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Chemicals Regulations Enforcement & Inspections - Building Authority Capacity for REACH/CLP and SEVESO III Compliance (LIFE CHEREE)

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

Background The SEVESO-III directive (2012/18/EU), which is aimed at preventing major accidents involving dangerous substances, entered into force in October 2015 in Cyprus and in February 2016 in Greece. However, there is still a lack of concise knowledge and information on the uses and hazardous properties of many chemicals. In addition, market surveilla ...
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Implementing Alpine Governance Mechanisms of the European Strategy for the Alpine Region (AlpGov)

Start date: Jun 7, 2016, End date: Jun 6, 2019,

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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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Stages Léonardo

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Context and objectives The Brussels-Capital Region is affected by an important social divide. On one hand, its higher education graduate rate is one of the highest in Europe (37%). On the other hand, an important proportion of the population is underqualified (35’5%), the early school leaving rate is significant (20%) and the youth unemployment rate is worrisome (30 %)*. Due to the deindustrializa ...
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Bilateral Labour Market Cooperation 2013 - 2015 (KOOP Austria-Ukraine)

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

The aim of the project is to establish a network with relevant Ukrainian labour market policy actors (Ministries, Public Employment Services, Social Partners, qualification providers etc.) and to address current Ukrainian labour market policy issues and challenges. There should be a transfer ofknowledge and experience and a forum for discussion and exchange for experts should be provided. Within t ...
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AlpStore: Strategies to use a variety of mobile and stationary storages to allow for extended accessibility and the integration of renewable energies (AlpStore)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Sun, water and biomass are a natural capital of the Alpine Space. It is a must to use them for the production of energy. Besides intelligent grids, storage systems will be key enablers for a future mostly renewable energy supply.Electric vehicles (EV) will be integral elements of the future energy system. Their batteries can be charged with excessive power from intermittent energy sources and elec ...
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Managing Migration and its Effects in SEE - Transnational Actions Towards (SEEMIG)

Start date: May 31, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

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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Making Migration Work for Development - Policy tools for strategic planning in SEE regions and cities (MMWD)

Start date: Apr 30, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

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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Regions benefitting from returning migrants (Re-Turn)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2014,

Economically motivated migration of people from the New Member States to high-income countries is currently dominating international migration flows in Europe thanks to the free right to work in any other EU Member State. This is intensifying a brain drain process of many regions. On the other hand statistics show willingness of people to come back to their countries, however this process is ofte ...
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Particulates monitoring, modelling and management (PM3)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Background Air quality is a major environmental problem in Europe, especially in urban conglomerates. For Mediterranean and Balkan countries, and Cyprus in particular, the semi-arid climate with dry summers, sparse vegetation, open-cast mines and uncovered soils are conducive to wind entrainment of dust. Long-distance transport from North Africa and the e ...
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Central European Knowledge Platform for an Ageing Society (CE-Ageing Platform)

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

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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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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Disseminating Innovative STRategIes for Capitalization of Targeted Good Practices (DISTRICT+)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

European regions need to restructure their economies from traditional manufacturing industry towards a new model of development based on knowledge and innovation. The objective of the project will be the exchange of experiences and good practices (GPs) among regional partners to improve the effectiveness of regional policies in the areas of innovation, research and technological development. The p ...
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moting the innovative Baltic Fashion industry throughout the Baltic Sea Region (Baltic Fashion)

Start date: Sep 16, 2010, End date: Dec 15, 2013,

The Baltic fashion sector is mainly composed of SMEs, with large share of females not only in services & administration but also production (80% in new member states). Despite dramatic changes within the last decade resulting in a loss of a third of its volume and jobs textile, clothing and leather industries still highly contribute to employment esp in the E-BSR, where the sector counts for appro ...
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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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Improving Innovation Capacity in European Chemical Clusters (ChemClust)

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

The project Chemclust is a cooperation between 10 chemical regions from 7 Member States with the objective to improve the effectiveness of regional development policies in the area of innovation and cluster policies for the chemical sector by means of interregional cooperation and exchange of best-practice. The project has the aim to 1. accelerate the innovation capacity in chemical clusters in c ...
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Interregional Partnership Platform (IPP)

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

The innovation capacity of regions and firms depends on their ability to create, diffuse and exploit knowledge from outside the region through the regional innovation system. This regional innovation system is determined by policies, funding instruments, companies and technology providers. Public innovation intermediaries play a crucial role in providing innovation support measures, creating partn ...
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Qualification, Innovation, Cooperation and Keybusiness for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR QUICK)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

SMEs represent 99% of all enterprises in BSR and provide up to 70% of all jobs, being an important economic but also socio-cultural factor. SMEs present the biggest potential for job creation also in future. QUICK aims at unleashing this potential to its full extent by addressing the following challenges undermining the competitiveness of the BSR SMEs:- limited benefit from innovation processes an ...
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Baltic Sea Labour Network - A European Model for Improvement of Interregional Labour Policy (BSLN)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

In order to make the Baltic Sea region an attractive place to invest, work & live in (strategic objective of INTERREG IV BSR), actors working on labour marked issues came to the conclusion that the already existing interregional labour market in the BSR has more potential as presently utilised. The interregional labour market is handled by national labour policy actors and stakeholders, which are ...
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Sustainable Aggregates Resource Management (SARMa)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Oct 29, 2011,

Aggregates (crushed stone, sand and gravel) are crucial for infrastructure and construction. SEE countries are rich in aggregates, but supply is not coordinated within or across the area. Challenges are illegal and damaging quarries, unreclaimed sites, limited recycling and community opposition. Fulfilling demand requires efficient and sustainable supply chain (planning, extraction, transport, use ...
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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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REGIONAL ACTION PLANS for INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT AND ENTERPRISE (RAPIDE)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Nov 29, 2010,

