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Reason for Hope - Reintroduction of Northern Bald Ibis in Europe (LIFE Northern Bald Ibis)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background The northern bald ibis is listed as ‘critically endangered’, with only one remaining colony in Morocco (consisting of around 200 adults) and a few individuals in the Middle East. A further colony with up to 100 individuals exists in Birecik, Turkey. Though these birds are a remnant of a former migratory colony that is now semi-captive, they ...
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Veteran Tree Management Skills Certification

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

As a result of the VETree project, training material on veteran tree management has become easily and freely accesible, both for training centres and arboricultural professionals. This has led to an increased awareness about the importance and specific management of veteran trees. As defined in the VETree project, there is now an increased number of training possibilities on the subject: now that ...
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Conservation of nest zone protected birds in the selected Natura 2000 sites in Lubelszczyzna region (LIFEZONE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

... The project will look at six important bird species in the region: the lesser spotted eagle, short-toed eagle, golden eagle, eagle owl, black stork and Tengmalm’s owl. These species occur in 16 Natura 2000 sites: Forest Janowskie Solska, mites, Forest Sandomierz, refuge Tyszowiecka, Sołokiji Valley, Valley Szyszły, refuge Nielicka, shooting Forests, Forest Parczew, Uroczysko Bridges-Zahajki, ...
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Agropuzzle 3.

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...good example of solidarity and tolerance of each community within the EU countries.The partner organizations (7) come from 6 states of EU - CZ (MSŠZe a VOŠ Opava - vocational secondary school - and Natura Opava - non profit organization for environmental education), PL (Chamber of Agriculture), ES, PT (Educational association for rural development), RO and BG (Universities of Agronomy). Portfolio ...
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Berufliche Weiterbildung in der Toskana/Volterra/Italien - TEAM VOLTERRA

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

In all areas of previous activities in international mobility is to be seen that the willingness of students and young workers is very little, to make use of these mobility opportunities. In addition, it is also difficult to convince companies to allow their apprentices and workers to go in an other state or take foreign apprentices. Therefore must in the craft the responsible manager in the compa ...
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Protection of the Lesser Horseshoe bat and other bat species in southern Poland (Lesser Horseshoe +) (LIFE PODKOWIEC+)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

...understanding among residents about the relevance of bat conservation work. Objectives The project will focus on 29 Natura 2000 sites in southern Poland, with the main objective being to improve the conservation status and population sizes of bat species that are classified as being threatened in Poland, namely the le ...
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Learning by Living

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

The context of the Learning by Living -project is based on national (The Ministry of Education and Culture, Finnish National Board of Education) and international (European Comission, European Economic and Social Comittee) goals in validation of skills and qualifications acquired through non-formal and informal learning. The systematic validation of skills and qualifications acquired through non- ...
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Ready for the World - Competence and Confidence through Equal European Mobility

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

This project continues and broadens the international staff and student mobility activities in Kiipula Vocational College. It will enable students in four new educational fields to complete work-based learning placements in Europe: Logistics, Pre-vocational training and IT/ICT. Mobilities will also continue in the fields of Horticulture, Catering, Domestic Services and Health&Social Care. Accompan ...
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Role of Traditional Fruit Farming in Regional Development

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The project called "Role of Traditional Fruit Farming in Regional Development" is a project aimed to sharing experiences at the level of several different organizations from five EU countries in which the organizations are more or less engaged in the field of fruit growing. It will be in total 152 mobilities (including 64 student mobilities, 32 mobilities of pedagogues, 56 mobilities of representa ...
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Berufliche Weiterbildung in der Toskana/Volterra/Italien

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

In all areas of previous activities in international mobility is to be seen that the willingness of students and young workers is very little, to make use of these mobility opportunities. In addition, it is also difficult to convince companies to allow their apprentices and workers to go in an other state or take foreign apprentices. Therefore must in the craft the responsible manager in the compa ...
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Mobility for all- gaining professional competence through European mobility

