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Creation of a centre for information, awareness, training and dissemination of an environmental culture and policy

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

...ng and disseminating information on the environment; and • Create a structure for the exchange of information and experience between countries of the Mediterranean area and the Maghreb. Results Several initiatives of the project were directed at school children and local authori ...
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Sustainable management of the rice straw (ECORICE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2004, End date: Jun 1, 2007,

Background Valencia, Spain's third largest city, is host to one of the most breathtaking areas on the Mediterranean: the Albufera Nature Reserve. The reserve contains important natural habitats as well as traditional agricultural land and sites of rich cultural value. The sheltering of biodiversity has earned the area official recognition from the Ramsar ...
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Ecotechnology for environmental restoration of limestone quarries (EcoQuarry)

Start date: Sep 1, 2004, End date: Aug 31, 2007,

... and establishment of successful, cost-effective irrigation maintenance levels and systems. The objective was to use full-scale projects at a number of diverse quarry sites representative of various Mediterranean substrate and climate conditions. Of these, ten were around the Catalonia and Valencia regions of Spain and one in Alentejo, Portugal. Input came from the beneficiary university plus six ...
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Conservation of Larus audouinii in Spain. Grosa Island SPA (Murcia) (Gaviota Murcia)

Start date: Jan 1, 2004, End date: Dec 31, 2007,

Background Audouin's Gull (Larus audouinii) is a medium-sized bird native of the Mediterranean. It is distinguished by a striking coral-red beak with one or two black bands and a yellowish tip. Ninety percent of the world population breeds on the Spanish coast. The birds migrate in winter towards the south, in particular to the Atlantic coast of Africa. ...
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Recuperation of the aquatic environment of Porqueres and the lake of Banyoles (Lago Bañolas)

Start date: Nov 1, 2003, End date: Apr 30, 2007,

Background Lake Banyoles is the second largest lake in the Iberian Peninsula. Its privileged location has given rise to a unique Mediterranean wetland. Surrounding the lake is a diverse environment of temporary and permanent lagoons and springs that are host to a range of valuable EU-listed habitats, some of which have priority status. The lake is also ...
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Reduction of the impact of human activity on Caretta and Tursiops and their conservation in Sicily (Caretta and tursiops)

Start date: Sep 1, 2003, End date: May 31, 2007,

...fective conservation measures for the two target species in the Pelagian Islands and in the southern coast of Sicily. In particular, the use of "circle hooks" was introduced for the first time in the Mediterranean. These hooks reduce the by-catches of sea turtle without decreasing the catches of swordfish. As part of the project, three sea turtle recovery centres were set up. At Spiaggia dei Coni ...
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Setting up the first coastal nature reserve in Malta (DWEJRA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2004, End date: Mar 31, 2007,

Background The Mediterranean coastal area between Qawara on Malta and Dwejra on Gozo has been nominated by the Maltese government as a potential World Heritage Site. It is an area of outstanding natural beauty containing unique examples of geological, biological and cultural heritage features. Maintaining the quality of these environmental resources has b ...
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Automatic Tool for environmental diagnosis (HADA)

Start date: Jul 1, 2002, End date: Jun 30, 2005,

Background The problem of hazardous emissions has been steadily worsening in Mediterranean ports. Environmental problems caused by port activities have been attributed to dredging operations. Nevertheless, in recent years environmental degradation has been linked to controlled or uncontrolled emissions into the atmosphere originating from other port activ ...
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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,

...ation for migrating birds from sub-Saharan African wintering areas to Europe. The main habitats targetted by the project are coastal lagoons, Salicornia and other annuals colonising mud and sand, and Mediterranean halophilous scrubs (Sarcocornetea fruticosi). In addition, approximately 17 bird species of Community interest will benefit from the conservation of the ecosystem. As the Salina is a man ...
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Preserving the Marine Environment of Oludeniz Lagoon (LAGOON)

Start date: Jan 1, 2003, End date: Dec 31, 2004,

Background Ölüdeniz Lagoon, located in Fethiye in southwest Turkey, is a very popular tourist area on the Mediterranean coast. It is one of the few areas along the Turkish coast that has still a “clean” marine environment. Several endemic species live in the area and the coastline consists of beautiful sandy beaches, bays, islands, islets and other ...
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Model of restoration of dunes habitats in 'L'Albufera de Valencia' (Dunas Albufera)

