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Background The project focuses on areas that are pivotal for the conservation of the two sea turtle species occurring in the EU and listed as priority species in Annex II of the Habitats Directive, the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) and the green turtle (Chelonia mydas). In the EU, the loggerhead turtle has major nesting sites in Greece and Cyprus, a ...
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The SeaDataNet pan-European infrastructure has been developed by NODCs and major research institutes from 34 countries. Over 100 marine data centres are connected and provide discovery and access to data resources for all European researchers. Moreover, SeaDataNet is a key infrastructure driving several portals of the European Marine Observation and Data network (EMODnet), initiated by EU DG-MARE ...
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The overall goal of ClimeFish is to help ensure that the increase in seafood production comes in areas and for species where there is a potential for sustainable growth, given the expected developments in climate, thus contributing to robust employment and sustainable development of rural and coastal communities. The underlying biological models are based on single species distribution and product ...
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Semantic EO Data Web Alert and Retrieval Framework (SEO-DWARF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Technological advances in remote sensing have increased the availability of satellite images with different spatiotemporal and spectral characteristics.There is difficulty for retrieving the most appropriate data for each user's needs.One key challenge is to connect the quantitative information of the EO images with the qualitative (high-level user queries) and be able to mine these connections in ...
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The overarching objective of AtlantOS is to achieve a transition from a loosely-coordinated set of existing ocean observing activities to a sustainable, efficient, and fit-for-purpose Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing System (IAOOS), by defining requirements and systems design, improving the readiness of observing networks and data systems, and engaging stakeholders around the Atlantic; and leav ...
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The headline of the March 6th Edition of the Italian Newspaper 'Taormina Informa' “Enough with seasonality say workers in the tourism sectors” – announced by the regional secretary of Fisascat Cisl Sicilia – a Labor Union Federation for Touristic Activities in Sicily. This announcement was accompanied by a demonstration of the federation employees and tourism workers to express their frustration ...
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Further Vocational Training in Energy Service Technicians

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The need for energy saving and for use of renewable energy is particularly high in some Baltic Sea Region countries, given the very high proportion of old buildings greatly in need of refurbishment; e.g. until 1993 99 % of the buildings built in Latvia had a very low energy efficiency. SMEs in various sectors, especially the crafts, are therefore predestined to function as an active contributor ...
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Co-creating Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Solutions (MareFrame)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"MareFrame seeks to remove barriers preventing a more widespread use of an Ecosystem-based Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM). It will develop assessment methods and a Decision Support Framework (DSF) for management of marine resources and thereby enhance the capacity to provide integrated assessment, advice and decision support for an EAFM. Enabling comparisons between relevant ""what-if"" s ...
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The BEVIN project is targeted at a wide audience: • all public educational institutions/sectorial organisations involved in the non-formal and informal learning process and/or validation; • all educational entities and individuals who are actively implementing validation of non-formal and informal learning; • teachers and trainers who accompany or support their students during non-formal and/or i ...
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"The aim of the Performer project is to devise a holistic (total lifecycle,multi-aspects, context-based) building energy monitoring methodology that factors in appropriate energy performance indicators, information models, and simulation tools, to achieve building energy performance targets. The project energy performance simulation and monitoring aspects will rely on an ICT infrastructure that wi ...
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Vocational education has lost much of its attractiveness. Especially in EU countries with predominantly school-based vocational training (e.g. Poland, Lithuania, Latvia) the participation is low, dropped to an alarmingly low level and is perceived by many young people as a dead end. At the same time companies complain about the lack of skills of the graduates. The consequences are unemployment rat ...
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ICT for Water Resource Management (Waternomics)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Climate change, increased urbanization and increased world population are several of the factors driving global challenges for water management. In fact, the World Economic Forum has cited "The Water Supply Crises" as a major risk to global economic growth and environmental policies in the next 10 years. In parallel, the United Nations has called for intensified international collaboration.To this ...
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Guide to linguistic competence for tourist guides and tour leaders

