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Muevete, Europa te está esperando

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

We live in a world where natural resources have been exhausted and, in most of the cases, the man's hand does not care the environment as he should. That is why it is so important that young people are aware of the importance of protecting our environment. For this reason, our City Council and the Association of Youth in Action from Padul suggested develop a youth exchange where we will approach t ...
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art II: EUROBALTIC Programme for Civil Protection in the Baltic Sea Region (Part II: EUROBALTIC)

Start date: Nov 15, 2004, End date: Mar 14, 2006,

...vil Protection Project establishes the Eurobaltic Programme for Civil Protection initiated by the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS).Societies are increasingly vulnerable to civil crisis such as natural and man-made/technological disaster or their combination, sometimes called complex disasters. These risks endanger positive economic, social, health-related and environmental developments, tha ...
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Establishing the background of saving the Hungarian meadow viper (Vipera ursinii rakosiensis) from extinction (HUNVIPURS)

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

...s have shown that the small isolated populations in the wild are under a constant risk of inbreeding, and may thus become unable to reproduce effectively despite best management efforts. The semi-natural habitat conditions at the captive-breeding centre should help to minimise predation and maximise food abundance, so that sub-adult individuals can be successfully bred and released in the areas th ...
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Cross-border network for knowledge transfer and innovative development in wastewater treatment (WATERFRIEND)

Start date: Feb 28, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

...ublications were published in acknowledged scientific journals, while the number of applications of prospective students to the two faculties increased. This, in turn, contributes to the reduction of natural water pollution and to healthier lives of the inhabitants in the cross-border regions in the long term. The number of future engineers and experts well-prepared to work in the treatment plants ...
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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,

...conomic sustainability and by studying how factors such as policy, management or technology development affect the sustainability of a sector or value chain. The tool helps local and regional natural resource and land use planners/managers, policy and decision makers, natural resource researchers, natural resource-use consultants, SMEs and the industry to decide which actions should or should not ...
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Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (BALTADAPT)

Start date: Jun 10, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

...nts and patterns, lead to an increase in terrestrial and ocean temperatures and a rise in sea levels. The resulting changes will jeopardize the integrity of the ecosystem and increase risks caused by natural disasters. There are good experiences of adaptation in the region but they are somehow fragmented and do not acknowledge the fact that the Baltic Sea is a specific eco-region.The EU BSR Strate ...
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LOOKING AT LEARNING

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

...ts for young people in their educational process. The specific objectives of the project are following: 1. To understand the learning needs of young people and understand what conditions encourage ‘natural’ and self-directed learning using the outcomes of a research on learning environment. 2. To encourage cooperation between formal and non-formal education. 3. To share theories and concepts on l ...
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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,

...on of new species. As a result, species and genetic diversity have declined. Regional and local authorities can organise land planning and regulate human activities in order to preserve biodiversity (natural area protection, greens corridors, conservation and valorisation of species and varieties,...). REVERSE aims to improve, by means of interregional cooperation, the effectiveness of regional de ...
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Strategy and Action Plan for the Barents Region up to 2010 (BARENTS 2010)

Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Mar 30, 2006,

...dy institutionalised regional co-operation in the area. Its overall goal is to “generate growth and social development through a knowledge driven and sustainable exploitation of the region´s natural resources, and to make the Barents region competitive on the world market”.Five main sector programmes have been formulated, and these programmes are all defined according to a principal framework for ...
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Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence - European Institute for Security and Justice

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

...an Union’. All these activities require a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary approach by bringing together experts in traditionally distant academic disciplines (e.g. European Studies & natural sciences, computer science, the environment, human identification, etc.). This experience will considerably enhance the understanding students, who would not normally come into contact with the EU.
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Protection of natural resources of Kampinos Forest – Natura 2000 Site, through the renaturalisation of bought-up land. (ActiveKPN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Background The protection of habitats and species within the “Puszcza Kampinoska” Natura 2000 site is facilitated by the renaturalisation of areas bought by the state and permanently managed by the Kampinos National Park (KPN) authority. The land purchase programme began in 1975 and continues today with various minor modifications. As soon as land is ...
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Ново начало за моето бъдеще

