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Description (EN): The AlpGovs’ main objective is to support effective and efficient EUSALP implementation in a systematic transnational approach through designing and testing appropriate governance structures and mechanisms mainly on the level of Action Groups (AGs), at the same time to create synergies with the other EUSALP implementing bodies General Assembly and Executive Board a ...
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Sustainable Mediterranean Old Towns (SMOT)

Start date: Dec 19, 2013, End date: Dec 28, 2015,

Project in brief Due to their age and heritage, many cities in the Mediterranean basin have historical districts similar to open-air museums and the preservation of these values for future generations is a key issue to be addressed. However, this responsibility should not only concern the conservation of monuments but also the adoption of measures for the protection of the environment, introducing ...
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Energy Sustainability for Adriatic Small Communities (ALTERENERGY)

Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Aug 30, 2015,

The ALTERENERGY Strategic Project aims to provide a significant contribution to the widely agreed objective of achieving a higher level of sustainability with regards to energy production and usage in the Adriatic area. This objective is strictly connected, as we all know, to creating a better environment and the protection of life and the natural environment. In pursuing this overall general obje ...
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Lacking information about public transport is often an obstacle for travellers to use public transport at all. This is an even bigger challenge when travelling by sustainable transport modes to and within destinations of the Alpine Space, where often cross-border information is needed. This project aims to provide travellers with comprehensive information about sustainable transport modes beyond r ...
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Bringing closer ESPON evidence for decision making (ESPON on the Road)

Start date: Dec 23, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

AimThe ESPON 2013 Programme has produced a lot of results and the applied research, targeted analyses, scientific tools and publications provide a huge pool of knowledge that can be actively used in decision making. The project aims at strengthening the bridge between ESPON knowledge and local reality by bringing ESPON results closer to potential users. The project shall provide a platform for dis ...
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The SEE region faces a complex, nationally and regionally diverse set of demographic, migratory and labour market challenges (low or declining fertility, large scale out-migration, brain and care drain, ageing, low labour force participation rate). Together with further aspects like gender, age and the given territorial heterogeneity of the programme area, they are creating a complex challenge to ...
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The focus of the project is to enhance policy-making, reinforcing the capacity of public administrations to understand, anticipate and strategically manage the implications of demographic change for the growth and cohesion of European regions and cities, and for the overall integration of the SEE area. Local and regional authorities are at the forefront in facing the effects of current demographic ...
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Sustainable Aggregates Planning in South East Europe  (SNAP-SEE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

Assuring sustainable supply of aggregates resource is an important challenge due to their limited availability when aiming at sustainable regional development. Due to the regional differences and historical development, there are diverse approaches to aggregates policies, planning and management in South East Europe, which is hindering resource efficiency and economic development in the region. Th ...
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and Prosper - Sustainable Tourism in the Wadden Sea (PROWAD)

Start date: Oct 14, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

PROWAD will identify opportunities and perspectives for sustainable socio-economic development in the Wadden Sea region resulting from the designation of the Wadden Sea as World Heritage. A consistent sustainable tourism strategy will be elaborated in a participatory approach with relevant local and regional stakeholders in the Wadden Sea region. On the basis of an action plan joint projects will ...
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Western Balkan Countries INCO-NET (WBC-INCO.NET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The Western Balkan countries INCO-NET assists to develop the relationship between the EU and the WBCs in the area of science and technology (S&T). The project supports the Steering Platform on Research for the Western Balkan Countries in the facilitation of interaction between the Western Balkan countries, the EU Member States, states associated to the Framework Programmes for RTD and the European ...
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Mechanism for fostering innovation in South East Europe (FINNO)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

SEE countries elaborate and implement the innovation policies with various level of effectiveness. There is a lack of cooperation, capacity and common understanding of innovation performance, policies and supporting instruments in the region. The aim of the FINNO project is to contribute to better productivity and achieve more comparable level of innovativeness between countries in SEE region. The ...
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In the context of territorial cohesion, border regions are places where barriers towards territorial integration and competitiveness become most obvious. One significant challenge in this respect is the increasing loss of highly skilled human capital through the movement to more favourable economic environments, the so-called “brain-drain/brain-gain” phenomenon.The “Brain Flow” partnership represe ...
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Fall of the working age population in Europe is becoming more apparent year by year with young people being slowly but surely outnumbered by people over 60. This obviously poses a number of challenges for the society.It is therefore important to adequately respond to "ageing challenges" using the potentials of older workers and capitalizing on the needs of an ageing society The Central European (C ...
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North Sea Ballast Water Opportunity (NSBWO)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Ships ballast water is a main source of acute and chronic pollution in the North Sea. The project aims to improve the North Sea environment and economy by facilitating the ratification of the Ballast Water Management Convention (BWMC). The implementation of the BWMC creates a new market for innovative products; Ballast Water Opportunity aims to support the NSR industry to enter this market. It enc ...
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South East Transport Axis (SETA)

