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Towards Smart Zero CO2 Cities across Europe (SmartEnCity)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2021,

SmartEnCity’s main Objective is to develop a highly adaptable and replicable systemic approach towards urban transformation into sustainable, smart and resource-efficient urban environments in Europe through the integrated planning and implementation of measures aimed at improving energy efficiency in main consuming sectors in cities, while increasing their supply of renewable energy, and demonstr ...
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Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food security (SALSA)

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

SALSA will assess the role of small farms and small food businesses in delivering a sustainable and secure supply of affordable, nutritious and culturally adequate food. SALSA will identify the mechanisms which, at different scales, can strengthen the role of small farms in food systems and thereby support sustainable food and nutrition security (FNS). By considering a gradient of 30 reference reg ...
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Peer-to-Peer Learning: Accessing Innovation through Demonstration (PLAID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

The PLAID project (Peer-to-peer Learning: Accessing Innovation through Demonstration) will identify, compile and make publically accessible the topics, locations, best practices and innovative approaches to demonstration on commercial farms in the EU 28, Switzerland and Norway. PLAID will enable access to demonstration activities by creating a searchable georeferenced inventory and map covering ...
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Advanced Tools to assEss and mitigate the criticality of ICT compoNents and their dependencies over Critical InfrAstructures (ATENA)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Over recent years, Industrial and Automation Control Systems (IACS) adopted in Critical Infrastructures (CIs) have become more complex due to the increasing number of interconnected devices, and to the large amount of information exchanged among system components. With the emergence of such an “Internet of Things” generation of IACS, the boundaries to be protected have grown well beyond that of th ...
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Systemic standardisation approach to empower smart cities and communities (ESPRESSO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

systEmic Standardisation apPRoach to Empower Smart citieS and cOmmunities (ESPRESSO) focuses on the development of a conceptual Smart Cities Information Framework, which consists of a Smart City platform (the so-called Smart City enterprise application) and a number of data provision and processing services to integrate data, workflows, and processes in applications relevant for Smart Cities withi ...
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Harmonized framework allowing a sustainable and robust identity for European Citizens (EKSISTENZ)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2017,

"The increase of the identity theft phenomenon across Europe and its related human and economical impacts is a major concern for all M.S. Several EU initiatives are ongoing to try to curb this concern. Today’s identity can take various forms, either in the “real” world, as a primary identity delivered by a M.S. (passport, ID card, driving license...) but more and more in the “2.0” world (secondary ...
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Recommendations for Reliable Breeder Documents Restoring e-Passport Confidence and Leveraging Extended Border Security (ORIGINS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The project ORIGINS aims to study the security of the extended border and more particularily passport breeder document security. The underlying idea of ORIGINS is to improve the security and therefore to restore the confidence in the application process and issuance of e-passports, by filling the gaps in security of breeder documents. Indeed, while some assurance approaches have been implemented i ...
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Fast and trustworthy Identity Delivery and check with ePassports leveraging Traveler privacy (FIDELITY)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Significant efforts have been invested to strengthen border ID checks with biometrics Travel Documents embedding electronic chips (ePassport). However, problems appeared regarding fraud in the ePassport issuing process, citizen losing control on their personal data, difficulties in certificates management, and shortcomings in convenience, speed, and efficiency of ID checks, including the access to ...
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Global and Local food chain Assessment: a MUltidimensional performance-based approach (GLAMUR)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

General objective of the project is to integrate advancement in scientific knowledge about the impact of food chains with application of knowledge to practice to increase food chains sustainability through public policies and private strategies. This general objective will be pursued through the following specific objectives:• To develop and validate a ‘performance criteria matrix’ for assessment ...
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Growth-Innovation-Competitiveness: Fostering Cohesion in Central and Eastern Europe (GRINCOH)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

...abilities – and greater economic, social and territorial cohesion; and (c) advise on future policy options, especially for EU Cohesion policy. Carried out by 12 highly qualified European research institutes, the envisaged research explores whether and how CEE development strategies can shift towards an ‘innovation-driven process of development’, vital for sustainable growth (and cohesion) in the c ...
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Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society (PERARES)

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

...nisations (CSOs) in the formulation of research agendas and the research process. It uses debates on science to actively articulate research requests of civil society. These are forwarded to research institutes, and results are used in a next phase of the debate. Thus, these debates move ‘upstream’ into agenda setting.For this, partners link existing debate formats with the science shop network – ...
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Baltic Metropolises Accelerating Branding and Identity Building of the Baltic Sea Region (ONE BSR)

