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Learning Lab for Accessibility in Built Environment

Start date: Jan 18, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Objective of the projectThe objective of the project was to improve accessibility in built environment increasing the possibilities for disabled and elderly people to manage in their daily activities and opportunities for social participation. Main activities• Survey of the accessibility competence in target areas.• Planning and implementing education modules for accessibility in built environment ...
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Moving Towards Wellbeing

Start date: Mar 31, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The objective of the project is to advance sustainable economic development of the area of the wellbeing. The project supports the Leningrad Region, Päijät-Häme, St Petersburg and Kymenlaakso regional entrepreneurial activities. It aims to develop cooperation in social and health care sector and its entrepreneurship, to build business and education (in entrepreneurship). The objective is also to r ...
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Digital Sphere - A Finnish-Russian ecosystem for television over broadcast and Internet (Digital Sphere)

Start date: Mar 27, 2012, End date: Mar 26, 2014,

Overall objective of the project is creating the conditions for promoting economic development in the programme region by meeting the needs of today's information and telecommunication (ICT) technologies and services on the areas of development of interactive digital television technology and services based on cross-border cooperation. Specific objectives are combining achievements and potential o ...
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Rivers and fish - our common interest

Start date: Mar 21, 2011, End date: Mar 20, 2014,

To achieve, by means of a number of measures, a good ecological condition and increased biological diversity in the RIFCI project's target rivers River Mustajoki/Tchornaja, River Rakkonlanjoki/Selesnevka, River Gladyshevka (former Finnish name Vammeljoki), their tributaries and the surrounding nature, including the coastal area of the eastern Gulf of Finland. To enhance environmental awareness and ...
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Improving Social Services

Start date: Apr 28, 2011, End date: Apr 27, 2013,

...rganizing e-communities. Promoting education co-operation in the sphere of social and computer sciences via intensification of joint Russian-Finnish students interdisciplinary research cooperation in St.Petersburg and South-East Finland. Achievements: The main objective ...
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Integrating Geological Information in City Management to Prevent Environmental Risks (GEOINFORM)

Start date: Jan 8, 2007, End date: Dec 28, 2009,

...anean service lines, deep foundations, underground parking lots and storage. These have significant environmental implications, which can be exacerbated by local geological conditions. In the case of St. Petersburg, the swampland of the Neva delta was reclaimed to enable the construction of the city, and geological instability often held back urban development. Ongoing risks related to geological ...
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Marine protected areas in the Eastern Baltic Sea (Baltic MPAs)

Start date: Aug 1, 2005, End date: Nov 30, 2009,

Background The Baltic Sea is a unique and fragile marine ecosystem hosting many species and habitats of European and global interest, including the Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri) which has its own European Species Action Plan. It is believed that the by-catch of birds and seals in fishing nets is a problem in the Baltic Sea and assumed that habitat ...
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Integrated management system for Russian cities - MATRUSCHKA (MATRUSCHKA)

End date: Dec 30, 2008,

MATRUSCHKA aimed at strengthening the capacity of local authorities and developing their city planning process. It contributed to the development of a solid foundation within local authorities upon which long-term planning decisions could be made to support sustainable development. Both EU and Russian cities either initiated or further elaborated their Integrated Management Systems around a chosen ...
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moting Regional Innovation System in St. Petersburg through Transnational Cooperation - SPb InnoReg (SPb InnoReg)

Start date: Dec 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2008,

The project SPb InnoReg - Promoting Regional Innovation System in St. Petersburg through Transnational Cooperation aims to promote sustainable economic development and competitiveness in the city of St. Petersburg. This is done by strengthening the regional innovation system (RIS) and improving utilization of the innovation and research potential of St. Petersburg in cooperation between Finnish, G ...
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East-West Window (EastWest Window)

Start date: Apr 30, 2007, End date: Oct 30, 2008,

The main aim of the East West Window project was to accelerate the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) development through better connecting of the existing potentials within the Region. Achievements: * Assessment of unused innovation potential in NW Russia and recommendations ...
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Information and Communication Technologies to Strengthen Sustainable City Management (InfoCoSM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2005, End date: Dec 31, 2007,

Background The City of St. Petersburg’s Municipality stored, in various databases, many environmental data on local issues ; there was no efficient data management system by the Municipality, which was not equipped with appropriate software tools. Objectives The overall object ...
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Baltic SeaBreeze (BSB)

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

The goal for the Baltic SeaBreeze (BSB) project was to increase awareness of the marine pollution situation in the target sectors of fishing, shipping, and leisure craft owners. Focus areas have been environmental issues in guest harbours and marinas, Blue Flag activities, courses for fishermen and seamen, and a media campaign. The ultimate goal of Baltic SeaBreeze was to change the attitudes and ...
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AGORA -Network Sustainable Tourism Development in the Baltic Sea Region (AGORA)

