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Building shared knowledge capital to support natural resource governance in the Northern periphery (BusK)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Description (EN): This project develops planning tools that enhance the use of participatory techniques, and gives assistance for decision makers concerning land use planning and natural resource governance. Concretely, the development of participatory tools such as participatory GIS (PPGIS) is needed. Until now, these tools have been developed for urban areas and utilized successfu ...
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Northern Runoffs into Profits (WaterPro)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

...re important sectors for the economy of Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) areas, their activities cause significant risk to the vulnerable environment through water and land pollution. Nutrients in agricultural runoff are one of the major contributors to eutrophication and algae blooms. The overreaching goal of WaterPro is to develop eco-efficient tools and models for SRM practices and environme ...
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Northern Cereals – New Markets for a Changing Environment (CEREAL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

Description (EN): Warmer growing conditions, improved varieties and technologies, and concerns about sustainability are creating new opportunities in northern areas for greater cereal production. In few areas, it has already been possible to produce higher value cereals for milling and malting which has allowed SMEs to develop new “local” products to meet a growing demand from touri ...
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New Plants for Northern Periphery Market 4.4 (NPNP)

Start date: Jun 30, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

The aim of NPNP is to develop new business opportunities within the green sector and provide growth to the region by developing new hardy ornamental plants, origin from the region for public spaces and private gardens. The NPNP will facilitate the creation of greener and more varied public area and city centre in the northern periphery area. ...
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ELLETime - Solutions for competitive pellet production in medium size enterprises 1.6 (PELLETime)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2010,

PELLETime will develop an accessible package of tools to design sustainable pellet supply chains, thereby promoting the role of local entrepreneurs in utilising local renewable energy resources and supporting the energy self-sufficiency of northern peripheral regions. The small scale production of pellets currently faces both technological limitations, as well as lack of knowledge. The project add ...
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Rural Business Information Exchange System - RUBIES (RUBIES)

Start date: Sep 14, 2003, End date: Sep 13, 2006,

With the rapid expansion of ICT and increased business use of the internet, rural (especially peripheral) SMEs should no longer be disadvantaged in the knowledge economy as they are able to access a wide variety of business information to generate knowledge. However, Rural SMEs often lack the skills and knowledge of ICT needed for sustainability and growth, while they also lack support for these s ...
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Green Entrepreneurship; New skills for rural areas through development of curricula and training

The project aims at increasing awareness of environmental issues in entrepreneurship training to vocational students in upper secondary education. The need for the project comes from the ongoing change of curricula in the participating countries to fulfil and meet the needs of small entrepreneurship in rural areas. There is a need to create new jobs in these areas and the project aims at reviving ...
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Viking Age Skills Training - Venues, Infrastructure, Engagement, Work

VAST-VIEW is needed to address loss of skills in traditional building coupled with need for tangible examples of low carbon economy building techniques. Also there is a need for interactive venues to learn & teach traditional skills, (living) archaeology & heritage management. There are also old buildings that can be 'put to work' for best use of cultural heritage for rural jobs. We will transfer ...
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Sheepskills: Curriculum and training for European shepfarmers

...pers talk about experience economy and experience tourism as new opportunities for economic growth. In remote and rural areas sheep and shepherding can make a considerable contribution to sustainable agricultural tourism. The regional economy could benefit by the emergence of new sources of income, e.g. from nature conservation, from funding for land, from farmers „hiring“ sheep as „grasscutters“. ...
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