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Innovations in sustainable management and protection of natural areas (4GreenInn)

Start date: Jul 5, 2013, End date: Jul 4, 2015,

The overall objective of the project is to achieve a sustainable management of protected natural areas in the Black Sea Basin and development of innovative methods for integrating the protected natural areas in the overall strategies for urban and socio-economic development in the partnering regions. ...
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Regions of Connected Knowledge (RoCK)

Start date: Jun 30, 2007, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Overall aim of RoCK is to improve connectivity within and between regions of knowledge. by development of railway connections into high quality efficient and user-friendly interoperable systems. Within the RoCK-project. connectivity will be improved by making use of existing connections and by developing and implementing smart solutions to improve their quality. Partnership The RoCK partnershi ...
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Consortium for Assistive Solutions Adoption (CASA)

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

Today, regions and governments are faced with an unsustainable situation with increasing pressure on health and social care resulting from demographic changes. With an ageing population, citizens are also increasingly living with chronic diseases and this has serious implications on the future provision of welfare and health services. Chronic diseases now account for an average of two thirds of he ...
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Measuring INnovation among EURopean Subregions (IN-EUR)

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

IN-EUR addresses the need for local level strategies to ensure innovation and knowledge growth all over the EU. Based on analysis of innovation, research and technology initiatives, IN-EUR supports public actors at sub-regional level to define and orientate local policies and investments on innovation.The overall project objective is to use interregional cooperation to improve quality of innovatio ...
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Sharing Interregional knowledge to define Supporting Programmes for Young SMEs (Young SMEs)

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

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) play a decisive role in the competitiveness of the European economy. To contribute to its consolidation throughout their life cycle, has become a priority at European Level. To this respect, the first five years in an enterprises life are the most difficult, in the sense that survival one year does not seem to improve markedly its prospects of surviving o ...
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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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Assessing Territorial Attractiveness in SEE  (Attract-SEE)

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

Effective monitoring 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 ...
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Sustainable mobility along the newest EuroVelo route, the Iron Curtain Trail  (Iron Curtain Trail)

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

In 2009, the European Parliament asked the Commission and the Member States to consider the EuroVelo- Network and Iron Curtain Trail as an opportunity for promoting European trans-border cycling infrastructure networks, supporting soft mobility and sustainable tourism?. The European Commission organised workshops to raise awareness of the ICT and awarded grants to preparatory projects to define th ...
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Sustainable Transport and Tourism along the Danube  (TRANSDANUBE)

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

The Danube is passing 10 countries on its way to the Black Sea. Therefore it is one of the most transnational rivers in the world. It is a river full of history and an important interlink between the regions of South East Europe. Several initiatives clearly identified the need for cooperation to boost the development of the Danube region. With the endorsement of the EU Strategy for the Danube Regi ...
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Boosting Regional Development with ICT-Innovation-Strategies (BORDWIIS+)

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

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is crucial to European competitiveness, innovation strength and industrial development, especially as innovation is made possible in most cases by important developments in advanced ICT and their application. However, new policies and strategies are required to fully maximize the possible opportunities and meet the challenges that the rapid developmen ...
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Knowledge Transfer joint forces for efficient innovation policies (KTForce)

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

The idea to submit a project to INTERREG IVC emerged in 2008 when several European entities decided to make a joint effort to contribute to a more collaborative and aligned environment capable of harmonizing Knowledge Transfer (KT) mechanisms and boosting innovation at European level. In fact, KT was recognized by the EU as a key tool for boosting innovation and competitiveness in Europe. In line ...
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aving the way for self-sufficient regional energy supply based on sustainable energy concepts and renewable energy sources (MANERGY)

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

...% RES (IEE), RE-SEEties (SEE) and NegaJoule projects, and to the Priority Area Coordinator of the Danube Strategy. Moreover, MANERGY joined the Thematic Pole of Low Carbon Communities, set up by the South-East Europe programme. As your opinion is also important for us, we encourage you to visit our website (www.manergyproject.eu), read our newsletters and brochure, and get in contact with us. You ...
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Intelligent Transportation for Dynamic Environment (InTraDE)

