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Sharing Awareness and Governance of Adaptation to Climate Change in Spain (LIFE SHARA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

Background Spain is highly vulnerable to climate change. It was one of the first countries in Europe to address the challenge of climate change adaptation, approving a National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (PNACC) in 2006. PNACC has been developed to align itself closely with the main instruments and elements adopted at European level, in particular t ...
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Restoration of Iberian elms (Ulmus minor and U. laevis) in the Tagus River basin (LIFE elm)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Background Elm groves are included in the EU Habitats Directive (subtype 2.3 of habitat 92A0). They have suffered degradation as a result of alterations to their habitat and the introduction of Dutch elm disease (DED) – leading to fragmentation and the risk of extinction for the European white elm (Ulmus laevis). Across Europe and America elm groves are ...
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Ensuring the Integrity of the European food chain (FOODINTEGRITY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Food Integrity “the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished or in perfect condition”.Providing assurance to consumers and other stakeholders about the safety, authenticity and quality of European food (integrity) is of prime importance in adding value to the European Agri-food economy. The integrity of European foods is under constant threat from fraudulently labelled imitations that try to ...
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Habitat restoration and management in two coastal lagoons of the Ebro Delta: Alfacada y Tancada (Δ-LAGOON)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Background The Alfacada and Tancada lagoons are located in the Delta del Ebro Natural Park. Though the Alfacada lagoon is a protected area, it was until recently a private estate used for hunting. It is also vulnerable to the effects of climate change on the water and sediment flux of the Ebro river, which has accelerated the rise in sea level and coasta ...
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Recovering the historic distribution range of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) in Spain and Portugal (Iberlince)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Background Up until the 19th century, the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) could be found in all the regions of Spain and Portugal. Since then, and particularly in the last decades of the 20th century, its population and distribution area have suffered an alarming decline. The species is the most threatened carnivorous mammal in Europe. There are currently on ...
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Recovery and conservation Program for Galemys pyrenaicus and its habitat in Castilla y León and Extremadura (DESMANIA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Background The Iberian/Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) is a small semi-aquatic mammal that is endemic to mountain streams in the Iberian Peninsula. The species is an excellent biological indicator with numbers reflecting closely the state of conservation or degradation of the habitats it occupies. However, the desman is increasingly in danger of exti ...
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Conservation of Posidonia oceanica meadows in Andalusian Mediterranean Sea (Life Posidonia Andalucia)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Background Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) underwater meadows are a priority habitat listed in Annex I of the Habitats Directive. Some 95% of these meadows are found in six Natura 2000 network marine sites (SCIs) in the Andalusia. Conservation actions within these SCIs will guarantee the conservation of practically all Posidonia oceanica meadows, howev ...
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Role Of Biodiversity In climate change mitigatioN (ROBIN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

To realise the full potential of tropical forests in climate change mitigation (CCM) & the provision of other ecosystem services in the face of ongoing global change we must improve our understanding of the relationships between biodiversity (BD) and the socio-ecological processes through which we respond & adapt to change.ROBIN will provide information for policy & resource use options under scen ...
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Gestión y planificación forestal en la Macaronesia (GESFORMAC)

Start date: Sep 9, 2013, End date: Sep 9, 2015,

Los archipiélagos macaronésicos presentan ecosistemas únicos compuestos por fauna y flora endémica, siendo de gran importancia la presencia de los bosques subtropicales de laurisilva. Este territorio, que cuenta con 1.058 especies endémicas, fue el primero en contar en Europa con una lista de Lugares de Importancia Comunitaria, inventario que culminó en 2001 tras más de cinco años de trabajo. La M ...
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FOSTERING EUROPEAN UNION - CARIBBEAN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NETWORKS (EUCARINET)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

The EUCARINET project is a 4 years Coordination Action whose main goal is to strengthen bi-regional sustainable policy dialogue on S&T between EU Member States (MS), Associated States (AS) and in the Caribbean Region, the Caribbean ACP States, the overseas Departments and Collectivities, the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs). The project will work at policy, programme and institutional (re ...
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European Surveillance Network for Influenza in Pigs 3 (ESNIP 3)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"This “European surveillance network for influenza in pigs (ESNIP) 3” will maintain and expand surveillance networks established during previous EC concerted actions (ESNIP 1, QLK2-CT-2000-01636; ESNIP 2, SSPE-022749). Three work packages (WP 2, 3, 4) aim to increase the knowledge of the epidemiology and evolution of swine influenza (SI) virus (SIV) in European pigs through organised field surveil ...
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MONTEVERDE

Start date: Oct 19, 2010, End date: Oct 18, 2013,

El proyecto MONTEVERTE es un proyecto encaminado a obtener el máximo de información posible sobre la situación, régimen de propiedad y protección, naturaleza, estado legal, probable evolución y capacidad productora de todo tipo de bienes de los montes de Canarias y Cabo Verde. MONTEVERDE pretende estructurar las acciones necesarias para el desarrollo de una política forestal regional basada en lo ...
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RESILESS

Start date: Oct 19, 2010, End date: Oct 18, 2013,

Las políticas en materia de residuos y la planificación ejecutiva de las mismas, requiere como eje fundamental, la disponibilidad de información real sobre las cantidades generadas de residuos en todos los ámbitos, desde el domiciliario hasta el industrial. Es en el sector industrial ? comercial donde el desconocimiento, en cuanto a la generación de residuos se refiere, es mayor, tal y como se re ...
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RENOW

