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Restoration of Boreal Nordic Rivers (ReBorN LIFE)

Start date: Jul 7, 2016, End date: Jul 6, 2021,

Background The economy of Västerbotten is linked to its forests. However, the activities of the forest products industry can have negative impacts on protected species, habitats and biodiversity. The rivers targeted by this project have been heavily influenced by measures taken to facilitate large-scale timber floating during the 19th and 20th centurie ...
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Triple Lakes – Catchment restoration and preventive action for aquatic habitats in a climate change perspective (LIFE-TripleLakes)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Background Aquatic ecosystems in the Jämtland area currently face significant physical, chemical, and biological pressures. The clearing of streams, dams and road culverts, along with the consequent siltation of lake and streambeds, affect habitat types 3210 (Fennoscandian natural rivers) and 3140 (hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation o ...
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Saving wooded Natura 2000 habitats from invasive alien fungi species on the Island of Gotland, Sweden (LIFE- ELMIAS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...scandian wooded meadows. Elm (Ulmus spp.) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior), makes up almost 70% of the old growth tree layer on Gotland and is significant even in a national context given that 17% of the Swedish population of old elms and 24% of the old ash are on Gotland. If no action is taken, and taken soon, there is a substantial risk that the majority of the veteran ash and elm trees on Gotland w ...
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Remediation of migratory barriers in Nordic/fennoscandian watercourses (ReMiBar)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

...tion will be surveyed and documented in 13 strategic places); Construction of two demonstration sites, in easily accessible areas, for knowledge transfer; and Training and information material (Swedish-English), workshops and study trips.
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Adaptive Forest Management and Biomass Production

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

Overall Aim• Share experience and exchange best (good) practice on SFM, also incorporating the latest research findings • Enhance bilateral as well as multilateral cooperation between the participating countriesObjective• Improve transnational cooperation on SFM practices and cover the gap between research and practise in order to increase forest biomass production, improve the environment and ad ...
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Static Acoustic Monitoring of the Baltic Sea Harbour porpoise (SAMBAH)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

..., and possibly by country waters, if feasible; Identify possible hotspots, habitat preferences, and areas with higher risk of conflicts with anthropogenic activities for the species. In Swedish waters, the project will use these results to identify appropriate areas for protection, and within these areas, suggest appropriate management of anthropogenic activities with known or potential negative ...
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Nature Hardwoods

Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

A cooperation initiative focusing on forest management, bureaucracy and information aspects of managing broad leave forests under the Natura 2000 directives. The aim of this project is to set up a platform for future cooperation and to build a mature project idea to apply within the new EU-programme period.A first meeting in Sweden is planned for November 2013. In spring 2014 the second meeting wi ...
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Innovative approaches towards sustainable forested landscapes (Baltic Landscape)

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

Forests in the Baltic Sea Region are either dominating in the landscape (FIN, NOR, Russia, SWE) or are its important part (POL, Belarus, EST, LV) (annex 1). The long-term goal of the project is to foster good governance in forested landscapes. These landscapes are facing new challenges caused by i.e. globalization, climate change, demands of both more intensive use of natural resources and enhance ...
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Environmental quality and pressures assessment across Europe: the LTER network as an integrated and shared system for ecosystem monitoring (EnvEurope)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Background A vast amount environmental data is currently collected across Europe, both at national and international level, generating valuable information for policy makers and citizens. However, much of this information is not readily comparable, posing a major obstacle to the development of well-informed environmental policies and strategies at Europea ...
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Forestry and Water Protection (Forestry and water protection)

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

Development of a network and creation of a platform for deeper cooperation on Forestry and Water Protection among the BSR countries including Russia. Focus is on four problem areas: Drainage systems, buffer zones, planning tools, and beaver, forst and water. Outputs: Network meetings, excursions, plans for project development. ...
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SFM in Kaliningrad Pre-study (SFM in Kaliningrad ‘Pre-study’)

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

...omass for bioenergy in the BSR. Achievements: Study-trips:• Swedish expert visit in Kaliningrad, September 2011 • Sustainable Forest Management with Integrated Harvest of Forest Biomass for Biofuel, Study trip to Sweden October/November, 2011• Cleaning of Drainage Syste ...
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Modern Water Management in the South Baltic Sea Area (MOMENT)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

The European Water Policy and the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) aim at ensuring clean waters. HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) has appointed eutrophication and hazardous substances as key issues requiring action. In achieving this, the roles of local actors and citizens will be crucial. The local and regional levels are very important for the implementation of practical measures aiming at ...
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Hardwoods are good - supporting entrepreneurs of the forestry hardwood chain in the South Baltic Region (Hardwoods are good)

Start date: Feb 7, 2010, End date: Feb 6, 2013,

...nditions. High Competence Network, HCN, delivered a report about how hardwood is used for bioenergy. Web links to forest statistics was gathered at the project web page.HCN together with The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, and Nässjö Wood Foundation developed an international wood classification system to compare hardwood timber. The system, built upon visual pictures of logs and ...
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Wood Energy and Cleantech (Woodenergy)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

...Lead Partner) and includes Estonia University of Lifesciences EE, Private Forest Center EE, Vidzeme Planning Region LV, State Forest Service LV, County Administrative Board Östergötland SE and Swedish Forest Agency SE. The activities will reach out to a lot of environmental organisations and companies. The partnership has earlier worked together in the EU project BSR Interreg lllB in the project ...
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ROADEX Network Implementing Accessibility 4.1 (ROADEX IV)

