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Nom du projet & Date : Pedagogical and Cultural Exchange on the theme of reading. / Echange culturel autour de la lecture. Nom de la personne de contact : Renelier Priorité du programme : 4. Priorité commune avec le programme France (Manche) - Angleterre But général du projet : The "Cardan" association was created almost thirty years ago by students keen to promote the access to reading in socially deprived parts of the city by creating street libraries. Its actions extended progressively to other areas (learning French as a foreign or second language for those arriving from overseas…) To date, the Association employs 14 people. It promotes and strives for free access for all to a “sustainable” culture. Theme: • Increasing the accessibility of reading promoting literacy. Context: • Sharing competence between association • Members (or others) to promote the development of reading among the socially vulnerable. L’association Cardan a été créée il y a près de trente ans par des étudiants soucieux de favoriser l’accès aux livres dans les quartiers difficiles de la ville en créant des bibliothèques de rues. Progressivement ses actions se sont étendues à d’autres (apprentissage de la langue française pour les nouveaux arrivants…) A ce jour, elle compte quatorze salariés. Elle favorise et lutte pour l’accès pour tous à la culture durable. Thème : ● Démocratisation de la lecture. ● Lutte contre l’illettrisme. Contexte : ● Partage de savoir faire entre les personnels associatifs (ou autres) pour favoriser la diffusion de la lecture auprès de personnes démunies socialement.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :ZkfFnGySDRkCU Nom de la personne de contact : jWYjZmvNpJ Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Articles like these put the cnomuser in the driver seat-very important.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :BbGjgoDwO Nom de la personne de contact : EgUoGHUHuydDSwCaJ Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : It's wodenrful to have you on our side, haha!... |
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Nom du projet & Date :zKoPlLFrhubjSEGz Nom de la personne de contact : seWzbJDTEqAcSqEpcpp Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Yeah, that's the tikect, sir or ma'am... |
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Nom du projet & Date :eXIoaTzgzUBAsB Nom de la personne de contact : IWjrquVvL Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : No more s***. All posts of this qautily from now on... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Ostende Castle in the picture Nom de la personne de contact : de Vries Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : - Boost the tourist and recreation sector in Zeeland with a unique, sustainable cultural-historical experience in the historical centre of Goes, thus providing an economic impulse, regional promotion and employment throughout the province. - Uncover the archaeological and monumental structural remains of the centuries-old Ostende castle in the historical centre of Goes, and render these attractive for visitors. A catering establishment will be realised at the exhibition of the archaeological and monumental structural remains of Ostende castle, and possibly an auxiliary branch of the regional museum, a starting point for city walks and a branch of the VVV (Tourism office). - Create a high-profile pedestrian link between the centre of Goes and the shopping precinct Kolverniershof/ Westwal Car Park that will be safe both from a traffic and a social point of view. This pedestrian link may include small-scale shops and boutiques, such as interior decoration, bric-a-brac and antiques.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Slot Ostende in de kijker Nom de la personne de contact : de Vries Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Het versterken van de toeristische recreatieve sector in Zeeland met een uniek duurzaam cultuur historische beleving in de historische binnenstad van Goes welke een economische impuls, regionale promotie en werkgelegenheid geeft aan de gehele provincie. De archeologische- en monumentale bouwkundige restanten van het eeuwenoude slot Ostende in de historische binnenstad van Goes zichtbaar- en aantrekkelijk maken voor de bezoeker. Bij het tentoonstellen van de archeologische- en monumentale bouwkundige restanten van het slot Ostende zal een horeca voorziening en mogelijk een dependance van het streekmuseum, een startpunt voor stadswandelingen en een VVV vestiging worden gerealiseerd. Een verkeers- en sociaal veilig voetgangersverbinding met een hoge belevingswaarde tussen het centrum van Goes en het winkelgebied Kolverniershof/ parkeergarage Westwal. De voetgangersverbinding zal mogelijk worden voorzien van kleinschalige winkels, zoals woninginterieur snuisterijen en antiek.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Knowledge Center Inland Navigation Nom de la personne de contact : Steenaard Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Inland Navigation is becoming of major economic importance for the regions. Transport and Logistics has been and will be the bloodvessel of our economies and is becoming increasingly under stress due to growing transport on roads by trucks and the wish to create sustainable transport with less CO2 emission. Inland Navigaton is now of increasingly interesting for Europe as a transport means that is both availlable and sustainable. Also technological progress is being made in shipbuilding, preparing for a flexible Inland Navigation transport. Still there are a lot of obsticles to be solved, before companies will choose for transport in a massive way by Inland Navigation. Many times knowledge about the possiblities of inland navigation does not reach transport companies and the transport by land is choosen as an easy to get logistics. So, knowledge, research and problem solving can be a ''bridge'' between Inland Navigation and (transport) companies. The disclosure of knowledge about Inland Navigation and all her possiblities and benefits, is at the same time promoting Inland Navigation. The projects aims to set up regional Knowledge Centers for Inland Navigation in the regions involved, what will be a collaboration of Companies, (local) government and Institutes for Maritime Vocational Training. The centers will disclose and spread knowledge about Inland Navigation, perform research and accept projects with companies.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Handling Dementia Diagnosis (working title) Nom de la personne de contact : Kellas Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Background: Over 820,000 people in the UK live with Alzheimer's and other dementias. The number of people with dementia in the UK is increasing rapidly; it is expected to rise to 1 million people by 2020 and 1.7 million by 2050, an increase of over 150%. The Department of Health has set out some quality outcomes for dementia (2010) which include: good-quality early diagnosis and intervention and living well with dementia. Currently in the UK 2/3 people with dementia never receive diagnosis and Devon has one of the largest ‘diagnosis gaps’ with a detection rate of 31%. There are many benefits to early diagnosis including: • Early provision of support at home can decrease institutionalisation by 22% • Older people’s mental health services can help with behavioural disturbance, hallucinations and depression in dementia, reducing the need for institutional care • Carer support and counselling at diagnosis can reduce care home placement by 28% • Primary care is ideally placed to recognise symptoms and signs of dementia • Enabling practitioners to identify and treat reversible causes and access to pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions • Creating opportunities to access to education and support earlier • Allowing planning for the future However, 58% of GPs thought giving a diagnosis of dementia was harmful. In a study of patient experience of GPs in dementia diagnosis and management the following experiences were noted: • “The GP did not seem to even think about the impact on me” • “Once diagnosed they think they have done their job” • “When you receive such devastating news you need support” • “They don’t seem to know what a life changing shock this is” • ‘’ The GP did not discuss it at all. He prescribed medication but made no arrangement for follow up to see how it was working’’ ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :competence-based training package for the maintenance of onshore and offshore windturbines (WINTRA) Nom de la personne de contact : Nissenne Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : In December 2008 EU leaders adopted a comprehensive package of measures to reduce the EU's contribution to global warming and ensure reliable and sufficient supplies of energy. The most far-reaching reform ever of European energy policy, the package aims to make Europe the world leader in renewable energy and low-carbon technologies. To increase the use of renewable energy sources, in its "Renewable Energies Road map" the EU has set itself the objective of increasing the proportion of renewable energies in its energy mix by 20% by 2020. For the member states to achieve these objectives they have to allocate money, time and skills to develop a framework and to make it profitable for companies to make investments in renewable energy. Wind Power is the single most important energy source to achieve these objectives. To get enough qualified personnel in the wind power sector is one of the most challenging task for the industry. The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has stated in the report "Wind at Work: Wind Energy and Job Creation in The EU - 2009" that over the past five years, the EU wind energy industry has created more than 60,000 new jobs. Further it says EWEA has estimated that it will be 446 000 jobs in the wind sector by 2020, and 479 000 by 2030. In Flanders and in Holland, VET for the windtechnician is not very well developed for the moment. Therefor, the overall aim of this project is to develop and to pilot a competence-based, modularised training package for the maintenance technician on offshore and onshore windturbines in the Interreg 2 Seas region. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Energy Centre Nom de la personne de contact : Mr Frewin Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : To support the exchange and development of ideas from education and industry with the aim of stimulating demand and nurturing entrepreneurship and business growth in the green sector relating to renewable energy, sustainable construction, energy efficiency and carbon reduction.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :the culturally attractive city Nom de la personne de contact : Geers Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The classic division city versus countryside is out-dated. Cities are no longer the only places where young people want to live. Young families find it equally important that their children grow up in a place with sufficient green space for play and move away from the city. Dutch trend watcher Lidewij Edelkoort attributes this in part to the lower housing prices and the growing level of digitization, through which young people can be as strongly globally connected in rural areas as in urban ones. The Dutch economist Dr. Gerad Marlet stated in his doctoral thesis “De aantrekkelijke stad” (The attractive town) that in all Dutch cities, people over thirty-five leave. This is no different in the border city of Kortrijk. The natural population growth in Kortrijk has been falling for several years. There are more recorded deaths than births. Only the rising influx of the number of immigrants (from 3% in 2000 to 5.71% in 2009), slows down the population decline in the city. This evolution does not only greatly affect the quality of life in cities, but also the economic attractiveness of urban areas. After all, companies establish themselves where they can find suitable personnel. The Kortrijk region has long been affected by brain drain (many young people go to study in Ghent, Leuven, Antwerp and Brussels and continue to live there), and fails to achieve a brain gain. William Galinsky (Norfolk): “In terms of quality of life it would be good to mention creating opportunities to engage with young people, this is a big priority for us. Pockets of Norfolk are areas relative deprivation and we see the arts and culture as a way of increasing the aspirations of young people in the area as well as making Norfolk a more attractive place to live for adults.” Both urban and countryside regions develop strategies to avoid getting caught into a retrenchment scenario and compensate the exodus of young people. Since population growth is stagnant and housing construction is rising, young people are much more conscious than in the past in looking for places where they want to live. Marlet's investigation shows that the three crucial elements in the moving behaviour are: 1. the presence of high-quality and affordable housing 2. the presence of cultural and hotel and catering facilities 3. accessibility for commuting He takes the number of live performances (theatre, dance and concerts) per thousand inhabitants as a parameter for cultural facilities. The more intense this offer, the greater the attraction to a young audience, concludes Marlet. They can halt the exodus from the city and the country, and their presence makes that companies will establish themselves in the area more easily, which in turn will lead to an increase in job offers for less educated and less privileged residents in the city. This study underlines once again the impact of culture on economic development. Further to the evaluation of the European Structural Funds, the European Union came to the same conclusions: "Not only have cultural activities their direct economic impact through the self-generated income and employment in the sectors of arts and heritage; they also create a versatile input into the broader field of creative industries in the form of content, inspiration, skills, intellectual capital and trained personnel." ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :New economic support for fishing communities Nom de la personne de contact : Mrs. Maenhout Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : As an overriding objective, the individual initiatives/activities must contribute towards the economic profitability of the fisheries in the fishing communities and in turn where ever possible must renew, strengthen and increase the quality of work, product and services generated through fishing and fish related activities. The aim being to increase the ‘quality’ across all of the processes: be they methods, marketing, distribution or gastronomy, on the back of the development and realisation of new product-market combinations. All being designed to reinforce the economic, spatial and social liveability within the fishing communities through the increased attractiveness and identity of the localities and their surroundings and to improve and promote the increased participation of the local inhabitants. Important to the success is the cooperation between organizations involved (maritime entities), that can compliment each other by all aiming for the same qualitative improvements. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :The Fairmile D motor torpedo boat re-construction Nom de la personne de contact : Kempton Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : My idea is that through the re-construction of the Fairmile D motor torpedo boat used by UK and European coastal forces during WW2, we can promote the skills used in the construction of such a vessel, the history of coastal forces during WW2, and the exchange of trainers and trainees between the partner countries. These vessels were build in modular form by different workshops and then assembled in one yard, thus allowing for parts to be made by different partners.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Developping, testing and promoting Tidal Energy Nom de la personne de contact : Sharpe Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Tidal energy has been used since the Middle Ages, especially in Brittany through the use of tidal mills. The oldest and largest more modern plant is located in Saint-Malo. The biggest problem so far in the use of tidal energy are the costs for construction and maintenance. That’s the main reason why tidal energy now not very profitable compared to conventional power plants (oil, coal or gas). However the technique develops rapidly and the cost of electricity using fossil fuels are increasing rapidly. It is time to do trials with new techniques and forms of renewable energy. In the 2 Seas program area it is logical to look at wind and tidal Energy. This project focuses on the last form of renewable energy and wishes to develop and support pilot projects in England, the Netherlands and Flanders (and if possible in France) together. The overall objective of this project is: to develop, test and compare different forms of tidal energy in different places and in different circumstances in the 2 Seas region. With the experience that is gained the cost of construction and maintenance will be reduced and commercially viable techniques will be devbeloped. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :DesignYourInnovation Nom de la personne de contact : Longueville Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : To encourage local SME's to develop innovative and inspiring new product/service concepts together.This will be achieved through cross-sectoral hands-on projects where several SME's work together, coached by the projectteam and in collaboration with young designers and/or design experts. The ultimate aim is to develop strong businesses and clusters of SME's in the 2 seas region, developing innovative, userfriendly and attractive solutions that are ready to compete in an international market. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Centre Futur en Vie Nom de la personne de contact : Noyon Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : The Chartreuse de Neuville (Charterhouse of the town of Neuville-sous-Montreuil) is a former monastery founded in the XIVth century, rebuilt at the end of the XIXth century, and a hospital in the XXth century. It is located near the town of Le Touquet, situated three hours drive from London, Paris and Brussels. Today, the association of the Chartreuse de Neuville wishes to give the Charterhouse a new vocation whose aim is to: • Restore the Charterhouse so that it may become, in the space of one generation, an officially recognized Foundation: a European research, development and training centre, which aims to promote and develop the humanity of Mankind and Society in a necessarily economical world. • Open the Charterhouse to the public: guided tours, gardens, educational workshops… • Develop a cultural programme to relate the site’s history and participate in the Charterhouse’s new vocation. • Participate in running the residential hotel due to be set up on site, thus maintaining a long term economical and social balance.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :MUSIC IN PROGRESS (temporary name) Nom de la personne de contact : CROZE Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The project was born of a common desire to help musicians and professionals in the musical sector increasing their chances for employment by professionalization and formation achieved in cross border way. We want to develop some musical activities through non-formal trainings based on meeting, sharing and exchanges in order to contribute to well being of people in the respect of their differences. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Well Being and Social Inclusion Nom de la personne de contact : MASSON Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The three euroregional member states all wish to improve the educational achievement and social inclusion of every child. However, they recognise that children in challenging circumstances may not achieve their full potential. There exists cumulative research evidence which shows that social, physical and emotional health can positively influence a child's learning as well as their well being. The central aim of this project is to improve the social inclusion and well being of children. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :GreenFit Business Nom de la personne de contact : Garnier Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Many towns and cities in the Two Seas cross border area are home to outdated and energy inefficient business premises and industrial parks built in the 1970s. These are often under occupied and lack the flexibility and "green" image and credentials demanded by 21st century businesses. However, they are a key feature of the built economic landscape of the region. This project aims to develop jointly a strategy for the regeneration of old business premises into sustainable and environment-friendly areas able to respond to the needs of 21st century businesses while addressing the impact and opportunities of climate change. The project will specifically look into the application to business premises of retrofitting, sustainable construction, energy efficient and intelligent building techniques and the use of renewable energies.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :“The Blue Connection”, a recreational, ecological and functional watercourse. Nom de la personne de contact : Hewitt Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : The “Blue Connection” project will combine the practicality of solving a water management problem with the opportunities for recreational, ecological and sustainable environmental developments. It is an excellent example of combining the use of water for different purposes. The “Blue Connection” is a link between the city of Rotterdam and the nearby countryside. It improves and enhances relations between urban, peri-urban and rural areas. Water is a way of life in the Netherlands. Almost 26% of the country lies below sea level. Although there is a surplus of water it is not always clean fresh water. The project “Blue Connection” will create a water network which will play an important roll in water management in the future, fulfilling the task of transporting fresh water from the rivers to the rural parks and urban areas where fresh water is scars. The negative effects of salt intrusion (such as the contamination of the water used for irrigation) will be combated by the implementation of the “Blue Connection”. For the many residents who live close to the watercourse, it will function as a recreational attraction. Inhabitants of Rotterdam will easily be able to swim, fish and sail locally. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :CCESADN Nom de la personne de contact : Betourné Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Our project aims to promote knowledge transfer for local authorities about human pressure on rural coastal areas and "natural" peri-urban areas, on two geographical objects: unauthorised camping and outdoor accommodation (camping, caravanning,...)... |
