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SynchroniCity: Delivering an IoT enabled Digital Single Market for Europe and Beyond (SynchroniCity)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

SynchroniCity represents the first attempt to deliver a Single Digital City Market for Europe by piloting its foundations at scale in 11 reference zones - 8 European cities & 3 more worldwide cities - connecting 34 partners from 11 countries over 4 continents. Building upon a mature European knowledge base derived from initiatives such as OASC, FIWARE, FIRE, EIP-SCC, and including partners with le ...
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Building an IoT OPen innovation Ecosystem for connected smart objects (bIoTope)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings opportunities for creating new services and products, reducing costs for societies, increasing the service level for the citizens in a number of areas, and changing how services are sold and consumed. Despite these opportunities, current information system architectures create obstacles that must be addressed for leveraging the full potential of IoT. One of the ...
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IFA VET mobility+ 2016

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

The funding applied for within the framework of the project will be used to finance stays abroad for a total of 555 individuals and 8 accompanying persons.337 apprentices will complete a 2 to 6 week internship specifically suited to their profession, individual level of training, knowledge and skills at a company active in their professional field. IFA will organize internships in small groups sta ...
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Mobility Without Frontiers

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

One of Europe's priorities for 2020 is to invest in education and to encourage people to “learn, study and update their skills in order to increase employability across Europe. " In this context our objectives are to offer the opportunity of undertaking a vocational training placement abroad to 48 male & female students of a wide age range between 18 up to 60 from different socio economic backgr ...
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IFA VET mobility+ 2015

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

The funding applied for within the framework of the project will be used to finance stays abroad for a total of 542 individuals and 30 accompanying persons. 340 apprentices will complete a 3 to 6 week internship specifically suited to their profession, individual level of training, knowledge and skills at a company active in their professional field. IFA will organize internships in small groups s ...
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Shared Standards for Open Data and Public Sector Information (Share-PSI 2.0)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

...work. Localisation will cover language(s) but, more importantly, it will refer to the specific implementation methods that apply in those countries. For example, how to contact a specific national or city-wide data portal, which controlled vocabularies should be used, which licence(s) is/are appropriate and so on.The result will be country-specific guidance on implementing a harmonised approach to ...
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IFA VET mobility+ 2014

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

The funding applied for within the framework of the project will be used to finance stays abroad for a total of 559 individuals and 37 accompanying persons. 321 apprentices will complete a 4 to 6 week internship specifically suited to their profession, individual level of training, knowledge and skills at a company active in their professional field. IFA will organize internships in small groups f ...
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Benchmarking water protection in cities (CITYWATER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

...se understandable environmental communication and demonstrate the cost-benefit relationship of voluntary water protection measures in order to effectively convey the importance of such actions. The 'CITYWATER' project will be based on the Baltic Sea Challenge Initiative, which will be used as a demonstration basis for the project implementation. The initiative links a network of more than 170 act ...
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Learning Through Mobility

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

One of Europe's priorities for 2020 is to invest in education and to encourage people to “learn, study and update their skills in order to increase employability across Europe. " In this context our objectives are to offer the opportunity of undertaking a vocational training placement abroad to 48 male & female students of a wide age range between 18 up to 60 from different socio economic backgr ...
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Best winter maintenance practices to reduce respirable street dust in urban areas - demonstration of best practices, strategy development and implementation (REDUST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

...(e.g. Scandinavia, the Baltic, North America and Japan). In Finland, it is considered to be one of the most problematic air pollutants, causing most of the high pollution episode days in urban areas. City residents are very aware of the street dust problem, which causes annoyance and health problems, especially for those who suffer from respiratory diseases. For this reason, the issue attracts con ...
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Commons for Europe (Commons4EU)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

...tuencies in ways that reduce administrative cost and engage citizens more effectively.- Support the move toward transparency and collaboration.-Be shareable, meaning that an application built for one city could be used by any other city.2) Bottom-up-Broadband Commons. Exploring with users in real-life environments, three new technologies: Super Wifi, Sensor integration into wifi networks and fiber ...
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Cleantech Incubation Europe (CIE)

