Search for European Projects

25 European Projects Found

Searched on 125080 European Projects

 FINISHED 
The project aims at developing an integrated civil protection network between the Sicilian and Maltese bodies involved in the risks forecast, prevention and mitigation processes and moreover in the planning and management of emergencies, to be further extended to the cross border countries. The project aims at structuring an integrated system of interventions, targeting the identification and prev ...
Read Project

 5

 FINISHED 
SedAlp contributes to integrated management of sediment transport in Alpine basins directed to an effective reduction of sediment-related risk while promoting the enhancement of riverine ecosystems and reducing the impacts of hydropower plants (balancing the implementation of EU Directives e.g. RES, Floods and WFD). The project includes piloting actions in various representative Alpine river basin ...
Read Project

 14

 FINISHED 
The Adriatic Sea is one of the most endangered areas in the Mediterranean, facing serious environmental challenges, especially taking into consideration that it constitutes an important oil transport route to the North-Adriatic ports of Trieste, Venice, Koper and Omišalj. From an economic point of view, the Adriatic region plays an important role in tourism and recreation, but is at the same time ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 
...tial for working together on matters of fire prevention and action.HERIPROT brings together 10 partners and 9 EU countries which represent regional and local authorities, as well as fire fighting and civil protection institutions. They all possess the required competences to manage prevention and action in the case of fire in World Heritage Cities, but with different levels of experience. While s ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 
... and timely warnings of such hazards in order to protect lives and properties. The main difficulty to disseminate prompt information about hydro-meteorological severe events to the end-users, such as civil protection agencies, is to set up near-real time monitoring integrated systems, able to ingest precipitation data from distributed sensors and models and to perform forecasting of the evolving h ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 
The main problem addressed is the marginalization that a major transport infrastructure (MTI) can cause to alpine areas. The project aims at making mountain areas catch the opportunities of MTIs, rather than just suffer their environmental and social impact, targeting the phases of piloting and policy implementation.The project foresees the elaboration of an unbiased method to measure the value of ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 
SHAPE is a comprehensive project for the Adriatic Region aiming to create the basis for the protection and sustainable development of the coastal-marine environment. The strategic objective is the development of a multilevel and cross-sector governance system, based on an holistic approach and aiming to the integrated management of the natural resources, risks prevention and the resolution of the ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 
...nd especially severe weather is responsible for many natural disasters causing damage and loss of life. Weather forecasts are an essential part of early warning systems and consecutive actions within civil protection schemes, road management and flood protection. In the last years nowcasting, which is the forecast for the next hours, has improved significantly. Disasters at small time and space sc ...
Read Project

 18

 FINISHED 
...at capitalizing innovative decision making tools already developped in previous ASP projects for the creation of an integrated ICT-share area for jointly support and coordinated intervention plans of Civil Protection and Transport Operators. A replicable decision-making shared area called JITES (Joint Integrated ICT-Technologies for Emergency and Security -management ) will be able to collect real ...
Read Project

 12

 FINISHED 
The project brings together an 8-member partnership for the setting up of a permanent and fully operational HF radar observing system, capable of recording (in real-time with hourly updates) surface currents, winds and waves in the Malta Channel. The system consists of HF radar installations on the northern Malta and southern Sicilian shores at selected sites and combines stations to elaborate and ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

Complex Socio-Technical System in Ambient Intelligence (SOCIONICAL)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

We will develop Complexity Science based modelling, prediction and simulation methods for large scale socio-technical systems. We focus on the specific example of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) based smart environments. A key component of such environments is the ability to monitor user actions and to adjust its configuration and functionality accordingly. Thus, the system reacts to human behaviour wh ...
Read Project

 17

 FINISHED 

Alpine Forest FIre waRning System (ALP FFIRS)

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

The project aims to improve forest fire prevention in the AS with the creation of a shared warning system based on weather condition affecting fire potential. Main goal is the development of a decision support tool for actors involved in forest fire prevention and suppression, consisting in a daily fire danger level assessment and forecast to identify critical periods in advance of their potential ...
Read Project

 14

 FINISHED 
Transport security and accessibility are essential for a balanced and sustainable development of ASP. Due to current climatic trends, the vulnerability of transport infrastructure to natural hazards has increased. But the specific threats to transport infrastructure have not yet been tackled in a systematic joint effort. Therefore the goal of PARAmount is to improve risk management strategies for ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 
Project aims at improving and address territorial governance of Med rural areas towards sustainability through an innovative integrated planning model (PM) comprising: integrated social, economic, environmental analysis assessment of institutional framework and review of success governance modes establishment of communities participation process definition of 4 strategic pilot plan patterns and ...
Read Project

