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Nature Integrated Management to 2020 (LIFE IP GESTIRE 2020)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2023,

... and the training of professionals in appropriate management for the regional network. In addition to the integrated project budget, the project will facilitate the coordinated use of complementary funding from the CARIPLO tenders on ‘ecological networks’ and ‘capacity building’ for a total of, respectively, €4 million and €0.4 million for projects to be implemented in the period 201 ...
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The wild forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) of Finland: Conservation and recovery of historic range (WildForestReindeerLIFE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2023,

Background The Finnish forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) is a subspecies of the large and widespread reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) population. The (sub)speciation took place during the last ice age, and since then, there have been major changes in the Finnish forest reindeer’s range. Once commonplace in Fennoscandia and North-western Russia, b ...
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Conservation and restoration of alluvial forests and bog woodland in Brandenburg (LIFE Feuchtwälder)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2022,

Background The LIFE project is located in the north, north-west and south of Berlin and takes in 10 Natura 2000 sites located within three riverine systems. Bog woodlands are important stepping stones and hotspots of biodiversity habitats within the otherwise rather species-low environment. The limited occurrence of this habitat hinders its functionality ...
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Towards integrated management of freshwater Nature 2000 sites and habitats (FRESHABIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2022,

... ecosystem-based entrepreneurship and to improve environmental awareness.In addition to the IP budget itself, the project will facilitate the coordinated use of €4 320 773 of complementary funding from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and national and private funds, as applicable. ...
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Bright Future for Black Vulture in Bulgaria (Vultures back to LIFE)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Jul 15, 2022,

Background The most serious problem for vultures in Bulgaria today is the critically low number of populations and their isolation. In spite of two decades of conservation efforts, the WWF Greece Dadia project showed that the number of breeding pairs is not increasing and remains around 20 pairs. Another threat is unsuitable livestock breeding practices r ...
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Establishing the European Geological Surveys Research Area to deliver a Geological Service for Europe (GeoERA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

... knowledge on subsurface energy, water and raw material resources, to support sustainable use of the subsurface in addressing Europe’s grand challenges. The GeoERA consortium will organise and co-fund together with the EC a joint call for transnational research projects that address the development of 1) interoperable, pan-European data and information services on the distribution of geo-energy, g ...
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EUROlinkCAT: Establishing a linked European Cohort of Children with Congenital Anomalies (EUROlinkCAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Over 130,000 children born in Europe every year will have a congenital anomaly (CA; birth defect). These CAs, which are often rare diseases, are a major cause of infant mortality, childhood morbidity and long-term disability. EUROCAT is an established European network of population-based registries for the epidemiologic surveillance of CAs. EUROlinkCAT will use the EUROCAT infrastructure to suppor ...
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The Flagship ERA-NET (FLAG-ERA II)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

FLAG-ERA, the Flagship ERA-NET, gathers national and regional funding organisation with the goal of supporting, together with the European Commission, the FET Flagship initiatives and more generally the FET Flagship programme. Most funding organisations in Europe participate, either directly or as associated members. FLAG-ERA contributes to the construction of the two Flagship initiatives on Graph ...
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QuantERA ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies (QuantERA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

QuantERA ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum TechnologiesQuantum Technologies (QT) has become a new and fast developing area of research initiated by a realisation that quantum physics opens up radically new modes of quantum information processing and communication. European researchers have been at the forefront of these developments delivering many groundbreaking scientific results and advancing technolog ...
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Conservation arrangements for Lesser Spotted Eagle in Latvia (LIFE AQPOM)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

Background The total population of lesser spotted eagle (Aquila pomarina) in Latvia at the end of the previous century was estimated at 2 800 to 5 200 breeding pairs. This represented roughly 45% of the total EU population and 24% of the population for the whole European continent. Unfortunately, the number of breeding pairs has decreased since 2000. Dur ...
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Conservation of Black and Griffon vultures in the cross-border Rhodopes mountains (LIFE RE-Vultures)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

