (decentralizati ...
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Valorizzazione dell'architettura tradizionale, tutela del paesaggio antropizzato e del costruito

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

The joint action that the partners want to promote is part of the local development policy that local administrations of the V.C.O and Locarno areas are carrying out for the management of the historical constructions that are now an important part of the alpine landscape. This landscape is the outcome of an ecosystem where nature and culture have found an optimum equilibrium to fulfill both human ...
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Local Authorities Improving Kyoto Actions (LAIKA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Background For Italy, the Kyoto protocol target for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction is established at 6.5% below 1990 levels. From 2008 to 2012, the amount of Italian GHG emissions is not to exceed 485.7 million tonnes CO2eq, which equates to a reduction of 95 million tonnes CO2eq/yr. National estimates indicate that roughly 30 million tonnes wil ...
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Trasporti Integrati Alpini / Transports Intégrés Alpins (TRIA)

Start date: Aug 10, 2011, End date: Jul 10, 2013,

Le projet TRIA (TRansport Integrés Alpins) vise à améliorer progressivement letransport public dans les zones transfrontalières entre les régions historiques alpinesde la Savoie et du Delfinato, d'abord grâce à une meilleure coordination des serviceset un renforcement de l'information, et, dans l'avenir, par le développement d'unréseau de transport ferroviaire et de bus intégré
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I2C

Start date: Mar 31, 2006, End date: Mar 30, 2008,

Le projet Innovation, compétitivité et connectivité (I2C) des métropoles méditerranéennes vise à développer, sur des projets concrets, les conditions dune meilleure intégration des systèmes économiques des grandes métropoles du sud de lEurope. Cet objectif se décline, dans le projet, sur deux axes prioritaires sur lesquels les métropoles partenaires ont décidé de coopérer. Dune part, la mise en re ...
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Playground harbour and research of sustainability (P.H.A.R.O.S.)

Start date: Dec 1, 2004, End date: Dec 1, 2006,

Background Increasingly, new tourist harbours and golf courses are being developed throughout north-western Mediterranean coastal zones (France, Spain, Portugal and Italy). Although they attract many tourists and are a financial boon for the region, they also have a considerably negative impact on the environment, particularly in a territory as ecological ...
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REVER MED: Telematic Instruments for innovating services of mobility and logistics for urban and périurbains spaces (REVER MED)

Start date: Oct 29, 2002, End date: Oct 29, 2004,

« REVER MED » sintéresse aux voies de communication au sein des espaces urbains et périurbains. Il a pour objectif principal de mettre en place un réseau de voies de communication autonomes destiné au transport non motorisé (donc non-polluant et respectueux de lenvironnement). Ce réseau devrait ainsi être constitué principalement de voies vertes, de voies faisant partie du patrimoine culturel natu ...
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Latinity in Europe

Start date: Jul 2, 2011,

"Latinity in Europe" - c'est un projet multicultural, entre Roumanie, Espagne, Italie, France, Malte, Serbia, Portugal et Moldavie, et a comme thème: le developpement du niveau de l'information sur l'histoire, la culture, les traditions et les coutumes des jeunes qui provient des pays avec des origines communes latines en utilisant comme instrument non-formal les rencontres culturelles et de socia ...
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Kingsriver Community

Start date: Jun 1, 2012,

Kingsriver Community is a home and a place of life long learning for people with fewer opportunities due to intellectual, physical, social, and/or emotional challenges. Many participants are also economically disadvantaged. It is based in Stoneyford in County Kilkenny and is active since 1987 and a participant in long term EVS projects as a hosting organisation since 1997. Most of the time 4 ...
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Tour des Savoirs et des Saveurs de la Montagne

Construire et rendre opérationnelles des méthodes et des pratiques de coopération transfrontalère visant à élaborer et développer d'une facon intégrée et participée le domaine du tourisme culturel et la promotion des savoirs et des saveurs des territoires concernés. Achievements: ...
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La Mémoire des Alpes

Valoriser et sauvegarde du patrimoine artistique et culturel. Renforcer l'identité culturelle et l'habitat traditionnel (espace rural, montagne et lac). Interpréter l'héritage culturel au moyen de la valorisation de la mémoire historique. Offrir sur le marché du tourisme culturel de nouveaux produits intégrés. ...
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Développement transfrontalier de l'offre de tourisme rural familial et pédagogique

