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INTERmodality MOdel for the Development of the Adriatic Littoral zone (INTERMODAL)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2015,

...h bike sharing service&information systems to facilitate travellers;B4 will deepen its previous research on application of intermodality to touristic flows between Rimini&Ravenna;B5 will inquire into Region Apulia employees needs in terms of transport to reach Regional offices in Bari in order to set-up a car sharing facility at Region premises;B6 will study intermodal connections between Šibenik& ...
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Energy Sustainability for Adriatic Small Communities (ALTERENERGY)

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

The ALTERENERGY Strategic Project aims to provide a significant contribution to the widely agreed objective of achieving a higher level of sustainability with regards to energy production and usage in the Adriatic area. This objective is strictly connected, as we all know, to creating a better environment and the protection of life and the natural environment. In pursuing this overall general obje ...
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Assessing subsurface potentials of the Alpine Foreland Basins for sustainable planning and use of natural resources (GeoMol)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

To meet the EU’s ambitious targets for carbon emission reduction, renewable energy production must strongly be upgraded and made more efficient and capable for grid energy storage. Alpine Foreland Basins feature a unique geological inventory which can contribute substantially to tackle these challenges. Deep ‘Molasse’ basins at the fringe of the Alpine mountain range offer an abundant geothermal p ...
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mote regional social development encouraging NETworking of relevant public-volunteering stakeholders to boost innovation in the delivering social-health-care services for AGEing people (NET-Age)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: May 30, 2015,

NET-Age project aims at strengthening the sustainable development capabilities of the Adriatic regions and the demographic process focusing on innovative social and health services to favor active ageing and independent living of elderly.Today,governments and civic society are searching for new policies and common answers to face one of the most profound social transformations: the population agei ...
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ion, improvement and integrated management of the sea environment and of cross-border natural resources (ECOSEA)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: May 30, 2015,

...ill steer all further project activities. The Advisory Board will see the participation not only of project partners, but also of the relevant target groups and stakeholders, namely national, regional and local policy makers of the fishery sector, enterprises through their Organization of Producers, scientific centres and universities). In this common framework, the project will then act in parall ...
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Adriatic Governance Operational Plan (AdriGov)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2015,

...knowledge-transfer actions to enhance information and awareness on European integration and EU accession with a view to improve the knowledge and skills of representatives of the involved local and regional authorities. Furthermore, effective training programmes will be structured to improve their EU funding management and their administrative expertise. To achieve the first objective, the above-m ...
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Strengthening common reaction capacity to fight sea pollution of oil, toxic and hazardous substances in Adriatic Sea (HAZADR)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Mar 30, 2015,

...ecially taking into consideration that it constitutes an important oil transport route to the North-Adriatic ports of Trieste, Venice, Koper and Omišalj. From an economic point of view, the Adriatic region plays an important role in tourism and recreation, but is at the same time one of the most developed industrial areas. However, the risk and threat of sea pollution by oil, and hazardous and nox ...
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Local economic development in airport catchment areas (airLED)

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

... Achievements: In response to the socio-economic impacts of globalisation and the rapidly changing economic environment, a partnership of four regions (Budapest, Mazovia, Gorenjska, Emilia Romagna) joined forces in elaborating long-term development concepts of airport areas, which are increasingly being viewed as potential catalysts for local ec ...
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Improving Regional Policies promoting and motivating non-technological Innovation in SMEs (InnoMot)

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

Innovation in SMEs is one of the big challenges of the European economy to compete in the global markets. Even if different policies and programmes have been put in place in different Regions to push SMEs in this line, the lack of motivation to innovate in SMEs has been identified by all the actors involved in the innovation system.And for the major part of the European SMEs, the non-technological ...
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Hybrid Parks: Combining abilities, creating synergies and enhancing the performance of parks for sustainable local and regional development policies (Hybrid Parks)

