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ON THE WAY TOWARDS A LOW-CARBON SOCIETY - Increasing professionalism in land use and landscape management within climate change

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...f produced deliverables into the other European countries and educational levels. TowardsLCS is a consortium of nine partners from three countries including three academic institutions and six local, regional or national organizations: FINLAND 1. University of Eastern Finland 2. Metsähallitus, the Parks & Wildlife Finland (national public body) 3. Regional Council of North Karelia (regional public ...
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Involving the coMmunity to co-PROduce public serVicEs (IMPROVE)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

... stakeholders and institutions and spinout capabilityTo help quantify the contribution made to the programme result (a qualitative description was given in C.1.2), the project has developed a simple Regional Awareness Scoreboard (see below) to help rank the current (baseline) and planned (change) awareness or innovation level, related to technology-driven public services, of the different regions. ...
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Interregional cooperation for competitive and sustainable regional food industries (I4Food)

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

...traditional markets and consumer expectations. Whilst on one hand it is needed to participate in the European and in the world market, on the other there are constraints to contribute to European and regional social-economic-territorial cohesion and also to stimulating and making European food industry itself more innovative, competitive and sustainable. When assessing these challenges, several is ...
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Developing Senior Tourism in Remote Regions (TOURAGE)

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

...geing does not only bring challenges, but also offers possibilities. E.g. senior citizens have become a consumerist group of emergent business possibilities. Economically more diverse and sustainable regional economy (including tourism) requires new and innovative ways to take this growing segment into account. However, there is many innovations that are newly deployed or under construction. E.g. ...
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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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Tourist Guide for Northern Periphery (TG4NP)

Start date: Jun 14, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2013,

The aim of the TG4NP project is to support tourism industry of peripheral regions by enhancing the visitors experiences in cultural and natural heritage destinations with the help of multimodal mobile information services. Project will develop potential new approaches to efficient and sustainable management and utilisation of resources in natural and cultural heritage. The idea is to exploit the l ...
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Improved accessibility of the Baltic Sea Region by air transport (BALTIC BIRD)

Start date: Jun 8, 2011, End date: Mar 7, 2013,

...y to change the current situation and to bring employers, investors and market demands to the remote regions. Being aware of the interrelation between socio economic development and accessibility, 21 regional authorities, airports, economic development agencies and transport institutes from 8 Baltic countries incl. Norway as well as 5 international airlines have established a trans-national partne ...
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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,

...ng sustainable use of natural resources, renewable energy, sustainable construction materials and biobased 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 ( ...
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Declining, Ageing and Regional Transformation (DART)

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

Declining, Ageing and Regional Transformation (DART), demographic and economic change is a great challenge for about 30% of EU regions and this amount will increase up to 50% in 2030. Until 2030 every 3rd person in the EU will be 60+. Together with the low fertility rate and the outflow of human capital the regional effects are a declining population density with great difficulties in ensuring the ...
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Cooperating 2 Foster Renewables and Energy Efficiency (CO2FREE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2012,

...ions for energy challenges and new approaches to make transport more sustainable; the partners have decided to tackle these issues through the exchange of good practices and their transfer into their Regional Operational Programmes. The partnership has emerged from the ERNACT network, which has an established track record in developing and implementing Knowlegde Economy solutions in a regional co ...
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Rural Transport Solutions 4.5 (RTS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Aug 29, 2012,

... Survey and Description processes concerning public transport legislation, financing, existing services, peoples needs and best practices are underway in every project region. National/Regional transport system legislation and financing surveys are in production and will be completed early spring 2010. Survey of regions existing rural and coastal transport services have been sta ...
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Micro Waste to Energy Business: micro energy to rural enterprise 3.6 (MicrE)

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

MicrE will provide a service to develop and promote innovative small scale renewable energy solutions for rural SMEs and local organisations in the Northern Periphery. These solutions will use new and existing technologies which have not been tried in a rural environment before, especially those which generate energy from by-products and waste, and adapt them to suit NPP rural regions. ...
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Networking for Enterprises in the Eastern External Border Regions (NEEBOR)

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

...ries on the external borders of the European Union, who decided to work more closely together and to ellaborate joint actions for their common challenges. The partnership of the project includes the regional authorities/bodies in 10 regions from 8 European countries, and intends to involve further interested European and non-European partners to their activities. Core elements of successful SME d ...
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Connected Mobile Communities in the Northern Periphery 2.3 (CMC@NP)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2010,

... city, region or rural area could look like including a business model, covering broadband wireless infrastructure, a digital services model and layering into the built environment and into important regional sectors and resources such as transport, knowledge economy sector, tourism, cultural life, community and public sector service provision. It was developed specifically for local authorities a ...
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Baltic Euroregional Network (BEN)

