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Static Acoustic Monitoring of the Baltic Sea Harbour porpoise (SAMBAH)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Background The Baltic Sea subpopulation of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is small and has been drastically reduced in recent decades. The species is listed in Annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive as well as in the national red lists of several Member States. This, in combination with a complex of threats and problems that are still fairly po ...
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A structured network for integration of climate knowledge into policy and territorial planning (ORIENTGATE)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The OrientGate project will foster concerted and coordinated climate adaptation actions across the SEE region. The project will explore climate risks faced by coastal, rural and urban communities; contribute to a better understanding of the impact of climate variability and change on water regimes, forests and agro-ecosystems; and analyse specific adaptation needs in the hydroelectricity, agro-ali ...
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Danube WATER integrated management (WATER)

Start date: Jun 29, 2012, End date: Jun 28, 2014,

Improving water monitoring and the warnings system, environmental data dissemination on the Romanian-Bulgarian border counties. Processing and conditioning the liquid organic wastes radioactively contaminated from the nuclear plants Cernavodǎ and Kozloduy.
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INCA Central Europe - Integrated nowcasting system for the Central European area (INCA-CE)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2013,

Weather and especially severe weather is responsible for many natural disasters causing damage and loss of life. Weather forecasts are an essential part of early warning systems and consecutive actions within civil protection schemes, road management and flood protection. In the last years nowcasting, which is the forecast for the next hours, has improved significantly. Disasters at small time and ...
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An advanced weather radar network for the Baltic Sea Region: BALTRAD+ (BALTRAD+)

Start date: Jun 8, 2011, End date: Sep 7, 2013,

...he fourth user forum took place on 21/22nd November 2013 in Berlin. - BALTRAD reached interests beyond the BSR region. The Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center (UHMC), the national meteorological institute in Ukraine and the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (ROSHYDROMET) joined the partnership by signing the BALTRAD Cooperation Agreement. This agreement go ...
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Modern Water Management in the South Baltic Sea Area (MOMENT)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

The European Water Policy and the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) aim at ensuring clean waters. HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) has appointed eutrophication and hazardous substances as key issues requiring action. In achieving this, the roles of local actors and citizens will be crucial. The local and regional levels are very important for the implementation of practical measures aiming at ...
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European Lakes Under Environmental Stressors (Supporting lake governance to mitigate the impact of climate change) (EULAKES)

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

Most of the Central European Lakes have become more and more valuable natural resources deeply linked with the regional scale sustainable development. Change in water temperature, region water shortage, or the uneven temporal distribution of freshwater sources caused by climate change, are giving some initial future warning signs. The project EULAKES aims to promote a new integrated approach in or ...
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Regional Strategies for Disaster Prevention (CivPro)

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

Over the last few years, Europe's forest fires, floods and droughts and man-made disasters have become fiercer and more intense. Some partners in the CivPro project have their own sometimes tragic experiences and some of them have such a high risk profile that risk prevention is on the top of their political agenda. Disasters have quite often a devastating effect on people's lives, their livelihoo ...
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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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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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Drought Management Centre for South East Europe (DMCSEE)

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

Droughts have dramatically increased in number and intensity in some parts of Europe. The vulnerability to drought impacts in South East Europe (SEE) is higher in comparison to neighbouring regions. Ineffective water management is seen as the fundamental problem and can induce additional problems when drought occurs. Droughts have become a strategic issue in SEE. National focal points of the UN Co ...
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An advanced weather radar network for the Baltic Sea Region: BALTRAD (BALTRAD)

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

...he project partnership constitutes national weather services in Finland and Denmark, with both weather and hydrological services in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Russia, and Belarus. These are the institutes that own and operate the radars in each country, and that will be responsible for ensuring BALTRAD's sustainability at the end of the project. There is also a Finnish end user in the partne ...
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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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maNET - Permafrost long-term monitoring network (PermaNET)

Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Jul 13, 2011,

Permafrost is highly sensitive to climatic changes. Permafrost degradation and related natural hazards affect traffic routes, tourism areas, settlements and infrastructures. The main problem is a lacking strategy for the consideration of these newly observed specific impacts of climate change in risk prevention and territorial development. With the joint development of a common strategy for dealin ...
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Monitoring, forcasting and best practices for FLOOD Mitigation and prevEntion in the CADSES region (FLOODMED)

Start date: Feb 28, 2006, End date: Apr 29, 2008,

Hydro-meteorological monitoring and flood forecasting are indispensable for preventing and mitigating hydrological hazards, such as floods, and for ensuring civil protection. Implementing a plan that acknowledges the principles of sustainability to combat floods requires further activities regarding agriculture, forestry and land-use management in flood risk areas. As most river catchments areas b ...
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RISK-Advanced Weather forecasting system to Advice on Risk Events and manage-ment (RISK AWARE)

Start date: Apr 30, 2006, End date: Apr 29, 2008,

Meteorological hazards, especially flooding, cause the loss of lives and the destruction building and infrastructure. This demands for improving forecasts and timely warnings of such hazards in order to protect lives and properties. The project general objectives are the prevention of geo-hydrological natural disaster at regional, national and trans-national level forced by meteorological situatio ...
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MunServNet: Improving Sustainability of Municipal Service Provision in the Field of Water and Waste Water Management (MunServNet)

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

As budget constraints of most municipalities are increasing, municipal service providers in the water and waste sector face pressures to improve efficiency and decrease costs. Additional challenges arise from legal obligations, such as EC directives to meet water quality and environmental standards as well as from rising public expectations concerning quality of service. To meet these demands muni ...
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Hydrological cycle of the CADSES regions (HYDROCARE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The project HYDROCARE wishes to develop an integrated system capable of assessing the impact of hydrometeorological events on the water resources in the CADSES region. Emphasis will be put on the development of effective transnational tools for a rational exploitation of the water resources, with the purpose of preserving and enhancing economical and environmental welfare. Such managing tools will ...
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Development of an Integrated Basin Management System in order to correlate water quality and quantity analysis with socio-economical analysis, using Open-GIS technology (DIMINISH)

Start date: Dec 1, 2003, End date: Dec 1, 2006,

Background The Bistrita catchment basin is highly sensitive to human activities, and is one of the most polluted basins of the Danube Basin. A Romanian Waters Annual Report on water quality revealed a high concentration of ammonium, nitrates, and organic matter, with high levels of nutrients mainly around two areas –Bacau County – one of the most i ...
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