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

Previous experiences of student mobilities have shown the tremendous impact it has on the students with special needs. Students feel sense of empowerment when they manage abroad: they can use foreign language and they are understood, they learn to manage money. They learn basic everyday skills of life. Their self-esteem increases as the students are able to manage abroad, although not alone, but a ...
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Agrotourism in Europe: how to revitalize rural areas

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017,

Our project “Agrotourism in Europe: how to revitalize rural areas” is a training course with a 9-day programme for 32 youth workers from different European countries ((Italy, Romania, Portugal y Spain) that are willing to learn about sustainable agrotourism proposals and motivated to create new opportunities for young people. One of the main challenges of our area is to revitalize the rural area ...
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EU goes With Innovative Social Entrepreneurship Led by Youth

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The TC "EU goes With Innovative Social Entrepreneurship Led by Youth” (EU goes WISELY) will bring together youth leaders, trainers and project organizers from different EU countries with the purpose of equipping them with skills needed to grow as a youth leader, whilst acquiring knowledge and raising awareness about social entrepreneurship. The international 7-day-lasting training course aims at a ...
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‘Be YOURSELF – Pride for Youth’

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The training course aims to provide opportunities for youth organisations to explore deeper the participation of LGBT* young people in their projects, communities and wider Europe. To explore the challenges and obstacles for LGBT* young people and to plan concrete actions to help overcome these obstacles.The idea for this training came about through my involvement as a trainer in trainings on inc ...
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New Entrepreneurs in Rural Areas

Start date: Jun 2, 2016, End date: Jan 1, 2017,

Project NEW ERA - "New Entrepreneurs in Rural Areas" is meant to tackle the issues of youth entrepreneurship in the context of rural development and youth unemployment. We recognized the issues of developing rural areas because this areas are as important for youth as urban areas and we think that there is strong need to also focus on these areas. Our main objectives: to promote youth entrepreneu ...
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Active protection of Great Snipe Gallinago media in Dolina Gornej Narwi Natura 2000 site (LIFEGALLINAGO)

Start date: Sep 3, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Background The river Narew is one of the last remaining truly natural rivers in Europe. Now integrated into the “Dolina Gornej Narwi” Natura 2000 site, it is the second most important site in Poland for the threatened, Annex I Birds Directive-listed small wader bird species, the great snipe (Gallinago media). The fluvial processes of the Narew have cr ...
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YW - I Have a Dream - Life Coaching for Youth

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

“I Have a Dream - Life Coaching for Youth” is an Erasmus+ Programme - KA1 training course to be held in Stavanger, Norway during spring of 2016. It will gather 26 youth workers, youth leaders, educators and volunteers from 13 countries from European Countries. The project is essentially a youth development program for Youth Workers. It can be described as set of tools to guide youth and young adul ...
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How e-mazing is your organization?

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The international activity "How e-mazing is your organization?" will be organized in the Naturefriendshouse De Berk in Belgium 3-8 May 2016. The activity will combine networking elements (focused on good practice sharing), capacity building sessions (that will provide space to gain fundamental knowledge about e-participation and e-volunteering in particular) and reflection sessions (to analyse own ...
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Think global - Eat local

Start date: Jun 3, 2016, End date: Sep 2, 2016,

Naturfriends travel with respect. We respect future generations by not carelessly contributing to climate change , wasting resources or destroying natural habitats. We do respect the people living in the destinated countries, as we enter into the exchange and are open to intercultural experiences. We do respect our fellow travellers as we recognize them in their diversity and involve them in a com ...
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Work and Learn - increasing knowledge and gaining experiences through European mobility

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Previous experiences of student mobilities have shown the tremendous impact it has on the students with special needs. Students feel sense of empowerment when they manage abroad; they can use foreign language and they are understood, they learn to manage money. They learn the basic every day skills of life. Their self-esteem increases as the students are able to manage abroad, although not alone, ...
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Value+