Background European black vultures (Aegypius monachus)and griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) are considered as umbrella species whose conservation will also substantially benefit other raptor species sharing the main diet of carrion as well as breeding and foraging habitats. These species are also an indicator of healthy, intact, natural habitats. The conserv ...
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Reduction of CO2 emissions by restoring degraded peatlands in Northern European Lowland (LIFE Peat Restore)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

Background Some 25-30% of carbon stored in ecosystems is found in peatlands, twice as much carbon as is stored in forests. Peatland degradation, however, leads to the decomposition and mineralisation of peat and consequently to the release of the stored carbon in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2). According to Wetlands International, there are at least 500 ...
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Sustainable protection of lower Danube sturgeons by preventing and counteracting poaching and illegal wildlife trade (LIFE FOR DANUBE STURGEONS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Background According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), sturgeons are the most threatened fish species worldwide. Of the five surviving sturgeon species in the Danube basin, the IUCN Red List categorises four as “critically endangered” and one as “vulnerable”. Population trends for all five are decreasing. Within the EU, ...
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Conservation and restoration of Mire Habitats (LIFE Mires Estonia)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Background The priority habitat types – active raised bogs (7110), bog woodlands (91D0) and Fennoscandian deciduous swamp woods (9080) – have become very rare in the EU. This is mainly due to the negative impact of drainage. Based on overall biogeographical assessments of Estonia, the status of the habitat types targeted by the project is neither favo ...
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Light & Fire open the Doors for Biodiversity -LIFE (Light & Fire -LIFE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2020,

Background Under Article 17 of the Habitats Directive, EU Members States are required to periodically report on the conservation status of Annex I natural habitat types and Annex II species that fall within their territory. The Finnish country report for the period 2001-2006 assessed the overall conservation status of 18 out of 19 Annex I natural habit ...
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Biodiversity in Standards and Labels for the Food Industry (LIFEBioStandards)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

Background The EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 underlines the importance of motivating the corporate sector to reduce its negative impacts on biodiversity. Intensive agriculture is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss, through the use of heavy machinery, pesticides and synthetic nitrogen fertilisers, land consolidation, drainage, etc. Therefore, ...
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Consolidating the European Research Area on biodiversity and ecosystem services (BiodivERsA3)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

...iplinary research framework, with coordinated strategies and programmes at the national, regional and international levels, which are the relevant scales for many biodiversity issues.By networking 32 funding agencies from 18 countries, BiodivERsA3 aims to strengthen the ERA on biodiversity. Building on the previous experiences of the projects BiodivERsA1&2 and NetBiome, BiodivERsA3 will promote an ...
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Capacity Building for LIFE Programme implementation in Latvia (CAP LIFE LAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background The LIFE programme introduced action grants for capacity-building projects for the 2014-2017 funding period. These are projects designed to build Member States' capacity to participate more effectively in the LIFE Programme. Specifically, these projects propose interventions to develop the capacity to submit successful applications for funding ...
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The Diamond Revolution in Hyperpolarized MR Imaging – Novel Platform and Nanoparticle Targeted Probe (HYPERDIAMOND)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Non-invasively imaging small numbers of molecular probes, to help image particular targets or pathways in vivo, is currently undergoing a technological revolution. Recent breakthroughs in molecular hyperpolarization proved > 10,000-fold increase in sensitivity on conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems, thus providing insight into previously unseen metabolic processes with enormous p ...
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European Network for Research, Good Practice and Innovation for Sustainable Energy (ENERGISE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Considerable challenges remain today regarding Europe´s transition towards a decarbonised energy system that meets the economic and social needs of its citizens. Rebound effects, that is, a full or partial cancelling-out of efficiency gains over time through increased overall energy use, highlight the centrality of consumption in multi-scalar decarbonisation efforts, urgently requiring attention f ...
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Ground Truth 2.0 - Environmental knowledge discovery of human sensed data (Ground Truth 2.0)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...demia to ensure the roll out and uptake of the observatories. Ground Truth 2.0 is coordinating and interacting with other relevant initiatives, such as GEOSS, INSPIRE as well as the sister projects funded under the same call (namely GROW, SCENT and LANDSENSE) to create mutual synergies.
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Responsible Research and Innovation in Practice (RRI-Practice)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

