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Utveckla kulturen i ytterstaden

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

In Europe one of five main aims for EU 2020 is to strengthen social inclusion, equality and active citizenship. Stockholm has the ambition to be an attractive city innovative and growing diverse and eventful according to the vision 2030. The city of Stockholm has the ambition to be an international arena for cultural events, creativity and innovation. A clear mission for the culture administratio ...
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Multilingual development of the Preschools of Spånga Tensta

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017,

Spånga Tensta city district of the city of Stockholm has got 34 preschools of which a majority of them are with a large multicultural mix. There are 80 languages spoken in our city district and at several of the preschools there are more than 40 languages among the children. Many of the immigrants living in our city district are excluded in the society with a high rate of unemployment, large famil ...
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REVENT (PREVENT)

Start date: Jan 31, 2013, End date: Apr 29, 2015,

In its strategy 2020, the European Union recognises early school leaving (ESL) as a major challenge with an aim to reduce it below 10%. Education researchers and practitioners consider crucial the role of parents in the prevention of ESL. Through a range of policies, local authorities can play a key role to better involve parents. The PREVENT project proposes to share experience related to the inv ...
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Background The EU targets a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2020. Emissions have been reduced in all main sectors except transport, which produced some 20% of EU-15 emissions. More than 90% of total EU domestic transport emissions come from road transport. In Stockholm, urban goods distribution trucks account for almost half of the env ...
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Climate Neutral Urban Districts in Europe (CLUE)

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

The project idea Climate Neutral Urban Districts in Europe (CLUE) was formulated by a team of experts at the City of Stockholm and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The project idea was first presented during the EU Interregional Cooperation Forum, 20/21 September 2007, Lisbon. The objective of the CLUE regional development project is increased regional capacity in policy development ...
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Decarbonated Airport Regions (D-AIR)

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

...(PL) and Prague (CZ). As to the implementation of D-AIR, the kick-off meeting was in Eindhoven on 20 March 2012. Focus was on launching the project and preparing for the study visits and the publicity framework. As to the exchange of experience, the 1st study visit was organized in El Prat on 19 - 20 June. The study visit comprised meetings at the airport and in El Prat, and guiding around by bus ...
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moting Cross-Innovation in European Cities and Regions (Cross-Innovation)

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

...ial Cross-Collaboration - services offered to companies in co-working spaces, incubators, fab-labs, science parks and to local clusters Each partner champions such practices in its respective city. To further learn about them the partnership will put in place a participative programme of experience-exchange events designed to stimulate high levels of stakeholder buy-in from diverse domains of the ...
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...nd inside the region. The objectives of the project are to market the whole region and its different parts by developing joint promotional services and to test them in practice; to make positive publicity of the BSR lifestyles and to encourage the we-feeling of the Baltic Sea Region.ONE BSR project is implemented by 17 partners from around the entire BSR. ONE BSR partnership is built on expert org ...
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...close cooperation with the participating teachers. -- WP4: Course material for pilot courses. New course material needs to be created for the pilot courses, adapted to the local requirements of each city, and translated to the local language. -- WP5: Web based learning environment for mathematics. The project builds an integrated open-source computer based system for teaching mathematics that supp ...
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...tners from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus and Germany, combining know how from heritage preservation departments, departments for protection of the environment, city administrations, universities, training institutions, representatives of housing societies, monument protection societies and energy agencies.The main objectives and expected results of the proje ...
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CLEAN BALTIC SEA SHIPPING (CleanShip)

Start date: Jun 9, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

...gion for clean shipping. It promotes measures to reduce emissions from ships to the atmosphere and elaborates ways to promote infrastructure for bunkering of LNG and increased use of shoreside electricity. It also elaborates future solutions to stop all sewage releases from ships into the Baltic Sea. The project shall result in a web-based Pan-Baltic Best Practice Manual and a strategy for Clean S ...
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Co-operation for safe cruises on the Baltic Sea (Safe Baltic Cruises )

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2013,

Background In recent years, there has been a marked increase in rape on ferries in the Baltic Sea. Alcohol is part of the picture in 90 percent of the crimes. The volume and structure of crime are affected by the availability of alcohol and the presence of young people under the age of 25. The nature of the rape crime provides good opportunities for prevention. Rape can be used as an indicator of ...
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...Riga, Tallinn and Stockholm a better living environment - physical and virtual - necessary for the development of the attractive and dynamic societies. Education, Youth ans Sports Department of Riga City Council, Youth Centre of Tallinn and Stockholm School of Arts are joining efforts in setting up a creative space for young people and motivating them to acquire new skills and competences for cro ...
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Electric Vehicles in Urban Europe (EVUE)

