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COmmunity Nurse Supporting Elderly iN a changing SOciety (CO.N.S.E.N.SO)

Start date: Dec 16, 2015, End date: Dec 15, 2018,

Description (EN): European population’s ageing challenges health and social services. Cooperation in several welfare sectors is required, since the demographic change involves both health and social issues. CO.N.S.E.N.SO project accepts the challenge by developing a care model that puts the elderly at the centre of health and social services. It builds on the pivotal role of the Fam ...
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AlpStore: Strategies to use a variety of mobile and stationary storages to allow for extended accessibility and the integration of renewable energies (AlpStore)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Sun, water and biomass are a natural capital of the Alpine Space. It is a must to use them for the production of energy. Besides intelligent grids, storage systems will be key enablers for a future mostly renewable energy supply.Electric vehicles (EV) will be integral elements of the future energy system. Their batteries can be charged with excessive power from intermittent energy sources and elec ...
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A structured network for integration of climate knowledge into policy and territorial planning (ORIENTGATE)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The OrientGate project will foster concerted and coordinated climate adaptation actions across the SEE region. The project will explore climate risks faced by coastal, rural and urban communities; contribute to a better understanding of the impact of climate variability and change on water regimes, forests and agro-ecosystems; and analyse specific adaptation needs in the hydroelectricity, agro-ali ...
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Bringing closer ESPON evidence for decision making (ESPON on the Road)

Start date: Dec 23, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

AimThe ESPON 2013 Programme has produced a lot of results and the applied research, targeted analyses, scientific tools and publications provide a huge pool of knowledge that can be actively used in decision making. The project aims at strengthening the bridge between ESPON knowledge and local reality by bringing ESPON results closer to potential users. The project shall provide a platform for dis ...
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Managing Migration and its Effects in SEE - Transnational Actions Towards (SEEMIG)

Start date: May 31, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

... Achievements: • Analysis of migration data sources in eight SEE countries • Comparative analysis of existing major population projections (2060) in eight South-East European countries • Explaining migration at micro and macro- economic level • Historical analysis of migratory process in Austria • Historical analysis of migratory process in Bulgaria • Historical analy ...
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Assessing Territorial Attractiveness in SEE  (Attract-SEE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

Effective monitoring system and better coordination among different development and sectoral policies are basic conditions for achieving territorial cohesion and territorial development goals on transnational, national, regional and local level. Project ATTRACT-SEE will support policy makers to achieve better coordination of territorial cohesion and growth policies as well as their implementation ...
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South East Europe jointly developed common advanced virtual accessibility solutions to support public services  (SECOVIA)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

1. Background & problem to be addressed Cloud-based, virtualised IT platforms & infrastructures offer a strong potential to deliver cost-effective, scalable digital public services and to unlock regional growth and competitiveness. EC promotes a common EU Cloud Strategy as a means to help governments and citizens to access and develop advanced online services. The South East Europe (SEE) area suff ...
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Culture and Heritage Added value to Regional policies for Tourism Sustainability (CHARTS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

...le regional development policies, especially in relation to challenges of climate change and the economic crisis.Eight Good Practices are analysed and exchanged, drawn from two existing networks: the European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN), legacy of INTERRREG IIIC operation, and CHIRON (Cultural, Heritage promotion of Identity of Regions Observatory and Networking for cultural tourism) IIIB CADS ...
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Use ESPON (USESPON)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

USESPON is about capitalization of European perspective on territorial development and cohesion by encouraging the use of work and findings from the ESPON 2013 Programme. The aim is to create awareness and sense of ownership amongst key stakeholders in respect of use of methods and tools developed within the current programme. The strategy is to draw on and share work done in four previous and ong ...
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Launching (g)local level heritage entrepreneurship: strategies and tools to unite forces, safeguard the place, mobilize cultural values, deliver the experience. (SAGITTARIUS)

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

Cultural consumption is a knowledge based activity: cultural products and services are viable, only if they possess widely recognized values. SAGITTARIUS advances cultural consumption by communicating cultural values: from natural monuments and ecosystems to sites and collections, from the arts to traditions and handicrafts. Thus values of tangible-intangible, movable-immovable and spiritual herit ...
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Achieving SUSTainability through an integrated approach to the management of CULTural heritage (SUSTCULT)

