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Stimulating Innovation for Global Monitoring of Agriculture and its Impact on the Environment in support of GEOGLAM (SIGMA) (SIGMA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

...d and assess shifts in cultivation practises and cropping systems to evaluate impacts on biodiversity and the environment. Furthermore, dedicated capacity building activities are planned to increase national and international capacity to enable sustainable management of agriculture. Lastly, a strong coordinating mechanism will be put in place, through the project partners, between SIGMA and the ...
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Bridging Gaps Between R2I in Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials (RERAM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

"RERAM responds to the societal challenge of ‘CLIMATE CHANGE, RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND RAW MATERIALS’ in Europe’s forestry and woodworking sector. Knowledge, communication and cooperation gaps between research communities and innovation-driven industries significantly hamper progress towards sustainable use of the natural resource FOREST in the woodworking sector. The RERAM project targets the very ...
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Continuous improvement strategy for increasing the efficiency of wastewaters treatment facilities in the Black Sea coastal states (CISWastewater)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

The overall objective of the project is to achive stronger regional partnership and cooperation to realize significant improvements of the wastewater treatment facilities management in the Black Sea coastal states. Achievements: Expert knowledge on the situation of wast ...
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Shared Project for Environmental Evaluation with DYnamic governance (SPEEDY)

Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Aug 30, 2015,

... • The 5 technical WPs will allow reaching the aim of the project through the shared construction of a methodology on environmental evaluation activities. • In the WP3 the analysis of local and national regulations of the different participants will allow the realization of Comparative Dynamics Analysis in order to evaluate the state of the art and compare the currently procedures of SEA (Strategi ...
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ECO-CARPATHIANS- Eco-Business Development in Border Carpathians as Chance for Better Economic Competitiveness

Start date: Nov 19, 2013, End date: Aug 18, 2015,

(a) to promote cross-border cooperation between mountain area, in production and marketing of farm products, of traditional handicrafts and eco-tourism in order to develop a solide eco-economy through consolidation of small busineses; (b) to develop an eco-destination in cross border area (a common eco-tourism brochure will be produced) and to improve the knowledge about eco-tourism at EU standar ...
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Integrated hotspots management and saving the living Black Sea ecosystem (HOT BLACK SEA)

Start date: Mar 28, 2013, End date: Mar 27, 2015,

The overall objective of the project is to foster cross-border partnership for the development of harmonized policy and utilization of scientific studies relevant to monitoring and addressing environmental threats in the Black Sea Basin in the field of land-based sources of pollution. ...
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A structured network for integration of climate knowledge into policy and territorial planning (ORIENTGATE)

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

The OrientGate project will foster concerted and coordinated climate adaptation actions across the SEE region. The project will explore climate risks faced by coastal, rural and urban communities; contribute to a better understanding of the impact of climate variability and change on water regimes, forests and agro-ecosystems; and analyse specific adaptation needs in the hydroelectricity, agro-ali ...
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Funding Policies to bring Innovation to Finance/market/people (InnoFun)

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

...d phases and characterised by an intensive interregional exchange.Phase 1: Screening and exchanging good practice within the partnershipPhase 2: discussing good practices in a serious of Regional and national stakeholder meetingsPhase 3: design of the policies and methodologies in co-operation with the respective experts.Phase 4: Pilot Actions on improved regional policies on innovation funding or ...
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Territories of Rivers Action Plans (TRAP)

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

TRAP deals with the challenge of integrated management of rivers & river territories. Its purpose is to build on and transfer good practices that embed aquatic & cultural heritage landscape protection in regional, sustainable growth solutions. TRAP contributes to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Landscape Convention (ELC) and the Europe 2020 strategy. The WFD ...
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Territorial Indicators of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe (TIPSE)

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

Combating poverty and social exclusion rank among the main objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The recent economic crisis has had a huge effect on millions of European citizens with many people losing their jobs, household incomes decreasing and consequently the risk of being affected by poverty increasing. For social exclusion, not only a clear definition seems to be lacking, but also there d ...
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Bringing closer ESPON evidence for decision making (ESPON on the Road)

