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SynchroniCity: Delivering an IoT enabled Digital Single Market for Europe and Beyond (SynchroniCity)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

SynchroniCity represents the first attempt to deliver a Single Digital City Market for Europe by piloting its foundations at scale in 11 reference zones - 8 European cities & 3 more worldwide cities - connecting 34 partners from 11 countries over 4 continents. Building upon a mature European knowledge base derived from initiatives such as OASC, FIWARE, FIRE, EIP-SCC, and including partners with le ...
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Re-use of surplus foundry sand by composting (LIFE-FOUNDRYSAND)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Background The capacity of landfill sites to receive waste remains limited and new ways must be found to reuse waste. While cleaned and recycled soil material can be valuable for agricultural and geo-engineering (e.g. road construction) applications, its acceptance needs to be better established. In Europe, around 18 million tonnes of foundry waste sand i ...
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Shared Standards for Open Data and Public Sector Information (Share-PSI 2.0)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Share-PSI 2.0 brings together a critical mass of government agencies and organisations responsible for implementing the new PSI Directive. Lead by the W3C, the consortium includes the Open Group and Open Geospatial Consortium as fellow standards bodies plus the PSI Alliance, Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Data Institute and PwC as the primary contractor in the ISA Programme's work on interoperabi ...
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FI-WARE: Future Internet Core Platform (FI-WARE)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The goal of the FI-WARE project is to advance the global competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing an innovative infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, providing high QoS and security guarantees. FI-WARE is designed to meet the demands of key market stakeholders across many different sectors, e.g., healthcare, telecommunications, and environmental services. FI- ...
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Cleantech Incubation Europe (CIE)

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

...IE helps authorities to chose suitable policy interventions/instruments, attuned to their own local/regional situation. CIE is based on a partnership consisting of partners from Delft (lead partner), Helsinki, Budapest, London, Peterborough, Paris and Turin. The partners are cities/municipalities, universities and incubators (founded by the authorities). The universities and the incubators work on ...
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Towards transboundary access of nature observation data (BALTICDIVERSITY)

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

The project will promote transboundary access to nature observation data in three Central Baltic countries: Finland, Sweden and Estonia. Our goal is to use the joint potential of the national nature observation databases, including those covering the museum collections, and make their contents accessible to interested target groups in all the project countries. The project supports the development ...
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Baltic Forum for Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Manure Management (Baltic MANURE)

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

...e for a Bluer Baltic Sea” together with other BSR Programme projects and the WWF. The first conference was in Stockholm 2011, the second in Copenhagen in 2012, and the third conference in Helsinki in 2013 (with additional organisers: HELCOM, CIEC and NJF). The conference continues after the project period and enhances policy dialogue between agri-environmental stakeholders.For research, examples o ...
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Minimizing risks of maritime oil transport by holistic safety strategies (MIMIC)

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

Oil transportation in the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland poses transnational risks to the marine environment. Maritime oil transportation is also vulnerable to security threats, an area of less attention in the Baltic Sea. Traditionally, improvements to maritime safety regulation have realized only after major accidents. Post-accident policies are not very comprehensive and may be biased by the ch ...
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CLEAN BALTIC SEA SHIPPING (CleanShip)

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

BALTIC SEA CLEAN SHIPPING (CLEANSHIP), is part of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, and has by the EU Commission become selected as a strategic flagship project in its mission to make the Baltic Sea a model region 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 ...
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Rail Baltica Growth Corridor (RBGC)

Start date: Jun 10, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

The RBGC is led by the City of Helsinki and coordinated by the Aalto University Small Business Center. The project has in total of 21 partners from 6 BSR countries. Target groups of the RBGC are City and regional authorities, Transport service providers, Logistics centers, Intermodal terminals, Public transport authorities, Universities and other research centers. RBGC's partner composition is bas ...
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SNOOP - Shipping-induced NOx and SOx emissions – OPerational monitoring network (SNOOP)

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

Based on an existing framework of ship exhaust emission estimation, SNOOP aims to take the strategic evaluation of ship emission effects to a new level by enlargement the scope from nitrogen oxides to SOx, PM, CO, CO2 emissions. The cause-effect chains are studied by monitoring ambient air quality and estimating its human health effects in harbour areas, by modelling the nitrogen input from ship e ...
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CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING NETWORK (CREAENT)

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

Promotion of entrepreneurial thinking among young people, and supporting creative industry's business start-ups and their development into high growth companies are critical for the success of Lisbon strategy for growth and development. Here, entrepreneurial education has a key role. Consequently, entrepreneurial education in European higher education institutions is experiencing a strong growth. ...
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From waste to traffic fuel (W-FUEL)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

In Estonia as well as in Finland there is a growing need to produce renewable traffic fuels, decrease emissions and to prevent and recycle waste. At the same time economic recession, unemployment and regional development need to be managed in both countries. Until now little progress has been reached in waste prevention allthough it has by several studies been proved to be environmentally and econ ...
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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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Climate Change: Impacts, Costs and Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region (BaltCICA)

