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Towards integrated management of freshwater Nature 2000 sites and habitats (FRESHABIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2022,

Background Freshwater habitats are among the most threatened habitat types globally. In the 2007-2012 conservation status assessment of the EU Habitats Directive (Article 17), none of the freshwater, coastal, and groundwater dependent wetland habitats in Europe fully met favourable conservation status, and most are in unfavourable conservation status. Alm ...
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Building shared knowledge capital to support natural resource governance in the Northern periphery (BusK)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Description (EN): This project develops planning tools that enhance the use of participatory techniques, and gives assistance for decision makers concerning land use planning and natural resource governance. Concretely, the development of participatory tools such as participatory GIS (PPGIS) is needed. Until now, these tools have been developed for urban areas and utilized successfu ...
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Regional Innovation in the Nordic Arctic and Scotland with a Special Focus on Regions with Large-Scale Projects (REGINA)

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

Description (EN): REGINA will develop an innovative, strategic model for protecting, promoting and developing cultural and natural heritage. This will be composed of a set of decision support tools tailored to the particular needs of municipalities and local communities in remote and sparsely populated regions whose economies are characterized by the emergence and/or dominance of a ...
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Creative Momentum

Start date: May 11, 2015, End date: May 10, 2018,

Description (EN): Creative Momentum (CM) tackles the peripherality and distance to market challenges experienced by entrepreneurs in the creative and cultural industries across the Northern Periphery and Arctic area, as well as low economic diversity in these regions.  It provides enterprise development and market expansion spaces, services and supports with a transnational focus.  ...
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New Horizons 2012-2014

Start date: Jan 31, 2013, End date: Aug 30, 2015,

The project promotes intensified cultural cross-border cooperation. It has a large number of participants involved in five sub-projects:Barents Forum of Strategic Cultural Planning and Policy ImplementationYoung entrepreneurs for culture and creative sectorMuseum, cultural heritage and northern identityX-BORDER 2013Sound of Barents ...
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Safer Roads for Users

Start date: May 22, 2013, End date: Jul 21, 2015,

The main objective of the Project is to eliminate border effect expressed with difference in road accident risks for road users in EU and RF sides of Barents Region. Harmonisation of principles and instruments to manage accident risk for users, caused by factor "Road and its surrounding" is expected to be able harmonise road conditions both sides of the border, improve fluency of road transport fl ...
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Use of Heat Pump Promotion in Barents Region (HePuPro)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2015,

Energy Efficiency is one of the central objectives for 2020 which aims to save the energy 20% by 2020. One of the key technologies of the Renewable Energy Source (RES) seen in the market is heat pumps. It is a key technology to achieve the European Union’s energy saving and climate protection targets. The HePuPro project aims to promote use of heat pumps in the Barents region and to increase econo ...
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Efficient Energy Management in Barents region (ENERU)

Start date: Jan 29, 2013, End date: May 28, 2015,

Overall objective of the project is the development if cross border cooperation in energy management in programme area: in order to promote economic and social development Achievements: The project made action plans to improving the energy efficiency and energy manageme ...
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The Barents Journal

Start date: Dec 17, 2012, End date: Apr 16, 2015,

The project aims at joint development of The Barents Journal – an easy available international academic journal – as a tool for delivering current research results concerning the people and the region, as well as socio-economic, political, environmental developments, and thus providing information outside and within the programme area. The keynote idea of the project is to share and distribute top ...
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Development of inclusive Education (A School for all)

Start date: Jun 4, 2012, End date: Mar 30, 2015,

...made during the project will develop the teacher education in the universities. In Finland, some of the research work directly contributes to the work of the Faculty of Education at University of Lapland. There will be changes and modifications in the new curriculum (2015-)
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Sustainable Mining, local communities and environmental regulation in Kolarctic area (SUMILCERE)

Start date: Dec 20, 2012, End date: Feb 19, 2015,

The specific objective of the SUMILCERE project is to offer social and legal scientific set of tools and recommendations for sustainable mining projects to be used by the industry and decision making authorities. The specific objective will be achieved by comparing and developing the recommendations on the side of the existing regulatory framework, policy instruments for sustainable management, us ...
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Barents Visual Arts in 1970 - 1980 (THE NORTHERN BEAUTY)

Start date: Apr 12, 2012, End date: Jan 11, 2015,

The project aims at enhancing co-operation in arts and culture, especially concerning visual arts and art history. The objective is to build up a network for implementing multilateral activities such as exhibitions, workshops and symposiums. The networks task will be to increase awareness about rich and diverse arts and cultural heritage of the North.In the background there is the fact that during ...
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Cooperation and Development if Tourism Business between SME´s in Barents (Co-Tour)

