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Towards integrated management of freshwater Nature 2000 sites and habitats (FRESHABIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2022,

Background Freshwater habitats are among the most threatened habitat types globally. In the 2007-2012 conservation status assessment of the EU Habitats Directive (Article 17), none of the freshwater, coastal, and groundwater dependent wetland habitats in Europe fully met favourable conservation status, and most are in unfavourable conservation status. Alm ...
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Bright Future for Black Vulture in Bulgaria (Vultures back to LIFE)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Jul 15, 2022,

...ckground The most serious problem for vultures in Bulgaria today is the critically low number of populations and their isolation. In spite of two decades of conservation efforts, the WWF Greece Dadia project showed that the number of breeding pairs is not increasing and remains around 20 pairs. Another threat is unsuitable livestock breeding practices res ...
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Restoration of connections between the Alpine and Pyrenean populations of bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) (LIFE GYPCONNECT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

Background The conservation status of the bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is listed as vulnerable on the European IUCN Red List and endangered in France. Before vulture reintroductions started, the Alps represented a huge barrier separating the Pyreneo-Iberian populations and those of the Balkans. To bridge the distance between the populations of the ...
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Conservation of Black and Griffon vultures in the cross-border Rhodopes mountains (LIFE RE-Vultures)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

Background European black vultures (Aegypius monachus)and griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) are considered as umbrella species whose conservation will also substantially benefit other raptor species sharing the main diet of carrion as well as breeding and foraging habitats. These species are also an indicator of healthy, intact, natural habitats. The conserv ...
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Egyptian Vulture and Bonelli’s Eagle Conservation in Douro/Duero Canyon (LIFE Rupis)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Jul 15, 2019,

...dult mortality for both species; Improve the habitat quality through better management of farming and grazing practices; and Better knowledge and dissemination of best practices for wildlife conservation. Expected results: Improvement of breeding productivity of Egyptian vulture and Bonelli’s eagle, compared with baseline (2006-2013) data; Increased red partridge and European rabbit abundan ...
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Reduction of the human threats affecting the Bearded Vulture (LIFE GypHelp)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Background The bearded vulture is one of the most threatened species in Europe and is, as such, rated “critically endangered” by the IUCN. Reintroduced into the Alps in 1986, the species suffers from population fragmentation and resulting genetic isolation. In 2011, only 50 breeding pairs were left in France and 175 in Europe. Thanks to recent reintro ...
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Alpine Ecosystem Services – mapping, maintenance and management (AlpES)

Start date: Dec 16, 2015, End date: Dec 15, 2018,

Description (EN): Ecosystems and their services go beyond national borders and need a transnational approach for their dynamic protection, sustainable use, management and risk prevention. As a basis for joint action, public authorities, policy makers, NGOs, researchers and economic actors – the AlpES target groups – need a common understanding of ecosystem services, comparable infor ...
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Coordinated Efforts for International Species Recovery (EuroSAP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Background Species action plans (SAPs) for non-huntable bird species and management plans (MPs) for huntable bird species have expired, while new conservation strategies need to be developed for some species that are showing sharp population declines. Furthermore, a new conservation approach that identifies and addresses groups of bird species sharing sim ...
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Restoring the hydrological regime of the Kemeri National Park (HYDROPLAN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

...oration programme for priority areas within the national park, serving as an example for hydrological modelling in the region; Implementation of hydrology restoration measures to improve the conservation status of bog woodland and swamp forest habitats, raised bog habitats and riparian meadow habitats; Adaptation of airborne remote sensing data interpretation methods for hydrological modelling, ...
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To promote and enable the long term conservation of High Nature Value Farmlands in Cyprus (AgroLIFE)

Start date: Jun 2, 2014, End date: Jun 1, 2017,

Background The growing recognition that the conservation of biodiversity in Europe depends on the continuation of low-intensity farming systems resulted in the concept of high nature value farming (HNVF). In the Mediterranean in particular, HNVF includes some of the most traditional agricultural crops such as cork oaks, olives, carob and vineyards. In Cyp ...
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Student Compentence Assignment Learning Abroad X

