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COLLECTIVE ACTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF THE EU SEA TURTLE POPULATIONS (LIFE EUROTURTLES)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

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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LIFE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DRY GRASSLANDS IN EASTERN SLOVENIA (LIFE TO GRASSLANDS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

Background Dry grasslands – semi-natural dry grasslands on calcareous substrates (6210) and species-rich Nardus grasslands on siliceous substrates in mountain areas (6230) – have a bad/unfavourable conservation status in Slovenia. Overgrowth resulting from land abandonment is a critical threat for these habitat types. Additionally in the past few dec ...
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Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

SIMRA seeks to advance understanding of social innovation (SI) and innovative governance in agriculture, forestry and rural development (RD), and how to boost them, particularly in marginalised rural areas across Europe, with a focus on the Mediterranean region (including non-EU) where there is limited evidence of outcomes and supporting conditions. These objectives will be achieved by: 1. Develop ...
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European Virus Archive goes global (EVAg)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The overall objective will be to create and mobilise an International network of high calibre centres around a strong European group of institutes selected for their appropriate expertises, to collect, amplify, characterise, standardise, authenticate, distribute and track, mammalian and other exotic viruses. The network of EVAg laboratories including 25 institutions represents an extensive range o ...
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Ensuring the Integrity of the European food chain (FOODINTEGRITY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...point for harmonisation and exploitation of research and technology for insuring the integrity of European food. Comprising an inner core of project participants from industry, academia, research institutes, technology providers and a global network of stakeholders, FOODINTEGRITY will rationalise and harmonise capability to provide a coherent structure and process for assuring the food supply.FOOD ...
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Empowering Literacy in Adolescents through Creative Engagement with Comics

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

International studies showed that EU students do not perform well in science, math and literacy skills (PISA, TIMMS, OECD). One of the specific priorities of the school education program is to address the low achievement in basic skills through more effective teaching methods and in particular through projects that foster interdisciplinary approaches and the integration of teaching basic skills su ...
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Transnational Education in LEADER Implementation 2

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The project is based around the LEADER program which is a highly effective and successful model of integrated social and economic development in rural communities. LEADER is delivered in a variety of different fashions by the member states.The project will entail a study of the delivery of the LEADER programme - seeking examples of the most efficient modes of implementation in the partner coun ...
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Green Logistics e-Training in Cereal/Rice Sector

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

...language. The applicant (Greece) is a HEI specialized in logistics and e-learning, active in EU projects participation, significant networking on local, regional level. The second greek partner as an Institute will be supported by University professors, has a strong cooperation with the Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Greece and will exploit experts , in EU agricultural policy, Hellenic ...
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Sustainable Innovative Mobilisation of Wood (SIMWOOD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"SIMWOOD presents a novel idea for an innovative, integrated approach to multifunctional forestry and enhanced wood mobilisation across European forest regions. The project targets a multitude of forest owners and stakeholders to spread integrated, transferable solutions and viable policies to unlock immobile forest resources and ensure sustainable forest functions. A novel pan-European Informatio ...
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Making society an active participant in water adaptation to global change (BEWATER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Sustainable water management under climate change is an urgent challenge for the Euro-Mediterranean region. Future climate change projections estimate an increase in water scarcity and droughts in the region, causing substantial socioeconomic losses and environmental impacts.In this context, efforts are needed to strengthen public participation and embed a sense of responsibility within the societ ...
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Changing places, changing lives. International Mobility and Migration in Youth Work

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

"Changing places, changing lives" is a training course designed to meet the challenges and opportunities related to migration and to international mobility in Europe. It will analyze causes and effects of migration, discovering the different components that motivate young people to emigrate. TC will discuss various aspects of migration: analyzing causes and effects of brain drain, labor, study an ...
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uro-meDiterranean cAreer & Employment aDvisor portAl for the mobiLity of yoUng residentS (DAEDALUS)

Start date: Dec 30, 2013, End date: Dec 29, 2015,

Project in brief The large young population entering the job market in the Mediterranean area will represent a major challenge in the upcoming years. Qualified young people who should enhance the competitiveness of the Mediterranean area need to overcome numerous barriers while seeking career and employment opportunities. Building professional profiles, finding opportunities, matching successfully ...
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Enhancing Horticultural Perishable Products Circulation among the Mediterranean territories (E.H.P.P.C. - Med)

Start date: Dec 20, 2013, End date: Dec 19, 2015,

Project in brief The agro-food sector plays an important role in the economic context of the Euro-Mediterranean area, where the perspectives of an exponential growth of trade exchanges are increasingly opening up. However the circulation of horticultural perishable products in the region is still affected and restricted by the existence of outdated procedures and by the lack of automated processes ...
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Requalification of Employment And Diversification for Youth in the Mediterranean Fisheries sector (R.E.A.D.Y. MED. FISH.)

