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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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Development of interregional financial assistance to SMEs and of non-grant instruments (DIFASS)

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

DIFASS aims to unlock potential for innovation, internationalisation and sustainable growth of SMEs in Europe by improving access to finance.Innovative SMEs are often faced with problems when obtaining loans from commercial banks and intermediaries as valuing risks in technology innovation or foreign markets is problematical and as SMEs often cannot provide sufficient collateral. Resulting from th ...
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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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Cultural values and Leisure Environments Accessible Roundly - for All (CLEAR)

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

CLEAR aims to serve as a kick-start mechanism for generating a better attitude towards Cultural Values (CVs), rendering them accessible to all and so seen as assets to local development. The current inadequacy of accessibility & poor management of CVs in SEE countries results in a growing tourist market being ignored, a market represented by senior citizens, people with a disability or an impairme ...
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Adapting to climate change in Time (ACT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

...ncerning climate change. Objectives 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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InterMETREX

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

...e METREX website to promote networking between metropolitan areas. Improvement of practice was identified in the need for better relationships between planning at national, regional, sub-regional and municipal levels, and greater coherence between administrative boundaries and functional urban regions and areas; better integration of forecasts, projections, scenarios and sectoral plans, particular ...
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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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Transit Systems Development for Urban Regeneration (TranSUrban)

Start date: Mar 31, 2005, End date: Sep 29, 2007,

Urban public transport systems such as tramways, buses, and light rail systems not only enhance overall mobility in cities they also improve environmental conditions and generate wider benefits related to economic development and urban regeneration. However, in planning, implementing, and maintaining public transport systems, urban areas typically face a number of challenges including high investm ...
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CULTURAL HERITAGE, LOCAL IDENTITY AND PLACE MARKETING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (CULTMARK)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

The operation “Cultmark: Cultural heritage, local identity and place marketing for sustainable development” is based on the ERDF Innovative Action "regional identity and sustainable development" and the emerging field of "place marketing". Place marketing is a tool for regions and local authorities to boost their economic development and attract tourism flows and investment. It can also form the n ...
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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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Metropolitan Areas+. Network of Regional Systems of metropolises in the Baltic Sea Region - Strenghtening of Competitiveness by Sustainable Developmen (MA+ )

Start date: Mar 16, 2003, End date: Mar 15, 2006,

The focus of MA+ is laid on a balanced polycentric development of BSR and its metropolitan regions. MA+ intends to strengthen metropolitan regions as a whole. Transnationally agreed development targets and measures - already in the preliminary stages - should help to reduce the traditional metropolitan conflict situation of functional and growth competition between the centre of conurbation, the s ...
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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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Sistemi Elettronici Applicati per la Protezione Ambiente e lo Sviluppo Sostenibile (SEAPASS)

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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Job, Young and KnoWlEdge in Landscape-Culture (JOY-WELCULT)

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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