Projects

Project summary:

DiverSea develops novel marine observation and monitoring technology by combining: 1a) The new DNA-based identification approach “DNA-marks”: This approach will harnesses low coverage/cost genomic data to document genetic diversity and discriminate beyond species, to the population and individual level.

This joint Japan-Greece symposium will identify the main sustainability challenges facing islands in Japan and Greece. The participants will explore the potential of different solutions to enhance the sustainability of islands in an inclusive manner, as well as explore opportunities for cross-country application.

Η παρούσα Μελέτη αφορά  στην εκπόνηση περιβαλλοντικής μελέτης επί του πάρκου Ριζάρη.

The CATALYST project “European VET Excellence Centre for Leading Sustainable Systems and Business Transformation” is designed with strong vision and motivation to contribute to realisation of the European Green Deal and the new Industrial and SME Strategies.

An international network of researchers is working with policymakers and the business sector to better understand how the water-energy-food Nexus fosters policy coherence in the domains of water, energy and food, supporting the transition towards a circular and low-carbon economy in Europe. Focus is on job creation, enhancing wellbeing and care for the environment.

The primary goal of Cooperation Partnerships is to allow organizations to increase the quality and relevance of their activities, to develop and reinforce their networks of partners, to increase their capacity to operate jointly at transnational level, boosting internationalization of their activities and through exchanging or developing new practices and methods as well as sharing and confronting ideas. They aim to support the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices as well as the implementation of joint initiatives promoting cooperation, peer learning and exchanges of experience at European level. Results should be re-usable, transferable, up-scalable and, if possible, have a strong transdisciplinary dimension. Selected projects will be expected to share the results of their activities at local, regional, national level and transnational level.

IMPETUS will develop and validate a coherent multi-scale, multi-level, cross-sectoral climate change adaptation framework to accelerate the transition towards a climate-neutral and sustainable economy.

BRIDGE aims to understand how the multi-stressors impact Black Sea ecosystems and alter the sustainability of ecosystem services provided to society.  Building on a unique concept linking oceanographic dynamics to resilience, ecosystem services, multi-stressors and innovation in Blue Growth; BRIDGE will deploy an interdisciplinary approach building on past and ongoing initiatives and using stakeholder knowledge.

The LIFE Programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental and climate policy and legislation by co-financing projects with European added value.

Ο κύριος στόχος του AWESOME είναι η ανάπτυξη μιας πλατφόρμας ανάλυσης αποφάσεων βασισμένης σε ένα πολυεπίπεδο ολοκληρωμένο μοντέλο WEF για την καλύτερη κατανόηση των πολυτομεακών διαπραγματεύσεων του WEF και για την αξιοποίηση πιθανών συνεργειών, καθώς και για την διερεύνηση των αλληλεξαρτήσεων και των ανατροφοδοτήσεων σε μια ιεραρχία χωρικών κλιμάκων, από τη μακροοικονομική ανάπτυξη της περιοχής της Μεσογείου έως τον περιφερειακό σχεδιασμό σε επίπεδων λεκανών απορροής ποταμών, μέχρι το μεμονωμένο αγρόκτημα.

Πρόγραμμα της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής Globaqua FP7: χρηματοδοτούμενο έργο από την ΕΕ. Κύριος  στόχος του GLOBAQUA είναι η καλύτερη κατανόηση του τρόπου βελτίωσης των τρεχουσών πρακτικών και πολιτικών διαχείρισης των υδάτων, προσδιορίζοντας τα κύρια μειονεκτήματα και εναλλακτικές λύσεις συμβάλλοντας στην διαχείριση των επιπτώσεων πολλών στρεσογόνων παραγόντων σε υδρόβια οικοσυστήματα υπό συνθήκες λειψυδρία.

Ο στόχος του Global IQ είναι να προσφέρει σημαντική πρόοδο στην ανάληψη πολιτικής δράσης τόσο για τον μετριασμό των επιπτώσεων της κλιματικής αλλαγής όσο και για τον εντοπισμό των πιο συναφών στρατηγικών προσαρμογής στον περιβαλλοντικό τομέα.

 Το TROPOS στοχεύει στην ανάπτυξη ενός πλωτού σπονδυλωτού συστήματος πλατφορμών πολλαπλών χρήσεων για χρήση σε βαθιά νερά, εστιάζοντας αρχικά στις μεσογειακές, τροπικές και υποτροπικές περιοχές, ενώ είναι σχεδιασμένο ώστε να είναι αρκετά ευέλικτο και να μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί και σε άλλες γεωγραφικές περιοχές.

CIGESMED’s goal is to understand the links between natural and anthropogenic pressures and ecosystem functioning to define and maintain the Good Environmental Status (GES?) of the Mediterranean Sea, by studying the typical, complex and not well known habitats built by calcareous encrusting algea, the coralligen.

The Project comprises a consortium of leading scientists to integrate river, lake and wetland ecosystem science at the catchments scale. It focuses on the key drivers of aquatic ecosystem change (land-use, nutrients, acid deposition and toxic substances) and examines their interactions with global, especially climate, change using time-series analysis, space-for-time substitution, palaeolimnology, experiments and process modelling.

The general scientific objectives of SESAME are to assess and predict changes in the Mediterranean and Black Sea ecosystems as well as changes in the ability of these ecosystems to provide goods and services.

The ARID Cluster will review and consolidate the work of three currently funded EU projects with a view at ensuring that through collaboration, information sharing and dissemination a consistent set of recommendations and user friendly tools and methodologies for water management in arid and semi arid areas are developed.

(FP5) SUSTAINIS: Αειφόρος χρήση του νερού στα μεσογειακά νησιά: συνθήκες, εμπόδια και προοπτικές

The Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) has invited Prof. Phoebe Koundouri to review the final report of the study “Economic Valuation of Groundwater in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi”. EAD has commissioned RTI to conduct an economic valuation of groundwater in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

The overall objective of the proposed study is to provide OpenAIRE with an accurate estimation of the benefits and costs of the OpenAIRE infrastructure and to build a sustainable business model for the continuation of OpenAIRE beyond the life-time of the project funding.

The objective of this proposal is to bring to the forefront the importance of the appropriate handling of technological heterogeneity, attached to alternative technological structures and/or regimes, when evaluating environmental performance and designing related policies.