NET-COM aims at boosting the Covenant of Mayors implementation through exchange of experience, improved communication and networking of local authority networks.
The project is led by Energy Cities and funded by the Intelligent Energy Europe programme.
The project started in June 2011 and will last until December 2013.
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The objective of the cooperation is to support the capacity building of the environmental administration of the city of St. Petersburg in order to improve the level of environmental planning, management and monitoring in the city.
cooperation between Finnish cities and St Petersburg

The website of the Committee of Nature use, Environment Protection and Ecological Safety of the City of St Petersburg www.infoeco.ru was launched in December 2009 as a new service for citizens. Now it would be a good time to develop it further by filling with new attractive elements and to increase the use of the portal and to get to the new level of communication with citizens.

During the project, the different channels of communication are analyzed and incorporated with the launched website. Use of social medias will be tested as a new approach of passing information to the targeted audiences. Also the use of the websites will be increased by thorough visitor analyses of the sites.
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A Baltic Sea Region programme project BSR InnoShip will start in October 2010. The project will promote new and innovative transnational approach to mitigate the different needs and interests of the maritime sector and to ensure a more viable management of the Baltic Sea resources. The project will provide the needed knowledge and best practices for the policy- and decision-makers in development and joint implementation of national and transnational policies, strategies and concrete measures to implement the international low emission requirements. The project is a part of flagship project under the Priority Area four in the EU Strategy and Action Plan for the Baltic Sea Region. UBC EnvCom will be responsi-ble for Work Package 5 which aims at facilitating and promoting awareness raising and exchange of experiences of the accumulated experiences and knowledge.

Contact: Mia Hytti, Project Coordinator
Mob: +358 40 139 5016
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The main goal of the project is to implement concrete, voluntary actions that will reduce the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea.
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Responding to climate change effects through mitigation or adaptation measures is a big challenge for cities already now and this challenge will increase in the future. How this challenge can be met through implementing an integrated management system is subject to “CHAMP – Climate Change Response through Managing Urban Europe 27 Platform” project.
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NEW BRIDGES project will contribute to making the Baltic Sea Region an attractive and competitive region to live and work in. The aim of the project is to improve the management of urban rural interactions. This will be done through introducing the concept of quality of life to the regional planning practices.
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The BaltCICA Project is designed to focus on the most imminent problems that climate change is likely to cause in the Baltic Sea Region. The concentration of large parts of the population and many larger cities in coastal areas make it especially sensitive to climate change. Changes in precipitation and flood patterns (river floods as well as storm surges) as well as sea level rise can be expected. This affects not only the built environment but also water availability and quality.
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The project will show how environmental policy can be turned into concrete citizen-oriented actions which motivate and help citizens to change their behaviour. The project concentrates on activities in the areas of sustainable transport and housing with a special focus on energy and resource management. Various activities are planned, from extensive awareness raising campaigns to concrete buidling of bike shelters etc.
The project is led by the city of Umeå, UBC EnvCom is one of the partners.
Project duration: 2010-2014
GREENCIT is funded by LIFE+

More information:
Carina Aschan, project manager, carina.aschan(at)umea.se

UBC EnvCom is a partner in the new three-year ELTISplus project on promoting and enhancing sustainable urban mobility across Europe. The project objective is twofold: to maintain, improve and enhance the image, awareness, use and usefulness of ELTIS - the European Local Transport Information Service – portal and to gain further awareness and acceptance of the concept Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) and to accelerate the development and uptake of SUMPs by competent authorities across Europe.

The ELTISplus project partners will organize a series of workshops and other events on sustainable urban mobility plans in all the EU Member States. UBC EnvCom is responsible for the workshops in the Baltic Sea Region countries. The workshops are targeted to cities (e.g. politicians, decision-makers, authorities), researchers, consultants and other implementers such as urban and transport planners, and to energy, health and environmental actors. The first national events will take place in autumn 2010.
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Lauri Hooli, firstname.familyname@ubc.net

LVRLAC and UBC established a co-operation project in the year 2000. This co-operation project is part of the comprehensive initiative of EAC and SIDA and is also funded by SIDA.
The purpose of the project is to transfer knowledge through co-operation between UBC and LVRLAC. In the long run the goal is to improve the administrative and institutional capacities of the local authorities in the Lake Victoria Region, in order to promote sustainable development and improve the standard of living of the inhabitants. In order to create a long-term effect, the project takes into close consideration local needs and conditions and applies a step-by-step approach.
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