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

Parks, both historic and modern, are intensively managed, high quality environments. They add to the attractiveness and success of cities and regions and to the quality of life for citizens and visitors.The partnership includes many of those cities and regions energetically enhancing and using parks in a wider policy context such as economic development, rural diversification, protection of cultur ...
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Green Infrastructure Network (GreenInfraNet)

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

Biodiversity conservation policies have traditionally been developed and implemented within the nature conservation sector, and local and regional authorities are mainly responsible for implementing the policies and achieving their objectives. However, this presents the authorities with a range of challenges:– many other land uses are increasing in extent and intensity– much of the biodiversity ou ...
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Mitigating Vulnerability of Water Resources under Climate Change  (CC-WARE)

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

Water resources are under increasing pressure originating from land use and climate change. Accompanied with economic changes in the SEE region the land use pattern is expected to change, too. Both processes will have severe impacts on water resources in general and drinking water resources in particular. CC-WARE aims at developing an integrated transnational strategy for water protection and miti ...
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Smarter Cluster Policies for South East Europe (ClusterPoliSEE)

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

ClusterPoliSEE main objective is to enhance the capacity of regional policy makers to confront, prevent and anticipate change, developing smart specialization strategies for cluster improvement, thus accelerating differentiation and structural change towards a knowledge-based economy in which there is a place for all SEE regions to position themselves. 25 members partnership covers 11 different SE ...
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Making Migration Work for Development - Policy tools for strategic planning in SEE regions and cities (MMWD)

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

...nce policy-making, reinforcing the capacity of public administrations to understand, anticipate and strategically manage the implications of demographic change for the growth and cohesion of European regions and cities, and for the overall integration of the SEE area. Local and regional authorities are at the forefront in facing the effects of current demographic, economic and social changes, and ...
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Rail Hub Cities for South East Europe (RAIL4SEE)

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

...eted to the improvement of rail and intermodal transport in SEE. In particular partners call for complementary interventions facing the alleviation of barriers for rail hubs integration in the local, regional, transnational and TEN-T systems, transport services projecting & harmonisation, governance improvement, in particular in the transversal perspective of Public Transport Partnerships developm ...
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CLusters Orientation towards Up-to-date technologies and models for common Development  (CLOUD)

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

...nsnational cooperation is needed. Based on this belief, the project wants to establish transnational collaborations of public authorities with the aim of maintaining a permanent policy dialogue among regional public authorities in South-East Europe which are responsible for developing cluster policies and to set-up a transnational platform for exchanges among operative organisms in charge of manag ...
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Assessing Territorial Attractiveness in SEE  (Attract-SEE)

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

... 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 and evaluation. The ...
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Low Enthalpy Geothermal ENergy Demonstration cases for Energy Efficient building in Adriatic area (LEGEND)

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

...nous factors and market barriers – that are present also in the Adriatic area - hamper the deployment of low-enthalpy geothermal energy, such as the lack of harmonized regulations at the national / regional level regarding heating & cooling permissions and insufficient information (among policy and decision makers, stakeholders) on applicability prerequisites, cost-benefit calculation, lack of dem ...
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Sustainable Aggregates Planning in South East Europe  (SNAP-SEE)

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

Assuring sustainable supply of aggregates resource is an important challenge due to their limited availability when aiming at sustainable regional development. Due to the regional differences and historical development, there are diverse approaches to aggregates policies, planning and management in South East Europe, which is hindering resource efficiency and economic development in the region. Th ...
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Railway Hub Cities and TEN-T network (RAILHUC)

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

Central Europe cities are the "first/last legs" of transnational transport chains. These chains consist of local, regional and transnational transport systems. On the one hand high speed connections among rail hubs in central Europe are being upgraded, especially on TEN-T networks and along the main intercity lines. On the other hand rail and in general public transport feeder lines need an upgrad ...
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European model for Public Transport Authority as a key factor leading to transport sustainability. (EPTA)

