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Integration of climate change adaptation into the work of local authorities (LIFE LOCAL ADAPT)

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

Background Responsibility for infrastructure is devolved to the regional or local level in many parts of the EU. However, many small and medium-sized authorities lack the knowledge and capacity to address the challenges posed by the need for climate change adaptation (CCA). LIFE LOCAL ADAPT has been designed to identify specific threats at local level and ...
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Congestion Reduction in Europe : Advancing Transport Efficiency (CREATE) (CREATE)

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

CREATE addresses the task Tackling Urban Road Congestion, taking a long-term view of how this can be achieved, especially in cities experiencing rapid growth in car ownership and use. It deals with most of the issues set out in the recent Urban Mobility Package.Objectives:• Rigorously and systematically develop practical definitions of urban road congestion and of network performance, and identify ...
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Brownfield Policy Improvement Task Force (B-TEAM)

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

...xperiences in re-imagining the productive spaces were shared as Sevilla has vast areas of industrial spaces such as former military sites, ammunition factory and others.In July 2011 the City of Dresden in Germany hosted the 5th Brownfield Days. In various workshops the participants discussed land use structures and how to trigger redevelopment of Brownfields through temporary uses. In Vilnius/Lith ...
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Via Regia plus - Sustainable Mobility and Regional Cooperation along the Pan-European Transport Corridor III (Via Regia +)

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

Currently, the rail network in the project area is in bad shape, especially in border regions which is hindering the full use of potentials within the entire area. In the German/Polish border area, a regional stalemate situation has evolved, which cannot be handled successfully without transnational input. The same situation can be found in the Polish/Ukraine border area due to different track gau ...
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The Development of Pay as You Throw Systems in Hellas, Estonia and Cyprus (HEC PAYT)

Start date: Jan 5, 2009, End date: Jul 4, 2011,

Background Increasing waste production and the increasingly hazardous nature of waste have led to ever higher waste-management costs. Waste management has now become one of the largest industries in the world. Pricing mechanisms in this industry based on the ‘polluter-pays principle’, the ‘precautionary principle’ and the ‘producer-responsibilit ...
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Integration and Development of Environmental Management Systems (IDEMS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2005, End date: May 31, 2009,

...alities - Ravenna, Ferrara, Mantova (Italy) and Amaroussion (Greece) - to develop and pilot an integrated system. These were supported and assisted by three ‘reference’ cities - Dresden and Heidelberg (Germany), and Växjö (Sweden) - who shared their existing expertise and experience. Each developer municipality conducted an internal audit of its current use of environmental management syste ...
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European Development Corridor III "Via Regia" (ED-C III)

Start date: Apr 30, 2006, End date: Aug 30, 2008,

...ent strategy for the area along the Pan-European Transport Corridor III, which is a part of the former "Via Regia". The corridor connects important economic centres of the European Union like Berlin, Dresden, Wroclaw, Katowice, Krakow and Rzeszów and also provides connections to Ukraine (Lviv, Kiev). It is therefore of high relevance for future economic development and further integration of the E ...
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Urban Green as a Key for Sustainable Cities (GreenKeys)

Start date: Apr 30, 2005, End date: Apr 29, 2008,

GreenKeys focuses on the improvement of urban green spaces as a step for more sustainable cities. The three main objectives are (1) to provide incentives for structural changes in cities by offering possibilities for improvement of green spaces. The partner cities will develop together with local stakeholders a strategic approach for the pilot project to create new or improve existing green areas ...
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Multifunctional Intensive Land Use in Europe (MILUNET)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The overall objective of MILUnet is to create an effective partnership network, aiming to promote Multifunctional Intensive Land Use as a means to achieve more sustainable (urban) development in the EU. By utilising expertise and know-how on MILU, regional and local governments have the possibility to increase the effectiveness of both urban policy implementation and planning towards sustainabilit ...
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Creation of telecenters to support learning, entrepreneurship and access to IS, in isolated areas (TELEACCESS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

More than 14 million households in remote areas of Europe have difficulties in accessing information and communication technologies (ICTs). Particularly in rural regions tele-density is low compared to urban centres. Despite many programmes focusing on this issue, the so-called digital divide is ever increasing. Until now transfer rates tend to be lower in rural areas which limits the introduction ...
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Regional cycle development through coastal co-operation - seagrass and algae focus (CosCo-Project)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

... of one of the project partners. Certain focal points were emphasised and discussed. If there were special problems, partner meetings took place as well. The final congress was held on 1 June 2007 in Dresden (D) where the results were presented and which formed the closure of the project. Comp.2: The main aim is to find an alternative technology which is able to collect flotsam and jetsam with a m ...
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European ecoBudget pilot project for local authorities steering to local sustainability (Ecobudget)

Start date: Sep 1, 2001, End date: Aug 31, 2004,

... of different sizes in all Member States. The project was coordinated by the Municipality of Växjö in Sweden, with the technical support of ICLEI, and with the cities of Dresden and Heidelberg from the German pilot project, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency for the Emilia Romagna Region in Italy, as observers. The municipalities implementing the project were Amaroussion and Kalithe ...
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