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Uptake of Open Geographic Information Through Innovative Services Based on Linked Data (SDI4Apps)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The potential of geographic information (GI) collected by various actors ranging from public administration to voluntary initiatives of citizens is not fully exploited. The advancements of ICT technologies and shift towards Linked Open Data give floor to innovation.The establishment of SDIs has largely been driven by the "traditional" GI community and the national and European policies governing t ...
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Transition to the Green Economy (T2gE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

... economy in Europe through organization of the international conference “Transition to a green economy” (T2gE). This international conference will be an event of major strategic nature during the Slovak Presidency of the European Council. Conference will bring together a broad spectrum of stakeholders. Its ambition is to improve understanding of the green economy concept, identify conclusions and ...
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eEnvironmental services for advanced applications within INSPIRE (eENVplus)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The aim of this pilot is to integrate a huge amount of environmental data put at disposal by the involved national/regional environmental agencies and other public and private environmental stakeholders through the integration and harmonisation of existing services in order to answer to the requests of environmental monitoring and reporting drafted by the European, national and local policies and ...
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Linked Open Data for environment protection in Smart Regions (SMARTOPENDATA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The Linked Open Data (LOD) Strategy is becoming a source of unprecedented visibility, enabling the generation of new businesses and significant advances for research in the environmental area. Nevertheless, in order for this strategy to become a reality, it is necessary to advance the publication of existing environmental data, usually owned by public bodies.This proposal is focused on how the LOD ...
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Joint Disaster Management risk assessment and preparedness in the Danube macro-region (SEERISK)

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

The main purpose of this project is to improve coherence and consistency among risk assessments undertaken by the countries at national and local level, and especially in case of disasters intensified by climate change. The project builds on the EU Council conclusions on "Further Developing Risk Assessment for Disaster Management within the European Union" adopted in March 2011, that aims for a co ...
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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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A European Community of SMEs built on Environmental Digital Content and Languages (smeSpire)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC, establishes an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe, requiring large amounts of environmental digital content to be made accessible across Europe, resulting in a data pool that is expected to be of huge value for a myriad of value-added applications. The INSPIRE Implementing Rules Legal Acts outlines these data pools, but more work is needed.Making data ...
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Sustainable Mobility and Tourism in Sensitive Areas of the Alps and the Carpathians (ACCESS2MOUNTAIN)

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

The Alpine and the Carpathian Conventions state sustainable tourism mobility as a challenge and call for cooperation on this topic among the countries of these mountain regions. In particular sustainable tourist mobility is not well-developed in mountainous regions, especially in South-East Europe, as mountain regions are lacking sufficient sustainable transport facilities and facing major ecologi ...
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Introduction of Regional Energy Concepts (CEP-REC)

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

...he implementation of Renewable Energies at regional level, where change matters. 15 Partners as representatives of nine model regions set in Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia started to elaborate possible strategies for regional energy demand and supply. For all nine pilot regions individual Regional Energy Concepts will be established. The main goal ...
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Integrated management of biological and landscape diversity for sustainable regional development and ecological connectivity in the Carpathians (BIOREGIO Carpathians)

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

...ty preservation and ecological connectivity in the Czech Republic• Analysis of the institutional and legal framework affecting biodiversity preservation and ecological connectivity in the Slovak Republic• Analysis of the institutional and legal framework affecting biodiversity preservation and ecological connectivity in UkraineFor more information see:http://www.southeast-europe.net/en/projects/ap ...
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A Sustainable Development Model for Green Mountain Areas (Green Mountain)

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

Mountain territories are important ecosystems exposed to a series of risks and threats: abandonment, use of inappropriate development models, lack of an integrated sustainable approach, loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystems. To meet these challenges a transnational project team consisting of 11 organisations from 9 countries will develop and transfer a Sustainable Development and Mana ...
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INCA Central Europe - Integrated nowcasting system for the Central European area (INCA-CE)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2013,

Weather and especially severe weather is responsible for many natural disasters causing damage and loss of life. Weather forecasts are an essential part of early warning systems and consecutive actions within civil protection schemes, road management and flood protection. In the last years nowcasting, which is the forecast for the next hours, has improved significantly. Disasters at small time and ...
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Creation of value-added services based on Harmonized Land Use and Land Cover Datasets (HLANDATA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

Land Use and Land Cover are amongst the most important geographic information themes today because they are essential for many applications areas.Unfortunately, despite the initiatives which have already been carried out and others that are being carried out at present moment, there is no valid data harmonization model for the Land Cover and Land Use datasets, taking into account both the data cat ...
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Demonstration of a study to coordinate and perform human biomonitoring on a European scale (DEMOCOPHESII)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

Background Human Biomonitoring involves collecting tissue samples, such as urine, blood, hair, saliva or nails, from volunteers and measuring chemical uptake and effect known as biomarkers in those indicators. For a given chemical, human biomonitoring surveys can highlight spatial trends of exposure, help uncover contributing lifestyle factors, and indi ...
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Stakeholder oriented flood risk assessment for the Danube floodplains (DANUBE FLOODRISK)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

The Danube River is one of the most important natural axes in South-East-Europe. It links most of the countries in the SEE area. Thus the improvement and good examples of transnational cooperation of all countries at this river will be a brilliant signal for the whole region. This project has a far reaching strategic focus beyond risk management and could become a flagship project for the SEE prog ...
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Network of Danube Waterway Administrations (NEWADA)

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

...tional Strategic Plan for optimising inland waterway maintenance in the Romanian stretch of the Danube• National Strategic Plan for optimising inland waterway maintenance in the Slovak stretch of the Danube• National Strategic Plan for optimising inland waterway maintenance of navigable Danube canals in Romania• NEWADA Joint Report on hydrographic activities carried out on the Danube• NEWADA Joint ...
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Tisa Catchment Area Development (TICAD)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Feb 27, 2012,