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Nom du projet & Date :WATER 2 – Wetted Land : the Assessment, Techniques and Economics of Restoration 2 Nom de la personne de contact : Dr Couldrick Priorité du programme : 4. Priorité commune avec le programme France (Manche) - Angleterre But général du projet : The quality and quantity of the water in the channel is directly affected by the rivers across the whole maritime area, from Cornwall and Finistere to Norfolk and the Netherlands. The effects of the long term deterioration of these river ecosystems has lead to increasing pressures on the maritime area including sedimentation of harbours, flooding of coastal towns and toxic algal blooms. The WATER project (Interreg IVA) has developed an approach to tackle this problem in a sustainable way. The project investigated the potential to set up Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes that highlight why private investors might invest in river catchment restoration. WATER 2 aims to develop the work undertaken in WATER and other projects by developing PES schemes across the whole maritime area. By demonstrating that these types of projects can work in a sustainable way and are relevant several countries local communities and policy makers will see the potential for these schemes across channel. The project aims to set up 6 demonstration areas in 3 countries over the entire maritime area and disseminate the findings at local, regional, national and international levels. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :BIO-INTER Nom de la personne de contact : Hinnewinkel Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : - How does biodiversity shape territories? We intend to change the perception of biodiversity in the dominant discourse and highlight another perception in which biodiversity is an asset, a resource mobilized through the construction of new territorial projects; - How do territories mobilize biodiversity? We propose to analyse in a diachronically way the local dynamics mobilized by the socio-economic actors in front of the economic development of territories. - How do administrators, territorial actors and inhabitants appropriate and perceive with the time biodiversity? We intend to highlight the connection between the various forms of governance (governance project, governance territory, and also more classical forms of government acting through laws and regulations) generated by this local appropriation. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :FUTURE CLEAN Nom de la personne de contact : Burnett Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : FUTURE CLEAN is a project that has been developed within Pluss with the support of ESF and piloted in Plymouth and Devon delivering paid jobs for people with a wide range of disabilities and disadvantages. FUTURE CLEAN is a hugely environmentally friendly enterprise and can wash 4 vehicles with one litre of water. http://www.esf-works.com/projects/projects/401140 Put simply it is a car valeting project that uses a highly environmentally friendly process, with low start up costs whilst delivering a high quality high specification product. The aim of FUTURE CLEAN is to deliver the maximum number of paid jobs for people with disabilities and other disadvantages. The project in short is to develop FUTURE CLEAN as a national brand in this country (UK) and to duplicate it internationally certainly in France and desirably the Netherlands as well, through the 2 Seas Cross-border Cooperation Programme. The project will deliver and facilitate initial training, a start up kit of cleaning materials for each new site, and pump priming funding to support the initial training of skilled valet and valets to give each site the best chance of sustainability. The project also includes the development of a FUTURE CLEAN Network for dissemination of good practice, problem solving, orders etc .This network will be the hub for ongoing support for all FUTURE CLEAN sites. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :BEACHCARE Nom de la personne de contact : Hembrow Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Our project is twofold : - The first aim is to raise awareness of the population to environmental issues, especially beach cleaning. - The second aim is to help long term unemployed people to get new skills in the environment sector in order to help them go back to work. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Turning the Tide Nom de la personne de contact : Gilbert Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Together The Bridge Community Education Centre and the Housing Needs and Social Inclusion Department are developing an innovative partnership to address inequality and improve social inclusion within our most deprived neighbourhoods. This will be achieved through the creation and further innovation of lifelong learning and skills development opportunities for disadvantaged and socially excluded groups (including young people and vulnerable adults with a range of support needs eg mental health, learning disability etc) in order to provide them with the necessary skills and opportunities to maintain a tenancy and support themselves to live independently. We actively seek to improve the aspirations and lives of local residents who may be experiencing multiple barriers to improving their life chances, extending their social networks, and progressing into learning and work. This project seeks to share our experiences and practices and would like to learn from other overseas organisations about practices that have engaged disadvantaged adults in participation in learning and finding work, to improve the quality through social cohesion, community development and health and well being. There are 3 strands to the work: 1. Engagement of disadvantaged residents and socially excluded groups through community based learning to address the skills needed to gain and maintain a tenancy and move into learning and work 2. Encourage empowerment of residents and build the capacity of the community through dedicated and accessible 1:1 support for vulnerable adults to include coaching, advocacy and Information, advice and guidance, developing social networks and providing progression pathways into mainstream learning and employment 3. Developing a range of tools, projects and knowledge exchange platforms ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :WQG (water quality groups) Nom de la personne de contact : Stubbe Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : The general aim of the proposed project is to contribute to a better water quality in the two Seas region by means of ‘water quality groups’. The water quality objectives to achieve are set by European regulations (such as the Water Framework Directive, the Nitrate Directive and the pesticides framework directive) and are adopted in national programs. Most legislation and measures are experienced as being created top-down and faces a lot of resistance out of ignorance in the field. Many farmers have a lack of knowledge about nutrient and pesticide flows on their fields and the impact of management practices on the quality of water bodies. The ambition of this project is to work together with groups of farmers in so-called ‘water quality groups’ within a number of selected pilot areas. These pilot areas are small catchments. The farmers are brought together in order to increase their insight of their land and nutrient and pesticides management in relation to the water quality objectives and aquatic ecosystems. Best practices are adopted in order to make visible the impact of combined measures (agri-environment schemes, good agricultural practices) and aquatic biodiversity within the pilot areas. The ambition of this project is to work together with groups of farmers in so-called ‘water quality groups’ within a number of selected pilot areas. These pilot areas are small catchments. The farmers are brought together in order to increase their insight of their land and nutrient management in relation to the water quality objectives and aquatic ecosystems. Best practices are adopted in order to make visible the impact of combined measures (agri-environment schemes, best agricultural practices) on the water quality and aquatic biodiversity within the pilot areas. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :CHILDREN FESTIVAL Nom de la personne de contact : Voet Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Realising a stronger children festival by the diffent partners, allowing more children to discover a greater diversity of children's art, both school related and in leisure time. Performing arts, music, visual arts, multimedia or film are on the program. It is not just for children / young people but also with children / youth. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :SinkOne4Sussex Nom de la personne de contact : Miller Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Our Mission Statement is: “To create and maintain an open access artificial reef of the Sussex coast between Shoreham and Hastings by sinking a ship for colonisation by marine life to benefit the underwater environment and local economy.” ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Supporting the economic sustainability of environmentally-sensitive farming in wetlands Nom de la personne de contact : Steer Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Demand for locally-grown and environmentally-sensitive produce is generally increasing in the 2 seas region, while much of the biodiversity interest found in wetlands relies on human management to maintain a matrix of wet grasslands and ditches. This project will assess how environmental organisations can best work with entrepreneurial producers to foster innovation, increase demand for products, simplify supply lines and effectively market goods produced from land which is managed for biodiversity. Increased The project will have dual the benefits of providing environmental gains while offering producers a financial tool, beyond agri-environment payments, allowing them to manage their land sensitively yet profitably. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :INVEST: Identifying New Visions for Economic Success in Tourism Nom de la personne de contact : Korteweg Maris Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : The initial aim of this project is to help tourism enterprises in the 2 Seas region learn from best practice, and from each other, in order to create more productive, responsible and sustainable businesses, grow employment opportunities, and deliver “World Class” standards of service and quality. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :PRADA Nom de la personne de contact : Dart Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The project general aim is a share of experiences and initiatives in support of employment around the fight against any kind of discriminations ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Contemporary visitor plan - A fresh approach to tourism marketing Nom de la personne de contact : CRISP Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Visitors often have long memories and many destinations across the euro-region are frequently perceived in way that is no longer reflective of what is currently on offer in the destination – which can be hugely detrimental when trying to attract new visitors to an area. For example, in Kent we know from research that when people consider taking a short break or holiday, Kent is often overlooked in favour of other areas. It often has perceptions of being “old fashioned”, has bad food (a perception of England in general) or maybe even a little boring. Kent now has a thriving cultural scene, a packed events programme, exciting developments at historic attractions and world-class gardens – many of which are unknown to both domestic and international audiences. We know in order to increase the number of visitors to Kent we need to change and improve the perception of the county as a desirable place to visit – an obstacle which many other destainations in the euro-region also need to overcome. We would like to develop a cross-boarder brand campaign to move destination perceptions from the traditional and conventional to the contemporary and cool i.e. looking at the destination in a fresh way. This would be achieved through a series of thematic campaigns complying to an overarching destination brand (i.e. instantly recognisable as being Kent, or a partner region) which would include areas such as culture, creative, heritage and countryside. Coupled with this we would work to improve the “welcome” received once in the destination – by building a reputation for a warm welcome visitors are more likely to choose the destination over an area deemed as being unfriendly.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :ACCES II Nom de la personne de contact : SUHL Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Historical contexte: We want to keep going the dynamism of the ACCES project. The participants from Medway and Dunkerque (residents, parents, children, young people) have been involved in the local and cross border activities for 2 - 3 years. They have discovered a part of England and France, the languages and the British and French culture. In the new project we would like to keep and develop: - The trans-generational aspect - The expression and the capitalisation of the residents’ skills (Arts, parenting, techniques…) - Link between districts, / local authorities /cross borders -… -… Trough: CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF ARTS AND STORY TELLING - Storyteller can often help people to talk freely, gain confidence in using it & to be heard. It ensures to maintain social inclusion. It is useful for people to get autonomy, being recognized, by themselves and others. General Objectives: - To strengthen the awareness of belonging to the 2 Seas area. - To open the partnership to a new area: the Occidental Flanders and /or Netherlands - To work on the ”how to cope with changes” (personal, professional, members…). How do we take power over changes instead of bearing the consequences (To transform changes into opportunities) - … - … Implicite general objectifs: - Cohesion of local territories and of cross border area - Development of linguistic skills ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Smart Phones & Balance Nom de la personne de contact : Dr Jeroen Bergmann Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The aim of this project is to develop and implement an advanced algorithm that combined with current mobile technology can assess free-living balance. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Shaping Employment & ENgagement Programmes for Challenging & Vulnerable Young People (SEEN) Nom de la personne de contact : Shelley Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The City of Brighton & Hove has developed an innovative and successful partnership approach to supporting challenging and/or vulnerable young people (including those with learning or behavioural difficulties, those in Care or at risk of homelessness, young parents) aged 14-25 to re-engage with education, raise self esteem, gain skills and find sustainable employment. The project would share this practice with other organisations across the 2 Seas Area and would like to adapt it building upon approaches that other areas have taken to tackle disengagement, low skills levels and participation rates as well as high unemployment rates amongst young people, especially those in larger towns/cities being affected by the worldwide economic downturn. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :FOCUS ON THE 2 SEAS Nom de la personne de contact : DOCKX Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Th project is essentially a common crossborder TV MEDIA project of regional TV stations in the 2 Seas area. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Monitoring from the Sky - A break-through in sustainable inspections with Unmanned Aircraft Systems Nom de la personne de contact : ir. S.M. van Seters Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Joint Cooperation on knowledge sharing and experiments within the field of inspection, maintenance and surveillance with use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) supplied with advanced camera's, sensors and datacommunication systems to inspect and secure maritime and non-maritime assets within Rijn-Scheldt Delta, NL, B, Fr & UK coast, North-Sea and Channel area and create a break-through for this new, innovative, flexible and sustainable inspection and data collection technology.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :none Nom de la personne de contact : Lesueur Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : A new century is just beginning and we can note that Europe remains a creative and artistic place. However, the region evolves and its cultural habits too. The place, role and way to apprehend art have changed. More than ever, art is a way to gather people from very different backgrounds. It is also a tool to develop territories and to build a commune identity for the inhabitants of the region. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Learning cities Nom de la personne de contact : GUILLARD Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : High level of knowledge and skills is today condition of innovation, growth and employment in Europe. Today, children and adults acquire knowledge and skills in a varied panel of contexts, through different channels, firstly during school time but also outside of it. Different kind of actors are contributing, around school and training organisations, to provide education and training. The concept of "Learning City" may define the City as a structured and living territory around a shared goal of education and training. The whole city (its environment, its actors, citizens) can contribute in that way to strengthen the education and training level of its inhabitants. The City of Carvin, an ex coal mining city of 17 744 inhabitants, intends to become a "learning city". In this context, the City of Carvin wants to build up a project with other crossborder partners in order to share that ambition, to develop, experiment common innovative tools and methods, that should help promoting a wide access to knowledge for all, revealing unexploited skills and potentials of each one. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Literary Legacy – Dickens 2012 Nom de la personne de contact : WOOD Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Using Dickens 2012 Bicentenary as a pilot this project aims to look at how cultural anniversaries can be used to engage new audiences, across the generations and geographic boundaries, in heritage more effectively... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Getting to know you - a tourism research project Nom de la personne de contact : WOOD Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : To develop a programme of tourism research focusing on getting to know more about the current and potential visitors to the 2 seas reagion. This will help inform the marketing, investment and planning decisions of businesses and public sector partners. The plan is to build on previous research and to understand not only the visitor profile but behaviour and satisfaction. