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...s, houses, factories) to encourage behavioural changes for energy efficiency and carbon footprint reduction. Behavioural changes and energy reduction will be assessed and will improve transnational, regional and local low carbon and spatial development policies. Sustainable exploitation will also be analysed in order to maximize effectiveness and trigger economic development of the Alpine Space. ...
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Technik macht mobil

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The international mobility of trainees is an important means to develop both practical abilities and gain new knowledge and also to enhance linguistic and intercultural skills. With the help of this project we would like to offer our trainees the opportunity to get qualifications necessary for the European market and gain new work experience.Besides we intend to maintain and intensify our long-ter ...
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Background The project area includes 32 Natura 2000 network sites (over a total area of 363 000 ha) located in south-western Lapland. The area is extremely valuable and vulnerable due to its unique biodiversity and rare limestone soil. Areas outside the Natura 2000 sites are mostly commercial forests, where mining districts and claims, peat industry and b ...
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Up to 20 million European citizens suffer from food allergy. However management of both food allergy (by patients and health practitioners) and allergens (by industry) is thwarted by lack of evidence to either prevent food allergy developing or protect adequately those who are already allergic. iFAAM will develop evidence-based approaches and tools for MANAGEMENT of ALLERGENS in FOOD and integrate ...
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Quality Enhancement of Mobilities using ECVET

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Tartu Vocational Education Centre (TVEC) where 3500 students or approximately 14% of Estonian students learning a trade either after basic or secondary school attend studies on a daily basis, is the largest institution providing vocational education in Estonia. Due to the impressive number of students we have an influential role in Estonian economy which means a great deal of responsibility. The n ...
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...uded, then the overall carbon footprint is increased considerably. Millions of tonnes of nitrogen fertiliser are used every year worldwide. For example, the million olive trees located in the region of Ilia consume more than 600 tonnes of nitrogen fertiliser. A methodology with a reduced carbon footprint is therefore required for providing nitrogen to plants. The same is true for phosphorus an ...
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BioEconomy Regional Strategy Toolkit (BERST)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

...sources for fossil fuels, (2) the response to climate warming by becoming as CO2 neutral as possible and (3) the industrial demand for new functionalities offered by biobased materials and chemicals. Regions can be encouraged to apply new development strategies. Regions can also be guided to find ways to support, encourage and enhance concrete actions towards the bioeconomy by current and potentia ...
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Background The project is targeting a sub-population of the Dinara-Pindos population of the brown bear (Ursus arctos), the third largest in the EU. The sub-population was estimated in 2002 to include at least 19-54 individuals, making the project area of major importance for the conservation of large carnivore biodiversity over the whole of the European c ...
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...ernment and technical representatives and territorial networks in a winning mix of vertical/technical representatives. It has actors with extensive topic and area expertise and others among national, regional and local authorities to link project results and recommendations and outcome transferral. It also involves specific partners and local stakeholders: region, ministry, enterprises, profession ...
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...ost dynamic sectors (EU green paper: Unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries), with strong potential to contribute to growth and job creation. However, most survive only with some Regional Authority funding or subsidy and, with the current public funding cutbacks, many are now facing serious threats to their financial survival and ability to realise their full potential as a fo ...
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Territories of Rivers Action Plans (TRAP)

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

... deals with the challenge of integrated management of rivers & river territories. Its purpose is to build on and transfer good practices that embed aquatic & cultural heritage landscape protection in regional, sustainable growth solutions. TRAP contributes to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Landscape Convention (ELC) and the Europe 2020 strategy. The WFD est ...
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HISTorical assets and related landsCAPE (HISTCAPE)

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

...se communities and directly threatens the existence of much of Europe’s historic assets. This spiral of decline is at the heartof the problem that HISTCAPE has identified. The current lack of regional and local policies relating to small historic towns needs to be addressed and tools developed to help to understand the value of heritage and facilitate its protection. HISTCAPE focuses on providing ...
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European River Corridor Improvement Plans (ERCIP)

