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European Research Area for Climate Services (ERA4CS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Within the European Research Area (ERA), the ERA4CS Consortium is aiming to boost, research for Climate Services (CS), including climate adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management, allowing regions, cities and key economic sectors to develop opportunities and strengthen Europe’s leadership. CS are seen by this consortium as driven by user demands to provide knowledge to face impacts of cl ...
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Implementing Alpine Governance Mechanisms of the European Strategy for the Alpine Region (AlpGov)

Start date: Jun 7, 2016, End date: Jun 6, 2019,

Description (EN): The AlpGovs’ main objective is to support effective and efficient EUSALP implementation in a systematic transnational approach through designing and testing appropriate governance structures and mechanisms mainly on the level of Action Groups (AGs), at the same time to create synergies with the other EUSALP implementing bodies General Assembly and Executive Board a ...
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Harnessing the power of Digital Social Platforms to shake up makers and manufacturing entrepreneurs towards a European Open Manufacturing ecosystem (ShakerMaker)

Start date: Jun 20, 2016, End date: Jun 19, 2018,

ShakerMaker brings together mainstream manufacturers and makers (i.e. tech-savvy craftsmen driven by social innovation and open source principles) in an purposely designed ecosystem built to enable cross-boundary partnerships for innovation. The partnerships will be facilitated by a targeted programme piloted in four locations in Europe and curated by experienced facilitators. Combining skills and ...
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Sustainable Zero Carbon ECO-Town Developments Improving Quality of Life across EU - ECO-Life (ECO-LIFE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...egrated in large climate action initiatives in the municipalities. The project will use 100 % RES. Concerning RUE, LT is representing huge refurbishment potential in East Europe, BE focuses on social housing and DK represents the next level of energy efficiency. A Whole Town Design Approach is used in all three communities with focus on achieving goals at affordable costs and on developing new fin ...
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Rural-Urban inclusive governance strategies an tools for the sustainable development of deeply transforming Alpine territories. (RURBANCE)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The main problem to be faced through the project is the poor efficiency and effectiveness of the policies to offset the relation among urban and rural areas and their development model. Such an inefficiency is due to the complexity to merge in an organic whole a lot of sectorial policies which have been carried out to tackle the critical situation in terms of loss of competitiveness, landscape deg ...
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Valorisation of Sustainable Alpine Space nearly zero-energy Building and Low-carbon Experiences (ViSiBLE)

Start date: Aug 31, 2013, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

The building sector is a cornerstone of the EU climate protection program and has an important role to play in the achievement of the Europe2020 strategy. However, the plethora and mismatch of building regulations at EU and national levels leads to considerable administrative burdens. There is today a clear need for a harmonisation of tools and processes for an integrated perspective on nearly zer ...
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Sustainable Freight Transport - Now and Tomorrow (SusFreight)

Start date: Aug 31, 2013, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

The Alps are a unique region at the heart of Europe, to be protected and remain attractive for its inhabitants. However, they are also a major natural bottleneck, increasingly challenging the dynamic economies in the region and their transport demand. The ever-growing transport across the Alps, in particular freight transport, has over decades led to an environmentally and also economically threat ...
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Effective Programmes for the Active Integration/Inclusion of the Roma in South- East Europe  (PAIRS)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

... of programs and initiatives targeting them, Roma communities in are still exposed to discrimination and segregation, and their equal access to work, education, social benefits, health care, adequate housing, other public services and justice is still limited. Problems related to the inclusion and integration of Roma in SEE are not isolated, neither is the two-fold challenge tackled by PAIRS: 1) t ...
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Railway Hub Cities and TEN-T network (RAILHUC)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Central Europe cities are the "first/last legs" of transnational transport chains. These chains consist of local, regional and transnational transport systems. On the one hand high speed connections among rail hubs in central Europe are being upgraded, especially on TEN-T networks and along the main intercity lines. On the other hand rail and in general public transport feeder lines need an upgrad ...
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Mediterranean Building Rethinking for Energy Efficiency Improvement (MARIE) (MARIE)