Start date: Jun 12, 2012, End date: Sep 11, 2014,

The main aim of the ONE BSR Project is to increase the competitiveness of the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) by marketing it as one unity. ONE BSR functions as an umbrella project and calls together actors, who market themselves as part of the Baltic Sea Region. In the absence of a strong common brand, the project aims to search for common commercial and cultural characteristics with a concrete hands-on ...
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Central Baltic Testbed and Demonstration Facility (CeBa Testbed)

Start date: Apr 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

With the pace of today’s development of new user centric electronic services and equipment to enable these, it becomes increasingly important to verify services and equipment in testbeds comprising a real end user environment including test pilots. It is also evident that better collaboration between testbeds is needed; today test and demonstration facilities are fragmented with too little mutual ...
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SmartComp - Smart competitiveness for the Central Baltic region (SmartComp)

Start date: Apr 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Maritime sector has always been sensitive for economical changes. During the past years maritime clusters in the Central Baltic region have faced tightened competition, new requirements of environmental protection, structural changes and weakened competitiveness. Maritime clusters play an important role in different sectors of economy and thus its profitability has wide influences to other sectors ...
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Innovative Services for International Talents - Easier Access to the CBSR (EXPAT)

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

...es provided to expats by different actors in the CBSR and develop ways to better coordinate and integrate the services. PARTNERSHIP: The partners consist of regional authorities, research institutes, area developers and universities from Sweden, Estonia, Latvian and Finland. The inputs of regional authorities in the project will be policy recommendation for initiatives coordination and awarene ...
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Baltic Sea cooperation for reducing ship and port emissions through knowledge and innovation-based competitiveness (BSR InnoShip)

Start date: Jun 9, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

Maritime transport constitutes a vitally important part of trade and services for the countries around the Baltic Sea and Europe. Baltic shipping is constantly growing and some of the busiest shipping routes in the world go through the Baltic Sea. Consequently, the sensitive environment of the Baltic Sea is threatened by increasing pollution from the shipping industry. Through international agreem ...
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European Seas and Territorial Development, Opportunities and Risks (ESaTDOR)

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

Europe’s seas have become important in terms of policy making on both European and national level. The exploitation of sea and coastal areas for economic purposes is becoming increasingly important but there are also growing concerns on environmental issues. There have been attempts to replace the existing fragmented approaches to sea management with a more collaborative integrative approach on th ...
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Centralbaltic Job Ferry (CB Job Ferry)

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

The overall objective of the current proposed project, correlated with the global objectives of the Central Baltic cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013, is to intensify the cross-border cooperation of all labour market participants in the common border region in a socially and economically sustainable way meant to support the development of a cross-border labour market. Specifically the p ...
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Interregional SME Supply Clusters along the Northeast Corridor (BalticSupply)

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

BalticSupply (BS) is a transnational project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and made possible by the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) Programme. The project addresses the problem that very often markets in the BSR are too small and the fact that SMEs encounter a number of access barriers to European supply markets. These barriers cause competitive disadvantages for Baltic SMEs and th ...
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Baltic Living Labs (BALLAD)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

The countries of Central Baltic are strongly positioned when it comes to broadband networks and services for mobile and fixed applications. Exploited in the right way the situation in the Central Baltic area therefore holds great potentials for further development of a strong and vibrant business ICT-community. However, there are significant challenges hampering the market for digital services. A ...
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Small Innovative Business Promotion Network (SIB Net)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 30, 2012,

The aim of the project is to promote new innovative high growth firms, e.g. gazelles, by encouraging entrepreneurial creativity, providing the necessary support and evaluating needs for early stage risk finance. Project aims to solve the common market failure in the region to release innovative spinouts from regional research centres and higher education institutions. ...
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Climate Change: Impacts, Costs and Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region (BaltCICA)

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

Climate change was recognized not only in terms of mitigation but also because of the need of adaptation as a major challenge that cannot be solved solely by single actors and territorial restricted actions, but asks for a coordination and support at a higher level. This is highlighted by the EU Green Paper on Adaptation to Climate Change, but also by other documents such as the EC Thematic Strate ...
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The Baltic 21 Eco Region Project (Eco-Region)

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

The EcoRegion project was developed in the years 2007/2008 and finally implemented between 2009- 2011 in order to contribute to the aim of Baltic 21 to turn the Baltic Sea Region into the world’s first EcoRegion, where economic growth goes hand in hand with environmental integrity and social justice.The transnational project – co-financed by the ERDF BSR Programme 2007-2013 - was based on the uniq ...
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"Impact of Networks, Globalisation, and their Interaction with EU Strategies" (INGINEUS)

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

"INGINEUS addresses the evolution of global production networks (GPNs) into global innovation networks (GINs), and the impact this new process of global capitalism has on knowledge intensive activities in the EU. Global sourcing and assembly arrangements have been around for some three decades. They were principally based on efficiency considerations. Thus, multinational firms (MNCs) outsourced pa ...
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On the Margins of the European Community Young adult immigrants in seven European countries (EUMARGINS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

