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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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Vision and Roadmap for European Raw Materials (VERAM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

VERAM aims to provide an umbrella and coordination function for the raw materials related research and innovation activities across the relevant ETPs and their national technology platforms (while maintaining the flexibility and individual visions of each ETP network) as well as related other stakeholders across the raw materials value chain in order to increase synergies and facilitate uptake of ...
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AGFORWARD

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Agroforestry is the practice of deliberately integrating woody vegetation (trees or shrubs) with crop and/or animal systems to benefit from the resulting ecological and economic interactions. AGFORWARD (AGroFORestry that Will Advance Rural Development) is a four-year project, developed by 23 organisations at the forefront of agroforestry research, practice and promotion in Europe, with the goal o ...
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Operational Potential of Ecosystem Research Applications (OPERAs)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Human use and exploitation of the biosphere is increasing at such a pace and scale that the sustainability of major ecosystems is threatened, and may not be able to continue to function in ways that are vital to the existence of humanity. Re-framing environmental resource use has led to the emergence of the concepts of ecosystem services (ES) and natural capital (NC). This discourse indicates not ...
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Sustainable Innovative Mobilisation of Wood (SIMWOOD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"SIMWOOD presents a novel idea for an innovative, integrated approach to multifunctional forestry and enhanced wood mobilisation across European forest regions. The project targets a multitude of forest owners and stakeholders to spread integrated, transferable solutions and viable policies to unlock immobile forest resources and ensure sustainable forest functions. A novel pan-European Informatio ...
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Making society an active participant in water adaptation to global change (BEWATER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Sustainable water management under climate change is an urgent challenge for the Euro-Mediterranean region. Future climate change projections estimate an increase in water scarcity and droughts in the region, causing substantial socioeconomic losses and environmental impacts.In this context, efforts are needed to strengthen public participation and embed a sense of responsibility within the societ ...
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Delivery of sustainable supply of non-food biomass to support a “resource-efficient” Bioeconomy in Europe (S2BIOM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

... level through developing strategies, and roadmaps that will be informed by a “computerized and easy to use” toolset (and respective databases) with update harmonized datasets at local, regional, national and pan European level for EU27, western Balkans, Turkey and Ukraine. It will do so by comparing and making use of the most recent relevant information from recent and ongoing EU projects by a se ...
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European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours - Structuring clinical research on adrenal cancers in adults (ENS@T-CANCER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Among patients with adrenal masses Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) and malignant pheochromocytomas (MPH) are found with a low incidence but very unfavorable prognosis. Due to this poor clinical outcome, concomitant hormone dysregulation and limited treatment options the two cancer entities severely impact on affected patients. However, the rarity of the tumors also impedes clinical studies which ar ...
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Designing Trees for the future (TREES4FUTURE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

... research infrastructures (from state-of-the-art analytical tools to predictive models) via the project will enable TREES4FUTURE to improve, coordinate and validate its offer to the European and International researchers from both public and private sectors and thus ensure the future sustainability of the consortium as well as that of the wider European Forestry community at large.
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EUROPEAN NETWORK for CANCER research in CHILDREN and ADOLESCENTS (ENCCA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...with respect for the highest ethical and patient safety standards. ENCCA will bring all stakeholders to the table in a timely and efficacious manner. It will address the needs of all the current multinational clinical trial groups for the benefit of children with cancer. It will provide them with common tools and approaches to solve the bottlenecks in testing new therapeutic strategies for those r ...
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Enhancing FOrest RESearch in the MediTERRAnean through improved coordination and integration (FORESTERRA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...rucial goods and services that they provide in a context of rapid global changes. Therefore, it is of critical importance to reinforce scientific cooperation on Mediterranean forests through a transnational EU-Mediterranean ERA-NET, which also builds new transcontinental cooperation among Mediterranean Climate Areas (California, Australia, South Africa, Chile) in order to reduce fragmentation and ...
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Future-oriented integrated management of European forest landscapes (INTEGRAL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

...c role of European forests is well documented and acknowledged in policy documents of both the European Union and its member states. However, there are critical incoherencies within and between trans-national, national and local forest-related land use policies, the central issue being mismatches between the policies and their implementation at the landscape level. Hence, there is a need to improv ...
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HYDROFOR: Systems of optimal forest management for enhancing the hydrological role of forests in preventing the floods in Bodrog river catchment (HUSKROUA/1101/262)

