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WATER Development Resources Opportunity Policies for the water management in semi-arid areas (Water-DROP)

Start date: Dec 17, 2013, End date: Dec 16, 2015,

Project in brief Population growth, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the expansion of agriculture and tourism, as well as climate change are all factors which put water under increasing stress. The scarcity of this vital resource for human and social development has placed water at the top of the agenda of many Mediterranean countries. Most of the water problems are due to the mismanageme ...
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Traveller Information System for the Adriatic Region (TISAR)

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

TISAR (Traveller Information System for the Adriatic Region) will raise a discussion over the theme of public transport data sharing and multimodal traveller information at political and technical level. The aim of the project is the implementation of an ICT platform where public transport and journey planning data will be merged and made available in the languages of the IPA Countries. The TISAR ...
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Development of the agriculture sector through creation of an agricultural cross-border network

Start date: Oct 31, 2013, End date: Sep 29, 2015,

To increase the productivity and the competitiveness of the agricultural sector through increased contacts of partners on both sides of the border in order to improve the economic situation in the Programme area. Expected Results: ...
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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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ADRIAtic FOOd and TOURism: INnovatinG smes (ADRIA FOOTOURING)

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

...gical, organizational, service innovations, supported by enabling technologies such as ICT, are fundamental for those traditional low-innovation sectors which indeed represent a relevant leverage for regional economic growth and which are often left behind by innovation systems. Regions involved in ADRIA FOOTOURING are more or less provided with these innovation support systems. While in some old ...
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Safer Roads for Users

Start date: May 22, 2013, End date: Jul 21, 2015,

The main objective of the Project is to eliminate border effect expressed with difference in road accident risks for road users in EU and RF sides of Barents Region. Harmonisation of principles and instruments to manage accident risk for users, caused by factor "Road and its surrounding" is expected to be able harmonise road conditions both sides of the border, improve fluency of road transport fl ...
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Sustainable Mobility Information Network for the Alpine Space (AlpInfoNet)

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

...ithin destinations of the Alpine Space, where often cross-border information is needed. This project aims to provide travellers with comprehensive information about sustainable transport modes beyond regional and national borders and to address them through smart channels that provide information when needed. For achieving this, the project elaborates a strategy for the dissemination of public tra ...
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Capitalising knowledge on Alpine Building Culture by performing regional smart planning and consultancy strategies for sustainable development and closed loop economies in the Alpine Space (AlpBC)

Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

...Alpine Building Culture in the broader context of territorial development and ecologic sustainability. It aims at enabling local actors to capitalize on this outstanding cultural asset as a source of regional identity and economic development. Central elements of AlpBC are a) the implementation of inter-municipal planning concepts, b) the stimulation of regional closed loop economies in the buildi ...
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The Barents Freeway

Start date: Sep 3, 2012, End date: May 30, 2015,

Economic and social development of local communities in the Kolarctic area through optimization of transport infrastructure development on a base of the common Barents Region Transport Strategy responding to new challenges arising in the Arctic and Northern periphery. Achievements: ...
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Collaborative platform to support research and technology transfer (NEXT)

Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Apr 29, 2015,

...ners from six Countries: Italy, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro and the representatives of different interests and positions of the actors of innovation: Universities, Regional Development Agencies, Chamber of Economy and Local Authorities. The project stems from some considerations: - The borders of these Countries, known for years as places of exacerbation of nati ...
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Adriatic Route for Thematic Tourism (ADRIATIC-ROUTE)

Start date: Nov 30, 2010, End date: Mar 30, 2015,

...nosis, benchmarking and formulation of strategic and operational plans of all participating regions and by active, continuous collaboration and consultation with all relevant local, regional and national stakeholders. It should be highlighted that the project does not entail R&D activities, since it is based on existing, widely used and already tested ICT tools and applications. Moreover ADRIATIC- ...
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Diffusion of Cooling and Refreshing Technologies using the Solar Energy Resource in the Adriatic Regions (Adriacold)

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

The Solar Cooling System is particularly innovative from a technological point of view. It allows to cool and refresh environments using the air conditioning system powered by the heat produced by solar panels, that are traditionaly used to produce hot water, instead of using electrical energy to power traditional air conditioners. This type of system, for the way it operates, consumes almost excl ...
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Development of Outdoor Adventure Tourism Network in Black Sea Region (DOOA)

