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Alpine Ecosystem Services – mapping, maintenance and management (AlpES)

Start date: Dec 16, 2015, End date: Dec 15, 2018,

Description (EN): Ecosystems and their services go beyond national borders and need a transnational approach for their dynamic protection, sustainable use, management and risk prevention. As a basis for joint action, public authorities, policy makers, NGOs, researchers and economic actors – the AlpES target groups – need a common understanding of ecosystem services, comparable infor ...
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Assessing subsurface potentials of the Alpine Foreland Basins for sustainable planning and use of natural resources (GeoMol)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

To meet the EU’s ambitious targets for carbon emission reduction, renewable energy production must strongly be upgraded and made more efficient and capable for grid energy storage. Alpine Foreland Basins feature a unique geological inventory which can contribute substantially to tackle these challenges. Deep ‘Molasse’ basins at the fringe of the Alpine mountain range offer an abundant geothermal p ...
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lanning sustainable regional-Urban Mobility in the Alpine Space (PUMAS)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Alpine Space cities face common urban mobility challenges which call for innovative and cost-effective mobility solutions. PUMAS offers these solutions: It coordinates the development of the sustainable regional-urban mobility planning (SUMP) concept which the European Commission strongly promotes and, in its 2011 Transport White Paper, even suggests as a mandatory approach. The PUMAS partnership ...
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Capitalising Climate Change Knowledge for Adaptation in the Alpine Space (C3-Alps)

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

C3-Alps will synthesize, transfer and implement in policy and practice results of previous Alpine Space projects on climate change adaptation. The capitalisation approach aims at a) generating new and directly usable forms of state-of-the-art synthesis adaptation knowledge in the Alps, harmonised across sectors and useful to adaptation decision-makers, b) its effective and tailor-made communicatio ...
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Spatial Planning and Health Systems: enhancing territorial governance in Alpine Space (SPHERA)

Start date: Aug 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

An effective territorial governance can positively address an inclusive growth under different dimensions. Those targeted by the SPHERA cluster project are health and spatial planning as areas where interventions such as accessibility to services of general interest, demographic change, social cohesion and quality of life are driver towards the progress of an inclusive growth. The current Alpine S ...
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Joint Disaster Management risk assessment and preparedness in the Danube macro-region (SEERISK)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The main purpose of this project is to improve coherence and consistency among risk assessments undertaken by the countries at national and local level, and especially in case of disasters intensified by climate change. The project builds on the EU Council conclusions on "Further Developing Risk Assessment for Disaster Management within the European Union" adopted in March 2011, that aims for a co ...
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Strategic Territorial Agendas for "Small and Middle-Sized Towns" Urban Systems  (STATUS)

Start date: Nov 30, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

The STATUS project is tackling the problem of incoherent urban and regional development in South Eastern European and neighbouring countries by jointly developing an approach that can help cities and regions in making integrated and sustainable urban agendas and place based strategies by participatory planning tools. It aims to enrich the pool of development, regeneration and management tools in u ...
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New innovative solutions to adapt governance and management of public infrastructure and services to demographic change in shrinking regions and cities of CE (ADAPT2DC)

Start date: Oct 31, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Shrinking regions and cities are becoming a more and more relevant issue in central Europe. Especially former border regions (Iron curtain) are particularly affected by demographic and social change. On the other hand these regions have large potentials which have to be explored and used. The consequences of demographic change and increasing scarcity of public resources thus require a fundamental ...
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Mobility and Residential Costs (MORECO)

Start date: Jun 30, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

Insufficient accessibility to public transport services is one of the results of urban sprawl arising out of the dynamic settlement development in the hinterland of Alpine cities. This forces people to motorised private transport which causes environmental pollution, traffic congestion, high follow-up costs for infrastructure, high individual mobility costs and high time expenditure for commuting ...
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Innovation flows, European network for the city economy - In.FLOW.ence (In.FLOW.ence)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 30, 2013,

InFLOWence works on the strengthening of the competitive potentials that one territory has when the FUNCTIONAL LINKS between centre and subcentres are valorised by creating the appropriate integration process.TOOLS and INSTRUMENTS of participation and CAPACITY BUILDING processes are implemented and diffused.Proj's approach is applied and validate both at institutional and economic level through ag ...
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Demographic change in the Alps: adaptation strategies to spatial planning and regional development (DEMOCHANGE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Aug 30, 2012,

...nding metropolitans. Beside the general trend of the aging of the Europeans there exist additional Alpine specific factors of regional different influence: migration (in – out), commuting (rural to urban areas) settlement and housing (costs - quality), change of regional demand for public services (e.g. transport, healthcare, education) or the change of consumer behavior in key economies (e.g. nut ...
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Utilisation of post-mining potentials for sustainable re-development in Central European mining cities and regions (ReSOURCE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Mar 30, 2012,