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

...ment Plans (RCIP’s) provide a model for a joint agency, responsible approach to address the complex and interdependent demands often found in concentrated form along river corridors. RCIP’s allow regional agencies with an interest in environmental protection to work in partnership with local authorities with their emphasis on the social and economic growth of their citizens, through a jointly deve ...
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...ative SMEs.Thus, it becomes a field for stronger engagement of the public sector. However, public financial resources are limited and need to be used as effective as possible. The development of interregional financial assistance to SMEs and of non-grant instruments is therefore an important task.Regions participating in the DIFASS project have teamed up to exchange experiences on good practice es ...
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...ll of established Centres will follow common operation guideline. Whole concept of PP4Broadband project will be demonstrated by realization of 3 Investment preparation using PPP4Broadband models in 3 Regional testing areas (Greece, Romania, FYROM). Besides common concepts and guidelines tackling the broadband development under PPP scenarios, the project will also deliver smart mix of dissemination ...
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Joint easily wafted East laboratory Model  (JEWEL Model)

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

Background Crisis of the function and character of the historical town centre in the territory and the loss of identity of its renewed community. Overall aims Develop integrated strategies for metropolitan areas for contribute to the future development of South East Europe. Project wishes to contribute to innovative solutions to tackle crucial problems affecting metropolitan areas, such as local g ...
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... The European Commission organised workshops to raise awareness of the ICT and awarded grants to preparatory projects to define the itinerary and develop overview action plans partly covering the SEE region. The current project is the result of this preparatory work, and fully supports the general goals of the SEE transnational programme, its third priority and improves the coordination in promoti ...
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1. Background & problem to be addressed Cloud-based, virtualised IT platforms & infrastructures offer a strong potential to deliver cost-effective, scalable digital public services and to unlock regional growth and competitiveness. EC promotes a common EU Cloud Strategy as a means to help governments and citizens to access and develop advanced online services. The South East Europe (SEE) area suff ...
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Developing Sustainable Regions through Responsible SMEs (DESUR)

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

... EU-27 are SMEs and that they employ two thirds of European workers (European Commission Oct. 2010), the inactivity of SMEs in adopting such practices is a barrier to the sustainable development in a region.The regions that make up the project want to develop policies to make it easier for SMEs to adopt sustainable practices in their day to day business. That is, foster eco-innovation in the SMEs ...
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Efficient usage of solar energy for better future (SP - FUTURE)

Start date: Jul 22, 2012, End date: Jul 22, 2014,

The aim of the project "Efficient usage of solar energy for better future - SP-FUTURE" is to achieve sustainability in the cross-border region by reducing enviornmental pollution as in two schools in the cross-border region will be used renewable energy sources. Besides the construction of photovoltaic power plants in both schools - "Anton Popov" in Petrich and "Sando Masev" in Strumica, in the fr ...
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...nal Mediterranean Gastronomy as a tourist and cultural element in an effort to strengthen local economies, through the following actions: • Recording of common and different gastronomic habits of regions focused on fish and common traditional products; • Documenting the history in terms of nutritional choices throughout the times and highlighting the particular natural and cultural aspects of the ...
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...onditions for Energy Efficiency (EE) improvement in the MED. Building Stock in the framework of EU policy objectives, overcoming barriers and creating sustainable development opportunities in the MED region. Pil Achievements: State of the art of project implementation s ...
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Wander by bicycle (W.B.B.)

Start date: Feb 23, 2012, End date: Jan 23, 2014,

W.B.B attempts to promote sustainable mobility and builds upon cross-border cooperation (CYRONMED-Prorgramme INTERREG IIIB ARCHIMED). Within the framework of this project: • A feasibility study for the construction of a bike route, and the for the adjustment of The existing ones will be created, • Construction works will be implemented that would facilitate cyclists (signals, slides, etc) • Touris ...
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Cultural Heritage sites located in both rural and urban areas are often facing the dilemma between loss of cultural values and hence loss of identity, due to non-sustainable growth, and economic decline and emigration, due to inappropriate infrastructure and high cost of living (especially, buildings maintenance). CHERPLAN aims to provide a strong basis for ensuring compatibility and synergy betwe ...
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Mini-Programme for SME Innovation and Promotion of RTD (SMART+)