Start date: Sep 30, 2013, End date: Jul 30, 2015,

The project aims to contribute to the harmonised prevention of flood risks in Bodrog river catchment through enhancement of hydrological effect of forests and improved forest management practicesSpecific objectives: To analyse landscape potential for flood initialisation in the Bodrog river catchment; To elaborate Methodology for flood predisposing factors assessment in the Bodrog river catchment; ...
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Support of cross-border local communities initiatives in the Białowieża Forest Euroregion (IPBU.03.02.00-20-816/12)

Start date: Mar 31, 2014, End date: Jul 29, 2015,

The overall objective of the umbrella project is strengthening the integration of the Polish-Belarusian border area in the Białowieża Forest Euroregion.The umbrella project consists of 8 micro-projects aimed at achieving a joint goal, among others, through the organisation of the following events: workshop on the preservation of cultural heritage, events concerning traditions such like In search o ...
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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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Visions Of LANd use Transitions in Europe (VOLANTE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

VOLANTE aims to develop a new European land management paradigm, providing an integrated conceptual and operational platform which allows policy makers to develop pro-active and context-sensitive solutions to the challenges for the future, rather than to react on largely autonomous external land systems developments.Objective of VOLANTE is to provide European policy and land management with critic ...
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Cardiovascular Risk from Exposure to Low-dose and Low-dose-rate Ionizing Radiation (PROCARDIO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Epidemiological evidence has established a link between cardiovascular disease and exposure of the heart and major vessels to doses above 500mGy. At lower doses the evidence for a detrimental effect is inconclusive. In part, this is due to the lack of appropriate epidemiological studies, coupled with lack of knowledge of the processes involved that is needed for construction of mathematical models ...
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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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MULTIple Eco-Friendly FORest use: Restoring Traditions (MULTI EFFORT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...ndscape reserve "Zaonezhskij" and zoological reserve Syskyänjoki on model territory Northern Priladozhye. The results are also continuously used in management activities in the Vodlozersky national park.Based on the MULTIEFFORT results, the factors limiting the development of eco-friendly forestry and ecosystem services were identified for the Republic of Karelia. The results of the analyses of be ...
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Réseau pour l\'innovation dans les sylvicultures et les systèmes de gestion intégrée des risques en forêt (FORRISK)

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

...es en forêt dont l'intensité est modulée par le changement climatique. L'histoire des forêts du sud de l'Europe nous rappelle que pour de nombreux problèmes, une approche seulement nationale n'a pas de sens. C'est-à-dire, les risques concernés, les réponses à apporter peuvent être soit au niveau technique soit au niveau de l'organisation des institutions. Pour cette raison, FORRISK vise à coordonn ...
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SUSTAINABLE NETWORKS FOR THE ENERGETIC USE OF LIGNUCELLULOSIC BIOMASS IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE  (FOROPA)

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

...s of the Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC). The project FOROPA aims at promoting and strengthening clusters and networks for an improved use of lignocellulosic biomass in the SEE area. Existing national and regional capacities will be coordinated and enhanced in order to increasingly utilize the available biomass potentials of forests, short rotation plantations and wood waste. FOROPA will a ...
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New Ways to Value and Market Forest Externalities (NEWFOREX)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2014,

"Many forest goods and services are not marketed. Methods for assessing these values are incomplete, and so is an understanding of who benefits from them. Forest owners are not rewarded for the value of these externalities and may make decisions providing less externalities than optimal. We can increase welfare, if we develop ways to enhance their provision. The objectives of NEWFOREX are: 1: To p ...
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Foresters towards life long learning for better forest management (HUSKROUA/1001/028)

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

The project aims at developing tangible conditions for life long learning of forestry practitioners of the border regions of Ukraine and Slovakia via improvement of on-job training system and establishment of practical institutional co-operation among the training institutions and forest administrations. To change the paradigm of forest management among forestry practitioners thus changing the sys ...
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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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Environmental quality and pressures assessment across Europe: the LTER network as an integrated and shared system for ecosystem monitoring (EnvEurope)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Background A vast amount environmental data is currently collected across Europe, both at national and international level, generating valuable information for policy makers and citizens. However, much of this information is not readily comparable, posing a major obstacle to the development of well-informed environmental policies and strategies at Europea ...
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Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world (FUME)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Fire regimes result from interactions between climate, land-use and land-cover (LULC), and socioeconomic factors, among other. These changed during the last decades, particularly around the Mediterranean. Our understanding of how they affected fire regime in the past is limited. During this century temperatures, drought and heat waves will very likely increase, and rainfall decrease. These and fur ...
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Harmonised European Land Monitoring (HELM)

