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Natura 2000 sites in the Piatra Craiului National Park (Piatra Craiului II)

Start date: Jul 1, 2003, End date: Jul 1, 2007,

...c awareness was raised within local communities and tourists regarding the protection of the bird species, hayfields, riparian galleries, water ecosystems and Natura 2000 network. The delay in the Global Environmental Facility funded project, which aimed to construct two visitor centres by July 2004, adversely affected the project implementation. Just one visitor centre was constructed and that af ...
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Dynamics-aerosol-chemistry-cloud interactions in West Africa (DACCIWA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

...030, the impacts of which on human health, ecosystems, food security and the regional climate are largely unknown. An assessment of these impacts is complicated by (a) a superposition with effects of global climate change, (b) the strong dependence of SWA on the sensitive West African monsoon, (c) incomplete scientific understanding of interactions between emissions, clouds, radiation, precipitati ...
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Monte Cerro EVS for a New Culture

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

...ejo region in the south of Portugal. It is a non-profit, private international education and peace research centre, with the aim of building "peace villages" in Europe and worldwide. Themed "think globally, act locally", approximately 160 people live, work and study here together. The goal of AMH/Tamera is to construct an exemplary pilot model for non-violent co-habitation among human beings and b ...
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Pure Copper Recovery (PCR) from WtE bottom-ash An innovative heap leaching and solvent extraction process (LIFE PCR)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

... concentrates, as well as on the recycling of production scrap and end-of-life products. Nearly all copper products can be recycled repeatedly without loss of product properties. The average global end-of-life recycling rate of copper from 2000 to 2010 is given at 45%. Objectives The overall goal of the LIFE PCR projec ...
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Conservative management of alpine habitats as a Natura 2000 site in Retezat National Park (Retezat National Park)

Start date: Oct 1, 2005, End date: Dec 31, 2008,

...an Important Bird Area for Europe (2000). Two prime Butterfly Areas for Europe were also identified in the area in 2000. At the establishment of the Retezat National Park Administration in 1999, a Global Environment Facility (GEF) project facilitated the capacity building of the park administration and the drawing up of a management plan for the area. Retezat National Park is the only national par ...
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Biotope networks - networks of life : promoting a forest corridor system with a European perspective (Netze des Lebens)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

... have a lasting impact. Initiatives are necessary to stop the reduction of biodiversity under the UN Biodiversity Convention, which was adopted by the EC in 2006. One of the results of the global Millennium Ecosystems Assessment was that ecosystems in EU countries suffer much more fragmentation compared to other regions of the world. The Netze des Lebens project addressed both biodiversity loss ...
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Breakthrough high performance cost competitive solar concentration system for combined heat and power generation (FOCALSTREAM)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

...d services). On the other side, within the clean technologies the solar energy industry is one of the fastest growing forces in the market. Recent market research highlights the growth trend of the global PV installed capacity and revenue, from an annual 65,700 million € in 2013 up to a forecast of 105,850 million € by 2020 at an average CAGR 8.7%.Sungen, Jaca and Geetit have formed a consortium f ...
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Learning Tourism: Creating Innovative and Permanent Methods and Practices for Multidimensional Education Collaboration

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...: International tourism has a significant impact on the economies of the European Union and its member states. More than 5 % of the EUs’ GDP are generated by the tourism industry. Regardless of the global economic crisis, the EU remains the number one tourism destination in the world. An increase in growth of 6 % in international tourist arrivals in Europe was experienced in the years of 2010 and ...
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Arctic Sea Ice and Greenland Ice Sheet Sensitivity (Ice2Ice)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

... decline in Arctic Sea Ice heralding a new phase of abrupt change, similar to those recorded in ocean sediments and ice cores? Such changes would have major consequences for the GIS mass balance and global climate and sea level. Ice2Ice will approach this complex problem by integrating 4 PI teams from three Nordic world class research centres comprising empiricists and dynamicists specialized in ...
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White Light Fibre Lasers - Highly Disruptive Illumination Technology for Industry and Medical Surgery (WhiteLase-2020)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

