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An Open Innovation Local Business and Students network in the Barents Region (PRACTICE FUTURE)

Start date: Jul 6, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

PRACTICE FUTURE is an investment in cross-border competence enhancement in entrepreneurship and a support for small and medium-sized local firms. The goal is to strengthen cross-border cooperation of SME in the region, especially small local firms which have limited resources on marketing and research; international knowledge and competence transfer between Higher education and local business; pro ...
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Funding Policies to bring Innovation to Finance/market/people (InnoFun)

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

The project consortium consists of 14 partners from 9 Member States with a good mixture of regions with different levels of innovation development. All partners are involved in the development of their own regional innovation policy either as regional government or an intermediate body with full support of the government and therefore they wish developing policies to speed up the process from Res ...
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Sustainability of miners' well-being, health and work ability in the Barents region (MineHealth)

Start date: Mar 30, 2012, End date: Dec 29, 2014,

The project will provide long term sustainability of well-being, health and work ability among workers in the mining industry on the Barents region. Work in the mining industry situated in the Barents region is characterized by exposure to harsh climatic conditions. Therefore specific knowledge is needed about the separate and combined risks that are unique for the regional mining industry. The p ...
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Young Innovative Entrepreneurs (YIE)

Start date: Mar 21, 2012, End date: Dec 20, 2014,

The background of the project is that active young entrepreneurs are today looking for assistance in developing their innovative business ideas. The project will facilitate young innovative entrepreneurial initiatives in order to contribute to the development of the region. The project will create a region wide support system that will enhance the development and implementation of innovative busi ...
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Empowering School e-Health Model in the Barents region (ArctiChildren InNet (2012-2014))

Start date: Mar 9, 2012, End date: Dec 8, 2014,

The health and well-being of children and youth on the region is challenged in many ways. Some of these are common for the region, and some are also in connection to the regions´s special features such as sparse population and limited availability of services. Youths' traditional sources of health information are no longer satisfying their needs, and they are increasingly using the internet for he ...
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Bothnian Arc Steel & Metal Industry

Start date: Jun 30, 2001, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

The project aims at enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs and at ensuring their economical growth in the selected sector that is linked to the steel and metal industry as well as to the mining and energy sectors. The project also aims at identifying resources available within the industry, society and the academic world in the Bothnian Arc area and at disseminating information about their activiti ...
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InnoPreneneurship 21

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

The objective of the project is to increase the knowledge as to the role and the significance of entrepreneurship between the participating high schools and other public institutions in the Northern Scandinavia. • Influence the attitudes and the culture of the participating high schools and their regional partners favouring a more entrepreneur way of thinking and pattern of behaviour.
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VSB

Start date: Apr 30, 2012, End date: Apr 29, 2014,

The purpose of the Vision Systems Business Development platform (VSB) is the business development of products in the field of optics. The project's goal is to provide excellence and innovation to support business development of SME's products in the field of optics. It also aims to promote and disseminate the project results to generate business opportunities and interest from industry and supplie ...
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UNELMA

Start date: Mar 31, 2012, End date: Apr 29, 2014,

The project aims to develop research and analysis activities of companies operating in Northern Finland and Sweden, and to focus especially on the different imaging techniques used in materials research. The goal of this project is to disseminate information to industry on the co-applicants tangible opportunities to analyze materials, and collect data on the business needs today and to develop dif ...
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Energy and resource efficiency in integrated juice and ingredient production (BERRY)

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

The aim of the project is to combine berry industry processes into an energy and resource efficient integrated process, optimizing the quality, and generating simultaneously juices, juice concentrates, berry skins and seeds and other mechanically derived ingredients. The long-term objective is to raise all the industry's competitiveness and refinement level in the global marketplace and enable the ...
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ECEH

Start date: Mar 31, 2012, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

Efficient Control of heat & ventilation in low Energy Houses for single families. The project aims to improve the competitiveness of the house manufacturers in the region by creating efficient energy management in low-energy buildings. It also aims in common with the house industry and industry on energy management to develop a concept for efficient community use of energy, heating and ventilation ...
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Kolarctic IT Education, Networking, Patnership and Innovation (KITENPI)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

