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Managing the Environmental Sustainability of Ports for a durable development (MESP)
Start date: May 31, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,
The intensification of maritime traffic, both in terms of goods and passengers, needs to be accompanied by an environmentally sustainable management of port areas so to reduce harmful consequences for local populations. MESP addresses the reduction of water, air and noise pollution deriving from port activities through the implementation of a multidisciplinary approach, which encompasses technolog ...
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City-Port Eco Logistic (CiELo)
Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Jul 1, 2014,
CIELO will deploy specific actions to provide a detailed analysis of the problems related to accessibility; studying the modalities to enhance the interconnection between city’s “hotspots” (ports, railway stations, airport, etc). CIELO will provide a guidance for accessibility management, with regard to sustainability of urban mobility, promoting innovative instruments to ease the city links and t ...
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Launching (g)local level heritage entrepreneurship: strategies and tools to unite forces, safeguard the place, mobilize cultural values, deliver the experience. (SAGITTARIUS)
Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,
Cultural consumption is a knowledge based activity: cultural products and services are viable, only if they possess widely recognized values. SAGITTARIUS advances cultural consumption by communicating cultural values: from natural monuments and ecosystems to sites and collections, from the arts to traditions and handicrafts. Thus values of tangible-intangible, movable-immovable and spiritual herit ...
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motion of residual forestry biomass in the Mediterranean basin (PROFORBIOMED)
Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,
PROFORBIOMED promotes renewable energies in rural areas by developing an integrated strategy for the use of forest biomass as a renewable energy source, improving forest management systems, recovering forest biomass potential and developing new opportunit Achievements: ...
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Adapting to climate change in Time (ACT)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,
...ncerning climate change.
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The main focus of the ACT project was on developing a process for an effective municipal strategy for local climate change adaptation measures. This was to be achieved by involving local stakeholders (businesses, citizens, public health sector, civil protection, etc.) in a consulta ...
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Capitalising on Partner Initiatives in Mobility Management Services (PIMMS CAPITAL)
Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Nov 29, 2012,
Throughout the EU, increased reliance on the car has resulted in high levels of congestion and more pollution, leading to economic, environmental and health problems for our regions and cities. ERDF investment in infrastructure could accelerate this trend if parallel alternative measures are not introduced at the same time. Mobility Management aims to reduce reliance on the car by encouraging tra ...
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Climate Change and Impacts on Water Supply (CC-WaterS)
Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,
Climate change (CC) affects fresh water resources and may have significant influence on public drinking water supply. Land use activities exert pressure on water resources and will change according to CC. It is crucial for safeguarding future water supply to anticipate these climate and land use changes and to assess their impacts on water resources. Transnational action is needed to prepare SEE f ...
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New mobility sceneries in the FREE trade zone in MEDiterranean basin (FREEMED)
Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Feb 27, 2008,
The project FREEMED aims to analyze the effects of Free Trade Zone (FTZ) introduction in 2010 on transport systems and production sectors in the involved countries. A list of priorities in developing dedicated transport supply facilities, which is infrastructures and services, will be proposed and evaluated through a decision support system. The introduction of the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) in 2010 wi ...
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Connected Cities (CC)
Start date: Jun 30, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
European citizens travel much further to work and leisure facilities today than in the past. Despite bringing benefits, this huge increase in mobility has led to traffic congestion and pollution, holding back efforts to achieve sustainable development. Public transport can form the basis of more sustainable approaches to mobility. However, the mismatch between older public transport networks and m ...
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ISOLA BELLA
Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
The general aim of the project ISOLA BELLA is to strengthen the governance of minor islands Public Administration in order to transform them from marginal and peripheral communities of the Mediterranean into a networking system, able to promote new development models, instruments and strategies based on a participatory decision-making process in order to manage the territory according to the princ ...
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MAVITRA : The virtual work market in the Mediterranean Bassin (MAVITRA)
Start date: May 31, 2005, End date: Sep 29, 2007,
Le projet a pour but de favoriser et canaliser la mobilité des ouvriers dans le Bassin Méditerranéen, par une amélioration des services pour lemploi et par la création dun marché virtuel du travail. Cette stratégie doit avoir un impact positif afin de favoriser la rencontre entre loffre et la demande de travail, en diminuant le chômage de certaines zones et le manque de travail dans dautres, et en ...
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Building new models for the economic revitalization of central urban areas (URBE VIVA)
Start date: Sep 30, 2004, End date: Sep 29, 2007,
Decline or loss of attractiveness of central urban areas is a common challenge of the 'Urbe Viva' partnership. Decline is related to a variety of economic and social factors, the most visible being an inflation of suburban shopping centres. To address this issue, it is necessary to adopt integrated approaches, as tested in countries such as the UK, Sweden, Belgium or France. Such approaches aim to ...
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Adriatic action plan 2020 (Aap2020)
Start date: Apr 30, 2003, End date: Apr 29, 2006,
How to reconcile development with sustainability and integrate sustainability policies into the political and management practices of public authorities is a major concern for regions and cities along the Adriatic coast. They are faced with conflicting trends: on the one hand, there is wide recognition of the importance of environmental action; and on the other hand, sustainability policies are of ...
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The general objective is to promote a cross-border cultural and creative industry in the sector of tourism, agriculture, food and traditional crafts for self-sustainable local development. This goal will be achieved through the creation of a network of eco-museums in the Mediterranean areas for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention.• Monitoring and taking a census of eco-museums ...
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Problema Individuato: deterioramento dellhabitat naturale costiero a causa dellelevato traffico marittimo. Il trascinamento delle ancore sui fondali delle aree portuali costiere è la causa principale del danneggiamento dei fondaliStrategia di Intervento: - Monitorare e regolamentare il traffico marittimo nelle aree costiere di maggiore rilevanza naturalistico-ambientale, attraverso linstallazione ...
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Water Saving for Development (WaS4D)
Start date: Mar 18, 2012,
The general objective of the project is to promote drinking water saving culture & behaviour . Its principal activities are: • on line geo-referred maps regarding existing water resources/quality and water needs, for Puglia and Achaia • a Sustainable cross border Water Management Plan • a water saving Local Action Plan - 2015-2020 • Water Houses with scenic design selected via public competition • ...
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