... barriers and drivers to the successful implementation of RRI both in European and global contexts; to promote reflection on organisational structures and cultures of research conducting and research funding organisations; and to identify and support best practices to facilitate the uptake of RRI in organisations and research programmes. The project will review RRI related work in 22 research cond ...
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Development and Demonstration of Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Prevention and Reuse Paradigms (LIFE RE-WEEE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Background According to recent data, around 120 000 to 210 000 tonnes of electronic waste is generated annually in Greece. The corresponding amounts collected and managed through the Greek Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) management system are around 39 000-56 000 tonnes annually. WEEE contains significant amounts of dangerous substances ...
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Establishment and operation of the Greek LIFE Task Force (LTF) for the period 2014-2017 (GR LTF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Background The LIFE programme introduced action grants for capacity-building projects for the 2014-2017 funding period. These are projects designed to build Member States' capacity to participate more effectively in the LIFE Programme. Specifically, these projects propose interventions to develop the capacity to submit successful applications for funding ...
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Technology Innovation for the Local Scale, Optimum Integration of Battery Energy Storage (TILOS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

TILOS aims to demonstrate the optimal integration of local scale energy storage in a fully-operated, smart island microgrid that will also communicate with a main electricity grid. The main objective of the project will be the development and operation of a prototype battery storage system, based on NaNiCl2 batteries, provided with an optimum, real-environment smart grid control system and coping ...
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Developing Careers through Social Networks and Transversal Competencies (DEVELOP)

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

A key challenge in improving life-long learning, employee flexibility, and skill-matching is the assessment of workplace relevant competencies and the planning of individual learning paths for career development. The aim of this project is to develop a personalised learning environment for career development. The environment will provide assessment of transversal competencies and social capital to ...
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CITIZENS FOR ENERGY TRANSITION: Educating citizens on the energy transition, improving practices and multiplying efforts

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

The ‘Energy Transition’ concerns the move from the current energy system, dominated by fossil fuels, towards one dominated instead by renewable sources, in which energy efficiency and energy conservation practices are embedded. The “Citizens 4 Energy Transition” (C4ET) project aims to encourage citizen participation in the energy transition by improving and multiplying actions being implemented to ...
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Partnership for Biodiversity Protection in Viticulture in Europe

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

...n be raised in these cultivation areas. Training of local NGOs ensures that vine growers will be schooled and new co-operations/training activities will be initiated and continued even after the funding period. And the project also supports the objectives of EU policy on biodiversity and contributes to achieve the objective of the EU Biodiversity Strategy.
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Sistemul de calitate in hotelurile din Europa

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The project proposal with the theme “The quality system in hotels across Europe” applied by the Technical College “Mihai Bacescu” is designed to satisfy the needs of students to increase their motivation for professional education and training that proved to be concretized in low results and high absenteeism, which is one of the week points identified in the SWOT analysis from School Action Plan 2 ...
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Safeguarding the Saimaa Ringed Seal (LIFE Saimaa Seal)

Start date: Aug 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

Background Once widespread in Finland, the Saimaa ringed seal (Phoca hispida saimensis) is now found only in the Saimaa fragmented freshwater lake complex. With a small population of about 310 seals, it is probably the world’s most endangered seal species and is categorized by the IUCN as Critically Endangered. In Annex II of the Habitats Directive, it ...
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Pan European Vocational Training and Placements

