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Monitoring of Rivers and Environmental Survey of Farmers in Lielupe and Venta River Basin Districts (LiVe River Basins)
Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Nov 1, 2014,
.... EU Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC requires managing waters on the basis of river basins. In 2010 River Basin District Management Plans ( six-year planning cycle) were prepared and approved in Latvia and Lithuania for the national parts of Lielupe and Venta River Basin Districts. Insufficient coordination between the countries left a number of water management issues to be resolved in the n ...
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Collaborative management planning and action for agriculture and environment in the Baltic Sea Region (Baltic Compact)
Start date: Nov 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,
... Achievements: The period was the most defining period of the project thus far, featuring intensified dialogue with local stakeholders in Germany, Sweden, Latvia and Finland. In local and national events and interactions, the project both presented to the stakeholders ideas and good practises in local agri-environment projects especially related to wate ...
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Innovative approaches towards sustainable forested landscapes (Baltic Landscape)
Start date: Sep 28, 2011, End date: Mar 27, 2014,
Forests in the Baltic Sea Region are either dominating in the landscape (FIN, NOR, Russia, SWE) or are its important part (POL, Belarus, EST, LV) (annex 1). The long-term goal of the project is to foster good governance in forested landscapes. These landscapes are facing new challenges caused by i.e. globalization, climate change, demands of both more intensive use of natural resources and enhance ...
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Baltic Forum for Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Manure Management (Baltic MANURE)
Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,
The Baltic Sea Basin is an area of intensive, and intensifying agricultural production. There are about 36 million units of cattle, 67 million units of pigs, and 190 million units of poultry in the region. (Gren, I.-M. et al., 2008: Cost of nutrient reductions to the Baltic Sea - technical report). Intensifying and concentration of animal production has resulted in environmental problems caused by ...
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The Cognition and Preservation of the Distinctive Identity Through the Environment of Zemgale Region (Green Environment)
Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
Universities and schools are interested in contributing to the preservation of region's biodiversity and solving environmental challenges. Project partners will investigate the preserved green landscape objects and ways of accumulating the collection of vanishing plants, creating a seed bank for returning plants to the nature. Project will create a collection of useful environment items from Zemg ...
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The Baltic Sea Region Bioenergy Promotion Project (Bioenergy Promotion)
Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,
The project aimed to: Raise awareness that there is a significant potential of employment and business possibilities within bioenergy in the Baltic Sea Region, facilitate conditions for the reduction of emissions by sustainable use of bioenergy, develop regional management plans and tools for planning within bioenergy, exchange experiences through up-t-date conferences, seminars and workshops in b ...
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New Business Ideas through Old Traditions - Future without Borders (Without Borders)
Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Oct 30, 2011,
...ational traditions. Project will motivate youth to return to their homes in borderland areas and start business activities after graduation. It will also increase collaboration between Lithuanian and Latvian youth/young farmers and help develop a joint collaboration group. In addition, it will promote exchange of experience, knowledge and the best practices on diverse range of agriculture-related ...
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Forests as a resource for sustainable development and spatial planning in the Baltic Sea Region - BALTIC FOREST (BALTIC FOREST)
Start date: Dec 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
The overall project objective is to enhance sustainable regional development in the BSR based on management and use of the forests as a resource, by establishing and employing multi pur pose, cross-sectorial and transnational forest sector cooperation. The key conceptual approach is to secure forest sector sustainability and enhance input to regional development and spatial planning, by exploring ...
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Multifunctional Intensive Land Use in Europe (MILUNET)
Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
The overall objective of MILUnet is to create an effective partnership network, aiming to promote Multifunctional Intensive Land Use as a means to achieve more sustainable (urban) development in the EU. By utilising expertise and know-how on MILU, regional and local governments have the possibility to increase the effectiveness of both urban policy implementation and planning towards sustainabilit ...
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art II: Baltic University Urban Forum - Implementing Sustainable Development in Urban Areas - Urban Forum (BUUF II)
Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: May 30, 2006,
...ks, and made benchmarking the city reports.5. Sustainability indicators were established in each of the theme areas in conferences within the Scientific Advisory Council and at a research workshop in Latvia. The background material and indicators were published together with a reporting form.7. Annual status reports from cities in each of the theme areas had both a qualitative, narrative, and a qu ...
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Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society (BERAS )
Start date: Feb 28, 2003, End date: Mar 30, 2006,
The goal of the project was the evaluation and demonstration of the potential of ecological recycling-based agriculture, combined with priority for local and regional processing, distribution and consumption, in order to reduce consumption of limited resources, emissions of greenhouse gases and nitrogen and phosphorus pollution to the Baltic Sea area by half or more, according to politically decid ...
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Baltic University Urban Forum - Implementing Sustainable Development in Urban Areas - Urban Forum (BUUF )
Start date: Feb 28, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2003,
The Baltic University Urban Forum (BUUF) is a cooperation between cities/towns and universities in the Baltic Sea region to promote sustainable development. The BUUF project aims to develop strategies for sustainable development for cities and towns. 20 cities and towns, and 15 universities in 9 countries take part in the project. Through the Union of Baltic Cities the results will be available fo ...
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The recently established European Network for Sustainable Agriculture (ENSA) that forms the project partnership aims to improve the range and quality of education and training provision for farmers and other employees in sustainable agriculture throughout Europe. The project aims to initiate network development via core activities and innovative initiatives in relation to a level 3 qualification, ...
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EINET will establish itself as a multi-level network to encourage entrepreneurship and innovative training amongst young European citizens. Partners representing 17 countries will be established at 4 levels (local, regional, national & transnational) comprising core players, permanent relay points and occasional correspondents.Primary activities of the network will include the creation of a 'Virtu ...
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CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR ERASMUS NETWORK
Start date: Oct 1, 2009,
REASONS: The knowledge of consumer behavior is of great relevance from the economic and civic point of view. There must be a pool of knowledge in consumer behavior that allows the firms and other associations and public organisms to take appropriate decisions regarding the market. Currently this knowledge is neither organized nor clearly disseminated. When dealing with cross-cultural consumer beha ...
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INNOVATION IN THE TEACHING OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN LIFE SCIENCES IN EUROPE
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
The I.S.L.E network: Innovation in the teaching of Sustainable Development in Life sciences in Europe, will ultimately involve HEIs, Research institutes, and enterprises from 32 countries (including two "third countries" Ukraine, Belarus), interested in introducing the concept of Sustainable Development in their curricula and/or institutions having had experience in this area and who are willing t ...
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Landscape Education:New Opportunities for Teaching and Research in Europe III
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
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