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Baltic Sea Information on the Acoustic Soundscape (BIAS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Background The Baltic Sea is one of the world’s largest semi-enclosed bodies of brackish water. The special geographical, oceanographic and climatological characteristics of the Baltic ecosystem make it highly susceptible to the environmental impacts of human activities at sea and in its catchment area. As a result of this status, the International Mari ...
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MLG support to the implementation of PA 11 in the EU Baltic Sea Strategy (BSR TransGovernance)

Start date: Jun 12, 2012, End date: Sep 11, 2014,

...TransBaltic, and use them in the national and regional transport planning processes (MACRO) and how to secure durability of joint strategic transport processes in the Öresund region and Helsinki-Tallinn area (MESO);• MLG models for the planning and operation stages of intermodal terminals (WP4) – and test them on five differentiated cases in the BSR (MICRO);• operational MLG model for better freig ...
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Central Baltic Cooperation in energy efficiency & feasibility in urban planning (ENEF)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Trans-regional development project “Central Baltic cooperation in energy efficiency and feasibility in urban planning - ENEF” (further on “ENEF”) focuses on cooperation and joint problem-solving of energy efficiency matters in Central Baltic region in Estonia (EST), Finland (FIN), Sweden (SWE) and Latvia (LV), managed and coordinated by leading 4 technological universities in the Baltic Sea Region ...
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Energy Efficient and Ecological Housing (ECOHOUSING)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Finland, Estonia and Latvia have made plans how to save energy, compensate the use of fossil energy sources by renewable energy sources. Important domestic source is wood and other biomass in different forms. Through the project the partners in Finland, Estonia and Latvia will collect information of heating technology, boilers and devices utilizing wood energy and other bioenergy in different form ...
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Building up Availability of SME Internationalisation Services (BASIS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

The operational environment for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) evolves and becomes increasingly international at a quick pace. For example, the export, import, subcontracting, financing and marketing activities of enterprises are more and more often connected to international processes and actors and to their decision-making. It is a well-known fact that strengthening the competitivenes ...
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Leveraging Practical Use of Science for Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship (UseScience)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

Project is developed to tackle a problem of relatively weak ability to turn regions scientific and labour assets into innovative outputs and economic prosperity. Preliminary studies indicate that in the technologically highly developed Nordic countries cooperation between academics and industry is very well established. This cooperation will be a subject to research within this project, which resu ...
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Improving Road Infrastructure Safety in the Baltic Sea Region (BALTRIS)

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

Safe transportation is an element in the overall objective of the BSR programme – to make the BSR an attractive place to work and live in. However increasing road traffic volumes in the BSR come at a price of accidents during which lives are lost and injuries caused. There are large differences among BSR countries in road safety performance. Transportation in the south-eastern part of the region i ...
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Rail Baltica Growth Corridor (RBGC)

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

...) that contributes to the economic growth of the Eastern BSR.RBGC is linked to the TEN-T Core Network Corridor North Sea - Baltic. The Corridor will connect the Eastern BSR branching from Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, Kaunas and Warsaw to Berlin and to North Sea coast. The BSR gains new economic potential as the major business hubs will be connected with N-W Russia and the EU core. ...
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Towards Joint Management of the Transboundary Gauja/Koiva River Basin District (Gauja/Koiva)

Start date: Jun 30, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

...tvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, Latvian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Biology Institute of Latvian University, Baltic Environmental Forum in Estonia and Latvia, Tallinn Technological University and Estonian University of Life Sciences. Achievements ...
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Sustainable utilization of waste and industrial non-core materials (SUSBIO)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

SUSBIO aims at added sustainability in the food value chain referring to agricultural production, food processing, logistics, consumption and disposal of a product including both solid waste management and waste water management. The added sustainability is achieved by improved material efficiency in the whole food value chain and by fractionating value-added components from edible materials and u ...
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E-GOvernment solutions as instruments to qualify the public sector for the specific needs of small and medium sized enterPRISEs (SMEs) in the rural BSR (Egoprise)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

