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Restoration and management of Danube floodplain habitats (LIFE Danube floodplains)

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2022,

Background In past 200 years, the water and wetland habitats of the Danube region have undergone great change: dams have been constructed; flood protection introduction; navigation improved; agricultural and forestry activities intensified; and land drained. Large continuous flood areas have been reduced and divided by dykes, while numerous branches have ...
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Distributed, integrated and harmonised forest information for bioeconomy outlooks (DIABOLO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Europe’s bioeconomy is expected to foster economic growth and to tackle significant societal challenges with less harmful environmental effects through innovative, sustainable and inclusive use of European forest resources. Increasing demand for biomass and other ecosystem goods and services calls for changes in forest-related policies at different levels and across different sectors. Accordingly, ...
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Tools for Skills - integrated learning of English and Forestry- Teachers training

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

European forestry has gone through a rapid change during the recent decades. Manual work of unskilled staff with chainsaw has been replaced by modern computerized harvesters, forwarders and skidders. This development has increased the request demand for competent and well trained operators of forest machines as well as the demand of mobility of such work force. The increasing mobility of forest ma ...
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Training in Sustainable Forestry

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The EU strategy for sustainable growth and jobs “Europe 2020” puts innovations and green growth at the heart of the blueprint of competitiveness. It points out as major goal the formation of common labour market by growing up of new creative class of “knowledge workers”. An economical sector having high potential for realization of this policy is forestry. There is an increasing demand in the fiel ...
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Vocational Education & Training Standards in Agriculture, Forestry & Environmental Safety at Heights

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Project Background: The VET-Safety project has been designed to the meet the needs of people involved within high risk work at height (WAH) activities particularly within the agricultural & environmental sectors of industry. The latest UK statistics indicate that the highest workplace fatalities occur within this sector. Previous project partner research also reported related health & safety conce ...
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Centre of Excellence of Forest-based Industry (LignoSilva)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

The general objectives of the project is to create the Centre of excellence (LignoSilva) in the field of a forestry, wood-processing and a pulp-paper complex involving two major organizations, the National Forest Centre in Zvolen and Pulp and Paper Research Institute in Bratislava in cooperation with the European Forest Institute as a leading research organisations from high performance countries ...
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Advanced multifunctional forest management in European mountain ranges (ARANGE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

"The sustainable provision of ecosystem services (ES) in and from mountain regions is of crucial importance to an array of stakeholders and society in general, going much beyond the interests of particular landowners in the mountain regions themselves. Mountain ecosystems can only continue to provide all these services in a rapidly changing world if a wide array of ES is considered in forest manag ...
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Tools for integrated training of language and ECVET defined vocational skills in mechanised forestry

End date: Jul 16, 2015,

Tools for skills wass a project financed by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme, subprogramme Leonardo da Vinci. The project aimed to increase the level of professional skills and language skills among the European Forest Machine Operator. It was built on the work of two previous Leonardo projects. The main outcomes of the project are 1. A Multilingual glossary on techni ...
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Innovative methods for monitoring and inventory of Danube floodplain forests based on 3D technologies of remote sensing (INMEIN)

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

During the period 1977 to 1992 the construction of water dam (WD) Gabcíkovo was carried out. The technical implementation caused fall of groundwater levels, which consequently put floodplain forest ecosystems into risk. A hydro-technical project has been implemented to ensure regulatory groundwater regime based on the biological needs of the floodplain ecosystems. State of these ecosystems has bee ...
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Environment NCPs cooperating to improve their effectiveness (ENV-NCP-TOGETHER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"National Contact Points (NCPs) hold a key role in communication with the European Commission concerning executive matters and the scientific community. The quality of proposals submitted, for example, relies partially on an effective NCP network. This project is a set of coherent activities and tasks that will foster further cooperation between Environment NCPs from EU member States and Associate ...
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Developing Innovation and Research Environment in five European Regions in the field of Sustainable Use of Biomass Resources (BIOCLUS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

The BIOCLUS objective is to boost the regional competitiveness and growth in five European cluster regions: Wielkopolska (Poland), Slovakia, Western Macedonia (Greece), Navarre (Spain) and Central Finland. The project promotes collaboration and integration and supports the sustainable development of research related communities by • Promoting expertise competence at the cluster and consortium leve ...
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FOREST Clusters Development and Implementation Measures of a 6-Region Strategic Joint Action Plan for Knowledge-based Regional Innovation (IN2WOOD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"IN2WOOD deals with the challenges of a sustainable European forest management and tackles crucial questions in the RTD environment of the forest-based sector. Wood shall be further established as one of the main renewable resources and the added value of forest in terms of economic and innovative value and quality of life shall be further improved. Aiming at the promotion of crosscutting research ...
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PAWS

Nachhaltige Entwicklung ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für die Gestaltung einer zukunftsweisenden Perspektive für die Menschheit. Im Gegensatz zu dieser Erkenntnis steht die heute zunehmend anzutreffende Entfremdung der Menschen von der Natur und den natürlichen Abläufen und Zusammenhängen. Dabei bietet insbesondere der Wald als ökologisches Terrain ungeahnte Möglichkeiten als Lehr-, Anschauungs ...
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Vocational English Training for Woodworking Industry

The VETWOOD project is designed to respond to the urgent vocational Еnglish training needs of our contemporary society by matching vocational education and training to current needs of the developing European labour market. The mobility of workforce in the European Union imposes specific demands for people’s language skills directly related to employability, fast adjustment to new work environment ...
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Case Forest - pedagogic towards sustainable development

Education about sustainable development is more or less compulsory in schools indifferent levels all over Europe.The forests play an important role in a sustainable society due to its economical,environmental, social and cultural values. In this project we want to create a methodwhich will facilitate the teaching and improve the learning about forests and how itinfluences the every-day life for al ...
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