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

MARIE aims to establish the socio-economic conditions for Energy Efficiency (EE) improvement in the MED. Building Stock in the framework of EU policy objectives, overcoming barriers and creating sustainable development opportunities in the MED region. Pil Achievements: ...
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Energy Efficiency in Low-income Housing in the Mediterranean (ELIH-Med)

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

... State of the art of project implementation since the project startAfter ELIH-Med launch in May 2011, the preliminary phase of investigation and analysis about policy support showed that low income housing was not a targeted object of the policies in the Med area and pointed to a significant gap between the 2020 energy efficiency targets and the forecasted energy saving set by the Mediterranean ...
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European Rural Futures - New opportunities to secure the provision of public services in rural cities and municipalities (EURUFU)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Jan 29, 2014,

...mework conditions influence the number of population. EURUFU analyzes the situation in rural partner regions, recommends specific fitting actions and realizes them in different fields of action like housing, social, transport infrastructure. The new transnational network is actively framing the demographic change in regions with typical problems. The starting phase was marked mainly by administra ...
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New Advanced iNsulatiOn Phase Change Materials (NANOPCM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

The overall objective of NANOPCM is the development, implementation, production, and demonstration of low cost and improved Phase Change Materials for new high performance insulation components in existing buildings. For this purpose, different technical innovations will be carried out during this project: 1. New low cost stable thermal storage component based on the anchorage at nanoscale of orga ...
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Development and Promotion of Creative Industry Potentials in Central European Cities (Creative Cities)

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

Within global competition cities need to win investors and create more and better jobs. The exploitation of creative industries, which have high, but often unrecognised potentials, contributes to the fulfillment of the Lisbon objectives on local levels. The challenges for creative industry actors are high (low capital endowment, poor networking, low external visibility), though they do not have en ...
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Heritage Tourism for increased BSR Identity (AGORA 2.0)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

Countries in the Baltic Sea Region have a long common history throughout the centuries and a great variety of natural and cultural resources. However, the area is still not well recognised as one common region, even by its own residents.AGORA 2.0 aims at strengthening the common identity of the Baltic Sea Region, based on its rich natural and cultural heritage. Substitutional for numerous assets, ...
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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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Transalpine Transport Architects (TRANSITECTS)

Start date: Jun 30, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

In TRANSITECTS public institutions design common transnational intermodal solutions for freight transport in the Alpine Space. In the partnership different interests (economy, environment and transport) are integrated which is of crucial importance for a sustainable solution. Main aim of the project is to make the rail network more attractive and hence to foster its accessibility and functionality ...
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Improve the governance and the quality of forestry management in the Mediterranean protected areas. (QUALIGOUV)

Start date: May 14, 2009, End date: May 13, 2012,

Beyond its traditional functions, the Mediterranean forest areas are concerned with new uses, notably in periurban or protected contexts, such as biodiversity, soil and water conservation, carbon storage, leisure… This multitude of functions requires the implementation of new strategies of common actions and participative policies, which imply the different concerned stakeholders. The aim of QUALI ...
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Tisa Catchment Area Development (TICAD)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Feb 27, 2012,

The extraordinary feature of the TICAD project is the broad and productive transnational cooperation of local, regional, national authorities, planning and research institutions from all the five countries sharing the territory of the Tisa basin. Owing to this comprehensive and integrated partnership the aims of the EU water management policies and territorial development perspectives will be purs ...
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Transnational Strategy for the Sustainable Territorial Development of the Danube Area with special regard to Tourism (DATOURWAY)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Feb 27, 2012,

The project entitled Datourway presents an outstanding example of transnational cooperation committed to the development of tourism along and on the middle and south-eastern section of river Danube, while paying particular attention to the protection and enhancement of the natural and cultural resources linked to this part of the great European waterway. Tourism is interpreted in the project in a ...
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Sustainable, energy efficient and resource saving residential buildings with consideration of unified procedures and new and adapted technologies (Longlife)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

