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Background The LIFE programme introduced action grants for capacity-building projects for the 2014-2017 funding period. These are projects designed to build Member States' capacity to participate more effectively in the LIFE Programme. Specifically, these projects propose interventions to develop the capacity to submit successful applications for funding ...
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Conservation of root vole *Microtus oeconomus mehelyi (Microtus)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Background The Mehely’s subspecies of root vole, Microtus oeconomus mehelyi, is restricted to the western (especially north-western) Hungary, eastern Austria and south-western Slovakia, occupying habitats formed by sediments of freshwater marshes, swamps, floodplains or watersides with dense vegetation. The current status of Hungarian Mehely’s root vo ...
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The fishery sector is one of the most important or even strategic areas for most of the economies of Adriatic Cross-border Countries. The thousands kilometers of coasts belonging to those Countries represent an incredible resource not only for the tourist sector, but also for the production of high quality fishery and mollusc products. The present project will continue and extend the actions succe ...
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INTERMODAL foresees implementation of common activities aimed at identifying best methods to foster effectiveness of local transport systems according to needs of areas involved. Communication has a key role to give information of activities,project results &to facilitate participation in project.Awareness-raising activities will be organised on green&intermodal transport solutions at local&EU lev ...
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Traveller Information System for the Adriatic Region (TISAR)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2015,

TISAR (Traveller Information System for the Adriatic Region) will raise a discussion over the theme of public transport data sharing and multimodal traveller information at political and technical level. The aim of the project is the implementation of an ICT platform where public transport and journey planning data will be merged and made available in the languages of the IPA Countries. The TISAR ...
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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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Smart Specialization (SMART SPECIALIZATION)

Start date: Dec 30, 2013, End date: Aug 29, 2015,

The project attempts to identify targeted investment priorities for the Interregional area and relative targeted actions that will support the excellence of entrepreneurship, research and innovation. Common Interregional issues will be explored; the results and best practices of already implemented projects will be assessed as to develop a common Interregional action plan. In this context, special ...
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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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Early warning system UA SK 2 (EWS UA SR 2) (HUSKROUA/1101/229)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The overall objective: Based on the successful project Early warning system UA SK (EWS UA SR), to intensify and deepen the cross border cooperation of two regions: Zakarpatska region in UA and Košický kraj in SK in the field of emergency preparedness for floods, fire, and other natural disasters incidents. ...
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The Barents Freeway

Start date: Sep 3, 2012, End date: May 30, 2015,

Economic and social development of local communities in the Kolarctic area through optimization of transport infrastructure development on a base of the common Barents Region Transport Strategy responding to new challenges arising in the Arctic and Northern periphery. Achievements: ...
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AGRICAB aims to strengthen Earth Observation (EO) capacities in Africa by building on the open data sharing through GEONETCast, connecting the available satellite and other data with predictive models in order to facilitate integration in agriculture and forestry planning and management processes. Dedicated national applications in various African countries are designed to address particular polic ...
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GAP2 is about making a difference to an issue of significance to the whole of society; the wellbeing of the marine environment and the sustainability of fisheries upon which society depends for food. It builds on the relationships, processes and plans arising from GAP1 by enabling Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) actions that promote stakeholder participation in the debate on and development ...
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Zero Waste Adriatic net for events and festivals (Zero Waste)