... markets for a high-end, industrially-robust, high-brightness illumination source having the spectrum of a lamp and the beam quality and reliability of a laser. Such a source will disrupt the €600m global market for industrial lighting and be a key enabler for the combined €7.5 billion Ophthalmic and Semiconductor Equipment markets which depend on them.Within the WhiteLase-2020 project, Fianium wi ...
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Use of poultry dejection for the bating phase in the tanning cycle (PODEBA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

...ude the EU Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive (96/61/EC), the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) and the REACH Regulation. In order to maintain competitiveness in the global market place, European leather producers must exploit raw materials more efficiently and eliminate from industrial processes the negative impacts of waste materials (hides and skins). The raw mate ...
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Conservation of the Roseate Tern in Brittany (Dougall)

Start date: Nov 1, 2005, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

Background The roseate tern (Sterna dougallii) is very cosmopolitan, but its global range is highly fragmented. Most of the global population, about 50 000 pairs, breeds outside Europe. In the North Atlantic region, the roseate tern breeds on the north eastern coast of America and in Europe mainly on the Azores, in the Irish Sea region and on the north co ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

...d a mobility practices. The tasks carried out in the company are detailed in the Learning Agreement Practices. The fulfillment of these tasks is made according to production needs of the company. Global Activities: - Monitoring and control of maintenance planning. - They have you determined the indexes of reliability, availability and maintainability of a production line and its machines. - They h ...
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MSc Programme in Environmental Security and Management

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

Europe is facing an accelerated climate change as a result of global warming and as a result population departure and consequent abandon of rural areas due to the increase floods, forest fire, lack of water, land slide, etc, and there is a need to find ways to support management of such hazards by providing adequate training on environmental security and management. Romania, Hungary, Estonia, Spai ...
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Tourism Research Innovation And Next Generation Learning Experience

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

...e Tourism Research Innovation And Next Generation Learning Experience (TRIANGLE) Programme is a response to a wide range of contemporary sustainability challenges and opportunities highlighted in the global SD Goals 2030 such as climate change and biodiversity loss facing European tourism stakeholders, in particular the need for sustainable consumption and production in the Europe’s Natura 2000 ne ...
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Marine protected areas in the Eastern Baltic Sea (Baltic MPAs)

Start date: Aug 1, 2005, End date: Nov 30, 2009,

Background The Baltic Sea is a unique and fragile marine ecosystem hosting many species and habitats of European and global interest, including the Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri) which has its own European Species Action Plan. It is believed that the by-catch of birds and seals in fishing nets is a problem in the Baltic Sea and assumed that habitat ...
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Sustainable Cruise - Prototypes and approaches for raising the waste hierarchy on board and certifying it (Sustainable Cruise)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

...fforded passengers on cruise ships, per capita waste production is even higher. The amount of waste generated is 70 times more than a typical cargo ship. Cruise ships represent less than 1% of the global merchant fleet yet it has been estimated that they are responsible for 25% of all waste generated by merchant vessels. In accordance with EU Directive 2000/59, Article 4(2), it is clear that any h ...
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Dobrovoľníci vo víre svetového Slovenska

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

...I) has been passing its experience to volunteers from near or distant parts of the world and preparing them for all aspects of their future work life. In the project “Volunteers in the whirlwind of global Slovakia” we join the best with the most interesting we have worked on in our organization for 10 years - from transnational e-learning projects financially supported by the European Commission t ...
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SustainAble Farming for Effective Aquaculture (SAFE-Aqua)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Aquaculture is an important food source for the world’s growing population. The increasing demand and productivity of aquaculture leads to global trade in breeding stock, genetic material and aquaculture products for human consumption, but also exacerbates the globalization of pathogens.SAFE-Aqua, an international inter- and multidisciplinary consortium, aims to provide scientific solutions to sol ...
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Az Ipoly-vízgyűjtő vizes élőhelyeinek komplex felmérése, közösségi jegyzékeinek kidolgozása / Komplexné zmapovanie vodných lokalít povodia Ipľa, vypracovanie záznamov pre Európske spoločenstvo (Ipoly természetvédelem / Ochrana prírody v oblasti rieky Ipeľ)

Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Feb 27, 2011,

... Achievements: The primary motivation of this project was to achieve the aims of the Natura 2000 habitat network and the Water Framework Directive. The global objective of the project was the long term preservation of the body of water, the wetlands and the natural values of the Ipoly/Ipeľ river basin on the territory of Slovakia and Hungary for poster ...
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Re-creating habitat complexity for semi-aquatic fauna (SemiAquaticLife)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

