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Roma-NeT II

Start date: Nov 30, 2013, End date: Mar 30, 2015,

ROMA-NeT URBACT II project was established to create a new approach to stimulate information sharing and development across the complex Roma integration policy and operational environment in nine European cities.Now six of the nine cities gathered in a delivery phase of ROMA-NeT that will continue the participatory approach working with key local stakeholders as they move forward with local delive ...
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Addressing the divide between EU indications and their practical implementation in the green construction and eco-social re-qualification of residential areas in South East Europe regions (BUILD SEE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

WHY ARE SEE CITIES SO FAR FROM SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DESPITE EU INDICATIONS ? WHY DO URBAN PLANNING AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS LACK A TRUE GREEN APPROACH? "BUILD SEE" answers these questions. It supplies public administrations, enterprises and citizens with practical tools, recommendations and action plans (from SEE local country case-studies) to bridge the gap to achieve low environmental impact and ...
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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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Good Governance in Energy Efficiency (GOVERNEE)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: Mar 30, 2013,

Energy efficiency is at the heart of the Union's efforts to tackle the problems of energy security and climate change. With the recent financial crisis and downturn in the European economy, the case for energy and resource efficiency has become even stronger. Increasing oil and gas prices make it essential to reduce Europe's dependence on primary energy sources and find alternative energy supplies ...
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Reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in cities across Central Europe (ENERCITY)

Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Feb 27, 2013,

Whilst cities cover only three percentage of Europe's surface, they account for eighty percent of the buildings and seventy five percent of carbon dioxide emissions. Therefore one of the major challenges faced by European countries today is the reduction of CO2 emissions that contribute to climate change. This is particularly true for cities as they account for eighty percent of the buildings and ...
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Towards citizen-centred eGovernment in European cities and regions (eCitizen II)

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

In the framework of the Lisbon Agenda European cities and regions as key driving forces for regional economical development have made serious efforts to develop eGovernment. This is done to face the major demand and needs for improving openness, cost-efficiency and quality of the public administrations and provision of public services, thus contributing to the regional and national competitiveness ...
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Cost-effective low-energy advanced sustainable so1utions (CLASS1)

Start date: Nov 1, 2007, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

The Municipality of Stenloese has decided to strengthen the energy requirements for a new settlement to be erected in the municipality. In this new settlement 650 dwellings will be constructed in the years 2007-2008 to a low-energy standard referred to as "low-energy class 1" in the Danish Building Regulations. This requirement means that the energy consumption will be 50 % below the new energy re ...
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Flexible Transport Services and ICT platform for Eco-Mobility in urban and rural European areas (FLIPPER)

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

... an attractive mobility service which is affordable and protects the environment(Purbach,AU);AUTh-Flexible Transport Services for meeting demands of tourists in Kastoria Municipality area(Kastoria,GR);Volos-Flexible Transport Services for people with disabilities and mobility problems(Volos,GR);ICF-Flexible Transport Services for a little island area and the introduction of voice intercoms(Forment ...
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moting Innovation and the Knowledge Economy (PIKE)

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

As a result of the INTERREG IIIC-BRISE project, some of the partners became aware and got first hand experience of other regions good practices and it became apparent that they would be very interested in transferring some of the shared good practices to their own regions. It was felt that an ideal mechanism to get them implemented would be within the framework of an INTERREG IVC Capitalisation pr ...
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CITYREGIO II - Regional economic development through co-operation within city-regions (CITYREGIO II)

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

Whereas many West European conurbations are already efficient promoters of regional economic development for their surroundings, such "lighthouse functions" of city regions still have to be established in the CADSES area. CITYREGIO II bundles six second-order cities and their respective regional partners or national regional development authorities - depending on the national distribution of compe ...
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Tele Medicine and the consequences for urban planning and development (Tele Medicine)

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

The overall objective of Tele Medicine is to explore the effects on and opportunities for the local planning of health and medical services and housing facilities in urban areas by stimulating more efficient and innovative ICT-based (wireless) solutions for domestic health and medical care. ...
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SUSTAINABLE & VOCATIONAL TOURISM (SUVOT)

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

Tourism development and sustainability can be conflicting goals. The success of a destination usually considers the overall number of nights spent by tourists but does not take into account environmental impacts such as traffic, noise, waste or power and water consumption. This lack of sustainability applies to mass tourist destinations as well as to areas with an emerging tourism industry areas. ...
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Challenge of eCitizen - Promoting eGovernment Actions in European Cities (eCitizen)