Start date: May 31, 2012, End date: Feb 27, 2015,

Events and festivals are an important element of the tourism offering, and an opportunity to increase tourist flows and offer a variety of entertainment opportunities for local residents and tourists, even outside seasonal tourism.In the Adriatic area, there are different events that attract thousands of people and, in turn,have a positive impact on the local economy. At the same time, however, th ...
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About 70 percent of central Europeans live in urban regions. Here, local and regional authorities are increasingly challenged by a steady growth of population and an increasing request for space for both economic activities and housing. Actions are therefore needed against urban sprawl that threatens to lead to a reduction of natural and open areas used for recreational purposes. Furthermore, the ...
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Dangerous goods are nowadays primarily transported by trucks – despite higher safety risks and higher environmental costs compared to other transport modes like rail. Intermodal transport offers an alternative but developing efficient interfaces between different transport modes is a challenge to be solved. Regions in central Europe are further disadvantaged due to missing connections across the ...
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C3-Alps will synthesize, transfer and implement in policy and practice results of previous Alpine Space projects on climate change adaptation. The capitalisation approach aims at a) generating new and directly usable forms of state-of-the-art synthesis adaptation knowledge in the Alps, harmonised across sectors and useful to adaptation decision-makers, b) its effective and tailor-made communicatio ...
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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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The EC has recently published the Proposal for a Regulation on Union guidelines for the development of the trans - European transport network -COM (2011) 650/2, that defines the long term strategy for the Ten-T policy up to 2030/2050 and proposes Corridors relevant for the SEE area. By creating a multilevel formed by Transport Ministries, Regions, Universities, Chambers of Commerce, transport stak ...
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The OrientGate project will foster concerted and coordinated climate adaptation actions across the SEE region. The project will explore climate risks faced by coastal, rural and urban communities; contribute to a better understanding of the impact of climate variability and change on water regimes, forests and agro-ecosystems; and analyse specific adaptation needs in the hydroelectricity, agro-ali ...
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MOVE ON GREEN (MOG)

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

Sustainable transport is vital to maintaining the environmental and economic health of rural areas, as well as to ensuring the access of both inhabitants and potential visitors to key services such as employment, education and healthcare.Rural areas policy-makers have come to realise that the lack of sustainable mobility schemes is a cross-cutting element which affects every development strategy i ...
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Integrated Measures for an Energy Efficiency Approach (IMEA)

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

Objective: IMEA aims to support local and regional authorities in taking a pro-active role in improving the energy efficiency of the built environment.IMEA focuses on Energy Efficiency. The implementation of EE measures is a European key challenge in the transition towards sustainable communities, in special in Eastern Europe and in deprived urban areas where a high percentage of the housing stock ...
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A number of central European regions, especially those located on the periphery of the cooperation area, are challenged by the outbound migration of well-educated young women. This results in severe sex-ratio imbalances among the working-age population of these regions and a lack of highly skilled labour. Whereas the first endangers social cohesion on territorial level, the second one negatively i ...
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Urban-rural partnerships in metropolitan areas (URMA)

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

...tropolitan areas and their surrounding hinterlands. The basis was laid during a preceding project, integrated in the action programme Pilot Project of Spatial Planning sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development. In this project regional disparities were tackled and the effectiveness of regional development policies was improved by new governance structure ...
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Objective of the projectOverall objective of the action is to increase health and well-being of people and to narrow the health gap between socioeconomic groups in the Republic of Karelia and in North Karelia, Finland.Main activities• Improvement of health communication and an increase of health knowledge among people through printed press, television, radio, websites and social media.• Models for ...
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Improving Communities' Sustainable Energy Policy Tools (STEP)

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

The STEP partnership consists of 9 ambitious partners from 8 regions wishing to improve their local sustainable energy policies and support the deployment of regional policies at local level. In order to achieve the EU 20-20 by 20 targets national and regional policies have to be deployed more efficiently at local authorities level, which are the key of successful policy implementation. The EU str ...
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Green Infrastructure Network (GreenInfraNet)

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

Biodiversity conservation policies have traditionally been developed and implemented within the nature conservation sector, and local and regional authorities are mainly responsible for implementing the policies and achieving their objectives. However, this presents the authorities with a range of challenges:– many other land uses are increasing in extent and intensity– much of the biodiversity ou ...
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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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Enhancing ‘Next Generation Access’ Growth in Europe (ENGAGE)