...ave been subject to dramatic declines due to human disturbance – e.g. draining of wetlands, urbanisation and fragmentation of the landscape. Invasive alien species, including diseases, also pose global threats to the native semi-aquatic fauna. In Europe, many herptiles and insects are dependent on Natura 2000 sites and other protected areas for their long-term survival. A key factor for long-ter ...
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Environmental recovery of the Fluvial Territory; living space of the European mink (TERRITORIO VISÓN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

... a fifth of the species population in Navarra and two-thirds of the Iberian population; hence the importance of restoring the river ecosystems of the lower reaches of these two rivers for the global strategy of the species conservation. Objectives This project aims to significantly enhance the biodiversity of the low ...
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International network for capacity building for the control of emerging viral vector borne zoonotic diseases (ARBO-ZOONET)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

...soil epidemic raises the threat of expansion into other parts of Asia and Europe. There is a general public concern regarding emerging zoonotic diseases which has gained new relevance in the light of global warming. This is especially true regarding the spread of vector-borne diseases such as CCHF, RVF and WNF. It is imperative to work out integrated control measures which include vector control, ...
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Global Ocean Observing Infrastructure (EURO ARGO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"The Euro-Argo infrastructure will be a major component of the Argo global in situ ocean observatory. The Argo network is a global array of autonomous instruments measuring temperature and salinity over the upper 2000 m of the ocean. Argo is an indispensable component of the Global Ocean Observing System required to understand and monitor the role of the ocean in the Earth’s climate system. Argo ...
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Strengthening University-Enterprise linkages in Palestine

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

...ment opportunities and socio-economic growth (in Europe, this was already highlighted under the ‘Lisbon Strategy 2000’ and is now reinforced under the ‘Europe 2020 Strategy’).While there is a global economic deadlock, the situation is particularly critical in certain regions. In Palestine, local and political factors notably affect its socio-economic development, with a high rate of unemployment a ...
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Integrated approach to energy and climate changes changing (WW4ENVIRONMENT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

...ge mitigation strategies can be defined from the emissions' profile of the treatment facility, while the carbon footprint assessment can also be used to understand the contribution of WWTP for the global carbon budget. WW4ENVIRONMENT was the first project in Portugal to consider wastewater treatment in the context of climate change. The new paradigm was to change the way organic matter from waste ...
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Conservation of the wintering population of the globally threatened red-breasted goose (branta ruficollis) in Bulgaria (Safe Ground Redbreasts)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2015,

Background An important part of BSPB’s work is dedicated to conserving globally threatened species, such as the red-breasted goose (Branta ruficollis). The BSPB has monitored the red-breasted goose for 17 consecutive years, constituting the most continuous monitoring of any key species in Bulgaria. It was also one of the organisations that initiated the ...
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IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS FOR SEABIRDS (Marine Ibas) IN SPAIN (IBA MARINAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Feb 28, 2009,

... Furthermore, outcomes from the project work provide a model methodology for defining future marine IBAs, and the approach has now been adopted by members of BirdLife International as part of a global standard. This has been applied in countries such as Greece, Malta, the Baltic Countries, Argentina, Peru, USA, South Africa and New Zealand. The process started with an initial pilot methodology f ...
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Vision and Action Plans for European Freight Transport until 2050 (FREIGHTVISION)

Start date: Aug 14, 2008, End date: Feb 13, 2010,

In the next years and decades the European Union need to act on the following global challenges: How to ensure and increase economic growth whilst also reduce environmental emissions (mainly Co2) and dependence on fossil energy, when freight transport demand (in terms of transport performance) is expected to increase by around 50% between 2000 and 2020 in the EU-25 (Project ASSESS Final Report, 20 ...
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Obiettivi di sviluppo del Millennio: I Giovani di oggi sono gli adulti di domani

Start date: Nov 1, 2009,

...promote gender equality and give more power to women-Reduce child mortality-Improve mother's health-Fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases-Guarantee environmental sustainability-Develop a global cooperation for developmentThe achievement of this goal is a priority for all countries and is the sole possibility to guarantee a pacific living in aglobalized world. However, the lack of effo ...
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Environmental rehabilitation of the Natural Reserve of Tarquinia Salt-works (Tarquinia)

