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WATER Development Resources Opportunity Policies for the water management in semi-arid areas (Water-DROP)

Start date: Dec 17, 2013, End date: Dec 16, 2015,

Project in brief Population growth, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the expansion of agriculture and tourism, as well as climate change are all factors which put water under increasing stress. The scarcity of this vital resource for human and social development has placed water at the top of the agenda of many Mediterranean countries. Most of the water problems are due to the mismanageme ...
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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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Network of STRAits (NOSTRA)

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

...of Finland, the Strait of Otranto, the Fehmarnbelt and the Strait of Bonifacio. This MoU defines two main objectives for the partnership: gaining recognition of the European straits' specificities at national and European levels and enhancing cooperation projects between the partners.Indeed, the straits of Europe share several common issues (transport, economic development, maritime safety…), whic ...
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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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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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Assessing Territorial Attractiveness in SEE  (Attract-SEE)

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

Effective monitoring system and better coordination among different development and sectoral policies are basic conditions for achieving territorial cohesion and territorial development goals on transnational, national, regional and local level. Project ATTRACT-SEE will support policy makers to achieve better coordination of territorial cohesion and growth policies as well as their implementation ...
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Sustainable Transport and Tourism along the Danube  (TRANSDANUBE)

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

The Danube is passing 10 countries on its way to the Black Sea. Therefore it is one of the most transnational rivers in the world. It is a river full of history and an important interlink between the regions of South East Europe. Several initiatives clearly identified the need for cooperation to boost the development of the Danube region. With the endorsement of the EU Strategy for the Danube Regi ...
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Green Intermodal Freight Transport (GIFT)

Start date: Feb 29, 2012, End date: Aug 30, 2014,

The main aim of the current project is to map, analyze, and evaluate the status of the transport sector in the GIFT transport network and propose new policies and strategies in infrastructure, processes, assets, ICT, legislation, norms and harmonization/ standardization issues, in order to promote innovative green intermodal freight transport corridors. GIFT project will drill down in three Pan-Eu ...
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Sustainable Mobility and Tourism in Sensitive Areas of the Alps and the Carpathians (ACCESS2MOUNTAIN)

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

...pecially in South-East Europe, as mountain regions are lacking sufficient sustainable transport facilities and facing major ecological impacts caused by individual vehicles . Based on this fact, EU-, national strategies and INTERREG-outcomes a project was jointly developed under the leadership of the Environment Agency Austria. The proposed project aims at achieving 'Durable environmentally friend ...
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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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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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South East Transport Axis (SETA)

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

...th and development (as the project SIC! has shown). Fluent transport of passengers and goods are the crucial preconditions of the competitive accessibility of regions. The low level of regional, transnational and seaport accessibility within South East Europe region especially in railway transport drag behind the transportation demand and therefore limit the regional (economic) development potenti ...
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Best Agers - Using the knowledge and experience of professionals in their primes to foster business and skills development in the Baltic Sea Region (Best Agers)

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

With demographic change and the current economic crisis looming, the cities and regions of the Baltic Sea Region have to find creative ways of disclosing and utilizing unused opportunities. One of these hidden potentials are the people in the prime of their lives – the so called “Best Agers” (defined in the project as people aged 55 and older). As previous projects have shown, the BSR population w ...
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Demographic change in the Alps: adaptation strategies to spatial planning and regional development (DEMOCHANGE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Aug 30, 2012,

Demographic Change is a main driving force all over Europe. The population within most mountain regions of the Alpine Space already today differs from the surrounding metropolitans. Beside the general trend of the aging of the Europeans there exist additional Alpine specific factors of regional different influence: migration (in – out), commuting (rural to urban areas) settlement and housing (cost ...
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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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Demonstration of Conservation Actions for Ursus artcos* and habitat type 9530* in Northern Pindos N.P., Grevena Prefecture, Greece (PINDOS/GREVENA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Background The brown bear (Ursus arctos) sub-population in the Natura 2000 network site in the Pindos National Park in Greece (minimum size estimated between 40-50 individuals) is important at a regional level and makes up 3.5% of the national brown bear population. The main threats to the species include mortality as a result of human activities, habitat ...
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Introducing Maritime Spatial Planning in the Baltic Sea (BaltSeaPlan)

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

The € 3,7 m project BaltSeaPlan (2009-2012) accompanied the EU Maritime Policy by supporting the introduction of Integrated Maritime Spatial Planning and preparation of National Maritime Strategies within Baltic Sea Region. It also contributed to the implementation of the HELCOM recommendation on broad-scale Maritime Spatial Planning & the VASAB Gdańsk Declaration.BackgroundThe Baltic Sea is a uni ...
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Water Management Strategies against Water Scarcity in the Alps (Alp-Water-Scarce)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

