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Baltic Forum for Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Manure Management (Baltic MANURE)
Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,
The Baltic Sea Basin is an area of intensive, and intensifying agricultural production. There are about 36 million units of cattle, 67 million units of pigs, and 190 million units of poultry in the region. (Gren, I.-M. et al., 2008: Cost of nutrient reductions to the Baltic Sea - technical report). Intensifying and concentration of animal production has resulted in environmental problems caused by ...
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The Strategic Project on Trans-national Commercial Activities in Research & Innovation, Clusters and in SME-Networks (StarDust)
Start date: Sep 16, 2010, End date: Dec 15, 2013,
How to link strong research nodes, clusters and SME networks in the Baltic Sea region in order to jointly reach globally-leading innovation partnerships? How to use the high innovation potential of the region to address common societal challenges?StarDust was designed to give answers to these questions. Besides the concrete testing of collaboration methods, policy implication should be drawn on ho ...
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Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society Implementation (BERAS IMPLEMENTATION)
Start date: Jun 10, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,
BERAS Implementation offers a response to the challenges to achieve a good environmental status in the Baltic Sea, reinforce sustainable agriculture and enhance rural development in the region.Objectives:Contribute to solving the problem of excessive nutrient losses from agricultural through introduction of conversion to Ecological Recycling Agriculture (ERA) in all countries of the BSRDevelop a s ...
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ublic Energy Alternatives - Sustainable energy strategies as a chance for regional development (PEA)
Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,
During the last years the costs for fossil energy resources are heavily increasing. Even though the prices for these resources will not be rising to ever new peaks it is obvious that they will remain on a high level and in medium and long term rise continuously. Consequently, the costs for public services, such as transportation or the provision of heat and electricity, are rising as well. This si ...
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Energy Positive Farm (ENPOS)
Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,
...ed in public and the tools developed during the project are taken into educations and advisory systems. WP1: Project management and coordination WP2. Energy need and energy resources on Finnish and Estonian farms. In this part both plant and animal production energy and GHG analysis are performed. This analysis will reveal the most energy demanding items and energy saving can be started from th ...
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Baltic Green Belt
Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,
The European Green Belt is an ecological backbone of Europe, running through much of the continent from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea and following the route the former iron curtain. The Green Belt initiative started as a grassroots movement when the former military blocks collapsed. The aim was to save the natural assets that had grown alongside the iron curtain. The Baltic Green Belt project ...
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MSc Programme in Climate Change and Restoration of Degraded Land
Start date: Oct 1, 2012,
Much of the land in Europe is being degraded by human activity. Although in principle the land is a renewable resource, the natural processes that form it are very slow. Degraded land can take thousands of years to fully recover. Europe suffers an accelerated degradation of lands as a result of climate change and other causes such as land clearance, clear cutting and deforestation, agricultural de ...
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Green Technology European Virtual Gateway
Start date: Oct 1, 2012,
Green technology has been for a while used as a buzz word but not many organizations, both private and public, are aware of implications and skills required. Furthermore the requirement to reduce the carbon footprint across EU has become compulsory and many organizations are looking to embrace green technology to meet this requirement not been aware of the actual skills and technology needs. The ...
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MSc Programme in Environmental Security and Management
Start date: Oct 1, 2011,
Europe is facing an accelerated climate change as a result of global warming and as a result population departure and consequent abandon of rural areas due to the increase floods, forest fire, lack of water, land slide, etc, and there is a need to find ways to support management of such hazards by providing adequate training on environmental security and management. Romania, Hungary, Estonia, Spai ...
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Development of Public Accreditation of Agricultural programs in Russia
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
The wider objective of the project is to contribute to the introduction of the Bologna principles into the Russian quality assurance system of higher education. This involves development of Standards and Procedures for Public Accreditation of Agricultural Programs in line with the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG). Standards should meet the ...
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The idea of long-term sustainable development on the earth and new standards and targets on EU-level as well as the growing need for ecological building materials and a rising demand for people who know how to handle these. This was the background for the LdV pilot project "Clay Plaster" (D/02/B/F/PP-112 695) that developed a Curriculum and pedagogical materials. The project has won the best pr ...
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...dustries. The developed study program will improve greatly the possibilities of good competence building in the field in partner regions. A 2-day training seminar in Pskov held by the professors from Estonian University of Life Sciences will be the basis and the start of knowledge transfer between the two universities. Also there will be good connections between target groups (companies in metal a ...
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