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Optimising Agricultural Land Use to Mitigate Climate Change (OPAL-Life) (OPAL-Life)
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2020,
Background
Emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) from agricultural production and carbon dioxide (CO2) from agricultural land use constitute some 20% of the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of Finland. According to the Climate Convention and Kyoto Protocol, the European Union has committed to reduce its GHG emissions. In Finland, reducing ...
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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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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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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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Cleantech Incubation Europe (CIE)
Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
...rgy consumption in Finland – Viikki Environment house. Completed in September 2011, the energy-efficient office building is used by the City of Helsinki Environment Centre and the University of Helsinki. 62 people registered for the event – 51 of them participated in the seminar and 29 joined the site visit in Viikki. The seminar organizing work and the event went according to project plan and no ...
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Transboundary tools for spatial planning and conservation of the Gulf of Finland (TOPCONS)
Start date: Jan 31, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,
The aim of the project is to link the findings of the project to the outcomes of the earlier projects to support decision making by producing tools for marine spatial planning and management, including demonstrating a prototype of a marine spatial planning tool for decision making at an international, national and regional level. The aim is to test the possibilities of current technology to produc ...
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Baltic Forum for Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Manure Management (Baltic MANURE)
Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,
The Baltic Sea Basin is an area of intensive, and intensifying agricultural production. There are about 36 million units of cattle, 67 million units of pigs, and 190 million units of poultry in the region. (Gren, I.-M. et al., 2008: Cost of nutrient reductions to the Baltic Sea - technical report). Intensifying and concentration of animal production has resulted in environmental problems caused by ...
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Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society Implementation (BERAS IMPLEMENTATION)
Start date: Jun 10, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,
...nversion to ERA farms, local food chain societies including business plansGuidelines for institutions and consumers for conv. to Baltic Sea Adapted FoodGuidelines for BERAS agricultural policy, BERAS University educational package for students and teachersBSR follow-up system for eutrophication reduction ...
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Applications of ecological knowledge in managing oil spill risk (OILRISK)
Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,
All EU countries benefit from increased international commerce because trade and consumption generate welfare. The EU solidly supports free trade, and maritime traffic is the most efficient way to transport goods among countries. However, heavy maritime traffic and oil transportation, both rapidly expanding in the Gulf of Finland and in the Baltic Sea, cause a significant environmental risk. Shoul ...
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Energy Positive Farm (ENPOS)
Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,
Mechanized agriculture uses fertilizers made with fossile energy and consumes directly fossile energy in running the machinery and processes. Agriculture produces emissions both to air and water when using fossile energy. Agriculture has the possibility to give up partly or totally fossile energy usage. Besides that it has a possibilty to produce bioenergy for consumption and in this case the fa ...
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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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moting Regional Innovation System in St. Petersburg through Transnational Cooperation - SPb InnoReg (SPb InnoReg)
Start date: Dec 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2008,
The project SPb InnoReg - Promoting Regional Innovation System in St. Petersburg through Transnational Cooperation aims to promote sustainable economic development and competitiveness in the city of St. Petersburg. This is done by strengthening the regional innovation system (RIS) and improving utilization of the innovation and research potential of St. Petersburg in cooperation between Finnish, G ...
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EUROBALTIC Civil Proctection Project II (Eurobaltic II)
Start date: Sep 25, 2005, End date: Jan 24, 2008,
EUROBALTIC II is the follow up of the BSR INTERREG IIIB project "EUROBALTIC Programme for Civil Protection in the BSR", which has established a general framework of cooperation in the area of civil protection, allowed common identification of risks and need for actions in the BSR, and resulted in a joint understanding among the project partners regarding priorities for addressing shortcomings in t ...
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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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ShipNODeff - (Deposition and effects of shipborne atmospheric nitrogen emissions (ShipNODeff)
Start date: Aug 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
The project aims at development and implementation of an operational emission estimation algorithm. The algorithm consists of the following: 1) an operational air quality model to estimate the dispersion and deposition of the ship emissions; 2) an air quality and deposition measurement and model validation system, which will in the next phase be extended to a small measurement network that can iso ...