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Active and Adventure Tourism Nom de la personne de contact : Parker Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : To develop product land ead initiatives that are exploiting the trends that visitors make their holiday choices based on what they want to do rather than the destination itself such as golf cycling watersport and many more. The cross channel region has a range of activity, sport and adventure tourism that could be developed utilising new marketing technologies and reaching new target groups. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Coastal Happiness - Tourism Regeneration in Coastal Towns Nom de la personne de contact : WARRINGTON Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : To Develop and improve the coastal tourism economy and encourage economic and social spin offs for other businesses which are supported by visitors to the coast and local residents. T To create an attractive environment and a supportive community for residents and visitors which recognises the value of nature and the earth whilst sustaining business development. The result will be a new nationally and internationally recognised coastal destination in the cross border region, a place of innovation and humanity where people are working, volunteering, engaging and welcoming. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Family and Community Recovery from drug and alcohol misuse Nom de la personne de contact : Dr Patience Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : This project looks at supporting the families of drug users. It aims to better understand the most effective ways of supporting individual families and the wider communities where they live, to enable them to respond most effectively to the negative impact that drug or alcohol addiction can have on the life of the family and the community.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Antwerp Eco Petting Zoo (AEPZ) Nom de la personne de contact : Nadai Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : To improve the existing city petting zoo and create a successful organization by investing in educational programs, development in social economy, ecotourism and national heritage.Het Stadsbeest wants to create an attractive green environment in the city of Antwerp where schools, families and companies can enjoy, work and learn all about farm life and its national heritage. The petting zoo is situated at the outskirts of town, surrounded by a large protected landscape. Over sixteen different farm animals live in the petting zoo. There are six stables, six pastures, three beautiful vegetable gardens, a clay baking house and two orchards. At this moment the only goal of the petting zoo is to give educational programs at the local schools. We want the Antwerp Eco Petting Zoo to become a successful and attractive organization where the local community can enjoy the green environment with its beautiful unknown scenery. The general aim of our project is to create jobs for disadvantaged people, invest in eco-farming, tourism, and promote the value of educational programs for children.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Suatainable Design Network Nom de la personne de contact : Jackie Walker Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Design plays a central role in the modern economy. It is the link between creativity and innovation, and is an important source of competitive advantage for business. The design sector thus has the potential to make a significant contribution to the success of the 2 Seas Regions’ Economic Strategy over the next few years. Design companies need to ‘scale up’ and sharpen their business focus if they are to take full advantage of the opportunities available to them. In recent years Design businesses in the SE and SW regions of the UK have developed significant Design Networks (Forums) to start to build an international reputation by raising awareness of the region’s excellence in design talent and businesses, so helping to open access to new markets in other sectors and globally. In addition a research programme is underway to create a model that any design business can use to demonstrate return on design investment (RODI) illustrating the returns that every business can make from effective investment in design, The project aims to link with Design Networks in Belgium, France and the Netherlands to develop best practice and promote the transfer of knowledge ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Cross Border Exchange of Trainees Nom de la personne de contact : Deaudet Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : We intend to develop a cooperation to offer cross border work experiences, focused on apprentices and students in: - Secretary / Personal assistance. - Accountancy. - Selling / trades. - Hospitality, customer service, welcoming in offices, shops, administrations, tourism offices that will - Having students that are better trained, mobile, and have skills in a foreign language. - Training future workers that welcome / offer services to customers from the cross border in their native language. - Offering / creating / improving opportunities of vocational integration (even in the other country) that could actually be a way of avoiding unemployment.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Development of a sustainable biobased economy in Europe Nom de la personne de contact : Soetaert Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Bio Base Europe is an open innovation and education center for the biobased economy. Bio Base Europe aims to build a sustainable biobased economy in Europe through a Pilot Plant and a Training Center for biobased products and processes. The Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant in Ghent, Belgium is a flexible and diversified pilot plant, capable of scaling up and optimising a broad variety of biobased processes up to ton scale. The pilot plant is a one-stop-shop, capable of performing the entire value chain in a single plant, from the green resource up to the final product. The Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant is operational since early 2011. The Bio Base Europe Training Center is still under construction and will house a number of training facilities for biobased activities. Companies as well as schools and universities can rent these facilities for tailor-made training programs of their personnel or students. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :SEA FOOD TOURISM Nom de la personne de contact : de Waard Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Key words; traditional shellfish industry, social and economic decline, development projects, tourism, investments In 2010 the council of the dutch municipality of Reimerswaal has decided upon an integral development plan for the (fishery) industry village of Yereke and some 10 selected projects ranging from product marketing through innovation and training to real estate development and civil construction works. Two years before the council had established a development policy that consists of 4 pilars; 1) leisure and tourism, 2) aquaculture, 3) science 4) social dynamics and entrepreneurship. The reason for this policy was a social and economical decline due to a decline in the fundament of the village economy, the shellfish industry. The transition challenge is to revitalize the ecomy of the village through innovation of the traditional industry and diversification with respect to the kind of economic activities. The past two years an interactive process with a wide variety of stakeholders has taken place with as a result the before mentioned development plan.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :be a 2 Seas Citizen Nom de la personne de contact : cuevas Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The objective is to integrate "good behavior for a citizen" in schools by teaching young teenagers (10-14 years of age) about the consequences of their daily behavior and its short and long term influence on nature, relationship, schooltime... the objective is to develop a common program to promote a change in attitude or to raise awareness about citizenship.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Go 4 Music Nom de la personne de contact : cuevas Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : develop a crossborder music professional training for young musicians... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Attractive Facilities & Living Nom de la personne de contact : ir. S.M. van Seters Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The project wants to develop an answer to the demographic differences between urban/city regions and country/coastal regions. Therefore it wants to develop state the art working facilities in the country regions that will attract young innovative companies and professionals. Around the new (work/office)facilities several activities and (sub)projects will be organised. The combination of state the art working facility and good chosen activities and (sub)projects will attract new technology and knowledge workers (that are pre-dominantly living in Urban and University regions) to settle in the country region.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :SUSTAIN (SUSTAinable INdustry) - Innovation, research & education for Condition Based Maintenance Nom de la personne de contact : ir. S.M. van Seters Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : The project wants to enhance the safety of the maritime assets ( eg. offshore en harbour-industrial sites) as well as the non-maritime assets (e.g. energy, aerospace) and protect the environment by joint creation of knowledge on inspection and condition based maintenance (CBM) technologies like Non Destructive Examination (NDE). ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :2 Seas Service Logistics Nom de la personne de contact : de Haas Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : The project goal is to develop innovative logistics services in the 2 Seas region. These services focus on two logistical issues: • Cross Chain Control Centers: local centers from which several supply/demand chains are controlled by means of modern technology, advanced software, top professionals. In these control centers physical, financial and information flows are controlled among multiple supply chains, as well as the coordination of related support services (such as demand forecasting and efficient handling of customs matters). • Multi-company Service Logistics: Instead of companies delivering each a (part of a) product, they now jointly offer a service concept. In this project we develop knowledge and techniques on how independent organizations can jointly offer service concepts (instead of products) and we aim to implement this knowledge in a pilot. With respect to the latter bullet, one might think of the following situations: • Develop service concepts to guarantee the quality & reliability of machines during a certain period (a service contract). This service can be used by suppliers of machinery that are not able to offer service contracts individually. • Develop service concepts on behalf of producers, each delivering part of the eventual service. There are several possibilities. First, a group of companies that jointly develop a new service (bottom up). Second, the delivery of a service concept by an independent organization in close collaboration with producers delivering (parts of) the eventual service (top down). Those services make it possible to give substance to the ambition to develop the traditional “distribution region” into a region of “supply chain control”. The products and services potentially have significant economic value. The project is a “proof of concept” supply at the international level. In different work packages, we work on innovative logistics services in different sectors. We do this partly by developing conceptual and logistical concepts in a demonstration of shared experimental environment and partly in practice by pilots in actual systems. Below we give two project samples. Example 1: In a possible workpackage, we focus on logistics services on capital assets. Users of these assets require a higher system availability and better service. High maintenance costs and unplanned downtime are often much greater than the initial purchase cost. The workpackage aims to improve service performance of companies and expanding the service market for capital goods industry. One possible application area in increasing the efficiency and lifespan of existing windturbines. In all countries in the region “2 seas” these turbines are present. And all operators face the same challenge: namely, the assurance of the reliability and extending life. This work package contains a number of actions in which a service concept for wind turbines is designed and demonstrated based on condition-based logistics. The project is inserted from the needs of wind turbine owners. The practical applicability is tested in pilots. Example 2: Another work package focuses on developing programs for a USP (logistics) campus. Think of the concept of the control tower, an incubator, a financing fund and an open innovation environment. In the Netherlands, is underway with support from Dinalog. We are especially interested in the development of Cross Chain Control Centers, which are challenging from a technical and an organizational perspective. The technical perspective concerns the techniques and models to create the tools for cross chain coordination. The organizational perspective concerns models on how independent organizations can cooperate and jointly create additional value though supply chain coordination (think of business models and governance models). We are looking for parties abroad who have experience with and can contribute to the necessary development. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :IMPRESS – Innovative and Meaningful Post Responsive (or Recruitment?) Employment Support Services Nom de la personne de contact : Ferreira Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Our aim for this project is to develop an innovative cross border approach to provide effective post-employment support and skills development for both beneficiary employees and their employers. The project aims to support project beneficiaries who have recently gained/re-gained employment and need post employment support to ensure that their employment is sustained in the short, medium and longer term. Specifically, our target beneficiary group will be those clients aged 16 plus, who live in deprived urban zones and prior to their employment/re-employment were either long-term unemployed (6 months plus), unemployed, economically inactive, from low-income households or low skilled backgrounds. The provision of a prolonged period of in-work support is vital for this target group of beneficiaries who experience multiple-barriers in finding and sustaining employment. Having benefited from a range of pre-employment support programmes currently on offer, support for and meaningful contact with a newly appointed client is usually severed at the point of employment entry. This can often include the need to address a series of new multiple barriers including access to additional financial support, which potentially leaves the new employee with additional expenditure in relation to travel, childcare etc., with no other income during their first month of employment. Another example can be the issue of moving from temporary social housing accommodation once a job has been achieved and the need to move into private rented accommodation in order to progress back into the labour market. This can often be a stressful time for the individual, who is learning to cope with new employment circumstances, an altered financial situation and often remaining adverse personal circumstances and existing financial commitments to manage. This can be daunting and unmanageable for beneficiaries from our target groups, if unsupported many are unable to successfully adapt to this new change in their lives. This can lead to subsequent “falling-out” of employment, frequent/prolonged sick leave or termination of contract within the first six months of engagement. At the outset of the client journey with the project, each client will benefit from an in-depth consultation with their dedicated adviser, to explore their current personal circumstances and any issues which they may need particular support with during this transitional period. Using our well-established extensive network of partnership organisations, post-employment support advisers will refer clients to specialist organisations in these areas, for a holistic approach to client support. The programme will encompass a full range of beneficiary support including; · access to a dedicated post-employment support advisers. · Post-employment support advisers will be accessible to beneficiaries to provide advice and guidance on a range of issues including; in-work benefits, skills development assessment and access to in-work training that will ultimately contribute to gaining increased job security and better pay and conditions and improving skills levels across the cross border economies. This will also have application for apprenticeships.· Beneficiaries will have accessed to new technological software development systems to support post employment including in Medway our bespoke software, Meganexus, which is an opportunity identification tool for available training, whilst mapping their own personal development and career progression. By working with employers and employees in this way we can make a positive contribution to staff retention and make a contribution to the employers growth and development, which will have a direct resultant effect for the local economy. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Coastal Economies, Communities & Habitats Innovation Project (CECHIP) Nom de la personne de contact : Ian Bliss Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : This project aims to explore in detail ways to work with local coastal businesses and communities to develop sustainable coastal economies whilst delivering coastal flood risk management and environmental objectives that benefit wider society. We need to develop a range of solutions to deliver the objectives working with local people and businesses over a range of timescales balanced against the legislative drivers and need to manage flood and coastal risk. This will encompass the need to explore alternative funding streams for managed realignment options that may encourage take-up of intertidal habitat creation with the farming and landowning community. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Create & Connect Vital Communities (tripleC 4 QoL) Nom de la personne de contact : Heinen Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : To create and obtain a livable environment (especially for elderly and care-takers) in rural communities. Central themes are: entrepreneurship, connection rural-urban, reducing isolation, working together in organisation and healthcare infrastructure. Focusing on smart means: ICT (integrated community- and serviceplatforms) and mobility solutions... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Beach Segmentation, active leisure and the thematic linking of beach and village Nom de la personne de contact : De Visser Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The economy and the viability of the province of Zeeland in general and of the "Kop van Walcheren" (= Municipality Veere) in particular is largely dependent on tourism. More specifically beach tourism is the main attraction. However, the increasing competition from mediterranean countries, especially because of low prices, low airfares and the Internet makes it difficult for this region (but probably also for other comparable regions in the 2 Seas Programme area) to maintain the quality level of tourism. However, this is necessary because declining tourism means fewer jobs, reduced viability and decline in the population. The population is already under great strain because of aging. This aging population affects also the tourism inndustry. For this 'silver' group, the region maintains an intersting attraction. It is time for an innovative approach to tourism, with more attention and thus facilities for young people and families with young children. One of the ways it can be given interpretation is to segment different beaches for different audiences. Subsequently, the beaches and the 'hinterland' (and villages directly behind the beach) can connection by realising equipment, facilities, etc. The municipality of Veere will to do several studies and will set up pilot projects and wishes to learn from other coastal regions in the program area with similar problems and possible solutions. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :City flood protection and retention Nom de la personne de contact : Leermakers Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Practical, innovative and sustainable solutions for flood protection of urban areas, combined with spatial development of retention areas. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Worthing Active Beach Zone Nom de la personne de contact : Spain Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Worthing's potential for an Active Beach Zone was identified in the 2006 Worthing Town Centre and Seafront Masterplan. Further detail was given in the subsequent Seafront Strategy of 2007. The project is aimed at creating: 1 Enhancement of a quality public realm – the creation of new public spaces and beachfront parks 2 Extending the visitor season through the provision of a wider range of facilities and accommodation; and 3 Improved management of day and night time activities to widen the appeal of the seafront to more users 4 A stronger Brand identity 5 Building on tradition – re-establishing Worthing as a family destination 6 Promotion of arts and culture – new facilities and opportunities for local artists ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Importance of biodiversity at farming situation (IB@FS) Nom de la personne de contact : Stubbe Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Funtional AgroBiodiversity has an important function in agriculture production process. A lot of farmers are no longer aware of this. With this project it’s the ambition to introduce the importance of biodiversity on the scale of agriculture fields (in traditional arable crops) with suitable demonstrations (plots in the 2 Seas region) and with different communication moments to convince farmers. The goal of this project is to exchange knowledge and experience in the two seas area between different actors (policy makers, research centres, farmers, other stakeholders, ...) within the field of Functional AgroBiodiversity. In farming and agriculture, the goal is to raise selected crops, insects that hinder the production process are classified as pests, while insects that assist production are considered beneficial. Farmers are currently used to implement insecticides and pesticides. The ambition is to reduce the use insecticides and pesticides, this can change. To get a more sustainable agriculture. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :TEST SBA Nom de la personne de contact : AEAZEAZ Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : TEST BUT GENERAL... |
