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Be Wiser examines organisation and technical research challenges in some of Europe’s best known RTD regions. The technology focus is on wireless internet security; while the organisational challenge is to more effectively utilise Triple Helix clusters in regional innovation processes. This approach will strengthen Europe’s position in wireless rollout and address the challenges set out in the Digi ...
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Resource Efficient Maritime Capacity (REMCAP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The global maritime market is on a strong growth trajectory, and this project aims to harness that growth to create economic and employment benefits for Europe. On the one hand, growth is driven by commercial megatrends such as demand for marine/offshore renewable energy, fish products and emerging potential for ‘blue biotech’ products; on the other hand, there is high demand for efficient use an ...
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The project aims to increase sustainable freight transport. relieve congestion at key bottlenecks. remove technical barriers to modal shift and using ICT to make better use of existing infrastructure capacity in NWE. including by changing private sector behaviour. NWE manufacturing is increasingly outsourced and far eastern markets for NWE products are growing rapidly. The project treats log ...
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Renewable Public Transport Enterprise (REPUTE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

REPUTE (Renewable Public Transport Enterprise) is an Atlantic Area funded project aimed at developing the use of renewable energy in public transport. REPUTE promotes innovation and engagement in the efficient use of energy in public transport by means of information provision, stimulation of enterprise and behaviour change, and policy change recommendations. ...
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Regional administration of lake restoration initiatives (LakeAdmin)

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

The economic values of clean and safe water are well established. Lakes, ponds and reservoirs can provide water for drinking, irrigation, recreation, fish, natural and cultural values and other ecosystem services. Domestic and national tourism in lake districts are often of high local and regional economical importance. However, in spite of remarkable investments in wastewater treatment, the quali ...
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Parks, both historic and modern, are intensively managed, high quality environments. They add to the attractiveness and success of cities and regions and to the quality of life for citizens and visitors.The partnership includes many of those cities and regions energetically enhancing and using parks in a wider policy context such as economic development, rural diversification, protection of cultur ...
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Territories of Rivers Action Plans (TRAP)

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

TRAP deals with the challenge of integrated management of rivers & river territories. Its purpose is to build on and transfer good practices that embed aquatic & cultural heritage landscape protection in regional, sustainable growth solutions. TRAP contributes to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Landscape Convention (ELC) and the Europe 2020 strategy. The WFD ...
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Improving Communities' Sustainable Energy Policy Tools (STEP)

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

The STEP partnership consists of 9 ambitious partners from 8 regions wishing to improve their local sustainable energy policies and support the deployment of regional policies at local level. In order to achieve the EU 20-20 by 20 targets national and regional policies have to be deployed more efficiently at local authorities level, which are the key of successful policy implementation. The EU str ...
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In the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the EU committed to reduce greenhouse gases between 20% and 30% by 2020, taking as reference 1990 level, and all sectors of the economy should contribute to this goal. Within the transport sector, the EU has adopted a number of measures to reduce the impact of road and air transport, including the limitation of pollutant ...
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Developing Sustainable Regions through Responsible SMEs (DESUR)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The issue to be tackled by the DESUR project is that of the difficulty that the SME of today is experiencing in becoming a business responsible with their environment. SMEs have neither the resources nor the awareness necessary to adopt sustainable practices such as: respect for the natural environment, removal of barriers and inequalities, lifelong learning, increased productivity, efficient reso ...
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HARVESTAtlantic

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

Identification of sustainable solutions and exchange of experiences in the development and promotion of innovation initiatives, diversification and marketing for the marine economy and resources in order to improve competitiveness in the sectors: biotechnology and nutrition, RDT of navigation and gliding technologies, halieutic industry and green maritime energy. ...
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Forwarding Resgional Sustainable Environmental Hierarchies (FRESH)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Feb 27, 2013,

The overall objective of the FRESH project is to strengthen development based on sustainable value creation at regional level and to contribute to the implementation of the Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP-COM 38/2004). FRESH is contributing to the 2nd priority area of ETAP, 'driving demand and improving market conditions'. Today we are aware that to address sustainable development eff ...
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In the framework of the Lisbon Agenda European cities and regions as key driving forces for regional economical development have made serious efforts to develop eGovernment. This is done to face the major demand and needs for improving openness, cost-efficiency and quality of the public administrations and provision of public services, thus contributing to the regional and national competitiveness ...
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Rethinking Entrepreneurship (RethE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Oct 30, 2011,

