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Recruit and Retain 2 (Making it Work)

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

Description (EN): Making it Work will move forward work developed in Recruit and Retain (R&R) (NPP 2007-13) which investigated the underlying causes of challenges in recruiting and retaining health professionals in rural areas.  An output from R&R was a Business model (R&RBM) which recommended solutions be delivered using a systems redesign approach, including seven steps designed t ...
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New Horizons 2012-2014

Start date: Jan 31, 2013, End date: Aug 30, 2015,

The project promotes intensified cultural cross-border cooperation. It has a large number of participants involved in five sub-projects:Barents Forum of Strategic Cultural Planning and Policy ImplementationYoung entrepreneurs for culture and creative sectorMuseum, cultural heritage and northern identityX-BORDER 2013Sound of Barents ...
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Local food as engine for local business (LOCFOOD)

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

The SMEs in the local food sector are often micro SMEs that have low involvement in clustering, cooperation and innovation, and they have a great potential of playing an important role in creating jobs and opportunities in rural areas. All participating regions have various degrees of policies and experiences regarding the local food sector, and will benefit from sharing knowledge and good practic ...
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Recruitment and Retention of Health Care Providers and Public Sector Workers in Remote Rural Areas (Recruit and Retain)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

Recruit and Retain is a project which sets out to find solutions to the persistent problem of difficulties in recruiting and retaining high quality people to work in the public sector in the remote rural areas of Northern Europe. The core project will address issues and solutions with respect to health care workers. The Recruit and Retain Strategic Management Group will identify areas within the c ...
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Counteracting brain drain and professional isolation of health professionals in remote primary health care through tele-consultation and tele-mentoring to strengthen social conditions in remote BSR (PrimCare IT)

Start date: Sep 28, 2011, End date: Mar 27, 2014,

As our population ages, society faces new challenges. Demand for primary health care services is rising: with the retirement of older professionals and an unwillingness amongst younger professionals to re-locate to remote areas, there is a shortage of physicians, especially in rural areas. The regions round the Baltic Sea are more or less in similar situations. Each of them already pursued separat ...
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Creative regional policies addressing economic development opportunities related to aging societies (CREATOR)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Creative regional policies addressing economic development opportunities related to ageing societies is the goal of CREATOR. We focus on maintaining/further enhancing the competitiveness of the regional economies and at ensuring the regions long-term social cohesion, mainly through exploring further the specific challenges resulting from a further aging of the regional populations and through pro- ...
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Implementing Transnational Telemedicine Solutions (ITTS)

Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

This project will implement transnational telemedicine solutions, at scale, and in a sustainable manner, into everyday practice across the Northern Periphery. It builds on completed and successful health-related NPP projects whilst also moving forward to address the challenges of delivery at scale.Strategic investment in urban-rural partnerships has the potential to transform the uptake of telemed ...
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Bothnian Green Logistic Corridor (BGLC)

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

The railway infrastructure of the Bothnian Corridor is of great importance for transnational cargo flows within EU and to the rest of the world and it is listed in the Baltic Sea Strategy action plan as an optional flagship project. The corridor is of great importance for all the states in the Baltic Sea Region and central Europe, for transports of cargo as well as for sustainable passenger transp ...
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University Collaboration in Regional Development Spaces (UNICREDS)

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

UNICREDS brings together deprived peripheral regions that view the development of decentralised, multi-university campuses in their territories as the key to their full participation in regional development through the knowledge economy. These 'collaborative universities' are seen as transformational developments; fundamentally enhancing territorial capital and potential well beyond their core edu ...
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Towards an integrated transport system in the Baltic Sea Region (TransBaltic)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Sep 8, 2012,

TransBaltic was a strategic BSR-wide project carried out by regional authorities, transport and logistics-related research institutions, transport operators, logistics associations and pan-Baltic networks. The partnership of 20 organisations was backed up by further 31 entities, including several national transport ministries around the Baltic Sea.TransBaltic addressed two issues of common concern ...
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The cooperation for safety in sparsely populated areas 2.4 (CoSafe)

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

The CoSafe project aims to increase the preparedness for major accidents and extreme situations in rural areas and to develop emergency medical care (EMC) in extreme conditions in the NPP region. Improved preparedness rescue and prehospital capacity will as well increase basic safety for the tourists as well as the inhabitants in the NPP region. This com-prises also the development of: * collabora ...
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Competitive Health Services in Sparsely Populated Areas - eHealth Applications across the Urban-Rural Dimension 1.8 (Competitive Health)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2010,

The aim of this project is to enhance the provision and accessibility of health services in the sparsely populated areas (SPAs) of Europe. We will map and identify European best practices and innovative eHealth solutions which can be transferred, further developed and integrated into a health care system elsewhere in the partner regions. There will be special focus on new eHealth service concepts ...
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Intermodality and Interoperability in the Baltic Sea Region - InterBatlic (InterBaltic)