Start date: Jan 5, 2015, End date: Jan 5, 2016,

...ordance with the given region. And in the area of the town of Kardzhali and the town of Svilengrad there are many conditions- the Eastern Rhodopes unique nature, the protected areas „Natura 2000", natural reserves and parks. The students will learn how to make marketing research in relation to the market of eco-touristic services, and they will examine the demand and the interest to such services ...
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Integrated Aquatic Resources Management Between Ireland, NI and Scotland (IBIS Project)

Start date: Jul 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The overall aim of the proposal is to meet a range of environmental priorities for delivering high quality policy and sustainable management of freshwater and marine natural resources and the biodiversity they support across the programme area.Specific aims of this project are to:•Conduct a research programme to address applied aquatic resource management questions common to the cross-border prog ...
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New technologies for husks and waste waters recycling (Tirsav)

Start date: Sep 1, 2001, End date: Oct 1, 2004,

...t of the disposal of olive mill industry by-products. The project focuses on developing a co-blending strategy to combine, in a recycling plant, olive oil waste waters, fresh olive pomace and other natural organic by-products, into an 'improved' waste mixture for agricultural land application. The project aims at: 1. maximising the recovery of biomass coming from the processing of olives (85% o ...
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Integrated Intelligent Platform for Monitoring the Cross-Border Natural-Technological Systems (INFROM)

Start date: Feb 14, 2012, End date: Jan 29, 2014,

...rom Russia and Latvia to protect the environment, based on integrated space-ground monitoring. The project addresses the topical problem of integrated real-time monitoring and control of cross-border natural-technological systems (NTS) in normal and emergency situations based on heterogeneous data received from space and ground-based facilities. The known monitoring and control methods had been de ...
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Working with Industrial Spaces to Exemplify Reuse (WISER LIFE)

Start date: Jun 2, 2014, End date: Jun 1, 2017,

...l of best practice waste reuse and preparation for reuse to assist in socio-economic regeneration at the EU level; Promote behavioural change with respect to waste generation, the use of natural resources, and recognising the value of waste; and Support the implementation of national and EU waste policy through operations, communications and education. Expected results: Prototype ‘3-D textb ...
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EUROBALTIC Programme for Civil Protection in the Baltic Sea Region (EUROBALTIC )

Start date: Mar 16, 2003, End date: Jan 15, 2005,

... Protection Project will establish the Eurobaltic programme for Civil Protection initiated by the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS).Societies are increasingly vulnerable to civil crisis such as natural and man-made/technological disaster or their combination, sometimes called complex disasters. These risks endanger positive economic, social, health-related and environmental developments, tha ...
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Establishing the European Geological Surveys Research Area to deliver a Geological Service for Europe (GeoERA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The GeoERA proposal is put forward by the national and regional Geological Survey Organisations (GSO) of Europe. Its overall goal is to integrate the GSO’s information and knowledge on subsurface energy, water and raw material resources, to support sustainable use of the subsurface in addressing Europe’s grand challenges. The GeoERA consortium will organise and co-fund together with the EC a joint ...
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Tackling Water Challenges in the International Context (IC4WATER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The Joint Programming Initiative Water Challenges for a Changing World, the Water JPI, is an intergovernmental initiative which strives to achieve sustainable water systems for a sustainable economy in Europe and abroad.IC4WATER’s objectives include supporting agencies in stepping up international cooperation: through the sharing of best practices, networking, closer coordination of existing activ ...
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Arctic Impact on Weather and Climate (Blue-Action)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

Blue-Action will provide fundamental and empirically-grounded, executable science that quantifies and explains the role of a changing Arctic in increasing predictive capability of weather and climate of the Northern Hemisphere.To achieve this Blue-Action will take a transdisciplinary approach, bridging scientific understanding within Arctic climate, weather and risk management research, with key s ...
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Readiness of ICOS for Necessities of integrated Global Observations (RINGO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The proposed project “Readiness of ICOS for Necessities of integrated Global Observations” (RINGO) aims to further development of ICOS RI and ICOS ERIC and foster its sustainability. The challenges are to further develop the readiness of ICOS RI along five principal objectives: 1. Scientific readiness. To support the further consolidation of the observational networks and enhance their quality. Th ...
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European Research Area for Climate Services (ERA4CS)