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

The project is designed to support local eGovernment initiatives, actions and strategies through the exchange and dissemination of information, best practices and successful technical innovations acquired in the partner cities and Europe-wide. The partners aim to enhance the capacities, management skills and technical knowledge of local policy-makers, officials and experts responsible for eGovernm ...
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City Parking in Europe (City Parking)

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

The Humboldt University of Berlin in cooperation with Berlin located companies has initiated the idea for this project to help cities in Europe overcome their problems of inner-city parking. Within the project the partner cities should share knowledge and experience of developing stationary traffi c policies, strategies and projects, to learn about new, effective solutions. Local and municipal pub ...
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Integrated urban waste-managment model (IUWMM)

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

As EU societies become wealthier they create more waste. OECD estimates that every EU citizen generates 550kg solid waste per year and this number is likely to increase to 640kg by the year 2020. To address the rising waste stream, urban areas need effective municipal solid waste management (MSW) concepts that not only build upon innovative new technologies (e.g., in the recycling field), but also ...
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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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Boosting Regional Information Society Expertise (BRISE)

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

BRISE is designed to close this gap by boosting expertise in information and communication technology (ICT) in several peripheral European regions. It aims to enhance and enlarge ERNACT – a pan-EU network founded in 1990 to develop and implement ICT-based models of regional development – by accessing the experience of other peripheral European regions and is promoting ICT clusters within the parti ...
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Security and Trust in Cities (SETRIC)

Start date: Oct 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

SETRICs overall aim is to create a forum for cities to exchange ideas on disaster prevention and management, enabling partners to develop their procedures and develop best practice. It is also working on the joint design of model procedures that will lead to common recommendations for European cities and assist in future training for risk managers. ...
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Bring to LIGHT the value of cultural heritage (LIGHT)

Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Sep 29, 2006,

Cultural heritage is an important issue in peoples life these days and this project want to make access easy and interesting. The project is a cooperation between five European countries all EU-member states. Youll meet five different libraries with their own approach to cultural heritage. The Light Operation will show that effective co-operation and partnerships between local and regional Cultura ...
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ACCESSIBLE CITIES OF EUROPEAN REGIONS (C.A.R.E.)

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

The project would like to underline that accessibility is a primary aspect for determining the whole pleasantness of a city and an important aspect for enhancing the quality of life of all citizenships, also the temporary residents like tourists and is also an important factor for the promotion and qualitative development of urban areas. The logic of city accessibility is always related to a compl ...
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European ecoBudget pilot project for local authorities steering to local sustainability (Ecobudget)

Start date: Sep 1, 2001, End date: Aug 31, 2004,

...the political level that distinguishes ecoBudget from other environmental management systems (EMS). Furthermore, unlike most EMS used by local authorities, ecoBudget seeks to cover not only the municipality’s administration or in a few of its functions or facilities, but its community and entire territory. Objectives ...
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Sea-Land System: concerted Actions for the Coastal Zone Management (SE.L.SY)

Start date: Sep 3, 2001, End date: Aug 31, 2004,

Background Many of Europe's coastal zones share problems of deterioration of their environmental, socio-economic and cultural resources. Since 1996, the European Commission has been working to identify and promote measures to remedy this trend and to improve the overall situation in these areas. Compared to other continents, Europe has a large continental ...
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Cities & Regions of Bicycles (BICY)

Start date: Jan 31, 2010, End date: Jan 30, 2003,

BICY originated by the will of local, regional authorities & research bodies involved to affirm a softer and sustainable model of mobility in Central Europe, centered on diffusion of bicycle. In fact, unsustainable traffic congestion and air pollution are a top preoccupation for a large part of European citizens (many of them spend years of their life in daily traffic jams), mainly in CE where mob ...
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DEMETRAE - GenDer GuidancE to enhance and support woMEn choices in the AgriculTuRAl fiEld: pathways and tools for Education and Vocational systems

This proposal starts from the Best Practice developed in Italy in the previous project "A.G.R.O.N.O.M.A. Analisi Generale RisorseOrientamento Nazionale Obiettivo Management Agricolo" finanziato dalla Legge 10 Aprile 1991 n. 124 Positive Actions for theImplementation of Gender Opportunities in the job. Through the involvement of transnational partners, the project's mainobjective is to add a Europe ...
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