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Innovative Financial Instruments for Sustainable Development in Alpine Space (FIDIAS)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Alpine Space regions are all characterized by the need of increasing and improving sustainable development policies, to cope with the consequences of the international crisis. Starting from the capitalization of partners' experiences, and considering the high "eco-innovation" potential of the Alpine Space, the FIDIAS project aims to provide Local Regional Authorities, green-tech SMEs and Local Fin ...
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arTVision - A.LIVE ART CHANNEL (arTVision)

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

ARTVISION project priority is the INTERINSTITUTIONAL and INTERACTIVE CULTURAL COMMUNICATION among Adriatic Countries. COMMUNICATING-Why? Human communication is what of most complex there is.Communication among people with different cultures is even more. An active dialogue among different communities is a challenge and an ambitious goal. But winning the challenge and reaching the goal of mutual un ...
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Adriatic fortresses and military areas (Adrifort)

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

ADRIFORT project pursues a permanent partnership for the management of natural and historical heritage of coastal areas. The main objective of the project is the capitalisation and the start up of new initiatives suitable to support the institutions in the building of a virtuous model of preservation and joint cross-border management of the Network of the Adriatic Fortresses as strategic Cultural ...
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Accessibility improved at border CROSsings for the integration of South East Europe  (ACROSSEE)

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

... -COM (2011) 650/2, that defines the long term strategy for the Ten-T policy up to 2030/2050 and proposes Corridors relevant for the SEE area. By creating a multilevel formed by Transport Ministries, Regions, Universities, Chambers of Commerce, transport stakeholders and European transport association A large and coherent platform will contribute to rationalising and optimizing the existing networ ...
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Sustainable Freight Transport - Now and Tomorrow (SusFreight)

Start date: Aug 31, 2013, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

The Alps are a unique region at the heart of Europe, to be protected and remain attractive for its inhabitants. However, they are also a major natural bottleneck, increasingly challenging the dynamic economies in the region and their transport demand. The ever-growing transport across the Alps, in particular freight transport, has over decades led to an environmentally and also economically threat ...
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Making full value of good ideas by leveraging intellectual assets for financing SMEs in SEE  (EVLIA)

Start date: Oct 31, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

Innovation is a key driver of Europe's competitiveness and growth. However, young and innovative SMEs face bottlenecks when trying to grow. They are disadvantaged when it comes to attracting external financing if they cannot find equity since they do not usually have the track-record or collateral often required by financial intermediaries and banks. In today?s competitive markets, the use and pro ...
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Adriatic - Danube - Black Sea multimodal platform (ADB multiplatform)

Start date: Mar 31, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

...e idea of the project is to develop and promote environmentally friendly, multimodal transport solutions from the ports in the SEE programme area (Black Sea, Aegean, Adriatic) to inland countries and regions along a selected pilot transnational network. This will be done by developing and establishing a "multimodal transport development platform", which integrates different regions and stakeholder ...
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Enabling Actions for Social Enterprises in South East Europe  (EASE & SEE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

...e welfare system, which means approaching SEs and their service needs from a totally different perspective if compared to the many initiatives funded with direct funds as well as cross border or interregional cooperation funds. This means a) understanding and introducing mechanisms in order to facilitate business relationships between for profit companies and SEs, b) creating pre-conditions in ord ...
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Upgrading of Inland Waterway and Sea Ports (INWAPO)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

...on of benchmarks for tri-modality were given by the river port visit that took place on 30th October 2013 in Duisport, that was participated by Mr. Bernhard Hintzen, representative of the Ministry of Regional Development and Transport of Magdeburg. Besides the definition of the waterborne potential, INWAPO is leading 2 concrete activities supporting the replacement of waterborne transport to mitig ...
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Railway Hub Cities and TEN-T network (RAILHUC)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Central Europe cities are the "first/last legs" of transnational transport chains. These chains consist of local, regional and transnational transport systems. On the one hand high speed connections among rail hubs in central Europe are being upgraded, especially on TEN-T networks and along the main intercity lines. On the other hand rail and in general public transport feeder lines need an upgrad ...
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lycentric Planning Models for Local Development in Territories interested by Corridor 5 and its TEN-T ramifications (POLY5)

Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Aug 30, 2014,

The main problem addressed is the marginalization that a major transport infrastructure (MTI) can cause to alpine areas. The project aims at making mountain areas catch the opportunities of MTIs, rather than just suffer their environmental and social impact, targeting the phases of piloting and policy implementation.The project foresees the elaboration of an unbiased method to measure the value of ...
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Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon (UHI)

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

As population of our cities grow, so does land area and this result in increase of an average temperature. The buildings and roads absorb temperature produced during the day, like giant heaters, and store it. The energy is then released during the night time. This often means a big difference in the temperature between city and its surrounding areas.This phenomenon is called the Urban Heat Island ...
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ADRIA.MUSE (AdriaMuse)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Oct 30, 2013,