The concept of entrepreneurship is becoming ever more relevant in all areas of economic policy and brings together a disparate number of themes (education, finance, innovation, etc...), the fragmented coverage of which results from professional interests. Accordingly, it is necessary to have a multi-disciplinary approach, combining different (sectoral and territorial) sensibilities to achieve a gl ...
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Venture Capital in European Atlantic Regions (ATVENTURE)

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

The needs of companies regarding Venture Capital (VC) and Business Angels (BA) markets have increased dramatically in recent years. Regional instruments of venture capital can hardly meet the financial needs of companies. Due to the limitations of financing instruments available, regional VC and BA also need to improve their management tools (financial and industrial) to allow the growth of the co ...
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The project main objective is to explore real possibilities of transnational cooperation among clusters in the Atlantic Area (existing or under creation ones), and in connecting them together in order to facilitate their development at EU and international level. Its target is to help clusters to become more dynamic and to support their development and exchange of best practices. The project sha ...
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Intermodal Port Access and Commodities Transport in Europe

Start date: May 31, 2005, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

International traffic between the UK and continental Europe is a specific territorial issue which the partnership will address through sustainable distribution and the economic development of ports. They will also develop a maritime integrated network and strategy.
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HST Integration

Start date: Aug 31, 2002, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

between high speed rail stations in North West Europe. The project, whose lead partner is the South East England Development Agency, working in conjunction with a total of 18 partners from the UK, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, aims to investigate and demonstrate the means by which HST stations and station area developments can serve the internal cohesion as well as the external strength an ...
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Green Atlantic for Sustainable Development (GASD)

Start date: Oct 31, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

“Green Atlantic for Sustainable Development” is both a process of integration and development of competences and methods aimed at creating a European platform of expertise and action for maritime and environmental safety issues. “GASD” will integrate past and current work and use this as a basis for working on environmental issues and making recommendations, from a broader perspective (economic, h ...
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Drive for Growth will help SMEs to recognize the value of R&D, understand it and use it to their commercial advantage. The partners will strive to transform the cooperation between research institutions and SMEs into a partnership to foster development and production, economic growth and employment in North West Europe. ...
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Small Atlantic Fishing Ports (PORT ATLANT)

Start date: Jun 4, 2006, End date: Feb 14, 2008,

The PORT ATLANTIC project is based on the creation and the putting into effect of a network of coastal villages and towns from the five countries of the Programme. In this network, two working groups will be constituted in order to proceed to exchanges of experiences, and these will concentrate on cultural and touristic aspects. One working group will look at questions related to the conservation ...
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Baltic Gateway PLUS aimed at joint actions to implement and finance prioritised transport projects in the South Baltic Sea area. Focus was on infrastructure investments in the hinterland connections, as well as on implementation of intermodal services. The project involved 30 partners from six countries and had an overall budget of approximately 1 MEUR. It was implemented in the period 2006-2007.B ...
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The EUROPLANE project shall build a network among European regional authorities, which are responsible for regional airports or which are involved in its ownership. By inter-regional co-operation of the regional authority’s representatives including the strong integration of relevant airport and airline managers the existing future challenges in airport development, its functions and quality in co ...
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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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The easy European E- government (eBYGOV)

Start date: Oct 27, 2002, End date: Oct 15, 2006,

Confronted with a crisis of political confidence among their citizens, several European States are looking to e-government. This concept is intended to modernise the practices of government and communication, and improve the services offered to citizens, making them more effective and accessible to all. The e-Bygov project proposes to develop concrete applications for e-government in the Atlantic ...
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Salmon Atlantic Rivers (SALAR)

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

The SALAR project foresees actions for the conservation of the salmon as a natural resource of very great economic value which can contribute to creating jobs, to tourist activities and to the conservation of the environment. The project seeks to encourage the balanced development of tourism and to identify and evaluate comparatively the socio-economic impact of sport fishing in different rivers, ...
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Although lighthouses have long been characteristic elements of the coastlines of the Atlantic Area, the automatisation of their functions and the crisis of the fishing sector have contributed to a great reduction in their socio-economic importance. The partners of the project AT-LIGHTS intend to revive the economies of the zones where lighthouses stand by developing tourist activities there, somet ...
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European Salmon Tour (EUROSAT)

Start date: May 31, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2005,

The overall objective of EUROSAT is to promote trout and salmon fishing as a valid economic activity for improving employment opportunities in areas of enormous environmental potential.EUROSAT aims to create a permanent network of regions that benefit from salmon rivers in order to exchange experiences on different issues such as the economic impact of activities linked to sport fishing, environme ...
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