The extraordinary feature of the TICAD project is the broad and productive transnational cooperation of local, regional, national authorities, planning and research institutions from all the five countries sharing the territory of the Tisa basin. Owing to this comprehensive and integrated partnership the aims of the EU water management policies and territorial development perspectives will be purs ...
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Access to Technology and Know-how in Cleaner Production in Central Europe (ACT CLEAN)

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

While EU directives set requirements in order to ensure the eco-efficiency of the production process, many small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Central Europe struggle to respond to them. They do not have access to the existing technological or managerial solutions developed in other parts of Central Europe. In the understanding that a sustainable natural resource management in times of gl ...
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FUTUREforest - Woodlands for Climate Change (FUTUREforest)

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

...orestry Agency/Regional Forestry Directorates Veliko Tarnovo, Pazardjik, Smoljan and Kardjali, Bulgaria, (Bulgaria), (6) Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Latvia, Latvia (Latvia) and (7) the Slovak Environmental Agency, Presov branch (SEA), (8) Association for Education of Sabinov, Slovakia (AES). The six regional authorities and AES have direct links to local administrations in their reg ...
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A Network to enhance a European Environmental Shared and Interoperable Information System (NESIS)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

Description The aim of NESIS Network is to promote the uptake of ICT solutions to address the fundamental problems faced by public authorities in providing information related to monitoring and reporting environmental impacts and threats. By supporting a shared vision to streamline current information and reporting systems and promote adopti ...
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GMES network of users (GNU)

Start date: Oct 1, 2007, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

Currently, the GMES user community is fragmented and incoherent, and, thus, unable to issue common and consolidated statements. GNU intends to initiate a structuring of the GMES demand side by setting up an independent platform that will become the focal point and mouthpiece of European GMES user needs, and, likewise, will foster a systematic dialogue between the stakeholder communities.GNU will a ...
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ion and valorisation of the longest habitat system in Europe (GREEN BELT)

Start date: Mar 31, 2006, End date: May 29, 2008,

Borders separate, nature unites: Along the former "Iron Curtain", the longest European system of habitats has been preserved due to decades of inaccessibility. However, the location within border areas did not only help to protect nature, but also limited the economic development of the adjacent regions. GREEN BELT aims at transforming the former "death belt" into a green "life line" by focusing o ...
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Improvement of flood management system (MOSES)

Start date: Jun 30, 2005, End date: Apr 29, 2008,

...ears have caused numerous human casualties in the CADSES region. In addition the material damage reached unprecedented levels. Inspired by the successful Dutch/German flood information project, NOAH, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, Ukraine and Romania have taken the initiative and pooled their efforts to reduce the effects of flood events in their territories. The main target of the MOSES project is t ...
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Common Information to European Air (CITEAIR)

Start date: Feb 29, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Cities and regions present complex challenges in the areas of transport and environment. Consequently, local and regional authorities are keen to find efficient and integrated solutions for their environmental and traffic problems. The pressure on European cities and regions to implement the related EU regulations on air quality has led to a multitude of initiatives and isolated solutions, often w ...
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Hydrological cycle of the CADSES regions (HYDROCARE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The project HYDROCARE wishes to develop an integrated system capable of assessing the impact of hydrometeorological events on the water resources in the CADSES region. Emphasis will be put on the development of effective transnational tools for a rational exploitation of the water resources, with the purpose of preserving and enhancing economical and environmental welfare. Such managing tools will ...
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Digitally Advanced New Cross-Border Exchange of Waterway Data (DANewBE Data)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...rts will be worked out in close co-operation of the involved authorities. Austria and Germany are currently finalising their exchange of geo-related data and the network shall be extended to Slovakia and Hungary. This will ensure an even longer stretch of compatible charts and an intensive exchange of data among four countries. Finally, the most effective means to distribute the charts to captain ...
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Common best practices in spatial planning for the promotion of sustainable POLYcentric DEVelopment (POLY.DEV.)

Start date: May 31, 2005, End date: May 29, 2007,

Regional spatial planning policies and tools for spatial development play an important role when applying sustainable development principles as they are outlined in the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP), by the European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) or by the European Conference of Ministers Responsible for Regional Planning (CEMAT). These principles combine economic, ...
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System Integrated for Security Management Activities to safeguard and protect his-toric centres from risks. Citizen as the first rescuer (S.I.S.M.A.)

Start date: Dec 31, 2002, End date: Apr 29, 2007,

A context of particular vulnerability due to seismic activity in the territories of CADSES area (Italy, Greece, the Balkan Countries, Slovene Republic, Slovak Republic), together with a rich architectural and cultural heritage, including several historical centres where relevant activities for the quality of urban systems are carried out, are the reasons why the Project "S.I.S.M.A. - Integrated Sy ...
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Transnational Air Quality Improvement: A Management Tool for Regional Planning (TAQI)

Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Mar 30, 2007,

... Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) by linking environmental data with spatial information. Through EU enlargement the eastern region of Austria with its adjacent regions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary has developed a new significance in Central Europe. The project area is undergoing major economic and infrastructural changes. Transit traffic is increasing to unprecedented level ...
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Network for education and training for public environmental laboratories

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

...the purpose to improve the analytical practice in the field of environmental monitoring.Main features of the Project:• NETREL project consortium consists of 7 universities: 3 EU universities (Slovakia, Czech Republic, United Kingdom) and 4 partner country universities (Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina).• Public laboratories from local, regional and national level in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovin ...
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