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

The proposed project is aimed at economic and social development of the participating regions and areas. The project explicitly establishes business networks, promotes cross-border cooperation between public and private sector, builds up competence and improves quality of products and services. By putting together the efforts of the 3 countries’ small and medium-sized destinations, tourist attract ...
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Barents Mediasphere

Start date: Aug 24, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The goal of the Barents Mediasphere project is to create a flexible cooperation mechanism for journalists working in the region and to increase regional visibility in media and in other open sources. It aims to improve the cross-border communication and information flow.In the background of the project is the fact that the interest to Barents and Arctic regions is rising. Many Arctic countries hav ...
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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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NIMO - Nordic Interaction and Mobility Research Platform

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

The overall goal of the project is to establish a common research platform within interaction and mobility in the region. It should be accomplished through leveraging existing resources and networks and performing joint cross-border research, development, innovation, and deployment activities. E-services for citizens, community-based elderly care, and pervasive games are targeted application areas ...
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Arctic Expo Centre - Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker Lenin (ICE)

Start date: May 2, 2012, End date: May 1, 2014,

In the Kolarctic Enpi program area are already existing exhibition centres that would form together an arctic exhibition centres network. Through networking each member will increase the opportunities to develop its exhibition and related activities.Tromso and Rovaniemi, respectively Polaria and Arctic Centre, have already on their own a well-recognised exhibition centre, nationally and internatio ...
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Integrating media production with the new modes of communication (MEDIA)

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

The objective is to cooperate across the Nordic borders (northern Sweden and northern Finland) with a view to strengthen the quality of education and research as well as to increase the cooperation with media enterprises. The overall objective of the project is to establish a platform for the industry-oriented research within the field of media in the region. The aims of the project are as follows ...
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RE-COLL

Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

The project aims, through a one-year project, to test the effects of an inter-regional forum for researchers in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland. The project's goal is a test venue for researchers who are focused on the EU's societal challenges related to the participating universities' research.
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Barents Cross Border University development project (BCBU+)

Start date: Apr 18, 2011, End date: Apr 17, 2013,

The overall objectives: to contribute to the development of the Barents region by promoting cross-border academic co-operation to respond the needs of Barents region to train highly skilled, technologically literate workforce for the knowledge-based economies in the Barents region. The specific objective: the BCBU university network, which represents the most northern higher education area in the ...
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ublic-Private Partnership in Barents Tourism (BART)

Start date: Dec 21, 2010, End date: Dec 20, 2012,

The administrations on the Barents region have for years now worked on drawing up sector-specific development strategies for the region. BART works with creating the action plan for the tourism sector. BART is a two year project that prepares for ambitious activites in the future. The project includes a large group of administrational and educational institutions working with tourism on the whole ...
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II City V2

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

The goal of this project is to: - Study audio modality and physical user interfaces in context-aware and pervasive applications - Through active prototyping perform research and verify and utilize research results - Create technically based opportunities for new companies and product development - Empower and help individuals through new technology, both in special needs groups and in main stream ...
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Climate Change - Adapting to The Impacts, by Communities in Northern Peripheral Regions 1.15 (Clim-ATIC)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Feb 27, 2011,

...ism opportunities 7. 'Stay & Play' - selling alternative activities to the winter sports market in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland 8. Future tourism prospects for local communities in Finnish Lapland 9. Develop a prototype lightweight and sustainable tourist hut in Greenland. Theme 4: Risk management and response 10. A river restoration project in Glen Urquhart, Scotland, to increase ecolo ...
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paratory Project for the SamiArctiChildren Project (Preparatory Project for the SamiArctiChildren Project )

Start date: Jun 30, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2009,

The overall aim of the preparatory project: - to implement through cross border collaboration a planning process for turning the Sami ArctiChildren Project Application (Sami Stories/Narratives as Psychosocially and Culturally Supportive Learning Material in the Sami communities in Sweden, Norway, Russia and Finland) to the financiers, Interreg IVA North, Sami sub-programme by November 30th, 2009. ...
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Tourist Destinations as Landscape Laboratories - Tools for Sustainable Tourism (LANDSCAPE LAB)

Start date: Sep 1, 2004, End date: Aug 31, 2007,

...DSCAPE LAB project sees tourist destinations as landscape laboratories, where tools for sustainable tourism are developed and demonstrated. The test ground is the Ylläs-Levi area in Finnish Lapland. Objectives The project would test the idea of landscape laboratories in the Ylläs-Levi area in Finnish Lapland. A tool-k ...
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Baltic Tangent