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

Within the European Research Area (ERA), the ERA4CS Consortium is aiming to boost, research for Climate Services (CS), including climate adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management, allowing regions, cities and key economic sectors to develop opportunities and strengthen Europe’s leadership. CS are seen by this consortium as driven by user demands to provide knowledge to face impacts of cl ...
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Analytical and Characterisation Excellence in nanomaterial risk assessment: A tiered approach (ACEnano)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

An increasing number of nanomaterials (NMs) are entering the market in every day products spanning from health care and leisure to electronics, cosmetics and foodstuff. Nanotechnology is a truly enabling technology, with unlimited potential for innovation. However, the novelty in properties and forms of NMs makes the development of a well-founded and robust legislative framework to ensure safe dev ...
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SeaDataCloud - Further developing the pan-European infrastructure for marine and ocean data management (SeaDataCloud)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

The SeaDataNet pan-European infrastructure has been developed by NODCs and major research institutes from 34 countries. Over 100 marine data centres are connected and provide discovery and access to data resources for all European researchers. Moreover, SeaDataNet is a key infrastructure driving several portals of the European Marine Observation and Data network (EMODnet), initiated by EU DG-MARE ...
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Coordinated Research in Earth Systems and Climate: Experiments, kNowledge, Dissemination and Outreach (CRESCENDO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

CRESCENDO brings together seven Earth System Modelling (ESM) groups with three Integrated Assessment Modelling teams, as well as experts in ESM evaluation, ESM projection and feedback analysis, climate impacts and science communication to address the following goals; (i) improve the process-realism and simulation-quality of European ESMs in order to increase the reliability of future Earth system ...
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Xylella Fastidiosa Active Containment Through a multidisciplinary-Oriented Research Strategy (XF-ACTORS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

XF-ACTORS aims to establish a multidisciplinary research program to answer the urgent need to improve prevention, early detection and control of Xylella fastidiosa (Xf). Recently, Xf was introduced into Italy, where it is causing severe damage to olive crops, and in France, where so far it is limited to ornamental plants and some landscape trees. The overall goal of the research program is to asse ...
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ENabling Onshore CO2 Storage in Europe (ENOS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

To meet the ambitious EC target of an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) needs to move rapidly towards full scale implementation with geological storage solutions both on and offshore. Onshore storage offers increased flexibility and reduced infrastructure and monitoring costs. Enabling onshore storage will support management of decarbonisation strateg ...
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Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Changing European Seas (MERCES)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

The project MERCES is focused on the restoration of different degraded marine habitats, with the aim of: 1) assessing the potential of different technologies and approaches; 2) quantifying the returns in terms of ecosystems services and their socio-economic impacts; 3) defining the legal-policy and governance frameworks needed to optimize the effectiveness of the different restoration approaches. ...
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A Trans-AtLantic Assessment and deep-water ecosystem-based Spatial management plan for Europe (ATLAS)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

ATLAS creates a dynamic new partnership between multinational industries, SMEs, governments and academia to assess the Atlantic’s deep-sea ecosystems and Marine Genetic Resources to create the integrated and adaptive planning products needed for sustainable Blue Growth. ATLAS will gather diverse new information on sensitive Atlantic ecosystems (incl. VMEs and EBSAs) to produce a step-change in our ...
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Connecting Science with Society (EU-PolarNet)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The rapid changes occurring in the Polar Regions are significantly influencing global climate with consequences for global society. European polar research has contributed critical knowledge to identifying the processes behind these rapid changes but, in contrast to lower latitudes, datasets from the Polar Regions are still insufficient to fully understand and more effectively predict the effects ...
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Optimising the management and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Europe (GenTree)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The goal of GenTree is to provide the European forestry sector with better knowledge, methods and tools for optimising the management and sustainable use of forest genetic resources (FGR) in Europe in the context of climate change and continuously evolving demands for forest products and services. To reach its goal, GenTree will make scientific, technological and implementation breakthroughs in: ( ...
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Strategies for Environmental Monitoring of Marine Carbon Capture and Storage (STEMM-CCS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

