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Deploying the added value of water in local and regional development (Aqua-add)

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

European regions and cities face important challenges related to water management: storage and discharge after (heavy) rainfall, quality, periodic water stress, etc. To address these challenges, it is evident that water must become an integral part of spatial development policies and their implementation.However, until now, water management issues are often secondary. Water issues compete with oth ...
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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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Effective Reproducible Model of Innovation Systems (ERMIS)

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

... Lead Partner started the premodelisation of an ideal Effective Reproducible Model of Innovation Systems "ERMIS", to gather a set of performance criteria with the involvement of Partner5 (Eindhoven Municipality) and Partner14 (Copenhagen Regional Agency Erhvervnet). Based on findings, the Lead Partner's innovation expert together with regional project managers, elaborated a first draft of the prem ...
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Heritage Tourism for increased BSR Identity (AGORA 2.0)

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

Countries in the Baltic Sea Region have a long common history throughout the centuries and a great variety of natural and cultural resources. However, the area is still not well recognised as one common region, even by its own residents.AGORA 2.0 aims at strengthening the common identity of the Baltic Sea Region, based on its rich natural and cultural heritage. Substitutional for numerous assets, ...
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Better Opportunities on the Labor Market (BMPA)

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

The project will develop and try out new educational modules aimed at the now and forthcoming commuting workforce. The differences between the two countries is that Denmark has a forthcoming lack of workforce while Sweden suffers from an unemployment problem, these are problems that the project indirectly will be working with. ...
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Impact of Climate Change on the quality of urban and coastal waters (DiPol)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

DiPol aims at identifying impacts and at suggesting measures to reduce adverse consequences of climatic changes for the quality of urban and coastal waters. Hence it will have a direct impact on water quality. A programme tool, (SIMACLIM) that illustrates the impacts of climate changes on water quality and which is able to evaluate consequences of potential measures to help regional and national d ...
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Control of hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea region (COHIBA)

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

Hazardous substances are one of environmental problems of the Baltic Sea. Recently 11 hazardous substances and substance groups have been taken into consideration in the area and a specific programme established for these substances (HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan BSAP, hazardous substances segment). Project Control of hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea region – COHIBA focused on these eleven s ...
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WaterCost

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

The aim of the project was to help to provide Water Framework Directive "competent authorities" with cost-effective and sustainable measures for the management of groundwater quality, in the context of river basin management plans. The WaterCost project aimed to provide guidance on how to obtain an integrated and environmentally sustainable approach to groundwater protection and management. In ove ...
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"Dogme 2000" - a model for envrionmental management on the municipal level (Dogme)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Dec 1, 2007,

...; (4) a new audit model for “Dogme-2000”; and (5) a Dogme-2000 manual. 1. A common model was developed for green accounts, and eight areas were defined as describing a sustainable municipality. Benchmarks (comprising two-to-four indicators) were established for each of the eight areas. These benchmarks cover a total of six environmental quality or resource areas: Energy, Nature, Air, Noise, ...
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Nature Centres and Environmental Interpretation in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR EAGLE)

Start date: Sep 2, 2004, End date: Nov 29, 2007,

...lot Centres in Estonia and LatviaThematic expositions were produced, nature trails built up and new methodical thematic programs published. Existing nature schools were improved. In Sweden, Uddevalla municipality got the EU EMAS Award 2005. The pilot nature centre in Alatskivi, Estonia, was finalized and new nature center in Palade, Estonia, is developed in cooperation with local municipality, cou ...
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Corridor of Innovation and Cooperation (COINCO)

Start date: Mar 9, 2005, End date: Jul 8, 2007,

COINCO deals with the development and optimization of traffic connections, innovation and clustering along the Scandinavian-Central European North-South axis. The idea of COINCO is the identificatiomn of themes for transnational cooperation in order to create an attractive region that can compete in global markets. ...
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Innovative demonstration project for local treatment of combined sewer overflows enabling the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (Lotwater)

Start date: Jun 1, 2003, End date: Dec 31, 2006,

Background Discharges from combined sewer overflows in many situations constitute a problem in relation to reaching "good status" in the quality of the surface waters of member countries, which is one of the requirements of the Water Framework Directive. Recent surveys in the County of Aarhus, Denmark, have demonstrated that 17 % of the overflows lead to ...
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Integrating the Seaways of the Southern Baltic Sea into the PanEuropean Transport System (BALTIC GATEWAY)

Start date: Mar 2, 2003, End date: Jun 10, 2006,

Transportation of passengers and goods increases dramatically in the South Baltic Sea area. However, existing infrastructure and transport solutions are not enough equipped to manage the growth in an efficient and sustainable way. The challenging development called upon joint actions among organisations in several countries and on various levels. In the Baltic Gateway project, regional and local a ...
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Baltic Cruise Project 2004-2007 (BCP 2004-2007)

Start date: Sep 20, 2004, End date: Sep 20, 2004,

BALTIC CRUISE PROJECT is a cooperation between 10 countries, 19 destinations and 32 partners (ports, city and tourist org.) in the Baltic Sea RegionAn exchange of knowledge and information between Baltic ports and destinations focusing on international cruise tourism. To realise a cruise, the cruise vessel must visit several ports and therefore cooperation between Baltic ports and destinations is ...
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South-Western Baltic Sea TransRegional Area - Implementing New Geography (STRING II )

Start date: May 31, 2002, End date: Jun 29, 2004,

The clue of the cooperation is the jointly prepared, approved Development Concept of June 2001, consisting of a concrete strategy and action plan including a number of different sub-projects. The strategy and action plan involve seven strategic fields, i.e. business development, mobility of people, infrastructure and transport, environment, nature and landscape, culture, knowledge exchange and lea ...
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Building bridges between research and praxis

This project is the first step towards a larger project. In this project the focus will be onidentifying ways for cooperation within research and praxis within social work. Sweden andDenmark have many competencies within social work and if these competencies can becombined it could be of great benefit for the people working in this sector. Social work should toa larger degress combine research and ...
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Business development in the Oresund Region -logistics/transport, system supplies, wood/stone/glass

The project expects to lead to co-operation within the three branch areas transport/logistics, the metal industry focusing on system supplies as well as wood/stone/glass. The project partners hope that companies will begin to act regionally instead of locally and that competitiveness will be improved.
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i Care - Children Art Relationship Education

The two Regions are protagonists of a long collaboration. The project aims to consolidate the cooperation and support a new joint initiative, in the frame of the internet platform "Moodle", produced by the Comenius network "Wide Minds".Trainers of the Statens Museum of Kunst. and of the Center “Luigi Pecci”, together with administrators, will develop a comparative analysis of the organizational an ...
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Improving economic and social integration of Pakistani immigrant women

Helping Pakistani women help themselves and their communities : An innovative project providing immigrants with employment and healthcare, while increasing the opportunities of Pakistani women through foreign language and vocational training in the workplace to also enhance inter-community understanding This project started in 2000 and lasted 36 months.
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