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Eco-design and eco-engineering of buildings, amenities and accommodations in campsites (ECO-CAMPS)

Start date: Nov 2, 2004, End date: Dec 15, 2007,

...t aimed to show how environmental issues could be tackled at the design stage to reduce overall impact from their construction and subsequent use. It planned to work on the design and installation of new campsites or campsite installations and specifically on the design of two new models of mobile homes. As well as reducing energy and water consumption and the creation of pollution and waste from ...
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Assessing sustainability and strengthening operational policy (SUSTAIN)

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

...he development of ports and harbours, coastal protection, land reclamation, tourism and sand/gravel extraction) has a severe impact on coastal communities and natural habitats. The EC has adopted a renewed EU Sustainable Development Strategy. It aims at bringing about a high level of environmental protection, social equity and cohesion, economic prosperity and active promotion of sustainable devel ...
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Solutions for Implementing Sustainable Construction: the Sustainable Purchasing and Planning Centre (SISCo)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

SISCo aims to embed sustainable development policy (social, economic and environmental) into local authority planning processes, by increasing the uses for energy efficiency and renewable technologies and improving resource management in built developments.The project brings together peers from the UK, Flanders and the Netherlands involved in planning processes to exchange knowledge on sustainable ...
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Renewable Energies Transfer System (RETS)

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

The RETS: Renewable Energies Transfer System project has grown up out of a local experience of economic development through renewable energies (RES) in Northern Alsace (France).The project aims to tackle the challenges of renewable energies for local and regional authorities (and in particular those with less than 25,000 inhabitants) in association with the expertise of existing competency centres ...
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Natural Energy Efficiency and Sustainability (NEES )

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

The NEES Project will identify and promote products and services which aim to improve energy efficiency in existing domestic buildings, which make use primarily of renewable or recycled materials and services based on natural processes, which originate and are normally accessible in the Northern Periphery Programme region. These products and services should have the potential for being mainstreame ...
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Výstavba a zriadenie multifunkčného energetického a baníckeho centra - Dom bezhraničného priateľstva / Multifunkciós energetikai és bányászati központ létrehozása - Határtalan barátság háza (DOM SLOVENSKO-MAĎARSKÉHO PRIATEĽSTVA / SZLOVÁK-MAGYAR BARÁTSÁG HÁZA)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2011,

...rent situation and realistic demand to take part on the active protection and development of environment. The protection of environment is closely interconnected with the establishment and support of new ecological industry forms, as follows: tourism development. After analyse and synthesise of future mutual benefits, we decided to support development and establishment of saving energy technologie ...
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Bioenergy Technology Transfer Network (BTN)

Start date: Jun 4, 2002, End date: Sep 3, 2005,

Rural and sustainable development is one of the biggest challenges in the European Union at the moment. Biofuel production and its use support both mitigation of the climate change and creation of new businesses for rural areas. As a result, EU has set a goal to double the share of utilization of renewable energy sources by 2010 from the level of 1998. The target for the increase of bioenergy usag ...
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Improve regional policies for bio-energy and territorial development (BIO-EN-AREA)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

BACKGROUND- In a context of global climatic, energetic and economic crisis, renewable energy is an urgent priority. Among renewable energies, bio-energy generated from different types of “biomass” has a big potential. In 2005, the EU approved its Biomass Action Plan (BAP) and invited the Member States to adopt national BAPs. OBJECTIVES- The BIO-EN-AREA project is a mini-programme aimed at exchan ...
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Climate Alliance for Mediterranean Cities (MedClima)

Start date: Nov 1, 2002, End date: Oct 30, 2005,

... to suffice to deal with these changes. Local authorities are responsible for their own energy consumption and the use of land. This means they have the power to optimise the energy performance of new developments and to integrate traffic management strategies in development planning. Local authorities can therefore play an important role in climate protection by promoting environmentally frien ...
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Regular Recycling of Wood Ash to Prevent Waste Production (RecAsh)

Start date: Aug 1, 2003, End date: Dec 31, 2006,

... conditions for the regular recycling of wood ash to forestland. This aimed to be in line with the EU’s Sixth Environment Action Programme objective of ensuring "the consumption of renewable and non-renewable resources and the associated impacts do not exceed the carrying capacity of the environment”. It sought to carry out an ash classification study to produce recommendations for maximum ...
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Structuring of the building energy innovation offer and the technology transfer in the Midi-pyrenees region (InCITE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

According to the European Commission expertise, the building sector accounts for nearly 40% of the EU total energy consumption. In this context the implementation of new technologies in the building industry is crucial as far as the energy efficiency objective is concerned. The InCITE project aims to establish a regional cluster in the field of building energy. It will constitute the innovation, ...
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Methane and Hydrogen blend for public city transport bus: technical demonstrative application and strategic policy measures (MHyBus)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

...osts of CO2 in the transport section, this leads to a saving of 419 €/year per vehicle on external costs. Project contributions to public transport policy include the production of new knowhow and tools for promoting hydro-methane technologies at the regional scale. Technical guidelines were produced covering the conversion of a bus fuelled with natural gas for urban circulation into hydro-met ...
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BlUe ConcEpt For A Low nutrient/carbOn System –regional aqua resource management (BUCEFALOS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

