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Application of LCA for sustainable green cover management using waste derived materials (LCA IN LANDSCAPING)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2010, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2014,
Background
At present, the landscaping industry has little option but to source much of its green cover materials from arable land, i.e. field top soil. By demonstrating the effectiveness of an environmentally sustainable and economically viable alternative source of green cover materials, this project will seek to significantly reduce negative environmen ...
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Special crop education for economic development in NorthWest Russia and SouthEast Finland (SPECICROP)
Date du début: 31 déc. 2011, Date de fin: 30 déc. 2014,
The overall objective of the project is to enhance the professional growing of special crops and commercialization of their production, processing and retail in the target area through improved education, advisory activities and new research. This, in turn, will provide for the economic development and SME activities of rural areas on both sides of the border.
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Clean Rivers to Healthy Baltic Sea
Date du début: 12 déc. 2012, Date de fin: 11 déc. 2014,
Overall objective of the project is to create basic precondition for improving water quality and restore natural biodiversity of Luga river, that will contribute to reduce the nutrient load to the Baltic Sea and to solve tasks of the Baltic Sea Action Plan. Second objective is cooperation development between Russian and Finnish official, scientific, educational and non-governmental organizations, ...
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Collaborative management planning and action for agriculture and environment in the Baltic Sea Region (Baltic Compact)
Date du début: 30 nov. 2012, Date de fin: 29 sept. 2014,
Baltic COMPASS project has been successful in demonstrating the importance and testing different platforms for agri-environmental dialogue on challenges and solutions across the Baltic Sea Region. One of the conclusions from Baltic COMPASS stakeholder activities underscores the importance of bottom-up activities and cross-sector collaboration on the local scale. On this basis, Baltic COMPASS devel ...
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Development and cultivation of local plant resources in the Barents Region
Date du début: 27 juil. 2011, Date de fin: 26 juil. 2014,
The overall objective: Increased production of locally produced food and health products based on sustainable natural resources in the Barents region. Strengthen cooperation and social development between institutions and scientists in northern agriculture. The specific objective: 1. Increase the production of berries and herbs in the Barents region through cultivation, breeding and testing of lo ...
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Reducing environmental risks in use of plant protection products in Northern Europe (PesticideLife)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2010, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2013,
Background
European Union policy aims to minimise the use of pesticides even though the recent trend has not shown any significant decrease in its application. Pesticide use is particularly linked to climate, land use and technological changes in the northern crop production areas. The EU pesticides legislation is currently undergoing reform and has requ ...
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Baltic Forum for Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Manure Management (Baltic MANURE)
Date du début: 31 août 2010, Date de fin: 30 déc. 2013,
The Baltic Sea Basin is an area of intensive, and intensifying agricultural production. There are about 36 million units of cattle, 67 million units of pigs, and 190 million units of poultry in the region. (Gren, I.-M. et al., 2008: Cost of nutrient reductions to the Baltic Sea - technical report). Intensifying and concentration of animal production has resulted in environmental problems caused by ...
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Developing a Knowledge-based Sheep Industry on the Baltic Sea Islands (KNOWSHEEP)
Date du début: 31 oct. 2010, Date de fin: 30 déc. 2013,
The traditional Baltic island sheep are not widely appreciated, although small-scale sheep keeping is a traditional activity for islanders and perfect for Natura/nature protection areas, where extensive farming is forbidden due to environmental considerations. Sheep is fairly unknown as a simultaneous source of meat, wool, and landscape design. Typically, sheep farming is polarized; targeting eith ...
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Equine industries promoting economically competitive and innovative regions (INNOEQUINE)
Date du début: 30 avr. 2011, Date de fin: 30 déc. 2013,
The InnoEquine project addresses the needs of SMEs in the Central Baltic region and the translation of innovations into new business opportunities, with a particular focus on the equine industries. Over-riding objectives are to define and construct a sustainable path to economic development of this sector, such that it will be able to realize its under-utilized potential. The project is designed t ...