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Multilingualism is one of the main pillars of the vision of the European Union from the perspective of 2020. The basic assumptions and policies of the European Commission indicate that all of us should work towards adapting language contents to the nature of learning group. Tourists guides are professional group which in terms of knowledge of foreign languages definitely does not meet expectation ...
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Effective Training for NEETs

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

According to Eurostat's January 2014 publication on Unemployment statistics for the year 2013 for the EU28, youth unemployment is one of the major challenges of EU employment policy .12.9% of those aged 15–24 in the EU28 are currently not in employment, education or training which corresponds to approximately 5.5 million young people. The project aims to develop, improve and provide innovative ...
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Environmental policies focus on protecting habitats valuable for their biodiversity, as well as producing energy in cleaner ways. The establishment of Marine Protected Area (MPA) networks and installing Offshore Wind Farms (OWF) are important ways to achieve these goals. The protection and management of marine biodiversity has focused on placing MPAs in areas important for biodiversity. This has p ...
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The overall scientific objectives of PERSEUS are to identify the interacting patterns of natural and human-derived pressures on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, assess their impact on marine ecosystems and, using the objectives and principles of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive as a vehicle, to design an effective and innovative research governance framework based on sound scientific knowl ...
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Micro B3 will develop innovative bioinformatic approaches and a legal framework to make large-scale data on marine viral, bacteria; archaeal and protists genomes and metagenomes accessible for marine ecosystems biology and to define new targets for biotechnological applications. Micro B3 will build upon a highly interdisciplinary consortium of 32 academic and industrial partners comprising world-l ...
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The overall objective of the SeaDataNet II project is to upgrade the present SeaDataNet infrastructure into an operationally robust and state-of-the-art Pan-European infrastructure for providing up-to-date and high quality access to ocean and marine metadata, data and data products originating from data acquisition activities by all engaged coastal states, by setting, adopting and promoting common ...
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GAP2 is about making a difference to an issue of significance to the whole of society; the wellbeing of the marine environment and the sustainability of fisheries upon which society depends for food. It builds on the relationships, processes and plans arising from GAP1 by enabling Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) actions that promote stakeholder participation in the debate on and development ...
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LABELFISH

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

Creating a network of laboratories and national inspection bodies with experience and interest in developing a common strategy and the use of harmonized analytical techniques for controlling genetic traceability and labeling of seafood products that are sold in the AA regions and in the European markets. ...
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EuroVIP aims to co-ordinate European maritime SMEs, associations, larger companies, and research institutions to promote the application of research results and innovative technologies in SMEs, by service, technology and information (STI) transfer in terms of operational and technical collaboration support. It will provide a viable and sustainable means for the exploitation of outputs from past, p ...
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Ecosystem-based Responsive Fisheries Management in Europe (EcoFishMan)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

EcoFishMan seeks to develop a responsive fisheries management system (RFMS) based on results-based management (RBM) principles. The intended context of application of the RFMS is complex, mixed-fisheries and multi-stakeholder fishery sectors like those found in the EU/Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) area. It will be an ecosystem-based sustainable management system under a precautionary framework tha ...
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The project’s aims are the development and evaluation of mitigation/adaptation (M/A) policy portfolios and the prioritization of research needs and gaps for twelve (12) countries (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine) characterized as emerging economies.The achievement of these aims is ensured through seven (7 ...
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The Black Sea Catchment is internationally known as one of ecologically unsustainable development and inadequate resource management, which has led to severe environmental, social and economic problems. EnviroGRIDS @ Black Sea Catchment aims at building the capacities of regional stakeholders to use new international standards to gather, store, distribute, analyze, visualize and disseminate crucia ...
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Wetlands, Algae and Biogas (WAB)

Start date: Jan 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The Baltic Sea is under great environmental stress. The human impact has disturbed the ecological balance, and eutrophication is one of the most severe environmental problems. The nutrient leakage to the sea stimulates an over production of undesirable macro algae that accumulate in shallow waters, especially along the unique and very sensitive sandy coasts of the SB Sea. The overload of algae dam ...
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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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UP-GRADE BLACK SEA SCIENTIFIC NETWORK (UP-GRADE BS-SCENE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

