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Making Migration Work for Development - Policy tools for strategic planning in SEE regions and cities (MMWD)
Start date: Apr 30, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,
The focus of the project is to enhance policy-making, reinforcing the capacity of public administrations to understand, anticipate and strategically manage the implications of demographic change for the growth and cohesion of European regions and cities, and for the overall integration of the SEE area. Local and regional authorities are at the forefront in facing the effects of current demographic ...
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moting the ecological network in the European Green Belt (Greennet)
Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2014,
...to solve spatial conflicts identified in the pilot regions concerned. Those instruments for the needs and conditions are tailored for those specific and unique problems in the pilot regions. BOKU Vienna carries out a constant monitoring on the application of these instruments and the results reached and will sum up all regional activities. To reach international publicity the project organized sev ...
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Cultural (garden) heritage as focal points for sustainable tourism (CULTTOUR)
Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,
CultTour aims at implementing strategies to preserve/valorise cultural garden and open space heritage sites by giving it a modern use in tourism, conserving the "genius loci" of the site. The need for professional tourism offer and well-educated staff according to international standards is constantly growing in SEE. This need is addressed by scenarios/strategies for well-adapted tourism developme ...
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Valorisation and Sustainable Development of Cultural Landscapes using Innovative Participation and Visualisation Techniques (VITAL LANDSCAPES)
Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Mar 30, 2013,
Unique cultural landscapes constitute a major factor of Central Europe's cultural identity, uniting nature and heritage. Being the most typical part of nature in CE, they are precondition of biodiversity and an important ecological resource. Moreover, functioning landscapes constitute the base for regional economic development, above all in of rural areas, and the well-being of the inhabitants. Ho ...
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UP-grading of landfillgas for lowering CO2 emissions (UPGAS-LOWCO2)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,
Background
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the waste management sector account for around 3% of total emissions in the EU (2006 data). Emissions in the waste management sector are primarily a result of methane emissions from landfills, caused by the anaerobic break down of biodegradable materials. Methane emissions from the waste management sector fel ...
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Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE (TransWaste)
Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2012,
Waste which is coming from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and bulky waste is often collected by non authorised people (in most cases but not solely people of the ethnic groups of Roma or Sinti) without any legal work permit. Collected in countries with "higher developed" waste management and transported into countries with less developed waste management leads to problems in manifold f ...
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SOuth-NORth Axis (SoNorA)
Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Feb 27, 2012,
SONORA addresses the need for improved multimodal accessibility in Central Europe in South-North dimensions. Building upon past project experiences which focused on the landscape and general transport conditions and plans within the area, SONORA targets to incisively bring forward the state of the art on the deployment of primary transport infrastructure and services, through trans-national collab ...
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Urban spaces - enhancing the attractiveness and quality of the urban environment (UrbSpace)
Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Oct 30, 2011,
...ages on the project web page. Moreover the e-learning modul has been placed on the project as well and is interlinked with the "Le:Notre" thematic network website, under the responsability of the Vienna Technical University. The project has been extensively publicly promoted and disseminated through 3 thematic seminars and final conference, presentations and it continues to receive extensive media ...
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Climate Change and its Impact on Tourism in the Alpine Space (ClimAlpTour)
Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,
The project aims at dealing with the internationally recognized issue of the effects of climate change on alpine tourism, with reference both to winter tourism and sports and to alpine all-seasons tourism. The issue of providing appropriate strategies to ensure a balanced development of alpine tourism, the preparation of appropriate adaptation policies at the national, regional and local level and ...
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Flexible Transport Services and ICT platform for Eco-Mobility in urban and rural European areas (FLIPPER)
Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 30, 2011,
Throughout Europe the challenge of providing a cost effective integrated public transport system is seen as an essential prerequisite to reducing pollution and congestion whilst encouraging sustainable economic growth.The traditional fixed route services is ideal for clustered travel demand areas but the changing of habitation patterns and nature of work activities in today’s society have created ...
