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Sharing Cities (SHAR-LLM)

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

Sharing Cities has four key objectives. 1) To achieve scale in the European smart cities market by proving that properly designed smart city solutions, based around common needs, can be integrated in complex urban environments. This will be done in a way that exhibits their true potential and allows for the significant scale-up and consequent increase in social, economic and environmental value. ...
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Clean Sea Life (Clean Sea LIFE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

Background Marine litter has been recognised as one of the major threats to marine ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea. Tourism, fishing and recreational activities are among the main sources of this litter. Marine mammals, seabirds, turtles, fish and invertebrates have all been reported to ingest marine debris, especially plastic. In particular, entang ...
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Safeguard and valorization of the plant species of EU interest in the Natural Parks of the Abruzzo Apennine (FLORANET LIFE)

Start date: Jul 18, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Background Several plant species of EU importance, listed in the annexes of the Habitats Directive, are found in the Majella, Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise national parks and the Sirente Velino regional park. The species are under threat for several reasons. In particular, they are adversely affected by the growing impact of tourism, resulting in the unsustai ...
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Alien Species Awareness Program (LIFE ASAP)

Start date: Sep 30, 2016, End date: Mar 30, 2020,

Background The EU Invasive Alien Species Regulation highlights the benefits of preventing the spread of invasive alien species (IAS) in terms of biodiversity and cost. Increased public awareness and effective early warning systems and management are essential to this task. In Italy, there is a need for more public awareness of the problem, in particular o ...
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Moving towards Life Cycle Thinking by integrating Advanced Waste Management Systems (Waste4Think)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

The main objective of this project is to move forward the current waste management practices into a circular economy motto, demonstrating the value of integrating and validating a set of 20 eco-innovative solutions that cover all the waste value chain. The benefits of these solutions will be enhanced by a holistic waste data management methodology, and will be demonstrated in 4 complementary urban ...
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S.O.S. 4 LIFE - Save Our Soil for LIFE (SOS4LIFE)

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

Background Soils provide seven main ecological functions: carbon sequestration; water purification; prevention of erosion; support of biodiversity; habitat for pollinators; production of wood/fibre; and food production. Most of these functions provide economic, as well as ecological benefits, to local communities. However, they are inhibited by soil seali ...
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Sustainable exploitation of biomass for bioenergy from marginal lands in Europe (SEEMLA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The aim of the SEEMLA project is the reliable and sustainable exploitation of biomass from marginal lands (MagL), which are used neither for food nor feed production and are not posing an environmental threat.The main target groups are regional authorities and public or private owners of MagLs, who can provide knowledge on land availability and are responsible for managing these. Furthermore fores ...
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Collective Awareness Platform for Tropospheric Ozone Pollution (CAPTOR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Air pollution is the environmental topic that European citizens worry about most (Eurobarometer 2013). It puts considerable damage to health, agriculture and our natural environment. Despite these facts, the readiness and power of European citizens to take actions themselves is limited. The drivers of the CAPTOR project are three large civil society organizations. Being the interface between minis ...
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AGROVEGA+

Start date: Nov 7, 2016, End date: Nov 6, 2018,

In line with the objectives of the Europe2020 Strategy and ET2020, through "AGROVEGA+", the consortium, led by the Lora del Rio Council, aims to improve the quality of education and vocational training, giving a European dimension to the educational paths and thus providing the young participants the opportunity to test and improve their skills: professionalism in the specific areas of vocational ...
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Management of grey squirrel in Umbria: conservation of red squirrel and preventing loss of biodiversity in Apennines (LIFE U-SAVEREDS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Oct 1, 2018,