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

Context/background of our project: The flows are based on several years of experience with the SCALA I - IX programs. This is SCALA X and based on the former mobility programs and the extended Certificate of Mobility NL/09/LLP-LdV/MC/Z003, we have based the calculation of the budget on former years of experience of sending out students and teachers. We train all students in groups on all locations ...
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MIGRANT'ART

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Duration : From the 20th of the 27th of November 2016Location : BEC ROND / EEDF Centre Forestier du Bec Rond / 38 bis rue de Normandie / 35235 THORIGNE-FOUILLARD, an accomodation center for scouts, in the forest next to Rennes. http://bec-rond.ecles.fr/European partners: CCIVS, Javaa, Elix, Viaje a la sostenibilidad, The Starry Start of Talents FoudationLocal partners: l'Age de la Tortue, Langoph ...
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Get up! Support civil courage campaigns

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Get up! A training course on Civil courage campaigns– Vienna, Austria, 5.-11.6.2016 (incl. Travel days)Countries involved: Austria, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine, France, Italy, Finland, Poland, Turkey, UK, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic and EstoniaIn 2015 Grenzenlos was running 2 civil courage trainings targeting EVS mentors and people involved in youth projects. (I can do it! ...
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TechSchools@Europa

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The TECHSCHOOLS @ EUROPE is presented in a CONSORTIUM OF 4 SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY (ET) based in mainland Portugal: AFTEBI (Covilhã), ESTER (Borba), FORESP (Vale de Cambra) and NOVOTECNA (Coimbra), who assumes the coordination of this 1st edition. EUROYOUTH is also part of the Consortiumto facilitate the administration, logistics and management of the mobilities. The schools develop a quality trainin ...
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Social diplomacy - the field where YOUth has real power

Start date: Feb 5, 2015, End date: Aug 5, 2016,

The project is created like a result of fruitful cooperation and common activities between Italian organization Y.E.A.S.T. (Youth Europe Around Sustainability) and Russian organization SFERA. The main aim of the project is raise awareness about social diplomacy approach in the youth work and peace building process. The training-seminar will gather youth workers from 10 countries who are intere ...
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Promoting a Sustainable Herbal Harvest in Bulgaria (SusHerb) (SusHerb LIFE 2012)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

...trainers of collectors to increase their knowledge and improve their MAP sustainable use skills. It is expected that this training will lead to improvements in the management and conservation status of the targeted species in the long term. In addition, SUSHERB developed training materials to be used to improve the sector. As a result of the project, over 50 buyers and processing facilities manag ...
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Equipe de Volontaires pour le patrimoine et l'environnement

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...luntary service, involving French and European volunteers, young persons from local communities, inhabitants and local actors. This group of persons will work together in order to highlight heritage conservation in Brittany. Using building and natural heritage conservation as an educational support, we hope the participants will get interested by local communities and will be able to interact wit ...
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Development of Landscape Character Assessment as a tool for effective conservation of natural heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean (MEDSCAPES)

Start date: Dec 30, 2013, End date: Dec 29, 2015,

Project in brief The integrity of Mediterranean landscapes is currently threatened by a series of common problems: pollution, overgrazing, tourism development and urbanisation. Besides lack of public awareness, political commitment or intersectoral cooperation, the protection of natural heritage is hindered by the fragmentation of actions and approaches implemented so far in the Mediterranean regi ...
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Improvement of Mediterranean territorial cohesion through setup of tourist-cultural itinerary - Umayyad (UMAYYAD)

Start date: Dec 21, 2012, End date: Dec 20, 2015,

The project in brief At Mediterranean level, tourism has often led many countries and regions to develop the industry in a competitive way rather than in a cooperative manner. For obvious climatic reasons but also due the role played by tour operators, Mediterranean tourism destinations have based their growth essentially on a sun and sea vision and developed strategies aimed at maximizing short t ...
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The Green MED Initiative (GMI)

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

The project in briefThe approach to waste management as well as the common values of the European Union and the Mediterranean Partner Countries are based on three principles: waste prevention, recycling and re-use, improvement of final disposal and waste monitoring. The success of the strategy is highly dependent on the effective implementation of unified actions at Mediterranean level creating op ...
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Restoration and conservation of the Pannonic salt steppes of Pásztó grassland with sustainable management (Pásztó habitat restoration)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

