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Territorial Scenarios and Visions for Europe (ET2050)
Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,
Policymakers in the field of territorial development and cohesion are in need of a future oriented and integrated vision on the development of the European territory. Therefore the ESPON Programme started a territorial vision-building process following a participatory process and involving relevant stakeholders at European, national and regional level. This vision has a strategic character that al ...
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Territorial Indicators of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe (TIPSE)
Start date: Jan 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
Combating poverty and social exclusion rank among the main objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The recent economic crisis has had a huge effect on millions of European citizens with many people losing their jobs, household incomes decreasing and consequently the risk of being affected by poverty increasing. For social exclusion, not only a clear definition seems to be lacking, but also there d ...
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Drava Region Unified Planning Toolkit (DUPLO)
Start date: Mar 31, 2013, End date: Jul 30, 2014,
The goal of the project is to create a unified planning toolkit for the Drava-region. For this the activities will be split in two components, the first constituting a comprehensive framework plan for the whole region and the second being an interactive platform that ensures the publicity of the basic data and findings of the plan, facilitating interaction, networking and co-operation between loca ...
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hotovoltaic Systems as Actuators of Regional Development (REG-PHOSYS)
Start date: Feb 28, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2014,
The Hungarian and Croatian energy strategies drew on the EC Directive on renewable energy and set ambitious targets regarding energy from renewable sources by 2020. Following their lead, solar energy with its almost unlimited potential is the main focus of this project. The vision of the project is to encourage the use of photovoltaic (PV) instead of thermal and nuclear power plants in the area. I ...
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Territorial Approaches to New Governance (TANGO)
Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,
Policymakers in the field of territorial development and cohesion recognise a clear need for coherent public action and allocation of public resources within the different territories across the European continent. Especially in times of restricted public budgets they feel a strong need to understand how policy action can become more effective in their daily practice and how synergies can be explo ...
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Toward a local based labour market policy approach in cross-border rural regions (LOLAMAR)
Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2013,
The LOLAMAR project aims to develop a local based labour market policy approach which can set the path for a more sustainable development in peripheral cross-border areas. In Eastern-Europe these regions are characterized by large number of people who are excluded from the labour market. This problem is usually treated in the social sector and nobody looks upon this group as internal resource for ...
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Selective Migration and Unbalanced Sex Ratio in Rural Regions (SEMIGRA)
Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2012,
Many rural and economically weak regions in Europe are affected by demographic shrinkage and selective migration. Evidence suggests that especially young and highly educated women are among those leaving peripheral regions, resulting in an unbalanced population base. This is believed to have a negative effect on the liveability, attractiveness and the competitiveness of areas. The outmigration of ...
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The borderline as an axis of innovation (INNOAXIS)
Start date: Jul 31, 2010, End date: Jul 30, 2011,
The project aims at a coordinated study on the development potentials of the cross-border region of Serbia and Hungary strengthening cooperation and common exploitation of socio-economical opportunities, based on our concept of the borderline as an axis of innovation.The project is strongly related to an initiative of 140 local authorities from Hungary, Serbia and Romania, to form an EGTC called B ...
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ion and sustainable development of the Carpathians in a transnational framework (Carpathian Projec)
Start date: Aug 31, 2005, End date: Aug 30, 2008,
Historically, mountain regions located in remote border areas were often marginalised. They separate countries and peoples and face huge challenges regarding spatial development. However, mountain regions can also become powerful unifiers and a link between nations and peoples. As experiences, for example in the Alps, demonstrate, mountains have a considerable potential for development if the rich ...
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Integrated revitalization of historical towns to promote a polycentric and sustainable development (Hist.Urban)
Start date: Jan 31, 2006, End date: Aug 30, 2008,
Most project partners participating in the Hist.Urban project are from small and medium-sized towns outside metropolitan areas. The main assets of these towns are historical town centres belonging to the European-built cultural heritage (7 cities are even UNESCO World Heritage sites). Due to social and economic transformations and structural changes the cities have to make considerable efforts to ...