Start date: Nov 13, 2013, End date: Nov 12, 2015,

Project in brief Fishing economy still plays an important socioeconomic role for the whole Mediterranean region, although the fishery sector is experiencing a period of severe crisis due to the increase in production costs (fuel for instance) and the reduction in fishing stocks. This condition is causing increasing occupational migration with an estimated decrease in the number of fishermen by 4-5 ...
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Strengthening of Centres for Aquaculture production and Safety surveillance in Adriatic Cross-border Countries (CAPS2)

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

...f microbiology problems and ichthyopathologies. Project promoted also the development of several new diagnostic services for aquaculture farms through the strengthening of the Croatian Veterinary Institute (CVI) diagnostic tools and implemented a web GIS application for the surveillance of molluscs biological safety conditions. In addition, the collection and analysis of data on shellfish bacterio ...
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European Union and African Union cooperative research to increase Food production in irrigated farming systems in Africa/ EAU4Food (EAU4Food)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

EAU4Food seeks to address the need for new approaches to increase food production in irrigated areas in Africa, while ensuring healthy and resilient environments. Potential pitfalls of introducing innovations in local farming systems, like limited adoption by farmers and trade-off effects to other (environmental) systems are overcome by, respectively, i) utilizing a true transdisciplinary approach ...
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Επενδύουμε δυναμικά στους νέους μέσω της ΕΕΥ /Empowering youth, through EVS

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

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Capitalising Climate Change Knowledge for Adaptation in the Alpine Space (C3-Alps)

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

C3-Alps will synthesize, transfer and implement in policy and practice results of previous Alpine Space projects on climate change adaptation. The capitalisation approach aims at a) generating new and directly usable forms of state-of-the-art synthesis adaptation knowledge in the Alps, harmonised across sectors and useful to adaptation decision-makers, b) its effective and tailor-made communicatio ...
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Clean Rivers to Healthy Baltic Sea

Start date: Dec 12, 2012, End date: Dec 11, 2014,

Overall objective of the project is to create basic precondition for improving water quality and restore natural biodiversity of Luga river, that will contribute to reduce the nutrient load to the Baltic Sea and to solve tasks of the Baltic Sea Action Plan. Second objective is cooperation development between Russian and Finnish official, scientific, educational and non-governmental organizations, ...
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Improvement of current and development of new vaccines for theileriosis and babesios of small ruminants (PIROVAC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The proposal deals with the establishment of control measures for two major tick-borne diseases of small ruminants: theileriosis caused by Theileria lestoquardi and T. uilenbergi and babesiosis caused by Babesia ovis. The research programme aims at improving existing and producing new attenuated vaccines, designing subunit vaccines and capability building. To achieve these goals the proposal will ...
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New tools and approaches to control Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) in the EU and Asia (PoRRSCon)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is the major cause of reproductive and respiratory problems in pigs worldwide. Controlling this disease is a top priority in pig producing countries. Due to mutations at a high frequency, new variants of the virus appear that are no longer effectively controlled by the commercial vaccines. In addition, highly virulent variants emerge, lea ...
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PLANT food supplements: Levels of Intake, Benefit and Risk Assessment (PlantLIBRA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

Plant food supplements, or botanicals, have high acceptance by European consumers. Potentially, they can deliver significant health benefits, safely, and at relatively low costs. New regulations and EFSA guidance are also now in. However, concerns about safety, quality and efficacy of these products remain, and bottle-necks in risk and benefit assessments need to be solved. PlantLIBRA (PLANT food ...
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LOC PRO II-Support and Promotion of Local Products and SMEs through ICT (LOC PRO II)

Start date: Mar 18, 2012, End date: May 18, 2014,

LOC PRO II project is the continuation of the successful LOC PRO I project, which was completed under the previous GR-IT INTERREG program. The main objective concerns the support of entrepreneurs & enterprises producing local typical quality products, in such a manner that achieves a high degree of ICT integration in the everyday work and the use of modern marketing tools & techniques. This aim wi ...
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Coordinating research in support to application of EAF (Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries) and management advice in the Mediterranean and Black Seas (CREAM)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

...") will establish an effective collaboration network among key role players in Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries research and management. The participants in the project include national research institutes from Mediterranean and Black Sea countries with a long history and active participation in fisheries research and assessment, who provide advice to national, regional and international fish ...
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Safe Food for Europe – Coordination of research activities and Dissemination of research results of EC funded research on food safety (FOODSEG)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

"The proposed Coordination and support actions (Coordinating, CSA) has the overall objective to disseminate state-of-the-art research results in food safety and quality topics through a series of symposia, expert working group meetings, an online platform with best practise examples and coordination of cooperation and a plan for the preparation of future activities. In addition to the aim of disse ...
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Sustainable Mobility and Tourism in Sensitive Areas of the Alps and the Carpathians (ACCESS2MOUNTAIN)

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

The Alpine and the Carpathian Conventions state sustainable tourism mobility as a challenge and call for cooperation on this topic among the countries of these mountain regions. In particular sustainable tourist mobility is not well-developed in mountainous regions, especially in South-East Europe, as mountain regions are lacking sufficient sustainable transport facilities and facing major ecologi ...
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moting the ecological network in the European Green Belt (Greennet)