...nd has been identified as an SAC. Unfortunately, however, its protection has been undermined due to budgetary constraints at two NGOs (HOTEK and NIMFEA), which lack the resources for extensive nature conservation programmes. Activities focused on grazing, mowing, repatriation of the European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus), installation of nest boxes etc. ...
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I can do it! Support Civil courage within the EVS

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Grenzenlos – Interkultureller Austausch hosted the training course “Training for Camp Leaders – International Camps from Grenzenlos 2015” (KA1 I can do it! Support Civil courage within the EVS, project number: 15-K16-011) which took place in Vienna, Austria from May 3rd to May 9th, 2015. The main objectives of the project were: • To promote and teach civil courage within EVS projects • To share me ...
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Daguerreobase

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

The daguerreotype was the first successful photographic process in the history of photography and can be seen as the'Incunabula of Photography'. On January 7, 1839, the daguerreotype was presented at the Académie des Sciences inParis. The daguerreotype is named after its inventor Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, was widely used in Europe and represents the first photographic images of Europe and its ...
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Network for the Conservation of Cetaceans and Sea Turtles in the Adriatic (NETCET)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2015,

The main objective of the NETCET project is to develop common strategies for the conservation of cetaceans and sea turtles (C&ST) in the Adriatic through regional cooperation. Due to the migratory nature of these species cross-border collaboration and shared management responsibility between Adriatic states is crucial in order to plan effective long-term conservation strategies. The Adriatic sea h ...
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An awareness-raising campaign in Cyprus for appreciating biodiversity in our life (BIOforLIFE)

Start date: Sep 3, 2012, End date: Sep 15, 2015,

...e, events, training courses, seminars and networking activities. The project partners, Dias Publishing House (co-ordinating beneficiary), the Department of Environment, Terra Cypria (the Cyprus Conservation Foundation) and GrantXpert Consultants, implemented such an approach for the first time in Cyprus. It benefitted greatly from bringing together a media conglomerate, an NGO and the relevant gov ...
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EXtension of POtentiality of Adriatic Unesco Sites (EX.PO AUS)

Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Aug 30, 2015,

... needs of development of the present generations (new residential, commercial and productive zoning; new infrastructures of transportation and energy, etc.). At the same time, preservation, conservation & exploitation have a cost, which the public institutions, alone, are not able to cover, without the involvement of private bodies or international donors. Finally: a UNESCO site is potentially ver ...
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Strategic approach to quality inclusion and intercultural dialogue youth work

Start date: Jun 25, 2014, End date: Jan 25, 2015,

In whole Europe and all countries involved in this project there are serious issues with intercultural dialogue and acceptance of diversity due to not only conflict/wars migrations, but also due to economic migrations towards the EU. We have noticed a lack of young qualified and willing leaders of projects for better intercultural acceptance and inclusion in our multiethnic communities. This proje ...
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licy and Public-Private Partnerships for Offshore Wind EneRgy (4 POWER)

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

OSW: HUGE POTENTIAL, INVOLVEMENT OF REGIONS CRUCIAL BUT PATCHY4POWER (Policy and Public Private Partnerships for Offshore Wind EneRgy) focuses on the role of regions in relation to Offshore wind energy (OSW). OSW has an enormous potential as a renewable energy source: EEA has calculated that it is economically feasible to generate over 60 to 70% of EU’s total energy demand by OSW in 2020. Regions ...
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moting nature education as efficient mean of awareness raising (People with nature)

Start date: Mar 31, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The main objective of the project is to unite ideas, capacity and tools for improvement of nature education situation and so awareness of the society on sustainable development and integrated nature conservation in the project region of territories of Estonia, Latvia and Russia. During the project it is foreseen to create cooperation network between public and non-governmental organisations in Est ...
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Cities on Power (CoP)

Start date: Jun 30, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

The challenge of the global climate change and the pressure on resources stemming from the global competition combined with the high dependency of the energy import of the European Union requires concerted strategies and innovative adaptation approaches. The EU directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (RES) from 23rd April 2010 imposes on the EU Member States the obli ...
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Restoration of sodic lake sub-type of the Pannonic salt steppe and marsh habitat in the Hortobágy (HORTOBAGY SODIC LAKES)