The overall aim of Egoprise is to turn public administrations in rural BSR areas to more business oriented service suppliers, to relieve SMEs from administrative burdens, improve their access to information & qualified staff and as a consequence to increase attractiveness of rural areas as places to live, work & invest in. BACKGROUND:E-government potentials are not exploited so far: The developmen ...
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Control of hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea region (COHIBA)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

Hazardous substances are one of environmental problems of the Baltic Sea. Recently 11 hazardous substances and substance groups have been taken into consideration in the area and a specific programme established for these substances (HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan BSAP, hazardous substances segment). Project Control of hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea region – COHIBA focused on these eleven s ...
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Baltic Sea Innovation Network Centres (BaSIC)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

BaSIC aims to build a “Baltic Sea Archipelago of Innovation” (recommendation of BaltMetInno). The objective is to create a seamless working environment for fast growth innovative SME all over the Baltic Sea Region, embedded in a reliable network of leading Science Parks and clusters. Emphasis is given to identify, select, train and coach SME-gazelles; to provide them harmonized access to markets ( ...
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CENTRAL BALTIC INNOVATION TOOLS FOR PRACTISE (INTO PRACTISE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

In a globally interdependent environment strategic cooperation is a key policy in developing relative competitive advantage of CB- region. The principles of the European social model (work for all, social equality&safe environment) can be maintained by investing in the high level of education, applications of science&technology and establishing strategic networks. Yet the existing capacity of inv ...
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Reed strategy in Finland and Estonia

Start date: Mar 14, 2005, End date: Feb 27, 2008,

The goal of the project is to create sustainable strategy of the common reed (Phragmites australis) in the coastal areas of Southern Finland and Estonia. In the frame of the project will be planned and carried out interdisciplinary measures in the selected planning areas taking into account different themes such as utilisation, water protection, biodiversity, landscape and culture. The project sha ...
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Regional Cooperation in Waste Management (RECO)

Start date: Jan 12, 2005, End date: Jan 11, 2008,

RECO is a waste management and spatial planning project in cooperation between partners from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Its Central Objective is to support the development of efficient Institutions for management of municipal waste in the BSR in order to minimize negative environmental effects, lower life cycle costs for waste managem ...
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Baltic Entrepreneurship Partners (BEPART)

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

The idea of BEPART is to invest in interregional exchange of experience and cooperation in order to reach faster progress at local level. The partners aim to increase efficiency and impact of entrepreneurship promotion at universities and within local and regional networks. Achievemen ...
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Developing Regions through Spatial Planning and Logistics & ICT Competence (LogOn Baltic) (LogOn Baltic)

Start date: Dec 9, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

LogOn Baltic improved spatial integration by transferring knowledge in ICT and logistics competence. The main objective is to produce and disseminate information for regional development agencies on how to support enterprises in the participating regions in their effort to improve ICT and logistics competence, thus improving regional development.Objectives of the project: identifying development a ...
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Web database for follow up of energy and water consumption in municipal buildings (E4 Portal)

Start date: Mar 31, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The project develops a database for follow-up of energy and water consumption in municipal buildings. Database created at the first phase in Finland includes at the starting point almost real-time follow-up data as well as trends in longer time-scale. The Estonian version created in the project will be introduced for the use on municipal and state-owned buildings in Estonia. The portal will be tes ...
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Safe and Reliable Transport Chains of Dangerous Goods in the Baltic Sea Region (DaGoB) (DaGoB)

Start date: Dec 9, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Initially it was thought that over 200,000,000 tons of Dangerous Goods (DG) per year moves in BSR (plus over 100M tons in NW Russia) mostly through densely populated areas, imposing real health and safety risks to people and environment. After the data gathering and reporting in DaGoB, the actual figure is close to 1,000,000,000 tons in the entire BSR region, which was substantially more than anti ...
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Coastal Zone Management in the Baltic Sea Region / COASTMAN (COASTMAN)