Start date: Jul 18, 2010, End date: Jan 18, 2013,

Integrated and sustainable strategies for promoting the use of Electric Vehicles in cities Achievements: Documents/reports:URBACT 2 Event Programme27/02/2015Brussels Symposium Presentation20/02/2015Turning London On - Presentation20/02/2015EVUE Frankfurt 2011 Presentati ...
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Extended use of biogas for city buses will lower emissions, improve inner city air quality and strengthen the role of public transport in an efficient strategy to limit the impact from traffic on climate change. This three year project will stimulate cities and regions around the Baltic Sea to use biogas driven buses. The project will generate strategies and policies to introduce biogas as well as ...
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Scandinavian-Adriatic Corridor for Growth and Innovation (SCANDRIA)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Sep 8, 2012,

...European Union. Supported by Scandria, two MoS porojects were established: Rostock-Gedser and Rostock/Travemünde -Trelleborg that induce additional investment of 210 million Euro for increasing capacity and improving environmental performance of ferry services.- the preparation of a Scandria biogas corridor, enabling road based freight transport to run on alternative fuels, thus reducing CO2-emiss ...
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Baltic Training Programme (BTP)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The Baltic Training Programme (BTP) focuses on Priority 2 (Economically competitive and innovative region) and envisages: 1. Supporting labour force mobility to avoid eventual manpower shortage in production and services; 2. Improving attractiveness of vocational training; 3. Boosting cross-border cooperation and entrepreneurship across the region; 4. Initiating development of joint vocational cur ...
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OWER (POWER)

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

...mand side" through a bottom-up approach and the embedding of policy good practices at local level.These will result in 15 000 citizens, industrial customers and public authorities with increased capacity and awareness in reducing carbon footprint - 34 good practices transferred - 12 policy recommendations and 7 road maps. In addition, the project will also have a catalyst effect on carbon reduc ...
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Control of hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea region (COHIBA)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

...Sea region – COHIBA focused on these eleven substances and groups, with the following main objectives: - identification of sources in countries around the Baltic Sea - development of innovative toxicity based cost-effective monitoring - analysis of flow patterns to the Baltic Sea - development of recommendations for management measures - knowledge transfer of best practices and capacity building. ...
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Baltic Sea Innovation Network Centres (BaSIC)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

BaSIC aims to build a “Baltic Sea Archipelago of Innovation” (recommendation of BaltMetInno). The objective is to create a seamless working environment for fast growth innovative SME all over the Baltic Sea Region, embedded in a reliable network of leading Science Parks and clusters. Emphasis is given to identify, select, train and coach SME-gazelles; to provide them harmonized access to markets ( ...
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Clusters & Cities Network (CLUSNET)

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

... are important because they allow companies to be more productive than they would be in isolation. Supporting clusters has therefore become an important element in the economic development efforts of city-regions. However, the nature and impact of such efforts vary enormously, making it difficult for decision makers to find the right combination of tools that most effectively support cluster. City ...
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BACKGROUND Mobility Management uses soft measures (e.g. information or coordination of existing user services), which enhance the effectiveness of hard measures of traffic planning to improve sustainable mobility. It faces resistance from key decision makers and remains a minority policy field that is established in very few European regions. PIMMS (INTERREG IIIC) developed a transfer methodolog ...
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Covenant of Mayors in the Central Baltic Capitals (COMBAT)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

The climate challenge is a burning problem with no single solutions. The Central Baltic Capitals are struggling with many aspects in their environmental strategies. Energy savings includes all sectors, which is a challenge for the cities. By signing the Covenant of Mayors, the Central Baltic Capitals expressed their ambition by the formal commitment of going beyond the objectives of the EU in term ...
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The objective of CIVITAS CATALIST is to ensure that the experiences of the CIVITAS Initiative are exploited up to a maximum level. This means deploying actions aiming to:- consolidate, validate and deepen the knowledge of the wider impacts of CIVITAS through an integrated assessment of the CIVITAS measures;- promote the results of CIVITAS through a continuing knowledge transfer process;- increase ...
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Baltic Sea - Asia Agenda for Regions in a Globalising World (BASAAR)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2010,

...vide input the Nordic Globalisation Forum and similar political processes. Sharing knowledge about the impact of globalisation on the CBSR is a necessary basis for cross-border actions. PUBLICITY: Using an open wikisite the project will request feedback from the general public regarding increasing Asian presence in the CBSR. The project will end with a Globalisation Conference for the gen ...
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MATRUSCHKA aimed at strengthening the capacity of local authorities and developing their city planning process. It contributed to the development of a solid foundation within local authorities upon which long-term planning decisions could be made to support sustainable development. Both EU and Russian cities either initiated or further elaborated their Integrated Management Systems around a chosen ...
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Regional Cooperation in Waste Management (RECO)