 12

 FINISHED 

actical Use of MONITORing in Natural Disaster Management (MONITOR II)

Start date: May 31, 2009, End date: May 29, 2012,

Management of natural hazards constitutes a common challenge in the SEES. Until now, neither hazard mapping nor contingency planning have been transnationally coordinated and defined in a sufficient manner. These gaps will be tackled in MONITOR II with the development of a common methodology and a CSA ("Continuous Situation Awareness") system. The integration of monitoring systems facilitates peri ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 

maNET - Permafrost long-term monitoring network (PermaNET)

Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Jul 13, 2011,

Permafrost is highly sensitive to climatic changes. Permafrost degradation and related natural hazards affect traffic routes, tourism areas, settlements and infrastructures. The main problem is a lacking strategy for the consideration of these newly observed specific impacts of climate change in risk prevention and territorial development. With the joint development of a common strategy for dealin ...
Read Project

 14

 FINISHED 

RESEAU TRANSFRONTALIER D'INFORMATION ROUTIERE

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

Sviluppo e ottimizzazione di una rete transfrontaliera di informazione stradale attraverso un sistema di scambio di dati utilizzando supporti dinamici (PMV, stazioni di monitoraggio del traffico, videocamere, stazioni meteo,…) e i mezzi di informazione e comunicazione (ITC) verso gli utenti (internet, cellulari, GPS, …) nei territori del Département des Hautes-Alpes e della Provincia di Torino
Read Project

 4

 FINISHED 

ROtect Our Heritage from Fire (PROOHF)

Start date: Apr 30, 2007, End date: Jul 30, 2008,

...auses which initiated fires in the past and creating a full record of all relevant conditions. 4. Develop training programs for educating people working /living there, train volunteers, foresters and civil protection personnel, as well as other operational people in coping with fires in monuments & taking measures minimizing the economic and social impact. 5. Develop post-fire-rehabilitation plans ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 
Many areas of the Mediterranean, particularly islands and coastal zones suffer from droughts and water shortages which cause heavy impacts on economies, societies and the environment at local or regional scales. The project PRODIM aims at formulating a methodological framework to confront drought and water shortage through systematic application of principles of proactive planning. Specifically, t ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 
The project MEDIA-TERRA aims at determining categories / dimensions of natural disasters in Central and Southeast Mediterranean (CSEM), recording prevention and treatment practices of currently used Civil Protection Systems (CPS), bringing out weak/ strong points in citizens active participation, determining capacities - building strategies – producing material for Media in raising awareness and a ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Hydrological cycle of the CADSES regions (HYDROCARE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The project HYDROCARE wishes to develop an integrated system capable of assessing the impact of hydrometeorological events on the water resources in the CADSES region. Emphasis will be put on the development of effective transnational tools for a rational exploitation of the water resources, with the purpose of preserving and enhancing economical and environmental welfare. Such managing tools will ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

Regional Disaster Common Defence (Red Code)

Start date: Aug 31, 2005, End date: Sep 29, 2007,

... Expected Results: The Red Code project targets the following results: - Analysis of the civil protection systems in the regions involved in the Red Code project, - Planning, promotion and development of integrated national, regional and local civil protection systems, - Definition and ad ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 
... Achievements: The project compiled a report which collected the partners know-how on matters of seismic risk prevention. An international glossary was developed by the Italian Civil Protection Department as a tool for content analysis of bibliographic information and as reference material on disaster terminology. Moreover, foreseen results of the project are: - Creation of ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

Interregional response to natural and man-made catastrophes (SIPROCI)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

... exercises of disaster management. One element of the projects activities was the exchange of best practices for good disaster management and to lay down minimum standards and rules for Local Plan of Civil Protection, which can be of use for any local authority in Europe. Furthermore, the population and its preparedness is the core of a sound response to any emergency. For this reason the SIPROCI ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 
The goal of the project was to find good practices for integrating urban heritage values in development processes of local communities. Project activities focused on methods to identify, analyse, evaluate and manage local historic characteristics in a sustainable way. Furthermore, the project aimed at strengthening national, regional and local efforts to enhance urban heritage as a local resource ...
Read Project

 23