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Volunteers for European Employment (VERSO)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

In March 2000, EU heads of state and government agreed on an ambitious goal: making the EU "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion".Project VERSO (Volunteers for European Employment) identifies good practices and develops policy tools intended to be used in pursuing the abov ...
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Regions for Recycling (R4R)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

R4R (Regions for Recycling) aims at promoting regional contributions to the European Recycling Society, by allowing local and regional authorities to make consistent comparisons thanks to a common method and exchange of transferable good practices related to local instruments in order to improve recycling performances.The European Waste Policy aims at preventing waste generation and optimising the ...
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PLATFORM OF GAMES FOR PEOPLE WITH CEREBRAL PALSY TO ENHANCE LIVING ADJUSTMENT (GAME-ABLING)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is one of the most frequently conditions in childhood, with an incidence of 2 per 1,000 live births. In the EU there is 1.3 out of 15 million persons with CP in the world. This neurological disorder affects body movement, balance and posture and almost always is accompanied by other cognitive or sensory impairments like mental retardation, deafness and vision problems. The seve ...
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Mediterranean Building Rethinking for Energy Efficiency Improvement (MARIE) (MARIE)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

MARIE aims to establish the socio-economic conditions for Energy Efficiency (EE) improvement in the MED. Building Stock in the framework of EU policy objectives, overcoming barriers and creating sustainable development opportunities in the MED region. Pil Achievements: ...
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motion of residual forestry biomass in the Mediterranean basin (PROFORBIOMED)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

PROFORBIOMED promotes renewable energies in rural areas by developing an integrated strategy for the use of forest biomass as a renewable energy source, improving forest management systems, recovering forest biomass potential and developing new opportunit Achievements: ...
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SylvaMED : Mediterranean Forests for All (SylvaMED)

Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Aug 30, 2013,

SylvaMED intends to facilitate innovative integration of forests environmental services into regional policies. Mediterranean forest ecosystems provide multiple goods and services, and are key to the socio-economic development of rural zones and to the well-being of urban populations. Many of these forest collective goods are crucial to environmental sustainability but currently unrecognized. Quan ...
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Adaptation of Mediterranean woodlands to climate change effects. (FOR CLIMADAPT)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 30, 2013,

Mediterranean forest ecosystems now show the first damages linked notably to climate change. Their managers are mostly unable to react properly. Through the project, the partners aim to develop, share and disseminate efficient management tools and techniques to foster the adaptation of these natural areas to a modified climate. All commonly-agreed solutions will be made available not only to terri ...
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Wood Energy Exploitation for Entrepreneurship (WOODE3)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The project is addressing the protection and valorisation of forest resources in the Mediterranean space with the integration of mechanisms that will ensure a sound development of the wood energy sector. The aim is to raise awareness and build capacity of decision makers promoting a governance scheme in line with the 4 principles of sustainable development, setting up priorities and providing supp ...
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Sustainable Use of Regional Funds for Nature (SURF-Nature)

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

The Sustainable Use of Regional Funds for Nature (SURF – Nature) project is a partnership of 14 authorities and public bodies (or bodies under public law) working together to optimise regional policies and practices with regard to promotion and preservation of natural heritage, biodiversity, and nature conservation through improving opportunities for and the impacts of financing these measures fro ...
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Regional cooperation for a Durable Urban Planning (CREPUDMED)

Start date: Mar 19, 2009, End date: Mar 19, 2012,

The whole European continent is confronted with the problem of metropolisation which has for corollary a process of greater urbanization and urban spreading. This phenomenon of urban spreading is based on dynamics which exceed very widely the administrative borders to develop on the scale of large territories, that of the competition between cities. It is about a major challenge of the sustainable ...
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New Regional governance of the Euromed area (Medgovernance)

Start date: May 14, 2009, End date: Nov 14, 2011,

MEDGovernance is proposed by some of the most relevant regions of the area; it is aimed to analyse, to experiment, to realise and to capitalise an appropriate model of multilevel governance useful for States and Regions to support a polycentric and sustainable development of EuroMed area. The proposal is born from a supporting action from prestigious research institutes to the involved regions, it ...
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AYS.MED.URBAN: High quality of landscape as a key of sustainability and competitiveness of mediterranean urban areas (PAYS.MED.URBAN)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Oct 30, 2011,