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Nom du projet & Date :CREATE [Creating Racially Equal Access To Employment] Nom de la personne de contact : DR SOLOMON FUBARA Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : CREATE is about providing innovative solutions to the problems faced by Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic [BAME] groups in 2 Seas/cross-border areas who are disadvantaged in the labour market. The nature of the innovation has been assessed through consultation and discussion of the problems with existing services and groups who are also members of the Somerset Black Development Agency [SBDA]. People from ethnic minorities in both ruaral and urban areas of the 2 Seas/cross-border areas are more than twice as likely to be unemployed than white people and are less likely to reach senior positions in work. CREATE is innovative in that it aims to bring both unemployed people from ethnic minorities in urban and rural Somerset and employers together in an arrangement that benefits both. Many services in 2 Seas/cross-border areas only tackle the problems faced by the target groups without tackling a major cause of these problems which is the attitudinal change and cultural awareness within a lot of employers. On CREATE the employer supports the programme in paying an allowance to the beneficiary. The allowance provides a reasonable income to beneficiaries, enabling them to escape the benefits trap and encouraging the employer to invest in them. The programme takes into account the qualifications of the target group obtained from their country of origin, which may require up-grading and conversion to UK and cross-border qualifications. The project therefore, will work with partners in higher institutions, colleges and universities to provide the academic profile and accreditation. Equal opportunities workshops will be carried out with employers to enable them to put in place systems to encourage recruitment, retention and promotion of people from BAME groups. The nature of the innovation can be more clearly defined as follows: Process-orientated, Goal-orientated and Context-orientated: ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Innovation in tourist hospitality Nom de la personne de contact : Maes Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Nowadays, tourism is overwhelmed by various trends and developments. If a tourist product is not distinctive enough or not answering the demand of the consumer, tourists are not willing to visit. Therefore it is of great importance that the sector constantly invests in innovation, not only in terms of the development of new products but also in terms of hospitality. Through the ‘Innovation in tourist hospitality’ project, Toerisme Provincie Antwerpen (responsible for tourism policy in the province of Antwerp) wants to respond this growing developments by innovation and digitalization on different levels.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Joule Nom de la personne de contact : De Muynck Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : The objective is to integrate sustainability in schools by teaching young teenagers (10-14 years of age) about the consequences of their daily behavior and its short and long term influence on nature. The program offers hands-on learning about alternative or renewable energy and aims for long-term caring for the planet, and promotes a change in attitude.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :MICE in the 2 Seas region Nom de la personne de contact : Colle Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Implement and / or improve a MICE (meeting, incentives, congresses and events) strategy to increase the number of MICE tourists in the cities of the 2 Seas Region. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Playing for Succes Europe Nom de la personne de contact : Steenaard Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Playing for Succes (PFS) has been a very succesfull method with good results in England. Children in the age between 9 and 14 with learning difficulties become part in PFS method, combining sports and education. Not at the school, but outside school once per week in a sport envirements, like fore example professional football stadium or rugby field. The sports and famous local sports heroes provide a extremely stimulating educational envirement. The proven results are very impressive; the children catch up with language and mathematix and are much more motivated to engage in education. Recentley PFS has started in Holland as well in Belgium. PFS Holland and PFS Belgium are related to the English program and built the program further by extending the method PFS for young people in the age between 15 and 23. The region of Zeeland is part of the Dutch PFS network. In this project PFS facilities will become a European program in the age between 9 and 23. In each region PFS learning centers will be started or reinforced and instruments and methods exchanged. The project inforces the PFS ''brand' , working closely together with the national PFS organisations. The results (effects) of the projects on the young people will be evaluated each year.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Skills Academy for Leadership and Management Nom de la personne de contact : Dawn Neale Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Through a 'hub' and 'spoke' model to work with partners to develop, deliver, enhance flexibility and promote leadersership and management development. This will include working with Higher Education Institutions, Further Education Colleges, Private Providers and a Virtual Learning Environment. There will be key themes within this academy model including sustainable leadership and appropriate sectoral specialities. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Creating artificial reefs for divers Nom de la personne de contact : Brands Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Combining ecological and economical objectives (Eco2) by building artificial reef structures accessible for divers in the Dutch Delta area. An artificial reef is a human-made underwater structure, typically built for the purpose of promoting marine life in areas of generally featureless bottom. Properly prepared and strategically located, reefs attract marine life of all kinds and provide easily accessible and safe locations for divers to enjoy. Artificial reefs may also serve to improve hydrodynamics preventing beach erosion and acts as a barrier for coastline/dike protection. Historic or modern shipwrecks also can become artificial reefs when preserved on the sea floor. Regardless of construction method, artificial reefs are generally designed to provide hard surfaces to which algae and invertebrates such as barnacles, corals, and oysters attach. The accumulation of attached marine life in turn provides intricate structure and food for assemblages of fish. This ecodynamic design is therefore beneficial for the general and diving society. The existence and use of artificial reefs sets in motion a variety of economic activities that result in significant economic benefit to the coastal communities in close proximity to the reefs. Suba divers are valuable participants in Ecotourism and provide those areas with economic incentives to protect and preserve local marine wildlife and habitats. Similarly, non-coastal regions with large numbers of divers and dive shops also have a vested interest in protecting and restoring the health of marine wildlife. Divers often enjoy a deeper understanding and willingness to protect the oceans because they have experienced them firsthand. Divers contribute to local economies by paying to dive and vacationing in areas near dive sites. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :No time to Waste? Nom de la personne de contact : Havers Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Essential within the 2 Seas Region, being such a large populated area as it is, is to make sure that the waste management of all these people is of excellent order. These sewage systems are mostly up to date. However, in Holland, the excess rains are also diverted to the sewage systems. And especially when there are issues with the connection, or in case of heavy rains, it occurs more than once that the excess rain water combined with waste water, is overflooding in the nearby ponds, rivers, canals and other. By solving these connection issues, or even enhancing this, the quality of life of the inhabitants is improved, and the (water) quality of the environment is improved. Through this partnership, I am seeking to bring together the experts involved in this area, to pull together the existing knowledge, and find out what may be working in one area might also be workable in another area. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Wetlands with Water Nom de la personne de contact : Havers Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Located throughout the territory of the 2 Seas region are large inhabited areas. The climate changes, especially heavy rains, that are currently occuring, have an effect on this area. Not so much the cities itself (even though there are also healthrisks when the overflood of water cannot be removed fast enough), but also the surrounding area that consists of green grounds. All these areas have to deal with huge amounts of water in a short period of time, and also with the threat of overflowing the existing defenses (dikes). Besides this, the 2 Seas area is also becoming overpopulated, and has limited resources for the inhabitants to recreate within short distance of their homes. By combining these 2 aims, the idea is to gain 1+1=3. Throught this partnership, I am seeking to bring together the experts involved in this area, to pull together the existing knowledge, and find out what may be working in one area might also be workable in another area. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Eco-connect Nom de la personne de contact : Havers Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : The quality of the environment can be measured in various ways. This project aims to ensure that the quality of the surroundings of our inhabitants in the 2 Seas Region is more than sufficient. This is mostly an area where huge numbers of people live and work closely together, and as such are in need that their outside environment is as clean as can be. The outside environment can be multifold: water, grounds, forests, animals, even electrical. However, we are currently limiting the area to water, grounds and forests. The aim is to find solutions for the specific questions of the partners, with assistance from the cross-border partnership.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :First Defense Nom de la personne de contact : Havers Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : All countries and governments within the 2 Seas Region are aware of the threat that the sea poses. Also, in various seasons, the rains are also a threat to the inhabitants and our living conditions. In Holland, we are masters of dikebuilding. However, the current economical climate, as well as the climate change, have opposed interests while building dams and dikes. We cannot afford to not maintain the dikes, but at the same cannot afford to spend unlimited amounts of money on these either. Throught this partnership, I am seeking to bring together the experts involved in this area, to pull together the existing knowlegde, and find out what may be working in one area might also be workable in another area.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :The South North Sea Network for Low Carbon Business Development Nom de la personne de contact : Iain Dunnett Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Development of “The South North Sea Network for Low Carbon Business Development”. This potential cross border network would link businesses between countries on service, product and market development within sectors and broadly within the framework of a low carbon economy. This would include promotion of the low carbon economy of the regions involved. Suffolk, West and East Flanders are “known partners” with highly developed business sectors and present an ideal opportunity for cooperation on the development of the low carbon economy. Project fits with the low carbon economic growth framework within which the programme is framed and in particular fits with Priority 1 in supporting an economically competitive, attractive and accessible area. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Healthy Homes, Healthier Lives Nom de la personne de contact : Pereira Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Develop an exemplar cross border project around the retrofitting of hard to treat and heat terraced (small) domestic dwellings in the private and privately rented housing sector, linking the improvements made to the improved health, wellbeing and lifestyle possibilities of residents from their improved locality, transferring knowledge and best practice across the sea borders and sharing learning outcomes. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Plato: Sustain Nom de la personne de contact : Rachel Cheetham Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : To encourage small and medium sized businesses within a defined geographic area to embrace sustainability, balancing economic growth, environmental impact and social responsibility through the use of existing successful PlatoTM peer-to-peer group mentoring model. The ultimate aim is to develop strong, sustainable businesses that can act as market leaders and champions for sustainability in order to encourage the wider business community in the 2 Seas region to take up the agenda.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Winterqueen European queen Nom de la personne de contact : Frenks Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Share intellectual and practical knowledge to create awareness of our common history. We are planning a special project around Elisabeth Stuart and Frederick V. In 2013 it will be 400 years ago that this couple married in London and came to the continent, starting in Zeeland and then travelling to Heidelberg in Germany. We should like to repeat some of the festivities in 2013 in order to create awareness of the common history of Scotland, Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Matching unemployed youth and educational sectors with the possibilities of employment in Port Citie Nom de la personne de contact : Sterkx Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : The labour market in the Two Seas area and (major) port cities in particular are facing a declining interest of young people for technical vocational jobs and training which, in the years to come, will lead to a large number of vacancies that cannot be filled. Technical education currently does not respond to the actual demands from the industry and the business sectors, and within the technical companies there is insufficient space for new entrants. Hence, this project aims to address the growing mismatch of supply and demand in the labour markets of (major) port cities. The project will focus on supporting the development and adjustment of available employment on the business side and the outreach towards potential new employees. At the same time it will address the development of skills and knowledge on the educational side, and through this the development of human capital.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :ECOTEC 21 Nom de la personne de contact : Ferreira Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : The application of environmental technologies to provide sustainability to new build community infrastructure is now a pre-requisite, but there is a challenge to determine how sustainability measures can be incorporated into existing communities and the buildings and other infrastructure that form them. A Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant can simultaneously generate electricity and heat and cooling using absorption chiller technology. CHP is a priority means for improving energy efficiency in EU countries. The use of Large and Mini CHP systems has already a proven track record in many EU countries . There are examples of CHP systems of varying capacity in the UK but uptake in recent years has been slow compared to other countries such as Denmark. CHP engines can be fuelled from a variety of sources including oils and natural gas plus bio-fuels derived from biomass or waste material. CHP is still a technology which is not used enough in the 2Seas area and this project aims to address this deficiency.Some commercial building types, particularly those needing a lot of energy, for instance leisure centres, data centres, hotels, hospitals, schools etc, which operate around the clock, are particularly suitable for this technology.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :SPACE4 Nom de la personne de contact : Ms. Josie Worner Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : SPACE 4 is a European project idea aimed at developing the potential of town centres in the Interreg Iva Two Seas area. It will do this through the four key approaches outlined below to create quality spaces that are safe, vibrant, distinctive, of a high quality, encourage community interaction and stimulate business/economic activity. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Social Enterprise Training Nom de la personne de contact : Stone Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : To improve the quality of training and learning for people who are working in the voluntary, public or social enterprise sectors in partner regions, in order to support them to: • improve services and activities • improve the quality of life and social inclusion of citizens in their area.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Evolution Nom de la personne de contact : Janet Cox Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : We are a partnership of 15 local authorities (now formed into a not-for-profit company). We look for opportunities to collaborate with eachother on common workforce issues. These enable us to pool our expertise, and save money working with suppliers. This enables us to raise performance of our organisations. Our project, Evolution, is a suite of accredited management development, and coaching development programmes. The Evolution programme supports the needs of individual authorities by developing their future managers and leaders, and also supports partnership working across all authorities within Essex. Evolution are flexible programmes for managers and leaders designed with a major focus on work-based learning and application, under-pinned by theory and leading to a nationally recognized management qualifications. These programmes prepare managers for different levels of management by developing specific areas of knowledge or skills, and by offering support to meet individual needs. We aim to make these programmes sustainable (e.g. by encouraging successful learners to become coaches to the new learners). We use a moodle based platform called "vine" to enable learners to hold on line tutorials about their work, find (and post) relevant materials. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Virtual Network Essex - vine Nom de la personne de contact : Janet Cox Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : We are a partnership of 15 local authorities in Essex. Together, we work on common workforce issues and realise efficiencies by collaborating and sharing. We need to find more cost effective and sustainable ways of delivering learning to our people. We are creating pieces of e-learning for our employees and sharing them over the virtual network essex ("vine") platform. vine enables us to save time and money because we are not duplicating work, whilst also pooling our expertise. We have also used the platform to enable learners from different organisations to learn together on management, leadership and coaching programmes. These projects are challenging existing ways of working by crossing the digital divide and bringing our employees into the modern age of learning. What is unique about this project is the partnership element: We are looking to expand our project to all 58 local authorities in the East of England. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Innovative distribution for SME's in regionale products - Butchers' Hall Nom de la personne de contact : De Steur Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : EROV has a large experience in promoting the regional products in the sectors food&beverage, horticulture, textiles and building. In 2002 a promotional centre for East Flemish regional products , the Butchers' Hall, was opened in the centre of Gent. 45 producers of regional products participate in this centre in a unique pps-structure. The project wants to stimulate exchange of experience between European partners that can show innovative ways of distribution of regional products, with focus on the sector food&beverage.... |