Start date: Jan 1, 2003, End date: Jun 30, 2006,

... The project aimed to preserve the Tarquinia salt marsh as part of a strategy for the protection of coastal lagoons in Europe and within the Natura 2000 network. The project took a global approach to the ecosystem: its first key objective was to improve water exchange in the marsh basins by restoring the old canal embankments, carrying out maintenance on the locks and pumps and ...
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Important bird areas for seabirds in Portugal (IBAMarinha)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Oct 1, 2008,

...realis. Outcomes from the project work provided a model methodology for defining future marine IBAs, and the approach has now been adopted by members of BirdLife International as part of a global standard. This has been applied in countries such as Greece, Malta, the Baltic Countries, Argentina, Peru, USA, South Africa and New Zealand. The process started with an initial pilot methodology for d ...
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Protection of the forests of Basse Lauter and Vosges moyennes (Lauter-Donon)

Start date: Sep 1, 2006, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

... urogallus). The site is part of a large forest massif and provides an example of the strong links between species and habitats and thus, of the importance of a linked and global management policy. The actions for these areas would include: cutting trees on the peat bogs and diverting of forest tracks and trails to ensure the priority bird species, western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) remains ...
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Tourist Guides for Intellectually Disabled in Europe

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

... Europe today: 1. To increase new market/job opportunities; 2. To increase social inclusion.The EU is fighting the increasing unemployment and the related strain on social inclusion as consequence of global crisis, whose tourism is one of the “at risk” sectors. Tour operators/actors are asking for new policies for tourism implementation. On the other hand there is a big problem of lack of inclusio ...
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Multi-scale Service for Monitoring NATURA 2000 Habitats of European Community Interest (MS.MONINA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

...remote sensing data for NATURA 2000 monitoring. Today, with (i) GMES as an umbrella for utilizing latest EO-based achievements form both space- and in-situ sensors to provide European solutions for global problems of the environment-security-nexus, (ii) INSPIRE as a pan-European endeavor of obeying standards and other prerequisites of interoperable use, and (iii) the vision of a unified and integr ...
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Information Service on Agricultural Change (ISAC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"Agricultural resources are in high demand to sustain the world’s growing population. In Europe, agriculture is regulated and monitored through the CAP and agricultural insurances are increasing in importance as an instrument for risk management. In the developing world droughts and other natural disasters impact vulnerable populations and lead to famines and starvation. The EC development policy ...
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Conservation of the natural wet habitat of Satchinez (continuation of the project 99NAT/RO/006394) (Satchinez II)

Start date: Oct 1, 2002, End date: Sep 30, 2005,

... established during the previous project, which also targeted the buffer area. The actions foreseen in the project included some hydro-technical works in the buffer zone to extend the wetlands, a global ecological study of the whole site and the establishment of a small administrative centre for the protected area. It was also intended to improve the surveillance of the protected site. Finally, ...
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Wave Energized Baltic Aeration Pump (WEBAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

... nutrient loads to marine environments. Upstream nutrient reductions, however, are difficult to achieve and it takes a long time before effects in marine environments are observed. In addition, global warming is expected to increase hypoxia. This implies that mitigation measures that lead to direct improvements are required. Objectives ...
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Handi'Cap sur l'Europe

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

...owards disabled people - Boost the employment rate of disabled people in a mainstream environment. At the level of the consortium members, the challenge is to : - Develop European and global strategies of openness, look for innovative practices toward beneficiaries. - Develop reciprocity between counterparts organizations through the sending and receiving of learners and professionals. - Develop t ...
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Desarrollo sostenible del espacio transfronterizo RED NATURA 2000 y hábitats común Andalucía-Marruecos (TRANSHABITAT)

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

...del fomento del empleo en sectores emergentes en TransHábitat. Introducción del nuevo paradigma de la gestión adaptativa al cambio global a través de la conexión de investigadores y gestores. Reducción de la mortalidad de alimoches y quebrantahuesos. Impulso de la creación de empleo estable para la cría/reintroducción de especies piscícolas amenazadas. Fomento del turismo sostenible de TransHábita ...
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