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Organic Inspector Trainings for Animal Welfare

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Background Animal welfare improvement is the purpose of our project. All of the five organisations involved in our proposal are highly respected organisations and include specialists in inspection and certification of organic livestock farms. Organic management aims to deliver excellent animal welfare and independent annual inspection and certification aims to confirm this and provide a guarant ...
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The aim of the Strategic Partnership is to develop an e-learning course and interactive online portal “Learning place Bio-Farm”, offering learning materials and OERs for training of teachers, farmers, staff of coordinating agencies, other pedagogues and NGO staffs as “Bio-Farm Guides. Farm visit as pedagogical methodEducational farm visits provide an alternative and innovative space that enables “ ...
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The aim of the Strategic Partnership is to develop an e-learning course and interactive online portal “Sustainable food in kindergartens”, offering learning materials and OERs on sustainable food in kindergartens for pedagogues, kindergarten staffs, caterers and kitchen staff. The content of the developed English pilot course will be transfer and adapt it to the seven partner countries. New requir ...
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Fostering access to land for a new generation of agroecological farmers

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

Context: Preserving land for local, sustainable agriculture is becoming a growing issue in many parts of Europe. Major results on farmland result from: decline of farmland, mostly due to the pressure of non agricultural uses (urban sprawl, infrastructure...) and increasing land concentration on large, intensive farms, while small-scale farming is disappearing. In parallel, the forthcoming retirem ...
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Développement Economique par l'Alimentation Locale (DEAL)

Start date: Jan 2, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The project aims to facilitate the interface between supply and demand for food at a local level in order to promote economic development through local food systems.
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... protected crops) in which reduction of pesticide use and better control of pests will have major effects. PURE will exploit recent advances in emerging technologies, plant-pest-enemies interactions, soil and landscape ecology and pest evolution to feed IPM solutions with innovative diagnostic and decision support systems, physical devices and bio-products, strategies for ecological pest regulatio ...
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Due to the expected sea level rise the authorities of the Baltic Sea region are intensively planning the improvement of coastal protection structures. In Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (M-V), a total of 220 km of coastal dikes and another 530 km of primary and secondary river dikes exist, protecting 53,500 ha of land. An investment of Euro 50 Mio is estimated for the improvement or reconstruction of c ...
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The project, European Data Network for Improved Transparency of Organic Markets (OrganicDataNetwork) aims to increase the transparency of the European organic food market through better availability of market intelligence about the sector to meet the needs of policy makers and actors involved in organic markets.This overall objective will be broken up into key objectives:1. Bring together stakehol ...
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Regional Sustainable Energy Policy (ReStEP)

Start date: Nov 29, 2011, End date: Oct 29, 2014,

... data into one source and tie the data with a cadastral area as a basic unit. This map will include all source information necessary for decision-making by key persons – from an overview of soil types to types of biomass grown to biowaste and other natural resources, to competitive technologies and options for output utilisation, to local specific features or restrictions of the landscape. •Implem ...
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BERAS Implementation offers a response to the challenges to achieve a good environmental status in the Baltic Sea, reinforce sustainable agriculture and enhance rural development in the region.Objectives:Contribute to solving the problem of excessive nutrient losses from agricultural through introduction of conversion to Ecological Recycling Agriculture (ERA) in all countries of the BSRDevelop a s ...
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Sustainable Food Communities (SFC)

Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2013,

Many communities wish to support local food, believing that it carries a low environmental impact. However, we have little evidence to prove or disprove this. Investivating the issue, a partnership between Brittany (France) and Devon and Cornwall (England) will examine sustainable food and farming and food supply chains in the two cities of Plymouth and Rennes. Researching challenges and best prac ...
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Sustainable Aggregates Resource Management (SARMa)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Oct 29, 2011,

Aggregates (crushed stone, sand and gravel) are crucial for infrastructure and construction. SEE countries are rich in aggregates, but supply is not coordinated within or across the area. Challenges are illegal and damaging quarries, unreclaimed sites, limited recycling and community opposition. Fulfilling demand requires efficient and sustainable supply chain (planning, extraction, transport, use ...
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Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society (BERAS )

Start date: Feb 28, 2003, End date: Mar 30, 2006,

The goal of the project was the evaluation and demonstration of the potential of ecological recycling-based agriculture, combined with priority for local and regional processing, distribution and consumption, in order to reduce consumption of limited resources, emissions of greenhouse gases and nitrogen and phosphorus pollution to the Baltic Sea area by half or more, according to politically decid ...
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The concept of sustainable development is usually defined by the formulation and aggregation of environmental, economic and social goals. In the field of nutrition, the aspect of health also has a central importance and is therefore considered a separate fourth dimension. Catering lends itself particularly well to sustainability improvements as they can be made across multiple sustainability facto ...
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The basis of the project was the Partnership Project “Sustainability as key competence of professional cook”, finished in 2012. As project research on various national education systems in the EU showed, there are major deficiencies in the training of professional cooks in terms of knowledge, skills and competences in sustainability issues.The concept of sustainable development is usually specifie ...
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Improved training for sustainable agriculture : Substantial growth in organic/sustainable agricultural production and consumption in the EU requires the development of an occupational profile and curriculum introducing innovative sustainable agriculture training. The achievements of the project will help to increase the number of educational institutions offering programmes in sustainable agricult ...
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Organic production is the fastest growing segment of the European agriculture sector and with growing environmental awareness, this trend is set to continue. To meet the market demand and various policy objectives many of the member states have set goals for the pace at which the percentage share of agricultural land under organic production should increase. One major obstacle in the way of such ...
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The project “Strengthening the Lifelong Learning in Environmental Sciences in Russia – STREAM” will strictly address its wider objective – contribute to the development of a national framework for lifelong learning in line with the needs of a knowledge-based society in Russia. The project strives to achieve three specific objectives:1. Setting-up a horizontally & regionally distributed network for ...
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A level-3 programme for sustainable agriculture training : The establishment of the ENSA network will help improve sustainable agriculture training by setting up a level 3 programme as part of a standard curriculum. This project started in 2003 and lasted 36 months.
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The recently established European Network for Sustainable Agriculture (ENSA) that forms the project partnership aims to improve the range and quality of education and training provision for farmers and other employees in sustainable agriculture throughout Europe. The project aims to initiate network development via core activities and innovative initiatives in relation to a level 3 qualification, ...
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This project focused on the quality and availability of vocational training and competency development for catering staff providing food for the public sector in 4 European countries. Its main aim to establish a system of cooperation between the different partners involved in catering for the public sector, so that they can learn from each other and create universal tools of best practice. This ca ...
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