Start date: Jan 3, 2005, End date: May 2, 2007,

The Baltic Tangent (BT) project derives from the unsatisfying socio-economic situation in large parts of the BT area. The peripheral location in relation to the main transport infrastructure corridors in the BSR, constitutes a serious disadvantage for economic and labor market development of partnership regions in the Baltic States, Scandinavia and Russia. The BT project therefore has focused on h ...
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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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European Network of Mining Regions (ENMR)

Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Aug 30, 2006,

The objective of the European Network of Mining Regions (ENMR) is to create a platform for mining regions on a European level driven by public organisations. The two year project involves twenty partners from ten EU Member States, including local and regional authorities, universities, research institutes, industry, NGOs, Union and development agencies from mineral and coal mining regions. The net ...
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A Conversion Training Programme on Russian culture and language

Start date: Dec 31, 2001, End date: Jun 29, 2006,

The departments of the University of Oulu in Kajaani make up an important base with regard to know-how about Russia. Th e implementation of cooperative strategies devised with the Russian parties requires academically educated people with Russian language skills. Already some years ago, there was an initiative made to the University of Oulu about an education programme in relationships, know-how a ...
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Strategy and Action Plan for the Barents Region up to 2010 (BARENTS 2010)

Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Mar 30, 2006,

The project has been initiated by the Barents Regional Council and follows up an evaluation of regional co-operation in the Barents Region 1993-2000. The Barents region consists of thirteen regions and many different ethnic groups in four countries, which have a lot of common problems. Differences in culture, legal framework, etc create problems and hamper fruitful co-operation. Almost all parts o ...
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Bothnian Arc - Arctic Coastal Tourism Region (BothnianArc-ACTion )

Start date: Jun 25, 2002, End date: Sep 24, 2005,

Bothnian Arc is a Swedish-Finnish coastal zone in the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia with a sub-arctic climate. Thanks to the Gulf Stream, it has four distinct seasons and offers exotic tourism destinations in an arctic coast and archipelago milieu. However the tourism profile of the region and tourism competence there have to be strengthened. A trans-national co-operation for the developmen ...
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Working Eastern Trade Development and Training Programme

There have already been several projects to provide companies e.g. with training andconsultation services concerning Russia-related cooperation, while this projectaddresses the question of trade with Russia, which has so far received less attention.
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sycho-social well-being of children and young people in the arctic area, II (Psycho-social well-being of children and young people in the arctic area, II)

The project concerns the development of the psycho-social well-being of children and youngpeople living in the arctic area. The project was started on a bilateral basis between Finland andRussia and the aim is now to extend the project to also include Sweden and Norway. Theintention is to develop a transnational policy for promoting the psycho-social well-being andsafety of children and young peop ...
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BIS Barents - Information portal

The aim of the project is to colle ct information on the Barents Region, to organise it into a wwwbasedinformation package and to develop co-operation between information producers.
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sycho-social well-being of children and young people in the arctic area 2002-2005 (Psycho-social well-being of children and young people in the arctic area 2002-2005)

The aim of the project is to enhance the well-being of children and young people and to developmodels for multi-sectoral actions that promote their health and prevent marginalisation.
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Safely in Russia -Security Management and its development in the companies in the barents region

A joint Interreg-Tacis project where a cluster of experts is used to set up a network ofsecurity companies on both sides of the border through the opportunities offered byTacis funding. Special targeted vocational training will be arranged in order tostrengthen competence in the participating companies and help them better address thetopical needs of their customers.
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Northern border II

The aim of the research project is to explore the effects of the opening of the border. The project isbased on a corresponding survey that was conducted in 1994. Background factors in the survey are therespondents’ living conditions and their experiences of their living environment. The survey willproduce information for use as training material through the Internet.
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Development of Cross-Border Tourism Business in Lappland and Southern Kola Region (LapKola II)

This is a joint Interreg-Tacis project introduced to implement actions for which an evidentneed has been identified in cross-border tourism product development projects carriedout so far. Actions of this type especially include the securing of the quality of tourismservices on the Russian side of the border and repairing of physical structures (facilities,routes etc.) The project will promote expe ...
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Survey and protection of endangered arctic documentary films

The aim of the project is to look for films that shed light into the near past, of the kind that wouldbe of interest to the general public and researchers in the programme area and that could increasepeople’s knowledge of the history of their own area. The films can provide a unique source ofmaterial for the participating museums, TV broadcasting companies and other actors.
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CATIT – Cultural Awareness in Technical & Industrial Vocational Training

As there is an increasing need for qualified workers more people will be under pressure to migrate and seek better job and living opportunities, multicultural aspects will become more and more important. This is a challenge for vocational training programmes. Also technical teachers and trainers should develop the skills, attitudes and knowledge to recognise and understand the needs of immigrant s ...
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