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SUSTAINABLE FARMING IN SPAs OF CASTILLA-LA MANCHA FOR STEPPE BIRDS CONSERVATION (LIFE STEPPE FARMING)

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

Background Founded in 1993, Fundación Global Natura (FGN) is a private national charitable organisation dedicated to the conservation, protection and management of the environment. FGN projects contribute to maintaining and restoring habitat and endangered species, technological innovation and recovery of traditional farming activities through land stewa ...
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Recovering the historic distribution range of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) in Spain and Portugal (Iberlince)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Background Up until the 19th century, the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) could be found in all the regions of Spain and Portugal. Since then, and particularly in the last decades of the 20th century, its population and distribution area have suffered an alarming decline. The species is the most threatened carnivorous mammal in Europe. There are currently on ...
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Sustainable Technology for Older People – Get Organised (STOPandGO)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Description The rapidly ageing population across the EU is placing relentless pressure on increasingly scarce health and social care resources. More people live with multiple co-morbidities, and there are fewer people to care for them. The Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) showed that incorporating telehealth and telecare technology into care ...
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Fight against climate change: innovative technologies for an efficient use of resources and energy in the rehabilitation of housing (NEWsolutions4OLDhousing)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Background Promoting sustainable construction is one of the priority actions for achieving EU objectives around resource efficiency, climate change, economic recovery and sustainable development. However, equally important is the fact that 70% of Europeans lives in residential buildings that are more than 20 years old, which were generally built to lower ...
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Conservation of Mediterranean priority species in Castille-La Mancha (Priorimancha)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Background The Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti), Bonelli's eagle (Hieraaetus fasciatus) and the black vulture (Aegypius monachus) are priority species under EU conservation legislation. Populations of these species breeding in Spain are under serious threat, mainly from habitat degradation, low availability of food resources, electrocution by pow ...
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Action to fight illegal poison use in the natural environment in Spain (VENENO NO)

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

Background The ‘Red Book’ of Spanish Birds (‘Libro Rojo de las Aves de España’) highlights illegal use of poisons as a threat to endangered species protected by the Birds and Habitats Directives. Action is required to eliminate illegal use of poisons for predator control in Spain and so minimise such threats to the country’s Red List species. ...
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Nécessités d'interconnexion des régions du Sud-ouest européen. Optimisation du réseau d'infrastructures depuis une analyse multimodale (PIRENE IV)

Start date: Mar 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

El presente proyecto supone la continuación de los proyectos PIRENE II y III aprobados en el marco del INTERREG III B SUDOE. El presente proyecto pretende lograr una mejora de las infraestructuras existentes en el Sudoeste europeo así como obtener ventajas de las nuevas líneas férreas planificadas para el transporte de viajeros y mercancías. Una parte importante de los estudios que se realicen en ...
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Réseau de transfert intersectoriel (REDIN)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: May 30, 2011,

El objetivo del proyecto es crear una red de empresas de distintos sectores que permita mejorar los procesos de transferencia de tecnología y los procesos de gestión del conocimiento. Se pretende que esta red cuente con la colaboración de actores institucionales de cada una de las regiones participantes que apoyen a las empresas en los mencionados procesos de innovación y transferencia de tecnolog ...
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Ecological ceramics optimization. Alternative to sludge disposal (ECO-CERAMICS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2005, End date: Nov 30, 2008,

Background In recent years, ambitious city wastewater purifying programmes have been implemented across Europe. This has led to a considerable increase in the sludge generated by sewage treatment plants, which is either deposited in landfills or incinerated. Increasingly, it is also processed to produce fertiliser. However, sludge generally contains heavy ...
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