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

Together with the projects SoNorA, BATCo, SCANDRIA North and SEETAC (Central Europe, Baltic Sea, SEE Programme), SETA is aiming on the analysis and development of the transport corridors from Scandinavia to South-East Europe. Competitive Accessibility of regions is one of the most important preconditions for their economic growth and development (as the project SIC! has shown). Fluent transport of ...
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How to link strong research nodes, clusters and SME networks in the Baltic Sea region in order to jointly reach globally-leading innovation partnerships? How to use the high innovation potential of the region to address common societal challenges?StarDust was designed to give answers to these questions. Besides the concrete testing of collaboration methods, policy implication should be drawn on ho ...
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Sustainable Uses of Baltic Marine Resources (SUBMARINER)

Start date: Jun 10, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

...eld of innovative and sustainable uses of Baltic marine resources. It is a new flagship of the priority area Innovation within the revised EUSBSR Action Plan. The Ministry of Economic Affairs in Schleswig-Holstein together with the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management and the Maritime Institute in Gda?sk act as SUBMARINER Network flagship project leaders.The SUBMARINER Network was offici ...
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Improving quality of life in small towns (QUALIST)

Start date: Jun 30, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

Whilst metropolitan areas are growing or at least having a stable number of inhabitants middle and smaller towns are shrinking, sometimes with serious rate. Along with this, these towns have obsolescence and workforce problem, because of the migration regards especially young and well educated people. The reasons for this are the absence of jobs, poor quality of infrastructure and connectivity to ...
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Craft & Design Business Incubator

Start date: Apr 2, 2011, End date: Apr 1, 2013,

Objective of the projectThe ogjective of the project was to establish an innovative creative sector of economy in the Republic of Karelia. Main activities• Study of the European experience in the field of state support to the representatives of the creative sector of economy.• Study of the local situation in Karelia). • A series of expert seminars in the framework of the Study. • Designing the cr ...
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Peripheral Baltic Sea regions have been characterized by depopulation and weak socio-economic conditions. These trends are contrary to the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (BSR), VASAB and the integrated territorial development of the EU (see Art. 3 (2c) of the Council Regulation (EC) No. 1083/2006 and Art. 6 (2) of Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006). Although train and ferry connections exist, on ...
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ublic-Private Partnership in Barents Tourism (BART)

Start date: Dec 21, 2010, End date: Dec 20, 2012,

The administrations on the Barents region have for years now worked on drawing up sector-specific development strategies for the region. BART works with creating the action plan for the tourism sector. BART is a two year project that prepares for ambitious activites in the future. The project includes a large group of administrational and educational institutions working with tourism on the whole ...
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“EU 2020 going local – from detached Lisbon and Gothenburg Strategies to a regionalised indigenous EU 2020” is designed to contribute to the effective implementation of the current Lisbon and Gothenburg Strategies and the new EU 2020 strategy at local and regional level. In particular, this means building on the stock of tried and tested successful experiences at the local implementation of the fo ...
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South East European Transport Axis Cooperation (SEETAC)

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

The existing SEE transport framework & network are inadequate to actual requirements. For too long the relevant institutions were concentrating on national infrastructures where most of the investments have been made to the detriment of the trans-national implications. Current transport facilities, mostly in the non-EU countries are way beneath international standards mainly because of insufficien ...
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SOuth-NORth Axis (SoNorA)

Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Feb 27, 2012,

SONORA addresses the need for improved multimodal accessibility in Central Europe in South-North dimensions. Building upon past project experiences which focused on the landscape and general transport conditions and plans within the area, SONORA targets to incisively bring forward the state of the art on the deployment of primary transport infrastructure and services, through trans-national collab ...
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Climate Change Adaptation by Spatial Planning in the Alpine Space (CLISP)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 30, 2011,

Climate change impacts, esp. growing risks from natural hazards, increasingly threaten settlements, infrastructure, lives and future development in the Alpine Space. CLISP aims at preventing increasing climate change-related spatial conflicts, vulnerability, damages and costs by providing "climate proof" spatial planning solutions as a substantial basis for future sustainable territorial developme ...
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In the Alpine Space, metropolisation has given birth to changes in the urban system and in the urban-rural relationships: the dichotomy between small settlements of alpine towns/villages/hamlets which are influenced by important Metropolitan Growth Areas (e.g. Lyon, Milan, Munich, Vienna, Trieste and other big towns) can be solved through the challenging role played by high-potential small and med ...
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Motorways of the Seas Strategic Demonstration Project (StratMos)

