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Knowledge transfer and research needs for preparing mitigation/adaptation policy portfolios (PROMITHEAS-4)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

... local market forces (Industry, SMEs, banking sector, NGOs, etc) will enhance the socio-economic impact of the project.Additional efforts will be carried out for coordinated action with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other international programmes in the region.The project’s duration is 36 months and the budget 961,455.00 €
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Environmentally Friendly Fire Suppression System for Cargo using Innovative Green Technology (EFFICIENT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

...on and consumption of ozone depleting substances in order to reduce their abundance in the atmosphere, and thereby protect the earth’s fragile ozone Layer. Many international organisations like the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have mandated earliest production and import phaseout of halons. Substitutes are reviewed on the basis of ozone depletion potential, global warming potential, ...
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Yaşlı Bakım ve Evde Bakım Hizmetleri Avrupa Stajı

Start date: Oct 24, 2016, End date: Oct 23, 2017,

... of Turkish Statistical Institute, the rate of elderly population in our country (65 and above) is estimated to be 8% and increase to10,2% in 2023 and to 20,8% in 2050. According to the definition of United Nations, that the rate of elderly population in the total population in a country is between 8% and 10% means that country is old populated. If this rate is above 10%, the population of this co ...
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Model Visegrádské skupiny (Model of the Visegrad Group +)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

...e place in the framework of the Prague Student Summit (PSS) which is the largest project of its kind in Central Europe and is focused previously on the three specific international institutions – United Nations, European Union and NATO. By organizing a second year, Model of the Visegrad Group became a fourth pillar of well-established project bringing an international aspect to previous Czech-stud ...
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Developing an Oppressive practice in International mobility project

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 1, 2017,

...nd information about the topic.The project will last for 8 days and will be based in North East Bosnia. The participating countries in this project will be Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Portugal and Estonia. We will conclude the project with an evaluation seminar in Serbia inviting 2 participants per country. The seminar will also coincide with the Serbian ...
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SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION

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

...s in term of ICT tools, communication skills, team working abilities, inter-cultural dialogue, social acceptance and over all basic skills. The project idea is created through the report of the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) which is addressing current unsustainable consumption and production patterns are increasing water and air pollution, land and forest degradation, waste generatio ...
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Flood Risks Management and Resilience in Europe

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

...cademic partners, the members of the consortium will share with participants a new resilience approach that was developed by the consortium itself in the last years and that is now adopted by the United Nations within the Integrated Flood Management Programme managed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in charge of all flood related issues worldwide. Along with the solid academic theore ...
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Pestalozzi Educational Programme

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

...ifferent to their own and helping them to develop a global perspective. Nationally EVS volunteers are an integral part of the team that supports Pestalozzi students to participate in London Model United Nations discussions and debates with undergraduates from across the UK. At an international level every Pestalozzi student will take the learning from their interactions with EVS volunteers with th ...
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Stand up / Stand out - Pride for Youth

Start date: Feb 20, 2015, End date: Aug 20, 2015,

...ople in their projects, communities and wider Europe. To explore the challenges and obstacles for LGBT young people and to plan concrete actions to help overcome these obstacles. In Sept 2014 - The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on combating violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity - a critically important achievement for upholding the ...
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Youth Well-Being Training Course

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

...ng, be it for individuals, families, regions or countries. Human well-being achievement at the level of countries receives special attention. It is now commonplace for international agencies, such as United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank, to publish annual reports that rank countries according to various well-being or well-being related indicators. At the same time the obesity le ...
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Intelligent marine LittEr removal and Management for local Authorities (LIFE LEMA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Sep 1, 2019,

Background UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) defines marine litter as any persistent, manufactured solid material discarded, disposed of or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment. Marine litter is a global and cross-boundary issue; it is found in all seas and oceans, and accumulates on the surface, seafloor and seashore. The presence of ...
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Food waste prevention in the food chain to support the implementation of the 7th Environment Action Programme (LIFE-FOODWASTEPREV)

Start date: Jul 7, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

...households play the most significant role among all food chain stakeholders, with a share of 30-42% of total food waste generated. In recent studies, the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations) and UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) estimate the quantity of food waste generated in Hungarian households to be 39 kg per capita, or 385 000 tonnes/year in total. ...
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Safeguarding the lesser white-fronted goose fennoscandian population in key wintering and staging sites within the European flyway (Safeguard LWfG)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

...Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia - was estimated in 2004 at only 20-30 breeding pairs or respectively 60-80 individuals. The most significant threat to the species has been identified by the United Nations Environment Programme African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (UNEP/AEWA) as being hunting along the European flyway (Single Species Action Plan, 2008). This project therefore addresses the whol ...
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Smart and Innovative Demonstration of Demand Handy Responsive Transport Application to improve the quality of the urban environment. (SIDDHARTA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2003, End date: Dec 31, 2005,