Start date: Jan 1, 2001, End date: Jun 30, 2004,

...types lost after the destruction of the first dune fringe: 2210 (Crucianellion maritimae fixed beach dunes), 2220 (Dunes with Euphorbia terracina), 2230 (malcolmietalia dune grasslands), 1410 (Mediterranean salt meadows), 1420 (Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic halophilous scrubs, Sarcocornetea fruticosi) and 1430 (halo-nitrophilous scrubs, pegano-salsoletea). In the same way, the work could have ...
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Conservation of the dolphins from the Romanian Black Sea waters (Dolphins)

Start date: Jul 1, 2001, End date: Jun 30, 2004,

...ase for the Romanian Black Sea coast was expanded and now contains all collected survey data. The information included in this database is shared with other regional databases such as MEDACES, the Mediterranean database used by the International Agreement for the Conservation of Cetaceans (ACCOBAMS). The project drew up a national action plan for dolphin conservation with the collaboration of the ...
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Capacity Building on Cleaner Production in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Start date: Feb 1, 2002, End date: Jan 1, 2005,

...een carried out and the beneficiary has also networked successfully with similar initiatives in the region and in the EU, and contributed to the preparation of a Strategic Action Program under the Mediterranean Action Plan. The beneficiary contacted 47 companies, visited and provided leaflets on CP to 27 of them. Meetings targeting ministries, intellectuals and universities were organised. Twelve ...
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Demonstration of Conservation Actions for Ursus artcos* and habitat type 9530* in Northern Pindos N.P., Grevena Prefecture, Greece (PINDOS/GREVENA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

...t of human activities, habitat loss and uncontrolled visitor numbers in key habitat areas. The most important habitat type for the resident brown bear sub-population in Pindos National Park is (Sub-) Mediterranean pine forests with endemic black pine (9530*), which covers an area of some 3 670 ha. However, it is threatened by criminal and/or accidental forest fires, one-dimensional forestry manage ...
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Szatmár-Bereg and its inhabitants, creating an Environmental Exhibition Centre in Nagykároly and Géberjén (Bközp/C.d.pres.)

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

...ong the Natura 2000 areas surrounding the banks of the Dead - Szamos river. On the Romanian side a greenhouse replacing the one destroyed in 1887 will be built featuring plants from the Southern Mediterranean region the park of the Károlyi Castle from Carei, together with a summer house for educational, touristic and cultural purposes generating an atmosphere that fist into the concept of the cast ...
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COllaborative framework for energy EFFICIENT SME systems (CO-EFFICIENT)

CO-EFFICIENT is aiming to advance innovation and already available technologies for energy efficiency and use of renewable resources, in operations and production processes of Mediterranean SMEs. The project consortium believes that there are important organisational, financial and technological obstacles, which impede the advancement of SMEs. Especially if compared to large companies, SMEs are ge ...
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Creazione di un Centro di ricerca itali-maltese per la sostenibilità ambientale e le fonti rinnovabili (CRIM-SAFRI)

Start date: Mar 14, 2013, End date: Sep 13, 2015,

The project will create a research Centre addressed to the environmental sustainability and the exploitation of renewable energy sources in the Mediterranean area. It will involve the areas of Sicily and Malta. The Centre aims to support local authorities, clusters of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and SMEs in the implementation of Sustainable Consumption and Production and Consumption (SCP) ...
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EUROPEAN FOREST FIRE NETWORKS (EUFOFINET)

Start date: Sep 30, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2012,

...he global system. As fires do not respect national borders, the fight against fire requires a close cooperation with the national, regional and local authorities. After the 2003 disastrous summer, 9 Mediterranean regions decided to cooperate in a RFO INCENDI within the framework of IIIC South.The subproject results added to the fruitful cooperation made it possible to create a successful framework ...
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Strengthening common reaction capacity to fight sea pollution of oil, toxic and hazardous substances in Adriatic Sea (HAZADR)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Mar 30, 2015,

The Adriatic Sea is one of the most endangered areas in the Mediterranean, facing serious environmental challenges, especially taking into consideration that it constitutes an important oil transport route to the North-Adriatic ports of Trieste, Venice, Koper and Omišalj. From an economic point of view, the Adriatic region plays an important role in tourism and recreation, but is at the same time ...
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International centre of competences for Innovation in the Mediterranean countries (INNOVANET)

