[20/10/2008-18/03/2009] Transportation is a specific challenge for peripheral regions where there are problems with accessibility, sparsely population, demographic change, long distances, fluctuating demand, equality of service and high dependency on private cars. New initiatives/action models for optimizing this is desperately needed to guarantee holistic sustainability ...
[01/07/2013-31/03/2014] The project idea is to create employment, socialisation and health improvement opportunities for hard-to-reach groups living within remote and rural communities. This will be achieved through the creation of a particular form of social enterprise – the Rural Community Shed. For the hard-to-reach sections of the populations in remote and ru...
[01/11/2010-21/03/2011] RYE³ aims to contribute to local, regional, national and transnational rural economic development by stimulating latent entrepreneurial abilities among young people in Northern Ireland, Faroe Islands, Finland and Greenland. This will be achieved through transferring the ‘Young Entrepreneurs Programme’(YEP), which has been delivere...
[01/07/2013-31/03/2014] The Salmonids West Project aims to develop exchange of knowledge and establishment of cooperation networks between R&D institutions and the private sector to develop best practice strategies for the long term sustainability of wild salmonids and development (such as aquaculture, wind energy, forestry, small scale hydro-schemes, agriculture, min...
[01/07/2013-31/03/2014] The aim of this preparatory project is to bring together partners to develop a proposal for a Main Project in which they, and others interested, will work together to facilitate and develop the implementation and promotion of new services and products that enable and encourage people to enjoy and experience the outdoors, engaging with remote, wild ...
[11/11/2008-25/03/2009] The final product is a number of energy producing constructions based on the Stirling technique that will serve as demonstration objects. This includes the technical constructions and an economical and technical evaluation of the system. In such a system heat is produced for heating the house and at the same time production of house hold electrici...
[20/10/2008-18/03/2009] The SMALLEST project will develop a pioneering service which offers small scale practical Renewable Energy Source (RES) options to communities for whom RES solutions are thought to be uneconomic, too difficult technologically, or too difficult in practice. The service will be achieved by using an innovative analytical tool in an applied context, m...
[01/07/2013-31/03/2014] The overall objective of the project is to verify, improve and ensure the quality of food when it gets into the hands of consumers. In order to achieve the objective a new technique for printing electronics will be used to develop new services and printed electronics applications. The printed technology is currently being developed at the PrintLab...
[01/07/2013-31/03/2014] Peripheral and Remote Airports face a range of very special challenges that this project endeavours to address. Sustaining, future-proofing and delivering community and regional resilience and connectivity with medium term, proactive responses to the special challenges of, and threats to, remote and peripheral airports/aviation is the aim of this p...
[01/09/2009-28/02/2010] Nature and adventure tourism is a quickly growing business in many rural areas within the Northern periphery area. These areas attract tourist because of the areas nature, beauty and low population density. For transport and the climate change this is a problem as with increasing number of visitors there are increasing numbers of private cars on th...
[01/03/2009-28/02/2010] The main project is expected to result in an established mobile location service, locally adapted for the integration of current web services viewed with the use of mobile phones, as an added value to visitors. The Tourist Navigator will be an implementation of a platform for the cellular phone network. It will be targeting the tourist market. The ...
[01/07/2013-31/03/2014] The overall aim of the main project, is to develop and pilot a new transnational ’best practice’ employability initiative for 16-25 year olds to help tackle the rising levels of youth unemployment across the NPP partner regions. The project will be a results focused and outcomes focused employability initiative with specific targets f...
[01/07/2013-31/03/2014] This project aims to draw together the expertise from Norway, Iceland, Scotland and Greenland, to optimise the fishing of high value sea urchins in these northern arctic regions and to develop roe fattening as a viable option to increase the value of low value sea urchins once they have been collected from the wild. This pre-project will look to fa...
[20/02/2012-02/05/2012] WARES aims to achieve long-term viable public-private renewable energy enterprise within at least 9 sites in the Northern Periphery Region using the unexploited assets of water companies in the region. The project aims to work with the water companies in each region to establish a partnership and then test the viability of renewable energy, identi...
[01/10/2007-31/03/2008] The project intends to promote innovation and competitiveness in remote and peripheral areas, respecting sustainability in line with the NPP priorities. The objective is to develop innovative business activities in sustainable waste management for peripheral areas. As an overall perspective the project wants to develop innovative and sustainable bu...
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