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Increasing the competitiveness of city regions through integrated urban-rural development (CITY REGIONS)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

About 70 percent of central Europeans live in urban regions. Here, local and regional authorities are increasingly challenged by a steady growth of population and an increasing request for space for both economic activities and housing. Actions are therefore needed against urban sprawl that threatens to lead to a reduction of natural and open areas used for recreational purposes. Furthermore, the ...
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Regional Strategies for Disaster Prevention (CivPro)

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

Over the last few years, Europe's forest fires, floods and droughts and man-made disasters have become fiercer and more intense. Some partners in the CivPro project have their own sometimes tragic experiences and some of them have such a high risk profile that risk prevention is on the top of their political agenda. Disasters have quite often a devastating effect on people's lives, their livelihoo ...
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INTRODUCTION OF WATER FOOTPRINT (WFTP) APPROACH IN URBAN AREA TO MONITOR, EVALUATE AND IMPROVE THE WATER USE. (URBAN_WFTP)

Start date: Oct 31, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2012,

Climate change, a growing world population, and industrial pollution are only some of the factors leading to an increased debate on the availability of fresh water for our future. The European Union recognised water to be a key resource for the sustainable development of its countries and is setting specific measures and directives to support the diffusion of eco-friendly technologies and practice ...
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From Research to Enterprise (FREE)

Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2011,

Looking at the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS) and at European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) of 2007, none of the regions involved in the FREE project are among the Top-50 EU regional performers. Bearing this in mind and also the fact that investing more in knowledge and innovation is one of the goals of the renewed Lisbon strategy the project will support this priority by improving innovative ...
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European Development Corridor III "Via Regia" (ED-C III)

Start date: Apr 30, 2006, End date: Aug 30, 2008,

Over centuries the "Via Regia" had been one of the most important trading routes in Europe, connecting the East and West of the continent. Due to the political situation after World War II, it almost completely lost this function. Some years ago, with the fall of the Iron Curtain, new opportunities emerged for a development axis contributing to European integration and improved relations to neighb ...
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FOCUS ON HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING IN THE BALTIC SEA REGION (HEPRO)

Start date: Jun 11, 2005, End date: Jan 10, 2008,

Along with the rest of Europe, the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) is facing enormous challenges when it comes to an ageing population, migration of young people from rural areas to the cities, unemployment, increase in alcohol and drug abuse and mental illness. An increasing part of lifestyle diseases and injuries from accidents will make great demands on the future treatment capacity of the health servi ...
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Hydrological cycle of the CADSES regions (HYDROCARE)

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

The project HYDROCARE wishes to develop an integrated system capable of assessing the impact of hydrometeorological events on the water resources in the CADSES region. Emphasis will be put on the development of effective transnational tools for a rational exploitation of the water resources, with the purpose of preserving and enhancing economical and environmental welfare. Such managing tools will ...
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Greening Regional Development Programmes (GRDP)

Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Oct 30, 2007,

GRDP’s overall aim is to deal with this issue by enabling regions to collaborate and share best practice on how the environment can be better integrated into all programmes benefiting from Structural Funds. This is intended to lead to the development of more effective regional programmes that deliver sustainable results for local people. GRDP will also draft a common European methodology for integ ...
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TEN and Corridor Nodes Managment Network-perspectives (TECNOMAN perspectives)

Start date: Dec 31, 2002, End date: Aug 30, 2006,

The subject of TECNOMAN perspectives was to elaborate strategies for the development of demand- and future-oriented business location development in the TEN and TINA node regions, which react to the networked economy and facilitate the optimal economic positioning of each region in a transnational, functionally-defined cluster of cities and agglomeration regions. The project planned to contribute ...
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