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

...activities should be concentrated in a single body able to support policy makers and involve relevant stakeholders. Good practices across Europe will be identified, collected and transferred into regional development policies, to produce, as final result, a transferable and customizable MODEL to be adopted for the successful implementation or re-organization of a PTA. The consortium is made of 11 ...
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External Costs of Transport and Land Equalisation (ECOTALE)

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

... to transport internalization (i.e. reallocation of public resources in the context of spatial planning, infrastructural decisions and modal policies) it is felt necessary to let available to Regions and Cities a knowledge base created from real experiences and a set of methodological and analytical tools to guide and support plans and policies definition.Besides transport pricing policies, planni ...
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Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon (UHI)

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

As population of our cities grow, so does land area and this result in increase of an average temperature. The buildings and roads absorb temperature produced during the day, like giant heaters, and store it. The energy is then released during the night time. This often means a big difference in the temperature between city and its surrounding areas.This phenomenon is called the Urban Heat Island ...
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Shaping an Holistic Approach to Protect the Adriatic Environment: between coast and sea (SHAPE)

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

SHAPE is a comprehensive project for the Adriatic Region aiming to create the basis for the protection and sustainable development of the coastal-marine environment. The strategic objective is the development of a multilevel and cross-sector governance system, based on an holistic approach and aiming to the integrated management of the natural resources, risks prevention and the resolution of the ...
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European networks, experience and recommendations helping cities and citizens to become Energy Efficient (EnercitEE)

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

...but underestimated consumer target group: the citizens. Therefore it has a new but underestimated focus than the forerunner project but builds upon enercy’regio’s experiences and existing interregional networks which have been established. All regions stressed a pressing need that more innovative energy efficiency policies and instruments for citizens and the private sector need to be developed.As ...
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ACMAn - Promoting attractiveness, competitiveness and internationalisation of Agro-food Clusters of the Med Area (PACMAn)

Start date: Sep 30, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2013,

PACMAn aims at stimulating the innovative&dynamic capacities of the agrofood sector in MED regions able to promote its attractiveness & competitiveness at transnational level.Through collaboration between transnational economic development actors&public authorities engaged in growth & innovation issues, PACMAn will focus on key factors of agro-food clusters in MED areas, in light of the latest eco ...
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Statistical networks in Tourism sector of Adriatic Regions (S.T.A.R)

Start date: Jan 31, 2011, End date: Aug 30, 2013,

...he project is build jointly from 10 Partners from 5 countries of the IPA Adriatic cooperation area (Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Greece, Croatia) under the leadership of the Emilia-Romagna Region and will last 30 months. Projects activities will be implemented through a concrete collaboration among all Beneficiaries and involving, from its start, all the relevant stakeholders (enterpris ...
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Co-generation of competitive knowledge among universities and SMEs (KNOW US)

Start date: Jun 30, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

The project KNOW US plans to increase the competitiveness of SMEs in strategic field on the cross-border area between Italy and Slovenia, supporting the new knowledge generation, also in synergic collaboration with enterprises associations, science and technology parks, universities and local authorities, in order to start a way of innovation in sustainability. ...
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MAritme REgions cooperation for MEDiterranea (MAREMED)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 23, 2013,

MAREMED´s goal is to create synergy between the Regions and the different levels of Mediterranean, European, national and local governance to encourage the implementation of an integrated maritime policy within the Mediterranean. The policy components having a transnational impact will be the focus of a survey and a synthesis concerning regional policies and their governance, the development of tr ...
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Environmental Technologies Adopted by small Businesses operating in Entrepreneurial Territorial Areas (ETA-BETA)

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

Background Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up a large part of Europe’s economy. All but 1% of Europe's companies are SMEs, and SMEs generate 57% of economic activity in the EU. SMEs thus have a primary role to play in shifting the European economy to more sustainable production and consumption patterns. SMEs invest in innovation but thei ...
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Archaeological Park of the Northern Adriatic Sea (PArSJAd)

