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PLAtform for Climate Adaptation and Risk reDuction (PLACARD)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2020,

Significant challenges exist towards strengthening the Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) communities for coherent, mutually reinforcing and pragmatic planning and action. PLACARD seeks to support the coordination of these two communities. PLACARD will tackle current challenges by 1) providing a common ‘space’ where CCA and DRR communities can come together, share ex ...
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OBSERVATORY OF THE DYNAMICS OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SOCIETIES AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE AMAZON (ODYSSEA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Achieving a sustainable development trajectory in Amazonia is one of the key challenges facing Brazil, and is also an important international concern. ODYSSEA assembles an internationally renowned European and Brazilian multidisciplinary and intersectoral team. We aim to produce fundamental science and tools in order to build an innovative multi-and interdisciplinary observatory to monitor and ass ...
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Impacts and risks from higher-end scenarios: Strategies for innovative solutions (IMPRESSIONS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

IMPRESSIONS will provide empirically-grounded, transformative science that quantifies and explains the consequences of high-end climate scenarios for both decision-makers and society. IMPRESSIONS will develop and apply a novel participatory methodology that explicitly deals with uncertainties and strong non-linear changes focussing on high-end climate change, but also including intermediate warmin ...
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Transitions pathways and risk analysis for climate change mitigation and adaption strategies (TRANSrisk)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Both the models concerning the future climate evolution and its impacts, as well as the models assessing the costs and benefits associated with different mitigation pathways face a high degree of uncertainty. There is an urgent need to not only understand the costs and risks associated with climate change but also the risks, uncertainties and co-effects related to different mitigation pathways as ...
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Coordination and Assessment of Research and Innovation in Support of Climate Mitigation Actions (CARISMA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

The CARISMA project has two overall objectives. First, through effective stakeholder consultation and communication leading to improved coordination and assessment of climate change mitigation options, it aims to benefit research and innovation efficiency as well as international cooperation on research and innovation and technology transfer. Second, it seeks to assess policy and governance questi ...
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Green Ideas For Tourism for Europe

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The European Commission, within the framework of the Europe 2020 strategy, is encouraging educational measures fighting youth unemployment. Special emphasis has been put on vocational education, thus recognizing its potential to provide specific knowledge and skills, which contribute to raising youth employability. The Green Ideas For Tourism for Europe project (GIFT) is aimed at improving the man ...
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Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coasts - toolKIT (RISC-KIT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coasts – toolKIT (RISC-KIT) will deliver ready-to-use methods, tools and management approaches to reduce risk and increase resilience to low-frequency, high-impact hydro-meteorological events. The open-source and free-ware RISC-KIT tool kit will consist of ● a Coastal Risk Assessment Framework (CRAF) which - at the regional scale (100’s km) - can quickly asses ...
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European Disasters in Urban centres: a Culture Expert Network (3C – Cities, Cultures, Catastrophes) (EDUCEN)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

EDUCEN is a coordination and support action that will work on the complex interplay between culture(s) and disaster risk reduction, above all in the context of cities, to allow in particular formal and informal emergency responders, risk managers, the military, urban planners and planners at regional and national level to be better equipped to deal with elements of culture, and as a result to ensu ...
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"Exploring transitions pathways to sustainable, low carbon societies" (PATHWAYS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"The ambitious EU policy goals to move to sustainable, resource efficient, low-carbon and climate-resilient and biodiversity rich societies requires substantial transitions in the energy system and land-use and food systems. Different scientific approaches offer different perspectives on transitions, each with strengths and weaknesses. The PATHWAYS project takes a step in coupling three scientific ...
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SUSTAIN EU-ASEAN: Sustain and enhance cooperation on sustainable development between Europe and Southeast Asia (SUSTAIN EU-ASEAN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

This coordinating action will focus on climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials issues and will aim to enhance collaboration between researchers in the EU and the ASEAN region . Addressing these issues in a coherent way is vital for sustainable development that leads to economic prosperity, social cohesion and environmental integrity. Both regions have developed innovative ideas to re ...
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Good environmental status through regional coordination and capacity building (GES-REG)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region and its Action Plan requires cooperative actions on the transposition of EU Directives and defines the MSFD as the strategic, horizontal action. Implementation of MSFD in Member States is in the phase of drafting initial assessments, determination of good environmental status (GES), establishment of targets and indicators, and establishment and implementat ...
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Climate Change, Cultural Heritage & Energy Efficient Monuments (Co2olBricks)

