[01/07/2013-31/03/2014] This project aims to draw together the expertise from both commercial companies and research institutes in Norway, Iceland and Russia to rigorously evaluate, develop and optimise welfare and quality protocols for a range of crustacean species that are fished in the Atlantic and northern Arctic region. The project will facilitate the transfer of exi...
[15/08/2013-31/03/2014] The idea of this project is to show that local renewable energy can vitalise regional industrial and business development, and will contribute both to a more robust development of the regions within the Northern Periphery and to an environment friendly industrial production reducing the carbon leakage. The project defines itself within priority ar...
[01/07/2013-31/03/2014] Main ObjectiveThe development of a full NPP project that will implement, refine and develop a suite of innovation supports across 70 manufacturing SME’s in NPP region with the aim of giving them new skills, expertise, tools and concepts to allow them increase global competitiveness and be innovative leaders in their sectors. Following the im...
[01/07/2013-31/03/2014] The Community and Business toolkit for marine renewable Energy Development (MaRET) will provide leading-edge knowledge, guidelines and strategies for developing renewable energy resources, the objectives of the MaRET are to strengthen communities’ ability to successfully build a competitive renewable energy industry. The toolkit will guide th...
[15/10/2008-15/03/2009] The project will seek to facilitate and promote the development of aspects of the marine tourism sector such as fisheries tourism and seafood based experiences. These are essential new industries for many peripheral communities. These industries are innovative in that they aim to fuse together local marine-based knowledge, culture, heritage and pro...
[01/11/2010-20/03/2011] The project’s main idea is to develop a model of how to improve the availability and accessibility of public and commercial services in rural and remote areas and of how to improve the collaboration between urban and rural areas.
[06/07/2007-31/12/2007] MyHealth@Age aims to improve health and safety for elderly people living in urban and rural areas in the Northern Periphery region. Through co-operation with elderly people and Healthcare/Welfare Organizations requirements will be identified leading to implementation of new products and improved care delivery paradigms. Anticipated functionality i...
[15/04/2010-14/10/2010] The NEES Project is founded on the idea that the Northern Periphery Programme area has the tradition, skills, resources and demand required to take a lead in the area of products and services for natural energy efficiency and sustainability, and to consolidate this lead as an economic, social and environmental asset for the benefit of the region. ...
[15/08/2007-06/03/2008] The main objective of the Main Project will be to improve the overall business, lifestyle, landscape and learning opportunities in each partner country. This will be achieved by identifying and assessing plants suitable for the Northern Periphery Area and developing new best practice guidelines for the propagation of the plant stock. This will uti...
[01/08/2013-31/03/2014] The fundamental problem is that current methods of sea lice control are to ineffective and unsustainable. Development of effective and sustainable methods is urgently needed. The innovative approach of biological control addresses the basic need of the producers of Atlantic salmon to remain financially competitive with regard to A. salmon aquacultu...
[01/06/2009-01/03/2010] What the NFD project aims to achieve is to make accessible to locals and to the world the wealth that resides in traditional music and dance of the North-Atlantic nations. Furthermore, preservation by means of recording and educating is a core element of the project, to strengthen important features of peoples’ culture. By establishing cooper...
[15/10/2007-06/03/2008] The product created by the main project will be a Super Northern Marathons Series (name to be decided) based in Northern Europe, which will have a transnational nature and will exploit the diversified characteristics of the Northern Periphery Region to create a unique selling point. Its component parts will be the already existing mass participatio...
[10/08/2007-06/03/2008] Forests cover large areas in the NPP territory and are an important basis for economic activities in the Northern Periphery regions, sustaining local communities. In Finland, more than 80% of the NPP territory is covered with forests, while in Sweden and Scotland the forest cover is approximately 50 and 25%. Together, they constitute the vast majo...
[13/07/2010-14/10/2010] The project aims to develop a system that will make renewable energy storage feasible at a community level allowing rural communities to use the energy in the community and even aim for grid independence. The basic concept is to dynamically match the price of electricity with the quantity generated. For example, when it is very windy, the electrici...
[15/02/2010-28/02/2011] Central for the idea of the project is that the creative industries will grow and be one of the future's industries globally, and in the NPP area as well. With this project, we want to strengthen the positive development that occurs in the NPP area. The creative industries are permanently in need of new ideas, methods and new labour in order ...
[15/02/2012-02/05/2012] The purpose of the main project ESC is to develop technology, means and standards for intelligent control of energy consumption, renewable small scale energy production, and energy storages to secure availability of energy for rural communities. In this project the main forms of energy produced are heat and electricity but cooling is covered to a l...
[22/11/2007-03/03/2007] The project idea relates to business development: “Incorporating topics and ideas surrounding innovation and innovation systems, entrepreneurship models and service provision with a business development perspective”. The project focuses on diversifying traditional rural economies both at strategic and operational levels by a) identi...
[22/10/2008-18/03/2009] The RASLWES project is the implementation of an innovative, supply chain development approach within the partner regions to stimulate renewable energy deployment, with a focus on wood energy technologies. The WDC has mapped out the approach and its potential economic impact in the completed feasibility reports the Regional Wood Energy Strategy and...
[20/02/2012-30/04/2012] The main objective of the project is to develop an integrated care service for people with dementia in the Northern Periphery that supports ageing in place and more cost-efficient care of people with dementia. One under-pinning assumption is that if a template of care works well for the challenging group of people with dementia, then it can easil...
[08/02/2008-31/05/2008] The basic project idea is to find out the most important factors for running sustainable and competitive retail shops in rural areas for the mutual benefit of the businesses and the inhabitants. This knowledge will be used as a base for providing individuals, businesses and local authorities with services such as consultations, training and educati...
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