Start date: Mar 14, 2014, End date: Mar 13, 2015,

...ening the management capacity of the outdoor tourism. Achievements: A Regional Assessment Study, including Quality Assessment of existing outdoor tourism activities, issued in English.A public consultation conducted in each partner country, with an assessment questionna ...
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Territorial Scenarios and Visions for Europe (ET2050)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

... of the European territory. Therefore the ESPON Programme started a territorial vision-building process following a participatory process and involving relevant stakeholders at European, national and regional level. This vision has a strategic character that allows giving direction to the policy debate on territorial development. The project is expected to support and deliver input to the territor ...
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Zero Waste Adriatic net for events and festivals (Zero Waste)

Start date: May 31, 2012, End date: Feb 27, 2015,

Events and festivals are an important element of the tourism offering, and an opportunity to increase tourist flows and offer a variety of entertainment opportunities for local residents and tourists, even outside seasonal tourism.In the Adriatic area, there are different events that attract thousands of people and, in turn,have a positive impact on the local economy. At the same time, however, th ...
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Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility through Public Policy (COGITA)

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

...heir interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis."In recent years, public entities have recognised CSR’s potential as organisational innovation to improve social conditions and promote regional development and competitiveness. However, positive socio-economic impacts are limited by lack of coordination. While CSR should incorporate both social and environmental elements, public policy ...
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Clusters for European Innovation Cross-Linking (CLUSTERIX)

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

All 9 partners from 8 countries represent regions/countries, where clusters are already in place as an important instrument for regional economic development, supporting innovative collaboration within industries. Now experience shows, that new technological fields emerge in the interface between existing industries. As such the regional authorities who initially set up and developed clusters in c ...
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A structured network for integration of climate knowledge into policy and territorial planning (ORIENTGATE)

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

... tourism sectors. The principal scope of the project is to convey the up-to-date climate knowledge to policy makers who may best benefit from it, that is urban planers, nature protection authorities, regional and local development agencies, territorial and public works authorities. The principal project results include six pilot studies of specific climate adaptation exercises, a data platform con ...
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Enhancing the regional competences in strategic management of innovation policies (KNOW-HUB)

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

...lop its unique competitive advantage in the view of global market trends or joining forces with other regions e.g. focusing on its unique specialisation.The objective of the project is to improve the regional innovation policies and help European regions to develop their competitive advantage. It will involve partners in mutual learning process to influence future policies and practices basing on ...
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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,

...promotion of innovation in SMEs, using the practices found- to facilitate the creation of platforms involving the different stakeholders to learn more about the deployment of new practices- to define Regional Implementation Plans- to improve among the regions the development of materials to push ahead the deployment of new policies' approaches- to disseminate the policies and results beyond the co ...
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Funding Policies to bring Innovation to Finance/market/people (InnoFun)

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

...oject consortium consists of 14 partners from 9 Member States with a good mixture of regions with different levels of innovation development. All partners are involved in the development of their own regional innovation policy either as regional government or an intermediate body with full support of the government and therefore they wish developing policies to speed up the process from Research ...
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Towards Regional spEcialisation for Smart growth spirit (TRES)

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

...nd inclusive economy in accordance with the EU guidelines (e.g. Europe 2020 Strategy) to build a knowledge-based, low carbon economy with high employment levels. This calls for a deep analysis of regional capacities leading to the joint identification of the set of priorities on which stakeholders, regional innovation policies and investments should be focused on in order to better position themse ...
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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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sharing methodologies on FINancial ENgineering for enterprises (FIN-EN)

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

FIN-EN project aims at enhancing co-operation between regional and national authorities across Europe on the methodologies and instruments used for implementing Financial Engineering operations in the framework of EU Structural Funds. Financial Engineering is an option offered to member states to reviewing the ERDF/ESF disbursement procedures by using financial instruments (as opposite to traditio ...
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EUROPEAN SCREEN DESTINATIONS (EuroScreen)

