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Smart Transition of EU cities towards a new concept of smart Life and Economy (mySMARTLife)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

mySMARTLife project aims at the development of an Urban Transformation Strategy to support cities in the definition of transition models, as a suitable path to reach high level of excellence in its development process, addressing the main city challenges and progressing to the smart people and smart economy concepts.The main instrument to achieve this very ambitious strategy will be the definition ...
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Fostering an inclusive and diverse youth environmental movement across Africa and Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

This project builds connections among youth workers from 15 European and African environmental and social justice organisations that are part of the Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) federation, for mutual learning, skill sharing, joint campaign planning and cultural exchange, with the aim of building a more diverse and inclusive international environmental youth movement.FoEI and the proj ...
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Pacific Europe Network for Science, Technology and Innovation (PACE-NET PLUS)

Start date: Sep 2, 2013, End date: Nov 1, 2016,

The research and innovation landscape of the Pacific is extremely diverse, ranging from Pacific Island Countries and Territories with little or no ST&I capacity, Overseas Countries Territories with strong capacities, to New Zealand and Australia, which have numerous networks of research and innovation institutions.The EU, which maintains a long standing relationship with the Pacific, aims for enha ...
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Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern EUropean Seas (PERSEUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The overall scientific objectives of PERSEUS are to identify the interacting patterns of natural and human-derived pressures on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, assess their impact on marine ecosystems and, using the objectives and principles of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive as a vehicle, to design an effective and innovative research governance framework based on sound scientific knowl ...
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Initiatives Locales en Environnement en Méditerranée (ILE)

Start date: Dec 17, 2013, End date: Dec 16, 2015,

Project in brief Citizen participation in public policies takes multiple forms in the Mediterranean area. Environmental policies, being tangible and visible, constitute adequate tools to support the development of active citizenship. Local dialogue between stakeholders of environmental policies (regional and national public authorities, experts, economic actors) and citizens should therefore be st ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate -III (MACC-III)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

MACC-III is the last of the pre-operational stages in the development of the Copernicus Atmosphere Service. Its overall institutional objective is to function as the bridge between the developmental precursor projects - GEMS, PROMOTE, MACC and MACC-II- and the Atmosphere Service envisaged to form part of Copernicus Operations.MACC-III will provide continuity of the atmospheric services provided by ...
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Biology and control of vector-borne infections in Europe (EDENext)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

To address the call for proposals 'Biology and control of vector-borne infections in Europe' launched by the European Commission, we want to investigate the biological, ecological and epidemiological components of vector-borne diseases (VBD) introduction, emergence and spread, and to propose innovative tools for controlling them, building on the basis of acquired knowledge. We have selected the ma ...
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Rénovation Energétique des Logements (RELS)

Start date: Oct 21, 2011, End date: Feb 21, 2015,

La plupart des logements qui ont été construits dans les pays de la Méditerranée pendant les 50 dernières années constituent des sources de dépenses énergétiques importantes (près de 30% de la consommation énergétique finale de lUE notamment) et contribuent dune façon significative aux émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Le projet RELS entend réduire cette précarité énergétique et faciliter lapplic ...
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Climate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa: impacts and adaptations (CLIMAFRICA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Africa is probably the most vulnerable continent to climate change and climate variability and shows diverse range of agro-ecological and geographical features. Thus the impacts of climate change can be very high and will greatly differ across the continent, and even within countries. There is a urgent need for the most appropriate and up-to-date tools to better understand and predict climate chan ...
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Transfert de savoir-faire en Méditerranée pour le développement durable des communautés locales en zones rurales défavorisées (VILLAGES)

Start date: Aug 3, 2011, End date: Aug 3, 2014,

Dans un contexte méditerranéen caractérisé par un exode massif des populations rurales vers les villes et le littoral, les difficultés de concevoir rapidement un développement durable aussi bien des zones urbaines que rurales sont en recrudescence. Le projet VILLAGES sintéresse à la question de la gouvernance locale dans des zones rurales défavorisées en prônant la participation citoyenne dans la ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate Interim Implementation (MACC II)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

MACC II (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate – Interim Implementation) is designed to meet the requirements that have been expressed for prototype operational GMES services for the atmospheric domain. From late-2011 MACC II will continue the operation and development of the GMES service lines established by the MACC project and prepare for its transition in 2014 to become the atmospheri ...
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Climate Local Information in the Mediterranean region: Responding to User Needs (CLIM-RUN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

"CLIM-RUN aims at developing a protocol for applying new methodologies and improved modeling and downscaling tools for the provision of adequate climate information at regional to local scale that is relevant to and usable by different sectors of society (policymakers, industry, cities, etc.). Differently from current approaches, CLIM-RUN will develop a bottom-up protocol directly involving stakeh ...
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People for Ecosystem Based Governance in Assessing Sustainable Development of Ocean and Coast (PEGASO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