Start date: Dec 23, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...as the numerous scientific tools (Priority 3) and publications (Priority 4) to be delivered during 2014. Main activities envisaged:The project has nineteen country partners divided into four transnational working groups. The transnational working groups will adapt the activities of the project into the specific context of their transnational macro-region, customise ESPON messages targeted to their ...
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European cities for integrating cycling within sustainable mobility management schemes (CycleCities)

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

... medium sized European cities are represented in the consortium (Lisbon, Piraeus – lead partner, London Borough of Merton, Gdansk, Leipzig, Genoa and Ljubljana), which is supported by the National Technical University of Athens, who specialises in mobility management analysis. Achieve ...
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ansnational network for SME support in the animal breeding and horticulture sector  (AGRO-START)

Start date: Nov 30, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

...ulture and animal breeding play a vital role regarding economic growth and employment opportunities. However, SMEs face severe common problems in sustainably keeping up their competitiveness in their national and on the European market. Project partners have decided to tackle the urgent need to improve business support services in order to elaborate an integrated transnational approach that will h ...
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Managing Migration and its Effects in SEE - Transnational Actions Towards (SEEMIG)

Start date: May 31, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

The SEE region faces a complex, nationally and regionally diverse set of demographic, migratory and labour market challenges (low or declining fertility, large scale out-migration, brain and care drain, ageing, low labour force participation rate). Together with further aspects like gender, age and the given territorial heterogeneity of the programme area, they are creating a complex challenge to ...
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Mediterranean Cooperation in the Treatment and Valorisation of Olive Mill Wastewater (OMW) (MEDOLICO)

Start date: Nov 15, 2011, End date: Nov 15, 2014,

The Mediterranean region accounts for 97% of the worlds olive production. About 11 million tons of olives are produced each year out of which nearly 2 million tons of olive oil is extracted. The estimated waste generated annually by olive oil processing is 9 million tons: this can potentially cause serious environmental harm if not disposed properly. MEDOLICO specifically targets the issue of oliv ...
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Smarter Cluster Policies for South East Europe (ClusterPoliSEE)

Start date: Apr 30, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

...tnership covers 11 different SEE programme countries (8 EU MSs and 3 IPA) to develop smarter cluster policies supporting territorial cohesion, R&D and open innovation systems in SEE, encouraging transnational cluster cooperation between strong performing regions and weak performing regions both represented. Project proposal adopts a methodological approach based on experiments in reflective policy ...
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moting nature education as efficient mean of awareness raising (People with nature)

Start date: Mar 31, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

...d accessible to local people in Russia; *Various tools for attracting visitors created - 12 exhibitions and expositions made, virtual museum of the Lake Peipsi established, Biodiversity Days and International Competition organised; *3 nature trails and stations of senses are open for public in the National Park Sebezhsky in Russia, NEC Rāzna and NEC Forest School Pauguri in Latvia; *20 new study p ...
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Sustainable mobility along the newest EuroVelo route, the Iron Curtain Trail  (Iron Curtain Trail)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

...define the itinerary and develop overview action plans partly covering the SEE region. The current project is the result of this preparatory work, and fully supports the general goals of the SEE transnational programme, its third priority and improves the coordination in promoting, planning and operation for primary and secondary transportation networks. The main goals of the project are to improv ...
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Guardians of Environment Framework: An Integrated Approach of Strategies for Prevention of Soil Pollution and Rehabilitation of Harmed Territories  (GuardEn)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

...cable at the single business unit-level. b) Designing and introducing territorial level collaborative patterns (Clusters) coordinated by competent supportive structures at both the local and the transnational levels. The idea is the systemic valorization of the potential of local Actors of critical categories, including "conscious" socially responsible enterprises, for carrying out voluntary actio ...
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Sustainable Integrated Management of International River Corridors in SEE Countries  (SEE RIVER)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

...ge for river managing authorities when it comes to the implementation phase. The main objective of the SEE RIVER project is to empower the multi-sectoral stakeholders sharing the territory of an international river corridor to gain knowledge on planning and implementing processes for integration of existing sectoral policies, plans and programmes in order to reach consensus on integrative manageme ...
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South East Europe jointly developed common advanced virtual accessibility solutions to support public services  (SECOVIA)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