...ly at the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) stage 4-5 and support their development to a higher TRL. In addition, using new geophysical approaches STEMM-CCS will develop tools to assess leakage from natural geological features (e.g. chimneys) and engineered structures such as abandoned wells. The Peterhead project will commence during the life of STEMM-CCS and so a unique aspect is the focus on a r ...
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Consolidating the European Research Area on biodiversity and ecosystem services (BiodivERsA3)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystems jeopardize the sustainable provision of ecosystem services and are major scientific and societal challenges. Addressing this challenge and providing scientific support to stakeholders and policy makers requires a coherent interdisciplinary research framework, with coordinated strategies and programmes at the national, regional and internationa ...
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Establishing a European Knowledge and Learning Mechanism to Improve the Policy-Science-Society Interface on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (EKLIPSE)

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

The aim of EKLIPSE is to establish an innovative, light, self-sustainable EU support mechanism for evidence-based policy on biodiversity and ecosystems services open to all relevant knowledge holders and users, and to hand over this mechanism to the wider knowledge community by the end of the project. The mechanism will build on existing science-policy-society interfaces and be further refined via ...
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New geomodels to explore deeper for High-Technology critical raw materials in Alkaline rocks and Carbonatites (HiTech AlkCarb)

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

...rt interpretation of high resolution geophysics and downhole measurement tools, to make robust predictions about mineral prospectivity at depth. This will be achieved through studies at seven key natural laboratories, combined with Expert Council workshops. The results will be incorporated into new geomodels on multiple scales. In contrast to known deposits, Europe is well endowed with expertise. ...
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Water Works 2014-2019 in Support of the Water JPI (WaterWorks2014)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

Water is a critical resource for the European society. Beside its main life function, freshwater also provides many other functions essential to our economy. Water challenges cannot be successfully tackled through the isolated effort of individual national research and innovation programmes. This ERA-NET cofund proposal is submitted in the name of the Joint Programming Initiative “Water Challenges ...
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ACTRIS PPP - Aerosols, Clouds and Trace gases Preparatory Phase Project (ACTRIS PPP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The Research Infrastructure (RI) ACTRIS – Aerosols, Clouds and Trace Gases - is the pan-European RI that consolidates activities amongst European partners for observations of aerosols, clouds, and trace gases and for understanding of the related atmospheric processes, to provide RI services to wide user groups. ACTRIS is composed of 8 connected elements: distributed National Facilities (observatio ...
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Probing safety of nano-objects by defining immune responses of environmental organisms (PANDORA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

PANDORA (Probing safety of nano-objects by defining immune responses of environmental organisms) shall assess the global impact of engineered nanoparticles (NP) on the immune responses of representative organisms covering all evolutionary stages and hierarchical levels from plants to invertebrates and vertebrates. Immunity is a major determinant of the survival and fitness of all living organisms, ...
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PREPARATORY PHASE FOR THE PAN-EUROPEAN RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE DANUBIUS–RI “THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES ON RIVER-SEA SYSTEMS (DANUBIUS-PP)

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

DANUBIUS-PP is a three-year project to raise DANUBIUS-RI (International Centre for Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems) to the legal, financial and technical maturity required for successful implementation and development. DANUBIUS-RI is a pan-European distributed research infrastructure (RI) building on existing expertise to support interdisciplinary research on river-sea (RS) systems, spanning ...
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PRocess-based climate sIMulation: AdVances in high resolution modelling and European climate Risk Assessment (PRIMAVERA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

The goal of PRIMAVERA is to deliver novel, advanced and well-evaluated high-resolution global climate models (GCMs), capable of simulating and predicting regional climate with unprecedented fidelity, out to 2050. This capability will deliver innovative climate science and a new generation of advanced Earth System Models. Sector-specific end-users in policy and business will be identified and engag ...
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