"Many efforts have been deployed for developing Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Both basins have, and continue to suffer severe environmental degradation. In many areas this has led to unsustainable trends, which have impacted, on economic activities and human well-being. An important progress has been made with the launch of the ICZM Protocol for ...
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Shmile 2 - De l'expérimentation à la diffusion de l'Ecolabel en Méditerranée (ShMILE 2)

Start date: Jan 18, 2012, End date: Jan 18, 2014,

Lattention à la protection de lenvironnement dans le domaine touristique est désormais une priorité pour tous les pays du bassin de la Méditerranée. Dans le but de favoriser lévolution de la demande en faveur dun tourisme prenant mieux en compte les enjeux du développement durable, lUnion européenne et la Tunisie ont mis en place des labels de qualité environnementale pour les services dhébergemen ...
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Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world (FUME)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Fire regimes result from interactions between climate, land-use and land-cover (LULC), and socioeconomic factors, among other. These changed during the last decades, particularly around the Mediterranean. Our understanding of how they affected fire regime in the past is limited. During this century temperatures, drought and heat waves will very likely increase, and rainfall decrease. These and fur ...
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Early Recognition, Monitoring and Integrated Management of Emerging, New Technology Related Risks (iNTeg-Risk)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2013,

iNTeg-Risk is a large-scale integrating project aimed at improving the management of emerging risks in the innovative industry. This will be achieved by building a new risk management paradigm for emerging risks, which is a set of principles supported by a common language, commonly agreed tools & methods and Key Performance Indicators integrated into a single framework. As main impact, it will red ...
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EIN GRENZÜBERSCHREITENDES NETZWERK ZUR INFORMATION, SCHULUNG UND BETREUUNG VON UNTERNEHMEN IM UMWELTMANAGEMENT (RIFE II )

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

Das allgemeine Ziel dieses Pilotprojekts ist die Verbesserung des Umweltmanagements bei den KMU der grenzüberschreitenden Region. Es soll die Effizienz von einfachen und geeigneten Umweltmana-gementsystemen prüfen, sie fördern und dazu beitragen, dass diese angenommen werden. Die Suche nach einer besseren Verwaltung von Energie- und Wasserverbrauch, Reduzierung von Treibhausgas-emissionen und Abwä ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"MACC (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate) is designed to meet the requirements that have been expressed for the pilot Core GMES Atmospheric Service. The project has been prepared by the consortia of the FP6 project GEMS and the GSE project PROMOTE, whose core service lines will provide the starting point for MACC. From mid-2009 MACC will continue, improve, extend, integrate and valida ...
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CSO Engagement with Ecological Economics (CEECEC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

"Ecological economics (EE) and, in general, sustainability sciences make important contributions to the analyses of sustainability policies in Europe and worldwide. EE develops physical indicators and indices, provides economic valuation of environmental services and negative externalities, applies tools of multi-criteria evaluation to resource use, and promotes environmental policy instruments su ...
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European ICT network for energy efficiency (ICT21EE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

Description The European thematic network ICT for energy efficiency aims at federating a wide variety of stakeholders initially from 10 European countries to develop common understanding of good practices in the field of ICT applied to energy efficiency in cities. The approach will focus on what has been done and what can be done in urban ar ...
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Collaborative Technological Plateform for implementation for WDF within agricultural context (CONCERT"EAU)

Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Sep 30, 2009,

Background The impact of agriculture on Europe’s water resources will have to be reduced if the quality of surface and groundwater is to be improved. The agricultural soils of EU countries contain large nitrogen surplus that can potentially pollute both surface and groundwater. Furthermore, in many European countries pesticides contaminate the drinking ...
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sidonia : Evalutaion methods of the quality of the littoral medium by the follow-up of the herbarium of Posidonia oceanica (Posidonia)

Start date: Apr 14, 2005, End date: Apr 14, 2007,

Posidonia oceanica constitue lécosystème à dominante végétale le plus important de Méditerranée. Les herbiers formés par cette espèce contribuent de manière significative à la richesse des eaux littorales du fait de leur rôle majeur tant du point de vue écologique (pôle de biodiversité, rôle de producteur primaire) que sédimentologique et économique. Leur extension géographique concerne une grande ...
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Experiencing Solidarity

Start date: Aug 1, 2009,

«Experiencing Solidarity» has been elaborated in our European and International partners' network and concerns sending arid hosting of 15 volunteers, in activities duration from 3 to 10 months. It includes sending from coordinating organisation 5 volunteers to European countries, 2 volunteers to Vietnam, a volunteer to Thailand, 2 volunteers to Macedonia, 2 volunteers to Azerbaijan; hosting 2 Moro ...
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