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

On the background of the project Value+ is the strategy of Valkeakoski Vocational College for years 2014-2017. By this project the youth of Southern Pirkanmaa region are offered high-class international on-the-job training periods according to the targets of the strategy of our college. Along with this, the process of international on-the-job training in Valkeakoski Vocational College is developed ...
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Sinking Songs

Start date: Aug 2, 2015, End date: Apr 1, 2016,

The project Sinking songs hosted 24 participants from Czech republic and Slovenia who met in the end of August 2015 for 14 days in a Slovenian village Kozarišče. Young people with artistic and social interest came to experience the joy of creative process on a common output in practise of scenography and lights to gain a knowledge and skills about how to apply art to support comunity life and ac ...
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Don't get stuck, stack the cup

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Natura Hungarica Public Foundation('2001) works for the protection of environment and promotion of sustainable behaviour patterns. We the volunteers of the foundation participate in youth work. We run projects focused on the youth, aged 13-19, to give the support to become mentally and physically healthy adults, representing their interests. The Foundation supports sport activities and tools, like ...
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Ecología Urbana, Democracia Juvenil y Participación Pública

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Sep 15, 2015,

“Urban Ecology, Youth Democracy and Public Participation” is a training course designed to empower youth workers to active public participation, advocating for facing social and ecological problems from a positive point of view where youth performs a key role. At present, there is a negative perspective of the ability of citizens to participate meaningfully in the governance of social-ecological ...
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LA SECONDE ETAPE DU PLAN DE PREVENTION DES RISQUES NATURELS : LES INVESTISSEMENTS SUR LE TERRITOIRE (PROTERINA 2)

Start date: Jun 30, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

La thématique principale de la proposition PROTERINA-Due est la prévention des risques naturels.Lobjectif général du projet est en effet daméliorer la capacité de prévoir et de prévenir les risques naturels, en particulier les risques hydrologiques et des ceux des incendies de forêt.Les bénéficiaires (directs ou indirects) sont les administrations régionales compétentes dans les domaines de la pro ...
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COMBINE: Converting Organic Matters from European urban and natural areas into storable bio-Energy (COMBINE)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

...od-production on fertile land and the resulting increase of prices for land and agricultural products causes ethical and socio-economic problems. Hence COMBINE aims at opening-up of abandoned urban. natural and agricultural areas for the energy production. In the 4 partner regions the COMBINE project strives for this by: • Production of a storable solid fuel with a highly energy-efficient proce ...
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" Заедно"

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Led by a sincere desire to actually help solve the problem with healthy eating, sports and rationalization of leisure among young people, the "Life is Beautiful" in a partnership between four organizations from different European countries to apply the "Together". The main project activities will be an international seminar aimed at shaping policies for a healthy lifestyle and empowerment of young ...
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Living Together

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

Young people in rural communities have limited opportunities for work and training and there is widespread economic migration away from rural areas as young people seek work in cities. This leads to loss of traditional culture, land abandonment and conflicts with wildlife when bears forage on abandoned land in and around villages. The 'Living Together' project brought together a group of young pe ...
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Strenghtening cross border cooperation between local communities to improve quality of the life in Mhedinti-Vidin regions

Start date: Jul 19, 2013, End date: Jul 18, 2014,

... partnerships to promote development and priorities for action to improve health, quality of life and the environmental conditions.Increase level of public awareness about the obligations towards the natural environment, in order to improve health, quality of life and sustainable development. Promote models of integrated waste management and best practices with the direct consequence of increasing ...
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Recovery of construction and demolition waste in Buzau County (VAL-C&DW)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

