[01/07/2010-14/10/2010] Roads in remote northerly areas are particularly vulnerable to the effects of harsh climate, and can be heavily affected by severe weather, avalanches and rockfalls leading to accidents or close calls every winter and by flooding from snow melt during spring. The needs of communities for continuous operation of transportation systems put demands on...
[16/02/2009-30/06/2010] The aim of the project is to create a good platform to facilitate the expansion of Creative Industries (CI) in the NPP-area and to use the creative industry as a catalyst to inform and influence business innovation in related sectors. The aim is to combine local cultural activities in creative industries and non creative industries. The project wi...
[01/09/2010-28/02/2011] A Pan regional initiative focused on creating and piloting a practical model for the sustainable growth of regional Creative Economy (CE) businesses. Primarily achieved through access to export development and increased interaction with the wider business ecosystem, in the NPP regions.
[15/08/2008-18/03/2009] The project seeks to ensure sustainable development of natural and community resources by developing transnational cooperation concerning artisan food processing, based on raw material coming from typical natural resources of the Northern Periphery Area, mainly berries, herbs, mushrooms and milk. It seeks to develop the potential of artisan food pr...
[06/03/2008-06/08/2008] The project will develop and implement an ICT-service that supports entrepreneurs/ SMEs in the NP area, which are dependent on nature-based resources to generate environmentally and economically sustainable business opportunities in tourism. The end users are primarily entrepreneurs and SMEs in the NP area, who wish to generate tourism business out...
[10/08/2007-31/10/2007] This project aims to help preserve a range of traditional crafts and use the survival of these crafts to show young people that it is possible to create new, viable employment in rural areas. The work will be done via showcasing the crafts in a structured museum-like setting, illustrating the history of the craft, where the craft is carried out on ...
[01/03/2009-23/03/2010] The project aims to clarify the problems, challenges and opportunities associated with the design of various foundations for transmission-line towers, pipelines (for oil, gas or water), buildings and road structures, such as bridges and gutters, in permafrost regions threatened by climate changes.The effects of climate changes are e.g. that permafr...
[21/09/2010-21/03/2011] The difficulties in the export sector as a result of the global economic downturn highlight the challenge that many SMEs are very dependent on few major domestic customers. Therefore solutions should be created how to help SMEs address and reach new markets with existing and new products. Nonetheless, before the SMEs currently active in domestic ma...
[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...
[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...
[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...
[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 ...
[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...
[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...
[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 ...
[01/09/2009-28/02/2010] 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 ...
[01/10/2007-31/03/2008] 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...
[15/10/2007-07/03/2008] The proposed transnational project will quantify the impact of projected climate change on vulnerable low-lying coastal communities and habitats. Additionally, the project will develop a range of mitigation and adaptation policies, focussed at the local scale, for the use of coastal planners, local stakeholders and communities. Finally, the proje...
[22/10/2007-06/03/2008] Poor levels of stakeholder involvement and community engagement in the management of the local natural and cultural heritage have had an adverse impact on public awareness of the economic and social value of these resources and reduced their value to local economies in peripheral rural areas In addition, low levels of awareness of recreational pro...
[01/01/2011-20/03/2011] The project aims derive from increasing concerns that recruitment and retention of high quality health care personnel to remote rural areas is becoming more difficult and more expensive. As these concerns increase the confidence that remote rural area inhabitants have that their health care needs will be met is undermined; putting the very survival...
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[01/02/2009-23/03/2010] The project goal is to strengthen the villages (=village action groups) to actively handle change and find innovative solutions in the matters concerning them. The project develops tools for villages to take action and to preserve and strengthen their identity. The project strengthens the relations between the villages and the local administration...
[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...
[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...
[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...
[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...
[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...
[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...
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