...vity could also make a valuable contribution to the Baltic Sea Action Plan. Furthermore, producing biogas from aquatic substrates could contribute to the implantation of the Renewable Energy Directive, while reducing dependence on cultivation arable farmland for substrates. Eutrophication along Baltic Sea coasts has several economic consequences, such as declines in tourism and property value. Me ...
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EQF/NQF Mapping of Renewable Energy Specialists

Since the Turkish Government aimed "30% renewables in our energy mix by 2023" and Renewable Law No. 6094 has been amended with incentives. Substantial amounts of new PV and solar thermal systems require high quality in workmanship to meet these goals. For safety and reliability reasons, the training and qualification of technicians and installers has to be well defined, established and assured by ...
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EURENERGY – European Energy Network

The EURENERGY project aims at introducing new teaching and organisational learning solutions based upon innovative ICT learning environments, and focussing upon safe and alternative energy. The project will result in specialised training software and a series of ten training modules covering topics such as technical legislation and new technologies in the field of renewable energies, energetic was ...
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Euro-Netzwerk ET/IT- zur individuellen Kompetenzentwicklung in der elektro- und informationstechnischen Berufsausbildung

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

...enterprises. 56 professionals in vocational education participated in the two to seven- day programmes. In addition to the mentioned partner schools from Austria, Czech Republic and Latvia, a new study abroad programme with a partner school in Portugal could also be implemented. The group of professionals participating in this programme is composed of partners from the training enterprises, teache ...
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IMPROVING THE TEACHING LEARNING PROCESS AT AN ENTREPRENEURIAL AND SUSTAINABLE ESTABLISHMENT

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

... is a group of teachers in our school very committed to international partnership. We finished a two-year Comenius partnership last year with great success. Some of us took over the coordination of a new partnership from our coordinating English school to apply for an Erasmus+ strategic partnership. The three main topics of this project emerged after we analysed the current socio-economic situatio ...
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Organisation and Delivery of the Luxembourgish Presidency Conference on the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) (SET LU)

Start date: Mar 25, 2015, End date: Nov 24, 2015,

The European Strategic Energy Technology plan (SET Plan) aims at creating a new European policy for Energy technology, by delivering a joint strategic planning, effective implementation, optimised resources and a new approach to cooperation. This includes a complex coordination of member states, PPPs and research networks.Therefore, “checking points” are necessary to assess the activities develope ...
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New innovative solutions, components and tools for the integration of wind energy in urban and peri-urban areas (SWIP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2017,

...rban environments, due to the potential market given. However, nowadays there are several barriers) that have relegated the Small Wind Turbines (SWTs) sector to stand as a minority choice among the renewable energy options.SWIP project expects to suppose a critical burst to the expansion of SWTs in Europe and worldwide. SWIP aims to develop, implement and test innovative solutions and components f ...
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Small scale thermal solar district units for Mediterranean communities (STS-Med)

Start date: Nov 16, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

...energy demand is growing at a regular pace. Increasing the share of solar energy sources in the overall energy mix is a crucial goal for the Mediterranean area, as the exploitation of a sustainable renewable energy source would contribute to climate change mitigation - an issue of concern for the region due to its impact on desertification, floods, coastal vulnerability - and to energy security. A ...
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MEDiterranean DEvelopment of Support schemes for solar Initiatives and Renewable Energies (MED DESIRE)

Start date: Jan 30, 2013, End date: Dec 29, 2015,

...participatory approaches and increased awareness among public and private local stakeholders • A wide consensus achieved amongst public and private key stakeholders on the central role of renewable energies for sustainable development and environmental protection • A cooperation framework established among providers of energy technologies and services in EU Mediterranean Countries and Mediterranea ...
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Multipurpose Applications by Thermodynamic Solar (MATS)

Start date: Jul 19, 2011, End date: Jan 18, 2015,

...ct aims at promoting the exploitation of concentrated solar energy through small and middle scale facilities, suitable to fulfil local requirements of power and heat, and easily to back-up with the renewable fuels locally already available or that can be expressly produced. The implementation of the project will allow to test the CSP (Concentrating Solar Power) technology in a location very advant ...
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Combined solar power and desalination plants: technico-economic potential in Mediterranean Partner countries (MED-CSD)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2010,

"The growing economies in the southern and eastern Mediterranean area increasingly need affordable and efficient energy and water for sustainable development. Hybrid solar/fossil thermal power plants with combined sea water desalination based on concentrating solar power technology (CSP) offer a unique, cost efficient solution to the growing energy and water demand. Hybrid solar/fossil operation ...
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Clean Energy and Research in Environmental Studies

Start date: Oct 15, 2011,

This project aims at developing and strengthening a specialization in clean Energy and environment in Egypt and producing a new generation of engineers capable of performing constructive engineering work in such field. This shall target postgraduate students and professional engineers in a Masters of science which shall be continuo of its kind in Egypt. The Masters degree developed here will have ...
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