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GREEN ECONOMY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. A replicable laboratory to educate young people and reduce early school leaving.

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

CONTEXT Our land and environment are often under attack by human-based factors like deforestation, air and soil pollution, landfills, fossil fuels extraction that cause natural disasters. We have to educate young generations to protect environment. School has to educate young people to respect the Earth emphasizing the importance of a sustainable economy. Accordingly to EUROPA 2020 strategy ...
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Networking on Nature 2000 sites in rural areas of Italy (FA.RE.NA.IT)

Start date: Nov 3, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

...e ecosystems, and can contribute to the maintenance of species diversity and a large gene pool. Halting the loss of biodiversity cannot be done without the active commitment of farmers, the principal land managers in Europe. Italy is the EU country with the highest percentage of cultivated land. Approximately 30% of the total Natura 2000 area of the country is farmland. Therefore, the Natura 2000 ...
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Facilitating Aquatic Warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola) habitat management through sustainable systems of biomass use (Biomass use for Aquatic W)

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

...cephalus paludicola) is Europe’s rarest migratory songbird and a globally threatened species (its IUCN status is ‘vulnerable’). Some 99% of its population is confined to Europe, with Poland accounting for around 25%. The aquatic warbler is listed in Annex I of the Birds Directive and has been identified as a priority species for LIFE+ Nature funding. Once widespread and numerous on fen mires ...
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River Avon cSAC: demonstrating strategic restoration and management (STREAM)

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

... (Vertigo moulinsiana), and numerous nationally important species. The Avon Valley Special Protection Area (SPA), located in the same area, includes one of the largest expanses of floodplain grassland in Britain. It is internationally important for its wintering populations of Bewick’s swan (Cygnus columbianus bewickii) and gadwall (Anas strepera), and has nationally important populations of wa ...
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Development of a Processing Plant for Recycling of Duck Slurry (Duck slurry)

Start date: Nov 1, 2003, End date: Oct 31, 2005,

Background The pollution of rivers and lakes is one of the major environmental problems in Ireland. Over the past 25 years the national monitoring programme of the Environmental Protection Agency has shown that waterways in Ireland suffer from widespread, though moderate, eutrophication. Surveys have shown the agriculture sector to be the major contributo ...
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Paludi di Ostiglia: intervention for the protection of priority birds (Ostiglia)

Start date: Jan 1, 2002, End date: Dec 31, 2005,

Background Close to the banks of the Po River in the Province of Mantova, the southernmost part of Lombardy, the Ostiglia marsh is a wetland characterised by vast expanses of sedge and reeds. Together with abundant aquatic (Magnopotamion, Hydrocharition) and hygrophilous (Sparganium, Typha, Acorus, woods of Alnus glutinosa) vegetation, there are countless ...
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Common Land for sustainable management (COMMONS)

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

COMMONS project faces the challenge of territorial management in marginal lands in the framework of a continuous concentration of former rural population towards urban or peri-urban areas. Important natural areas risk environment depletion because of changing in the utilization patterns and abandoning of traditional practices. Some of these areas correspond to ancient common lands once managed for ...
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Halting Environmental Loss Project (HELP)

Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The project seeks to halt biodiversity loss for key species in eligible areas of NI, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland. A variety of approaches will be used from appropriate on the ground management with subsequent management through to people engagement and education a some key sites. combination ...
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Assessing Sustainability of Forest-based Activities in Rural Areas of the Northern Periphery 2.8 (Northern ToSIA)

Start date: May 31, 2008, End date: May 30, 2011,

...e study in the Cairngorms National Park worked at two levels: at a forest stand level by assessing various forest management scenarios, and at a National Park level by spatially determining where woodland expansion is suitable. The case study focused on regional development and multi-functionality of forests, and on examining the impact this has on several sustainability indicators. The case study ...
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moting traditional collection and use of wild plants to reduce social and economic disparities in Central Europe (Traditional and wild)

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

...herbs correctly, and also know where to find them. This knowledge was often passed down from generation to generation. Today, and since the middle of the 20th century, due to urbanization, changes in land ownership and lifestyle this traditional knowledge is unfortunately being lost. Plant collection that does take place is done in an unsustainable manner leading to the decline of a key employment ...
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SUNRISE: RISING TEACHER & TRAINER MOTIVATION AND SKILLS FOR A KNOWLEDGE BASED SOCIETY: AUTHENTIC LEARNING, EARLIER GAINED COMPETENCES FOR INDIVIDUALISED VET, ON-THE-JOB TRAINERS’ TRAINING.

Three innovations in use in some European institutes are adapted to the conditions of others, on a continuous training for teachers and trainers approach. Both suppliers and receivers of innovations benefit from a feedback process. Five pilot projects were carried out for the implementation of three innovations.Authentic Learning: In order to make student learning relevant to real life experiences ...
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