Medical (health) tourism is an important economic niche, which can contribute to the growth of sustainable tourism in the Adriatic region. The region all the way from Slovenia to Montenegro can offer trusted European standards of healthcare, with sophisticated European flavor, rich historical and cultural heritage, as well as high quality, healthful options for gastronomy and comfortable accommoda ...
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Adriatic Economic Cluster Club (Cluster Club)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Aug 30, 2013,

...otential products and services purchasers and related associations of the Adriatic Basin. Through the partnership composed by different institutions: Chambers of Commerce and Chambers of Economy, Regional Development Agencies from Croatia, Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Greece and Serbia, the project intends to valorize the different information of the development skills of clusters in a strategic c ...
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CULTURAL VALUE FOR SUSTAINABLE TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE AND MARKETING (CULTEMA)

Start date: Jan 31, 2011, End date: Jul 30, 2013,

Historical and cultural heritage of SEE is multifaceted. Cultural values represent both regional and territorial identity and a key-factor of sustainable development. The CULTEMA project aims at developing a shared marketing strategy to increase cultural heritage investments, establishing new institutional capabilities and implementing innovative governance patterns, able to reduce administrative, ...
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From Industrial Use to Creative Impulse (SECOND CHANCE)

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

The challenge of globalisation caused a worldwide structural transformation. Global processes had lead to the shifting from an industrial to service oriented society. Hence, deindustrialisation had a great impact on districts with industrial sites and thus were catalyst for the need of the revitalisation of those sites. SECOND CHANCE undertakes the task to foster the regeneration of five brownfiel ...
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REVITALISING AND PROMOTING TRADITIONAL MARKETS IN CENTRAL EUROPE (CENTRAL MARKETS)

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

...neration of city centres and promoting 'greener' lifestyles among citizens.The basic idea of the project CENTRAL MARKETS is to help re-discovering the attractiveness of markets in eight target cities/regions by developing new and innovative market revitalisation strategies in order to reinforce and balance the relationship between city/regions and markets. ...
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INNOVATION FOR SOCIETAL CHANGE (PEOPLE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The PEOPLE partnership is engaged to explore the opportunities for new employment and ways of reinforcing cohesion and well-being in the context of demographic and societal changes faced by European regions. The nascent trends are the ageing population, new family structures, legal/illegal immigration and the emergence of new vulnerable groups, all of this impacting on the interrelation between pe ...
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Information Society Policies for Sustainable European Economic Development (I-SPEED)

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

...al to improve public services and foster growth (towards Lisbon Agenda goals) and the loss of competitiveness of European Tourism EconomyI-SPEED aims therefore at improving the effectiveness of local/regional Policies related to Information Society and Economic Development. This objective will be reached through a wide exchange of experiences at policy level addressed at identifying, analysing and ...
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WOMEN IN NET 8 (WINNET 8)

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

WINNET 8 involves regions in 8 member states i.e Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and UK engaged in policy development to address the problems with low employment rates among women in combination with horizontally segregated labour markets and the lack of women in entrepreneurship, innovation and technology, Problems constituting obstacles for regional competitiveness. T ...
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AlpCheck 2 - "Alpine Mobility Check - Step 2" (AlpCheck 2)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

Putting down its roots into the road traced by the strategic call of the previous programming period and its project, AlpCheck 2 aims at creating a road transport model covering the whole Alpine area that supports the public decision makers by providing free on line access to a vast set of traffic data: actual data and simulated data concerning a set of future scenarios will be interactively acces ...
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Mediterranean Electronic Marine Highways Observatory (MEMO)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Mar 29, 2012,

...nable development of coastal and marine resources. The project will focus on the enhancement of the existing marine information and infrastructure system created under AEM-MED with five new local / regional nodes and the provision of additional new services (Class B AIS, cross- correlation with Radar signal and meteorological data, application of Long Range AIS, integration of early response syste ...
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SOuth-NORth Axis (SoNorA)

Start date: Oct 31, 2008, End date: Feb 27, 2012,

... waterways. The establishing of strategic cooperation between and within trans-European transport corridors, the facilitation of connections between high priority transport corridors and national and regional networks and the support of deployment of sustainable transport modes are especially focused within the project. ...
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Transnational Network for the Promotion of the Water-Ground Multimodal Transport (WATERMODE)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

The programme area is crossed by relevant freight traffic flows, originated and directed in- and outside it. This traffic is mainly supported by road infrastructures, that were not planned for these flows. This involves a negative impact on the territorial competitiveness and environment, due to air pollution, noise and reduced mobility. The project objective is to promote the coordination between ...
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Improving the conditions for investments in order to foster polycentric development by leveraging local Public Administrations unexploited real estate (POLYINVEST)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