RAPIDE is a propsal for a capitalisation network involving 13 partners from 11 Member States. Its aim is to implement good practice relating to the role of the public sector in stimulating innovation in partner regions, in particular helping businesses (primarily SMEs) to bring innovative products and services to market more quickly. The long term objective of the project is to stimulate innovatio ...
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Capitalising Innovative Approaches towards Demographic Change (ESF6 CIA)

Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2010,

ESF6 CIA aims at the transferability of best practices analysed in ESF Art. 6 operations to, especially, new member states. Demographic change is a subject which effects our society daily. Elderly people become a more important and outstanding group in our daily life, with a great potential of knowledge available for the transfer to younger generations. In best practices this resource was identif ...
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Female Entrepreneurs´Meetings in the Baltic Sea Region (FEM)

Start date: Aug 14, 2004, End date: Aug 13, 2008,

FEM has promoted womens access to labour markets and entrepreneurship and strengthened the role of women in local and regional development by e.g. training, mentoring, networking and creating meeting-places. Gender sensitivity and gender mainstreaming have been key issues in the project. The aim has been to produce sustainable positive changes in the attitudes, processes and methods of economic an ...
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Steering Economic and Social Cohesion in the CADSES Space: Valuing Migration as a Development Tool (MIGRAVALUE)

Start date: Aug 31, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

Although immigration is frequently considered as a factor contributing to development, it often lacks appropriate support services. Immigrant's home investments rely on individual inventiveness or informal networks, while national social systems fail to deal with cross-border movements. Poland, Slovakia and Hungary are the new EU border countries and Romania, the former Yugoslav countries and Alba ...
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Immigrant's Entrepreneurship for Socio-Economic Cohesion and Improvement of Living Standards (IMMENSITY)

Start date: Apr 30, 2006, End date: Feb 27, 2008,

The need for socio-economic inclusion of immigrants and minorities and the reduction of migration waves are challenges widely recognised throughout the EU. In the IMMENSITY project host countries and the immigrants' countries of origin are involved, because both have to face the consequences connected with immigration. One problem is that, compared to the rest of the population, the share of self- ...
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Harmonisation of economic and infrastructure development in the Pan-European transport Corridor III (EU-CORe III)

Start date: Feb 28, 2006, End date: Feb 27, 2008,

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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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 Gateway PLUS: Implementation plan for realizing the Baltic Gateway Quick Start Programme (Baltic Gateway+)

Start date: Dec 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Baltic Gateway PLUS aimed at joint actions to implement and finance prioritised transport projects in the South Baltic Sea area. Focus was on infrastructure investments in the hinterland connections, as well as on implementation of intermodal services. The project involved 30 partners from six countries and had an overall budget of approximately 1 MEUR. It was implemented in the period 2006-2007.B ...
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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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Network of European Automotive Competence (NEAC)

Start date: Jan 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The project intends to provide a platform to help automotive regions understand the competences and excellence of their own supply base within the context of the EU. By creating joint approaches and instruments, NEAC wants to improve regional and European competitivity of the automotive supply industry. ...
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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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Integration of migrants in the enlarged Europe and policies for the return of productive intellect (MIGRALINK)

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

ountries such as Veneto or Austria and recently also by the newly acceded countries. Parts of Poland, Slovakia and Hungary are now new border regions of the EU and face immigration-related problems while Romania and Serbia have experienced growing outflows of citizens towards EU Member States in recent years. The phenomenon means organisational and social challenges that have to be dealt with by b ...
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Institutionalization of the European Route of Brick Gothic (EuRoB) - a culturally and historically inspired tourism route marketing the brick Gothic heritage and related cultural offers (EuRoB II)

Start date: Dec 12, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The European Route of Brick Gothic has become a six-borders-crossing European cultural route in the Baltic Sea Region inviting local inhabitants and visitors and media to experience this outstanding cultural heritage. The route has been organized in a non-profit association open to extensions with natural persons and further cities/bodies, founded in September 2007. The website www.eurob.org and a ...
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Crossing European boundaries: Structural Improvements in European rural areas - 'European regions competing jointly on world food markets 'Promotion (PromSTAP)

Start date: Jan 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The overall objective of PromSTAP is to encourage regional and local authorities to work together on the innovation, implementation and internationalisation of the stable to table approach in order to improve the effectiveness of regional policies and instruments in the field of food safety and quality. ...
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ORT-NET - Promoting interregional co-operation of ports and multi-modal transport structures in the EU (PORT-NET)

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

...hops and best practice tours at different partner locations as well as by recruiting external expertise (lectures/studies). PORT-NET is co-coordinated by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, State Ministry for Economic and Labour Affairs, represented by the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA). All activities are co-ordinated by a Steering Committee (SC) and four Working Groups (WG), representing four ...
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TOOL TO PROMOTE THE RELATIONS OF COOPERATION AMONG THE EU REGIONS (EUROTOOL)

Start date: Apr 30, 2005, End date: Nov 29, 2007,

Problems addressed• Lack of knowledge of the organisational structures and scope of competence of the various European regions. • The need for a database that specifies the various organisations with responsibilities in the area of co-operation. • The difficulties involved in establishing contacts with a view to the presentation of joint projects, with particular reference to the new Member Stat ...
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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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Integrated regional health care structures: e-health in the Baltic Sea Region (BSReHealth)

Start date: Jun 5, 2004, End date: Jun 5, 2007,

The project “e-Health for Regions“ aimed to create modern health care systems by building up modern structures and implementing e-Health solutions to make ‘health for all’ possible. Thereby the project partners contributed to optimise the cross-border medical care and to improve the quality of medical care.The European healthcare systems have to deal with the rising demand for services in addition ...
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