...ive participating universities and created a common Kolarctic pool of ICT jobs and competence. It has Increased collaboration between academia and ICT industry (especially in Arkhangelsk, Luleå and Kemi-Tornio). The ICT industry has become more involved in the ICT education, e.g. via many Innovation Events where students interact with staff from the local industry. The involved universities have ...
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Nordpraktik 2

Start date: Jul 31, 2012, End date: Jan 30, 2014,

The overall aim of the project is to contribute to the development of the North Calotte with graduates from post-secondary vocational education with good knowledge of the region's countries. They should see it as natural to work in more than one country during their lives. This applies first and foremost in the region, but also internationally. Nordpraktik will enhance labor mobility within the gr ...
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NoCry2

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

Educating attitude, enterprising futures & encouraging multi-disciplinary collaboration and youth entrepreneurship -To live of what you love, where you love to live!NoCry2 aims to encourage and promote youth entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial approach and multidisciplinary collaboration, with the overall objective to increase the potential for growth and employment in rural and remote areas of the ...
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Tourist Guide for Northern Periphery (TG4NP)

Start date: Jun 14, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2013,

The aim of the TG4NP project is to support tourism industry of peripheral regions by enhancing the visitors experiences in cultural and natural heritage destinations with the help of multimodal mobile information services. Project will develop potential new approaches to efficient and sustainable management and utilisation of resources in natural and cultural heritage. The idea is to exploit the l ...
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Glued Trusstype Structures in Construction

Start date: Mar 31, 2012, End date: Apr 29, 2013,

The project aims to find new ways to use roof truss similar structures, study the possibility of using adhesives and jointing techniques in civil engineering, to study the possibilities of using new materials in the production of roof trusses. The project will lead to new development in the enterprise and between enterprises and other actors. The overall project objective is to help increase the c ...
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Joint Test Service Plattform for High Tech Industies (JoHTo)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

Purpose • Collecting and collating relevant information about the joint network of expertise and equipment. • to increase knowledge of test and development opportunities within the program area in several industries (eg electronics, ICT, chemicals, metals). • The development of new services based on such data collection. Objectives Joint cross-border test and skills network creates new services th ...
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Nordpraktik

Start date: Jul 31, 2011, End date: Jul 30, 2012,

The overall aim is to contribute to North Calotte area development with graduates from the post-secondary vocational school that has good knowledge of the region's countries and their cultures. Young people who see it as natural to work across borders and develop business ideas with business partners in neighboring countries. Nordpraktik supports the internationalization of post-secondary vocation ...
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Material Testing of Nanocomposite Structures (NAKOMATE)

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

The project aims to work across the Nordic borders (northern Sweden and Finland) to develop and evaluate opportunities with the use of nanocomposites and nanocomposite reinforced composites. It is intended that the project will encourage cooperation between both research providers and industry. The project will be jointly carry out research and disseminate results to the composite industry that ca ...
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Innovative services in the sphere of e-maintenance for industry and small/medium sized companies

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

Aim The purpose of the project is • to develop and establish innovative services in the sphere of e-maintenance for increasing productivity and accessibility in technical system as well as reducing cost for maintains. • research, develop and suggest a model for a platform for maintains services with focus on operation and maintains processing. • develop a network for work in coming European Progra ...
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Retail in Rural Regions 3.4 (RRR)

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

Retail in Rural Regions is a three year project targeted to the benefit of shops in rural areas. The overall objective is improved service quality in small communities by supporting the survival, development and growth of rural retail shops. By that the project is enhancing economical growth of the regions. The project purpose is to provide and sustain tailor made support for rural shops. This sup ...
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VSP-Vision System research Plattform

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Dec 20, 2011,

Aim is to develop competence in optical technique further. Objective The purpose is to 1. Develop a well functioned cross border network in the sphere of optic between universities, basic industry and information and communication industry. 2. Create a common platform for research. 3. Create possibilities for solving industrial measure technical problem. 4. Stimulate developing of new products and ...
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InnoPreneurship

Start date: Jul 31, 2008, End date: Jul 30, 2011,

The project will build competence among teachers in universities to educate entrepreneurial pedagogy within university fields but with the emphasis on technique, business developing and teacher education. The aim of the project is as follow: 1. By analyzing present condition of things in education round entrepreneurship within partner universities we will be able to a. Exchange knowledge and exper ...
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SensorBand II - SensorBand in Real Life Environment