Mining regions in general are representing a type of regions which are characterised by sustainability deficits as well as competitiveness deficits at the end of the mining process in an area. Structural weakness causes migration counteracting the cohesion objective.In most cases when mines are closed, the neighbouring cities and regions experience dramatic crises . Resources are left behind, whic ...
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Manager Coordinating Brownfield Redevelopment Activities (COBRA MAN)

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

In times of increasing urban sprawl also due to negative environmental impacts the need for preservation of green land is rising. Effective management of revitalisation processes and related tools are the urban contribution to growth and jobs within cities and regions. Moreover it strives to combat related social and spatial segregation threatening the competitiveness of Central European cities. I ...
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Climate Change Adaptation by Spatial Planning in the Alpine Space (CLISP)

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

Climate change impacts, esp. growing risks from natural hazards, increasingly threaten settlements, infrastructure, lives and future development in the Alpine Space. CLISP aims at preventing increasing climate change-related spatial conflicts, vulnerability, damages and costs by providing "climate proof" spatial planning solutions as a substantial basis for future sustainable territorial developme ...
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Urban Green as a Key for Sustainable Cities (GreenKeys)

Start date: Apr 30, 2005, End date: Apr 29, 2008,

GreenKeys focuses on the improvement of urban green spaces as a step for more sustainable cities. The three main objectives are (1) to provide incentives for structural changes in cities by offering possibilities for improvement of green spaces. The partner cities will develop together with local stakeholders a strategic approach for the pilot project to create new or improve existing green areas ...
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Climate Change, Impacts and Adaptation Strategies in the Alpine Space (ClimChAlp)

Start date: Feb 28, 2006, End date: Mar 30, 2008,

"Climate change, impacts and adaptation strategies in the Alpine Space” is a strategic project with the aim to give concrete input to a future Alpine Space Programme based on conclusions about the type of climate changes in the Alpine Space and its potential effects. By a general assessment of historical climate changes and its impacts as well as by climate models, future scenarios and their effec ...
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GENDER ALP! Spatial development for women and men. An innovative administration network to assure quality planning practice and to promote gender mainstreaming as a top down strategy (GENDER ALP!)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

GENDER ALP! aims for the implementation of mandatory instruments in administrations at local and regional level for a sustainable spatial development and public house-holding practice following a gender sensitive approach, in short: to implement the EU-policy of gender mainstreaming into the decision making process of the Alpine countries. The project intends to support local and regional administ ...
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Railroad Areas Reclaim (RARE)

Start date: Jun 30, 2005, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

Railway stations and areas in urban centres are common features and organic parts of most large European cities. They play a significant role regarding functional and interaction patterns in urban areas. However in the last decades, various tasks which were previously performed by railway stations have been transferred to the urban periphery - for example, many new logistics centres were built out ...
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Integrated analysis of transnational and national territories (Zooming)

Start date: Oct 12, 2004, End date: Jul 5, 2006,

The first ESPON projects have presented their final reports presenting new insights on territorial development in Europe and the territorial effects of sector policies. Territorial disparities are often the reflection of strong inequalities in the endowment of these territories in terms of competitiveness factors and structural intervention. Sector policies and instruments can have a significant i ...
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Art nouveau & écologie / Art Nouveau & Ecology

Start date: May 1, 2010,

Gathered around Art Nouveau (AN), a movement born in Europe in the late 19th century, 13 institutions from 10 countries joined in the project Art Nouveau & Ecology to study in a pan European and interdisciplinary perspective, the relation between Art Nouveau and the contemporary issue of ecology (E) through a series of actions, which encourage transnational mobility of workers and cultural objects ...
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Marketing and govERning innovative industrial areas (MER)

MER project is based on the core value that green marketing and management of industrial areas can be a key factor for attracting investments in the European area. MER is aimed at translating selected results of previous projects into concrete long-term tools for sustainable and responsible economic development. MER aims at establishing a -network of network-� to share experience in the green mark ...
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MED Sha.p.e.s. Sharing prior excellence and support for the MED creative asset (Sha.p.e.s.)

Shapes is focused on the excellences of the Knowledge/Creative Economy in the MEDarea. In this area are concentrated in fact the most appreciated talents/brands/know-hows worldwide. The creative asset directly or indirectly produces cultural products and includes not only commercial/production/service enterprises but also artists, public and non-profit organizations. For this reason Shapes is also ...
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