...d, public IT services & infrastructures. - Assessment of SEE stakeholder needs and policies on shared, public IT services & infrastructures. - Feasibility analysis and roll-out plan for proposed transnational providers of shared cloud-based services, & infrastructures (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). - Improvement of public-private investment policies on virtual accessibility. - Consensus-based common policy p ...
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Boosting innovation through new cluster concepts in support of emerging issues and cross-sectoral themes (CluStrat)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

...ies in the Central Europe area. Closely related to this is the assessment of ways for activating the potentials related to several cross-cutting issues including Knowledge & Technology Transfer, Internationalization and Gender in Innovation. During the 1st Transnational Policy Dialogue of CluStrat (Dec. 2011, Stuttgart) it was agreed that the project will focus on the Emerging Industries Green Ec ...
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Knowledge Transfer joint forces for efficient innovation policies (KTForce)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

...st version. The monitoring of indicators and financial data was done by all the partners along the first semester of the project, and partners who follow a decentralized control system followed their national procedures regarding the First Level Control. The LP also participated in 4 seminars organized by the Joint Technical Secretariat, namely the LP seminar in January, the Financial seminar, the ...
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Virtual Market for Agri-Food and Construction, modern instrument for supporting joint business development in Romanian-Bulgarian cross border area (AGRICONS)

Start date: Mar 27, 2013, End date: Jun 26, 2014,

Supporting economic development of Romanian-Bulgarian cross border area, through valorization of existing competitive advantages in the agri-food and construction. To create modern instruments for joint businesses and trade in cross border area. To increase agrifood and construction businesses competitiveness, through training and marketing
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Regions benefitting from returning migrants (Re-Turn)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2014,

Economically motivated migration of people from the New Member States to high-income countries is currently dominating international migration flows in Europe thanks to the free right to work in any other EU Member State. This is intensifying a brain drain process of many regions. On the other hand statistics show willingness of people to come back to their countries, however this process is ofte ...
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Introduction of Regional Energy Concepts (CEP-REC)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

...tunities and obstacles. Finally these evaluations will lead to regional balance sheets helping to define common methodologies for the development of energy action plans and strategies. As joint transnational activities common guidelines were elaborated to collect necessary information on energy demand, energy supply and potentials leading to the evaluation of available databases and baseline stan ...
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Intelligent Transportation for Dynamic Environment (InTraDE)

Start date: Oct 2, 2007, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

... the developed system, Scientific and other communication articles in conferences and academic journals, newspapers, and specialised magazines have been published, The workings of transnational collaboration have been reported in order to serve as "lessons learned" for future projects, The project completed the transferability actions of the developed IAV concept to other application d ...
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Energy Efficiency in Low-income Housing in the Mediterranean (ELIH-Med)

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

...eps for the projectFollowing the selection of companies realising the refurbishment, partners will launch workings in their pilot projects, most of them between January and March 2013. After the international conference in Malaga in October, partners will meet again in Malta in January 2013. Regarding capitalisation activities, after a first presentation of the policy paper made with MARIE in Brus ...
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FROM MARGINAL TO RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES SITES Recovering marginal territories, making them regain their lost value by pursuing sustainable development programs (M2RES)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

...oping territorial management plans for the startoff of M2RES;implementing demonstrative M2RES pilot projects proposals; establishing a Road Map for the permanent transfer and implementation of M2RES. National agencies will spread knowledge concerning M2RES through a wide sensitization programme (location & extension of marginal areas; connected problems; preservation of environment; returns (econo ...
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Synergy of culture and tourism: utilisation of cultural potentials in less favoured rural regions (SY_CULTour)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

...alues. In order to improve policies for better management of cultural values the common methodology will be disseminated to policy makers in a form of recommendations for concrete local, regional and national policy documents to ensure economic stability of cultural values preservation, especially through income from tourism sector. ...
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motion of residual forestry biomass in the Mediterranean basin (PROFORBIOMED)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