Background The Umbria region is located in the heart of the Italian peninsula. It is threatened by the presence of the non-native Eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) that has spread since it was accidentally released in the city of Perugia in the early 2000s. The introduction of the grey squirrel in Europe is one of the most well-known and studie ...
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Reduction of sea turtle mortality in commercial fisheries (TARTALIFE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Background The conservation of the sea turtle (Caretta caretta) – an EU priority species, listed in annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive, and protected under various international conventions – is of strategic importance for the whole Mediterranean basin. Fishing represents the main threat to the species’ survival. Researchers (Casale, 2011) ...
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Increasing Social Awarness and ACceptance of biogas and biomethane (ISAAC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Although Italy has a great potential for biogas production, many non-technical barriers are still present in the current framework. Some of the limiting factors involve public acceptance of the biogas facilities diffusion, as well as lack of a reliable coordination between different stakeholders. Furthermore, normative and legislative inadequacies and deficiencies haven’t facilitated the implement ...
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Climate Change - People Change?

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

...se of fossil fuels and towards combating climate change.2. DOOR (Croatia): Awareness-raising, education and policy work. Renewable energy sources, efficiency, climate poverty3. Legambiente (Italy): Making environmental culture the centre of a new kind of development and well-being.4. Youth Work Ireland Galway: Advocacy, youth services, providing information about youth activities.ACTIVITIES18 mo ...
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Promotion and support to the implementation of the energy labelling for Space, Combi Heaters and Water Heaters with a focus on the “Package label” (LabelPack Aplus)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The ‘Label Pack A+’ project aims at supporting the implementation of the energy labelling of heating appliances while boosting its impact, the focus being on the “package label” and its potential to push for the uptake or renewable technologies, in particular solar thermal, in combination with more efficient conventional technologies.The project will address one of the main challenges related to t ...
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Be Globally Local: Erasmus+ inside our land

Start date: Dec 5, 2016, End date: Feb 4, 2018,

Legambiente Prato offers a long term EVS service (12 months of activity period from 05/01/2017 to 04/01/2018) to 4 volunteerscoming from Spain, Croatia, Belarus and Latvia. The volunteers are selected on the basis of their profile and their motivation to join the project. The context which volunteers are involved in is tailored on their needs and preparation thanks to the host organization's staff ...
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Youthworker 2.0

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

The applicant and the partner organisations have been in contact through the Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations. All of them aim at assuring and developing quality of their activities and would like to support youth workers and youth leaders in their networks to improve their work with youth. That’s why this project identified several concrete needs of these networks and develope ...
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Trout population RecOvery in central iTAly (LIFE+TROTA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Background The macrostigma trout (Salmo trutta macrostigma) [named Salmo macrostigma in Annex II of the Habitats Directive], is the endemic salmonid of the Mediterranean area and the only original trout of central/southern Italy. It is classified as a vulnerable species in Europe and critically endangered in Italy. The main threats for the species are: wa ...
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LAND-AND-SEA ACTIONS FOR CONSERVATION OF Caretta caretta IN ITS MOST IMPORTANT ITALIAN NESTING GROUND (IONIAN CALABRIA) (LIFE Caretta Calabria)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2017,

Background Some 95% of the nesting sites of the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in the Mediterranean Sea are concentrated on Greek, Turkish, Cypriot and Libyan coasts. The nesting of the species in southern Italy is considered to have been quite sporadic and irregular in the past few decades, even though quantitative data is limited. Recently, it was ...
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A Climate for Youngsters

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Legambiente Prato offers a long term EVS service (12 months of activity period from 01/10/2016 to 30/09/2017) to 2 volunteerscoming from France e Cyprus. The volunteers are selected on the basis of their profile and their motivation to join the project. The context which volunteers are involved in is tailored on their needs and preparation thanks to the host organization's staff which offers its s ...
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Green Verona Green Europe