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

Climate change was recognized not only in terms of mitigation but also because of the need of adaptation as a major challenge that cannot be solved solely by single actors and territorial restricted actions, but asks for a coordination and support at a higher level. This is highlighted by the EU Green Paper on Adaptation to Climate Change, but also by other documents such as the EC Thematic Strate ...
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Efficient, Safe and Sustainable Traffic at Sea (EfficienSea)

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

The overall aim of EfficienSea was to improve maritime safety in the Baltic Sea region through concise and coordinate actions. Partners represented driving forces in the region for the development of improved of safety measures. We all worked for safe, sustainable and efficient traffic at sea and together we developed tools to make it happen. EfficienSea included 16 partners from six countries in ...
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Climate Change Community Response Portal (CCCRP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

Background The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in 2007 that warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level. Recent research shows that mean annual temperatures in Finland h ...
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ublic Policies and Instruments in Support of Creative Industries (CREATIVE METROPOLES)

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

... for CI products and servicesThe partnership of the project is constituted by municipalities and development agencies of 11 metropolitan cities of Europe – Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Birmingham, Helsinki, Oslo, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn, Vilnius and Warsaw – which play a central role in the economies of their regions and countries.The project is organised into 3 components. In addition to manage ...
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moting Regional Innovation System in St. Petersburg through Transnational Cooperation - SPb InnoReg (SPb InnoReg)

Start date: Dec 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2008,

The project SPb InnoReg - Promoting Regional Innovation System in St. Petersburg through Transnational Cooperation aims to promote sustainable economic development and competitiveness in the city of St. Petersburg. This is done by strengthening the regional innovation system (RIS) and improving utilization of the innovation and research potential of St. Petersburg in cooperation between Finnish, G ...
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Developing Policies & Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region (ASTRA)

Start date: Jun 5, 2005, End date: Jan 4, 2008,

Focusing on the Baltic Sea Region (BSR), the project "Developing Policies & Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region" (ASTRA) assesses regional impacts of the ongoing global change in climate. Its aim is to develop adequate climate change adaptation strategies and policies, together with relevant stakeholders, such as planners and decision makers.The ASTRA project uses clim ...
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Baltic Metropolises Innovation Strategy (BaltMet Inno)

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

BaltMet Inno Project was initiated by the major cities in the Baltic Sea Region. The project consortium consists of thirteen partner organisations from Berlin, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Malmö, Riga, Stockholm, St. Petersburg and Tallinn. In addition, organisations from Oslo, Warsaw and Vilnius participate in the project as observers. The project was started in the beginning of 2005 and will be finalis ...
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Regional Collaboration for Minimising Pesticide Emissions in the Environment (CleanRegion)

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

... Achievements: Weed occurrence on pavements has been surveyed in 7 cities in 2005 and 2006: Cesis (LVA), Braunschweig (DEU), Malmö (SWE), Næstved (DNK), Helsinki (FIN), Wageningen (NLD) and R.L. Spa (GBR). Different weeding strategies, mainly based on non-chemical methods, have been undertaken in 5 countries (Finland, Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the Ne ...
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BALTIC SEA INFORMATION MOTORWAYS (BaSIM)

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

Shipment of goods in the BSR increases and will grow in the future even faster. The concept of Baltic Sea Motorways along transnational transport corridors will be based on strong cooperations between players in the transportation field as well as on industry side. Improvement of productivity and competitiveness needs the development both physical and information infrastructure. The first being ad ...
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AGORA -Network Sustainable Tourism Development in the Baltic Sea Region (AGORA)

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

The BSR is characterised by large areas of unspoilt countryside. Because of strong economic problems just in these rural areas tourism seems to be a promising opportunity to support regional development. Sustainability considered as a guiding principle can ensure that such a development will lead to economical benefits without threaten the nature and the social structure. Consequently a lot of sus ...
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Improved Elderly Care - Setting an Example (UVMM)

Start date: Feb 11, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The cooperation between Helsinki and Tallinn has been developed for years in the field of social- and healthcare. There is a need to divide the acute care and care in crises situation in separate hospitals for the elderly. For this a new hospital concept needs to be developed. There is a need for a rehabilitation hospital, where the rehabilitation care is given in short intense periods. The develo ...
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ion of aquatic communities in the Gulf of Finland: risk-based policymaking (EVAGULF)

Start date: Aug 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

In the framework of the project the systematical classification of the most threatened populations in the ecosystem of the Gulf of Finland will be started and analysis- and decision-tools based on latest computational methodology be produced. The interactive tools will be created especially thinking about needs of the decision-makers and they will be published for the public use and evaluation in ...
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Web database for follow up of energy and water consumption in municipal buildings (E4 Portal)

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

The project develops a database for follow-up of energy and water consumption in municipal buildings. Database created at the first phase in Finland includes at the starting point almost real-time follow-up data as well as trends in longer time-scale. The Estonian version created in the project will be introduced for the use on municipal and state-owned buildings in Estonia. The portal will be tes ...
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Education and Development project of Plastic Waste (+WEEE) Recycling (RePlast FinEst)