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

The BSR is characterised by large areas of unspoilt countryside. Because of strong economic problems just in these rural areas tourism seems to be a promising opportunity to support regional development. Sustainability considered as a guiding principle can ensure that such a development will lead to economical benefits without threaten the nature and the social structure. Consequently a lot of sus ...
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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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Maritime Tourism Marketing in the Baltic Sea Region (MARITOUR)

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

Apart from the natural diversity the Baltic Sea Region has everything a boating tourism region needs: festival highlights such as the Hanse Sail and the Kieler Woche, numerous smaller but no less attractive maritime events, about 1,500 marinas and some 500 traditional vessels sailing the Baltic Sea.What is missing is a cooperative marketing platform. Many maritime suppliers conduct their own marke ...
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Challenge of eCitizen - Promoting eGovernment Actions in European Cities (eCitizen)

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

The project is designed to support local eGovernment initiatives, actions and strategies through the exchange and dissemination of information, best practices and successful technical innovations acquired in the partner cities and Europe-wide. The partners aim to enhance the capacities, management skills and technical knowledge of local policy-makers, officials and experts responsible for eGovernm ...
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Coastal Zone Management in the Baltic Sea Region / COASTMAN (COASTMAN)

Start date: Jun 13, 2004, End date: Sep 12, 2007,

The COASTMAN project is aimed on developing approaches for conflicts resolution in coastal zone areas. The project partners’ group with representatives from Sweden, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Russia aimed at investigating conditions under which spatial conflict resolution in coastal zone management can be handled in a bottom up perspective in different countries around Baltic Sea. The ...
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moting Spatial Development by Creating COMon MINdscapes (COMMIN)

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

Transnational and cross-border co-operation have a growing need (e.g. EU-enlargement) for a precise understanding of the partner’s concepts and the planning systems they are embedded in. The improvement of solving similar problems in different BSR countries and on transnational activities can best be achieved by exchange of experiences and ideas, mutual training and further education as well as pr ...
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Development of the Environmental Action Plan for Municipal Solid Waste Management in St. Petersburg (MS WASTE in SPb)

Start date: Feb 1, 2002, End date: Jun 30, 2006,

Background St. Petersburg is the largest city on the Baltic Sea, with a developed industrial sector and a population of about five million people. According to the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM), the city produces 20% of the pollution in the Baltic Sea. Municipal solid waste (MSW) contaminated with heavy metals and soluble hazardous substances is one of the ...
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Metropolitan Areas+. Network of Regional Systems of metropolises in the Baltic Sea Region - Strenghtening of Competitiveness by Sustainable Developmen (MA+ )

Start date: Mar 16, 2003, End date: Mar 15, 2006,

The focus of MA+ is laid on a balanced polycentric development of BSR and its metropolitan regions. MA+ intends to strengthen metropolitan regions as a whole. Transnationally agreed development targets and measures - already in the preliminary stages - should help to reduce the traditional metropolitan conflict situation of functional and growth competition between the centre of conurbation, the s ...
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The Baltic Palette II (Baltic Palette II )

Start date: Jun 1, 2002, End date: Nov 30, 2004,

The Baltic Palette II is a joint effort between the metropolitan areas surrounding Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga and St. Petersburg to develop a dynamic and sustainable region. The main challenges in the Baltic Palette region are the vast differences in development levels between the partners from the old and new EU member states and the non-EU partners. The Baltic Palette network has been es ...
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Oulu South Know-How Bridge with Russia

Start date: Jun 10, 2001, End date: Oct 29, 2004,

...of the region, to get them to assess cooperation opportunities and, ultimately, begin cooperation with Russians. In accordance with the project plan, the focus areas were manufacturing in Karelia and St. Petersburg, RTD projects, expertise projects, training, personnel and recruitment, construction, the forestry and wood industry, and agriculture. In particular, technological expertise and associa ...
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Development of new curricula in sustainable rural tourism

Start date: Jan 15, 2010,

The present TEMPUS project aims to develop and strengthen rural tourism through designing, testing, implementing and evaluating a programme of special modules for rural tourism to be included in new Bachelor and Master Curricula in the field of Tourism. These new developed modules will correspond in full to the Bologna principles and Tuning recommendations and be based on the experience of the Eur ...
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Cooperation in collaborated Creation of Waste Management System in Pskov Region (Appropriate waste management in Pskov region)

... The project' s sub-objective is the development of neighbourly relations and further collaboration in environmental protection. Considereing the target of the project, partnership of Pskov Branch of St. Petersburg State University for Engineering and Economics (ENGECON), Latvian association of waste mangement (WMAL) and Porhov district administration (Pskov region), has been established. The proj ...
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