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Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

...ocial innovation (SI) and innovative governance in agriculture, forestry and rural development (RD), and how to boost them, particularly in marginalised rural areas across Europe, with a focus on the Mediterranean region (including non-EU) where there is limited evidence of outcomes and supporting conditions. These objectives will be achieved by: 1. Developing systematic frameworks: a) theoretical ...
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Effective Management of Pests and Harmful Alien Species - Integrated Solutions (EMPHASIS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

EMPHASIS is a participatory research project addressing native and alien pests threats (insect pests, pathogens, weeds) for a range of both natural ecosystems and farming systems (field crops, protected crops, forestry, orchards and amenity plants).The overall goal is to ensure a European food security system and the protection of biodiversity and of ecosystems services while developing integrated ...
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Supporting the Uptake of Agri-Food Research Results into Innovation with EPC countries (SUAFRI-EPC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"The overall aim of the SUAFRI-EPC project is to bridge the gap between Agri-Food research and innovation in Eastern Partnering Countries (EPC), by bringing together all actors of the knowledge value chain and raising their awareness on how to uptake research results into innovation. The SUAFRI-EPC is supporting the Agri-Food sector and community in EPC by developing the basis for an efficient "" ...
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New Directions in Seismic Hazard assessment through Focused Earth Observation in the Marmara Supersite (MARSITE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

...apan, Indonesia, and Haiti, which killed more than half a million people, highlighted how mankind is still far away from a satisfactory level of seismic risk mitigation. Among the regions around the Mediterranean Sea for which earthquakes represent a major threat to their social and economic development, the area around the Marmara Sea, one of the most densely populated parts of Europe, is subjec ...
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Coordinating research in support to application of EAF (Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries) and management advice in the Mediterranean and Black Seas (CREAM)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

"The Coordinating Action (hereafter ""the project"") will establish an effective collaboration network among key role players in Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries research and management. The participants in the project include national research institutes from Mediterranean and Black Sea countries with a long history and active participation in fisheries research and assessment, who provide a ...
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Energy Efficiency in Low-income Housing in the Mediterranean (ELIH-Med)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

...at low income housing was not a targeted object of the policies in the Med area and pointed to a significant gap between the 2020 energy efficiency targets and the forecasted energy saving set by the Mediterranean States. All the partners are on the verge to launch the experimentations that will be implemented in their pilot projects and have realized the previous steps: selection of the dwellings ...
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f Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation, Development (POWERED)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

POWERED aims to define a set of strategies and shared methods for the development of the off-shore wind energy in all the Countries overlooking the Adriatic Sea. Such energetic choice could allow a rapid increase of installations, thanks to the reduction of the problems related to landscape topic that are frequently the main obstacles to the creation of wind parks in high density population territ ...
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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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SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE MARINE AND RIVER INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE TRANSPORTATION OF DANGEROUS GOODS (SEE MARINER)

Start date: Jan 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

The SEE area is a sea and river transit space of vessels carrying hazardous freight which constitutes many potential environmental risks for coasts and inland waterways. Economic development and a strong growth of transport and increased traffic in the SEE area aggravate the already increased threats of pollution and thus require a good management and high performance of observation, communication ...
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Tracking Oil Spills and Coastal Awareness Network (TOSCA)

Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Aug 30, 2013,

...of local authorities, policy makers & scientists to improve environment policies and appropriate decision making in case of marine accidents (oil pollution, Search And Rescue (SAR) operations) in the Mediterranean Sea. TOSCA will supply monitoring of ocean currents based on state of the art technology (HF radars and drifters), together with risk maps & action plans developed by the scientists in c ...
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Fostering Creativity and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area as key elements for Regional Sustainable Development: CreaMED Alliance (CreaMED)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 30, 2012,

...s a route to a Regional Sustainable Development by encouraging mutual policy learning, synergies and cooperation in order to provide a framework for developing Regional Innovation Policies within the Mediterranean Area Achievements: State of the art of project implement ...
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Mediterranean Inter Cluster (IC-MED)

Start date: May 31, 2009, End date: May 30, 2012,

Cluster policy is a priority in the Mediterranean regions taking part in the ICMed partnership. ICMed will address the issues and challenges facing cluster policy by focusing on 5 specific themes and putting SME competitiveness and innovation at the heart of the project. The ICMed work programme will cover a 3 year period. First, a series of activities will be launched in order to identify the are ...
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Mediterranean Transnational Technology Transfer (MET3)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

Among the difficulties faced by most Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) and Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs) in MED and elsewhere is that of building effective Research-Industry partnerships. Technology transfer involves the processes of capturing and sharing explicit and tacit knowledge and includes both commercial and non- commercial activities. In particular, EU has identified the tra ...
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CLASSIFICATION OF EUROPEAN BIOMASS POTENTIAL FOR BIOENERGY USING TERRESTRIAL AND EARTH OBSERVATIONS (CEUBIOM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2010,

The main objective of the project is to develop a common methodology for gathering information on biomass potential using terrestrial and earth observations. This objective will be achieved by the implementation of a systematic assessment work plan and will result in the establishment of a harmonised approach and an e-training tool for dissemination. The e-training environment will be an important ...
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IONian Integrated marine Observatory (IONIO)

The project aims at designing and implementing an Ionian Integrated Marine Observatory that will produce environmental information about the Southern and Northern Ionian Programme Area to support safer maritime traffic and the reduction of pollution hazard. In particular the partners will develop: • An information system (IS) for the observations and model analysis and forecasts to be accessed in ...
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Improving governance, management and sustainability of rural and coastal protected areas and contributing to the implementation of the Natura 2000 provisions in IT and GR (BIG)

Start date: Dec 10, 2013,

• BIG general objective is to improve governance, management and sustainable valorization of coastal and rural protected areas and contributing to the implementation of the Natura 2000 provisions in Greece and Italy. The sub-objectives are:• Strengthening and improving cooperation among regional administrations to further monitor Natura 2000 species and habitats and to set environmental measures f ...
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Language Learning for Professionals in ICT and Agriculture

LaProf is a Multilateral Project that aims at promoting language awareness toimmigrating workforces in two particular sectors, ICT and agriculture. The main goal isto provide access to language learning resources that will help candidate immigrants getmore familiarized with the terminology and cultural issues in their sectors, throughdeveloping and disseminating a number of language learning exerc ...
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