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As stated by the EC, renovation by the private housing sector towards increased energy efficiency is seriously lagging behind. As more than sufficient technological solutions are available, focus must be on removing non-technological barriers.The main barriers relate to fragmentation of the renovation offers, resulting in inefficient or only partial solutions. In addition to financial restrictions ...
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In NSSEP PLUS partners from all EU Member States represented in the NSR Programme and a non-co-fundable Norwegian participation further exploit and refine the potential of the CO2-calculator tool. A key outcome under the NSSEP project, this tool is the perfect instrument to work on the mindset towards carbon reduction. The central goal is to communicate with this tool and through new partners, mea ...
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VALUEADDED (VALUE+)

Start date: Jun 30, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Cities throughout North West Europe (NWE) welcome the challenge to increase public involvement in decision-making and planning. However. the major problems facing Europe cannot be addressed using entirely local approaches. This also requires strategic. coordinated responses. VALUE+ will demonstrate how cities can best integrate bottom-up and top-down approaches. It will show how we can both deepen ...
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iAge: e-inclusion in Ageing Europe (iAge)

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

iAge aims to promote and increase economic and social e-inclusion of elderly. Until 2030 the number of people of 65+ increases more than 50% which will have a significant impact on pensions, health care, the labour market and thus for the sustainability of communities.Comprehensive strategies and actions with regard to the labour market and meeting the needs of all ages will be crucial.  The incre ...
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Opening Up (Opening Up (OUP))

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The Opening Up project will open up new opportunities for businesses and governments to develop transformative services through the adoption of open data and social networking approaches. It will build upon the increasingly large amounts of valuable data created by the development of social networks as part of the shift towards open government to create new tools, devise new approaches and build t ...
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CORRID’OR

Start date: Jun 30, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

The Lys river valley, one of the green and blue Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Euro-metropolis axes, is surrounded by a highly urban area on both sides of the border. This urbanisation is putting pressure on land and causesparticularly high recreation and leisure expectations.The challenge for the partners is to develop a green area and a park on the outskirts of the town. The aim is to improve biodiversi ...
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Vital Rural Area (Vital)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

The project will consider three themes connected to rural development; lack of economic development and innovations, negative or insufficient exposure of regions and downsizing in level of services and amenities. Using a co-operative agreement approach the project partners will work together on a number of pilot initiatives to consider these issues in a transnational setting. The partnership wil ...
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Low Carbon Regions in the North Sea (LOWCAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 2, 2013,

The LOWCAP cluster will develop a process for the exchange of knowledge and experiences in carbon reduction and energy efficiency projects in the NSR. This process brings together key results & identifies the synergies between the partner projects & related NSRP projects. The findings will be consolidated & discussed with other stakeholders in the NSR drawn from decision makers & implementers in t ...
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Digital Agenda for the North Sea (DANS Cluster)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2013,

The DANS cluster connects three projects funded under the Priority 1 - namely Creative City Challenge (CCC), Smart Cities and E-CLIC. These three projects will combine their expertise, contacts and networks and thereby build a base upon which the 'Digital Agenda for Europe' (DAE) can be implemented within the North Sea Region. The project will focus on the link between the local and regional strat ...
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Creative City Challenge (CCC)

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

CCC aims to build and implement an integrated evidence-based strategy for cities to strengthen their innovative capacity by means of a methodology of joint development and pilot testing of new tools and instruments in the fields of skills development, business cooperation and the development of urban creative clusters. CCC focuses on the catalyst role of creative industries in building and strengt ...
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North Sea Sustainable Energy Planning (North Sea - SEP)

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

During the last years the costs for fossil energy resources are heavily increasing. A possibility to absorb rising costs is to critically question the status quo of energy consumption in order to be able to use existing energy saving potentials. Rising energy costs are contributing to a steadily increasing financial pressure for public utilities. This leads to a negative cycle: the public bodies h ...
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Smart Cities (Smart Cities)

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

Smart Cities aims to create an innovation network between governments and academia in six countries to promote excellence in the domain of e-services (development and take-up) in order to set a new standard for e-service delivery in the whole NSR. The transnational working method (pooling expertise, joint model development) is proposed to equip decision-makers to achieve further innovation in the ...
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Broadband Access for Innovation and Regional Development (BIRD)

Start date: Nov 29, 2005, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

The main aim of the BIRD project was to exchange experience and expertise on broadband implementation to enhance regional (rural) broadband access and usage. Achievements: and local level, recommendations for broadband as a tool for regional development and has given re ...
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HST Integration

Start date: Aug 31, 2002, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

between high speed rail stations in North West Europe. The project, whose lead partner is the South East England Development Agency, working in conjunction with a total of 18 partners from the UK, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, aims to investigate and demonstrate the means by which HST stations and station area developments can serve the internal cohesion as well as the external strength an ...
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E-voice intended to enhance the interest and the engagement of European citizens in general political issues within a representative democracy. The project developed, tested and advocated the multi-media dialogue approach: the combination of the strengths of the 'old' media (newspapers, radio, television, (mobile) telephone, libraries, etc.) and the 'new' ones (internet, e-mail, electronic chat-ro ...
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Waterline Economy (WE)

Start date: Nov 29, 2005, End date: Mar 30, 2008,

The central aim was to strengthen the role of socio-economic development while enhancing sustainable water management along water corridors that connect wetlands, cities and the North Sea. Achievements: The main result was a shift towards an all-encompassing approach, i ...
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HST Connect

Start date: May 31, 2003, End date: Feb 29, 2008,

High speed transport has a key role to play in promoting balanced spatial development across NW Europe. Therefore any attempt to improve HST needs to work on a transnational basis. The prime objective of the 15 partner, 21.893m euro HST Connect project is to forge closer connections between regional rail services and the trans-European High Speed Train network, with the aim of increasing the latte ...
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Since the completion of the project, UK and Sweden bilateral activities had been supported at the highest political level. The Swedish Minister of Environment and the UK Minister Housing and Planning has discussed the continuing cooperation to deliver sustainable homes and clean technologies. It has been indicated that UK government departments will consider funding activities for these initiative ...
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