POLYINVEST project aims at improving conditions for investment in the rural areas, directly tackling the development gap between the regions of the SEE space. Through the development of an innovative information service about the availability and characteristics of marketable real estates, the project responds to: the needs of those public administrations interested in enhancing and gaining an inc ...
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ADRIATIC-BALTIC LANDBRIDGE (A-B LANDBRIDGE)

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

...op a deployment roadmap for north/south intermodal transport connections which link Europe and the Mediterranean countries with global markets. The multi-sector partnership, consisting of actors from regional administrations, ports, ministries of transport, transnational associations, operators, and other multi-sector specialists from six participating countries (Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, ...
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Integration of migrants in the enlarged Europe and policies for the return of productive intellect (MIGRALINK)

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

ountries such as Veneto or Austria and recently also by the newly acceded countries. Parts of Poland, Slovakia and Hungary are now new border regions of the EU and face immigration-related problems while Romania and Serbia have experienced growing outflows of citizens towards EU Member States in recent years. The phenomenon means organisational and social challenges that have to be dealt with by b ...
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Sustainable Use of Former or Abandoned Landfills Network, SUFALNET (SUFALNET)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...ilable in Europe. Papers, showcases and presentations have been prepared by partners and have been discussed during 6 seminars. The first opening seminar was held in June 2005 in Mierlo, Netherlands. Regional Councillor mrs. Annemarie Moons opened the SufalNet-project. The landfillsite Gulbergen with a golfcourse of 27 holes was visited. The second seminar was held in October 2005 in Vilnius, Lith ...
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InterMETREX

Start date: Mar 31, 2003, End date: Nov 29, 2007,

...tlas, a resource tool on the METREX website to promote networking between metropolitan areas. Improvement of practice was identified in the need for better relationships between planning at national, regional, sub-regional and municipal levels, and greater coherence between administrative boundaries and functional urban regions and areas; better integration of forecasts, projections, scenarios and ...
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Operational solutions for the transalpine railway freight traffic for sustainable management of connections of the economic areas within the alpine space (AlpFRail)

Start date: Jan 31, 2003, End date: Jul 30, 2007,

...nsalpine traffic accessability is essential for Europe. Catastrophes in the Alp tunnels and traffic contrasts show the European dimension of this problems. The raise of road traffic within the alpine region cause an escalation of CO2 emmissions, noise pollution and use of road infrastructure which is not designed for the actual traffic volume. The "alpine" policy of traffic has abandoned the scope ...
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Governance models for sustainable integrated rural development and multifunctional agricul-ture; networking and dissemination on the web (GOVERNET)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Apr 29, 2007,

... on the social context, also in terms of employment. GOVERNET wants identifying operational governance models for rural development in specific case study areas, covering various typologies of CADSES region, such as: mountainous areas, piedmont areas, lowland areas along river valleys, peri-urban/ peri-industrial areas, coastlands. For each case study area seminars for the starting up of the gover ...
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INformation DEvelopment (INDE)

Start date: Aug 31, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2006,

... the macro-economic analysis of the CADSES area. - The second work package aimed at establishing a technological infrastructure in order to improve the collaboration and integration between different regions. One of the main actions of this work package was the creation of the www.cavirc.net platform. - The third work package contained actions related to the diffusion of e-networks in order to dev ...
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ACCESSIBLE CITIES OF EUROPEAN REGIONS (C.A.R.E.)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Mar 30, 2006,

...ation for supporting an informative network made of local networks, data collection and implementation of pilot actions. As underlined in ESDP, the emergence of urban networks can be advantageous for regional development because it improves the range of services offered specifically, in the framework in the field of accessibility and the economic conditions of the region and thereby increasing its ...
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European Network of Women Resource Centres - W.IN.NET. (W.IN.NET)

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

W.IN.NET aims to create a network of local, regional and national Women Resource Centres in order to support them in promoting the role of women in local and regional development. The network wishes to improve the efficiency and transparency of these organisations and consequently the policies and tools for equal opportunities between women and men. Five thematic sub-networks will be set up within ...
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CLIL Cascade Network - Content & Language Integrated Learning

...ilar capacity-building development needs, and thesecould be more effectively if addressed at a European level.The CLIL Cascade Network (CCN) is to address the development needs which havenow surfaced regionally/nationally, and consolidate resources and expertise for thebenefit of a pan-European network of stakeholders (primary, secondary, vocational, andhigher education). It is to provide a networ ...
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Innovative financial instruments to support energy sector SMEs in Med area (FireMed)

...energy efficiency SMEs and clusters in many areas together with companies in charge to provide energy services(ESCO) both to entreprise and citizens. According to this context, Public(EU and National/Regional Authorities) and Private investors (mainly venture capital, business angels network and Banks) have approached the sectors, even if with generic risk evaluation instruments. Generally speakin ...
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