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Nom du projet & Date : MIDDELPUNT Fully customiced holiday and leisure center at the Belgian Coast for all and especially Nom de la personne de contact : CREVITS Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Objectives of the project: The Holiday Center is a specialized tourism employment project of the Sheltered Workshop, Mariasteen vzw - Dienstencentrum GID (t) S. Main objective is to provide a suitable seaside holiday for everyone. The building comprises two wings, so that a custom designed holiday can be offered to different groups. From the objective: "Tourism for All ', the Centre is aimed at people with disabilities. With this objective we hope to install an innovative project that implicates posibilities also for other projects in this region of the Nothern Europes. With others Europpean partners we hope to install not only a greater accessibility for this groups of disabled people, but also a start a line of thinking of inclusion and possibilities of holidays for all! ... |
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Nom du projet & Date : impulse sustainable sailing Nom de la personne de contact : Mrs Logié Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Match leisure boating to the new sustainable challenges ( economic, environmental, social )... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Regions anticipating on Demographic Changes (RADeC) Nom de la personne de contact : M. de Deugd Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Despite of the economic development in the North-Western part of Europe over the last decades many regions will face demographical and also social-economic changes in the next years. The main reason are declining birth rates and aging (incl. the ongoing departure of younger people to the cities (because of education and work). These demographic changes in the rural areas have far-reaching consequences for the housing market, labor market, industry and commerce. Until recently these changes took mainly place in the remote rurl areas but more and more these developments are also manifest in the regions with small cities. One of the regions is the western part of the Province of Noord-Brabant. The regions need to anticipate to this situation. A Dutch study about these topics (declining population and aging) came to the conclusion that it's not effective to try to attract new companies and new residents. It appears to be more useful to anticipate on demographic changes by alignment and to concentrate facilities, to stimulate demolishing and restructuring, retraining and training and to focus on maintaining and strengthening of the environment. The starting point to anticipate is the current population and industry and commerce and to use strong regional forces such as Green economy and innovation already present in the region. At the same time it's not easy for rural areas to make more use of there strong forces because most of the time Nature and Agriculture (the Green economy) are the strong forces. Due to cuts its difficult for nature to invest in development and management. Also Agriculture is in a difficult position now due to scale and specialization and the cuts in EU-funding. For these sectors it's difficult to keep and to find enough skilled employees and to generate enough power to innovate and to promote the Green Economy. The partner regions see these developments of demographic changes not as a threat but as a challenge. They wish to anticipate demographic changes by developing the strong rural forces (Green Economy) of the region and to use the available innovative power. The general aim for the project is to anticipate to regional demographic changes to advance entrepreneurship, to strengthen the labor market and to build on existing and promising activities and human capital. In the field of activities and entrepreneurship we will focus on Green Econnomy (agriculture and Nature), Innovation, Cooperation and Marketing. In the field of labor market and employment we will focus on training and retraining programs and innovatieve cooperations which link with these regional important topics.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :The Great War out of the lines (titre provisoire) Nom de la personne de contact : Blanc Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : During the first world war, in the rear of the front, a huge back-office operation provided military orders, supplies and logistics to the soldiers in the lines. Hundreds of thousands fugitives and injured could find medical care, food and assistance. The aim of the project is to promote the strategic and social importance of the rear of the front and underline the understanding and appreciation of social welfare and logistics elements of the armies and civilians out of the lines during the Great War, especially the social and cultural impact by the armies of the Commonwealth on the citizens of northern Europe.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Strategic Protected Landscape Management Nom de la personne de contact : Brady Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : To develop strategic approaches to protected landscape management that support the sustainable managment of landscape, biodiversity, access, education and development. The UK Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the French Parc Naturel Regionale des Caps et Marais d'Opale would like to work with a Dutch protected landscape to compare and develop innovative approaches to Protected Landscape Management.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :imaging... Nom de la personne de contact : BULCKE, Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Integration of migrant youth through language and free-time support.... |
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Nom du projet & Date : HST (shuttle station) cities connecting the region Nom de la personne de contact : Van Laarhoven Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : The general aim of this project is to increase the social and economical benefits of the HST network by connecting regions better to the network. In the 2 Seas region there are a few HST- shuttle stations, but the surrounding regions aren’t well connected to the HST-stations. There is a need for more and better sustainable transport and innovative information systems to make these connections more advanced. This will create more competitive, attractive and accessible regions in the 2 Seas area. The improved connections will offer new opportunities for companies, residents and tourists. It also will be good for the HST network as it will be used more intensively and the return on this large investment will increase. The partnership likes to involve knowledge institutes (like the Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics, DINALOG) and the Public transport organizations within the different countries to contribute to realize this aim. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Transfrontier Asylum Seekers Nom de la personne de contact : Alexander Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : To find solutions to cross-channel asylum seeker problems and to better understand the problems and possible solutions. Understanding and responding to the needs of young unaccompanied immigrants and asylum seekers.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Coastal breeding and winter feeding restoration project Nom de la personne de contact : Carver Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Site management, access provision and delivery of an education service for Pagham Harbour LNR to safeguard the site’s favourable condition in relation to the national and international designations.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Town without tresholds Nom de la personne de contact : Vandeperre Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The general aim of the project is to turn Wiekevorst, one of the more rural parts of the town of Heist-op-den-Berg, into a "town without tresholds". In the concept of the town renewal, care and welfare are the basic assumptions. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES Nom de la personne de contact : Walby Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : The general aim of the project is to develop social entrepreneurship to create sustainable opportunities for hard to reach beneficiaries in areas of deprivation, including rural communities with lack of facilities and with poor access to public transport and other amenities. The project uses a range of community led events and services to help create vibrant, healthy and inclusive communities with an improved quality of life for all. The project uses community-led planning and empowerment as the key to developing cohesive, inclusive and sustainable communities. The project also support social enterprises with potential for job creation and with the possibility of tending for local services. It also takes forward the idea of Social Franchising, linking mainstream companies to not for profit organisations, developing joint franchises built on sound business practice linked to social needs and local opportunities. Using empowerment, sustainability, equal opportunities and sound business practice linked to social needs and local opportunity, the project works in pockets of extreme deprivation across the partner areas. The project also works to combat rural isolation and concentrates on sustainable communities, community-led planning, development of rural businesses and employment, access to training and education in rural areas, maintaining a strong community with quality facilities, access to services and transport, community-owned property and ensuring equal oppportunities. It studies the legislative systems in partner countries and recommends changes to regional and national authorities to create social mobility and to influence policy. The project uses community-led planning techniques to engage with hard to reach beneficiaries who would not normally take part in local governance or consultation processes. It ensures that everyone has a voice that is heard and that everyone contributes to the design and delivery of new projects to enrich their own lives and the lives of their neighbours.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Maritime Incident Response Groups (project MIRG) Nom de la personne de contact : Zonnevijlle Priorité du programme : 4. Priorité commune avec le programme France (Manche) - Angleterre But général du projet : Although shipping by water is one of the safest forms of transport, a number of serious maritime incidents have occurred in recent years. Incidents involving one or more ships can cause serious damage as well as pose a danger to the ships involved, their crews, cargo, other members of the shipping industry and the maritime environment. Maritime safety is therefore high on the national and international political agenda. Fires on board of ships mostly result in dramatic consequences for the vessel, passengers and crew as well as the environment (coastal pollution). At the moment there is hardly any knowledge and rapid response capacity for maritime incidents. There's hardly any international cooperation in order to maritime incident response in the 2 Seas region. The project MIRG wants to improve the knowledge about fire fighting a board of ships and the cooperation in the whole project region.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Brass project - identity through music Nom de la personne de contact : Vandeperre Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The strategic goal of this project is to raise awareness about the own brass music tradition among the population in both partner countries and to disseminate this knowledge to the other partner country... |
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Nom du projet & Date :HUBS – Historic Urban Bridging Strategy Nom de la personne de contact : Loveday Priorité du programme : 4. Priorité commune avec le programme France (Manche) - Angleterre But général du projet : 'HUBS' Historic Urban Bridging Strategy – - A project which celebrates and builds on the cultural heritage links between three river cities in the Interreg 4a region.This project sets out to engage the waterways of three cities in the Interreg Iva area – exploring cultural diversity; spatial Innovation and renovation; mobility & digital connectivity - especially relating to urban/river links; The project intends to develop low carbon cultural initiatives – and ultimately to share best practice by building a Common Heritage River City Network for the Interreg Two Seas region. Each city will develop a physical “Hub” which will act as a catalyst to fuse disparate cultural offers together, and help to create sustainable heritage for future generations. The Hubs will not only provide a heritage focal point for each city but also benefit from sharing trans-national best practice – creating an ideas interchange and examplar for European urban heritage – with a particular focus on the role waterways can play in urban cultural development. This project weaves water into a fully integrated cultural offer and delivers a new, multi layered cultural product through the Hub which will act as a focal point for urban culture and a gateway point for understanding each city’s waterway’s connections. Each city will develop a physical “Hub” which will act as a catalyst to fuse disparate cultural offers together, and help to create sustainable heritage for future generations. The Hubs will not only provide a heritage focal point for each city but also benefit from sharing trans-national best practice – creating an ideas interchange and examplar for European urban heritage – with a particular focus on the role waterways can play in urban cultural development. This project weaves water into a fully integrated cultural offer and delivers a new, multi layered cultural product through the Hub which will act as a focal point for urban culture and a gateway point for understanding each city’s waterway’s connections. In contrast to ECTN, HUBS will be a practical heritage network, focusing on the importance of waterways in city development and sharing good practice around the SHAPING 24 Framework, in particular developing a model of best practice transfer between urban cultural centres and coastal regions. This could make it an incredibly vibrant cluster and an effective marketing tool for international tourism. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Green Marine Apprenticeships Nom de la personne de contact : Mihelic Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : To stimulate the development of environmental technology and the marine sector across the partnership and to enhance the sector’s success in the current economic climate. An improved understanding of both the similarities and differences experienced in other partner cities and an expansion of symbiotic relationships with partner organisations in the 2 seas area.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Prevention of emotional problems among youth Nom de la personne de contact : Kouwenberg Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The key objective is to develop a successful program for the treatment of emotional problems among youth. This strengthens the mental capacity of our youth and creates a sphere in which they can better develop individual talent, community networks and participation in society.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Low Carbon Cross Channel Freight by Semi-Buoyant / Buoyant Aircraft Nom de la personne de contact : Bows Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Road based transport is responsible for 22% of all domestic carbon emissions in the UK and 31% in Dorset. A third of the UK's transport emissions are sourced from road based Freight (HGV's & LGV's), yet evidence suggests that reducing carbon emissions from freight will be difficult to achieve through technology alone. In addition, road based freight has negative externalities in terms of local air pollution, perceived and real road danger. In Dorset there are perceptions that specific road corridors are inappropriate for freight movements e.g. the Port of Poole to Bristol and the Midlands, but there are no alternative routes and bypasses are unfeasible on environmental, social and economic grounds. Yet free movement freight is essential for sustaining the economy. Prototypes exist for buoyant or semi-buoyany aircraft (airships) which can transport a standard freight container, with mechanisms for delivering the container without the need to physically land. These vehicles claim to have potential advantages in terms of carbon emissions, freight operator trans-shipment cost savings, reduced local air pollution and physical road danger / road safety issues. However, as yet, no full scale prototypes exist and the concept of using such vehicles for freight movements lacks credability. The project seeks to resolve this knowledge gap by exploring the potential of buoyant or semi-buoyant aircraft (http://www.hybridairvehicles.net/) technologies in providing a low carbon option for the delivery of specific freight operations in areas sensitive to freight movements. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Pirates and Naval Heroes, a shared history and common identity. Nom de la personne de contact : Peeters Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Reinforce awareness of a unique common history in Channel area to strenghten a sense of identity and reinforce tourism and related economy: The cities in the 2 seas area were key players in the shift of political and economic power on a global scale, pirates and sea heroes being the illustrations of this historic period in this area. Their biographies spark the imagination of the visitor and the sense of identification of the citizens, thus resulting in a stronger appreciation of the cultural heritage and the old city centres which gives an impulse to the touristic sector and related economy in the region. The historyof the pirates provides: A source of touristic interest A source for identity of the area A way to (re-) introduce common cultural heritage in an innovative way... |