...gies, procedures, rules and institutional structures in the BSR will hence be minimized. In a first step existing procedures for planning, permit and tendering, practices for developing and operating housing and technologies for construction of buildings will be gathered and analyzed for the participating countries. This comparative overview as output will already lead to added transnational value ...
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Energy Efficient and Integrated Urban Development Action (Urb.Energy)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

The European housing stock is a major contributor to energy waste and CO2 emissions. At the same time the refurbishment rate in the new EU member states still is extremely low and sustainable urban development concepts are barely addressed, neither in local, nor regional or national policies in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). The project Urb.Energy addresses these issues and aims at the elaboration a ...
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Transnational Action for Public Private Partnership (ACT4PPP)

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

Financial, structural and territorial challenges in Central Europe ask for a strengthened teamwork of public and private actors to create and maintain attractive and competitive living conditions. Due to economic and demographic changes and limits to public resources (financial, know-how) the provision of public tasks and regional/urban restructuring can no longer be provided efficiently by public ...
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Network for strengthening and improving the implementation of the IPPC European Directives regarding the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control in the Mediterranean (MED-IPPC-NET)

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Aug 30, 2011,

MED-IPPC-NET is a 30 month-project whose main goal is the identification of crucial aspects in the implementation of the IPPC Directives 96/61/EC and 2008/1/EC concerning Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control within the Mediterranean space, in order to establish a set of common criteria that should be taken into account by all Mediterranean regions wishing to enhance their implementation. Th ...
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Sustainable and Equipped Productive Areas (SEPA)

Start date: Jan 31, 2009, End date: Jul 30, 2011,

SEPA promotes the concept of sustainable production area defined as a Community of manufacturing firms and services that, within a territory and through cooperation, plan to improve their environmental, economic and social performances, acquiring specific organizational tools, management and infrastructure. Its most innovative aspect is to move the focus from the activity of individual public inst ...
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East-West Window (EastWest Window)

Start date: Apr 30, 2007, End date: Oct 30, 2008,

The main aim of the East West Window project was to accelerate the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) development through better connecting of the existing potentials within the Region. Achievements: * Assessment of unused innovation potential in NW Russia and recommendations ...
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Spatial Planning in Coastal Zones (PlanCoast)

Start date: Mar 31, 2006, End date: Apr 29, 2008,

Coastal areas, especially those in the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Sea region, face a severe pressure for development. Within the next few years, tourism, transport, aquaculture and energy use will increase in these regions. Particularly in enclosed seas or coastal zones close to big urban agglomerations, conflicts with environmental protection occur as the environment is more vulnerable than on th ...
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Sustainable reintegration of post-soviet military residential areas as a challenge and opportunity for regional development (ReMiDo)

Start date: Jun 20, 2005, End date: Jan 19, 2008,

Post-soviet military residential areas and it surroundings are in a very specific situation – on one hand these are destroyed territories that are more or less unique (in comparison with whole area), on the other hand we have a substantial number of such territories counted as military territories by the members of Warsaw Pact. The transnational co-operation between these countries is a chance to ...
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Regional Cooperation in Waste Management (RECO)

Start date: Jan 12, 2005, End date: Jan 11, 2008,

RECO is a waste management and spatial planning project in cooperation between partners from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Its Central Objective is to support the development of efficient Institutions for management of municipal waste in the BSR in order to minimize negative environmental effects, lower life cycle costs for waste managem ...
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Baltic Energy Efficiency Network for the Building Stock (BEEN)

Start date: Jun 20, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

... in the EU, of which two-thirds are consumed in residential buildings. Thereby, the standard of the buildings varies greatly and low thermal quality primarily occurs in the prefabricated multi-storey housing stock in the Central and Eastern European member states. This fact also implies huge potentials for energy savings and the reduction of CO2-emission through energy efficient refurbishment (EER ...
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Institutionalization of the European Route of Brick Gothic (EuRoB) - a culturally and historically inspired tourism route marketing the brick Gothic heritage and related cultural offers (EuRoB II)