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

...website; Lesson B on website and being reviewed; Lesson C draft out for consultation; Lesson D being prepared; Translators appointed; Translations into Finnish, Icelandic, Greenlandic, Norwegian, Swedish commenced. The ROADEX Website – the website was launched on 15 June 2010 and has been populated will all ROADEX materials to date. This website aims to be the one stop shop for all matters perta ...
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The Baltic Sea Region Bioenergy Promotion Project (Bioenergy Promotion)

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

The project aimed to: Raise awareness that there is a significant potential of employment and business possibilities within bioenergy in the Baltic Sea Region, facilitate conditions for the reduction of emissions by sustainable use of bioenergy, develop regional management plans and tools for planning within bioenergy, exchange experiences through up-t-date conferences, seminars and workshops in b ...
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The Baltic 21 Eco Region Project (Eco-Region)

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

The EcoRegion project was developed in the years 2007/2008 and finally implemented between 2009- 2011 in order to contribute to the aim of Baltic 21 to turn the Baltic Sea Region into the world’s first EcoRegion, where economic growth goes hand in hand with environmental integrity and social justice.The transnational project – co-financed by the ERDF BSR Programme 2007-2013 - was based on the uniq ...
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Common Land for sustainable management (COMMONS)

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

COMMONS project faces the challenge of territorial management in marginal lands in the framework of a continuous concentration of former rural population towards urban or peri-urban areas. Important natural areas risk environment depletion because of changing in the utilization patterns and abandoning of traditional practices. Some of these areas correspond to ancient common lands once managed for ...
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Further Development and Implementation of an EU-level Forest Monitoring System (FutMon)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

Background Forests cover about 30% of Europe, providing high value concerning: biodiversity; carbon sequestration; soil and water protection; and the economic contribution of goods and services. However, climate change, air pollution and changes in land use are threatening the health, stability and sustainability of forests and their values. On top of th ...
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Assessing Sustainability of Forest-based Activities in Rural Areas of the Northern Periphery 2.8 (Northern ToSIA)

Start date: May 31, 2008, End date: May 30, 2011,

...pcoming Cairngorm National Park Plan 2012. More info about the case is available at: http://www.northerntosia.org/files/attachments/northerntosia/n_tosia_brochure_scotland_cairngorms.pdf 3) The Swedish case study extended the ToSIA applications to include non-forest-wood-chains. The study included both the indigenous Sami peoples reindeer husbandry chains and regional forest-wood-chains, whi ...
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Developing the Pinus Sylvestris L resource 1.16 (DSP)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2010,

The project will engage with Scots Pine supply chain stakeholders and decision makers to improve markets by encouraging new business models as a basis for product development and SME participation. New resource assessment and pricing methods will reward higher value timber and better match resources to end uses, improving competitiveness. This in turn, will encourage growers to improve the added v ...
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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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STORMRISK

Start date: Jan 12, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

The main aim of the STORMRISK project was to integrate and make accessible the knowledge and experience developed over decades to end-users across the North Sea Region. The project has acted as a source of inspiration for landowners and managers and helps them to identify not only the means but also the aims for a modernised and multifunctional ...
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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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Forests as a resource for sustainable development and spatial planning in the Baltic Sea Region - BALTIC FOREST (BALTIC FOREST)

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

The overall project objective is to enhance sustainable regional development in the BSR based on management and use of the forests as a resource, by establishing and employing multi pur pose, cross-sectorial and transnational forest sector cooperation. The key conceptual approach is to secure forest sector sustainability and enhance input to regional development and spatial planning, by exploring ...
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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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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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European Small Islands' Network Inter-Island Exchange Project (ESIN IIEP)

Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Oct 30, 2007,

The network’s overall goal is to promote the sustainable economic, social and cultural development of small islands so as to strengthen their capacity to support permanent, resident island communities. By promoting the transfer of information, ideas and experience among islanders, professionals and policy-makers concerned with the future of small islands, ESIN aims to devise models of sustainable ...
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Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Woodlands by the Baltic Sea (Coastal Woodlands)

Start date: Jun 1, 2002, End date: Mar 31, 2007,

Background The constant pressure on and deterioration of coastal regions is a big environmental problem. The European Union is working to introduce a coordinated policy for coastal regions based around the implementation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in Europe. Following a recommendation adopted by Council and Parliament in 2002, each EU Me ...
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Regular Recycling of Wood Ash to Prevent Waste Production (RecAsh)

Start date: Aug 1, 2003, End date: Dec 31, 2006,

...n of wood fuels leads to an increased production of wood-fuel ash, which can be spread back in the forests to return key nutrients and improve the acid-buffering capacity of soils. Since 1998, the Swedish Forest Agency has recommended ash recycling after extraction and in 2001 it produced “Recommendations for the extraction of forest fuel and compensating fertilising”. At the start of the p ...
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Demonstration of use of satellite images, estimations and www in forestry to protect nature and prevent environmental accidents (Forest Safe)

Start date: Apr 30, 2001, End date: Sep 30, 2005,

Background Sweden and the UK together are home to the majority of conifer forest types in Europe. Both countries face significant environmental problems related to the extensive areas of productive forestry. An increased emphasis on sustainability in forestry means that new methods need to be developed for monitoring and planning forestry and forestry op ...
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Case Forest - pedagogic towards sustainable development

Education about sustainable development is more or less compulsory in schools indifferent levels all over Europe.The forests play an important role in a sustainable society due to its economical,environmental, social and cultural values. In this project we want to create a methodwhich will facilitate the teaching and improve the learning about forests and how itinfluences the every-day life for al ...
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