Start date: Jan 12, 2005, End date: Jan 11, 2008,

...ed by:Institution building thru the development of Regional Waste Management Institutions (RWMIs)Supporting of cross-border and cross-sectoral cooperation in waste management and Spatial Planning.Capacity building thru development of Waste management handbooks and other information material, educational seminars, training and study visits.Raising the level of participation and knowledge in waste m ...
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...o adapt to the consequences of climate change effects.3. Development of pan-Baltic adaptation strategy and providing country specific national strategies.4. Climate Impact studies for each case study city or region (Gdansk, Riga, Espoo, Kokkola, Klaipeda, Pirkanmaa Region , Kokkola, Tallinn and Pärnu, Estonian archipelago, Curonian spit, Oder river basin, Salaca river basin).
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Baltic Metropolises Innovation Strategy (BaltMet Inno)

Start date: Jan 2, 2005, End date: Jan 1, 2008,

...consists of five Work Packages. Cities have agreed on the importance of fostering transnational cooperation by the project in selected innovation related themes:1. Innovation strategy development;2. City marketing;3. Cluster development; and4. Innovation competences and entrepreneurial skills.Work Package 5 compiles the work of the other work packages as a general innovation policy framework. Hori ...
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Background The City of St. Petersburg’s Municipality stored, in various databases, many environmental data on local issues ; there was no efficient data management system by the Municipality, which was not equipped with appropriate software tools. Objectives The overall object ...
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Brownfield's Europe Regeneration Initiative (BERI)

Start date: Mar 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

BERI seeks to contribute to the long-term sustainable development of brownfield sites throughout Europe. The project intends to promote holistic brownfield development by adopting an approach which balances the financial, social, economic, heritage and environmental pressures. By creating a new European network to share experience and collaborate on brownfield developments, BERI intends to influen ...
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Multifunctional Intensive Land Use in Europe (MILUNET)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...se was given to the process of regeneration in the area. In the Hague a pilot project has been set up to implement housing in the case area. In Stockholm the results will be used in the Kista Science City masterplan. In Mantova a cooperation of municipalities started to work on the MILU case areas based on the workshops results. In Huelva the establishment of cooperation between several parties ca ...
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Based on the positive experience gained in these two projects, the partnership is now being extended to Lithuania, Denmark and Sweden. E-Pipelines aims to establish a compatible project development and implementation system in all five partner municipalities that can be used as an efficient project pipeline and thus support cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region. ...
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PIMMS aims to create more effective mobility management policies which can be absorbed into regional transport and sustainability policies. The project aims to create stronger regional transportation strategies that take into account environmental and social concerns. Experience from successful initiatives will be transferred to other regions. ...
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InterMETREX

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

...al urban regions and areas; better integration of forecasts, projections, scenarios and sectoral plans, particularly on socio-economic issues; the polycentric development of retail centres; urban capacity studies for sustainability; the protection of traditional water and agricultural areas within the metropolitan area; the development of integrated metropolitan transport systems; the integration ...
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Coastal Zone Management in the Baltic Sea Region / COASTMAN (COASTMAN)

Start date: Jun 13, 2004, End date: Sep 12, 2007,

The COASTMAN project is aimed on developing approaches for conflicts resolution in coastal zone areas. The project partners’ group with representatives from Sweden, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Russia aimed at investigating conditions under which spatial conflict resolution in coastal zone management can be handled in a bottom up perspective in different countries around Baltic Sea. The ...
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Integrating Logistics Centre Networks in the Baltic Sea Region (InLoC)

Start date: Jul 31, 2004, End date: Mar 30, 2007,

As a follow up of the project NeLoC projecz InLoc aimed at further improvement of the networking between logistics centres, ports and other logistics operators in the Baltic Sea Region. The project also analysed spatial and environmental consequences of logistics centres and aimed at removing bottlenecks in port-hinterland connections. Furthermore, the project tried to improve the compatibility of ...
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Network for Future Regional Health Care (Future Health)

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

The main objective of this cooperation is to create an effective platform for sharing cross-professional experience on developmental health care issues amongst the participating EU countries. This platform will develop new approaches for resolving health care management problems for the participating organisations. The objective will be pursued by analysing existing treatment processes, developing ...
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Many larger cities in the EU are facing increasing poverty, crime and social exclusion and are undergoing a progressive reduction of the previously enjoyed social-integrative function of urban neighbourhoods. To address problems that tend to be concentrated in specific neighbourhoods, holistic concepts that are able to address a wide range of inter-linked issues are necessary. The operation POSEID ...
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Cultural heritage, history and traditions play a mayor role in tourism development. Today tourists are often looking for qualitative offers and a combination between study tours and entertainment. The objective of the Ancient Times project was to preserve and further develop cultural heritage sites of the participating partners according to visitors' demands and in an ecological way. The aim was a ...
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