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Web database for follow up of energy and water consumption in municipal buildings (E4 Portal)
Start date: Mar 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
The project develops a database for follow-up of energy and water consumption in municipal buildings. Database created at the first phase in Finland includes at the starting point almost real-time follow-up data as well as trends in longer time-scale. The Estonian version created in the project will be introduced for the use on municipal and state-owned buildings in Estonia. The portal will be tes ...
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Risk assessment and risk management procedure for arsenic in the Tampere region (RAMAS)
Start date: Dec 1, 2004, End date: Nov 30, 2007,
Background
Arsenic is classified by the World Health Organisation as a group 1 human carcinogen. Drinking water is the main source of inorganic arsenic in humans. The WHO recommended limit is 10 µg/l. Lung, bladder and skin cancers can result from concentrations of 50 µg/l or more. Arsenic intake levels in Europe vary from 63 µg/day in England to 286  ...
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Nature Centres and Environmental Interpretation in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR EAGLE)
Start date: Sep 2, 2004, End date: Nov 29, 2007,
Interreg IIIB project BSR EAGLE Nature Centres and Environmental Interpretation in the Baltic Sea Region brings together nature interpreters and nature education centres from 10 Baltic Sea Region countries to network and to improve skills.The vision of the project was to improve the role and contribution of nature centres and environmental interpretation as a part of the society's strengthening of ...
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Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society (BERAS )
Start date: Feb 28, 2003, End date: Mar 30, 2006,
The goal of the project was the evaluation and demonstration of the potential of ecological recycling-based agriculture, combined with priority for local and regional processing, distribution and consumption, in order to reduce consumption of limited resources, emissions of greenhouse gases and nitrogen and phosphorus pollution to the Baltic Sea area by half or more, according to politically decid ...
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art II: EUROBALTIC Programme for Civil Protection in the Baltic Sea Region (Part II: EUROBALTIC)
Start date: Nov 15, 2004, End date: Mar 14, 2006,
...ber 2003Polish-Lithuanian Rescue Cooperation Seminar, Wigry, Poland, October 2003Safe Community Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2003Meeting in Karlskoga/Karlstad on Cooperation between Karlstad University and St. Petersburg University on high level education and training on risks management initiated, November 2003112 workshop, Vilnius, Lithuania, December 2003Safe Community Workshop, Skövde ...
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Spatial effects of natural and technological hazards (Natural hazards)
Start date: Feb 12, 2003, End date: Nov 15, 2005,
The main aim of the project is to represent the spatial patterns of natural and technological hazards in administrative regions of the ESPON space, on NUTS 3 level.Hazards are natural extreme events or technological accident phenomena that can lead to threats and damages among the population, the environment and/or material assets. 11 hazards, both relevant for the ESPON space and for spatial plan ...
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Sea Level Change Effecting the Spatial Development in the Baltic Sea Region (SEAREG )
Start date: Jun 21, 2002, End date: Mar 31, 2005,
The project aimed at supporting local and regional planners by transforming existing data sets from natural scientific research projects into an applicable format for spatial planning. The main objective was to create a tool for regional planners and natural scientists how to cooperate in the light of climate change in long term spatial planning. The tool was going to be designed as a decision sup ...
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Interrobo
Start date: Dec 31, 2002, End date: Mar 30, 2005,
...ng technology for animal husbandry welfare measurement systems. The cooperation is based on the connection of new wireless on-line measurement systems, which are investigated in Estonian Agricultural University (EAU) in Tartu, and the new automatic milking technology, which is in use at the Suitia experiment farm in Helsinki University (HU). The aim is to establish a Finnish-Estonian technology re ...
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EUROBALTIC Programme for Civil Protection in the Baltic Sea Region (EUROBALTIC )
Start date: Mar 16, 2003, End date: Jan 15, 2005,
...-Lithuanian Rescue Cooperation Seminar, Wigry, Poland, October 2003Safe Community Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2003112 workshop, Vilnius, Lithuania, December 2003Cooperation between Karlstad University and St. Petersburg University on high level education and training on risks management initiated and planning meeting in Karlskoga/Karlstad, October 2003Safe Community Workshop, Skövde, Swe ...
