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Social Enterprises in Community Renewable Energy (SECRE)

Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

SECRE is a transnational network of renewable energy and social business expertise in Northern Periphery. SECRE works for social enterprises. Social enterprises provide significant amount of net profit to fulfill social goals or invest to own business to enhance social impact.SECRE challenges renewable energy businesses and communities to find and define social goals in the field of renewable ener ...
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Services of General Interest (SeGi)

Start date: Oct 31, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Services of general interest traditionally comprehend electronic communications, postal services, electricity, gas, water and transport. Policymakers more recent documents tend to be more comprehensive and also look at labour market services, education, health care, child care, social care, culture or (social) housing. Socio-economic policies much focus on ensuring the provision of services of gen ...
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Nordic-Baltic Dialogues on transnational perspectives in spatial planning (NORBA)

Start date: Feb 15, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The aim of this project is to facilitate transnational dialogues on spatial planning between policy makers and practitioners, scientists and young academics and students in the Nordic-Baltic countries. Cooperation with Nordic and Baltic organizations dealing with spatial planning issues and territorial cohesion, Vision and Strategies in the Baltic Sea Region (VASAB) and the Nordic Section of the R ...
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ELLETime - Solutions for competitive pellet production in medium size enterprises 1.6 (PELLETime)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2010,

...ls, pelletizing trials, combustion and emission analyses, and end-user advisory and dissemination. So far a new forest energy enterprise, Skogarorka ehf. has been established in Hallormsstadur, East Iceland. It was initiated during the NPP project Northern WoodHeat. The enterprise has launched new 500 kW heating scheme based on local woodfuels and subsitituting electricity and fuel oil. PELLETi ...
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Spatial Planning in Northern Peripheral Regions (Spatial Planning)

Start date: Feb 28, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Spatial planning and development have been developed as a method in the EU over a long period, and have resulted in the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP). However, the specific conditions in the NPP area make it important to develop methods for spatial planning and development that are adapted for the region. In orderto achieve this, exchange of knowledge and experience in the field ...
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Northern Coastal Experience - NORCE (NORCE)

Start date: Mar 6, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

NORCE aims to establish a network of coastal heritage sites throughout the Northern Periphery region. It will develop a joint information strategy for these sites and provide information for key end-users; such as local tourist organisations, SMEs and transportation providers. The strategy will promote and integrate the relevant physical connections with cultural links. The project will also assis ...
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Broadband in Remote and Rural Areas - BIRRA (BIRRA)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2006,

Telecommunication and access to information society services are factors of great importance for the future development of the Northern Periphery. ICT helps to overcome certain disadvantages caused by long distances and peripheral locations characteristic of the NPP area. The BIRRA project recognises that there is great disparity across NPP regions and also internally between the availability of b ...
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Developing Rural Woman's Entrepreneurship - Rural Business Women (Rural Business Women)

Start date: May 31, 2003, End date: May 29, 2006,

The aim of the project is to focus on the development of the inhabitants and entrepreneurs in rural areas, especially womens small-scale entrepreneurs and tourism businesses in Northern Peripheral areas. All partner areas have high rates of female unemployment in common, as well as poor infrastructure, depopulation and many natural resources. The main function of this transnational project is to s ...
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Destination Viking - Saga Lands (Destination Viking)

Start date: Dec 31, 2002, End date: Dec 30, 2005,

Sagas and storytelling are unique cultural features of the Northern Periphery. The stories contain embedded information about former land-use and historic events related to the landscape. A major element of the project is the establishment of a number of Saga Trails. The project also aims to revive the tradition of saga and storytelling, and to make information and events from the sagas and storie ...
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University Network for Innovation in Guidance

Start date: Nov 1, 2009,

Preamble The foundation of an academic ERASMUS network of HEI in Europe in the filed of career guidance degree and study programs can be seen as the implementation of the recommendations of the European Commission and the OECD made on the basis of their comprehensive studies carried out in the last eight years.» The planned ERASMUS network emphasises the unique wide-ranging scientific responsibili ...
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