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

Many valuable heritage sites in the SEE region are under pressure. Cultural heritage is often used to respond to economic concerns (tourism), rarely to valorise culturally a territory, its people, its traditions, its roots. The innovative approach of SUSTCULT is that cultural heritage has a social and ecological intrinsic significance which shall be safeguarded as a source of sustainable developme ...
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European Seas and Territorial Development, Opportunities and Risks (ESaTDOR)

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

Europe’s seas have become important in terms of policy making on both European and national level. The exploitation of sea and coastal areas for economic purposes is becoming increasingly important but there are also growing concerns on environmental issues. There have been attempts to replace the existing fragmented approaches to sea management with a more collaborative integrative approach on th ...
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AQUAFIMA – Integrating Aquaculture and Fisheries Management towards a sustainable regional development in the Baltic Sea Region (AQUAFIMA)

Start date: Jun 8, 2011, End date: Mar 7, 2013,

The fishery sector is an integral part of the Baltic Sea coastal regions and their economies. Not all fish stocks are fished within natural limits, and certain commercially important species (e.g. Baltic cod and Baltic white fish) are severely overfished and outside safe biological limits. Existing national and EU fisheries management policies are apparently not effective enough to maintain or eve ...
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Knowledge Network Management in Technology Parks (Know-Man)

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

...pports and initiates regional innovation impulses and strengthens each regions competitiveness. Furthermore, the project develops KNM policies and instruments that can be transferred to other European regions. Achievements: Know‐Man aims at improving regional developmen ...
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Cost-effective low-energy advanced sustainable so1utions (CLASS1)

Start date: Nov 1, 2007, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

The Municipality of Stenloese has decided to strengthen the energy requirements for a new settlement to be erected in the municipality. In this new settlement 650 dwellings will be constructed in the years 2007-2008 to a low-energy standard referred to as "low-energy class 1" in the Danish Building Regulations. This requirement means that the energy consumption will be 50 % below the new energy re ...
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Cooperating 2 Foster Renewables and Energy Efficiency (CO2FREE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2012,

...Regional Action plans. In terms of Communication & Dissemination, project is being widely disseminated and achieving higher targets than the initially expected causing a big interest at local and European level. Project can be followed through website www.co2free-project.eu and social media channels in Facebook and Twitter. The Launch Conference took place on 12-May-11 in San Sebastián .Other diss ...
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COMUNIS Inter-municipal cooperation for Strategic Steering of SME-oriented Location Development in the Alpine Space (COMUNIS)

Start date: Jun 30, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

In the Alps, the strategies of commercial development on the municipal level have been to react to single cases in the short term. A coordinated and concerted strategy using the regional and local potentials is missing. COMUNIS aims at developing a well-defined integrative and cooperative strategy for Commercial Location Development (CLD) and enhancing inter-municipal and intra-territorial coopera ...
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ESPON in Integrated Territorial Strategies (INTERSTRAT)

Start date: Jan 31, 2010, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

...els of decision-making. It aims to maximise transnational cooperation that recognises the importance of working with the diversity of institutional practice and regional potentials that characterises European territories. Achievements: Reports:Final Report PDF Draft F ...
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Cross Marketing Strategies for Culture and Tourism for more Attractiveness and Competitiveness for Cities and Regions (CROSSCULTOUR)

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

...to markets, searching for multi-sectoral approaches and integrated cultural economic concepts. Further 7,6 million citizens from the involved regions will benefit from the creation of strong regional/European identity based on common cultural-historical roots (cultural tourism experience, project communication, events),thus promoting valorisation of traditional activities. Furthermore, 11,3 millio ...
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Digital Age in Rural and Remote Areas 1.12 (DARRA)

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

The objective of DARRA project is to decrease the digital divide in remote and rural areas among the partner regions, through boosting the usage of ICT by SMEs and the public sector, and improve the overall regional competitiveness. DARRA capitalises on the findings of BIRRA project. The digital divide is a handicap inter-and intra-regionally and one indicator of a region’s peripherality. DARRA pr ...
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Connected Cities (CC)

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

European citizens travel much further to work and leisure facilities today than in the past. Despite bringing benefits, this huge increase in mobility has led to traffic congestion and pollution, holding back efforts to achieve sustainable development. Public transport can form the basis of more sustainable approaches to mobility. However, the mismatch between older public transport networks and m ...
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MunServNet: Improving Sustainability of Municipal Service Provision in the Field of Water and Waste Water Management (MunServNet)

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

As budget constraints of most municipalities are increasing, municipal service providers in the water and waste sector face pressures to improve efficiency and decrease costs. Additional challenges arise from legal obligations, such as EC directives to meet water quality and environmental standards as well as from rising public expectations concerning quality of service. To meet these demands muni ...
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Achievements of the Lisbon and Gothenburg Strategy Objectives by INTERREG (ALSO)