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Training network of 3 Finnish and 3 Estonian regions
Start date: Oct 31, 2001, End date: Dec 30, 2004,
The aim is to develop networks and co-operate in development of vocational training institutions. Subthemes for cross-border activities are: exchange of information, vocational adult training, e-learning and entrepreneur training. Target areas: Kymenlaakso, Itä-Uusimaa, Päijät-Häme in Finland and Lääne-Viru, Ida-Viu and Jõgeva in Estonia
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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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Joint Curriculum in Teacher Education
Start date: Oct 1, 2007,
The project focuses on the theoretical teacher education courses. The organisation of teaching practice by student teachers in different countries will be done in another project. The first project year will be used to develop the program and most of the courses. The second year will be a pilot year where several student teachers from each partner will do the courses we will develop. Furthermore i ...
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EMDEL will both develop a model European Teletraining System, to promote and encourage increased use of individual educational modules (as produced by the various project partners) and further define procedures for the production of Teletraining materials.The project will develop an on-line showcase of 'best practice' distance-training modules and will produce and circulate a basic software progra ...
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The aim of the ELSY project is to produce English language (EN) multimedia training tools which will enable people who have few qualifications to acquire the basic vocabulary needed to work in an airport, whatever their working language (FR, ES, IT or DE), so as to make it easier for them to find work and to keep it.The multimedia training tools produced will focus on four specific trades: runway ...
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The project consortium is composed of 3 EU and 3 RU HEIs, 1 EU and 2 RU professional organisations in the field of land survey, cartography and land management. In addition the Russian Federal Education Agency is member of the consortium. The specific objectives are: "* to introduce new Master programme in accordance with the Bologna process at three Russian universities by June 2011;* to modernis ...
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It aims at teaching and learning of mathematics through a website-based programme emphasizing simulation as key pathway for making understandable the mathematic concepts and for allowing teachers and students to introduce their contributions in terms of symbolic language and numeric data. According to the proposal, many efforts have been done in recent years in e.learning for mathematic studies, b ...
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The aim of the project is to improve the skills and competencies of rural entrepreneurs and local development managers and to set up a three-week summer school to provide training for people from all over Europe. The idea behind the project is to close the gap that exists between the demand and supply of skills to plan and manage sustainable local development in rural areas. It will deal mainly w ...
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TRACE means "Transparent Competences in Europe" and will develop, implement and test a coherent, systemic framework for the transparency and interoperability of competences systems in the European knowledge based societies in the e- learning sector. Two target groups are envisaged: practitioners of the e- learning sector and those of the guidance sector. A "Competences Translator" should contribut ...
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The SPIDERWEB Project will review approaches to the issue of 'educational dropouts' across the involved European partner countries. It will implement a program of activities to identify and respond to the issues of dropouts based upon accepted and tested theories in career & psychological counselling in both Europe and the USA.A range of activities will be undergone to include: a response analysis ...
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The KNOWOODNET project focuses on the definition of a training course targeted at technicians having specific professional skills in the wood and furniture sector. In order to achieve this, the project will develop innovative educational strategies towards the development of appropriate professional training in the furniture sector and will define common, transferable and accredited skills standar ...
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European Diploma in Intercultural Competence
Start date: Oct 1, 2009,
The project “EDICC” aims at developing an academic curriculum for Continuing Education on Intercultural Competence. Demand for intercultural competence in Europe is growing. Labour mobility, cooperation between countries and competitiveness of European businesses increase the need for culture sensitive working practices. In a culturally complex setting, it is necessary to be able to choose the rig ...
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The project addresses the wood sector and intends to create a modern multimedia version of the structural timber education programme with new material and a new presentation approach, using existing technology in e-learning and adapting it to the new context of the timber education programme. The internet based material will be available at www.innovawood.com, an Internet portal for the forest and ...
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