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CLean INland SHipping (LIFE CLINSH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Background Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) causes considerable emissions of the air pollutants NOx and PM10. Many European regions are struggling to tackle air quality problems, though the often expensive measures implemented to meet air quality limit values are mainly directed at industry and road transport. However, it is increasingly recognised that in ...
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Environmentally Friendly, Efficient Electric Motion (3EMOTION)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The 3EMOTION project will provide policymakers and financing institutions with the necessary arguments to invest in Fuel Cell Buses (FCB) as a cost effective strategy to accelerate the reduction of harmful local emissions while offering attractive co-modality options for commuters. By leveraging the experiences of earlier FCB demonstrations in overcoming the last technical and economic barriers, a ...
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Green Infrastructure For Tomorrow - Together! (GIFT-T)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Our aim is to deliver a programme of innovative actions that increase the pace and certainty of planning prosperous. green and socially engaged regions. Our aim is to support the development of the EU Green Infrastructure (GI) Action Plan. We will focus on deliverability. broker new relationships and attract new funding for GI. We take planning ‘off the shelf’ and into the community and boardroom ...
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Advanced observation and rainfall prediction for urban pluvial flood management (RAINGAIN)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Aug 29, 2015,

The projects aim is to obtain fine-scale rainfall and flood data at the urban scale: a level of detail at which such information is currently lacking. The availability of fine-scale rainfall and flood data will enable urban water authorities to adequately cope with peak rainfall and will help to prevent the severe pluvial flood damage that in the past decades has been associated with these events. ...
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Developing the economic potential of the territorial assets of the Rhine corridor." (DEMARRAGE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

A key territorial challenge identified by the NWE programme. is the need to strengthen the attractiveness and performance of cities and regions in Northwest Europe. including through transnational actions that build on the economic potential of local and regional assets. This territorial challenge is at the core of DEMARRAGE. DEMARRAGE brings together all regions located in the Rhine corridor. ...
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Balancing nature and recreation in peri-urban and rural areas (BALANCE)

Start date: May 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

The BALANCE project aims to develop and to evaluate new methods and practices enhancing the availability and quality of green areas in peri-urban areas in order to provide a safe and healthy living environment. It will involve the local communities during the different project phases. Respecting the balance between nature, development and recreation is of major importance to make the 2 Seas area a ...
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Healthcare - Technological Innovations and Economic Success (Health-TIES)

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

Challenge: Health-TIES addresses Europe’s largest health challenges: an ageing population and the sustainability of the healthcare system. This cross-border challenge needs a collaborative approach!Third revolution: True collaboration between medical scientists, engineers, healthcare providers, industry and government is the key to innovation in healthcare (the “third revolution”). Health-TIES is ...
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Managing Adaptive Responses to changing flood risk in the North Sea Region (MARE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

Recent flooding has demonstrated the vulnerability of North Sea Region. Municipalities have an urgent need to reduce flood risk, but lack a framework and the resources. The overarching aim of MARE is to enable widespread implementation of local adaptive measures that mitigate flood risk. The project is focusing on developing a transnational methodology to implement urban Flood Risk Management (FRM ...
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Optimum II - Optimal Planning Through Implementation of Mobility Management (Optimum II)

Start date: Dec 31, 2002, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

Road congestion in the NWE area affects accessibility, mobility, environmental quality and economic development. Building new roads is no longer an option. Optimum2 seeks to better integrate mobility management into spatial planning and promote sustainable mobility alternatives. Nine partners from the Netherlands and the UK have set their objectives around five key factors that they consider are i ...
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Tiengemeten, restoration of freshwater tidal area in the Haringvliet estuary, the Netherlands (10GEMETEN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2003, End date: Dec 31, 2007,

Background Tiengemeten is an island estuary of the rivers Rhine and Meuse, just south of Rotterdam. Since the last embankment in 1860, Tiengemeten consists of 700 ha arable land and 300 ha reedbeds. As a result of the construction of a dam in 1970, the tidal ebb and flow in the estuary practically ceased. The effect has had serious consequences for the ve ...
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Flood Risk Management in Estuaries: Sustainable New Land Use in Flood Control Areas (FRaME)

Start date: Dec 31, 2002, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

The aim of the FR@ME project was to reduce flood risk in North Sea Estuaries by advancing and promoting innovative solutions involving sustainable new land uses whilst safeguarding the Natura 2000 series and to provide new opportunities for social, economic and environmental benefits. FR@ME assisted in the practical development of sustainable flood risk management strategies in the North Sea estua ...
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SOS II

Start date: Dec 31, 2002, End date: Dec 30, 2005,

The Sustainable Open Spaces II (SOS II) project intends to further develop the concept of open space examined in the IIC project, to consider ways in which the importance of landscape identity can be achieved. Over three years this ambitious project, which brings together 16 partners from five Member States, acknowledges the importance of retaining the quality of historical assets and stabilising ...
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