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Small hydro action for the promotion of efficient solutions (SHAPES)
Start date: Dec 1, 2007, End date: Nov 30, 2009,
The overall objective of SHAPES is to facilitate and strengthen the co-operation between EU Small Hydropower (SHP) Research and Market actors, with the overall objective of streamlining future research & development and promote R&D results in order to enhance penetration of SHP and know-how with the EU and on new markets in developing countries. The SHAPES action is highly relevant with the aim of ...
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E-Learning for Improving access to Infomation Society for SMEs in the SEE Area (ELISA)
Start date: Sep 30, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
The ELISA proposal aims at improving the access to knowledge and the information society of SMEs in South-East Europe, through close cooperation of academic and business communities at a transnational level, by transferring EU best practice training know-how and by developing national training strategies. Emphasis is given to SMEs from rural and distant areas in Albania, FYROM, Bulgaria and Serbia ...
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Transit Systems Development for Urban Regeneration (TranSUrban)
Start date: Mar 31, 2005, End date: Sep 29, 2007,
Urban public transport systems such as tramways, buses, and light rail systems not only enhance overall mobility in cities they also improve environmental conditions and generate wider benefits related to economic development and urban regeneration. However, in planning, implementing, and maintaining public transport systems, urban areas typically face a number of challenges including high investm ...
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Development of an East border COrridor 4th party LOGistics service approach along the axis Brandenburg-Saxonia-Austria with accession countries (ECO4LOG)
Start date: Mar 31, 2003, End date: Oct 29, 2005,
The operation “Development of an East border corridor 4th party logistics service approach along the Brandenburg-Saxony-Austria axis with Accession Countries” (ECO4LOG) focuses on improving the efficiency of goods transport along the EU North-South Corridor, extending from the German/Polish border to the Adriatic Sea. Due to EU enlargement, this EU North-South Corridor will experience a significan ...
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Innovation is now a pre-requisite for competitiveness
in business. Preparing new graduates for this reality is essential. 34 students from countries including Finland, Austria, Estonia, Romania, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Norway and Serbia took part in an intensive 11-day seminar in July 2007 under the Erasmus programme. The aim of the seminar was to test and validate curriculums for training in the area ...
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Innovation in Rural Tourism
Start date: Dec 1, 2012,
Many European rural mountain communities are facing challenges, exemplified by local population unaware of how to profit from local resources, leading to economic stagnation, migration, degradation and loss of natural and cultural resources or their exploitation by third parties. Research shows that Rural Tourism (RT) is an important way of economic development and diversification of rural livelih ...
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Strengthening higher education in the sphere of Finance in Siberia and Far East of Russia
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
The wider objective of EduSFE is to modernize higher education in Finance on Master-level in the remote Russian regions Siberia and Far East in line with the Bologna process. The regional focus of the project was chosen, as Siberia and Far East are underprivileged territories which have not received much attention so far. This is also reflected in intentions of the Russian government to enhance hi ...
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Landscape Education:New Opportunities for Teaching and Research in Europe III
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
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A huge amount of excellent computer aided teaching and learning (CAT) materialalready exists in Europe, but there is far less experience (and also competence) atusing these materials effectively within regular classroom activities and outside. This isespecially true with respect to getting girls and boys interested to study science, andmotivated to get acceptable learning results. Recent research ...
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The general level of integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in teaching haD increased greatly over the past years. However, forestry education in Slovakia have been using traditional didactical approaches such as theoretical class teaching, set of lectures more or less mixed with practical field training and excursions. It has relied mainly on traditional learning tools e. ...
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The need to enhance collaborative planning of natural resources has been recognised in many international conventions and reflected in the evolving legislation of the EU and the Member States. E.g. a new type of strategic planning approach has been launched. This “program-based planning of natural resources” (PBPNR) approach requires taking into consideration local level actors and stake-holders. ...
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The objective of the project is to establish International Master Programmes “Tourism” in three Siberian regions – Tomsk, Altai and Khanty-Mansiysk. It intends to build educational capacity and human competences in regions with considerable, but hitherto under-utilised, touristic potential, and thereby contribute to economic diversification of economic activity in regions otherwise depending on pr ...
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