Start date: Jul 11, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2008,

The objective of the Baltic Euroregional Network (BEN) was to promote spatial development and territorial integration in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) by strengthening Euroregions as competent partners with national authorities and international institutions, and by building a network of Euroregions for continuous capacity-building and sharing of experience. In order to achieve the objectives, the p ...
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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,

...es and cross-border projects. Achievements: Achievements so far The Regional Framework Operation 'Change on Borders' has been formally approved by the INTERREG IIIC Steering Committee in September 2003. It brings together 25 regional authorities from 15 countries all ov ...
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Spatial Planning in Northern Peripheral Regions (Spatial Planning)

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

... Expected Results: • Inventory of data for large-scale spatial planning, including gap analysis• Review of GIS in regional spatial planning• Evaluation of policies/strategies at spatial scales from the local to the EU• Overview of, and lessons learned from, recent and ongoing participatory approaches to spatial/regio ...
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SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT IN THE BARENTS REGION - PHASE II (STBR II)

Start date: Jan 10, 2006, End date: Dec 29, 2007,

...is to implement recommendations from the first phase of STBR on a concrete level. The project is composed of the following four Work Packages containing selected projects for each transport mode:WP 1 Regional Aviation Subproject: Marketing Support for Regional Aviation in the Barents regionWP 2 Barents Port Forum Subproject: Coordination Support for the Barents Port Association Working groupWP 3 S ...
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Delivering Services in Remote and Rural Areas: A Transnational Exchange of Ideas and Practices - DESERVE (DESERVE)

Start date: Mar 7, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

All the participating partners across the Northern Periphery region share concerns for the difficulties faced by service providers, as well as service users in remote and rural areas. Each participating region has topographical, geographical and demographic similarities to overcome that create problems in accessing services, as well as in the delivery of services. The DESERVE project seeks to esta ...
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Small Town Networks

Start date: Jul 31, 2005, End date: Jan 30, 2007,

This project seeks to encourage the regeneration of networks of towns using a hands-on approach. It focuses on the need for bottom-up planning, with each town seeking to advance through the work of voluntary groups drawn from the local business and community sectors. Progress in participating towns can be benchmarked from their differing starting positions on three broad dimensions. Shared project ...
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European Network of Mining Regions (ENMR)

Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Aug 30, 2006,

...ions (ENMR) is to create a platform for mining regions on a European level driven by public organisations. The two year project involves twenty partners from ten EU Member States, including local and regional authorities, universities, research institutes, industry, NGOs, Union and development agencies from mineral and coal mining regions. The network aims to raise the regional awareness and the p ...
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European Union Regions Benchmarking, Economic Strategy and Transfer (EURBEST)

Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2006,

The objective of EURBEST is to benchmark best practice in the area of business support at regional and sub-regional levels. Following on from this is the need to create tools and mechanisms that will transfer this best practice from one of the exemplar regions to another in the project. The project builds on a previous project conducted under the auspices of EURADA that involved 14 regions across ...
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SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT IN THE BARENTS REGION (STBR) (STBR )

Start date: Mar 9, 2003, End date: Jan 8, 2006,

... flow studies are completed, one study concerns passenger flows in the Barents region and the other concerns freight flows in the Barents region. Two pre-studies are completed, one pre-study concerns regional aviation in the Barents region and the other concerns logistic systems in the Barents region. A sub project, Evaluation methods of cross border transport projects, has been completed.Two exte ...
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Via Baltica Nordica Development Zone (VBNDZ )

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

...evelopment organisations from Finland, Sweden, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland participate in the project. In addition, the Kaliningrad region takes part in the project as an observer. Regional Council of Häme is the lead partner and co-ordinator of the project. Main themes of the project are tourism, accessibility of railway traffic, landscape planning and GIS.The BSR Interreg III ...
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SMALL TOWN NETWORKS - TOWNS2 (TOWNS2)

Start date: Jul 31, 2002, End date: Apr 29, 2005,

A large proportion of the people in the Northern Periphery live in small towns and many of these communities are in long-term retreat. Building strong clusters of towns in remote fragile regions is a priority concern of the European Spatial Development Perspective but it requires a long-term commitment. This project is an extension of the current TOWNS NPP project which encourages the regeneration ...
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Baltic Biomass Network (BBN)

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

...including poorly developed logistics and biomass production infrastructures, competition between market players for limited local resources, competing land use interests and insufficient knowledge of regional potential. Integrating new biomass processing schemes for bioenergy applications in areas with competing biomass processing and land-use structures raises complex spatial planning issues. The ...
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Euregio Karelia – New Challenges in Implementing the Northern Dimension

Start date: Sep 19, 2001, End date: Sep 18, 2004,

...tral aspect in the activities of the Administrative Committee of Euregio Karelia. Collection of money to the Euregio Karelia Fund is still a central task. In Finland the project is implemented by the regional councils of North Karelia, Kainuu and Northern Ostrobothnia. All activities of the project involve also the Ministry of Economic Development of the Karelian Republic. ...
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