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Coastal Habitat Conservation in Nature Park 'Piejura' (LIFE CoHaBit)

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

Background Piejūra Nature Park harbours valuable habitats and species of the Boreal region and is an important nature area both nationally and in Europe. Valuable protected coastal habitats found there include embryonic dunes, white dunes, grey dunes and wooded dunes, which are spread over an area of more than 30 km and are characterised by high biodiver ...
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Riverways

Start date: Jan 29, 2013, End date: Jan 29, 2015,

Rivers, lakes and coastline are important resources of the Programme area, which supports water tourism development. Both – in Latvia and in Estonia water tourism is part of active and nature tourism with high development potentials. Existing tourism offers so far is limited to the local market and is concentrated in most popular areas, but the number of rivers suitable for boating is larger, acce ...
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Logistics and Overland Transport Network for Training "Blue Collars" (LogOnTrain)

Start date: Apr 29, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The project aim is to foster socio-economic development through the development of labour market potential with special focus to cooperation between research and educational institutions and businesses in order to raise the quality of workforce human resources.The main reason for underdevelopment of cross-border trade is the lack of skilled workforce ("blue collar" labour) in the companies that ot ...
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Human capital and innovation: employment policies in local and regional innovation networks for talent attraction and better job opportunities (Working4Talent)

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

Working4Talent deals with the employment policy issues related to the local and regional innovation systems. INNOVATION IS NOT JUST A TOOL FOR COMPETITIVENESS AND GROWTH, which therefore helps to create more and better jobs. INDEED IT IS, BUT IT HAS ALSO BECOME A VERY IMPORTANT SOURCE OF EMPLOYMENT IN ITSELF. This is evident in developed regions, where innovation demand (innovative companies, publ ...
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Fire Risk Prevention and Improvement of the Fire Extinction Systems of the Historic Town Centers of Cities named Word Heritage (HERITPROT)

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

...ices and case studies, which will in turn strengthen the management Heritage Sites risks within the European Union and further afield (Norway).Heritage Cities included: La Laguna, Sighisoara, Cuenca, Riga, Warsaw,Vilnius, Holloko, Bergen, Liverpool, Angra do Heroismo.The cooperation and exchange of experiences of cities classified as World Heritage Sites has allowed the leaders of this initiative ...
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Green IT Network Europe (GreenITNet)

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

...as taken up the challenge. The vastness of the task requires strong cooperation and exchange of experience to pool resources and expertise. The main objective of GreenITNet is to support 10 partners (Riga, Manchester, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Catania, Oresund, Malta, Kranj, Czestochowa) and a large network of other cities and regions to develop a systematic Green IT policy framework and select ...
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Strategic Age Management for SME in the Baltic Sea Region (BestAgersLighthouses)

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

The extension stage project “Best Agers Lighthouses” focuses on implementation of age management interventions in selected small and medium-sized enterprises and public organisations in different Baltic Sea Region countries. The interventions will follow a jointly developed methodology which is based on the results of the “Best Agers” project, and they will be monitored and evaluated scientificall ...
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Baltic Metropolises Accelerating Branding and Identity Building of the Baltic Sea Region (ONE BSR)

Start date: Jun 12, 2012, End date: Sep 11, 2014,

The main aim of the ONE BSR Project is to increase the competitiveness of the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) by marketing it as one unity. ONE BSR functions as an umbrella project and calls together actors, who market themselves as part of the Baltic Sea Region. In the absence of a strong common brand, the project aims to search for common commercial and cultural characteristics with a concrete hands-on ...
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Network between world-leading Cluster of large-scale Research Infrastructure of Photon and Neutron Sources and Users fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Baltic Sea Region (SCIENCE LINK)

Start date: Sep 28, 2011, End date: Mar 27, 2014,

Strong cooperation in the scientific area is needed in the Baltic Sea region in order to ensure the competitiveness of the region. There is a new cluster of large-scale research infrastructure (Lund, Hamburg, Berlin and Geesthacht as EU countries and Gachina in Russia) and some more are planned or already under construction (the European XFEL in Hamburg, ESS and Max IV in Lund, Solaris in Krakow). ...
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Climate Change, Cultural Heritage & Energy Efficient Monuments (Co2olBricks)