The main challenges of this project are to create local Early Warning Systems against Water Scarcity in the Alps based on sound and perennial monitoring and modelling and anchored strongly and actively within a Stakeholder Forum linked across comparative and contrasting regions across the Alps. The Early Warning System is based on the linkage and improvement of field monitoring and assemblage of q ...
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Competitiveness Actions and Policies for Alpine Cities (CAPACities)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Mar 30, 2011,

...t due to their isolation, depopulation and difficulty in connections and facilities supply.The project CAPACities aims at promoting the potential of little alpine towns through an integrated and transnational approach by innovative urban policies and actions, and by creating alliances with the neighbouring MEGAs and stronger territories.The project aspires to promote a new approach to territorial ...
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Promoting international cooperation for environmental research through dissemination and networking activities (INT-ER-LINK)

Start date: Oct 1, 2007, End date: Sep 30, 2009,

The major objectives of this Specific Support Action are to: - promote the role played by the Framework Programme in enabling International Cooperation on Global Change and Ecosystems research; - and to facilitate the uptake of the results of the research being carried out. This will be done by using a combined approach of awareness-raising and networking activities.The project will focus in parti ...
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ion and sustainable development of the Carpathians in a transnational framework (Carpathian Projec)

Start date: Aug 31, 2005, End date: Aug 30, 2008,

...development. The central objective of the Carpathian project is the integration of European spatial development policies and management of the fragile mountain ecosystems of the Carpathians in a transnational context. The project will analyse and consolidate the information base, develop strategies and policy instruments. It will also implement and test pilot activities in cooperation with local a ...
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Female Entrepreneurs´Meetings in the Baltic Sea Region (FEM)

Start date: Aug 14, 2004, End date: Aug 13, 2008,

...have been key issues in the project. The aim has been to produce sustainable positive changes in the attitudes, processes and methods of economic and regional policies at individual, local, regional, national and international levels. The experiences of supporting women have been transferred between the W-BSR-countries and E-BSR-countries. The whole BSR profits from using "best practices" of the p ...
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Spatial Planning in Coastal Zones (PlanCoast)

Start date: Mar 31, 2006, End date: Apr 29, 2008,

... will be considered when developing and implementing new fields of spatial planning in maritime areas (sea-use planning) throughout the EU's coastal zones in a coherent manner while complying to international standards and facilitating international exchange and comparison of information. At the same time local and regional needs should be reflected. ...
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Harmonisation of economic and infrastructure development in the Pan-European transport Corridor III (EU-CORe III)

Start date: Feb 28, 2006, End date: Feb 27, 2008,

...hieve a competitive advantage. The project partnership reflects the complete chain of regions within Corridor III, traversing from Germany through Poland to Ukraine. These regions represent the EU at national as well as regional and local level. All project partners are involved in development, planning of regional economies and transport infrastructure, and the preparation and planning of investm ...
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EUROBALTIC Civil Proctection Project II (Eurobaltic II)

Start date: Sep 25, 2005, End date: Jan 24, 2008,

...ings in the civil protection capabilities of the region. The activities in the following project was focused on three identified priority areas: risk management and spatial development, building transnational capacity through exercises, training, education and research and promoting safety over sectors and borders.Eurobaltic Civil Protection Project II is a continuation of the Eurobaltic I Project ...
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Regional Cooperation in Waste Management (RECO)

Start date: Jan 12, 2005, End date: Jan 11, 2008,

...the development of efficient Institutions for management of municipal waste in the BSR in order to minimize negative environmental effects, lower life cycle costs for waste management and meet EU and national legislation and targets etc. This is to be achieved by:Institution building thru the development of Regional Waste Management Institutions (RWMIs)Supporting of cross-border and cross-sectoral ...
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Exchanging know-how and transferring experience among border regions in Europe (CHANGE ON BORDERS)

Start date: Oct 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Since 1990, the EU has provided financial support for internal and external cross-border cooperation, helping to establish cross-border programme structures and to implement numerous cross-border projects along the EU’s internal and external borders. Despite the progress made, there are still a large number of cross-border problems, especially along the current (and future) external borders of the ...
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Baltic SeaBreeze (BSB)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...ted specific areas but interacted and cooperated for educating and raising the awareness in the projects target groups and applying a media strategy. Another important actor in BSB was the international multi-stakeholder reference group with target group representatives. Achievements: ...
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Baltic Energy Efficiency Network for the Building Stock (BEEN)