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Nom du projet & Date :New generation of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers (EDFA) for high-speed optical communications Nom de la personne de contact : BIGOT Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Realization of new generation of Erbium-Doped fiber optical amplifiers based on nanostructured fibers or fibers with non-conventional core composition. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Music Cultural Exchange Nom de la personne de contact : Lisa Tregale Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Working with two other organisations in the cultural exchange of young musicians to offer performance and learning opportunities in different learning settings. We will also work with educators from each of the organisations to share best practice is working with young musicians with exceptional talent. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Mayflower Heritage and Impact Partnership Nom de la personne de contact : Kenyon Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Use the 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower to link up related cities and prepare for anniversary activities by establishing links within the UK and other European destinations that have an association with the original Mayflower departure to New England. Under the banner of Mayflower 400 the heritage and impact of the sailing will be marked through a series of events to commemorate the significance of the departure through cultural, heritage, scientific, research projects. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :The Circus Ring Nom de la personne de contact : Van Der Straeten Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : To create a network of cities and towns who promote, organize, support, enhance and revive the circus and street performance arts. The city of Aalst (Flanders) knows no cultural open air event, apart from Carnival (recognized as UNESCO world heritage). Having built upon literally hundreds of years of carnival experience, Aalst now wants to bid upon the circus culture as big open air festival. This has been a conscious choice for just like with Carnival we want to reach the spectator in the streets with an easily accessible programme The circus has been widely popular in the 18th, 19th and 20th century, until the 1960s and 70s when television and other forms of entertainment started to dominate. Most of the smaller circuses disappeared, some survived by grouping together, whereas the traditional family circuses disappeared almost altogether. Even few of the bigger circuses lasted. In the 1980s a small resurgence of the popularity appeared through the famous Cirque du Soleil, which actually conveyed into a new form of circus art, called "contemporary circus" and actually differs a lot with traditional circus. It has become more of a performance opera with very high entrance fees. Even today with digital television and internet, the circus almost became a vague memory, especially amongst the youth. The aim of this project is to bring circus back to the people, try to save what is left from the circus heritage and pormote and support new circus and street performance initiatives in the programme area by creating a network of cities and towns who value the circus and street performance arts, who have a circus history, who want to put an effort in reviving these cultural initiatives.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Shared maritime history and re-engagement with the waterfront Nom de la personne de contact : Kenyon Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Develop the visitor infrastructure of coastal cities and link into the heritage common to the partners. Identify how spaces and events could be developed to increase the attractiveness of places close to the waterfront. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :GREEN JOBS, INCLUSION AND ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION Nom de la personne de contact : BILLON Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : 2 ESATs belonging to the APF (one in Calais, one in Rivery) would like to modernise their economic activities (mainly industrial and suffering from the crisis) by setting up a sustainable management system. We also want to create a vocational system based on green jobs that would benefit people with mobile disabilities and would improve their professional and social inclusion. At the end of the cross border project, we would like to disseminate this experimentation to the 26 other French ESATs belonging to APF (this would mean in total 1 300 people with disabilities would be concerned). The project would show that sustainable development is one of the strong strategic orientations for economic and human development. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :City-wide carbon reduction Nom de la personne de contact : Booth Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : To promote new and more effective ways of meeting the EU’s ambitions on the essential climate change agenda, working with cities and towns to reduce their carbon emissions... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Biomass district heating schemes using local wood waste Nom de la personne de contact : Booth Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Scoping and supply of localised low carbon energy supply to reduce carbon footprint and enhance cost effectiveness... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Mobile EaRTH Nom de la personne de contact : Alex Chalkley Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Promotion, awareness and accessibility of renewable technologies and sustainable practice in an easy to digest, cross-media format. The target audiences will be students in: a) Primary education b) Secondary education c) FE and HE education... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Sustainable Roads and Development Nom de la personne de contact : KRESEC Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : As part of its Agenda 21, the Nord Department initiated the development of an approach for the sustainable road. « Make today the road tomorrow», it was in 2006 that this has been initiated in collaboration with Centre Scientifique and Technique du Bâtiment, Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées, Centre d’Etudes Techniques de l’Equipement and Certivéa’s company. It identifies all the issues that must be asked the project manager to develop a sustainable development approach to his project: Take inventory of issues and regional projects, conduct a thorough consultation, design the project to get a true performance environment, limit pollution generated by the project and consider the overall project. The sustainable road approach asserts itself as a tool for dialogue, technical optimization projects, but also to control costs, responding accurately and effectively to the needs and issues. This control requires in particular a strengthened phase of preliminary studies to define the fine program operation and analyze various technical scenarios to hold the most relevant. Sustainable Route enables optimal project progress taking into account the requirements of different actors. In April 2010, there was the emergence of a qualification standard "Sustainable Road”. This paper was finalized by the Nord Department and Certivéa in collaboration with the Centre d'Etudes Techniques de l' Equipment, establishes requirements to be followed for the construction of a road called "sustainable." This document defines the requirements to be followed in the construction of a road. This is an assessment tool to verify the proper consideration in the projects key concern for sustainable development. This approach demonstrates an innovative, forward-looking. It offers advantages of efficiency, sustainability and development undeniable. The project manager can thus qualify the performance of its project in terms of a grid consisting of 26 sub-objectives. To be certified, a project must address more than 13 targets in the core level, and at least 8 and 5 level performance in very high-performance. Also, through a European cooperation project, the Nord Department wants to pursue several objectives: - introduce and enhance the approach road Sustainable and its reference, - identify similar steps, - capitalize on these efforts (highlighting the similarities, differences, identify key success factors for implementation of these approaches share feedback experiment), - Evaluating the economics of these steps (if any extra cost, return on investment, monetization of externalities ...) ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Sport & avontuur in het provinciedomein Sint-Pietersplas Nom de la personne de contact : Philips Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Expand the excisting activities ( watersports and adventure sports ) , build a climbing tower Expand the touristic leisure/sport activities ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Supporting Rural Tourism through Local Produce Nom de la personne de contact : WARRINGTON Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : There is increasing consumer interest in locally sourced food that is both high quality and reflects a sense of the place that it comes from. This interest extends beyond simply eating the produce to how it is produced, the landscape from which it comes, and the people who produce it. Research supports the fact that one of the areas that is of most interest for a rural short break is Food and local produce. Of eight themes that they tested the most popular was a Local food gourmet weekend – including foraging for wild food and visits to local food producers, learning about village life, enjoying walks, cycling, pub evenings. The aim of this project is to encourage closer links with local producers and local tourism providers to develop new tourism packages that will attract new and repeat visitors to the 2 seas region ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :MOBILITY Nom de la personne de contact : RINGOT Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The 13-16 year old students going to secondary schools and the other young people (16-25 years old) in need of social inclusion are unable to leave their usual living area / territory.. They obviously lack mobility. Accessing mobility is first of all a cultural / psychological problem. Mobility is a skill that needs to be developped and qualified. The overall aim of the project is developing the mobility skill throughout the 2seas region in order to promote social inclusion. Specific objectives of the project The project will thus focus on 4 types of people : young people going to secondary schools, young people that are in social reinclusion, future youth workers and youth workers already employed, because you can’t promote mobility to young people if adults are not mobile. They need to be trained and experience mobility too. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Sustainability in water sports Nom de la personne de contact : Frenks Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : The hypothesis: people with a boat (sailingboats and cabin cruisers) spend money when they are on a trip/journey. Sailing from their berth to another place. Entrepreneurs: marina’s make arrangements in the area of the 2Seas programm to stimulate their customers to sail. Then can cooperate and learn from each other Events: An event is a reason for people to sail/to visit an area. In 2013 Sail Vlissingen is a big maritime event. The aim is to attract many visitors by boat Knowledge: gather knowledge on economic impact of a marina and of arrangement between marina’s Gather knowledge on sustainable ways of organising events Gather knowledge of the ecological impact of events ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :“Fortifications at the edge” - of cities, regions and countries Nom de la personne de contact : Gysen Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Summary description of the project: Working together and create networks, in order to do research on cultural heritage (monuments, historic buildings and fortifications) as economical value generators. An integrated and sustainable approach is important: planning, development, cultural heritage, ecology, landscape, nature, recreation, tourism and economy should go hand in hand. Lines of lighthouses, fortifications, dykes ... the challenge is the same. Together we can find solutions for similar problems. Old model-cases and new pilot-projects can be stimulating examples. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Old Dockyards - Handels Dock East: Sustainability in Phase 1 Nom de la personne de contact : De Bruycker Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : * To give an economical impulse to promote sustainability and passive dwellings in a new city quarter; * Research towards the correct construction of passive houses as apartments (middle-high constructions). ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Old Dockyards - Hout Dockyards: from docks into leisure and recreation area Nom de la personne de contact : De Bruycker Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : * To load the historical dykes (masonry vaults from 1860) with the new functions under the constructions by providing a new integrated construction of the new marina; * To give a new area and destination in a new city quarter and a new, vibrant soul with maritime elements; * Different stakeholders: from children (outdoor swimming pool integrated in marina) to retired fishermen; * To conserve maritime elements by giving them a new destination without destroying its heritage value; * To promote the new district through a variety of touristic activities: marina, social,…. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Old Dockyards: from gravel stock to play area Nom de la personne de contact : De Bruycker Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : * To give a social impulse to promote social cohesion in a new city quarter; * To conserve maritime-industrial elements by giving them a new socio-cultural meaning ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Old Dockyards: from concrete to culture factory Nom de la personne de contact : De Bruycker Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : * To conserve maritime-industrial elements by giving them a new socio-cultural meaning; * To give a socio-cultural impulse to promote social cohesion in a new city quarter; * To exchange experiences and built networks to promote a diversity of leisure activities.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Durable integrated vegetable production Nom de la personne de contact : Bruyneel Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : To promote a durable integrated vegetable production in the border region of the United Kingdom and the Continent. The objective of integrated production is to protect the environment, by reducing the input of fytosanitary products and fertilizers, while the quality of the vegetables is preserved and the demands of consumers are fulfilled. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Sustainable water use in function of the climate change - 17-09-2010 Nom de la personne de contact : Boeckaert Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : The region of Flanders will face some serious water problems in the future due to the climate change. To tackle these worsening problems, measurements should be taken which enable 1/ the reduction of water consumption, 2/ the replenishment of the groundwater aquifers, 3/ the purification of water and 4/ water reuse. Moreover, since water has no boundaries, the water problem should be studied and treated over different regions.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Equality and Diversity Training Programme Nom de la personne de contact : Harry Connery Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : To develop an Equality and Diversity training programme that would meet the needs of volunteers and staff working in voluntary and community based organisations. The programme would meet the needs of individuals ranging from those who have little equality and diversity awareness to those who have some awareness and involvement in equality and diversity practice... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Sustainable development (construction) as economical image of a rural region Nom de la personne de contact : Vansteenkiste Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Cooperation between rural areas who are building their economical image based upon sustainable development in building.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :FROM BRAINDRAIN TO BRAINGAIN Nom de la personne de contact : Verhaeghe Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Cooperation between rural regions that cope with brain drain with the intention to counter it to a brain gain.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Strategy for sustainable transition Nom de la personne de contact : Dewettinck Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, knowledge, ... everyone in the 2 Seas Region agrees that these are the basic pillars for our future prosperity. They are prerequisites for change. For transition as well. Transition includes radical and incremental changes in a certain direction. And that direction is called sustainability. The idea of sustainable transition states that unlimited economic growth in a world with limited capacity and resources is not possible. The axiom of unlimited growth must be abandoned and replaced by a commitment to sustainability. That these words are not just an abstract threat in a distant future but is already the reality of all businesses and citizens today is demonstrated by the high and ever rising oil prices and the sinking of the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico and of course the climate challenge ... Our entrepreneurs should be aware of the challenges, opportunities, threats and their role in the social and technological transition. Entrepreneurs therefore primarily need a sophisticated and thoughtful transition strategy. A strategy that provides continuity and triple-bottom-line benefits the longer term. Transition to sustainable production is firmely linked to sustainable consumption, while the second is likely an even greater challenge. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Environmetal Education of the sea and beyond Nom de la personne de contact : Declercq Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : In West-Flanders The Week of the Sea has played an important role in creating awareness for the environment of coast and sea. For primary schools and the general public over the last fourteen years annually several campaigns were launched. A broad range of tools for education and raising awareness were one of the results. Still, much work remains to be done, as EE officers point out respect and care regarding the environment in everyday situations stays low. As education for sustainable development (ESD) states, acting in a sustainable way has to become an attitude, a way of life incorporated in everyday living. As a consequence raising awareness and changing attitudes is not the result of a hit and run strategy, it needs a consistent form of education. Therefore continuous action has to be implemented. This means that not only during focus weeks, like The Week of the Sea, attention for the environment is needed, but that the general public should meet almost permanently incentives stimulating respect and awareness for a healthier, cleaner and more bio-diverse environment. The Week of the Sea provides a perfect vehicle, a starting point for education and raising awareness all the year round for different target groups. Organising this in the coastal area is both a challenge and a necessity. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :BEAVER Nom de la personne de contact : Vermeiren Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Fresh water is a natural resource which is becoming a scarce commodity, especially to coastal cities. The use of membrane filtration technology enables drinking water production out of low qualitative water sources like surface water, brackish groundwater or sewer water. The consequence of using this kind of technology is the production of concentrated effluents (retentates) which pose a threat to the environment. Due to the nature of the effluents, they are only partially treatable by conventional treatment technology. However the untreatable part forms a promising resource for growing energy crops. The combination of membrane technology and the reuse of the effluent as feed for energy crops (short rotation coppice, RSC) is a win-win situation for the environment: effluent quality will improve and biomass will be grown, which can be converted into bio-energy. Bio-energy means a sustainable source of cheap energy. For agriculture, additional benefits can be sought in the valorisation of marginal lands for new agricultural/forestry purposes. Especially in coastal territories, due to climate change and human activities, the area of marginal lands will increase by temporal lack of fresh water, by salination or by flooding events.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :ACT - Adapting to Changes in Tourism Nom de la personne de contact : Hennes Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Partners are sought, from the eligible EU Region, who have an interest or experience in supporting sustainable tourism and destination management with a particular emphasis on: Shifting responsibility of regional and local bodies towards increasing governance by the private and voluntary sectors and exploring tools to support this Developing, supporting and empowering clusters and networks to exploit the benefits of collaborative working and joint marketing Integrating culture, local traditions and sense of place: to add value to products and services, to improve quality of life, and to enhance the visitor experience. The aims and objectives of the project are still to be formulated and we expect this process to be completed through a series of workshops that will be held between the prospective partners. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Urban food Nom de la personne de contact : Vergote Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Promote an industry that responds to the nutritional demands of a city, from within that city, with the use and reuse of that city’s resources while acknowledging economic and resource use does not reconcile aspects of regional health, food security, and application of grassroots organizations. Echange knowledge in intensive food production methods. Introducing production of food in urban areas. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :BUILD THE SUSTAINABLE NUMERIC CITY Nom de la personne de contact : Beuzelin Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Information and Communication Technologies is a sector which knows a fast and continuous evolution, marked in particular by the perfection of the technologies which offer more and more opportunities, and the democratization of the access to these technologies. The project consists in thinking and building the sustainable numeric cities for tomorrow in term of : - telecom infrastructures - smart and green buildings or city districts - internet mobile services -smart public places - high-speed Internet services ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Welcome office for Common Wealth entrepreneurs Nom de la personne de contact : Allegaert Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : West-Flanders is traditionally known for its strong entrepreneurial spirit. In order to guarantee this, the Province is investing heavily in the support of start-up entrepreneurs via the project ‘Action for Start-ups’. The support consists of 2 major components: a network of centres of start-ups and entrepreneurs and an immaterial component that gives start-ups support concerning crucial decisions, market positioning, hiring staff, … In the new Business Center in Ypres the Province wishes to make use of the unique position of Ypres towards Great-Britain (and the Common Wealth) in order to create a unique operating base for entrepreneurs from this part of the world to explore the possibilities of setting up or expanding their business to the continent. In order to do so, we wish to invest in 2 key aspects: on the one hand attractive business infrastructure and on the other hand a broad range of coaching in order to submerge foreign enterprises in the (West)-Flemish entrepreneurial world.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :A CREATIVE SOCIETY IN WHICH EACH INDIVIUAL IS A CREATIVE, SOCIAL, INSTRUMETALISED AND ENGAGED HUMAN Nom de la personne de contact : Mertens Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : WHAT AND WHO IS THE ‘UNIE DER ZORGELOZEN’ Unie der Zorgelozen is a social-artistic community project, based in Kortrijk (Belgium), whose creations stem from strong, social engagement. In the ancient tradition of Comedia dell'Arte, Unie der Zorgelozen wants to reinvent the old ties between family, theater group, commitment, art and society. Most importantly the Unie makes theatre in which the daily battle of the little man with the world around him is being transformed into universal, popular and unpolished narratives. In our opinion everyone is able to play. Our aim is to create theatre out of a social and artistic need. The work is political and poetic at te same time, personal and universal. In addition we also offers opportunities to write, draw, photograph, make video, music, visual work with glass and textile. These creations find their place in the theatre performances, the bi-yearly magazine ‘De Gazet’ and in various other projects. Our basis is a social movement of about 200 volunteers, supporters and sympathizers who join forces in a lively community. They meet regularly on a formal and informal way in many spontaneous initiatives. Monthly our cooking team prepares a meal for over 80 guests. These meetings bring the Unie together and spur creativity. Last year the Unie had the opportunity to buy this unique infrastructure: ‘the Scala.’ It is a former dancehall of more than 100 years old in the hart of the popular Veemarkt-district in the city centre. We want to renovate the site in order to restore the cultural and social importance for community, neighbourhood and city. **Please mail to ask an extended presentation with more info about the artistic method of our so called ‘total language’ and about the theme of ‘war’ that we want to address still more and deeper the coming year. ****** GENERAL AIM: A CREATIVE SOCIETY IN WHICH EACH INDIVIUAL IS A CREATIVE, SOCIAL, INSTRUMETALISED AND ENGAGED HUMAN BEING ***** To create a SUSTAINABLE quality in life, in networks and in global communities, each individual needs to BE AWARE of his power to shape and to change his own world. By EXCHANGING thoughts, ideas, actions in real life collaborations and networks he will feel strengthened by the MUTUAL LEARNING process and see thousands of different angles from which to define his own identity. This awareness of the PERSONAL and COLLECTIVE POWER to act and change, triggers the individual to really take part in society, and to use ONES VOICE and CREATIVITY as the critical instrument for full partnership/citizenship.***** Based on this process we want to explore, examine, study the possibility of a ‘creative society’. In this (utopian) vision people are considered to be not mere (cultural) consumers but get actively involved in the process of defining the content, gather the materials to work with, creating a (art) work and presenting it to a crowd. We want to set up social, cultural, educational and artistic projects in which we learn from others. The exchange of experiences (social, creative or artistic) builds up our personal identity and defines our feeling of power over our own life. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :International Visual Design Network Nom de la personne de contact : C.J. Kerstens Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : To create an international Visual Design Network of cities and regions by jointly developing and introducing innovative solutions/methods in the field of entrepreneurship, knowledge and education and culture and profiling. Within the field of Visual Design the project is focusing on AV (Audio Visual), Multimedia and Graphicdesign. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :E-health support for people with long term conditions Nom de la personne de contact : Jones Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : To explore the costs and benefits of providing email support to people with long term conditions, in their use of the Internet for health. E-health support addresses social inclusion (the digital divide) helping those who are novice users of the Internet to make better use of it in maintaining their health and quality of life.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :IWEC Nom de la personne de contact : N. van Lamsweerde Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : The general aim is to improve the management of regional inland waterways in the programme area and the development potential of the regions adjacent to them. There is a great potential for socio economic develepments in these regions but they are all facing barriers linked to governance problems, environment and climate change and not using fully the potentials of multifunctional use. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Massey Shaw Restoration Project Nom de la personne de contact : Rogers Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : The Projects aim is to complete the restoration of London's WW11 Fireboat and Dunkirk Little Ship, to working condition on the Thames, so that residents and visitors to the London can learn about its unique history. To take part in the Return to Dunkirk trips with the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Mano Mundo Festival Nom de la personne de contact : Mast Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Mano Mundo festival aims to create a better understanding between cultures and use a world culture festival to make people aware about the North South dimensions of development cooperation. Furthermore our goals are to manage this festival in a a way of respect for the enviroment. by measuring our ecological footprint and try to reduce it. Not only for our one benefit but also as a method for sensibilistion of festivalvisitors. Above this all we want to make our festivalground and al the venues o n it, as accessible as possible for disadvantaged people, so that people, not matter wath kind of handicap they have, can enjoy the event, without restrictions. Mano Mundo festival want to give to education, and create social profit djobs in teh sector of the event industry. Herefor we wish to organize practical courses at the festivalgrounds, Rigging, construction, courses of forkliftdriving in coöperation with technical schools of the neighbourhood.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Tackling social isolation : developing new empowerment tools and methods Nom de la personne de contact : LANGEVIN Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Our projet aims at setting up new local actions to help people, which are socially isolated, to get autonomy and empowerment in their inclusion process. Our structure, Communal center for social action (CCAS) of the city of Carvin is a legal public body defining and implementing the communal strategy on social cohesion. We are looking forward to working on new way of dealing with social excluded people through peer education and original empowerment approaches. Our CCAS is namely coordinating an experience around peer education on consuming, budget management and community health prevention... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Stop-Start Videolearn Nom de la personne de contact : Wadsworth Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : The project will support learners undertaking qualifications in tourism who face the difficulties associated with rural isolation and other disadvantages through the development of Stop-Start Videolearn An Innovative interactive learning tool. the tool comprises a range of interactive learning materials based upon footage taken from real workplace situations , which is designed to stop at specific spots so allow two-way questioning to take place between the material and learner.in a manner which replicates the presence of a physical tutor without the necessity for classroom-based tuition taking place.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Cross seas old vessels facility`s Nom de la personne de contact : Vermin Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Make it possible that those old charming vessels from the early 1900 can sail to other harbors. Because of the weight and lenght the need special landing stages.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Hunger and Thirst during the Great War Nom de la personne de contact : Becuwe Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Study, interprete and present the story of food, beverages and stimulants - and the lack of these - during the Great War, as well in the unoccupied territories as in the occupied territories.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Euregional Network of Traditional Beverages Nom de la personne de contact : Becuwe Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : save and promote the heritage of tradional breweries and distilleries, guarantee the survival of their producers, and develop and enlarge the market of traditional beverages in the Euregion... |
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Nom du projet & Date :CRE- ate : Working on a creative region Nom de la personne de contact : Viaene Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Turnhout 2012 and its partner SPK (Strategic Projectorganisation Kempen) want to use the dynamic that the preparation of the Cultural Year 2012 to identify and facilitate opportunities in the creative sector. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Re-invent : a cultural action to identify a region Nom de la personne de contact : Viaene Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Challenge : One of the big challenges within the tourism policy cited has been the lack of a fleshed out policy concept for cultural history in the Kempen cities and region. Equally problematic is the fact that, while the Antwerp Kempen have an extensive and varied tourist offering, no particular or concrete, defining theme, element of attraction or product is eye-catching enough to serve as a hook in the communication.. Nor does any other theme stand out. Objective : Turnhout wants to use the dynamic that is being created in the preparation of the Cultural Year 2012 to revitalise and to use cultural actions to identify the region. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :All Aboard: cultural inclusion Nom de la personne de contact : Sprimont Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The aim is to develop projects that enable people living below the European poverty threshold as well as handicapped persons, to participate in social and cultural activities from which they are generally excluded. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :TechXFer Nom de la personne de contact : Derluyn Stefan - Voka Chamber of Commerce Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : The project aims to exchange Best Practices in a cross border context within the field of: 1. Research & knowledge valorisation 2. Technology/research transfer from educational institutes towards companies 3. The start up & development of spin off companies. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Cultural Capital Nom de la personne de contact : CARTER Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : For partners to support each other in maximising the long-term benefits to their local economies, of investments in, and uplift of, their cultural capital. The core partners are all engaged in major cultural activities and investment in 2011-2012: Turnhout will be Flanders Capital of Culture in 2012, Bethune is Nord pas de Calais Capital of Culture 2011, and Hastings is investing in Cultural Regeneration around the opening of the Jerwood Gallery, Stade public performance space, and other initiatives from 2010. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Historic Wrecks Protection and Conservation Project, southern North Sea and Channel (working title) Nom de la personne de contact : Gane Priorité du programme : 4. Priorité commune avec le programme France (Manche) - Angleterre But général du projet : The aim of the project is to help protect the many historic wrecks in the southern North Sea and Channel regions from the theft or “salvage” of cultural heritage through a programme of education, awareness and community engagement. Whilst the vast majority of the diving community are perfectly responsible, historic wrecks (both aviation wrecks and shipwrecks) are being targeted by a small minority of divers and diving groups in order to take items of value and/or interest from the wrecks. These are either disposed of by sale or held in private collections. The gradual loss of material cultural heritage is having a range of adverse effects on the collective marine archaeological assets of the “two seas” region: 1. It is seriously damaging and affecting the integrity of the structure of historic wreck sites. 2. It is denuding our historic wreck sites of points of interest, context, background and perspective. 3. It is preventing future generations from enjoying and experiencing maritime cultural heritage assets. 4. It is making serious research into our underwater historic assets more difficult and less rewarding and/or academically significant. 5. The cultural heritage that is removed is increasingly held in private collections and will not benefit the public. The general outcome of the project is to stop, or even reverse these adverse effects and help preserve our shared marine cultural heritage for future generations. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Health, social and environmental benefits of coastal physical activity Nom de la personne de contact : Wheeler Priorité du programme : 2. Promotion et développement d'un environnement sain et sûr But général du projet : Development of research to improve our understanding of the value of the coastal environment as a positive public health resource.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :RT2E Cross-border network for educational excellence Nom de la personne de contact : Frimat Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The aim of the project is to raise awareness to the relevance of joint cooperation regarding education by developping travel exchanges, encouraging mobility and languages learning. RT2E aims to be a cross-border network between institutions /local authorities responsible for educational matters within the 2 Seas. The network will generate micro-projects between secondary schools and apprentices training centers and will sustain for them the administrative aspects of an Interreg project, out of reach for schools.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Living in fear - better outcomes for people with learning disabilities and autism Nom de la personne de contact : Guest Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The UK White Paper 'Valuing People Now' (Department of Health 2009) reports that most adults with learning disabilities and autism have experienced victimisation and harassment when they are out and about in the community e.g.name calling, assault, bullying. The White Paper goes on to say that adults with disabilities who are from black and ethnic minority groups are at increased risk of victimisation. This project aims to (a) raise awareness of the experiences of people with learning disabilities and autism who live in fear of victimisation and harassment when they are out and about in the community, or live in fear of it (b) share information, best practice, policies and strategies which help promote greater social inclusion and well being for adults with learning disabilities and autism.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Float My Boat Nom de la personne de contact : SPINDLER Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : To develop a network of colleges and further education centres providing elementary boatbuilding skills, in order to stimulate interest in traditional boatbuilding in the '2 Seas' area. In particular, the project aims to develop methods of facilitating the engagement of young disadvantaged people in the craft skill of traditional boatbuilding, thereby increasing their employability and their social and cultural integration.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :CREATING SUSTAINABLE RURAL COMMUNITIES Nom de la personne de contact : Wyle Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Phase 1 :-To create a network of rural grocery shops that are owned and run by the people living in a village for the benefit of that village - the Community Shop. The village sets up a co-operative to issue shares in the shop. Any profits are invested in the village not distributed as dividends. Phase 2 :- To create a Community Cafe attached to the Community Shop. This can be a focal point to village life. It is a place where people can meet socially or for business reasons. It is a place where people living on their own in a village will know that they will be made welcome. It can be used by local authorities to hold discussions with the village. It can be used as a safe place for children to gather for help with the homework or to listen to sorytelling. Phase 3:- "Crop For The Shop" - Why not grow produce in the village to become as self sustaining as possible? Grow to a seasonal plan. Grow for taste not looks. Grow as organically as possible. Combine the gardening knowledge of older people with the youth and enthusiasm of school children. Sell all the produce through the Community Shop.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Landing-stage Liefkenshoek (left bank Scheldt) Nom de la personne de contact : Vansteenkiste Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Renovation and rebuilding multi-usuable landing-stage. Re-introduction ferry-service at this point(leftbank-rightbank Scheldt) in the harbour for sustainable public traffic and as a mean to develop the cultural and historical important site of the fortress Liefkenshoek, with a European value, as an oasis in the Waasland harbour and as an entrance to the vast and quiet Polderland. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :MPHS 2.0: Development of an online One Stop Shop for eHealth Nom de la personne de contact : Vriens Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Within this project, MPHS wants to develop an online One Stop Shop with promising eHealth services to support better communication with hard to reach citizens and patients, MPHS wants to facilitate coherent healthcare services and provide a modern approach to procedures and routines. The working title of the project will be MPHS 2.0. MPHS Rotterdam-Rijnmond has up-to-date experience with successful and promising eHealth services. Innovative projects have been developed, evaluated and implemented for different groups such as ethnic communities, young people and MSM. Tailored computer and Internet-based interventions have been developed recently. - Gaycruise.nl, an internet intervention for MSM has proven to be effective and is nationally implemented. - X-MATCH, a serious game to stimulate safer sex and interaction competence for young people who use the Internet has recently been evaluated and will be implemented nationally. -MPHS offers online STI advice and testing for MSM (MANtotMAN.nl). - Internet based consultation on sexuality for youngsters (sense.info). - Online outreach for sexworkers. - STI test results through SMS, online appointment booking for travel vaccinations and much more. All these projects were carried out in co-operation with expert developers and universities. MPHS is also the coordinator of the eHealth work package within a European-wide network to improve prevention, treatment and care services for vulnerable populations, the Correlation network. The online One Stop Shop should be dialogue-based and include tailored information on health, prevention and interventions as well as self-service solutions such as medical appointment booking, prescription renewal, access to case information and tailored advice, offering equal services for the surrounding rural area’s. New additional experiments can be added e.g. mobile services for pregnant women, offering eLearning modules for vulnerable groups, online outreach in social networking sites, online STI testing for youngsters, online STI testing for Surinamese and Antillean citizens, outreach through video counseling for marginalized groups and more online appointment booking and triage for all subject-related clusters. The MPHS would like to develop such a service in association with international partners with comparable Municipal health services. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Contemporary creative and art practice and coastal environments Nom de la personne de contact : Walden Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : To invigorate and re-invigorate coastal spaces and social environments via artistic and creatibe interventions... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Regenerate local town economy through sustainable, innovative (re)development of public spaces and m Nom de la personne de contact : Coolens Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Exchange good practice on the regeneration of local economy through better and innovative usage of public space and market squares in particular. Being a small community with the second largest market square of Flanders, we seek the knowhow and funding to better develop, manage and exploit the only trump we have.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :BETTER FUTURES THROUGH VOLUNTEERING Nom de la personne de contact : Seares Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : To support best practice volunteering and to have a primary focus on those people who are disadvantaged in any way including any type of disability or mental health issue. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Safer en positieve nightlife Nom de la personne de contact : Philips Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : A thriving Night Time Economy (NTE) brings benefits to individuals by providing opportunities to socialise, relax, etc. However, it is also important to take into account individuals’ quality of life Quality of life and safety provisions at night impact on public service providers and local businesses alike. These are important issues for the whole Two Seas region. It is also noticeable that in many NTE areas it is almost exclusively young people who frequent these areas. Older residents often view these areas as “no go areas” often due the alcohol related anti-social behaviours that some young people exhibit, which can lead to a loss of public confidence in these areas. Additional policing of NTE areas to deal with and reduce crime puts enormous pressure on Police resources. Likewise, Local authorities incur significant costs. Health services also experience considerable extra demands on resources during the evenings, particularly at week-ends. Owners of night time venues also suffer damage to premises. Local residents who live in close proximity are affected by noise and vandalism caused by people in nightlife areas. Reducing these problems at night requires a more comprehensive, joined-up approach to nightlife in an attempt to not only enhance the safety of the citizen but also create an environment in which business of all types can flourish and all citizens, regardless of age or ethnicity, can feel safe. Therefore, we would suggest that there are not just benefits in terms of security of the citizen, but also spin-off benefits in terms of:... |
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Nom du projet & Date :LoEC-seo Nom de la personne de contact : HOSTYN Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Development of specific tools for disadvantage people by achieving the mix of social economy and support of local enterprises... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Artistic visions of the Channel and North Sea Nom de la personne de contact : Verdure,/ Duvergé Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Enhance maritime art thanks to exhibitions, touristic routes and the collection of coastal memories... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Manus, promoting social economy in international cities Nom de la personne de contact : VERMEIREN Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Neighbourhood management is what it's all about for Manus. The liveability of a city is our concern. We cooperate intensely with local residents, city authorities, companies, social housing, local associations and private partners to provide them with specific services, recruiting unskilled residents from the neighbourhood. We work in three main areas: garden maintenance, general maintenance of public and semi-public space, small renovations. Although very diverse, our projects have several elements in common: they are quality projects, contributing to a visible improvement of the residential environment. All of our projects are scaled to the abilities of our co-workers and are ecological. Each project must contribute to a better neighbourhood. Manus is a social economy project that helps launch socially justified projects. Manus has branches in Antwerp, Mechelen and Brussels. Manus is run as a commercial company. Our quality label is a motivation for our co-workers in the street. Our engagement is to represent both the social as well as the cultural character of the neighbourhoods we work in through the composition of our people: we employ only local residents. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Market Towns - Towards economic prosperity, vibrancy and sustainability Nom de la personne de contact : Helen Utteridge Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Aim: To develop and adopt a sustainable delivery vehicle to engage businesses in the prosperity and vibrancy of their market town. Suffolk has over 20 market towns of varying sizes - in terms of geography and by population. Their retail offer, services offer, remoteness, existence of active business networks/forums/town centre partnerships, and number of businesses paying into a dedicated supportive network are also quite variable. NB: Other potential partners may be interested in different conglomerations of businesses, e.g. business and industrial parks. Suffolk County Council wants to engage in a transnational project which focuses on delivering economic vibrancy, prosperity and sustainability to its' market towns through creating a permanent structure (potentially at county level) based on the legislative opportunities of the individual countries involved.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Filmmaking skills and career development for the unemployed Nom de la personne de contact : Barber Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : The aim of our project is to support post 19 aged people who are not in education and who have no option of progressing to University due to lack of qualifications and/or for financial reasons. The project will offer training, career advise, a mentoring scheme and the opportunity to work as part of a crew on location in rural France as well as in Brighton, UK and in the partner state.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Successful policies for knowledge-driven economic development stimulation, a case by case approach Nom de la personne de contact : Landuyt Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Many cities and regions have the ambition to create knowledge-driven economic activities within their area. Very often, many isolated actions and initiatives are taken, stressing only one or a few of the links, or even totally ignoring certain areas between the knowledge components. The results are: suboptimal strategies and action plans. The key problem the project wants therefore to address is: what set of integrated regional development policies should (semi) public policy makers bring in line in order to realize the ambition to become an innovative and creative knowledge-driven region? Answering this question will be done within the project for the partner regions. The project purpose of this project is to derive most successful public knowledge management policies within the partner regions in enhancing/reinforcing the SME’s knowledge management cycles and hence economic development in the region. Derived successful policies should cover all links between the various stages of the knowledge management circle.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Improving the health of pregnant women and their baby’s through the development of shared internet a Nom de la personne de contact : Van der Weg Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Development of e-health programs for pregnant women to change the lifestyle from pregnant women (reduce smoking, drug abuse, alcohol consumption, unhealthy eating) / Improving the health of pregnant women and their baby’s through the development of shared internet and mobile telephone services. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Sexual health of the non residential population in harbour cities Nom de la personne de contact : Evert van der Veen Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The harbours around the Canal are confronted with complexity of problems concerning sexual health through prostitution (by women and men) and a large non residential population (sailors, truck drivers, illegal immigrants). Policies dealing with these problems are few and concentrate mostly on controlling the problems. It is likely that the situation in the harbour cities around the two seas is similar. There is little information on the health status of these groups, but it is likely that there are alarming health issues. In Africa and North America investigations showed that many truck drivers are carrier of sexual transmitted infections (STI). The Rotterdam-Rijnmond Public Health Service proposes a project to investigate the health situation of the above mentioned group. On the basis of experiments in harbour cities in the region such as Antwerp, Dover, Dunkerque, Lille, Portsmouth, Rotterdam, Southampton we aim to get an overview of the (sexual) health situation of the non residential population. On the basis of the results we aim to formulate policies. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Enterprising Prime Human Capital (EPHC) Nom de la personne de contact : Poulton Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : To improve business start up and survival rates in partner areas that currently under perform in the formation of new enterprises and have a demographic context characterised by a rapidly ageing population. The predominately rural and sparsely populated county of Dorset and the adjoining towns of Bournemouth and Poole, located on the south central coast of England have together a population of around 700,000. The quality of the natural and coastal environment in particular is outstanding and this has made it very popular to in migrants. The demography of the area is typified by a much higher proportion of residents beyond retirement ages than both the regional and national averages. Christchurch, a town on the coast has at 30% the highest proportion of post retirement age population in the country. This situation is in part tempered by the temporary and largely transient younger population associated with the two universities located in Bournemouth. While the area is very attractive to students it is less successful in retaining those who have graduated. It suffers from a generally poor image as a business location. This area performs below the regional average in both business starts and business survival. The area enjoys the benefit of a Multi Area Agreement (MAA) with Government in recognition that by working together it has the potential to improve its economic performance. The focus of this collaboration will be on developing the local business opportunities around the Green Knowledge Economy. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :e-government Nom de la personne de contact : Philips Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : creatie van een nieuwe stadsportaal met meer toepassingen naar de burger toe... |
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Nom du projet & Date :digital imaging Nom de la personne de contact : Philips Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : gezamenlijke ontwikkeling en bevordering van internetdiensten creatie van draadloos netwerk in de regio... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Crossborder House Nom de la personne de contact : Segard Priorité du programme : 4. Priorité commune avec le programme France (Manche) - Angleterre But général du projet : Calais will shortly be only 40 minutes by train from Ashford. As a result a wide variety of new opportunities will open up on both sides of the Channel. The South East of England and the Opale Coast are to benefit from a cross border development structure, the two regions being complementary in terms of jobs and land availability. Opale Link wishes to be an actor in this development by providing support services to the new cross-border population who will live and work on the both sides of the channel. Two main orientations 1 - Make the integration of English households easier by providing them with all the information necessary to their living in France (tax system, administrative requirements, practical living…) 2 – Inform French people about the working opportunities in England, administrative and practical requirements that stem from working overseas. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Book Bridges Nom de la personne de contact : De Bodt Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : Deepening culture, exchange good practices, making cultural-economical connections between the regions ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Development of a business model for attracting and clustering bio-based chemical companies in a mari Nom de la personne de contact : Verslype Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : Development of a business model for attracting and clustering bio-based chemical companies in a maritime environment... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Sustainable Development of Regional Airport (SuDeRA) Nom de la personne de contact : van Hooff Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : For both economic development and logistics regional airports play an increasingly important role. In economic development we see that not only logistics companies settle them near an airport but also innovative high tech and other companies. Also the tourist industry (city trips, etc.) profits from the presence of an airport. Furthermore, we see that the position of the regional airports has improved because of the autonomous growth of these airports in recent years. This is caused by the upswing of so-called low cost carriers and also because of the fact that the major airports face capacity problems and long clearance times. More and more business travel, but also tourist charters and freight flights make use of regional airports. On the other hand, the growth is associated with problems. Like in many regions in Europe, the regional airports in the Two Seas region are situated in densely populated areas. This goes with problems in terms of noise (nuisance), air, space (shortage) and it gives problems for further developments (growth). Besides these bottlenecks connectivity is also an issue. How can we make good connections between the various transport modes (flight, boat and train / bus) now the intensity of transport to and from regional airports increases? To overcome these problems and to strengthen the logistic position and economic development of the regions, the main aim of this project is to transform the further development of regional airports in a sustainable way. ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Museums & Sustainability Nom de la personne de contact : Jackson Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : We wish to explore the changing relationship with the land in relation to the wider sustainability agenda: environmental, social & economic. The project is divided into 3 areas, reflecting this triple bottom line: Environmental: the project would reflect the changing use of the land and patterns of work and the role of museums in supporting the green agenda. The collections and sites of rural life museums naturally lend themselves to exploring themes relevant to climate change Social: linked to aspects of wellbeing, the social sustainability work draws upon the collections to identify historic happiness & the personal stories behind the collections. This is also built around the concept of the museum as a social provider for its community through active volunteering & apprenticeship roles. Economic: the project is aimed at integrating the sustainability agenda into the site as a whole, enabling museums to develop a new relevance for their collections, attract new audiences & sustain existing visitors through the offer of new attractions... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Transport by Water making use of Flexible Container Terminals (TBW-FCT) Nom de la personne de contact : mr. A.J. Rook Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : For large-scale urban construction work it is necessary to transport many goods to and from building sites. Together with the transport of many other goods to the cities, this transport causes increasing traffic congestion in and around the cities. To reduce these problems alternative means of transport are being avidly looked for. These exist theoretically: rivers and/or canals offer a wonderful system of supply and removal in towns which could be used for ‘Heavy Transport”. However, proper loading and unloading facilities (terminals) are often lacking to implement these transport means. Developing flexible loading and unloading facilities will enable better transport by water. In addition, these flexible terminals could also be used – later – to experiment with more city distribution by water. The objective of this project is, therefore, to make more and better use of the transport options by water by experimenting with a network of flexible inland container terminals in urban areas in the Two Seas Programme Area.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :The Business Community Partnership (BCP) Social Enterprise Activity Plan Nom de la personne de contact : Emma Priorité du programme : 1. Création d'une zone accessible, attractive et compétitive au niveau économique But général du projet : - Support the development of a thriving culture of social enterprise in the city of Brighton & Hove - Training and knowledge sharing activity, workshops and networking meetings to support development of the social enterprise sector in the cross-border region - Develop broad membership network - Support for transfer of skills from private to social enterprise and attract business support. - Develop communications strategy to broadcast social enterprise achievements - Improve awareness of social enterprise within public sector contracting and procurement - Improve the chances of social enterprise to deliver public services ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :SCHELDEBOORDEN / KOP Nom de la personne de contact : Verschueren Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : The general aim is the identification and promotion of the Scheldt river banks in terms of social and cultural history, architecture and planned open spaces, including promenades and a park.... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Bike to work in harbour environments Nom de la personne de contact : Dupuis Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : To increase functional (and touristic) cycling in port areas (commuting to companies in port areas). ... |
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Nom du projet & Date :Interregional Heritage Forum / Forum interregional du Patrimoine / Interregionaal erfgoedforum Nom de la personne de contact : LINTERS Priorité du programme : 3. Amélioration de la qualité de vie But général du projet : In the Euregion countless associations, volunteers, institutes and private enterprises advocate for and are involved in the research, conservation, interpretation and presentation of heritage. It’s a pity that little contacts across borders have been established. To remedy this situation a project to promote cross-border contacts and mutual co-operation and exchange of information is proposed, an interregional heritage forum. ---- Dans l’eurégion associations, bénévoles, institutions et entreprises se sont engagés dans la conservation et la mise en valeur du patrimoine. Néanmoins les contacts et la coopération entre ces acteurs manquent. Un projet est proposé pour promouvoir les contacts transfrontaliers ainsi que la coopération et l’échange d’informations, un forum interrégional du patrimoine ---- In de euregio zetten verenigingen, vrijwilligers, instellingen en gespecialiseerde bedrijven zich in voor behoud en ontsluiting van erfgoed. Toch bestaat er nog te weinig contact en samenwerking. Om dit te verhelpen wordt een project voorgesteld om onderlinge contacten en samenwerking inzake erfgoed te bevorderen, een ‘interregionaal erfgoedforum’.... |