Start date: Sep 16, 2010, End date: Dec 15, 2013,

...onia.• International Fair “denkmal 2012” in November 2012 in Leipzig, Germany.• “Environment and Energy 2012 and 2013” trade fair in October 2012 and 2013 in Riga, Latvia.• Co2olBricks Midterm Conference, September 2012 in Malmö, Sweden.• International Conference on Monuments Protection and Energy Efficiency, April 2012, Gdansk, Poland.• International Conference in Hamburg, April 2011. 4. On stake ...
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Best Agers - Using the knowledge and experience of professionals in their primes to foster business and skills development in the Baltic Sea Region (Best Agers)

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

With demographic change and the current economic crisis looming, the cities and regions of the Baltic Sea Region have to find creative ways of disclosing and utilizing unused opportunities. One of these hidden potentials are the people in the prime of their lives – the so called “Best Agers” (defined in the project as people aged 55 and older). As previous projects have shown, the BSR population w ...
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ublic Energy Alternatives - Sustainable energy strategies as a chance for regional development (PEA)

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

During the last years the costs for fossil energy resources are heavily increasing. Even though the prices for these resources will not be rising to ever new peaks it is obvious that they will remain on a high level and in medium and long term rise continuously. Consequently, the costs for public services, such as transportation or the provision of heat and electricity, are rising as well. This si ...
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From detached Lisbon and Gothenburg Strategies to a regionalised indigenous EU 2020 (EU 2020 going local)

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

“EU 2020 going local – from detached Lisbon and Gothenburg Strategies to a regionalised indigenous EU 2020” is designed to contribute to the effective implementation of the current Lisbon and Gothenburg Strategies and the new EU 2020 strategy at local and regional level. In particular, this means building on the stock of tried and tested successful experiences at the local implementation of the fo ...
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Baltic Sea Innovation Network Centres (BaSIC)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

BaSIC aims to build a “Baltic Sea Archipelago of Innovation” (recommendation of BaltMetInno). The objective is to create a seamless working environment for fast growth innovative SME all over the Baltic Sea Region, embedded in a reliable network of leading Science Parks and clusters. Emphasis is given to identify, select, train and coach SME-gazelles; to provide them harmonized access to markets ( ...
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Energy Efficient and Integrated Urban Development Action (Urb.Energy)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

...es for Innovative Use of EU Funds... and Policy Recommendations for Energy Efficient Urban Areas.... These four main outputs, which were presented on the Final Project Conference in December 2011 in Riga, shall be applied by cities and regions in the BSR. They are of high transnational value, as they contribute to liveable, climate friendly and competitive cities in the BSR. Throughout the entir ...
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Business Support for Sustainable Development-Business Matryoshka (Matryoshka)

Start date: Dec 31, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

Objectives• Carrying out feasibility study for selection of sustainable business development instruments• Elaboration of common business cooperation program of Leningrad and Riga regions;• Development and implementation of concrete business support instruments;• Ensuring the transfer of competencies, know-how and dissemination of best practice among regional authorities and business support instit ...
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RAIL BALTICA - Transnational Integration through Coordinated Infrastructure and Regional Development (RAIL BALTICA)

Start date: Jun 29, 2005, End date: Jan 28, 2008,

The Trans-European railway Rail Baltica, linking Helsinki – Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas – Warsaw and continuing on to Berlin, is to be developed within the territories of the co-operating EU Member States.The Interreg IIIB project Rail Baltica had two main goals: (a) the definition of the most favourable route for the Rail Baltica railway link in terms of spatial planning and regional development, and ...
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Regional Cooperation in Waste Management (RECO)

Start date: Jan 12, 2005, End date: Jan 11, 2008,

RECO is a waste management and spatial planning project in cooperation between partners from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Its Central Objective is to support the development of efficient Institutions for management of municipal waste in the BSR in order to minimize negative environmental effects, lower life cycle costs for waste managem ...
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Developing Policies & Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region (ASTRA)

