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Enhancing FOrest RESearch in the MediTERRAnean through improved coordination and integration (FORESTERRA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Forest research in the Mediterranean region is currently handicapped by its fragmentation, its limited means, and occasional outdating and isolation. In addition, the low benefits that Mediterranean forests provide to forest-based industries--compared to other European forests--make it difficult to attract interest and funds from the private sector. For this reason, new ways to overcome this situa ...
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Cooperation and shared strategies for biodiversity research programmes in Europe (BIODIVERSA2)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystems are major scientific and societal challenges. Addressing them and providing scientific support to policy requires a coherent research framework, with coordinated strategies and programmes at the regional and international levels, which are the relevant scales for many biodiversity issues.By networking 21 funding agencies from 15 countries, ...
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Transfert de savoir-faire en Méditerranée pour le développement durable des communautés locales en zones rurales défavorisées (VILLAGES)

Start date: Aug 3, 2011, End date: Aug 3, 2014,

Dans un contexte méditerranéen caractérisé par un exode massif des populations rurales vers les villes et le littoral, les difficultés de concevoir rapidement un développement durable aussi bien des zones urbaines que rurales sont en recrudescence. Le projet VILLAGES sintéresse à la question de la gouvernance locale dans des zones rurales défavorisées en prônant la participation citoyenne dans la ...
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Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world (FUME)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Fire regimes result from interactions between climate, land-use and land-cover (LULC), and socioeconomic factors, among other. These changed during the last decades, particularly around the Mediterranean. Our understanding of how they affected fire regime in the past is limited. During this century temperatures, drought and heat waves will very likely increase, and rainfall decrease. These and fur ...
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RDP - Réseau des Parcs (RDP)

Start date: Sep 30, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Mediterranean protected areas have specific characteristics resulting from usage by mankind.These make it urgent to look for synergies by creating a network of resources and skills. Know-how and techniques can be shared on the basis of empirical procedures and experimentation in the local context, and evaluated when applied in similar contexts. This sharing of know-how contributes to growth in loc ...
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EXTRAMET:The rural space in the context of the new metropolization (EXTRAMET)

Start date: Feb 28, 2005, End date: Oct 30, 2007,

L’objectif principal du projet est la coopération entre les Régions et les organismes qui sont en charge de la planification et de la programmation afin d’établir des bases communes pour l’expérimentation d’une méthodologie innovatrice orientée vers l’espace “urbain-rural” (extrametropolitain), entre les zones urbaines sujettes à la pression de la métropolisation et les zones rurales sujettes à de ...
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RURAL INNOVA - Réseau déchanges pour une politique régionale de développement rural innovante (RURAL INNOVA)

Start date: Oct 31, 2004, End date: Mar 30, 2007,

There is still much disparity in terms of development between regions in the European Union. Rural territories are particularly threatened, largely due to their low populations and agricultural-based economies, which have been in decline since the early 20th century. In a bid to curb the devitalisation of these rural areas, the RURAL INNOVA project intends to build an interregional network to exch ...
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RURAL MED : Permanent Worshop and network of centers to the rural development in the Mediterranean (RURAL MED)

Start date: Aug 31, 2002, End date: Oct 29, 2004,

« Rural Med » vise la création dun réseau déchange dexpériences et de coordination dinitiatives en matière de développement rural auquel participent les régions des rives nord et sud du Bassin méditerranéen. Ce réseau vise loptimisation et la promotion des processus de développement rural participatif dans le Bassin de la Méditerranée Occidentale grâce à léchange dexpériences, la diffusion des bon ...
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