Start date: Dec 12, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The European Route of Brick Gothic has become a six-borders-crossing European cultural route in the Baltic Sea Region inviting local inhabitants and visitors and media to experience this outstanding cultural heritage. The route has been organized in a non-profit association open to extensions with natural persons and further cities/bodies, founded in September 2007. The website www.eurob.org and a ...
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Establishment of an identity- and quality axis from the Baltic Sea to the Aegean Sea - Strengthening Regional Identity and Structures of Centres (IdeQua)

Start date: Oct 31, 2003, End date: Oct 29, 2007,

The IdeQua project attempts to establish an identity and quality axis from the Baltic Sea to the Aegean Sea. The project searches identity donating elements in the regional development of different states in the CADSES area - from the Baltic Sea via the German low mountains ranges, the Danube, the Carpathian Mountains, the Balkans, the Black Sea, the Rhodopes to the Aegaeis. These identity-donatin ...
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Sustainable Development in the Mid Nordic Region (ProMidNord)

Start date: Aug 5, 2004, End date: Oct 4, 2007,

County Councils from Norway, Sweden and Finland being the members of the 25 year old Mid Nordic Committee (MNC)-covering the Mid Nordic Region (MNR)-are facing great challenges such as an ongoing decrease of the population and a tendency towards centralization of the whole society. The cities in the MNR have difficulties in balancing the increasing impact from the big cities. The population densit ...
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Welfare housing policies for senior citizens (Wel_hops)

Start date: Mar 31, 2005, End date: Sep 29, 2007,

... own homes, a trend already visible today. While high intensity care is likely to be increasingly concentrated towards the end-of-life period, cities and regions in the EU need appropriate social and housing policies and services to support senior citizens in their desire to live in their own homes. Overall objective / Objectif général The operation "WELHOPS – Welfare housing policies for senior c ...
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Integrated Concepts for Regional Development (INCORD)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2006,

The operation Integrated Concepts for Regional Development (INCORD) focuses on the promotion of integrated regional development concepts (IDCs) in the participating regions. All participating regions from East Germany and the New Member States are affected by structural problems caused in part by the transition process (e.g. co-ordinated and targeted planning processes for the construction of esse ...
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Integrated Coastal Zone Development in the Baltic Sea Region / BALTCOAST (BALTCOAST )

Start date: Jun 30, 2002, End date: Sep 29, 2005,

The main objective was to solve concrete local ICZD problems and to generalise experience acquired in this process into pan-Baltic actions such as changes of national legislation, elaboration of best practices and recommendations. The goal of the project was to accompany the implementation process by different international experts in the field of ICZD and to develop a common strategy based on the ...
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Urban-rural relations in Europe (Urban-rural)

Start date: Sep 5, 2002, End date: Apr 20, 2005,

The future of numerous rural areas is functionally increasingly interlinked with urban development in terms of flows, exchange processes, institutional links and interdependencies. This is obvious in densely populated areas (such as peri-urban zones) undergoing considerable processes of urbanisation. It is also relevant for more sparsely populated rural areas that are under less visible urban infl ...
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Networking Logistics Centres in the Baltic Sea Region (NeLoC )

Start date: Dec 17, 2001, End date: Feb 16, 2004,

The NeLoC project provided a networking forum for existing and planned logistics centres in the Baltic Sea Region and it has enabled the exchange of experiences in planning and operating logistics centres.The project promoted the role of logistics centres in regional development as well as national and international logistics chains with emphasis laid on intermodal solutions. Further, the project ...
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flood management measures by transnational spatial planning (ELLA – ELBE – LABE)

Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Jul 30, 2003,

The ELLA project is the transnational co-operation of nearly all regional spatial planning authorities in the Elbe basin. This partnership between national and regional partners that are responsible for spatial planning, water management and agriculture, realises almost full spatial coverage of the catchment area of the Elbe and even neighbouring regions. Flood prevention and common management app ...
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Empowering Policies on Urban Sustainability (URBAN_EMPATHY)

URBAN EMPATHY will consolidate a permanent structure to work on transforming existing results from preselected MED projects and key European programmes into effective policies related to Sustainable Urban Models (SUMO). - 1st (WP3), the results will be evaluated through a set of transferability criteria and cross checked to ensure that they comply with the SUMO shared by the partners. In parallel, ...
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