Start date: Jun 5, 2005, End date: Jan 4, 2008,

...ces of climate change effects.3. Development of pan-Baltic adaptation strategy and providing country specific national strategies.4. Climate Impact studies for each case study city or region (Gdansk, Riga, Espoo, Kokkola, Klaipeda, Pirkanmaa Region , Kokkola, Tallinn and Pärnu, Estonian archipelago, Curonian spit, Oder river basin, Salaca river basin).
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Baltic Metropolises Innovation Strategy (BaltMet Inno)

Start date: Jan 2, 2005, End date: Jan 1, 2008,

BaltMet Inno Project was initiated by the major cities in the Baltic Sea Region. The project consortium consists of thirteen partner organisations from Berlin, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Malmö, Riga, Stockholm, St. Petersburg and Tallinn. In addition, organisations from Oslo, Warsaw and Vilnius participate in the project as observers. The project was started in the beginning of 2005 and will be finalis ...
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Baltic Energy Efficiency Network for the Building Stock (BEEN)

Start date: Jun 20, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Buildings account for more than 40% of the overall energy consumption in the EU, of which two-thirds are consumed in residential buildings. Thereby, the standard of the buildings varies greatly and low thermal quality primarily occurs in the prefabricated multi-storey housing stock in the Central and Eastern European member states. This fact also implies huge potentials for energy savings and the ...
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A.S.A.P. - Efficient Administrative Structures as a Prerequisite for Successful Economic and Social Development of Rural Areas in Demographic Transition (A.S.A.P.)

Start date: Dec 18, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Effective public sector action is a cornerstone of spatially balanced and sustainable development in the Baltic Sea Region. Especially rural areas need administrative support for compensating lower economic potentials for the benefit of their population. ASAP created innovative solutions to meet the most urgent challenges for rural development in the Baltic Sea Region in an integrated way: Demogra ...
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HANSE PASSAGE

Start date: Apr 30, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

.... Annual Conferences (in Assen- Nov 04 on regional economic planning, Sheffield Sept 05 on new forms of governance and in Lublin Sept06 on Innovation and Human Resources, and the final one in Riga September 07) proved to be right forums for project participants, regional representatives and the political level to meet each other and discuss the overall themes and specific results of individual sub ...
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Institutionalization of the European Route of Brick Gothic (EuRoB) - a culturally and historically inspired tourism route marketing the brick Gothic heritage and related cultural offers (EuRoB II)

Start date: Dec 12, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The European Route of Brick Gothic has become a six-borders-crossing European cultural route in the Baltic Sea Region inviting local inhabitants and visitors and media to experience this outstanding cultural heritage. The route has been organized in a non-profit association open to extensions with natural persons and further cities/bodies, founded in September 2007. The website www.eurob.org and a ...
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Safe and Reliable Transport Chains of Dangerous Goods in the Baltic Sea Region (DaGoB) (DaGoB)

Start date: Dec 9, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Initially it was thought that over 200,000,000 tons of Dangerous Goods (DG) per year moves in BSR (plus over 100M tons in NW Russia) mostly through densely populated areas, imposing real health and safety risks to people and environment. After the data gathering and reporting in DaGoB, the actual figure is close to 1,000,000,000 tons in the entire BSR region, which was substantially more than anti ...
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Baltic Tangent

Start date: Jan 3, 2005, End date: May 2, 2007,

... concluded that measures for improvements primarily should be carried out in five bottleneck areas. The border crossings between Russia and Latvia and Estonia, rail capacity in the Baltic States, Riga traffic congestion, port and ferry capacities and the rail/road standard in the Swedish BT parts. Measures to eliminate or improve the situation concerning these bottlenecks will be most important as ...
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Development of castles and manor houses of BSR as cultural heritage objects and town centers in rural areas (Castle Tomorrow)

Start date: Jan 2, 2005, End date: Jan 1, 2007,

Many of cultural heritage objects (c.h.o.) in the Baltic Sea Region are endangered or even ruined, mostly due to the lack of financial support and low perception of their significance as well as lack of experience and unused opportunities regarding their management. CASTLES OF TOMORROW project aimed at the promotion, safeguarding, preservation and development of castles and manors as cultural heri ...
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Technology, Enterprises, Innovation, Cooperation - Network (TEICO-Net)