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

... conference 'Cleantech Incubation Policy and Practice'; where all results, experiences of the project will be showed and policymakers will be informed how to tackle clean tech incubation in their city or region. The project will be supported by a website 'Policy and Practice; Cleantech Incubation Europe', focused on all actors in the field of clean tech incubation (policymakers, incubators, knowle ...
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EcoPark

Start date: Dec 21, 2012, End date: Dec 20, 2014,

The main goal of this project is to improve energy efficiency in the areas of cross-border cooperation (the South-East Finland and North-West of Russia). For the development of construction in Kouvola, Helsinki, Lappeenranta, St. Petersburg and Leningrad region is supposed to create an information platform on energy efficiency, construction and professional education, to consolidate educational in ...
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Smart City Service Development Kit and its Application Pilots (CitySDK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

We will produce three large-scale pan-European smart city service pilots in the eight partner cities. The pilots are in the domains of smart mobility, smart participation and smart tourism. A combination of city organisations' leadership, collaboration between the cities, and a large amount of partners' relevant existing services, interfaces, software, practices and standards in these domains are ...
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MLG support to the implementation of PA 11 in the EU Baltic Sea Strategy (BSR TransGovernance)

Start date: Jun 12, 2012, End date: Sep 11, 2014,

PA Transport of the EUSBSR calls for coordination of national transport policies and actions to ensure a harmonised transnational development of the transport system. The ensured thematic focus and established links between the above initiatives helped achieve certain stage of coordination and complementarity. However, fuller integration of the approaches, which would enable better development and ...
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Baltic Metropolises Accelerating Branding and Identity Building of the Baltic Sea Region (ONE BSR)

Start date: Jun 12, 2012, End date: Sep 11, 2014,

...nd inside the region. The objectives of the project are to market the whole region and its different parts by developing joint promotional services and to test them in practice; to make positive publicity of the BSR lifestyles and to encourage the we-feeling of the Baltic Sea Region.ONE BSR project is implemented by 17 partners from around the entire BSR. ONE BSR partnership is built on expert org ...
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The gateway to news and views in the Baltic Sea macro-Region (NewsWave)

Start date: Jun 12, 2012, End date: Sep 11, 2014,

NewsWave is a regional daily news website, which aims to improve information exchange and cross-border communication in the Baltic Sea macro-region and promote a more distinct regional identity or we-feeling. The NewsWave project will engage local young news spotters in delivering stories for the website. All news will be redistributed to a network of receivers in all the countries (newspapers, ne ...
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Design led Innovations for Active Ageing (DAA)

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

...he Design led Innovations for Active Ageing project consists of a network of cities that drastically need to find economic and innovative yet sustainable solutions for senior care. Each participating city brings forth a best practice in the field of senior care and a need for a change of policy in that area. The project’s starting point is a shared European challenge: Demographic ageing is identif ...
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Empowerment of Families with Children

Start date: Apr 28, 2011, End date: Apr 27, 2014,

To improve the welfare of families in Finnish-Russian border area, to ensure high quality and easy access services in multicultural society both in Finland and Russia. To increase understanding of each others’ social service system and family culture.Specific objectives: To enhance the competence of social and health care professionals working in a multicultural environment and improve the compete ...
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moting the innovative Baltic Fashion industry throughout the Baltic Sea Region (Baltic Fashion)

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

... is intended to fill this gap. It links into the EU BSR strategy priority 8, which calls for actions to strengthen SMEs, especially in the creative sector, and to promote female entrepreneurship. The city of Gdynia is a partner in the project and organizer of the Gdynia Design Days (“cooperative action” under priority 8). In addition to its contribution to (female & non-metropole) employment, the ...
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CLEAN BALTIC SEA SHIPPING (CleanShip)

