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Baltic Sea cooperation for reducing ship and port emissions through knowledge and innovation-based competitiveness (BSR InnoShip)

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

Maritime transport constitutes a vitally important part of trade and services for the countries around the Baltic Sea and Europe. Baltic shipping is constantly growing and some of the busiest shipping routes in the world go through the Baltic Sea. Consequently, the sensitive environment of the Baltic Sea is threatened by increasing pollution from the shipping industry. Through international agreem ...
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n Urban Reduction of Eutrophication (PURE)

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

...t-effective way. Project results and methods will be compiled into a book of good practices in chemical phosphorus removal and sustainable sludge handling at municipal WWTPs. Project partners include Union of the Baltic Cities Commission on Environment (UBC EnvCom) as lead partner, John Nurminen Foundation (JNF), HELCOM, Riga Water, Brest Vodokanal, Luebeck and several other central locations arou ...
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Climate Change Response through Managing Urban Europe-27 Platform (CHAMP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

... Europeans are starting to experience the tangible impacts of global warming first hand, for example through heat waves, floods, storms and forest fires. The European Union currently has a target of limiting global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial global temperature. EU policy is based on the findings of the Intergovernmental Pan ...
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Integrated management system for Russian cities - MATRUSCHKA (MATRUSCHKA)

End date: Dec 30, 2008,

MATRUSCHKA aimed at strengthening the capacity of local authorities and developing their city planning process. It contributed to the development of a solid foundation within local authorities upon which long-term planning decisions could be made to support sustainable development. Both EU and Russian cities either initiated or further elaborated their Integrated Management Systems around a chosen ...
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Baltic Urban Sustainable Transport Implementation and Planning (BUSTRIP)

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

The core objective of the project was to develop solutions for the decoupling of economic and transport growth in 12 Baltic Sea Region cities and their functional urban areas, and to make these solutions available to other cities in BSR and Europe through a transferable tool. The project has focused on strengthening the medium-sized and secondary cities, to enable the cities to become engines for ...
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Integrated Solutions for Sustainability Management in Baltic Cities (SUSTAINMENT)

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

The SUSTAINMENT project aims to meet the needs and challenges of local authorities in moving towards a more integrated sustainability process. The intention is to further develop the current sustainable development processes of the municipalities by creating models for Sustainability Management Centres (SMC), including cross-sectoral policy integration, increased stakeholder participation, and mon ...
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NEW HANSA OF SUSTAINABLE PORTS AND CITIES (NEW HANSA)

Start date: Mar 5, 2003, End date: Dec 14, 2005,

...int policy document - the Baltic Sea Memorandum of Understanding on Sustainable Ports (MoU). Wide commitment to this policy paper will be sought among cities, ports and other stakeholders through the Union of the Baltic Cities (102 members). In practice the project has 4 work packages. Work packages 1-3 analyze socio-economic, social, environmental, spatial impacts and information on national, Eur ...
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