Start date: Jun 13, 2004, End date: Sep 12, 2007,

The COASTMAN project is aimed on developing approaches for conflicts resolution in coastal zone areas. The project partners’ group with representatives from Sweden, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Russia aimed at investigating conditions under which spatial conflict resolution in coastal zone management can be handled in a bottom up perspective in different countries around Baltic Sea. The ...
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Integrating Logistics Centre Networks in the Baltic Sea Region (InLoC)

Start date: Jul 31, 2004, End date: Mar 30, 2007,

As a follow up of the project NeLoC projecz InLoc aimed at further improvement of the networking between logistics centres, ports and other logistics operators in the Baltic Sea Region. The project also analysed spatial and environmental consequences of logistics centres and aimed at removing bottlenecks in port-hinterland connections. Furthermore, the project tried to improve the compatibility of ...
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Network for Future Regional Health Care (Future Health)

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

...ation; (CP4) future environments; and (CP5) implementation. Operation's management and organization was agreed upon in the beginning as planned and the first general partners' meeting took place in Tallinn in June 2004. Due to the prolonged signing process of the subsidy contract, start of the CP activities was delayed. However, by summer 2005 implementation of all the CPs had been activated. Goal ...
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m-Loma Mobile location-aware message application

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2005,

... to extend the service for the whole Gulf of Finland region. Project builds up networks between universities and enterprises in the sector on both sides of the Gulf. Target areas: Turku, Helsinki and Tallinn
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Viru and Peipsi Catchment Area Management Plan (VIRU-PEIPSI CAMP)

Start date: Dec 1, 2001, End date: Sep 30, 2005,

Background Oil-shale mining and oil-shale based electricity production, chemical and other industrial activities, mine- and quarry-dewatering, mismanagement of oil and fuel stocks, inadequate waste management and untreated wastewater, and poor environmental management of agricultural activities have caused serious damage to ground and surface water in the ...
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Medium Sized Cities in Dialogue around the Baltic Sea (MECIBS )

Start date: Jun 23, 2002, End date: Sep 22, 2005,

The project objective was to foster balanced spatial development by sustaining the development of medium-sized cities. Within this objective the project aimed at exploration of urban restructuring processes, formulation of recommendation for interlinking of local and national strategies and for economic, environmental and social development of the medium sized cities. This work was to be achieved ...
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Connect Baltic Sea Region (CBSR )

Start date: May 31, 2005, End date: Aug 30, 2005,

The overall objective of CBSR project was to stimulate creation of new firms and jobs in knowledge intensive sectors by linking entrepreneurs and innovators with R&D, service providers and venture capitalists. A short term goal was to establish Connect organisations or networks in all the countries participating in the project (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany) ...
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Baltic Sea Wood Product Network

Start date: Dec 31, 2001, End date: Jun 29, 2005,

The aim is to survey and utilise the potentials of wood working sector created by increased internationalisation and cross-border co-operation. Exchange of craftsmanship and expertise in product planning, manufacturing and production methods contributes to improving feasibility of firms in the sector in both countries. Target areas: Uusimaa (Finland) and Estonia (and in the long term perspective a ...
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BSR-network for the improvement of the transregional planning process by improving the communication and decision structure (Decision Support )

Start date: Jul 31, 2007, End date: Jun 29, 2005,

The project was aiming at the improvement of planning processes by improving the transregional communication and decision structures. The outcome of the project is a thematic network and a centre of excellence for improving the political (e.g. spatial planning authorities, municipalities, ministries, Governmental and Non-Governmental-Organisations) and entrepreneurial policy-making-processes in th ...
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Eco Forum Baltica (Eco Forum Baltica )