PAYS.MED.URBAN understands high quality of landscape as a key factor of sustainability and competitiveness of urban areas. High quality of landscape is not only important for the identity, the ecological health and the quality of life of urban areas but also is a key factor of the attractiveness and distinctiveness of these areas. For this reason, it is an territorial capital and soft locational f ...
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Common Land for sustainable management (COMMONS)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

COMMONS project faces the challenge of territorial management in marginal lands in the framework of a continuous concentration of former rural population towards urban or peri-urban areas. Important natural areas risk environment depletion because of changing in the utilization patterns and abandoning of traditional practices. Some of these areas correspond to ancient common lands once managed for ...
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Exchange, Valorisation and Transfer of regional best policy measures for SME support on IT and e-business Adoption. (EVITA)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

Reinforcing social, economic and territorial cohesion, by making ICT products and services more accessible within less-developed regions, becomes an economic, social, ethical and political imperative, according to the Lisbon agenda. It is consequently crucial that successful policy practices, recognized by the European Commission as “best practices” are transferred from the regions that have alrea ...
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active Human Response to Wildfires Outbreak: Measure and Prepare for it (PRoMPt)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

The aim of the suggested project is to exchange experiences and good practices in order to improve regional policies for coping with fires right after their outbreak in very sensitive areas, like the forest ones.Since regional policies in terms of environmental protection and risk prevention constitute a vital issue towards the accomplishment of the Gothenburg Strategy, local and regional authorit ...
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EU Regional Cooperation for SMEs access to Public Procurement (EuroPROC)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 30, 2011,

EU regions have developed different policies to provide support to SMEs when participating in projects funded by multilateral donors. However, performance of SMEs is different among regions as confirmed by different studies (DG Enterprise, DG Internal Market) on SMEs access to EU public procurement. Actually this field remains slightly spread among EU SMEs. On the other side, mention is to be made ...
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InterMETREX

Start date: Mar 31, 2003, End date: Nov 29, 2007,

The achievement of the objectives of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP), of harmonious, balanced and sustainable development, depends to a large extent on the effectiveness of metropolitan governance and spatial planning and development practice. InterMETREX offers practical benefits by enhancing the competence, capability and processes of existing metropolitan planning, and by pr ...
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European Chemical Regions Network (ECRN)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Nov 29, 2007,

The operation “European Chemical Regions Network” (ECRN) is centered around concerted actions for European regions with dominant chemical industries. In Europe, the chemical industry (especially the petrochemical industry) is clustered in just a few regions. In these regions, the chemical sector often represents the major economic force exhibiting strong impacts on most other economic sectors. Due ...
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Design of a future Common integral land management scheme to protect natural resources in sinergy with social and economical valorisation (MEDLAND2020)

MEDLAND2020 has as main objective to promote international cooperation towards a common integral land management scheme to protect natural resources in synergy with social and economical valorisation in the Mediterranean. The specific objectives of the project are: 1. Create synergies among projects and partners and build up a -network of networks-� in the Mediterranean context, with all its speci ...
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Intermodal Freight Services Development Committees (iFreightMED-DC)

The project pursues the creation of regional Intermodal Freight Services Development Committees. Each regional Committee will operate as a technical working group to analyze the operational feasibility and the socio-economic return of new intermodal freight services, on demand of interested companies or by proposal of any of its members. In addition, this technical group would provide a wide range ...
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Empowering Policies on Urban Sustainability (URBAN_EMPATHY)

URBAN EMPATHY will consolidate a permanent structure to work on transforming existing results from preselected MED projects and key European programmes into effective policies related to Sustainable Urban Models (SUMO). - 1st (WP3), the results will be evaluated through a set of transferability criteria and cross checked to ensure that they comply with the SUMO shared by the partners. In parallel, ...
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