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

The conservation of heritage, in particular historical buildings, is a common goal in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). Due to the common identity in the BSR it is very important to protect the historical buildings in order to preserve the individual characteristics and therewith the attractiveness and competitiveness of the cities around the Baltic Sea. Besides this the international and the EU CO2-re ...
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CLEAN BALTIC SEA SHIPPING (CleanShip)

Start date: Jun 9, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

BALTIC SEA CLEAN SHIPPING (CLEANSHIP), is part of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, and has by the EU Commission become selected as a strategic flagship project in its mission to make the Baltic Sea a model region for clean shipping. It promotes measures to reduce emissions from ships to the atmosphere and elaborates ways to promote infrastructure for bunkering of LNG and increased use of ...
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Baltic COMPASS - Comprehensive Policy Actions and Investments in Sustainable Solutions in Agriculture in the Baltic Sea Region (Baltic COMPASS)

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

Baltic COMPASS project has grown out of a large number of international projects in the field of landuse, agriculture, water and environment related to the protection of the Baltic Sea. Specifically, Baltic COMPASS is a response to the need for a transnational approach to reduce eutrophication of the Baltic Sea and contribute in adaption and implementation of the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSA ...
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Nature and Nurture of the Northern Baltic Sea (NANNUT)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

The coastline of the Northern Baltic sea constitutes of a mosaic of islands and bays with a very heterogeneous submerged landscape.The archipelago of Finland,Åland and Sweden is naturally nutrient rich and very productive with unique and species rich flora community.The shallow bays and shelterd archipelago areas are also important for the reproduction of a number of fish species and provide the f ...
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From waste to traffic fuel (W-FUEL)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

In Estonia as well as in Finland there is a growing need to produce renewable traffic fuels, decrease emissions and to prevent and recycle waste. At the same time economic recession, unemployment and regional development need to be managed in both countries. Until now little progress has been reached in waste prevention allthough it has by several studies been proved to be environmentally and econ ...
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Control of hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea region (COHIBA)

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

...w analyses (SFAs) were carried out. The project elaborated a summary of sources and emissions for the BSR. Modelling produced further information, i.e. inputs to the Baltic Sea. Local examples of Stockholm and of Copenhagen studied more deeply these regions.Also biological methods for wastewaters formed an integral part of the project's analyses. Biotesting widens the knowledge of quality of waste ...
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Baltic Challenges and Chances for local and regional development generated by Climate Change (BalticClimate)

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

BACKGROUND and addressed PROBLEM: Climate change, with its manifold aspects, is one of the biggest global challenges we face currently and in the future. Guidelines for the general direction of action developed on the international or national level are a first step but do not equal implementation. Concrete action in dealing with climate change issues is required on the local and regional level, f ...
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Evaluation of sustainability: European conferences and training courses "EASY-ECO 2008-2010" (EASY-ECO 2008-2010)

Start date: Oct 1, 2007, End date: May 31, 2011,

[EASY-ECO 2008-2010] is a training and conference programme on evaluations in the specific context of sustainable development. Sustainability evaluations are important for Europe because they support decision-making processes by highlighting strengths and weaknesses of particular policies, programmes and projects, they make policies more transparent and accountable and they support organisational ...
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Partnering to Enhance Civil Society Organisations’ Contribution to Research in Sustainable Consumption & Production (CSOCONTRIBUTION2SCP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

Some relative decoupling of economic growth from materials and energy consumption has been achieved in many EU countries during the past decade. However, this did not lead to an absolute decrease in environmental pressures, because absolute resource use has been generally remained steady over the past two decades. Moreover, due to the ‘rebound effect’, it is unlikely that resource use can be reduc ...
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Co-firing -from research to practice: technology and biomass supply know-how promotion in Central and Eastern Europe (COFITECK)