Start date: Mar 31, 2008, End date: Mar 30, 2011,

The application is for an extension of the project with the inclusion of a further two partners, who have been involved in the Stratmos project from the start but were not able to submit their letters of intent in time for the submission of the project in the first call. The potential partners were involved with the Stratmos predecessor project Northern Maritime Corridor. The Stratmos project aim ...
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Sustainable energy management on municipal level (MunEM)

Start date: Dec 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2008,

MunEM aims at improving energy efficiency and energy security in the Kaliningrad Region by establishing a coherent energy management at the local and regional level.One key element of MunEM is introducing energy managers and Energy Coordination Centres in the municipalities of Mamonovo and Svetly in which the project will predominantly be implemented. The energy manager will be the focal point for ...
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The traffic flow in the Baltic Sea Region rises immediately and several studies forecast an ongoing dynamic growth in the upcoming years. Ports can benefit from this growth if they do not serve as water-gates only but also create Value Added Services (VAS) on the goods handled. In order to implement the most efficient VAS in the respective ports it is vital to acquire information regarding the kin ...
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The Pan-European Corridor III, the axis connecting Eastern and Western Europe, plays a crucial role in the successful realisation of the single European market and a future-oriented positioning of European regions in the global economy. Actors along the corridor have learnt that development of the transport infrastructure system is not only a cost factor, but those resources should be used effecti ...
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The Trans-European railway Rail Baltica, linking Helsinki – Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas – Warsaw and continuing on to Berlin, is to be developed within the territories of the co-operating EU Member States.The Interreg IIIB project Rail Baltica had two main goals: (a) the definition of the most favourable route for the Rail Baltica railway link in terms of spatial planning and regional development, and ...
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Regional Cooperation in Waste Management (RECO)

Start date: Jan 12, 2005, End date: Jan 11, 2008,

RECO is a waste management and spatial planning project in cooperation between partners from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Its Central Objective is to support the development of efficient Institutions for management of municipal waste in the BSR in order to minimize negative environmental effects, lower life cycle costs for waste managem ...
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Since 1990, the EU has provided financial support for internal and external cross-border cooperation, helping to establish cross-border programme structures and to implement numerous cross-border projects along the EU’s internal and external borders. Despite the progress made, there are still a large number of cross-border problems, especially along the current (and future) external borders of the ...
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Baltic Energy Efficiency Network for the Building Stock (BEEN)

Start date: Jun 20, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Buildings account for more than 40% of the overall energy consumption in the EU, of which two-thirds are consumed in residential buildings. Thereby, the standard of the buildings varies greatly and low thermal quality primarily occurs in the prefabricated multi-storey housing stock in the Central and Eastern European member states. This fact also implies huge potentials for energy savings and the ...
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Baltic Spatial development Measures for Enterprise (B-SME)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

This project has set itself the following overlapping goals: strengthening of competitiveness in the whole Baltic area generally as well as for SME especially strengthening of co-operation between the old and the new member countries of the European Community as well as with the neighbouring countries Russia and Belarus; promotion of economic and cultural identity, development of intellectually me ...
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Next Business Generation (NBG)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The NBG partners aim to collectively develop solutions to safeguard business successions. This is achieved through the exchange of information and sharing of experience gathered on the promotion of business successions, identifying good practice examples, developing appropriate support and setting up an effective network to disseminate this information. ...
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The project develops a database for follow-up of energy and water consumption in municipal buildings. Database created at the first phase in Finland includes at the starting point almost real-time follow-up data as well as trends in longer time-scale. The Estonian version created in the project will be introduced for the use on municipal and state-owned buildings in Estonia. The portal will be tes ...
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European Chemical Regions Network (ECRN)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Nov 29, 2007,

The operation “European Chemical Regions Network” (ECRN) is centered around concerted actions for European regions with dominant chemical industries. In Europe, the chemical industry (especially the petrochemical industry) is clustered in just a few regions. In these regions, the chemical sector often represents the major economic force exhibiting strong impacts on most other economic sectors. Due ...
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Strategic development and co-operation between airport regions (STRAIR)

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

The main objective of STRAIR is to improve the innovation systems for industrial and business development in airport regions. The partners want to investigate how regional economies can take advantage of developing airport related services and facilities. Furthermore, they want to find out what effects the relocation of an international airport, from central metropolitan areas into nearby rural gr ...
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moting Spatial Development by Creating COMon MINdscapes (COMMIN)

Start date: Aug 31, 2004, End date: Aug 30, 2007,

Transnational and cross-border co-operation have a growing need (e.g. EU-enlargement) for a precise understanding of the partner’s concepts and the planning systems they are embedded in. The improvement of solving similar problems in different BSR countries and on transnational activities can best be achieved by exchange of experiences and ideas, mutual training and further education as well as pr ...
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