Start date: Feb 9, 2012, End date: Feb 9, 2014,

The project arises from the results of the previous INNOVA project financed by INTERREG IIIA Greece-Italy 2000-2006. On the basis of the feasibility study drawn up from the project on the creation of a school INNOVA - Transnational School of Innovation and from the protocol of intent on its creation, the present project aims to establish and operate a school/centre of transnational skills as a res ...
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Mobilisation des Diasporas économiques pour le développement des pays méditerranéens (MedGeneration)

Start date: Dec 16, 2013, End date: Dec 15, 2015,

...alents (still underused), by encouraging the return of project holders from the diaspora and accompanying expatriate investors wishing to invest back in their country of origin? In order to encourage Mediterranean governments to enhance the potential of economic diaposras, MedGeneration project intends to support local and national authorities in the implementation of public policies as well as ta ...
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The Mediterranean Islands Sustainability Iso-Based Action Plan 2006-2015 (MEDISOLAE)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

The main objective of the project is to assist MED-ISOLAE islands to improve their environment and maintain sustainability via: (1) Environmental ISO procedures, (2) Environmental SDI (spatial data infrastructure) technology, (3) ISO & SDI pilot applications, and (4) A dissemination plan that includes a Portal and an ISO Topic Centre. Promoting a sounder & more sustainable evolution (environmental ...
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REgional exchanges and policy making for protecting and valorising biodiVERSity in Europe (REVERSE)

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

...ations for reversing biodiversity loss. The regional agency for the development and innovation of agriculture in Lazio (It), Bio dAquitaine (Fr) – a public law body involved in organic farming, the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (Gr) will be in charge of identifying good practices of biodiversity conservation in link with economic activities. The Bremerhaven Technology-Transfer-Centre ...
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Innovative systems for the shared management of the agri-environmental monitoring networks (SIGMA)

Start date: Feb 28, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...logical data storage and management and ensuring a highly qualified, accurate and immediate provision of information both for olive and vine-growing. In the framework of this initiative, a Centre for Mediterranean crops will be designed, according to the criteria envisaged for centres of excellence. The basic purpose is setting up a producer-supporting structure (operating in the fields of trainin ...
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Trans Euro Mediterranean Cultural Heritage NETwork (TECH NET)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Mar 30, 2008,

The project TECH NETs main objective is the implementation of a model of sustainable local development in maritime villages of the Mediterranean Basin. These villages n represent a culture, an economy and a civilization connected with the environment. They are at risk of cultural, social and environmental degradation. It is necessary to have: • a connection between public and private bodies; • a s ...
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PROTECTING THE NESTING HABITATS FOR LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLES IN GREECE

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

...nt from all over Greece for treatment and rehabilitation. For the other volunteer the activities are centered Zakynthos which has the most important nesting beach for loggerhead sea turtles in the Mediterranean. The volunteers will be involved in all the project activities, which include applying the daily treatment of the animals (medication, feeding, etc, supporting the National Stranding Netw ...
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Consistent computation of the chemistry-cloud continuum and climate change in Cyprus (C8)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

... relative humidity. We will apply the method in a new nested global-limited area model system to study atmospheric chemistry climate interactions and anthropogenic influences. We will focus on the Mediterranean region because it is a hot spot in climate change exposed to drying and air pollution. The limited area model will also be applied as cloud-resolving model to study aerosol influences on ...
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Sustainable Innovations and Treatment in Industrial Waste Water Clusters (STINNO)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

...her with expertise of the RTD partners (Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Lappeenranta Univ. of Technology, Univ. of Kalmar, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, International Association of Mediterranean Agro-Industrial Waste, Lancaster Environment Centre), enormous amount of knowledge on wastewater treatment, methods and techniques involved is generated. Finland, Sweden and Greece rely not ...
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RESearch Elevation on Integration of SOLar Technologies into MEDiterranean BUILDings (RESSOL-MEDBUILD)

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

"The Mediterranean countries, including Jordan and Lebanon, face significant energy challenges which mainly emphasise their need to secure energy supply, to satisfy elevating electricity demand due to increasing demographics and economic development and protect the environment. These challenges weight more considering that Jordan and Lebanon have little indigenous energy resources. The exploitatio ...
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Integrating Jordan into the European Research Area (IJERA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