Start date: May 31, 2002, End date: Dec 30, 2004,

Eco Forum Baltica has two main objectives; to promote the development and knowledge on Environmental Management Systems (EMS) in companies (mainly SMEs) and authorities in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland and to develop the Spatial planning process (starting in the Harju region) and integrating Waste management/EMS perspectives in this process. The project is based on Eco Forum St Petersburg, ...
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Transfer of innovations for training need analyses to increase quality of further vocational training in the field of children´s day care and early education (DCT)

Four transnational meetings (in Estonia, Finland, Romania, Czech) and meanwhile workshops using mainly on-line communication methods. The DCT is not an ICT-project itself but also an approach representing educational-sociological and political points of view for creating more reasonable methods to find out actual training needs.
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PROACTIVE INTERNET TRAINING - Training SME Managers in Anticipating Competence Needs by using Internet ODL

Building upon the results of the previously funded Leonardo da Vinci PROACTIVE project, PROACTIVE INTERNET TRAINING will adapt existing methodology (regarding the anticipation of training and skills needs within the workplace) for use by HR managers within SMEs, specifically for an internet-based learning environment.The ten developed modules, regarding the anticipation of training and skills need ...
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Helsinki-Tallinn Science Twin City

Start date: Sep 30, 2002,

Project is a part of the EUREGIO Helsinki-Tallinn co-operation and the Science Twin City priority. The aim is to increase competitiveness of the two capitals in international high-tech business in three sectors: biomedicine and biotechnology, ICT and material sciences (incl. new technologies). Activities include studies and analyses, brokerage events for actors in the three high-tech sectors, surv ...
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Implementing tools and policies for quality work at institutional level

Start date: Jan 15, 2010,

Wider ojective of this project is to facilitate introduction of modern policies and tools for quality assurance on the level of HEI in Belarus, Ukraine and Uzbekistan which are compliant with ENQA documents and promote cooperation among the involved countries in providing acccess to modern high quality programs . This will be achieved through:Developing capacity of universities and public bodies f ...
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ESP-C English for Specific Purposes- Chemistry

Good English: The key to success : The project has reacted to a need for better job-related foreign language skills in the chemistry sector by producing a chemistry-based English language course together with internationally recognised certification. This project started in 2003 and lasted 36 months.
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Curricula Reformation and Harmonisation in the field of Biomedical Engineering

"The project aims at the following specific objectives: To perform a study report on existing educational programmes in BME, recent advances in medical technology; To create generic programs for graduate and postgraduate studies in BME; To promote the development of new programs in BME; To guide and assist restructuring of existing programs; To investigate potential creation of joint degrees; To p ...
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Modernization of Postgraduate Studies on Security and Resilience for Human and Industry Related Domains

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

The key goal of the project is to produce new generation of engineering and research staff capable of performing constructive development in Cyber Security assessment and ensuring. This objective will contribute to fulfill the demand of Ukrainian society to face the challenges in the area of ensuring of Cyber Security policy in different application domains regions of Ukraine.Application domains t ...
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Testing English for Specific Purposes in Science

The project aims at creating testing materials for English for specific Purposes followingthe Common European Framework.The main outputs of the project can be defined as follows:1. Definitions based on the Common European Framework as needed in therespective professions.2. Methods to create simple, (electronic) tools to filter authentic languagematerial for quickly defining language levels tested ...
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Integrated Knowledge-Based Inter-discipline Study Program on the Web Site

Training out of the box : After analysis of the training needs of mechanical engineering and computer science, inter-disciplnary modules were developed and tested. These modules provide skills which cross over between two highly inter-linked subjects. This project started in 2002 and lasted 24 months.
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INCOMING Interdisciplinary Curricula in Computing to Meet Labor Market Needs

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

The wider objective of this project is to strengthen international orientation of HE in Serbia, increase employability and students' and teachers' mobility.Specific objectives, within the aforementioned wider one, include:• to initiate capacity building for interdisciplinary studies in computing offered both in English and in Serbian, at all three levels of study (BSc, MSc, PhD) and in at least on ...
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