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

...rom 2012-14 by lead partner Film London with Ystad City Council & Lund University (Sweden), ProMalaga (Spain), Apulia Film Commission(Italy), Fondazzjoni Temi Zammit(Malta), Bucharest Regional DA*(Romania), Maribor DA*(Slovenia) & Rzeszow Regional DA(Poland). * Development Agency. Collectively the partnership brings together institutions with a strong track record of delivering economic initiative ...
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Bringing closer ESPON evidence for decision making (ESPON on the Road)

Start date: Dec 23, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...y on territorial development issues as well as feedback on ESPON scientific evidence from a more practical point of view.The key aims of the project are:Boost the outreach and use of ESPON results by regional/local policy makers. In addition to the key stakeholder communities the project will engage with new target groups so far not reached by capitalisation activities.Actively contribute in innov ...
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Enhancing ‘Next Generation Access’ Growth in Europe (ENGAGE)

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

... ES, IE, PT, RO, SI, UK, DE, FI, PL), among them 3 are new MS (PL, RO and SI).Breakdown per area: West (3 countries); South (2 countries); East (3 countries) and North (2 countries).Mix of national/regional/local authorities (6 partners), agencies with delegation of ICT competencies from their public authorities and universities (6).OVERALL OBJECTIVES : To help rural regions across Europe to bette ...
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Development of interregional financial assistance to SMEs and of non-grant instruments (DIFASS)

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

...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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Regions using ECO-ManageMENt for eco-innovation Development (RECOMMEND)

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

...ct that eco-management systems and their preliminary stages can play a major role in meeting ecological challenges and can be used as a lever for establishing and strengthening of eco-innovation at a regional level.Based on the analysis of good practice and involving regional policymakers and stakeholders the project will deliver new and improved policy approaches and methodologies to reach the fo ...
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motion of Financing Innovation in South-East Europe  (PROFIS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...l inventors and spin-off or start-up companies. New services will be developed, introduced and tested at non-profit intermediary organisations which are active in the field of innovation promotion at regional level. The project will provide a state of the art analysis of existing funding opportunities in all participating countries and make a cross-country analysis. These documents will be validat ...
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licy Learning to Unlock Skills in the TEXtile sector (PLUSTEX)

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

...ationalisation of T&C SMEs; 5. foster eco-innovation and social responsibility in the T&C industry;6. foster T&C incubation and start-ups. These themes will be the focus of a series of interregional exchange activities (Policy Learning Cycles) that will allow the partners to capitalise upon their most successful good practices.The project will eventually deliver Implementation Plans defi ...
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ansnational network for SME support in the animal breeding and horticulture sector  (AGRO-START)

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

The South Est Europe (SEE) economic area is a SME-based economy in which the sectors of horticulture and animal breeding play a vital role regarding economic growth and employment opportunities. However, SMEs face severe common problems in sustainably keeping up their competitiveness in their national and on the European market. Project partners have decided to tackle the urgent need to improve bu ...
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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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Managing Migration and its Effects in SEE - Transnational Actions Towards (SEEMIG)

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

The SEE region faces a complex, nationally and regionally diverse set of demographic, migratory and labour market challenges (low or declining fertility, large scale out-migration, brain and care drain, ageing, low labour force participation rate). Together with further aspects like gender, age and the given territorial heterogeneity of the programme area, they are creating a complex challenge to ...
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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,

...tand, 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 their mutual implications in terms of overall cohesion and competitiveness of t ...
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Transnational cooperation for the improvement of buildings energy performance and efficiency  (TRACE)

Start date: Oct 31, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

...ngs Directive (EPBD - COM 2002/91/EC and recast COM 2010/31/EU) has been the main legal instrument in this effort. Successful implementation of this legislation lies not only at national, but also at regional and local level, as territorial authorities can play an essential role in the field of energy performance of buildings and lead by example. South East European public authorities at all level ...
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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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Establishement and promotion of new approaches and tools for the strengthening of primary sector's competitiveness and innovation in the South East Europe  (APP4INNO)

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

...lso, and above all, in terms of clustering enterprises in order to increase the efficiency of the applied production means. The APP4INNO partnership includes of agriculture business support bodies at regional and local level, proposing a balanced representation of 11 regions among old and new Member States and IPA countries, as well as non-EU country, among which 5 Danube regions, giving to the pr ...
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