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Safer Roads for Users

Start date: May 22, 2013, End date: Jul 21, 2015,

The main objective of the Project is to eliminate border effect expressed with difference in road accident risks for road users in EU and RF sides of Barents Region. Harmonisation of principles and instruments to manage accident risk for users, caused by factor "Road and its surrounding" is expected to be able harmonise road conditions both sides of the border, improve fluency of road transport fl ...
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The Barents Freeway

Start date: Sep 3, 2012, End date: May 30, 2015,

Economic and social development of local communities in the Kolarctic area through optimization of transport infrastructure development on a base of the common Barents Region Transport Strategy responding to new challenges arising in the Arctic and Northern periphery. Achievements: ...
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Barents Low Volume Road Management

Start date: Jan 4, 2011, End date: Jul 4, 2013,

The overall objective is in the project: harmonisation of regional practices on the voluntary basis rather than by directives. Developing the economy of Kolarctic core regions through improving of their currently non-adequately managed low volume road networks resulting in better economic activity and improved access to their regional, national and international markets. The specific objectives ar ...
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Detailed inundation planning in the lower part of Tornio River

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

Main purpose with this project is that municipalities and concerned authorities on both sides of Tornio River can meet an inundation with as small damage for society as possible. This will be done by Finland and Sweden in a common thorough investigation of areas threatened by flooding along Tornio River as well as informing, education and exercise with people concerned in Rescue Services Agency.
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Climate Change - Adapting to The Impacts, by Communities in Northern Peripheral Regions 1.15 (Clim-ATIC)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Feb 27, 2011,

...ism opportunities 7. 'Stay & Play' - selling alternative activities to the winter sports market in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland 8. Future tourism prospects for local communities in Finnish Lapland 9. Develop a prototype lightweight and sustainable tourist hut in Greenland. Theme 4: Risk management and response 10. A river restoration project in Glen Urquhart, Scotland, to increase ecolo ...
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Restoration and protection of the River Simojoki (Simojoki)

Start date: May 1, 2002, End date: Apr 30, 2007,

Background Finland’s Lapland region contains numerous important but endangered natural habitats. The EU’s Natura 2000 programme designated 46 of them to be protected or restored to support biodiversity. The Simojoki river in southern Lapland is one area identified for conservation under the programme. It has survived in a near-natural state as one of ...
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Protection and usage of aapa mires with a rich avifauna (Aapa & Avi)

Start date: Nov 1, 2000, End date: Oct 31, 2005,

...Finnish countryside. Their ecological and regional diversity in terms of both species and natural habitat types is greater in Finland than in any other area of the same size in the world. The central Lapland aapa mire zone forms a broad belt of wetland areas from east to west in northern Finland. It is important both as a nesting area for birds and as a resting and feeding area for migrating and m ...
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Bothnian Arc - Arctic Coastal Tourism Region (BothnianArc-ACTion )

Start date: Jun 25, 2002, End date: Sep 24, 2005,

Bothnian Arc is a Swedish-Finnish coastal zone in the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia with a sub-arctic climate. Thanks to the Gulf Stream, it has four distinct seasons and offers exotic tourism destinations in an arctic coast and archipelago milieu. However the tourism profile of the region and tourism competence there have to be strengthened. A trans-national co-operation for the developmen ...
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Integrated Management System for the Bothnian Bay (Bothnian Bay Life)

Start date: Aug 1, 2001, End date: Jan 31, 2005,

Background The Bothnian Bay, the Northernmost basin of the Baltic sea, is located between Sweden and Finland. With its exceptional marine environment, fauna and flora, it is unique in a European perspective. Covered with ice for several months each year, the Bay is characterised by low biological production, relatively low biodiversity and brackish water ...
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