Start date: Oct 19, 2010, End date: Oct 18, 2013,

El proyecto RENOW trata de conseguir que las Administraciones adapten tanto sus recursos como sus habilidades al entorno cambiante y que sean capaces de cubrir las necesidades de la población del medio urbano y rural según las oportunidades, recursos e inversiones presentes y futuros en Canarias, Senegal, Mauritania y Cabo Verde. Sin embargo y ante todo se tratará de evaluar los riesgos en función ...
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Cooperación transnacional para la generación y desarrollo de Spin-offs de base tecnológica (EIBT) y su integración en la economía del SUDOE (EIBT-SUDOE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

El objetivo del proyecto EIBT-SUDOE es mejorar los sistemas de acompañamiento a la creación y desarrollo de Spin-Offs de Base Tecnológica en las regiones del SUDOE. Se pretende contribuir así a un aumento significativo de la generación y consolidación de nuevas empresas de base tecnológica y a su integración en el tejido económico regional y transnacional. Se pretende asimismo facilitar y difundir ...
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Further Development and Implementation of an EU-level Forest Monitoring System (FutMon)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

Background Forests cover about 30% of Europe, providing high value concerning: biodiversity; carbon sequestration; soil and water protection; and the economic contribution of goods and services. However, climate change, air pollution and changes in land use are threatening the health, stability and sustainability of forests and their values. On top of th ...
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Standardisation démarches électronique déchets (IBER ETER)

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

El proyecto IBER ETER tiene por objetivo contribuir a la estandarización de la tramitación electrónica en el campo de la gestión de los residuos industriales, de manera que se haga un seguimiento eficaz de dicha gestión respetando el medio ambiente. El proyecto proporcionará los resultados finales siguientes: - Permitir el acceso público a los estándares de lenguaje, totalmente gratuito y sin nin ...
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An Exercise to Assess Research Needs and Policy Choices in Areas of Drought (XEROCHORE)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

In recent years large parts of Europe suffered from extreme drought, a phenomenon that likely will become more frequent and more severe, as predicted by the climate models. This will lead to significant socio-economic and environmental impacts and associated damages. There is therefore an urgent need to develop a roadmap toward a European Drought Policy, in accordance with the EU-Water Framework D ...
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Conservation of european mink (Mustela lutreola) in Catalonia (Spain) (Visón Cataluña)

Start date: Jan 1, 2002, End date: Dec 31, 2005,

Background Only a century ago, the European mink (Mustela lutreola) inhabited the rivers, streams and wetlands of a large part of Europe. Currently, its distribution has been restricted to two main sub-populations: the western sub-population in the European Union, which lives in the north of Spain and south-west France and the eastern sub-population in th ...
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Collaboration actions for the conservation of Mustela lutreola (Visón Co-op)

Start date: Jan 1, 2004, End date: Dec 31, 2005,

Background Until the end of the 19th century, the European mink (Mustela lutreola) was very common throughout Europe. Today, it occupies less than 10% of the areas it once covered and has disappeared in more than 20 countries. The surviving populations are found in Russia, the River Danube delta in Romania and between the south of France and the north of ...
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Inventory Evaluation and Monitoring of Wetlands (MW/SUDOE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2002, End date: Dec 30, 2004,

This network will consist in a group of case studies that aim to represent the reality of the MW/SUDOE area so that the obtained results can be applied in the management of other wetlands. The MW/SUDOE project objectives are: To develop a tool to support the elaboration and monitoring of Wetland Management Plans in MW/SUDOE regions. To review of the Inventory MedWet Methodology, introducing import ...
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Conserving the Cantabrian brown Bear and combating poaching (Oso Cantabria)

Start date: Jul 1, 2001, End date: Jun 30, 2004,

Background A small population of brown bear (Ursus arctos) can be found in the Cordillera Cantábrica. It consists of 80 individuals in two groups, but its viability is seriously under threat. The latest demographic survey showed that the bears have a very low reproduction rate – an average of six births a year – and a high mortality rate particularly ...
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ursuit and Planning of Threatened Species of the Macaronesia (CENTINELA)

There are multiple initiatives that exist to the conservation of the biodiversity, however, in a space of so high level of biodiversity at a world-wide level as it is the macaronesian, the direct actions of safeguard and conservation are not enough. This project counts between last actions, for which it proposes three fundamental lines of work, in agreement with the specific objectives: the pursui ...
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f elaboration of cartographic elements of support to the planning and local management of the territory (CARTOGRAF)

The objectives are the measurement, calculation and materialization of basic a geodesic network that allows the univocal reference of all geographical information to produce or integrate in the systems that facilitates the normalization between the archipelagoes, as well as the accomplishment of fotogrametric and ortofotos flights of diverse zones. Some GIS software will be included to manage the ...
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Development of a database about the biodiversity in Macaronesia (ATLÁNTICO)

El proyecto ATLANTICO tiene por finalidad recopilar y analizar toda la información de la biota de los archipiélagos macaronésicos en función del conocimiento existente y facilitar una herramienta informática que aporte informaión básica y ayude a la toma de desiciones relativas a la gestión y conservación de la naturaleza. Desde el punto de vista interesa conocer también el estado de las poblacion ...
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EUROFIRE - European Wildland Fire Management Handbook

The project aims at enabling the development, evaluation, production and dissemination of a new European-wide, multi-lingual on-line training resource. The background is a critical gap in the training of fire service personnel in the suppression of forest and other wildland fires. To assist in addressing the current skills gap a multi-lingual on-line training resource, the "European Wildland Fire ...
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Sustainability Indicators to Macaronesia (ÍNDICE)

The project raises to create a joint work group between Public Administrations of different levels from the Azores-Madeira-Canary Islands Zone to analyse the system of indicators proposed by the UE and the viability of its calculation at least at a regional and insular scale. Ideally, the databases and cartography of all scopes would be accessible to the rest of the population. The project would b ...
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