Start date: Mar 14, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The project examines handling and recycling processes of plastic waste (SER-plastic granules) and surveys co-operation possibilities between Finland and Estonia. The key element of the project is to strengthen co-operation between the authorities as well as between the authorities and producers of plastic. The project supports establishing a know-how centre of recycling in Estonia, and methods of ...
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Risk assessment and risk management procedure for arsenic in the Tampere region (RAMAS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2004, End date: Nov 30, 2007,

Background Arsenic is classified by the World Health Organisation as a group 1 human carcinogen. Drinking water is the main source of inorganic arsenic in humans. The WHO recommended limit is 10 µg/l. Lung, bladder and skin cancers can result from concentrations of 50 µg/l or more. Arsenic intake levels in Europe vary from 63 µg/day in England to 286  ...
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moting Spatial Development by Creating COMon MINdscapes (COMMIN)

Start date: Aug 31, 2004, End date: Aug 30, 2007,

Transnational and cross-border co-operation have a growing need (e.g. EU-enlargement) for a precise understanding of the partner’s concepts and the planning systems they are embedded in. The improvement of solving similar problems in different BSR countries and on transnational activities can best be achieved by exchange of experiences and ideas, mutual training and further education as well as pr ...
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Towards the sustainable region (DQE)

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

The overall objective of this cooperation is to exchange experience and jointly develop new instruments and tools for competitive and sustainable development at regional and SME level. The partners aim to test and apply the “DQE Method” as a tool for integrated SME development in all participating regions. This shall increase the competitiveness of their SMEs. ...
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ScanBalt Campus – a European model case for transnational and transectoral institution building in education, research and development. (ScanBalt Campus)

Start date: Mar 9, 2005, End date: Jun 8, 2007,

The basic concept of ScanBalt Campus is to deliver a framework for joint activities within ScanBalt Bioregion in knowledge formation and innovation and to increase the visibility of these actions. An important feature of ScanBalt Campus is that despite its focus on Biotech/life sciences, all activities should reflect a holistic view. This means that the educational training should also encompass a ...
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Territorial dimension of the Lisbon/Gothenburg Process (Lisbon strategy)

Start date: Jul 22, 2004, End date: Feb 12, 2007,

Studying the territorial dimension of the Lisbon/Gothenburg Agenda comprises a multitude of very complex and broad processes and contexts. It will neither be feasible to conduct an analysis of the impact of the Lisbon/Gothenburg strategy nor to embrace all factors of competitiveness.The main scope of the study is to develop a number of basic analytical elements that can introduce territorial cohes ...
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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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Eco-Efficient Mass Event EMS manual (ECOMASS)

Start date: Aug 1, 2004, End date: Jul 31, 2006,

Background From 2003, Helsinki knew that it was to host the 2005 World Athletics Championships, and realised that it needed an environment programme to support the event. Such mass events generate significant environmental stresses, particularly through the production of waste and the high transport needs of athletes, organisers and spectators. Both issue ...
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m-Loma Mobile location-aware message application

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

...ut the aim is to extend the service for the whole Gulf of Finland region. Project builds up networks between universities and enterprises in the sector on both sides of the Gulf. Target areas: Turku, Helsinki and Tallinn
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Spatial effects of natural and technological hazards (Natural hazards)

Start date: Feb 12, 2003, End date: Nov 15, 2005,

The main aim of the project is to represent the spatial patterns of natural and technological hazards in administrative regions of the ESPON space, on NUTS 3 level.Hazards are natural extreme events or technological accident phenomena that can lead to threats and damages among the population, the environment and/or material assets. 11 hazards, both relevant for the ESPON space and for spatial plan ...
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Medium Sized Cities in Dialogue around the Baltic Sea (MECIBS )

Start date: Jun 23, 2002, End date: Sep 22, 2005,

The project objective was to foster balanced spatial development by sustaining the development of medium-sized cities. Within this objective the project aimed at exploration of urban restructuring processes, formulation of recommendation for interlinking of local and national strategies and for economic, environmental and social development of the medium sized cities. This work was to be achieved ...
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Urban-rural relations in Europe (Urban-rural)

Start date: Sep 5, 2002, End date: Apr 20, 2005,

The future of numerous rural areas is functionally increasingly interlinked with urban development in terms of flows, exchange processes, institutional links and interdependencies. This is obvious in densely populated areas (such as peri-urban zones) undergoing considerable processes of urbanisation. It is also relevant for more sparsely populated rural areas that are under less visible urban infl ...
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Sea Level Change Effecting the Spatial Development in the Baltic Sea Region (SEAREG )

Start date: Jun 21, 2002, End date: Mar 31, 2005,

The project aimed at supporting local and regional planners by transforming existing data sets from natural scientific research projects into an applicable format for spatial planning. The main objective was to create a tool for regional planners and natural scientists how to cooperate in the light of climate change in long term spatial planning. The tool was going to be designed as a decision sup ...
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