Start date: Jun 20, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...ject phase the partners elaborated outputs within five work packages (WPs). WP 1 focussed on the analysis of the potentials of energy efficiency in the BSR building stock as well as on the review of national policies in comparison to EU standards and regulations. Final result is a policy paper that is addressed to market actors and policy makers on international, national, regional and local level ...
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Baltic Gateway PLUS: Implementation plan for realizing the Baltic Gateway Quick Start Programme (Baltic Gateway+)

Start date: Dec 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...07.Baltic Gateway PLUS was a follow up of the Baltic Gateway project. Within Baltic Gateway, regional political leaders committed themselves to future cooperation in promoting investments along trans-national corridors across borders and water barriers in South Baltic Sea area. The project resulted in a concrete programme where the most prioritised transport projects for the South Baltic Sea area ...
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Multifunctional Intensive Land Use in Europe (MILUNET)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The overall objective of MILUnet is to create an effective partnership network, aiming to promote Multifunctional Intensive Land Use as a means to achieve more sustainable (urban) development in the EU. By utilising expertise and know-how on MILU, regional and local governments have the possibility to increase the effectiveness of both urban policy implementation and planning towards sustainabilit ...
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MAnagement Tools and Relations for Interregional Organisation to Strengthening Co-operation in AAP (MATRIOSCA-AAP)

Start date: May 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Regions on the fringes of long established, new or forthcoming EU Member States, in particular, are in need of transnational collaborations and development. The co-operation area of the MATRIOSCA-AAP project, the "Adria-Alpe-Pannonia" (AAP) space, comprises old and new EU Member States as well as candidate countries. It is characterised by strong regional and cultural diversity. The MATRIOSCA-AAP ...
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Flood Awareness and Prevention Policy in border areas (FLAPP)

Start date: Aug 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The network is seeking to contribute to common European strategies for flood risk management, especially in border areas where flood-related issues are likely to arise. It intends to achieve this by enabling those responsible for European river systems and their feeders to exchange information and experience. FLAPP also expects that its work will influence a new European flood water directive. ...
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Institutionalization of the European Route of Brick Gothic (EuRoB) - a culturally and historically inspired tourism route marketing the brick Gothic heritage and related cultural offers (EuRoB II)

Start date: Dec 12, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...ect partners is in process. Database fully available with pictures, trilingual texts, compendium texts etc. for all partners; Implementation of an optimum set of marketing tools for the transnational cultural route; realization in corporate design and shape; Online brick Gothic heritage compendium with appealing and informing pictures, drawings, paintings and texts, glossar etc. Closely linked to ...
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Building a know-how-generation and transfer-system for improving INTERREG-quality by multiple training and exchange activities at the border regions of Austria, Italy and the neighbouring New Member Countries (Iq-Train (Interreg-quality-Training))

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Jul 30, 2007,

... (Bavaria, Vienna, Burgenland, Slovakia, Hungary...)Based on an assessment of training needs of INTERREG-actors and on strategic considerations concerning future requirements of cross border and transnational cooperation a series of training modules will be designed and organized.Training modules- will be conducted along defined quality standards decentralised under responsibility of regional INTE ...
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Baltic Tangent

Start date: Jan 3, 2005, End date: May 2, 2007,

...structure network linked to the main TEN north-south transport routes in Scandinavia and the Baltic States with links further east. The BT project outcome was expected to add new perspectives to transnational cooperation for the development of the southeast Baltic Sea Region and its relation to the Russian and far east markets. The project will accordingly also generate knowledge of general intere ...
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LAnners NETwork for CENtral and South East Europe (PLANET CENSE)

Start date: Oct 31, 2003, End date: Feb 17, 2007,

PLANET CENSE is a network of national spatial planning institutions and experts established as a consequence of the VISION PLANET project. It aims at pursuing and developing further the policy options laid down in the VISION PLANET project documents. The network will foster spatial integration and a cross-sector dialogue with: - The European Spatial Planning Gateway (ESP GATEWAY): an expert dialog ...
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Spatial scenarios in relation to the ESDP and EU Cohesion Policy (Scenarios)

Start date: Apr 27, 2004, End date: Feb 12, 2007,

The main objective of the project is to develop spatial scenarios which should on the one hand be prospective, capable of prognostics with reference to a laissez-faire scenario on themes of the ESPON and policy orientations of the ESDP.On the other hand the scenarios should as well be proactive testing alternative objectives and provide insight for recommendations on policy adjustments/changes in ...
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