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Euro-mediterranean GREen JOBs (EGREJOB)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

Project in brief Unemployment has been rising sharply in the Mediterranean area over the last years, affecting in particular young people and women. At the same time, the transition to a green economy represents a huge potential for job creation which requires new professional skills. To seize the opportunities offered by business growth related to environmental sustainability in sectors such as r ...
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WATER Development Resources Opportunity Policies for the water management in semi-arid areas (Water-DROP)

Start date: Dec 17, 2013, End date: Dec 16, 2015,

Project in brief Population growth, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the expansion of agriculture and tourism, as well as climate change are all factors which put water under increasing stress. The scarcity of this vital resource for human and social development has placed water at the top of the agenda of many Mediterranean countries. Most of the water problems are due to the mismanageme ...
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Models of Integrated TOurism in the MEDiterranean (MITOMED )

Start date: Jun 30, 2014, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

MITOMED promotes the integrated management of maritime and coastal tourism by improving the knowledge of data, products, services but also policies and thus pertaining to the sector through an assessed set of indicators based on the NECSTouR model. MITOMED provides a common working framework for tourism actors and stakeholders, thereby helping policy makers to make more informed and integrated dec ...
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Urban-rural partnerships in metropolitan areas (URMA)

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

The URMA-project promotes urban-rural partnerships as a tool to strengthen the potential for generation and transfer of innovation in European metropolitan areas and their surrounding hinterlands. The basis was laid during a preceding project, integrated in the action programme Pilot Project of Spatial Planning sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development. ...
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Territorial networking for capacity building and local development: a cross border experience linking Lebanon, Jordan, France, Italy (T-NET)

Start date: Oct 19, 2011, End date: Oct 21, 2014,

The decentralisation process which is ongoing in Jordan and Lebanon is facing several challenges such as organisational limitations, a low level of empowerment and a certain lack of capacities of local administrations. Obviously, these difficulties consequently limit the economic development and prevent local administrations from adequately delivering the required services citizens. The T-NET proj ...
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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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Disseminating Innovative STRategIes for Capitalization of Targeted Good Practices (DISTRICT+)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

...resight techniques and technological audit.The partnership will include six regional public authorities that are in charge of managing the 2007-2013 ERDF Regional Operational Programmes: Lead Partner Tuscany (IT), West Midlands (UK), Saxony-Anhalt (DE), Vastra Gotaland (SE), Lower Silesia (PL) and Brasov County (RU). This mix of convergence (Obj. 1) and competitiveness (Obj. 2) regions will increa ...
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MAritme REgions cooperation for MEDiterranea (MAREMED)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 23, 2013,

MAREMED´s goal is to create synergy between the Regions and the different levels of Mediterranean, European, national and local governance to encourage the implementation of an integrated maritime policy within the Mediterranean. The policy components having a transnational impact will be the focus of a survey and a synthesis concerning regional policies and their governance, the development of tr ...
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EUROPEAN FOREST FIRE NETWORKS (EUFOFINET)

Start date: Sep 30, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2012,

The protection of the world´s environment cannot be effective without national and international fire management for natural, semi-natural and cultural landscapes and ecosystems for they constitute an essential part of the habitable land and the functioning of the global system. As fires do not respect national borders, the fight against fire requires a close cooperation with the national, regiona ...
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Regional Policies for Responsible Development: evaluation of CSR and economic performance in the MED area (Responsible MED)

Start date: Jun 30, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

In Responsible MED 9 partners use transnational cooperation to evaluate and capitalise on corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a tool for competitiveness. Based on regional analyses and comparison, a common methodology and tool is developed and tested to evaluate and monitor links between CSR policy and levels of innovation and competitiveness. In promoting CSR as added value for SMEs, the pro ...
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Secur Med Plus (SECUR MED PLUS)

Start date: Mar 14, 2009, End date: Mar 14, 2012,

SECUR MED PLUS is the new project focused on maritime safety and environmental protection that the Liguria Region wants to launch in the new European programme MED . The project promotes common strategic actions aimed at strengthening safety of the maritime cluster in the Mediterranean. The new project proposal is based on the implementation, development and prosecutions of positive experiences of ...
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Animal Breeding: Quality Biodiversity Innovation Competitiveness (QUBIC)

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

The project arises from the need to settle the preservation of the biodiversity of animals, their habitats and a sustainable agricultural production in the regions where cured meat typical products are an important tradition. QUBIC will go through all the organisational and technical aspects of the production and distribution chain, taking advantage of the existing differences in term of competenc ...
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New Regional governance of the Euromed area (Medgovernance)

Start date: May 14, 2009, End date: Nov 14, 2011,

MEDGovernance is proposed by some of the most relevant regions of the area; it is aimed to analyse, to experiment, to realise and to capitalise an appropriate model of multilevel governance useful for States and Regions to support a polycentric and sustainable development of EuroMed area. The proposal is born from a supporting action from prestigious research institutes to the involved regions, it ...
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Reviews for Sustainable Eco-Regions via Europe (PRESERVE)

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

... to reaching their final goals. The first peer review took place in Banska Bystrica in Slovakia, in October with a comprehensive programme of interviews and site visits. Partners from Carinthia (AR), Tuscany (IT) and South Denmark (DK) travelled to Banska Bystrica to explored the potential of rural and spa tourism in this region. As expected, the experience proved to be a good opportunity for part ...
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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,