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

During the last century and over decades Central Europe was divided by an insuperable border called the Iron Curtain. Especially the eastern side of the former border was extremely sparsely populated and the border zone itself was left completely unsettled. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s and the reunion of Eastern and Western Europe this former border area now runs like a Gre ...
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ENHANCEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT (CHERPLAN)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Cultural Heritage sites located in both rural and urban areas are often facing the dilemma between loss of cultural values and hence loss of identity, due to non-sustainable growth, and economic decline and emigration, due to inappropriate infrastructure and high cost of living (especially, buildings maintenance). CHERPLAN aims to provide a strong basis for ensuring compatibility and synergy betwe ...
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Integrated management of biological and landscape diversity for sustainable regional development and ecological connectivity in the Carpathians (BIOREGIO Carpathians)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

BIOREGIO Carpathians is aimed at enhancing the integrated management of the Carpathians protected areas and natural assets in a transnational context and thereby increase the attractiveness of the region. The Carpathians, the largest mountain range of Europe, harbour a unique natural heritage and act as a major ecological link within Europe. Experiences e.g. from the Alpine Space demonstrate that ...
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Monitoring and Evaluation of Spatially Managed Areas (MESMA) (MESMA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The increasing pressures upon the marine realm call for a well planned approach of further spatial development of this area. An ecosystem-based approach to fisheries, the increasing demand for sustainable energy, coastal defence systems, building materials and safe transport routes and the need to protect marine habitats and species all compete for the same valuable space. At the same time climate ...
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An innovative tool for improving the competitiveness of community based tourism (Comcot)

Start date: Oct 31, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Tourism is seen as a main income source in many rural areas with strategies stressing new sustainable, high quality market orientated products linked locally, regionally & internationally. Few SMEs can provide all that is demanded in the markets thus necessitating cooperation & joint marketing with other SMEs & actors in their area. However, tourism development initiatives mostly target SMEs, lead ...
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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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Cross-border initiative for the protection and revitalization of environment biodiversity using autoctonous breeds (APRO)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2013,

This Project is dedicated to the protection of autoctonous/native breeds which are strictly linked to the territory where they live i.e. to the historical and geographical area of Istria on both the Croatian and the Slovenian side, where state borders and division of the territory represent an obstacle that can be minimized by the finance scheme of this cross-border collaboration programme. ...
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Sustainable Hydro Assessment and Groundwater Recharge Projects (SHARP)

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

Over 95% of the worlds freshwater, excluding glaciers and ice caps, is found underground. Groundwater provides the steady, base flow of rivers and wetlands, maintaining this flow and keeping it free from pollution is vital for surface water ecosystems. Groundwater is also a crucial source of drinking water, supplying the water systems for three out of four EU citizens. In some countries groundwate ...
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RURALAND: RURAL DEVELOPMENT PLAYERS (RURALAND)

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

Ruraland is the result of a high level of understanding between a series of European regions which have a long-standing tradition in cooperation between each other and with other territories. Ruraland was set up after various meetings with different entities sharing the wish to promote innovative and competitive regional rural development policies. The partnership is made up by 10 regional authori ...
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Renewable Energy Regions Network (RENREN)

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

RENREN grew out of a collaboration of 6 core regions concerned to play their part in global climate action and security of energy supply, and seeking to improve regional policy-making to nurture renewable energy sources (RES). They signed a Charter to this effect in April 2007. To develop an EU-wide partnership and spread the learning benefits of RENREN further, it was decided in 2008 that new mem ...
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Baltic COMPASS - Comprehensive Policy Actions and Investments in Sustainable Solutions in Agriculture in the Baltic Sea Region (Baltic COMPASS)

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

...rs. The project aims to support win-win solutions for agriculture, environment and business sectors throughout the Baltic Sea Region. 23 partners from authorities, interest organizations and research institutes in Finland, Russia, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden constituates the partnership. The target groups for Baltic COMPASS are governments, authorities, ...
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Sustainable energy for the rural village environment (SERVE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2007, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

The SERVE project demonstrates sustainable energy use in rural communities. Retrofit work is led by the Local Authority (NTCC) and new build by a not-for-profit co-operative (SPIL). SPIL is selling serviced sites in an Eco-Village to members, who will then build under the control and guidance of SPIL. This 132-home project is already under way. Thus, it will act as a flagship for Concerto from the ...
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Sustainable Urban Fringes (SURF)

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

SURF focuses on the urban fringe (social /economic/environmental) and developing instruments in which to manage a sustainable urban frindge (UF). In addition, the project aims to put the UF higher on the political agenda within the partner regions, at national and regional governments and at EU level. In most cases the UFs act as the hinterland of the urban centres, are of complex shape with a sc ...
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The farmer as water manager under changing climatic conditions (Aquarius)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

The project focuses on enabling farmers to act successfully as water managers in changing climatic conditions. The project will present water risk management practices that will reduce the consequences of flooding, droughts, water shortage and nutrient transport. The emphasis on the farmer as a water manager is contributing towards implementing EU policies, such as the Water Framework Directive. T ...
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