...activities in Jordan’s water sector by defining water research priorities to respond to socio-economic needs, facilitating participation in European water research initiatives and inclusion in Euro-Mediterranean Research and Innovation Area. The specific objectives of IJERA project are:EMARCU’s Cooperation Capacities Reinforcement,  Water-Related Research Results Dissemination,  Internationaliz ...
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Strengthening sensor research links between the Georgian Technical University and the European Research Area (SENS-ERA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

...upport the GTU organisation.The SENS-ERA project will be overseen by a steering committee involving the consortium partners plus members of the Georgian government, Euroscience Association and Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences. The regional economic and social impacts expected from the SENS-ERA project are precisely the reasons why many of these organisations have signed letters of s ...
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Training Network for Monitoring Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas (MMMPA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"The Initial Training Network for Monitoring Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas (MMMPA) aims to train the next generation of MPA scientists and managers, equipping them with a flexible set of skills essential within a wide range of professional environments, including public administration, local authorities, industry and academia. They will focus on the most important aspects that need adequate ...
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"Centre of Excellence for Research on Environment, Health and Aging" (CEREHA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

... research requires the creation of a unifying umbrella that will bridge across the inherent fragmentation in science and aggregate the research efforts, especially in human potential across the whole Mediterranean region. The project is encompasses of 6 research institutions, including public and private sectors from Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and USA. The work-plan is divide ...
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Archaeological Investigations of the Extra-Urban and Urban Landscape in Eastern Mediterranean centres: A case-study at Palaepaphos (Cyprus) (ARIEL)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"The research project ""ARIEL"" proposes the archaeological investigation of the urban and extra-urban landscape at Eastern Mediterranean centres during the Bronze Age (circa 2400-1050 BC), an area of key cultural significance in the context of the evolution of culture in Europe. The multi-period urban centre of Palaepaphos (ancient Paphos) on the south-western coast of Cyprus is deemed as a criti ...
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Cyprus Solar Thermal Energy Chair for the Eastern Mediterranean (CySTEM)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

The CyI Solar Thermal Energy Chair for the Eastern Mediterranean (CySTEM – Chair) proposal aims in consolidating and upgrading the already substantial activity at the Cyprus Institute (CyI) in Solar Energy, principally solar-thermal and related activities. This will be accomplished by attracting and installing a cluster of outstanding researchers, led by a professor of international stature to max ...
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MONKS, NUNS AND TEXTILES: Production, Circulation, and Distribution of Textiles in the Monastic Environment in Egypt (4th-8th Centuries AD) (MONTEX)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...e studies. The secondment institution will be the Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense (France), with its Department of Art History and Archaeology famous for teaching and research into Mediterranean material culture.
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Tudásban utazunk európaszerte : Innovatív módszerek - módszertani megújulás - minőségi oktatás

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

...student of tourism and visit her place of internship in a Tourinform office. • to gain management experience in foreign institutions • to familiarise with tourism traning in Mediterranean countries In the Spanish and Italian partner schools the colleagues could observe many lessons in Spanish, English and Italian. In each case the local teachers were always able to help or translate. Furthermore t ...
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PROTECTING THE NESTING HABITATS FOR LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLES IN GREECE

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

...litation. For the other volunteer the activities are centered Zakynthos (from May to October 2015, six months duration) which has the most important nesting beach for loggerhead sea turtles in the Mediterranean. The volunteer at the Rescue Center will be involved in all the project activities, which include applying the daily treatment of the animals (medication, feeding, etc, supporting the Nat ...
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The implementation of research potential of the Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry in the European Research Area (WOOD-NET)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2011,

...tners. 51 institutions as provisional cooperation partners from 24 countries will predicted: 41 from 20 ERA countries (between them 14 from 9 new EU countries); 10 from 4 ICPC (Eastern European and Mediterranean) countries."
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Mediterranean Talks – Youth activism and alternative information

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

"Mediterranean Talks" is a project of European Voluntary Service implemented in partnership by two associations: CISS of Palermo (coordination and hosting organization) and the Student's Forum Institute of Bethlehem (sending organization); both of them are involved in support of youth participation across the two shores of the Mediterranean. Two volunteers aged between 22 and 30 years from Palesti ...
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