As stated by the EC, renovation by the private housing sector towards increased energy efficiency is seriously lagging behind. As more than sufficient technological solutions are available, focus must be on removing non-technological barriers.The main barriers relate to fragmentation of the renovation offers, resulting in inefficient or only partial solutions. In addition to financial restrictions ...
In NSSEP PLUS partners from all EU Member States represented in the NSR Programme and a non-co-fundable Norwegian participation further exploit and refine the potential of the CO2-calculator tool. A key outcome under the NSSEP project, this tool is the perfect instrument to work on the mindset towards carbon reduction. The central goal is to communicate with this tool and through new partners, mea ...
Cities throughout North West Europe (NWE) welcome the challenge to increase public involvement in decision-making and planning. However. the major problems facing Europe cannot be addressed using entirely local approaches. This also requires strategic. coordinated responses. VALUE+ will demonstrate how cities can best integrate bottom-up and top-down approaches. It will show how we can both deepen ...
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The Opening Up project will open up new opportunities for businesses and governments to develop transformative services through the adoption of open data and social networking approaches. It will build upon the increasingly large amounts of valuable data created by the development of social networks as part of the shift towards open government to create new tools, devise new approaches and build t ...
The Lys river valley, one of the green and blue Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Euro-metropolis axes, is surrounded by a highly urban area on both sides of the border. This urbanisation is putting pressure on land and causesparticularly high recreation and leisure expectations.The challenge for the partners is to develop a green area and a park on the outskirts of the town. The aim is to improve biodiversi ...
The project will consider three themes connected to rural development; lack of economic development and innovations, negative or insufficient exposure of regions and downsizing in level of services and amenities. Using a co-operative agreement approach the project partners will work together on a number of pilot initiatives to consider these issues in a transnational setting. The partnership wil ...
The LOWCAP cluster will develop a process for the exchange of knowledge and experiences in carbon reduction and energy efficiency projects in the NSR. This process brings together key results & identifies the synergies between the partner projects & related NSRP projects. The findings will be consolidated & discussed with other stakeholders in the NSR drawn from decision makers & implementers in t ...
The DANS cluster connects three projects funded under the Priority 1 - namely Creative City Challenge (CCC), Smart Cities and E-CLIC. These three projects will combine their expertise, contacts and networks and thereby build a base upon which the 'Digital Agenda for Europe' (DAE) can be implemented within the North Sea Region. The project will focus on the link between the local and regional strat ...
CCC aims to build and implement an integrated evidence-based strategy for cities to strengthen their innovative capacity by means of a methodology of joint development and pilot testing of new tools and instruments in the fields of skills development, business cooperation and the development of urban creative clusters. CCC focuses on the catalyst role of creative industries in building and strengt ...
Smart Cities aims to create an innovation network between governments and academia in six countries to promote excellence in the domain of e-services (development and take-up) in order to set a new standard for e-service delivery in the whole NSR. The transnational working method (pooling expertise, joint model development) is proposed to equip decision-makers to achieve further innovation in the ...
The main aim of the BIRD project was to exchange experience and expertise on broadband implementation to enhance regional (rural) broadband access and usage. Achievements: and local level, recommendations for broadband as a tool for regional development and has given re ...
...erchanges; creation of business passengers’ facilities; physical improvement of feedering stations. Investments will take place in London, Stratford, Ebbsfleet, Ashford, The Hague, Aachen, Heerlen, Leiedal.
...a the internet. The Municipality of Groningen (NL) was very successful with the award-winning eLoket with 25 eServices with transactions and 325,000 visitors and 170,000 transactions per year. In Leiedal (BE) three multi-channel and multi-level product catalogues were set up and a single contact point was established.
The central aim was to strengthen the role of socio-economic development while enhancing sustainable water management along water corridors that connect wetlands, cities and the North Sea. Achievements: The main result was a shift towards an all-encompassing approach, i ...
High speed transport has a key role to play in promoting balanced spatial development across NW Europe. Therefore any attempt to improve HST needs to work on a transnational basis. The prime objective of the 15 partner, 21.893m euro HST Connect project is to forge closer connections between regional rail services and the trans-European High Speed Train network, with the aim of increasing the latte ...
Since the completion of the project, UK and Sweden bilateral activities had been supported at the highest political level. The Swedish Minister of Environment and the UK Minister Housing and Planning has discussed the continuing cooperation to deliver sustainable homes and clean technologies. It has been indicated that UK government departments will consider funding activities for these initiative ...