... Results The VAL-C&DW project team in Romania (coordinating beneficiary Buzau County Council and partner Natura Management SRL) successfully implemented several necessary steps on the path to the recycling of construction and demolition waste (C&DW), specifically in the fields of analyses, information on ...
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Utilisation of recovered wood and rubber for alternative composite products (WOODRUB)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Background The project is targeting the reuse of waste wood and rubber tyre products. (1) The recycling of waste wood products is increasing. This is a positive development as it increases the total volume of CO2 stored as wood-based products, broadening the life-cycle of the fixed carbon in the newly recycled products. However, such wood wastes current ...
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Harmonised European Land Monitoring (HELM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"The land surface is a decisive factor regarding the state of the environment and human well-being. To manage it well, regularly obtained up do date information on land use and land cover is needed. Land monitoring provides this information through thematic maps based on the interpretation of areal photography, satellite imagery and further sources. These maps aid spatial planning, nature protecti ...
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Multi-scale Service for Monitoring NATURA 2000 Habitats of European Community Interest (MS.MONINA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"NATURA 2000, an endeavour in the spirit of the Convention of Biological Diversity (Rio, 1992), is one of the success stories among pan-European initiatives and one of the world‘s most effective legal instruments concerning biodiversity and nature conservation.The EU Habitats Directive (council directive 92/43/ECC) requires a standardised monitoring of the habitat types and a reporting every six y ...
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Development of a tri-generation solar heating and COOLing System including the Use of the heat extracted from the adsorptioN chiller re-cooling circuit (COOLSUN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"About 400 solar cooling pilots have now been installed, tested, living and analyzed throughout Europe. Yet, none of them combines in a single integrated system the solar thermal tri-generation: sanitary water heating, space heating and space cooling. The on-going HighCombi project will result in a first tentative of such a concept. However, the partners of the COOLSUN project have already identif ...
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GMES for Regions: Awareness and Access Link (GRAAL)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

"The overall objective of GRAAL is to foster the development of GMES Downstream Services and develop the link of GMES with Regions (and other local authorities of comparable importance).The essence of GRAAL lies in the balance between these two sub-objectives. The members of the GRAAL consortium believe that there is as much a need to develop the awareness of GMES in LRAs as it is necessary to ens ...
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geoland2 - towards an operational GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (geoland2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

geoland2 intends to constitute a major step forward in the implementation of the GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS). The three components (Local, Continental and Global) of the LMCS are addressed. The goal of geoland2 is (i) to prepare, validate and demonstrate pre-operational service chains and products that will underpin the LMCS, and (ii) to propose and demonstrate a concrete functional o ...
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Sustainable rehabilitation programme for saline habitats and wetlands on protected territories through naturalization (FENNREHAB)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

The FENNREHAB project wishes to realize the environmental rehabilitation of cross-border protected wetlands through the naturalization of water buffalos (bubalus bubalus). Through that, the project treats endangered saline habitats in Hungary, and fragile riverside floodplains in Romania. The water buffalo is able to clean wet areas, of which local endemic and other domesticated animals are not ca ...
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Karst Underground Protection (KUP)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

...etent institutions of the two states; Upgraded knowledge of the karst and information about the locations of the caves and their condition and protection needs; Better access to information about the natural values for the science professionals, but also for the general and expert public; Long term planning management of the project area to To establish the adequate protection of karst and the sus ...
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Realization of Rome's Action Plan to achieve the Kyoto's Protocol objective of Green House Gas Reduction (ROMAPERKYOTO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Sep 30, 2008,

Background Italy ratified the Kyoto Protocol on 30 May 2002, and has the objective of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 6.5% by 2012 (compared to 1990 levels). This objective has been formalised in a National Action Plan, which was adopted in December 2003. Achieving the target implies action at both national and local levels. The city of Rome mus ...
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Aurora System - active presentation of Salamandra atra aurorae and other amphibians (SiAurora)

Start date: Jan 1, 2005, End date: Jan 1, 2008,

...nted measures involving direct participation of the socio-economic actors. The project foresaw the drawing up of action plans for each species, as well as guidelines for the management of Natura 2000 sites and the establishment of a strict protection reserve for Aurora’s salamander. In order to increase the number and distribution of the targeted species, 59 potential reproductive sites of amphi ...
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