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

The project aims to intervene in the common archaeological heritage of the Adriatic coast, from the coast of Emilia to the Slovene one, through the implementation of planning tools for cultural, archaeological and landscape entities and the creation of a network with such knowledge, for professional and non professional users. ...
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Removing barriers to regional rail transport (INTER-Regio-Rail)

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

Facing an increasing intermodal competition and radical social and demographical changes, Regional Rail Transport (RRT) in Central Europe has to be improved. Traditionally RRT has focused on large groups of passengers such as commuters and tourists. With settlement structures and places of employment dispersing and leisure activities diversifying RRT more and more has to adapt its offer to passeng ...
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Open Source software usage by European Public Administrations (OSEPA)

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

...as a catalyst force in demonstrating the value of FOSS and in removing legal and organisational obstacles and inhibitors by acting as early adopters. OSEPA aims to explore this potential through interregional cooperation and to cultivate a debate among public administrations in this direction with a view to:• Analyse, promote knowledge and foster awareness on the main benefits and disadvantages, c ...
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Low-Carbon Economy Regions (LoCaRe)

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

Sustainable European Regions Network (SERN) is a network with the goal of implementing and putting into practice sustainable development policies and strategies. One of the means in achieving this objective is to develop and implement larger projects in the participating regions. If enough SERN members prioritise a given project idea, a full proposal - as in this case - will be developed. SERN foc ...
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Geothermal energy to address energy performance strategies in residential and industrial buildings (GEO.POWER)

Start date: Oct 31, 2010, End date: Oct 30, 2012,

...chnical and cost/benefit assessment to evaluate the potential of reproducibility - to prepare the ground to the transfer some of the selected best practices within the Mainstreaming Programmes of the regions participating into the projectduring the current programming period 07-13 as well as in the future regional framework instruments.The main results of the project are the development of one act ...
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European Research NEtwork on Sustainable Tourism (ERNEST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"The ERNEST “European Research Network on Sustainable Tourism” project will address the issue of sustainable development in tourism through coordination and collaboration among regional research programmes. ERNEST will be a horizontal ERA NET action, not directly linked to one specific cooperation theme but with much European added value. The overall objective is to develop and strengthen a framew ...
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Regional COmmon Action STrategy Against Coastal Erosion and climate change effects for a sustainable coastal planning in the Mediterranean basin (COASTANCE)

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

...ic Submersion Risk Forecast Systems, Specific EIA/SEA Procedures, Concrete ICZM Master Plans and Officials’ Training- will be used as Governance and Public Policy Tools for erosion control by regional, national and EU administrations. To ensure the project‘s durability, partners will form a Structural Data Infrastructure Community (SDIC) based on the INSPIRE directive and a European Group accordin ...
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OWER (POWER)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Mar 30, 2012,

In the context of ambitious EU targets for climate protection, the POWER Regional Initiative will explore ways to move towards a low carbon economy at regional level, in particular by re-formulating regional development strategies and policy instruments and identifying effective forms of sub-regional action which also contribute to regional competitiveness. The seven participating regions of South ...
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Sustainable Urban Goods logistics Achieved by Regional and local policies (SUGAR)

Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2012,

...g sessions, workshops and joint planning events, in which the administrations will directly benefit from participation through the knowledge gained and successively utilised in addressing national, regional and municipal policy developments;• Development of city logistics publications and training products, which will record the knowledge gained during SUGAR.The SUGAR sites use these tools to deve ...
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IMPLEMENTING WORLD-CLASS CLUSTERS IN CENTRAL EUROPE (C-PLUS)

Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Feb 27, 2012,

...task to involve the companies in the project activities . All the cluster have been identified by the partners in order to finalise the mapping action: CNA Emilia Romagna and the Emilia Romagna Region identified packaging and shoes, IMU from Brandeburg metal and optics, the Regional Development Agency of Bielsko Biala in Poland construction/passive building and wood, Pannon Business Network textil ...
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