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

CONTEXT : ICT play an increasing and crucial role in the European socio-economic environment. The adoption and use of ICT are among the most significant factors determining productivity growth, accounting of 40% of Europe's productivity growth and 25% of EU GDP growth”. ICT could be a key factor to help developing rural areas in Europe but there is still a real rural-urban gap in broadband covera ...
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Cultural Routes Entrepreneurship and Technologies Enhancement (e-CREATE)

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

...ent of implementation plans for the partner regions, improved access to good practices, and the mobilisation of private investments. e-CREATE is implemented by an interregional partnership led by the Ministry of Regional Development and Transport, Saxony-Anhalt (DE). Partners include local and regional public authorities (or institutions acting as public equivalent bodies on their behalf) from 9 E ...
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Cross-Border Move for Health

Start date: Feb 4, 2013, End date: Dec 4, 2014,

Objective of the projectThe objective was to increase the knowledge of health and wellbeing of the children and the youth in North Karelia and in the Republic of Karelia and to increase the physical activity of adapted physical activity -groups in the area. Main activities1. Developing new practices for increasing overall physical activity.2. Producing education materials and reports of seminars.3 ...
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Water resources are under increasing pressure originating from land use and climate change. Accompanied with economic changes in the SEE region the land use pattern is expected to change, too. Both processes will have severe impacts on water resources in general and drinking water resources in particular. CC-WARE aims at developing an integrated transnational strategy for water protection and miti ...
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Widening of Road 89 Vartius-Paltamo, road stretches 10-13 and 13-17

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

Objective of the projectThe aim of the project is to support the growth of cross-border transport between Finland/EU and Russia via border crossing point of Vartius.Main activities• Preparation of technical documentations and tendering documents.• Procurement of Contractor.• Implementing the construction plans (opening the slopes, adding new structural layers, paving the road). ...
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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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Smarter Cluster Policies for South East Europe (ClusterPoliSEE)

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

ClusterPoliSEE main objective is to enhance the capacity of regional policy makers to confront, prevent and anticipate change, developing smart specialization strategies for cluster improvement, thus accelerating differentiation and structural change towards a knowledge-based economy in which there is a place for all SEE regions to position themselves. 25 members partnership covers 11 different SE ...
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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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Rail Hub Cities for South East Europe (RAIL4SEE)

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

The challenge that the RAIL4SEE partners share is the development of models, concepts, measures, harmonised strategies and policy actions targeted to the improvement of rail and intermodal transport in SEE. In particular partners call for complementary interventions facing the alleviation of barriers for rail hubs integration in the local, regional, transnational and TEN-T systems, transport servi ...
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Euregio Karelia: Museum Hypertext

Start date: Feb 7, 2013, End date: Oct 6, 2014,

Objective of the projectThe aim of the project was to encourage the development of the Euregio Karelia cross-border cultural space based on new common vision, identification and museum interpretation of historical and cultural features, internal and outer interconnections and links, in the context of actualization of the new communication technologies.Main activities• Creation of an open museum in ...
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Shrinking regions and cities are becoming a more and more relevant issue in central Europe. Especially former border regions (Iron curtain) are particularly affected by demographic and social change. On the other hand these regions have large potentials which have to be explored and used. The consequences of demographic change and increasing scarcity of public resources thus require a fundamental ...
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Assessing Territorial Attractiveness in SEE  (Attract-SEE)

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

Effective monitoring system and better coordination among different development and sectoral policies are basic conditions for achieving territorial cohesion and territorial development goals on transnational, national, regional and local level. Project ATTRACT-SEE will support policy makers to achieve better coordination of territorial cohesion and growth policies as well as their implementation ...
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Adriatic - Danube - Black Sea multimodal platform (ADB multiplatform)

Start date: Mar 31, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The idea of the project is to develop and promote environmentally friendly, multimodal transport solutions from the ports in the SEE programme area (Black Sea, Aegean, Adriatic) to inland countries and regions along a selected pilot transnational network. This will be done by developing and establishing a "multimodal transport development platform", which integrates different regions and stakehold ...
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