...eduction in air pollution, which is considered the main cause of global warming, national and international measures must be combined to reduce emissions of harmful greenhouse gases. To this end, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) and the Kyoto Protocol (1997) were adopted. The EU has reiterated its firm commitment to the Kyoto Protocol on a number of occasions. To ai ...
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European Network of Prosecutors for the Environment (LIFE-ENPE)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Jul 17, 2020,

Background Interpol and the United Nations Environment Programme estimate the cost of international environmental crime to be $213 billion (c. €188 billion) per year. This problem affects the EU as it does other regions. High levels of environmental crime can be partly attributed to inefficient and ineffective prosecution and sanctioning. Wildlife crime ...
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Baltic Marine Litter (MARLIN)

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

...entral Baltic region. The project also carried out capacity building measures in local municipalities and NGOs to address the issue of marine litter in environmental management routines. In 2009, the United Nations Environment Programme launched the first common guidelines on marine litter assessments. The MARLIN project has implemented this method in 12 key areas in Sweden, Finland, Estonia and L ...
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Resource Efficient Food and dRink for the Entire Supply cHain (REFRESH)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

The overall aim of the REFRESH project is to contribute significantly towards the objective of reducing food waste across the EU by 30% by 2025 (which amounts to between 25 to 40 million tonnes of food not being wasted in 2025[1], worth tens of billions of Euros a year) and maximizing the value from unavoidable food waste and packaging materials. To achieve this ambitious goal, we will adopt a sys ...
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ECOPOTENTIAL: IMPROVING FUTURE ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS THROUGH EARTH OBSERVATIONS (ECOPOTENTIAL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential services to human societies. Anthropogenic pressures, however, cause serious threat to ecosystems, leading to habitat degradation, increased risk of collapse and loss of ecosystem services. Knowledge-based conservation, management and restoration policies are needed to improve ecosystem benefits in face of increasing pressures. ECOPOTENTIAL makes ...
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KNOwledge from Science to SOcitieS (KNOSSOS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"KNOSSOS seeks to address the gap between science and society in the field of environmental research with a focus on policy makers and civil society, who are the main recipients of the project. We propose to take stock of available research results that are useful for policy-making. KNOSSOS will then add a knowledge management system, with innovative tools to guarantee fast and easy access to rele ...
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Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European seas (HERMIONE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The HERMIONE project is designed to make a major advance in our knowledge of the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems and their contribution to the production of goods and services. This will be achieved through a highly interdisciplinary approach (including biologists, ecologists, microbiologists, biogeochemists, sedimentologists, physical oceanographers, modelers and socio-economists) that will in ...
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European approach to GEOSS (EUROGEOSS)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

EuroGEOSS demonstrates the added value to the scientific community and society of making existing systems and applications interoperable and used within the GEOSS and INSPIRE frameworks. The project will build an initial operating capacity for a European Environment Earth Observation System in the three strategic areas of Drought, Forestry and Biodiversity. It will then undertakes the research nec ...
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Climate Change and its Impact on Tourism in the Alpine Space (ClimAlpTour)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

The project aims at dealing with the internationally recognized issue of the effects of climate change on alpine tourism, with reference both to winter tourism and sports and to alpine all-seasons tourism. The issue of providing appropriate strategies to ensure a balanced development of alpine tourism, the preparation of appropriate adaptation policies at the national, regional and local level and ...
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Climate Change Adaptation by Spatial Planning in the Alpine Space (CLISP)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 30, 2011,

Climate change impacts, esp. growing risks from natural hazards, increasingly threaten settlements, infrastructure, lives and future development in the Alpine Space. CLISP aims at preventing increasing climate change-related spatial conflicts, vulnerability, damages and costs by providing "climate proof" spatial planning solutions as a substantial basis for future sustainable territorial developme ...
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Technical Assistance to Reinforce Governance in Environmental Tasks (TARGET)

Start date: Nov 1, 2002, End date: Oct 31, 2006,

Background Serious environmental damage in Lebanon is the result of many years of civil conflict, lack of effective government control and very little public awareness. Achieving environmental improvement in Lebanon will require substantial changes in the implementation of basic governmental policies. The Ministry of Environment (MoE), which was set u ...
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Strategic environmental assessment and land use planning in Lebanon (SEA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2002, End date: Jun 30, 2006,

Background Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the ‘Earth Summit’ was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, Mediterranean countries have been working, with the support of international programmes and regional bodies, on the elaboration of their development agenda, as well as on Environmental Impact Assessment (E ...
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Innovation in Rural Tourism

Start date: Dec 1, 2012,

Many European rural mountain communities are facing challenges, exemplified by local population unaware of how to profit from local resources, leading to economic stagnation, migration, degradation and loss of natural and cultural resources or their exploitation by third parties. Research shows that Rural Tourism (RT) is an important way of economic development and diversification of rural livelih ...
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Partnership for the Education and Research about Responsible Living

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

PERL (Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living) is a partnership of researchers and educators, aware of the urgent need for individuals and society to significantly rethink and reorient the choices they make and the manner in which they live their lives in order to reduce the negative impacts of climate change and financial instability, ensure more just distribution of resou ...
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