Start date: Oct 2, 2007, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

The world seaborne trade has been developed in the last decade. mainly due to globalization and development of emerging countries. This world growth has an influence on the development of ports and maritime terminals. Within North West Europe (NWE). few ports are able to keep pace with this growth. despite the importance of this coastal area (stretching from Ireland to the Netherlands (see Figures ...
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Youth Entrepreneurship Strategies (YES)

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

The overall aim of YES, Youth Entrepreneurship Strategies, is to increase the number of entrepreneurs and accelerate European competitiveness. The method for reaching the objectives is integrating an entrepreneurial perspective in the one forum that gathers all European youth, the education system. Studies show that Entrepreneurship in school is an effective way to increase the number of entrepren ...
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Green management plans for European urban and peri-urban Landscapes (EUROSCAPES)

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

EUROSCAPES is a shared vision of 14 partners coming from 13 EU Member States on the necessity to tackle natural and cultural landscapes' management issues in urban and peri-urban areas at an interregional level and in a sustainable way. In dense and contrasting urban environments, tackling the concept of landscapes and its related issues will prevent their loss of specificity and identity, and hel ...
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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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Agencies Supporting Value of Innovation systems in regional and LOCal economies (AsviLoc plus)

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

AsviLoc + grows up of AsviLoc project (ANNP CBC)results and of experience of Regions in the RPIA 2000-06. Acting for innovation systems is a long-term effort supported by successive experimentations. Successful regions commit to long-term policies which put in place the elements which encourage a common vision of innovation as a factor or regional development. RDAs can act as facilitator linking a ...
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Inter-regional cooperation for valorisation of research results (INTERVALUE)

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

INTERVALUE is rooted to the Digital Research Centre (DRC) of Central Macedonia aiming to contribute in the exploitation of academic research and other projects which has set the basis for its European expansions. We have experienced that cooperation between R&D supply and demand is quite a dynamic process stimulated by the current trends in business and the academia. Any long term concentration in ...
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ENergy Efficiency and Renewables ? SUPporting Policies in Local level for EnergY (ENER - SUPPLY)

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

In South East Europe the introduction of innovative processes characterized by the transfer, experimentation and consolidation of know-how related to the use and production of energy following a good planning and employing the appropriate management methods is a way to improve the energy balance. The aim of the ENER-SUPPLY project is to assist the local territories towards this direction through t ...
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OWER (POWER)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Mar 30, 2012,

In the context of ambitious EU targets for climate protection, the POWER Regional Initiative will explore ways to move towards a low carbon economy at regional level, in particular by re-formulating regional development strategies and policy instruments and identifying effective forms of sub-regional action which also contribute to regional competitiveness. The seven participating regions of South ...
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Networking for Enterprises in the Eastern External Border Regions (NEEBOR)

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

The project has grown out from the Network of Eastern External Border Regions, from a wide European initiative aiming at the collaboration of regions from 11 European countries 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 ...
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ERIK ACTION - Upgrading the innovation capacity of existing firms (ERIK ACTION)

Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2010,

ERIK ACTION is a Capitalisation Project born from 4 years of networking experience within the ERIK network. ERIK ACTION builds on a consolidated experience of exchange by moving towards concrete transfer of identified good practices (already available in the ERIK database) into mainstream Structural Funds programmes in regions wishing to improve policies. ERIK ACTION’s overall objective is to impr ...
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Intermodal Port Access and Commodities Transport in Europe

Start date: May 31, 2005, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

International traffic between the UK and continental Europe is a specific territorial issue which the partnership will address through sustainable distribution and the economic development of ports. They will also develop a maritime integrated network and strategy.
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HST Integration

Start date: Aug 31, 2002, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

between high speed rail stations in North West Europe. The project, whose lead partner is the South East England Development Agency, working in conjunction with a total of 18 partners from the UK, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, aims to investigate and demonstrate the means by which HST stations and station area developments can serve the internal cohesion as well as the external strength an ...
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SMART ECONOMIC GROWTH - SEG (SEG)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

The partners will develop a definition of "Smart Economic Growth" and engage businesses and local governance in a thought process towards smarter and sustainable approches to economic development.The study will focus on multi-layered issues surrounding economic growth such as traffic congestion, land and labour costs, and skill management.
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HST Connect

