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Towards integrated management of freshwater Nature 2000 sites and habitats (FRESHABIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2022,

Background Freshwater habitats are among the most threatened habitat types globally. In the 2007-2012 conservation status assessment of the EU Habitats Directive (Article 17), none of the freshwater, coastal, and groundwater dependent wetland habitats in Europe fully met favourable conservation status, and most are in unfavourable conservation status. Alm ...
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MULTIple Eco-Friendly FORest use: Restoring Traditions (MULTI EFFORT)

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

...r multiple use of natural resources - formed a basis for establishment of the regional protected area, landscape 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 fores ...
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Integrated landscape planning for sustainable use of nature resources and maintaining the biodiversity

Start date: Feb 4, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Integrated landscape planning will allow sustainable utilization of natural resources and maintaining biodiversity Achievements: The main result of the project is improvement of transport connections between Russia and Finland. The road section km 110 - km 160 of the Lo ...
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Restoration of transborder salmonid rivers

Start date: Apr 9, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The idea of the project is to create conditions for restoration of the salmonid stocks in the Lieksa, Tohmajoki, Hiitola and Lososinka rivers by means of research, planning and education.A new business model will provide a platform for commercial synergy of the companies operating in the timber, bio energy and construction industries in the programme region.The activities include developing a prod ...
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Repair of Automobile Road Loukhi-Suoperya, km 110 - km 160

Start date: Nov 9, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Objective of the projectTo bring the above-mentioned section of the automobile road to standard transporting and operational condition, to increase the average traffic speed in which connection increase of the traffic intensity on the automobile road and the activation of external economic relations at near-border territories are forecasted. Increase of traffic safety, decrease of cargo delivery p ...
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Cross-Border Move for Health

Start date: Feb 4, 2013, End date: Dec 4, 2014,

Objective of the projectThe objective was to increase the knowledge of health and wellbeing of the children and the youth in North Karelia and in the Republic of Karelia and to increase the physical activity of adapted physical activity -groups in the area. Main activities1. Developing new practices for increasing overall physical activity.2. Producing education materials and reports of seminars.3 ...
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Widening of Road 89 Vartius-Paltamo, road stretches 10-13 and 13-17

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

Objective of the projectThe aim of the project is to support the growth of cross-border transport between Finland/EU and Russia via border crossing point of Vartius.Main activities• Preparation of technical documentations and tendering documents.• Procurement of Contractor.• Implementing the construction plans (opening the slopes, adding new structural layers, paving the road). ...
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Eco-efficient tourism

Start date: Apr 18, 2012, End date: Apr 17, 2014,

Objective of the projectTo make Euregio Karelia region more attractive for tourists through gradual leveling of quality of the services provided to tourists on two sides of the borderMain activities• Development of models for sustainable management of actively visited tourism destinations• Development and introduction of environmentally sustainable technological solutions for facilitation of speci ...
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Sustainable forest management providing renewable energy, sustainable construction and bio-based products (RoK-FOR)

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

...ased products, without jeopardizing the environment. RoK-FOR is a Coordination Action of five regional research-driven clusters from six European countries: Germany (Baden-Württemberg); Finland (North Karelia); Spain (Catalonia), and the cross-border clusters from Croatia-Serbia and France-Spain (Aquitaine-Basque). These regional research-driven clusters collectively form a European level meta-clu ...
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Protection of Triturus cristatus in Eastern Baltic Region (BALTRIT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2004, End date: Dec 31, 2008,

...ries such as Estonia and Finland which, as of 2004, had yet to start a co-ordinated recovery programme for the great crested newt. Finland and Estonia harbour small and isolated populations along the north-eastern border of the newt's range. Here, the greatest threat to the species comes from the ack of appropriate management of semi-natural grasslands and forest habitats. ...
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Shingle carvers

Start date: Feb 28, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...In addition to Finnish specialists, the participants of the seminar included representatives from the Governmental Cultural Protection Centre of the Republic of Karelia and the Museum of North Ladoga. The planned publication about the history of the Kesälahti belfry was not completed during the project, but it was intended that it should be finished by the end of 2008, with a separate grant from t ...
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Karelian mires and virgin forests - pearls in the chain of geohistory (Karelian Mires)

Start date: Nov 1, 2002, End date: Jan 31, 2007,

Background The boreal old-growth forests of northern Karelia have a particularly important role to play in the survival of many forest species across the EU. This is because they are located in the border region with Russia, and as such act as ’stepping stones’ for species between Russian forests and other forests within Finland. The mires are equally ...
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New Nature Tourism Products from the Republic of Karelia (On the Trail of Nousija Karelians)

Start date: Mar 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

...storical information regarding the activity area was obtained from Petrozavodsk State University and the waterway planning and water flow rates of the Mujejärvi region were researched at the Northern Water Problems Institute. The project also arranged a trial trip to the Tsikka Kem river for tourism entrepreneurs. During the trip, Finnish travel service providers familiarised themselves with an ex ...
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Karelias maps (Karelia’s maps)

Start date: Feb 29, 2004, End date: Sep 29, 2005,

...evel output for the internet regarding The Republic of Karelias demographics, road network, lakes, rivers, railways and borders. The project worked in close co-operation with the Alexander Institutes Northern Dimension Advisory Network and the map information researched in the project was posted on the networks KareliaInfo website (www.kareliainfo.org/kartat). Due to its largescale, the material w ...
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Energy Road

Start date: Mar 15, 2003, End date: Mar 14, 2005,

...d was an operational environment improvement project which intended to produce development, testing and presentation services for companies specialising in of the use of wood for energy production in North Karelia. The Energy Road off ered small and new companies assistance in developing and testing new innovations and solutions and with the introduction of industry-related products. It also provi ...
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Karelias meet – Ilomantsi–Tuupovaara Sub-region Nature Tourism Development Project

Start date: Dec 31, 2001, End date: Feb 27, 2005,

...rial for the developed tourism packages was produced in Finnish and Russian. In addition, 17 companies from the Ilomantsi and Tuupovaara regions were included in the Russian-language version of the North Karelia brochure. Programme service, quality, sales, marketing, information technology, language, catering and travel guide training was organised for companies in the training segment of the proj ...
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Assessment of the ecological state of the border area waters

Start date: Dec 31, 2001, End date: Dec 30, 2004,

The objective of the project was to promote the assessment of the ecological state of the border region water systems in accordance with the EU’s water policy framework directive, water biological research and authority cooperation, the opportunities of the local population to infl uence the water protection of Pyhäjärvi and to secure the recreational use of Pyhäjärvi, and to develop sustainable n ...
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