The recently finished FP6 RI Black Sea SCENE project has established a Black Sea Scientific Network of leading environmental and socio-economic research institutes, universities and NGO’s from the countries around the Black Sea and has developed a distributed virtual data and information infrastructure that is populated and maintained by these organisations to improve the identification, access, e ...
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The overall impact from SUSPLAN is contribution to a substantially increased share of renewable energy sources (RES) in Europe at an acceptable level of cost, thereby increasing security of supply and competitiveness of RES industry. The results will ease PAN-European harmonisation and lead to a more integrated European energy market.The main objective is to develop guidelines for more efficient i ...
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Mediterranean Intermodal Transit (TRANSit)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

Ports in the Southern Mediterranean area play a key role in freight transportation, acting as the main gateways to the mainland. Their significant placement in the freight supply chain triggered the idea for an integrated management of the ports freight operations along with the provision and support of intermodal and multimodal services to transport operators (sea, road and rail).The main objecti ...
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CASPINFO aims at strengthening the regional capacity and performance of marine environmental data & information management, and adoption of international meta-data standards and data-management practices, involving stakeholders from management, research, and industry. The objectives are: • To initiate and maintain a Caspian Sea network of leading environmental and socio-economic research instit ...
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Intelligent Ports System (iPORTS)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Ports in the Southern Mediterranean area are lagging behind in the challenge of promoting regional development, as well as secure interregional, cross-border and transnational cooperation. The main objective of the project iPORTS is the use of ICTs and telematics for ports in order to regain their competitive edge and become intelligent and secure development gateways by: • Developing a strategic ...
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The overall objective of PORT-NET is to identify and tackle the main challenges faced by the European ports industry in order to create better operational structures and capacities and achieve the best possible regional integration of ports. Since ports are an important link of the transport chain, sub-objectives are to increase the quality of port services and to encourage cost efficient and envi ...
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Seagull-DevERB (Seagull )

Start date: Aug 19, 2002, End date: Nov 18, 2005,

The structure and living conditions differ considerably between the member regions of Euroregion Baltic (ERB), which are Kronoberg, Kalmar and Blekinge Counties in Sweden, the Regional Municipality of Bornholm in Denmark, The Kurzeme Planning Region in Latvia, Klaipeda County in Lithuania, Kaliningrad Region of The Russian Federation, and the Pomeranian and Warmia-Masurian Regions in Poland.The cr ...
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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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This project is carried out to contribute in the process of creating, modernizing and adjusting the European education and training system for social workers. It addresses the problem of both being depended on standardized problem solving, to secure best practice, and the need to adjust the methods according to regional, economical and cultural surroundings. It conveys best practice as well as pro ...
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Training is a necessary prerequisite for countries to fulfil their obligations as stated in the Convention of the Rights of the Child, more precisely articles 9, 20 and 25. A training package and a model for delivering such training is useful in all countries in the region and in Europe.
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The purpose of the project is to spread the knowledge about crowd and crisis management training among officers and crew members onboard vessels as well as to staff ashore shipping companies; these form the prime target groups. The aim is also to disseminate a common European standard, developed by the promoter, which has already been approved as the national standard of six EU countries. A learni ...
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The project aims to explore methods to help social workers, especially within child care, to acquire the judgemental skills that are so necessary in their daily work. The process will be via a workshop situation where - through dialogue, reflection and "stories" - child-care workers explore their own experiences and enhance their own skills. The project will test a model of examining experiences f ...
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EUE-Net – European University-Enterprise Cooperation - is an initiative to create a European Network able to assemble and to coordinate the efforts towards a better cooperation between universities and enterprises at European level, to disseminate the cooperation models and to promote best practice in Europe. The target groups of the project are graduates, students and learners in European univer ...
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The project aims at developing and disseminating methodologies for school history teaching and corresponding teacher and memorial-educators’ training addressing memorial culture on the Holocaust and WW2 in intercultural perspective (exemplarily addresses by the subject of German Occupation of Denmark and Norway in WW2 and Scandinavian Imprisonment in Neuengamme Concentration Camp, which generated ...
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