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

SMART+ origins from the INTERREG IIIC RFO "SMART" that initiated a network of regions striving for identification and transfer of innovative approaches of regional development in the context of economic restructuring processes and globalisation. SMART+ builds upon a joint strategy of the participating regions attaching the utmost relevance to SMEs as the key force for the transition of economy ba ...
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...oject will elaborate the implementation of a Value Chain Analysis for the cross-border area, where opportunities and threats of any possible intervention will be identified and the empowerment of the regional key actors as far as development and management of tourism in the cross-border area are concerned. In order to achieve the project's objectives, the following activities have been planned: - ...
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Background Agro-industries are major sources of industrial pollution. Technological development has meant that agro-industry wastes have become more complex, and agro-industries more than other industrial sectors require a dynamic and comprehensive approach if appropriate waste management is to be achieved. Some agro-industrial sectors, such as olive oil ...
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Tapping into the Creative potential of the NPP regionThe Creative Edge project will be a Pan-regional initiative focussed on creating and piloting a practical model for the sustainable growth of regional Creative Economy (CE) businesses through two main themes, addressing Access issues for regional creative enterprises. The project seeks to directly address two main recognised access barriers to t ...
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...covered with climate change impacts and adaptation- Extensive use of tools for climate change impacts and adaptation data management and modeling- Contribution to the development of existing local, regional, national and European networks for global change impact and adaptation- Strong Dissemination of knowledge and results to the local administrators and stakeholders- Derivation of critical impa ...
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"The strategic objective of the project is to improve food crop production in the Mediterranean region, influenced by multiple abiotic stresses. These stresses are becoming even more pronounced under changing climate, predicted to result in drier conditions, increasing temperatures, and greater variability, causing desertification. The project will work mainly in farmers’ communities to improve fa ...
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...ited the Member States to adopt national BAPs. OBJECTIVES- The BIO-EN-AREA project is a mini-programme aimed at exchanging and transferring experiences in order to increase the capacities of EU regions to favour and optimize the use of bio-energy. The whole project's activities are dedicated to this objective, focusing on the elaboration of Regional BAPs. PARTNERSHIP- The partnership is a mix ...
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...d to PPs. The phase 1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1 and 4.2 outputs have been produced, while the 1.2, 4.3, 5.1-2-3-4 implementation is still ongoing. All phase related to the analysis on regional policy for innovation, pre commercial procurement method and smart specialization have been developed. Platform for Knowledge communities and database for innovation centers of Med area have been ...
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Sustainable Hydro Assessment and Groundwater Recharge Projects (SHARP)

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

...ocuses on the exchange of innovative technologies to protect groundwater resources for future generations by considering the climate change and the different geological and geographical conditions of regions involved. Partners will exchange practical know-how and also determine know-how demands concerning SHARPs key contents: general groundwater management tools,artificial groundwater recharge tec ...
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"Intercountry Business Incubators Network" (IBI Net)

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

...Lisbon goals. The project has a strong transnational cooperation focus where all project activities are jointly planned and implemented by seven partners representing six BSR countries: Riga Planning Region and Riga Technical University (Latvia), Teknikdalen Foundation (Sweden), the City Commune of Elblag (Poland), Centre of Technology Western-Pomerania (Germany), Innovation Centre Hedmark (Norway ...
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The BIOCLUS objective is to boost the regional competitiveness and growth in five European cluster regions: Wielkopolska (Poland), Slovakia, Western Macedonia (Greece), Navarre (Spain) and Central Finland. The project promotes collaboration and integration and supports the sustainable development of research related communities by • Promoting expertise competence at the cluster and consortium leve ...
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Throughout the EU, increased reliance on the car has resulted in high levels of congestion and more pollution, leading to economic, environmental and health problems for our regions and cities. ERDF investment in infrastructure could accelerate this trend if parallel alternative measures are not introduced at the same time. Mobility Management aims to reduce reliance on the car by encouraging tra ...
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EUROPEAN FOREST FIRE NETWORKS (EUFOFINET)

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

...ute 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, regional and local authorities. After the 2003 disastrous summer, 9 Mediterranean regions decided to cooperate in a RFO INCENDI within the framework of IIIC South.The subproject results added to the fr ...
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The overall project objective is simplification of comparability, transparency and mutual recognition of vocational qualifications in Finland and Estonia and improvement of free movement of residents and labour force in this area. HETA-ECVET will continue and implement the results of first pilot project HETA (INTERREG IIIA, 2007). The project started co-operation between Finnish and Estonian educa ...
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ASWM has a group for preparation of regional projects, but beside the meetings, there are no other communication channels among its members. Another major flaw is that information of municipal priorities and projects is not unified and widely available. There is also a need to expand the group in order to fully utilize the potential for inter-municipal and cross-border cooperation. The project upg ...
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... 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 loss and uncontrolled visitor numbers ...
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