...sessions have been held for each good practice (Kozani, October 2008 and Brussels, February 2009). Study visits were held in 4 regions: Flanders (month8) on the good practice Parenthood Projects; Tuscany (month9) on the good practices Fabrica Ethica and PRAI VINCI; Lower Austria (month11) on Innovation Assistant, TIP Coaching and R&D Funding; and Småland och Öarna (month15) on Trainee in Time and ...
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Implementing JESSICA (Jessica4Cities)

Start date: Sep 25, 2008, End date: May 25, 2010,

JESSICA and Urban Development Funds (design and implementation of funding schemes; territorial evaluation and diagnoses; city projects and Operational Programmes, etc.) Achievements: Documents/reports:Rakesh-Bhana_Jessica_Programme.pdf17/02/2015ULSG Guidelines30/01/2015 ...
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Network for the promotion of the internal market in European regions through consumer topics (Nepim)

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

...holds could be saved through adequate measures. So Europeans have to learn to save energy. By saving energy, each consumer can contribute to solve problems linked to climate modification.In May, the Tuscany Region organized a conference about 'alternative resolution of tourism disputes' and a meeting about 'the alternative resolution of consumer disputes at regional level'.The participants were ve ...
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Co-Operation of Networks for the Creation of Effective Policies for Transportation (CONCEPT)

Start date: Mar 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

The European Commission’s Transport White Paper identified a number of issues that need to be addressed for the sustainability and competitiveness of Europe’s transportation system. Principal among these is the need to "place users at the heart of transport policy" and "shifting the balance between modes of transport", from road-based transport to rail, sea and inland waterways. The overall object ...
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Coordinating and Programming Cross-border and Trans-national Partnerships in Mediterranean and South-East Europe Areas through Stakeholder and Benchmarking Analysis (COMPART (Comparing Partnerships))

Start date: Jun 14, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

Problems addressed• Scarse coordination and programming of transnational and cross-border partnerships of EU regions with partners in the South Mediterranean shore and South-East Europe (neighbouring partners) and with external EU policies (MEDA, CARDS and future Neighbourhood instrument) Objectives• Identification of procedures to enhance the Regions’ role in the Interreg strategic programming (t ...
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Institutional support to the Tunisian Ministry of Environment and land use in the field of environmental education (PAIEE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2002, End date: Nov 30, 2006,

Background Environmental education is considered a key aspect of long-term environmental protection by Tunisian authorities. Since the early 1990s, a number of actions have been undertaken in this field. Efforts have particularly focused on schools, to increase the environmental awareness of the next generation. Specific environmental modules have been i ...
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Knowing each other: improving local governance through Community Initiatives (PACINTERREG)

Start date: Mar 31, 2004, End date: Jul 30, 2006,

The aim of the project is to make Interreg match its first goals : local development and strengthening of governance. Indeed although various good projects have succeeded on a cross border level for the past ten years, the diversity of forms of administrative andpolitical organisations in namely Mediterranean context is still an obstacle to cooperation. By harmonizing practices from those differen ...
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Coastal Governance and Adaptation Policies in the Mediterranean (COASTGAP)

COASTGAP springs after more than 10 years of shared experiences among many Mediterranean coastal Administrations and Institutions in the field of coastal adaptation to CC effects and other natural/anthropogenic threats. In 2011 these actors established the cluster FACECOAST (www.facecoast.eu) and propose COASTGAP in order to capitalize 12 Best Practices from 9 projects of the cluster (from MED and ...
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MEDiterranean Information Traffic Application (MED.I.T.A.)

Port of Livorno and Interporto Toscano, with collaboration started in TEN-T project MOS4MOS, started an experimentation of a Cargo Community System that, using low cost technologies like passive R-FID UHF, can speed up the process of access control and data acquisition on the goods. The project focuses on technology transfer of the iTPass system, already tried and tested by Interporto Toscano: wit ...
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Possibilities - The social economy innovation marketing toolbox

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

A growing shortage of jobs in Europe makes the possibilities of developing new jobs in the social economy sector more relevant than ever. In LLP, as well as in many other policies driven actions, there have been good attempts to stimulate the sector by providing training material about the possibilities of the sector. However, most of the training material is aimed at multipliers. In InoTool the i ...
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Smart Interregional Cooperation Strategy for Innovation capacities in the Energy Sector on the MED area (SMARTinMED)

SMARTinMED aims at increasing Mediterranean SMEs innovation capacities with a specific focus on renewable energies and energy efficiency. The project capitalises on the results achieved in previous European projects and specifically on IC-MED project, so to help SMEs in better facing local, national and international competition by increasing their market shares, by supporting their capacities to ...
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Transferencia de la innovación de herramienta TIC para el autodiagnóstico medioambiental y método de formación de gran interés para el sector agroalimentario.

Justification of the need at international level: The project answer a triple need of the agricultural sector and the agri-food related SMEs in the European rural areas:a).- The existing environment-related training shortage and of eco-efficiency measures of the European SMEs of the rural area,b).- The scarce implemenntation degree of environmental management systems (EMAS, ISO 14.000) considering ...
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Cross-cultural neonatal VLE - The Development of a European Virtual Learning Environment for Neonatology

The project will create a European Neonatal Virtual Learning Environment for trainee doctors studying at postgraduate level. The project will support learner-centred, flexible and collaborative learning and the sharing of best practice across the EU, promoting access to lifelong learning, particularly to those in remote areas. Common on-line assessment tools will be further developed, in a step to ...
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