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A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities (Danube:Future)
Start date: Jan 9, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2020,
Danube:Future is a joint contribution of the Danube Rectors’ Conference (DRC) and the Alps-Adriatic Rectors’ Conference (AARC), thus tapping the largest pool of institutionalized knowledge in the Danube River Basin. Based on this network, interdisciplinary research and education in the DRB will be undertaken. Any path towards a sustainable future of the region has to account for the solution of p ...
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Strategic Planning for Alpine River Ecosystems – Integrating protection and development (SPARE)
Start date: Dec 16, 2015, End date: Dec 15, 2018,
Description (EN): The Alps are Europes WATER-TOWERS, providing MULTIPLE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES such as water for human consumption, agriculture, industry, energy and maintaining tourism, recreation & quality of life not only for the residents but also for surrounding lowlands & big metropolitan areas. Alpine rivers are the BLUE BACKBONES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, but only healthy rive ...
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SedAlp - Sediment management in Alpine basins: integrating sediment continuum, risk mitigation and hydropower (SedAlp)
Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2015,
SedAlp contributes to integrated management of sediment transport in Alpine basins directed to an effective reduction of sediment-related risk while promoting the enhancement of riverine ecosystems and reducing the impacts of hydropower plants (balancing the implementation of EU Directives e.g. RES, Floods and WFD). The project includes piloting actions in various representative Alpine river basin ...
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SUSTAINABLE NETWORKS FOR THE ENERGETIC USE OF LIGNUCELLULOSIC BIOMASS IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE (FOROPA)
Start date: Nov 30, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,
Biomass constitutes a sector of the highest energy potentials both, in South East Europe and in the EU27. It covers more than half of the renewable energy sources for heat applications, and as heat covers more than half of the final energy consumption in Europe, biomass obviously is a key domain to meet the ambitious 2020 targets of the Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC). The project FOROPA a ...
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moting the ecological network in the European Green Belt (Greennet)
Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2014,
During the last century and over decades Central Europe was divided by an insuperable border called the Iron Curtain. Especially the eastern side of the former border was extremely sparsely populated and the border zone itself was left completely unsettled. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s and the reunion of Eastern and Western Europe this former border area now runs like a Gre ...
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Cultural (garden) heritage as focal points for sustainable tourism (CULTTOUR)
Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,
...r stable and long-term income from tourism. Sector-specific modules for gardeners, constructors, handcraft and tourism staff will be offered as post-graduate programme for professionals and an online university course for landscape architects. To root the project in the regions, workshops on conservatory aspects and concrete regional tourism aspects will be held, integrating the urban/regional/ en ...
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Valorisation and Sustainable Development of Cultural Landscapes using Innovative Participation and Visualisation Techniques (VITAL LANDSCAPES)
Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Mar 30, 2013,
Unique cultural landscapes constitute a major factor of Central Europe's cultural identity, uniting nature and heritage. Being the most typical part of nature in CE, they are precondition of biodiversity and an important ecological resource. Moreover, functioning landscapes constitute the base for regional economic development, above all in of rural areas, and the well-being of the inhabitants. Ho ...
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UP-grading of landfillgas for lowering CO2 emissions (UPGAS-LOWCO2)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,
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Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the waste management sector account for around 3% of total emissions in the EU (2006 data). Emissions in the waste management sector are primarily a result of methane emissions from landfills, caused by the anaerobic break down of biodegradable materials. Methane emissions from the waste management sector fel ...
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Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE (TransWaste)
Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2012,
Waste which is coming from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and bulky waste is often collected by non authorised people (in most cases but not solely people of the ethnic groups of Roma or Sinti) without any legal work permit. Collected in countries with "higher developed" waste management and transported into countries with less developed waste management leads to problems in manifold f ...
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Flexible Transport Services and ICT platform for Eco-Mobility in urban and rural European areas (FLIPPER)
Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 30, 2011,
Throughout Europe the challenge of providing a cost effective integrated public transport system is seen as an essential prerequisite to reducing pollution and congestion whilst encouraging sustainable economic growth.The traditional fixed route services is ideal for clustered travel demand areas but the changing of habitation patterns and nature of work activities in today’s society have created ...
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Small hydro action for the promotion of efficient solutions (SHAPES)
Start date: Dec 1, 2007, End date: Nov 30, 2009,
The overall objective of SHAPES is to facilitate and strengthen the co-operation between EU Small Hydropower (SHP) Research and Market actors, with the overall objective of streamlining future research & development and promote R&D results in order to enhance penetration of SHP and know-how with the EU and on new markets in developing countries. The SHAPES action is highly relevant with the aim of ...
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Transit Systems Development for Urban Regeneration (TranSUrban)
Start date: Mar 31, 2005, End date: Sep 29, 2007,
Urban public transport systems such as tramways, buses, and light rail systems not only enhance overall mobility in cities they also improve environmental conditions and generate wider benefits related to economic development and urban regeneration. However, in planning, implementing, and maintaining public transport systems, urban areas typically face a number of challenges including high investm ...
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Qualifications Frameworks for Environmental Science at Ukrainian Universities
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
Proposed QANTUS project aims at preparation of sectoral Qualifications Frameworks for Environmental Science. It will contribute towards wider objective “Enhancement of quality and relevance of higher education in Ukraine and increasing convergence with EU developments through elaboration of qualifications frameworks”. Three specific project objectives are:1. Analyses of existing standards and meth ...
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Renewable Energy Studies in Western Balkan Countries
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
...l and monitoring. The consortium covers all aspects of renewable energy –West: U Hohenheim, U Stuttgart, BLE (DE), BOKU (AT), Bratislava (SK) and Sofia (BG). East: Agricultural and the Polytechnic University Tirana (AL), University of Montenegro(ME), University of Zenica and Mostar (BA).
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Landscape Education:New Opportunities for Teaching and Research in Europe III
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
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The need to enhance collaborative planning of natural resources has been recognised in many international conventions and reflected in the evolving legislation of the EU and the Member States. E.g. a new type of strategic planning approach has been launched. This “program-based planning of natural resources” (PBPNR) approach requires taking into consideration local level actors and stake-holders. ...
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The general level of integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in teaching haD increased greatly over the past years. However, forestry education in Slovakia have been using traditional didactical approaches such as theoretical class teaching, set of lectures more or less mixed with practical field training and excursions. It has relied mainly on traditional learning tools e. ...
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Innovation is now a pre-requisite for competitiveness
in business. Preparing new graduates for this reality is essential. 34 students from countries including Finland, Austria, Estonia, Romania, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Norway and Serbia took part in an intensive 11-day seminar in July 2007 under the Erasmus programme. The aim of the seminar was to test and validate curriculums for training in the area ...
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