Start date: Sep 30, 2004, End date: Sep 29, 2006,

Recent studies have found that exports of goods and services from the Berlin/Brandenburg area to accession countries are stagnating. Reacting to this trend, regional policies are being introduced to better link the Berlin/Brandenburg regional economies to the neighboring western Polish economies and promote knowledge-based regional economic development. . Objectives The border regions operation "T ...
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art II: Development of a Conversion Network in the Baltic Sea Region (Convernet II)

Start date: Mar 16, 2005, End date: Jul 15, 2006,

Conversion of former military sites is a pressing issue in the Baltic Sea Region. Not only municipalities and regions are still coping with the after-effects of around 3500 post-Cold War military base closures – several hundred facilities are currently being closed in restructuring processes of the respective national armed forces. These processes are set to continue and gain momentum in the futur ...
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Best practice guidelines for instruments of regional development and spatial planning in an enlarged EU (GRIDS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2005,

The GRIDS project is closely linked to previous EU initiatives, including both the INTERREG IIC projects on spatial planning, and the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP 1999) which identified principles of good practice in preparing Regional Development Strategies (e.g. polycentric rather than monocentric development). The GRIDS project involves sharing good (and bad) practice in prepa ...
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art II: Wind energy in the BSR - Planning, Construction and Investment (Part II: WEBSR)

Start date: Nov 23, 2004, End date: Dec 22, 2005,

The aim of the project was to establish a BSR-wide wind energy association with a secretariat and national contact points, co operation groups, permanently growing contacts, integration into BSR panels, to start and continue of wind energy internet-platform for information and as a tool for over-regional BSR-wide telematik co operation and for awareness raising, as well as to develop the wind ener ...
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Via Baltica Nordica Development Zone (VBNDZ )

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

The Via Baltica Nordica is a coherent development corridor stretching from Berlin to Mo i Rana in Norway. The idea is not to construct or develop the Via Baltica road connection as such, but to develop the regions located along the corridor by means of transnational co-operation. More than 40 cities, municipalities, regions and other development organisations from Finland, Sweden, Germany, Estonia ...
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Development of a Conversion Network in the Baltic Sea Region (CONVERNET )

Start date: Apr 16, 2003, End date: Mar 15, 2005,

Conversion of former military sites is a pressing issue in the Baltic Sea Region. Not only municipalities and regions are still coping with the after-effects of around 3500 post-Cold War military base closures – several hundred facilities are currently being closed in restructuring processes of the respective national armed forces. These processes are set to continue and gain momentum in the futur ...
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Eco Forum Baltica (Eco Forum Baltica )

Start date: May 31, 2002, End date: Dec 30, 2004,

Eco Forum Baltica has two main objectives; to promote the development and knowledge on Environmental Management Systems (EMS) in companies (mainly SMEs) and authorities in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland and to develop the Spatial planning process (starting in the Harju region) and integrating Waste management/EMS perspectives in this process. The project is based on Eco Forum St Petersburg, ...
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Wind energy in the BSR - Planning, Construction and Investment (WEBSR )

Start date: Jan 23, 2003, End date: Nov 22, 2004,

The aim of the project was to establish a BSR-wide wind energy association with a secretariat and national contact points, co operation groups, permanently growing contacts, integration into BSR panels, to start and continue of wind energy internet-platform for information and as a tool for over-regional BSR-wide telematik co operation and for awareness raising, as well as to develop the wind ener ...
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Cross-border initiative for creation of emergency management system of disasters in neighbouring Latvia and Lithuania (CBRM)

Natural and man-made disasters canexact a devastating influence on property,human welfare, natural resources, andthe economy of a country. Science andtechnology progress as well as increasingtrends of economic globalization has madethe emergency recovery and disastermanagement a multi-national issue.The overall objective of the project is toensure accessibility quality and effectivenessof disaster ...
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