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

...re protection, agricultural policy, forestry, water catchment area management, etc.In spite of its importance, land monitoring in Europe is quite inefficient owing to lacking coordination between the national, sub-national, and European levels. Efforts are duplicated and given opportunities for mutual support are not utilised which means a substantial waste of resources.HELM is a network of author ...
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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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A Sustainable Development Model for Green Mountain Areas (Green Mountain)

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

...isks and threats: abandonment, use of inappropriate development models, lack of an integrated sustainable approach, loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystems. To meet these challenges a transnational project team consisting of 11 organisations from 9 countries will develop and transfer a Sustainable Development and Management Model which can provide an integrated strategy to enhance the p ...
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Greenhouse gas management in European land use systems (GHG Europe)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

The GHG-Europe project aims to improve our understanding and capacity for predicting the European terrestrial carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) budget by applying a systematic, comprehensive and integrative approach. GHG-Europe quantifies the annual to decadal variability of the carbon and GHG budgets of terrestrial ecosystems in EU27 plus Switzerland and in six data-rich European regions via data-m ...
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Transnational Forestry Management Strategies in Response to Regional Climate Change Impacts (ForeStClim)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Feb 27, 2013,

...to a diverse set of multi-level risk assessments associated with preserving the multitude of forest goods and services. which will be part of the “ForeStClim”-strategies. The development of transnational coordinated forestry management and forest protection and adaptation strategies will be the principal outcome of the project and help secure the future economic stability of forestry in North-Wes ...
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REsource INFrastructure for monitoring and adapting European Atlantic FORests under Changing climatE (REINFFORCE)

Start date: Jan 31, 2009, End date: Jan 30, 2013,

The theme of the forest adaptation to climate change is a priority for the entire forestry in the AA, since the material currently installed will have a direct impact on forest production in the next 15, 50 or 80 years, under the influence of a climate that will average 2 to 5 degrees warmer.The REINFFORCE project (Resource infrastructure for monitoring and adapting European Atlantic forests Under ...
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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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Living North Sea (LNS)

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Sep 29, 2012,

...these habitats which will continue to work collaboratively, but will also tackle decision making processes to ensure that the results of the Living North Sea project are firmly integrated into future national and European policies. Achievements: • 19 demonstration sites ...
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EUROPEAN FOREST FIRE NETWORKS (EUFOFINET)

Start date: Sep 30, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2012,

The protection of the world´s environment cannot be effective without national and international fire management for natural, semi-natural and cultural landscapes and ecosystems for they constitute an essential part of the habitable land and the functioning of the global system. As fires do not respect national borders, the fight against fire requires a close cooperation with the national, regiona ...
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MANFRED - Management strategies to adapt Alpine Space forests to climate change risks (MANFRED)

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

...ies able to adapt to changing environmental conditions (WP 8); d) contribute to the implementation of suggested adapted management strategies in cooperation with political decision makers in 4 transnational case study regions. Achievements: The '22nd Century' Book on Fo ...
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Climate Change and its Impact on Tourism in the Alpine Space (ClimAlpTour)

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

The project aims at dealing with the internationally recognized issue of the effects of climate change on alpine tourism, with reference both to winter tourism and sports and to alpine all-seasons tourism. The issue of providing appropriate strategies to ensure a balanced development of alpine tourism, the preparation of appropriate adaptation policies at the national, regional and local level and ...
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maNET - Permafrost long-term monitoring network (PermaNET)

Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Jul 13, 2011,

Permafrost is highly sensitive to climatic changes. Permafrost degradation and related natural hazards affect traffic routes, tourism areas, settlements and infrastructures. The main problem is a lacking strategy for the consideration of these newly observed specific impacts of climate change in risk prevention and territorial development. With the joint development of a common strategy for dealin ...
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Further Development and Implementation of an EU-level Forest Monitoring System (FutMon)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

...e structure, composition and functioning of forests. The complexity of the cause-effect relationships involved needs sound scientific information as a basis for good political decisions. The International Cooperative Programme (ICP) on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (ICP Forests) and National Forest Inventories (NFIs) have worked to provide reliable information on f ...
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Biomass Energy Europe (BEE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2010,

...ientific cooperation and dissemination will comprise the discussion of its objectives, interim and final results with stakeholders including the EC DGs, EEA, Eurostat, UN/ECE, research, industry, national ministries and associated authorities and sectorial organisations (ren. energy, agriculture, forestry, waste)"
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