Start date: Dec 27, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...production sites in the Norwegian region of Nordland to the consumption area in Poland. In effect of the project, an action plan for seafood transport will be endorsed by the Nordland county authorities. Further, following the discussion in the cluster of seafood producers and seafood processing industry, the train services between the origin and destination areas for this chain are envisaged for ...
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SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT IN THE BARENTS REGION - PHASE II (STBR II)

Start date: Jan 10, 2006, End date: Dec 29, 2007,

The objective of the STBR process is to develop a transport strategy for the whole of Barents Region jointly, and as an outcome propose and prepare concrete measures, which in due time can be included in national investment programs of each country. The strategy will rest on the realisation that the transport authorities of all countries need to see the Barents Region as a common transport area an ...
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Improving Life in Rural Areas of the Baltic Sea Region by eHealth Services. (Baltic eHealth)

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

The overall goal of the project was to bring about fully developed eHealth solutions that can be directly put to use by health services throughout the Baltic Sea Region. Ten players in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Estonia and Lithuania participated in the Baltic eHealth project.Baltic eHealth. The project wanted to connect existing national and regional healthcare data networks in the participating co ...
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Stimulating new ways of entrepreneurship - STIMENT (STIMENT)

Start date: Apr 30, 2005, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

STIMENT aims to improve entrepreneurship conditions in the four regions that are lagging behind, and provide new and innovative approaches to entrepreneurship in the Brescia region. The aim is to stimulate the development of partnerships between local and regional actors of the five participating regions in order to enhance their entrepreneurial knowledge and skills by exchanging experiences and t ...
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Delivering Services in Remote and Rural Areas: A Transnational Exchange of Ideas and Practices - DESERVE (DESERVE)

Start date: Mar 7, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

All the participating partners across the Northern Periphery region share concerns for the difficulties faced by service providers, as well as service users in remote and rural areas. Each participating region has topographical, geographical and demographic similarities to overcome that create problems in accessing services, as well as in the delivery of services. The DESERVE project seeks to esta ...
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Co-Operation of Networks for the Creation of Effective Policies for Transportation (CONCEPT)

Start date: Mar 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

The European Commission’s Transport White Paper identified a number of issues that need to be addressed for the sustainability and competitiveness of Europe’s transportation system. Principal among these is the need to "place users at the heart of transport policy" and "shifting the balance between modes of transport", from road-based transport to rail, sea and inland waterways. The overall object ...
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Strategy and Action Plan for the Barents Region up to 2010 (BARENTS 2010)

Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Mar 30, 2006,

The project has been initiated by the Barents Regional Council and follows up an evaluation of regional co-operation in the Barents Region 1993-2000. The Barents region consists of thirteen regions and many different ethnic groups in four countries, which have a lot of common problems. Differences in culture, legal framework, etc create problems and hamper fruitful co-operation. Almost all parts o ...
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SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT IN THE BARENTS REGION (STBR) (STBR )

Start date: Mar 9, 2003, End date: Jan 8, 2006,

General objectives for STBR project are to strengthen transport planning cooperation in the Barents Region; increase the common understanding of transport problems in the region; help decision makers, planners, authorities and companies to see the region as a single transport area and to promote sustainable development in the region.These goals will be achieved by improving region-wide transport i ...
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Bothnian Arc - Arctic Coastal Tourism Region (BothnianArc-ACTion )

Start date: Jun 25, 2002, End date: Sep 24, 2005,

Bothnian Arc is a Swedish-Finnish coastal zone in the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia with a sub-arctic climate. Thanks to the Gulf Stream, it has four distinct seasons and offers exotic tourism destinations in an arctic coast and archipelago milieu. However the tourism profile of the region and tourism competence there have to be strengthened. A trans-national co-operation for the developmen ...
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Rock Art in Northern Europe (RANE )

Start date: Jun 25, 2002, End date: Sep 24, 2005,

Rock art (paintings and carvings on rock formations) is the oldest form of human art. The remaining examples of this historical art form are threatened both by a natural development and our modern way of living. The central objectives of RANE were to initiate measures and promote research that would improve the management and sustainable use of prehistoric rock art in the Baltic Sea Region. The pr ...
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Via Baltica Nordica Development Zone (VBNDZ )

Start date: Jul 31, 2002, End date: Jul 30, 2005,

The Via Baltica Nordica is a coherent development corridor stretching from Berlin to Mo i Rana in Norway. The idea is not to construct or develop the Via Baltica road connection as such, but to develop the regions located along the corridor by means of transnational co-operation. More than 40 cities, municipalities, regions and other development organisations from Finland, Sweden, Germany, Estonia ...
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Remote Telematic Solutions for patient diagnoses and training of health care professionals in sparsely populated areas (REMEDY)

Start date: Aug 31, 2002, End date: May 29, 2005,

The project aims to develop the practical use of tele-medical support within different disciplines of the health and medical services in sparsely populated and remote areas of the northern periphery. The purpose is to increase patient security, service quality and to protect patients legal rights within the area. An IT-based training programme at individual, group and organisational level will be ...
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