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Reshaping public and private: new housing estates and urban development in post-1989 Berlin and Budapest (HOUSING AND THE CITY)
Start date: Aug 1, 2007, End date: Jul 31, 2008,
...lighting important variation in the trajectories of post-socialist cities.The realization of the research project and additional training at the host institute, the Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, will allow the researcher to extend her hitherto dominantly historical research to the contemporary period, learn about novel research methods in urban development studi ...
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Cooperation of Regions for Innovation (CORINNA)
Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
The operation “Corinna - Cooperation of Regions for Innovation” focuses on intensifying cross-border co-operation in the field of technology and innovation along the borders of Italy, Slovenia, Austria and Hungary. Recent studies of these regions show strong potential for capitalizing on development opportunities through cross-border cooperation in particular in the field or research, development ...
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Spatial aspects of the Information Society (Information Society)
Start date: Jun 9, 2005, End date: Mar 18, 2007,
The development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the liberalisation of the telecom sector have given a growing number of people the possibility to access to all type of information and also have contributed to promote the communication among citizens, businesses and public administrations, removing the constraints of time, place and distance, making the world a "global vill ...
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LAnners NETwork for CENtral and South East Europe (PLANET CENSE)
Start date: Oct 31, 2003, End date: Feb 17, 2007,
PLANET CENSE is a network of national spatial planning institutions and experts established as a consequence of the VISION PLANET project. It aims at pursuing and developing further the policy options laid down in the VISION PLANET project documents. The network will foster spatial integration and a cross-sector dialogue with: - The European Spatial Planning Gateway (ESP GATEWAY): an expert dialog ...
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Spatial scenarios in relation to the ESDP and EU Cohesion Policy (Scenarios)
Start date: Apr 27, 2004, End date: Feb 12, 2007,
The main objective of the project is to develop spatial scenarios which should on the one hand be prospective, capable of prognostics with reference to a laissez-faire scenario on themes of the ESPON and policy orientations of the ESDP.On the other hand the scenarios should as well be proactive testing alternative objectives and provide insight for recommendations on policy adjustments/changes in ...
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TRANSPORT WITH A SOCIAL TARGET (TWIST)
Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,
The regions participating in the TWIST project are characterised by a lack of service and infrastructural balance in rural and mountain areas. The growing isolation of these populations, mostly older people, is the cause and the effect of the progressive abandonment of these territories. As a consequence, the resources assigned to the local transport services have been reduced, forcing the local p ...
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European Space - Territorial Indicators and Actions for a Spatial Planning Observatory in Southeast Europe (ESTIA-SPOSE)
Start date: Sep 30, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,
ESTIA-SPOSE builds upon the experience accumulated by its predecessor ESTIA project and intends to develop Actions for a Spatial Planning Observatory in Southeast Europe, based on an integrated system of territorial indicators fully compatible with the approach of ESDP and ESPON. This system of indicators will be tested in a series of pilot applications in selected sectors and areas with the aim t ...
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Territorial effects of the Pre-Accession Aid (Pre-Accession Aid)
Start date: Mar 30, 2003, End date: Sep 20, 2005,
The objective of this project has been to conduct a comparative territorial analysis of the national instruments of structural policy in the new Member States, who joined the EU in 2004, and the Candidate Countries Bulgaria and Romania. Also the non-EU members Norway and Switzerland were to be included in the respective analyses as far as possible. The analyses aimed at territorial impact assessme ...
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...st important outcomes of the operation of the Cross-border Centreof Expertise in Rural Development is the monthly electronic newsletter, whichnow has two thousand regular readers on both sides of the Hungarian-Romanianborder. Another significant result is the ongoing operation and regular updatingof the project website. Key contents on the website include the funding applicationopportunities in Ro ...
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The project addresses the issue of enhancing lifelong learning opportunities in ruralareas using ICT. Previous research (www.euracademy-observatory.org) identifiedimportant constraints preventing the rural workforce from taking advantage of ICTenabledlearning, mostly related to lack of infrastructure and low personal motivation,and it marked differences between countries, signifying that both nati ...
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The aim of the project is to improve the skills and competencies of rural entrepreneurs and local development managers and to set up a three-week summer school to provide training for people from all over Europe. The idea behind the project is to close the gap that exists between the demand and supply of skills to plan and manage sustainable local development in rural areas. It will deal mainly w ...
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