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

...gion 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 shoreside electricity. It also elaborates future solutions to stop all sewage releases from ships into the Baltic Sea. The project shall result in a web-based Pan-Baltic Best Practice Manual and a strategy for Clean S ...
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Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society Implementation (BERAS IMPLEMENTATION)

Start date: Jun 10, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

BERAS Implementation offers a response to the challenges to achieve a good environmental status in the Baltic Sea, reinforce sustainable agriculture and enhance rural development in the region.Objectives:Contribute to solving the problem of excessive nutrient losses from agricultural through introduction of conversion to Ecological Recycling Agriculture (ERA) in all countries of the BSRDevelop a s ...
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Rail Baltica Growth Corridor (RBGC)

Start date: Jun 10, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

The RBGC is led by the City of Helsinki and coordinated by the Aalto University Small Business Center. The project has in total of 21 partners from 6 BSR countries. Target groups of the RBGC are City and regional authorities, Transport service providers, Logistics centers, Intermodal terminals, Public transport authorities, Universities and other research centers. RBGC's partner composition is bas ...
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Mitigation of and Adaptation to the Climate Change in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area - From Strategy to Implementation (Julia 2030)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

...rategy for adaptation to climate change in the Helsinki metropolitan area. A main aim of the project was to demonstrate and verify the positive impact that CO2 calculators – developed for city residents and municipal administration personnel – play in mitigating climate change in a municipal area. Expected results of the project included: 5% decrease in CO2 emissions for public procuremen ...
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Making Knowledge Work (MKW)

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

The Making Knowledge Work (MKW) consortium consists of 12 ambitious regions wishing to improve their regional innovation capacity. They all observe that excellent research does not always find its way into commercially valuable innovations and excellent ideas are often not used. Policy action is needed to bridge the gap in the innovation chain. It asks for projects on micro level and meso level st ...
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Innovation Policy in University City Regions (INNOPOLIS)

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

...sed by regional authorities in transfering best policy practice, and thus actively supporting knowledge co-creation between universities & enterprises. The activities of INNOPOLIS focus on university city-regions, defined here as localities with at least three multi-departmental universities and at least 60,000 students (students used as a proxy of university knowledge endowments). This choice is ...
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Helsinki-Tallinn Transport and Planning Scenarios (H-TTransPlan)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

In Estonia and in Finland the closer integration of the countries is seen important to support competitiveness of the sparsely populated area. The Helsinki-Tallinn twin-city region (HTTCR) is seen as the driver of integration due to proximity of the capitals. Despite vision documents created in all political levels, the region is not yet truly developed together. The project will discuss the imp ...
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Creating promotional BSR products for tourists, talents and investors in the global markets (BaltMet Promo)

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

...de BSR. Promo supports the objectives of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region by aligning its horizontal activities in the fields of identity building, marketing and branding.Project is led by City of Helsinki and coordinated by Aalto University/CEMAT. Project works from the metropolitan and transnational perspective in the framework of Baltic Metropoles Network (BaltMet) and Baltic Developme ...
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SNOOP - Shipping-induced NOx and SOx emissions – OPerational monitoring network (SNOOP)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

Based on an existing framework of ship exhaust emission estimation, SNOOP aims to take the strategic evaluation of ship emission effects to a new level by enlargement the scope from nitrogen oxides to SOx, PM, CO, CO2 emissions. The cause-effect chains are studied by monitoring ambient air quality and estimating its human health effects in harbour areas, by modelling the nitrogen input from ship e ...
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Advanced Pilots of Living Labs Operating in Networks (APOLLON)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2012,

The APOLLON project proposal addresses the call of the European Commission to pilot and share best practices in cross-border Living labs networks. The core focus of Living Labs is to improve the R&D process by early participation and clustering of end users and business stakeholders, including SMEs. APOLLON will demonstrate the positive impacts of collaborative cross-border Living Lab networking b ...
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Baltic Sea Challenge - Cities for a Healthier Sea (Baltic Sea Challenge)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