Start date: Aug 8, 2016, End date: Sep 7, 2017,

...the vegetation and historical monuments from different periods. This patrimony has been ripped fro the degradation and the neglect exclusively thanks to the work of volunteering, in particular from Legambiente that for 20 years now is promoting the necessity to recuperate it. The work that the volunteers will come to do offers a multiplicity of actions that all tend towards the usability of the Pa ...
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MED Medical Equipment Discarded – A new Integrate system to reduce waste by medical equipment and medical WEEE (LIFE MED)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Background The life cycle of equipment in a medical institution is short due to the need to ensure functionality, security and adaptation to new standards. It is estimated that equipment in European hospitals has an average life cycle of five years. The disposal of the equipment follows different processes that can vary according to place and type of devi ...
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Air pollution treatment in European urban environments by means of photocatalytic textiles (LIFE PHOTOCITYTEX)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Background Air pollution from traffic is a growing problem, especially in urban areas. In recent years the use of titanium dioxide (TiO2) based photocatalytic self-cleaning and de-polluting materials has been considered to remove these pollutants. TiO2 is now commercially available and used in construction material or paints for environmental purposes. Fu ...
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Open Space for Migrations

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

Open Space for Migrations is project that is dealing with current Europe, its changes and challenges, consequences of radical politics in the regions of Middle East and Eastern Africa, war and its consequences and the role of International Voluntary Service today. As a movement that was initiated after the First World War in order to repair the broken Europe, to fight prejudices and stereotypes an ...
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Ambasciatori per un futuro sostenibile /Ambassadors for a sustainable future

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

“Ambassador for a sustainable future” is an EVS project that involves four girls coming from Russian Federation, Germany and France who will cooperate with the volunteers of the Legambiente Trani association for six months in a province of Southern Italy.The aim of this project is to spread the awareness that taking care of the environment necessarily brings in social and cultural values when spre ...
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Direction EVS Welcome to Finland II

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Youth Centre Villa Elba coordinates the project " Direction EVS: Welcome to Finland II. In this project we'll host 10 volunteers from Romania, Spain, Austria, Italy and Luxemburg and send one volunteer from Finland to Slovenia. With this project we want to bring young people from different countries and cultures to work with children and young people in our area. In small towns and rural areas the ...
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HEyLP Heritage at Calmont d'Olt - Heritage European young Leaders Project

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

...ers (16 young and 3 leaders) from France, Italy and Romania, through the partnership of three organizations maintaining close relationships: l'Association de sauvegarde du Château de Calmont d'Olt, Legambiente, and Dala Foundation.The young volunteers will actively take part in the development and functioning of the exchange, and will participate in several workshops related to the restoration of ...
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Europe: environmentally correct!

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The association Legambiente Sernaglia is located in Sernaglia della Battaglia, a village in the province of Treviso (Veneto region), on the left riverbank of the Piave. Its major goal is the promotion of healthy lifestyles and sustainable development, involving directly the local community. We have been cooperating for years with social-rehabilitation centres, schools and other organizations in or ...
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Environmental Volunteers

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

...ers will be provided language support with the purpose to permit them to familiarize with local culture.One of the principal tasks will be the organization and implementation of the main campaigns of Legambiente Toscana (i.e. Italia NO OGM, Piccola Grande Italia, FestAmbiente, Goletta Verde, Puliamo il Mondo, Festa dell'Albero).They will be also involved in environmental education at school: volun ...
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Me & Migration - Unterstützungsansätze für junge Menschen, die sich in der Flüchtlingshilfe engagieren (möchten)

Start date: May 2, 2016, End date: Feb 1, 2017,

"How can we as organisations in the field of international youth work and international volunteering react to the current migration flows? What opportunities do we have to support volunteers in this area and to apply our intercultural know-how?” In a joint effort with partner organisations from Finland, the UK, Italy, Serbia, Spain, the Czech Republic and Hungary, IBG aims to tackle these and simi ...
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Sustainability Quest

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The “Sustainability Quest” is a short-term EVS project planned for a period of 8 weeks from September 26th to November 23rd 2016 in Zagreb, Croatia. The project will bring together 11 volunteers from 6 countries (Portugal, Italy, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Russia and Armenia) to be engaged in O.A.ZA., working in specific tasks regarding sustainable development within local community, aiming ...
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Mobility Through Nature