Start date: Jul 31, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2011,

The objective of the project is • Increasing security and quality for elderly care in the home demands further developing of systems for alarm that exist in home help. The aim are: • To develop, establish and evaluate a service within elderly care in a major test in Finland and Sweden. • Verify that the service fulfil functional demands and benefit what costumers want. • With help of scientific st ...
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Boundless 2009

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2011,

The long-term objective with the project is that youth in border region of Haparanda-Tornio can find natural ways to be together and get to know each other at the same time as cooperation between schools and students within culture related study programmes at school will continue after the project and will have space in regular activity in schools. In a long-term recruiting of students from each o ...
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Oil analysis

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Apr 29, 2011,

Aim 1. Interdisciplinary research within the following spheres: a. Lubrication and wear of machine part with focus on particle generate. b. System for optical particle analysis. c. Built-in system for tough environment including communication. d. Interaction between human being – machine. 2. Develop a demonstration system based on results from research. 3. At least one industrial pilot installatio ...
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Vir Music

Start date: Jan 31, 2009, End date: Jan 30, 2011,

Vir Music will bring about an active national and international network for virtual education in music and permanent the using of virtual instrumental pedagogic in education. The project also aim at further education for working instrumental pedagogue, research in virtual pedagogic for instrumental education as well as interdisciplinary developing of technology in virtual education and applied use ...
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Digital Age in Rural and Remote Areas 1.12 (DARRA)

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

The objective of DARRA project is to decrease the digital divide in remote and rural areas among the partner regions, through boosting the usage of ICT by SMEs and the public sector, and improve the overall regional competitiveness. DARRA capitalises on the findings of BIRRA project. The digital divide is a handicap inter-and intra-regionally and one indicator of a region’s peripherality. DARRA pr ...
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North practice

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: Nov 29, 2010,

The pilot study aims to investigate conditions and to do a needs analysis to implementation of a main application with the North Internship as project idea. The goal of the North Practice is to develop methods to stimulate entrepreneurship and mobility internationally, primarily in the Arctic, the labor force is examined from the post-secondary vocational education.
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REGIONAL ACTION PLANS for INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT AND ENTERPRISE (RAPIDE)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Nov 29, 2010,

RAPIDE is a propsal for a capitalisation network involving 13 partners from 11 Member States. Its aim is to implement good practice relating to the role of the public sector in stimulating innovation in partner regions, in particular helping businesses (primarily SMEs) to bring innovative products and services to market more quickly. The long term objective of the project is to stimulate innovatio ...
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Northern Creative Youth 1.13 (NoCry)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Jun 29, 2010,

The NoCry project will develop a Virtual Business Incubator service for the creative sector to spread knowledge, enhance networking and support business development among young creative people in the NP. It aims to increase economic growth by supporting the development of knowledge and an entrepreneurial culture by enhancing networking across borders in the creative sector. NoCry will also spread ...
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Multimodal Communication System for Health Services

Start date: Apr 14, 2009, End date: Oct 14, 2009,

Objective of this preliminary project is to make a survey of similar research in this field, what products are on the market in advanced language and communication models. How does mobile communication look like? How does user interface look like? A survey for technique state-of- the-art will be done.
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KLUTO

Start date: Feb 8, 2009, End date: Jul 8, 2009,

Trade and industry around the Torne River consist of many different branches and especially many small companies within different branches. Those companies can be proportionately geographical spread from each other. In order to increase ability to compete within those small and medium sized companies in the national and international market can it be an advantage to cooperate in different cluster. ...
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SWEFI-Övertorneå-prestudy

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Jan 30, 2009,

The aim is to build a base for cross border cooperation and increase knowledge about neighbouring municipalities. The purpose of this feasibility study is to choose some common development themes at the prospect of future co-operation.
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articipation in Rural Communities by Young Broadband Users - PICYBU (PICYBU)

Start date: Sep 30, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

Many Northern Periphery areas are characterised by high youth out-migration and often it is those that are highly educated that leave. Coupled with this is a lack of services in rural areas, particularly e-services designed for young people and based on their needs. The objective of the PICYBU project is to test, pilot and evaluate how different media and ICT applications, and tools can contribute ...
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