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RENERGY
In times of excessive reliance on non-renewable fossil fuels, all its disadvantages included, the support of the production and use of renewable energies (RES) is especially important as this is one of the pre-conditions of sustainable growth. However, to strengthen European competitiveness in the energy field and ensure local economic growth, more effective local and regional level actions are needed, addressing shortcomings that jeopardise efficient planning and implementation of energy policies.
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D-AIR
Airports are increasingly vital to the prosperity of regions, as they are no longer just part of the economy, but instead increasingly define regional economic ecosystems. However, the growing economic importance and growth of airports needs to be balanced against adverse environmental impacts as emissions from civil aviation have increased significantly in the last decades and it is forecasted that air traffic will more than double by 2020.
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AT FORT
The overall objective of At Fort is to facilitate the adaptive re-use of fortified heritage sites by exploring solutions for successful approaches and methods to deal with pre-selected enabling conditions and creating better frameworks for their exploitation. These sites represent significant cultural values for the regions involved (as it is for many other regions in Europe), while at the same time they are challenging factors of regional sustainable economic development.
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PLUS
The lighting of public space accounts for 60% of public energy use in an average city. It is clear that any reduction that can be achieved will have a significant impact on total energy use and, therefore, on CO2 emissions, without forgetting the positive effects on public finances. The PLUS project makes a significant contribution to decreasing energy use and rationalizing energy consumption related to public lighting.
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ERMIS
Today, with the financial and economic downturn and resulting job losses in large enterprises, more than ever, the innovation capacity of SMEs is vital to achieve economic growth again.
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CivPro
Over the last few years, Europe’s forest fires, floods and droughts and man-made disasters have become fiercer and more intense. Some partners in the CivPro project have their own sometimes tragic experiences and some of them have such a high risk profile that risk prevention is on the top of their political agenda. Disasters have quite often a devastating effect on people’s lives, their livelihood, the economy and the environment. This has led to a further strengthening of EU and national/regional instruments in terms of the civil protection legislation.