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Our Pan-European Vocational Training and Placements Programme is an integral part of City College Plymouth’s European Development Plan: a three year strategic plan to professionally develop our staff & enhance our learners’ employability prospects in the European labour market. Each carefully planned European activity directly meets our College’s Strategic Priorities to address labour market requi ...
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Cultures of Disaster Resilience among children and young people (CUIDAR)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Cultural sensitivity is essential to effective disaster management and disaster risk reduction, yet disaster plans still largely ignore the needs and capacities of children and young people. Addressing Topic 2 of this call, the ‘given cultural group’ is therefore children, not viewed as a homogenous group, but one which offers diverse cultural perspectives and diverse experiences of roles taken on ...
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Improved communication, cooperation and capacity building for preserving biodiversity in Natura 2000 forests (LIFEinFORESTS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

...ase and jointly agreed consensus; Raise awareness of the ecological and socio-economic benefits of close-to-nature forest management among the foresters; and Improve the utilisation of the EU funds available for conservation and management of Natura 2000 forests. Expected results: Specialist studies on 13 forest habitats and 10 functional groups of species, and a handbook published. Around 50 ...
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CITIZEN AND MULTI-ACTOR CONSULTATION ON HORIZON2020 (CIMULACT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

CIMULACT has as a main objective to add to the relevance and accountability of European research and innovation – Horizon 2020 as well as national - by engaging citizens and stakeholders in co-creation of research agendas based on real and validated societal visions, needs and demands. The project will expand the outlook and debate on STI issues, increase scientific literacy in a broad sense, whic ...
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Conservation and Monitoring at the National Park of Dadia-Lefkimi-Soufli

Start date: Sep 30, 2016, End date: Mar 29, 2018,

The project "Protection and Monitoring in National Park of Dadia-lefkimis-Soufliou" after 14-year implementation, longer subjected under the Youth Mobility Erasmus +. It is expected to take 18 months and to participate in this one volunteer. No specific skill is required from candidate volunteer apart from having a sincere interest in nature and a truethful desire to learn.In general, the volunte ...
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Restoring the hydrological regime of the Kemeri National Park (HYDROPLAN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Background Ķemeri National Park was founded in 1997 on an area of 36 000 ha, which makes it the third largest national park in Latvia. It lies on the coast of the Gulf of Riga and includes forests, swamps and mires, shrubs, lakes or lagoons, natural mineral-springs and muds. The present-day landscape has been formed by the joint effects of natural proce ...
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Promoting societal engagement under the terms of RRI (PROSO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

... guide will be based on the results that PROSO will achieve through an analysis of barriers and incentives for engaging Third sector actors and citizens under the terms of RRI in relation to publicly funded research including public-private partnership research initiatives.This analysis will be carried out across three R&I domains (nanotechnology; food & health; bio-economy) focusing on selected c ...
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Enhanced bi-regional STI cooperation between the EU and the Black Sea Region (BLACK SEA HORIZON)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

...tensify the bi-regional STI cooperation based on a jointly developed EU-Black Sea STI Cooperation Programme. To facilitate the pooling of resources the project will establish a group of committed funding parties, endowed with a functional call infrastructure and a clear set of rules and regulations, ready to implement a joint call for proposals. The participation of Black Sea researchers in HORIZO ...
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Supporting Communities, Encouraging Potential, NI 2016

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

This project, Supporting Communities, Encouraging Potential NI 2016, will host 13 long term EVS volunteers on placements in Northern Ireland. The volunteers and Sending Organisations are from Italy, Cyprus, Belgium, Germany, France, Latvia, Czech Republic and Poland . Placements will be for 12 months starting between February and September 2015 and will build on previous experience of hosting EV ...
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Alternative use of biomass for maintenance of grassland biodiversity and ecosystem services (LIFE GRASSSERVICE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Background Grasslands, and in particular natural grasslands with high biodiversity, are complex ecosystems that provide a variety of different ecosystem functions and services, which are essential for the maintenance of biodiversity, as well as for human well-being. The main threats to grassland biodiversity are related to the intensification of agricultu ...
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