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Youth Dreams Become True

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Title of the project: Youth Dreams Become TrueWe would like to give opportunity for young adults within the framework of European Voluntary Service, what is not trough work, training and not attending a school but try out themselves by spreading their wings to be brave, to dream and to achieve their life plans or get closer to them. First of all the volunteers will be a part of a long-term ...
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re-conceptualize shopping malls from consumerism to energy conservation (COMMONENERGY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

CommONEnergy focuses on existing shopping malls to be refurbished and buildings with a different original function, redesigned to become shopping malls. Wholesales&Retail buildings represent 28% of the total non-residential building stock (BPIE, 2010), accounting for approximately 157 Mtoe in 2005 (EU EEAP). Considering typical shopping malls high impact on modern society (ICSC, 2008), the project ...
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Nowicanto

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

We come from Poland and the Ukraine and we are sixteen to thirty years old. The group from Poland is associated with Greek Catholic Youth Association Sarepta. The group from the Ukraine is associated with the religious community of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church dedicated to St. Martyrs Vira, Nadija and Lubow and their mother Sofia. The main aim of our project is developing new skills and ful ...
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Helping others - Helping ourselves

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

10 volunteers will serve for 11 months in our project, who will come partly from Central-eastern Europe, and partly from Western-Europe. The title of the project is „Helping others - helping ourselves” as to do a voluntary year means not only helping others, but to also to get new competences and to develop ourselves. So in the project they will not only get to know a new country and culture, the ...
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Everyone Has Talent

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Project partners: 9 hosting organisation in Hungary, 6 sending organisation, 1 coordinating organisation. Total: 16 cooperating organisations. Number of volunteers: 15 volunteers from Germany, France, Italy, Romania, Slovakia. The voluntary activity took place in Budapest, Debrecen, Kiskunhalas and Magyarmecske. Goals and themes of the activity: The project was offering long-term voluntary service ...
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Capacity Building in Sustainable Public Procurement (Building‐SPP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Background Each year European public authorities spend the equivalent of 16% of EU gross domestic product on the purchase of goods – such as office equipment, building components and transport vehicles – and services, such as building maintenance, transport services, cleaning and catering services and works. This public procurement can shape productio ...
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Bio-waste - Integrated management of bio-waste in Greece – The case study of Athens (Athens)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Background Mixed waste in Athens, as elsewhere in Greece, is collected by local authorities in cooperation with the Hellenic Recovery Recycling Corporation. The collected waste is either landfilled or subject to treatment in a mechanical biological treatment (MBT) plant. Athens has only one MBT plant, which handles approximately 20% of the entire waste pr ...
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Strategic Planning Towards Carbon Neutrality in Tourism Accommodation Sector (CARBONTOUR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Background As a global phenomenon involving the movement of over 800 million people across international boundaries every year, tourism has a major impact on the environment. The World Tourism Organisation provided the first overall estimate of global tourism’s carbon footprint in Davos, in October 2007, which was 1 300 mega tonnes of CO2 equivalent or ...
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Sustainable Construction in Public and Private Works through IPP approach (SUSCON)

Start date: Oct 1, 2005, End date: Sep 30, 2008,

Background The construction sector in Europe consumes more raw materials by weight than any other industrial sector in Europe. Moreover, the sector accounts for the largest share of greenhouse gases emissions (about 40%). Measured in terms of weight, construction and demolition activities produce Europe’s largest waste stream (between 40 and 50% of tota ...
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Promoting Sustainable Tourism in Multi-dimensional Protected Areas (Green Marathon)

Start date: Nov 1, 2004, End date: Oct 31, 2007,

Background Schinias, in Marathon, Greece, is an internationally important ecological and cultural area that attracts more than a million visitors each year. With the new Rowing Centre, which was constructed for the 2004 Olympic Games, and the newly formed Marathon National Park, the number of visitors and the pressure on the area's natural resources are e ...
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Networking with EMAS for Sustainable Development (NEST)

Start date: Oct 15, 2004, End date: Oct 15, 2007,

Background The EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is one of the key tools highlighted for enabling application of the 6th Environmental Action Programme. Increasing its application internationally and developing an internationally accepted and understood approach for effective implementation of EMAS in the public sector therefore seems essential. ...
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Starting with the promotion of IPP approach in Mediterranean countries (StartIPP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Sep 30, 2007,

Background Integrated Product Policy (IPP) has become an important topic for the EU. All products and services have an environmental impact, and IPP attempts to bring together different strands of legislation to better contribute to sustainable development goals and better integrate environmental considerations into other policy areas. Greener products m ...
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Integrated Product Policy in the Telecommunication Sector (IPP TEL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Sep 30, 2007,

Background Design for Recyclability’ (DFR) is an important concept for improving new products by making them more easily disposable when they reach the end of their life-cycles, particularly in the case of electronic products. Initial product design accounts for 80-90% of product cost because of material and process selection. The initial design stage ...
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EMAS and Information Technology in Hospitals (e-Hospital EMAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Jan 30, 2007,

Background Environmental problems associated with hospitals mainly relate to waste generated as a result of hospital activities, for example infectious waste and chemicals from laboratories, chemicals from X-ray machines and others, but also to energy usage and purchasing practices. Particularly due to the complicated nature of waste management processes ...
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Greening Public Procurement in Mediterranean Local Authorities (GreenMed)

Start date: Oct 1, 2003, End date: Sep 30, 2006,

Background All products cause environmental degradation in some way, whether from their manufacturing, use or disposal. The integrated product policy (IPP) seeks to minimise these by looking at all phases of a products' life-cycle – from production, distribution, consumption to handling at the end of their lifetime – and taking action where it is most ...
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