Start date: Aug 1, 2007, End date: May 31, 2009,

Central and Eastern European electricity sectors in general deficit of knowledge on newest technologies on co-firing of biomass with fossil fuels, impact of co-firing on the plant itself and ways to optimise the fuel supply chain to avoid distortions in local biomass markets, such as competition with other electricity and/or heat producers or other sectors using biomass. Yet, many plants are takin ...
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Saving the endangered Fennoscandian Alopex lagopus (SEFALO+) (Arctic Fox)

Start date: Jun 1, 2003, End date: Jun 1, 2008,

Background The arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) is found in mountain (fjeld) and tundra areas on the Northern Hemisphere. To a large extent it feeds on small rodents and the population size fluctuates greatly depending on the availability of food. Carrion from reindeer and other animals, which have been killed by large carnivores, is another important componen ...
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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,

Focusing on the Baltic Sea Region (BSR), the project "Developing Policies & Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region" (ASTRA) assesses regional impacts of the ongoing global change in climate. Its aim is to develop adequate climate change adaptation strategies and policies, together with relevant stakeholders, such as planners and decision makers.The ASTRA project uses clim ...
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Transnational River Basin Districts on the Eastern Side of the Baltic Sea Network - TRABANT (TRABANT)

Start date: Jul 10, 2005, End date: Dec 31, 2007,

Project Transnational River Basin Districts on the Eastern Side of the Baltic Sea Network - TRABANT endeavours to improve basis for the integration of significant ecological and management aspects in the Eastern Baltic Sea region, including links to spatial development. The conditions in the Baltic Sea result to a large extent from the activities in river basins. The activities have been and will ...
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Baltic SeaBreeze (BSB)

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

...from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Norway and Russia. Lead Partner of the project was the Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation. The project secretariat was situated in Stockholm, Sweden. The Baltic SeaBreeze project was designated as one of Baltic 21’s “Lighthouse Projects”.Baltic SeaBreeze had three work packages; Marine Strategic Partnership, Media/Communication S ...
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Baltic Sea management - Nature conservation and sustainable development in the marine ecosystem through marine spatial planning (BALANCE)

Start date: Jun 19, 2005, End date: Dec 18, 2007,

BALANCE – or in full “Baltic Sea Management–Nature Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Ecosystem through Spatial Planning” – is an INTERREG III B co-funded project aimed towards development of informed marine management tools for the Baltic Sea based on spatial planning and cross-sectoral and transnational co-operation.BALANCE is organised into 5 work packages (WPs) which will identify ...
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InterMETREX

Start date: Mar 31, 2003, End date: Nov 29, 2007,

... Manchester, and was presented to the project's partners at a meeting of the project's Steering Group in Vicenza in May 2007, illustrated by case studies from Glasgow (LP), Emilia-Romagna, Veneto and Stockholm. Application of the Benchmark includes pedestrian zoning of retail centres, the recovery of land for leisure amenity, and the design of an urban light railway system; revision of Metropolita ...
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Coastal Zone Management in the Baltic Sea Region / COASTMAN (COASTMAN)

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

...dies testing different methods for conflict resolution2. A Pilot Course on conflict resolution was arranged during autumn 2006. The course consisted of two meetings, Riga on October 1-3 2006 and on Stockholm December 14-15 2006.3. A beta-version of the information exchange platform on the web in English was build up to provide information to a wide audience.
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Eco Forum Baltica (Eco Forum Baltica )

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

...ing Waste management/EMS perspectives in this process. The project is based on Eco Forum St Petersburg, a very successful Interreg IIC/Sida-financed project run since 1998 in co-operation between the Stockholm County Administration and a number of Russian and Swedish partners. Achieve ...
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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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Ecotips 2.0 - Enabling small business to reduce its environmental footprint

SMEs form the backbone of the European economy, comprising 99% of all businesses (of which, 96% have less than 5 people). However, combined, they cause nearly 2/3 of EU’s industrial pollution. With a changing economic environment and increasing competition, SMEs have recognized that environmental responsibility is a crucial condition to increase their competitiveness. Environmental management sys ...
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Network for Green Office Standardization in the EU

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

Because of the environmental burden caused by offices (40% of raw materials and resources are used up by offices, worldwide), it is accepted in the EU that companies and non-profit organizations have to play a (pro)active role in preventing and solving environmental problems. Office managers of companies often have sustainability policies, but do not have the expertise and/or resources to train o ...
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