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Malta is an important place for birds because it lies on the migration route between Europe and Africa used by millions of birds each spring. This project will therefore protect birds from persecution through undertaking surveillance and monitoring of bird migration and illegal hunting. The project will also focus on rehabilitating injured birds so they can be released back to the natural world. ...
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Group leaders for international projects

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

VJF is a nonprofit association with the aim of spreading the ideas of the international volunteer's movement. VJF organizes short-term international Youth Exchanges (workcamps in particular) and long-term volunteer projects such as EVS and weltwärts and is also in charge of the Ecological Gap Year for German volunteers in Berlin. VJF provides the two European volunteers with interesting and divers ...
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A Climate for Change 2.0

Start date: Oct 3, 2015, End date: Dec 2, 2016,

Legambiente Prato offers a long term EVS service (12 months of activity period from 03/11/2015 to 02/11/2016) to 4 volunteers coming from Spain, Hunghery, Greece, Russian Federation. The volunteers are selected on the basis of their profile and their motivation to join the project. The context which volunteers are involved in is tailored on their needs and preparation thanks to the host organizati ...
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Social Agricolture: new opportunities for young people

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

...e with the Europe 2020 Strategy. No coincidence that the project will take place in an area where the primary sector is the main, or the Piana del Sele. The partnership is made dall'applicant Italian Legambiente Silaris and the organization sending the Portuguese, Turkish and French. There are three groups that have long collaborated with Legambiente and that they operate in the territory where th ...
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More with Less. Sustainable entrepreneurship for next generation

Start date: May 18, 2016, End date: Nov 17, 2016,

...s put into dialogue by the coordinator, showed how the participants would have liked to work on the topic; such methods are those through which the project was built on.The exchange is coordinated by Legambiente Lecco Onlus and will involve 24 already identified young people belonging to 4 different countries (Italy, Serbia, Germany and Ukraine), for a period of nine days.The exchange will be org ...
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Stop au 7ème continent

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

The Youth Exchange « Stop the 7th continent » will take place in Le Pont de Montvert, in the region of Lozère from august 19th to septembre 9th 2015. This project plans to gather 20 participants from 18 to 30 years old coming from Slovakia, Italy, Spain and France. The « 7th continent » is the name given to a huge amount of waste which covers an area of 3,5 million km² in the Pacific Ocean. Throug ...
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Mobilità transnazionale per lo sviluppo delle competenze, la crescita dell'occupazione e la competitività delle PMI nel settore dell'agricoltura biologica e dell'allevamento

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

One of the central ideas underlying European Lifelong Learning policies is that international mobility should become a natural part of education and training schemes. This helps learners to achieve higher qualification levels which are crucial for a successful first step into the labour market or for career improvements. The EU Member States are fully committed to helping young people take advanta ...
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FOREST4LIFE 2014

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The FOREST4LIFE project is promoted by the Vocational Secondary School ‘Services sector for agriculture, rural development and forestry’, of Ormea (Cuneo), on behalf of the other three partner Schools that form the Italian Schools of Forestry Board, situated in as many Alps and Appennine Mountains areas. These four Secondary Schools train technicians with a professional competence in the forest se ...
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Ecological Lifestyles for CO2 Reduction (EcoLife)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Background Measures to buffer climate change are at the core of the EU’s 2020 strategy for sustainable growth. However, Italian public opinion is less accepting of the need to tackle climate change than elsewhere in Europe, as shown by the 2011 EU Survey on Climate Change. This revealed that Italian public opinion downplays the potential consequences of ...
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Strategies for MarIne Litter and Environmental prevention of sea pollution in coastal areas (LIFE SMILE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Background Marine litter is a problem that affects many parts of Europe and can cause a wide spectrum of environmental, economic, health and cultural impacts. There are a variety of reasons why the phenomenon occurs, including: poor solid waste management practices; a lack of infrastructure; human activities; low levels of public awareness about the pote ...
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