...est project activities and outputsPROFORBIOMED has hold its third Steering Group Meeting in Greece during May, having the opportunity to meet the needs of the project implementation. Further to this, National meetings and Regional seminars have been conducted in partners areas. PROFORBIOMED has also finalised the draft model for amendments to the CAP and developing an Energy Pact for future policy ...
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ENHANCEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT (CHERPLAN)

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

Cultural Heritage sites located in both rural and urban areas are often facing the dilemma between loss of cultural values and hence loss of identity, due to non-sustainable growth, and economic decline and emigration, due to inappropriate infrastructure and high cost of living (especially, buildings maintenance). CHERPLAN aims to provide a strong basis for ensuring compatibility and synergy betwe ...
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Central European Knowledge Platform for an Ageing Society (CE-Ageing Platform)

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

...ral European (CE) Knowledge Platform for an Ageing Society, in short “CE-Ageing Platform”, aims to minimise these negative effects and impacts of demographic change in Central Europe through transnational partnership. The project idea derived from cooperation between various partners and their desire to jointly contribute to improved framework conditions in their regions in order to foster economi ...
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Integrated management of biological and landscape diversity for sustainable regional development and ecological connectivity in the Carpathians (BIOREGIO Carpathians)

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

BIOREGIO Carpathians is aimed at enhancing the integrated management of the Carpathians protected areas and natural assets in a transnational context and thereby increase the attractiveness of the region. The Carpathians, the largest mountain range of Europe, harbour a unique natural heritage and act as a major ecological link within Europe. Experiences e.g. from the Alpine Space demonstrate that ...
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Achieving SUSTainability through an integrated approach to the management of CULTural heritage (SUSTCULT)

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

Many valuable heritage sites in the SEE region are under pressure. Cultural heritage is often used to respond to economic concerns (tourism), rarely to valorise culturally a territory, its people, its traditions, its roots. The innovative approach of SUSTCULT is that cultural heritage has a social and ecological intrinsic significance which shall be safeguarded as a source of sustainable developme ...
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Setting up the innovation support mechanisms and increasing awareness on the potential of Food Innovation and RTD in the South- East Europe area (Inno- Food SEE)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2013,

The Food Industry, a major and financially important sector for the SEE area faces significant challenges from global commercial competition. Changing attitudes and emerging consumer trends necessitate constant update of food products, personalisation of nutrition and introduction of innovation in processes. The Inno- Food SEE objective is to set up the appropriate mechanisms that will facilitate ...
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North East Cargo Link II - NECL II (NECL II)

Start date: Jun 10, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

...improvements in the intermodality by the establishment of combi-terminals on suitable locations in the MNC.The objective of NECL II project is to implement the Strategy in close co-operation with the national transport authorities and industry over the national boarders through pre-investment studies for investments, development of transport solutions and a continued development of a logistic ICT ...
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Adaptive management of climate-induced changes of habitat diversity in protected areas (HABIT-CHANGE)

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

...estruction. Human activity comprising intensification of agriculture, urbanisation and expanding infrastructure is the main driver for ongoing habitat loss. Core zones and controlled natural zones in National Parks or Sites of Community Importance (SCI) within the Natura 2000 network are established to halt the loss of biodiversity by providing and conserving habitat space for the critical mix of ...
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MED TECHNOPOLIS Project for the implementation of a mediterranean network of technopolis interface structures (MED TECHNOPOLIS)

Start date: Jan 28, 2010, End date: Jan 30, 2013,

...is et des antennes respectives, au Cycle Méditerranéen de Cours de Formation-Action et aux PARs 5. Actions de diffusion 6. 6. Actions de création et promotion entrepreneurial, internationalisation d'entreprises, etc.Latest project activities and outputsLes activités se sont centrées sur la continuation des PARs et la finalisation de la Phase II de formation avec la réalisation du jury de valorisat ...
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WOMEN IN NET 8 (WINNET 8)

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

WINNET 8 involves regions in 8 member states i.e Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and UK engaged in policy development to address the problems with low employment rates among women in combination with horizontally segregated labour markets and the lack of women in entrepreneurship, innovation and technology, Problems constituting obstacles for regional competitiveness. T ...
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