Qualifier et promouvoir l'accueil transfrontalier du tourisme rural et pédagogique, en valorisant l'agriculture, la culture locale, l'artisanat, le paysage et l'environnement. Achievements: Création d'un réseau d'acteurs locauxCréation de produits touristiquesElaboratio ...
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Utilizzo degli archivi catastali per la gestione degli eco-sistemi e lo svilu (ATASTI E TERRITORI)

Le projet se propose de systématiser et de promouvoir l'utilisation des archives cadastrales pour la gestion des écosystemes et le développement durable des territoires transfrontaliers. Achievements: Etudes d'applicationRecherche scientifiqueGuide pratique d'interpréta ...
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Youth Participation as a tool for youth employment

Start date: May 1, 2011,

A Training Course "Youth Participation as a tool for youth employment" for youth workers to promote active youth participation in local social development in the time of social and economic crisis in Europe today. Aiming at stregnthening and improving the responsibility of young people in Europe today towards their local communities and their social and civic development as an answer to the curren ...
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XSTRIM - Let's share 10 years of EVS experience

Start date: Jul 1, 2011,

During the evaluation meeting „XSTRIM – Let’s share 10 years of EVS experience‴ participants will make the summary of 10 years of work in European Voluntary Service field of Youth Development and Integration Association STRIM and partners. For the project representatives of 18 organizations from 10 different countries are invited. We will have guests from Spain, Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic, Cyp ...
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RING - TransferRING Supports for Caregivers

Ring started from results obtained in 2 previous projects coordinated by Turin (E1 measure-POR-ESF "VELA Project-Enhance the work experience of family carers";LdV-Mobility-Vetpro"LAPIS:formative tracks for the promotion of Healthy Ageing". Then in the needs and feasibility analysis shared by a wide national and European partnership has been confirmed the need to improve and implement the training ...
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Museums as Places for Intercultural Dialogue

The project aims at fully developing the potential of museums as places of interculturaldialogue and at promoting a more active engagement with the communities they serve.“Culture” is a complex concept, generally referring to patterns of human activity and tothe symbolic structures that give such activity significance, as such including systems ofbelief, religion, rituals, norms of behaviour, as w ...
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e-DISTRICT CiPro – European Distance Interactive Training and Collaborative Tools for Civil Protection

The e-DISTRICT CiPro project aims at developing a prototype European ODL system (Learning Management System – LMS) focussing upon skills development specific to the management of emergency situations (i.e. medical emergencies, emergencies relating to civil protection and the management of large sporting events). Key project results will comprise a Virtual Reality (VR) environment integrated into a ...
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URBAX2 - Town planning in Europe

The URBAX2 project, which follows on from a project carried out in the first phase of the Leonardo Da Vinci programme (URBAX) plans to adapt and re-apply the results of the previous project with the participation of the candidate countries.Since the educational objective is to understand urban planning in a market-economy / private-property context, the network will look at the situation in the va ...
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L'Ecole est notre Patrimoine

L'Ecole est notre Patrimoine se propose d’identifier des parcours pédagogiques pluriels mais communs, pour et entre Lyon et Torino, où la fonction du patrimoine culturel, technique, scientifique et naturel de proximité, par le biais de sa mise en valeur à l’intérieur des écoles et grâce à l’action des écoles, des institutions et des agences locales, en utilisant le concept de musée diffus, assume ...
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Museums as Places for Intercultural Dialogue

Start date: Dec 1, 2007,

Recognising the potential of museums as places for intercultural dialogue, partners from 6 countries worked together to map existing practice, to experiment (pilot) and to actively promote the project findings within the museum and cultural heritage sector. Centred round the implementation of 30 pilot educational activities, involving often very different museums and organisations and addressing a ...
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2nd International Youth Meeting: European Citizen - Where are you?

Start date: Apr 1, 2011,

The "2nd International Youth Meeting: European Citizen - Where are you?" will bring together young people and people active in youth work from more than 20 different European countries (EU programme countries and neighbouring partner countries from SEE) in order to offer them a platform to discuss basic issues concerning participation and European citizenship, share experiences and additionally le ...
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EVS Empower Braga EYC 2012

Start date: Aug 1, 2012,

The Foundation Bracara Augusta aims to enhance the European Volunteer Service in the context of "Braga 2012 - European Capital of Youth."This EVS Group project will take over strategic issues from the European Youth Capital cities as Braga EYC 2012 aims to cooperate and network with other Youth Capital cities as sending's and hosting organization. The main strategy will be the inclusion, participa ...
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