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Baltic environment, food and health: from habits to awareness (FOODWEB)
Date du début: 31 déc. 2010, Date de fin: 30 déc. 2013,
This project contributes to Central Baltic programme.We focus on the priority 3, Attractive and dynamic societies, from two perspectives: the impact of the Finnish and Estonian and Latvian food production onto sustainable healthiness of the Baltic Sea environment and environmental safety of the food originating from our mutual Baltic food shed. The direction of support of maintaining and improvin ...
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Ecovillages for sustainable rural development (Ecovillages)
Date du début: 16 sept. 2010, Date de fin: 15 déc. 2013,
The Ecovillage Movement is an initiative looking for a more sustainable way of living in rural areas and promoting a lot of innovations which deals with climate change, environmental pollution, resource shortages and social problems people face nowadays. Project “Ecovillages for sustainable rural development” aims at fostering ecovillages development as a more sustainable way of living in rural ar ...
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Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society Implementation (BERAS IMPLEMENTATION)
Date du début: 10 juin 2010, Date de fin: 9 sept. 2013,
BERAS Implementation offers a response to the challenges to achieve a good environmental status in the Baltic Sea, reinforce sustainable agriculture and enhance rural development in the region.Objectives:Contribute to solving the problem of excessive nutrient losses from agricultural through introduction of conversion to Ecological Recycling Agriculture (ERA) in all countries of the BSRDevelop a s ...
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Baltic COMPASS - Comprehensive Policy Actions and Investments in Sustainable Solutions in Agriculture in the Baltic Sea Region (Baltic COMPASS)
Date du début: 30 nov. 2009, Date de fin: 15 déc. 2012,
Baltic COMPASS project has grown out of a large number of international projects in the field of landuse, agriculture, water and environment related to the protection of the Baltic Sea. Specifically, Baltic COMPASS is a response to the need for a transnational approach to reduce eutrophication of the Baltic Sea and contribute in adaption and implementation of the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSA ...
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Sustainable historic park management and development in Finland and Estonia (DEVEPARK)
Date du début: 31 août 2009, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2012,
U. of Turku in FI has contacts with many EE organizations. In many meetings, the question of nature protection has raised up. There are several old parks in both countries, and their re-establishment would make them more attractive for plants, animals and visitors. Cultural background and historic development of parks are quite different in EE and FI, but there are similar problems like how to add ...
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Energy Positive Farm (ENPOS)
Date du début: 30 nov. 2009, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2012,
Mechanized agriculture uses fertilizers made with fossile energy and consumes directly fossile energy in running the machinery and processes. Agriculture produces emissions both to air and water when using fossile energy. Agriculture has the possibility to give up partly or totally fossile energy usage. Besides that it has a possibilty to produce bioenergy for consumption and in this case the fa ...
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ACTIVE measures on WETLANDS for decreasing nutrient load in the Baltic Sea (ACTIVE WETLANDS)
Date du début: 31 oct. 2009, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2012,
Agriculture is the largest anthropogenic source of nutrients (N and P) enhancing eutrophication of the Baltic Sea. The reduction of agricultural nutrient load depends on the reduction of emissions from animal and crop production as well as on the enhancement of nutrient retention in the watershed. Available evidence suggests that improving retention processes have a greater potential for reducing ...
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New Plants for Northern Periphery Market 4.4 (NPNP)
Date du début: 30 juin 2009, Date de fin: 29 juin 2012,
The aim of NPNP is to develop new business opportunities within the green sector and provide growth to the region by developing new hardy ornamental plants, origin from the region for public spaces and private gardens. The NPNP will facilitate the creation of greener and more varied public area and city centre in the northern periphery area. ...