Start date: Jun 15, 2005, End date: Jun 14, 2007,

...mme Management level in order to evaluate INTERREG projects impacts;• Common tools of communication and better instruments in order to diffuse the INTERREG results at regional, national and European level;• Specific training of regional planners and INTERREG operators/project managers in order to make them more prepared on specific issues for better develop regional cooperation themes and territor ...
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Spatial aspects of the Information Society (Information Society)

Start date: Jun 9, 2005, End date: Mar 18, 2007,

...s of the information society at short-term and mid-term/long-term perspective and relate it with the goals and policy options defined in the ESDP. It will also cover rural and peripheral areas of the European Union, where the information society could be an important step towards their development, as well as the role of the information society in the development of urban-rural functional relation ...
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Spatial scenarios in relation to the ESDP and EU Cohesion Policy (Scenarios)

Start date: Apr 27, 2004, End date: Feb 12, 2007,

...tive objectives and provide insight for recommendations on policy adjustments/changes in EU policies that would favour a balanced and polycentric territory and territorial cohesion within an enlarged European Union. The time horizon for the spatial scenarios is set to 2015 (mid term) and 2030 (long term).
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Integrated analysis of transnational and national territories (Zooming)

Start date: Oct 12, 2004, End date: Jul 5, 2006,

...nd act as a factor of re-equilibrium among territories.The diversity of territorial opportunities and development potentials plays an equally important role in providing for a harmonious and balanced European territory. Different territorial contexts entail their specific weaknesses and opportunities, which need to be analysed in a systematic way using the ESPON "three scale approach" focusing at ...
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INFOTECH TO EXTEND – INFOrmation TECHnologies to EXTEND Regional Development (I2E)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2005,

The project promotes the Information Society (IS) implementation by fostering the direct involvement of the Regional/Local Institutions for favouring the ICT services diffusion particularly in less advanced areas as well as in SMEs which are slower than the Large Enterprises in adopting the ICT innovative models (geographical and dimensional divide). In addition to a large know-how transfer of man ...
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Territorial effects of the Pre-Accession Aid (Pre-Accession Aid)

Start date: Mar 30, 2003, End date: Sep 20, 2005,

... impact assessments of structural measures in these countries in order to improve the understanding of the relation between pre-accession aid respectively Structural Funds and spatial developments in European regions. In order to gain such knowledge different related policy instruments, including not only pre-accession aid and Structural Funds but sector policies, national regional policies etc. h ...
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Cities & Regions of Bicycles (BICY)

Start date: Jan 31, 2010, End date: Jan 30, 2003,

...a softer and sustainable model of mobility in Central Europe, centered on diffusion of bicycle. In fact, unsustainable traffic congestion and air pollution are a top preoccupation for a large part of European citizens (many of them spend years of their life in daily traffic jams), mainly in CE where mobility is often associated with a growing private motorisation. Considering that approximately 80 ...
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YE Let's Play

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

The games heritage lies at the very foundation of our respective cultural traditions. Promotion of the value of sport as a tool for social inclusion and active participation is the core of this project. Taking into account the important values that traditional sports and games offer, through the educational, culture, communicative and health promoting role towards the overall development of the in ...
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Find the Best - Competency-based recruitment in public administration

Start date: Jan 1, 2013,

Improving HR management systems in public administration [PA], including professional recruitment systems and fair personnel policies becomes more and more important [OECD]. Desk research and interviews carried out by the consortium revealed that competency based HR management is implemented selectively in public administration. Usually because of the nature of this bodies. In order to increase ef ...
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Crafts In Action (CRAFTIN)

Artisans involved in crafts like ceramics, woodworks, stoneworks, waxworks, hagiography, marble works are against great challenges and threats, since the overall financial and economic turmoil, especially in Greece, dominates every economical and business sector. However, it is the modernization and globalization of aesthetics, combined with the massive industrialization that are putting handicraf ...
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Smart Technology Solutions for Children with Dyslexia

Start date: Oct 1, 2013,

Dyslexic students, who often have average or above average intelligence, generally only need to be taught in a different manner, with a sound educational intervention, in order to learn basic skills and be as successful as other students. It is estimated that 5 to 10% of students that have traits or a level of dyslexia and 15 to 20% of primary school pupils suffer from a language-related learning ...
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