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Finding the regional strengths to create business opportunities for Arctic agriculture based on special plants

Start date: Mar 4, 2013, End date: Oct 3, 2015,

Enhancing special plant production and businesses in Barents regionagriculture Achievements: The project has increased competence in specific plant production and enhanced creation of new production lines. It has also helped to increase the information about the effects ...
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Reduced energy use in the NSR horticultural greenhouse industry (GreenGrowing)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

GreenGrowing will strengthen the innovation capacity and competitiveness in the NSR horticultural greenhouse industry and lead to at least a 10% reduction of CO2 emissions. The project will combine a better climate control in the greenhouses, an improved use of novel greenhouse techniques and the use of climate tolerant plant types with ICT tools. Supported by intensive information strategies at t ...
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Arctic Biological, Cultural and Geological heritage (ABCGheritage)

Start date: Mar 22, 2012, End date: Dec 21, 2014,

The objective of the project is to raise awareness of the protected areas and recreational areas on the region known as the Green Balt of Fennoscandia. The areas offer potential in many ways. There is, e.g. a growing interest on geology, growing interest on and knowledge of sustainable utilization of natural resources in tourism, and these possibilities have not yet been utilized. Especially they ...
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Climate changing soils (Biochar)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Oct 30, 2013,

The project concerns BioChar (BC), which is a product of biomass-to-energy processing systems, and has as its aim in raising awareness and building confidence in BC as a way of capturing carbon and increasing soil quality and stability in order to make the soil climate change resilient. The concept of BioChar (BC) is relatively new and only practiced in US, Canada and Australia. In order to keep u ...
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Future proofing the North Sea berry fruit industry in times of climate change (ClimaFruit)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Sep 29, 2013,

ClimaFruit will establish transnational cooperation between research institutions and the NSR berryfruit industry in order to maximize the implementation of innovative technologies and tools in the private sector to overcome challenges related to changed climate conditions. Thereby, the project will secure, sustain & grow the economic value of the NSR berryfruit industry under changing climatic co ...
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Inter-regional network to promote sustainable development in the marine algal industry (NETALGAE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The macroalgae industry is mainly based on harvesting of natural resources of macroalgae. Worldwide macroalgae production increases by 5.7% every year, in 2008 nearly 14 mill tons of macroalgae was produced from capture and aquaculture. In Europe the production has decreased in the last 10 years. The further expansion of the industry depends on sustainable increased access to raw material, develop ...
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The farmer as water manager under changing climatic conditions (Aquarius)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

The project focuses on enabling farmers to act successfully as water managers in changing climatic conditions. The project will present water risk management practices that will reduce the consequences of flooding, droughts, water shortage and nutrient transport. The emphasis on the farmer as a water manager is contributing towards implementing EU policies, such as the Water Framework Directive. T ...
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Environment friendly fish farming and use of cleaner fish (EcoFish)

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

The problem of sea lice infestation of farmed salmon has become a major issue not only for the salmon farmers themselves but also for environmentalists, retails and consumers who are concerned about the effects the transfer of lice to wild populations of salmon and the effect that treatments to remove the lice may have on the environment and on the quality if the fish produced. Originally lice wer ...
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