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Food International Trade Management (FITIM)
Date du début: 28 févr. 2007, Date de fin: 30 janv. 2008,
The project aims at planning of a new FITIM (Food Industry and Trade International Management) educational platform in such a way that it can be later implemented as cooperation between a Finnish and an Estonian institution of higher education and commercial firms. The planning of the platforms takes into consideration the detailed educational requirements of the Finnish and Estonian institutions ...
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Studying in the Countryside - national network of environmental education in Finland and in Estonia (School goes to the Farm)
Date du début: 31 mars 2006, Date de fin: 30 déc. 2007,
The common task of Finland and Estonia is to promote environmental awareness by developing the school students' personal contacts with the countryside heritage, cultural enviroment and nature. This task will be achieved with the experience-based learning that complements the school curriculum. The project tasks and activities help to achieve the goals of the UN decade of education for sustainable ...
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Risk assessment and risk management procedure for arsenic in the Tampere region (RAMAS)
Date du début: 1 déc. 2004, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2007,
Background
Arsenic is classified by the World Health Organisation as a group 1 human carcinogen. Drinking water is the main source of inorganic arsenic in humans. The WHO recommended limit is 10 µg/l. Lung, bladder and skin cancers can result from concentrations of 50 µg/l or more. Arsenic intake levels in Europe vary from 63 µg/day in England to 286  ...
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Developing Rural Woman's Entrepreneurship - Rural Business Women (Rural Business Women)
Date du début: 31 mai 2003, Date de fin: 29 mai 2006,
The aim of the project is to focus on the development of the inhabitants and entrepreneurs in rural areas, especially womens small-scale entrepreneurs and tourism businesses in Northern Peripheral areas. All partner areas have high rates of female unemployment in common, as well as poor infrastructure, depopulation and many natural resources. The main function of this transnational project is to s ...
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Eco-design and marketing model for rural products and services (Rural LIFE Design)
Date du début: 1 août 2001, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2004,
... economic feasibility of the enterprise (cost-benefit analysis, social auditing)
Project partnership:
The project proposers are a collaboration of five organisations: the beneficiary â MTT Agrifood Research Finland and partners Häme Regional Environment Centre, Häme Polytechnic and partners - pilot enterprises Tammelan Kala-Apaja, Makuliha Oy, FM-Haus Oy, Kiipulan puutarha. Agropolis Oy ...
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During this project we create contacts with the research institutes of St. Peterburg's area in Russia. We try to have data on the herb production of Russia and the St. Petersburg area, to set up scientific collaboration with research instituties of Russia and St. Peterburg and to find new medicinal plants for experimental cultivation in Finland. There are some marketing companies in the project to ...
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Multifunctional Agriculture in Europe – Social and Ecological Impacts on Organic Farms
Date du début: 1 janv. 2011,
Multifunctional Agriculture (MA) can be found throughout Europe at different quality and quantity stages. MA includes different fields of agriculture combined with other farm activities. In the project we focus on Social Farming (SF). Until now a high quality, European-wide network and coaching model involving the know-how in social, health, justice, education and the organic agriculture sector is ...
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Food security is an important issue related to public health and dairy products are a major part of human diet. Low consumption is linked with many health defects. Turkey ranks lowest milk consumer per capita among EU countries. Therefore, increasing milk production and consumption is a primary goal. However, increasing alone will not be adequate since milk production in Turkey hampered with low h ...
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Consumer learning to enhance the knowledge of products with geographical indications
Date du début: 1 nov. 2013,
GILearn is a training project for adult learning in protected designations of origin (PDO) products: its main objective is that European adults gain the knowledge for the identification and valorisation of PDO products and specifically, their unique sensory characteristics. Secondary objectives of GILearn project are the promotion of PDO products and the preservation of traditional manufacture pro ...
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The number of green care entrepreneurs in Europe is growing as the number of people with special needs too. Another challenge is the problem of intergenerational development of existing initiatives. Also pioneers in the new EU-member countries need conducive support. The project included evaluation, coaching, and training of the partners to support their endeavour to develop their organisations an ...
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