The extents to which different groups of young adult migrants are socially included or excluded, and the factors that facilitate inclusion or help cause exclusion is a vital issue for young adult immigrants, the nations they have joined, and the European Union whose policies have facilitated large volumes and rapid rates of change in migrant flows. Our central concept is that there are a range of ...
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moting Regional Innovation System in St. Petersburg through Transnational Cooperation - SPb InnoReg (SPb InnoReg)

Start date: Dec 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2008,

The project SPb InnoReg - Promoting Regional Innovation System in St. Petersburg through Transnational Cooperation aims to promote sustainable economic development and competitiveness in the city of St. Petersburg. This is done by strengthening the regional innovation system (RIS) and improving utilization of the innovation and research potential of St. Petersburg in cooperation between Finnish, G ...
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ADRIATIC-BALTIC LANDBRIDGE (A-B LANDBRIDGE)

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

Besides east/west connections and transport corridors, the enlarged EU also needs an improvement in the transport routes connecting the Mediterranean and Baltic countries. The Adriatic-Baltic land bridge project will conduct a pre-feasibility analysis and develop a deployment roadmap for north/south intermodal transport connections which link Europe and the Mediterranean countries with global mark ...
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LogVAS - Logistic potentials for value added services in port-located areas (LogVAS)

Start date: Aug 31, 2005, End date: Feb 28, 2008,

The traffic flow in the Baltic Sea Region rises immediately and several studies forecast an ongoing dynamic growth in the upcoming years. Ports can benefit from this growth if they do not serve as water-gates only but also create Value Added Services (VAS) on the goods handled. In order to implement the most efficient VAS in the respective ports it is vital to acquire information regarding the kin ...
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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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Developing Policies & Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region (ASTRA)

Start date: Jun 5, 2005, End date: Jan 4, 2008,

...ea Region and assesses the results and develops adaptation strategies to maintain the sustainable environmental and socio-economic development in the region.Astra's partners comprise various research institutes and regional planning offices around the Baltic Sea Region, broken down to 19 inner and 16 outer circle partners. Lead partner of the project is the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK).The f ...
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Baltic SeaBreeze (BSB)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The goal for the Baltic SeaBreeze (BSB) project was to increase awareness of the marine pollution situation in the target sectors of fishing, shipping, and leisure craft owners. Focus areas have been environmental issues in guest harbours and marinas, Blue Flag activities, courses for fishermen and seamen, and a media campaign. The ultimate goal of Baltic SeaBreeze was to change the attitudes and ...
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A.S.A.P. - Efficient Administrative Structures as a Prerequisite for Successful Economic and Social Development of Rural Areas in Demographic Transition (A.S.A.P.)

Start date: Dec 18, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Effective public sector action is a cornerstone of spatially balanced and sustainable development in the Baltic Sea Region. Especially rural areas need administrative support for compensating lower economic potentials for the benefit of their population. ASAP created innovative solutions to meet the most urgent challenges for rural development in the Baltic Sea Region in an integrated way: Demogra ...
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Intermodality and Interoperability in the Baltic Sea Region - InterBatlic (InterBaltic)

Start date: Dec 27, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The InterBaltic project is initiated by the CPMR Baltic Sea Commission and seconded by the Baltic Development Forum, based on the assumption that there will be a considerable increase in transportation and logistics within, to and from, and through the Baltic Sea region. This situation will affect political decisions, business development and living conditions in general.The main objective of this ...
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Integrating Logistics Centre Networks in the Baltic Sea Region (InLoC)

Start date: Jul 31, 2004, End date: Mar 30, 2007,

As a follow up of the project NeLoC projecz InLoc aimed at further improvement of the networking between logistics centres, ports and other logistics operators in the Baltic Sea Region. The project also analysed spatial and environmental consequences of logistics centres and aimed at removing bottlenecks in port-hinterland connections. Furthermore, the project tried to improve the compatibility of ...
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Maritime English Learning Tool (MarEng Plus)

The original web-based maritime English learning tool MarEng was finished in the spring 2007 as a result of a transnational Leonardo da Vinci project MarEng. During the first year of its existence, the learning tool was widely taken into use by different user groups (e.g. maritime students and workers) all over the world. However, based on the feedback received, the tool was missing some relevant ...
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Tuning environmental competences in Russian fishery education for sustainable development (TUNA)

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

The main goal of the project is to modify the existing Bachelor Degree courses in the field of water bioresources at Russian faculties at Kaliningrad State Technical University, Kuban State University, Nizhny Novgorod State Agricultural Academy and Tumen State Agricultural Academy into environmental orientated courses, so that each courses contains modules on modern environmental management and ...
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