...ures which have an influence on the state of the local waters as well as on the entire Baltic Sea by reducing loading and promoting such management and operations that enhance water protection in the city administration. In addition to shaping up their own performance, the cities of Helsinki and Turku have continued by challenging other actors to do the same. The challenge campaign has been a succ ...
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Baltic Sea Innovation Network Centres (BaSIC)

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

BaSIC aims to build a “Baltic Sea Archipelago of Innovation” (recommendation of BaltMetInno). The objective is to create a seamless working environment for fast growth innovative SME all over the Baltic Sea Region, embedded in a reliable network of leading Science Parks and clusters. Emphasis is given to identify, select, train and coach SME-gazelles; to provide them harmonized access to markets ( ...
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Climate Change: Impacts, Costs and Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region (BaltCICA)

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

Climate change was recognized not only in terms of mitigation but also because of the need of adaptation as a major challenge that cannot be solved solely by single actors and territorial restricted actions, but asks for a coordination and support at a higher level. This is highlighted by the EU Green Paper on Adaptation to Climate Change, but also by other documents such as the EC Thematic Strate ...
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Clusters & Cities Network (CLUSNET)

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

... are important because they allow companies to be more productive than they would be in isolation. Supporting clusters has therefore become an important element in the economic development efforts of city-regions. However, the nature and impact of such efforts vary enormously, making it difficult for decision makers to find the right combination of tools that most effectively support cluster. City ...
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Communicating the Baltic (COBWEB)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

...ip. The project’s Expert Forums and workshops arranged, environmental education trainings, exhibitions, materials and programmes produced aim to improve the substantial and outreach technical capacity in promoting sustainable development. The project website allows to a visitor both access to each material separately and to adventurous drama pedagogical role tours through the materials that chal ...
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Creating Attracitve, Developed and Dynamic Societies together with Inhabitants (CADDIES)

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

... Achievements: The CADDIES project improved living conditions and enhanced inclusion of people living in the 20th century city neighbourhoods of Helsinki, Norrköping and Riga. The project motivated various inhabitant groups to participate and take responsibility for their own house, block or neighbourhood in a sustainable w ...
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Eco-support activity - working together for a better environment (Eco-support Activity)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

The objective of the project is to increase environmental awareness by implementing the eco-support activity in the municipalities of the partner organisations, Helsinki, Kotka, Hämeenlinna, Tallinn, Tartu and Rakvere. Implementing the activity reduces the direct and indirect environmental loads of the organisations. Helsinki and Tallinn have just started the activity in a previous cross-border co ...
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ublic Policies and Instruments in Support of Creative Industries (CREATIVE METROPOLES)

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

... intellectual property, form an integral part of the knowledge economy (Interreg IV C Operational Programme). Through exchanging experience and good practices, this project aims to strengthen the capacity and effectiveness of public support to unlock and support the economic potential of the creative economy. In particular, 5 policy areas are addressed within the project:1. Structure of public sup ...
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Covenant of Mayors in the Central Baltic Capitals (COMBAT)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

The climate challenge is a burning problem with no single solutions. The Central Baltic Capitals are struggling with many aspects in their environmental strategies. Energy savings includes all sectors, which is a challenge for the cities. By signing the Covenant of Mayors, the Central Baltic Capitals expressed their ambition by the formal commitment of going beyond the objectives of the EU in term ...
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Cruise Traffic and Urban Regeneration (CTUR)

Start date: Jan 18, 2009, End date: Jul 18, 2011,

... Achievements: Documents/reports:CTUR_7th_seminar_Rhodes_9_-10_december_2010.pdf20/02/2015Definitive_Programme_CTUR_steering_Committee_Helsinki_9_-_10_March_2011x.pdf20/02/2015CTUR citynews N. 8/2010 Rhodes20/02/2015CTUR citynews N. 9/2011 Helsinki20/02/2015CTUR meeting report/918/02/2015More documents and information is available under:http://urbact.eu/ctur
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