Start date: May 31, 2003, End date: Feb 29, 2008,

High speed transport has a key role to play in promoting balanced spatial development across NW Europe. Therefore any attempt to improve HST needs to work on a transnational basis. The prime objective of the 15 partner, 21.893m euro HST Connect project is to forge closer connections between regional rail services and the trans-European High Speed Train network, with the aim of increasing the latte ...
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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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Exchanging know-how and transferring experience among border regions in Europe (CHANGE ON BORDERS)

Start date: Oct 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Since 1990, the EU has provided financial support for internal and external cross-border cooperation, helping to establish cross-border programme structures and to implement numerous cross-border projects along the EU’s internal and external borders. Despite the progress made, there are still a large number of cross-border problems, especially along the current (and future) external borders of the ...
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Connected Cities (CC)

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

European citizens travel much further to work and leisure facilities today than in the past. Despite bringing benefits, this huge increase in mobility has led to traffic congestion and pollution, holding back efforts to achieve sustainable development. Public transport can form the basis of more sustainable approaches to mobility. However, the mismatch between older public transport networks and m ...
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TOWER - Towards Sustainable Excellence by Innovating Regions. (TOWER)

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

The overall aim of TOWER is to create and improve strategies, methodologies and tools for sustainable economic growth and to establish a platform for a long-term exchange of experiences and best practices between the regions involved. Achievements: TOWER has been perfom ...
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RAXIS: Making Rural Entrepreneurship Work (PRAXIS)

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

PRAXIS Rural Entrepreneurship will expose all partners to new ideas and approaches to entrepreneurship in rural areas. The partnership will undertake and disseminate the results of a survey to investigate the experiences of PRAXIS partners in supporting rural businesses to successfully innovate and become more competitive. The outcomes of the survey will guide the activities of four pilot projects ...
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Espace Manche Development Initiative (EMDI)

Start date: Mar 10, 2003, End date: Sep 29, 2007,

The English Channel is both the world’s busiest maritime thoroughfare and the main gateway to NW Europe. And it is likely to become busier as the traffic of goods and people between the UK and the Continent grows. The common problems generated by this vital artery strengthen the need for transnational co-operation , which will be tested by the EMDI project through pilot initiatives on a series of ...
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Integrating the Seaways of the Southern Baltic Sea into the PanEuropean Transport System (BALTIC GATEWAY)

Start date: Mar 2, 2003, End date: Jun 10, 2006,

Transportation of passengers and goods increases dramatically in the South Baltic Sea area. However, existing infrastructure and transport solutions are not enough equipped to manage the growth in an efficient and sustainable way. The challenging development called upon joint actions among organisations in several countries and on various levels. In the Baltic Gateway project, regional and local a ...
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Regional Development Agencies Network in the Central European, Danubian and Adriatic Area ² (RDA-net CEDA)

Start date: Sep 30, 2003, End date: Feb 27, 2006,

RDA-net CEDA² is a network of regional development agencies (RDAs) with a complete set of services and tools for fostering and improving the partners' capabilities in practical cooperation vis-à-vis the challenges of EU enlargement. RDA-net CEDA² aims to: - Generate innovative projects for regional development of CADSES by using the synergies of the network's experts, - Increase the competencies a ...
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Networking Logistics Centres in the Baltic Sea Region (NeLoC )

Start date: Dec 17, 2001, End date: Feb 16, 2004,

The NeLoC project provided a networking forum for existing and planned logistics centres in the Baltic Sea Region and it has enabled the exchange of experiences in planning and operating logistics centres.The project promoted the role of logistics centres in regional development as well as national and international logistics chains with emphasis laid on intermodal solutions. Further, the project ...
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Different Cultures - One Humanity

Start date: Mar 1, 2014,

The Exchange project " Different Cultures - One Humanity" will take place in Yerevan, Armenia 19-28 July, 2014. This exchange project will be implemented together with 7 countries: Armenia, Georgia,Italy, Romania,Portugal,Ukraine and Latvia. The aim of the project will be to gether 35 young people from different countries to create peaceful space for inter cultural communication and dialogue. The ...
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