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

... soda lakes was gained in the Hortobágy area during a previous LIFE project (LIFENAT2002/H/008638). This knowledge could be applied on a site-specific basis in areas that are rich in nature conservation value but vulnerable to a range of threats. Such sites include Nagy-szik and Magdolna-puszta. Objectives The primary o ...
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Climate Change, Cultural Heritage & Energy Efficient Monuments (Co2olBricks)

Start date: Sep 16, 2010, End date: Dec 15, 2013,

The conservation of heritage, in particular historical buildings, is a common goal in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). Due to the common identity in the BSR it is very important to protect the historical buildings in order to preserve the individual characteristics and therewith the attractiveness and competitiveness of the cities around the Baltic Sea. Besides this the international and the EU CO2-re ...
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Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas Network - North (MEDPAN NORTH)

Start date: Jun 30, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

MedPAN is the network of marine protected areas (MPAs) managers in the Mediterranean. The objective of the MedPAN North project is to improve the management effectiveness of MPAs, including marine Natura 2000 sites, to benefit the marine environment. It will be reached through activities in 5 components: Innovative aspects of MPA management Sustainable management of fisheries in MPAs Sustainable ...
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Establish the conditions of the border crossing international Naturpark of the Szatmar-Bereg. (HUSKROUA/0901/133)

Start date: Jan 9, 2011, End date: Jan 8, 2013,

Overal objective:Establishing a multi border-crossing Hungarian-Romanian-Ukrainian Naturpark.Specific objective: On the sample of the Hungarian Naturpark of the Szatmár-Bereg, we would like to start the establishing an Ukrainian and a Romanian Naturpark over the borders, which will create the base of a common, international NaturparkMain activities:1. Hungary :Opertation and development of the Nat ...
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Natureship (Integrated planning and management in the Baltic Sea Region) (NATURESHIP )

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

...can be applied in General Planning. Practical land use recommendations can be implemented by Agri-Environment Programmes of each country concerned. The project creates cooperation between e.g. nature conservation and city green sector and gives recommendation for both novel coastal planning and city green planning. Project shall also aim that the concept shall be widely understood and accepted i ...
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Demonstration of Conservation Actions for Ursus artcos* and habitat type 9530* in Northern Pindos N.P., Grevena Prefecture, Greece (PINDOS/GREVENA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

... PINDOS/GREVENA project aimed to improve 60 ha of priority black pine (Pinus nigra) forest habitat in Pindos National Park, through sustainable and innovative management practices, and to improve the conservation status of brown bear in this habitat. Specific objectives included maintaining human-related bear mortality at a sustainable level (not exceeding 4% of the minimum estimated population) a ...
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Transnational Ecological Networks in Central Europe (TransEcoNet)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

Protected areas, like national parks, nature parks or biosphere reserves, are often isolated islands for the protection of the worlds biodiversity. They are separated by less or unprotected landscapes, traffic corridors or settlements. Often animal and plant species dispose of less space for migration, dispersion and reproduction than necessary. To preserve natural and cultural heritage in the lon ...
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Sustainable Production through Innovation in Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SPIN)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

Innovation is widely understood as the driving force for an economic growth. It is new products and services, and new technologies of producing, packaging or delivering them which add value to economy, and enable us to improve our standard of living. Innovations in sustainable production can make especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) more competitive, profitable and environmentally friend ...
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Elaborating joint tools for environmental education as efficient mean of management of protected areas (Back to Nature)

Start date: Jun 15, 2009, End date: Feb 27, 2011,

Within this project, five institutions dealing with nature conservation carried out numerous creative activities to educate students and raise public awareness on environmental issues, focusing specifically on the bogs and wetlands of our region. Achievements: Project a ...
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Conservation of Falco cherrug in the Carpathian basin (Falco cherrug-Hu/SK)

Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

... very rare and threatened species in Europe. The total European breeding population was, until recently, estimated at 450 pairs. Hungary and Slovakia hold about 40% of this population. Therefore, the conservation of the population in the Carpathian basin in these two countries was crucial to the survival of the species in Europe. Although populations increased in these two countries between 1990 a ...
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