BUFFER carbon + water in peatlands: landscape-based solutions for climate adaptation
Wet and healthy peatlands have a strong natural potential to save carbon and, due to their water buffering capacity, play an important role in managing periods of excessive rains or droughts. Yet, in
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finished
Modal shift, routing and nudging solutions in Nature areas for sustainable tourism
Nature areas in North-West Europe (NWE) face an increasing number of visitors (intensified by COVID-19) resulting in an increased pressure on nature, negative environmental impacts, higher management
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ongoing
Enable small/med dairy farmers to benefit from big data for holistic decision-making
HoliCow was born from the observation of a dramatical decrease in the number of small and medium-sized dairy farms in our territories. This decrease is multifactorial. First, access to technologies is
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ongoing
Creating Resilient River Systems by Mainstreaming and Upscaling Nature-based Solutions
Resilient River or ‘ResiRiver’ for short, is a project focusing on the creation of Resilient River Systems through mainstreaming and upscaling of Nature-based Solutions (NbS). In North-West Europe (NW
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ongoing
Empowering authorities to apply carbon pricing during procurement processes
DeCarb-Pro aims to reduce carbon emissions resulting from procurement by local authorities in Northwest Europe. Because public procurement has a key impact on carbon emissions. We want to achieve this
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finished
Circular Conversion Cascades to Transform Residual Biomass to Carbon Products
Per Year 37 Mio t of residual biomass are wasted in NWE, corresponding to a theoretical saving potential of >30 Mio t of CO2, which is about 2,5% of the total CO2 emission of the NWE territory. Previo
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ongoing
Aquathermal Heating and Cooling for Energy Communities
Aquathermal energy (AQE) technologies enable the extraction of heat or cold from water – surface water from rivers, canals, lakes, etc – and subsequent processing, through heat pumps, to support local
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ongoing
Scaling-up virtual rehabilitation in the NWE-region
Rehabilitation has an important role in improving the health and well-being of the population and the overall efficiency and sustainability of the health systems. The ageing of the population will inc
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ongoing
REcycling of NUtrients to close the fertiliser CYCLE
EU is importing annually > 6 Mio t of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) fertiliser. NPK pricing is coupled to energy, mining, synthesis & transport costs. Russia & Ukraine were main N sup
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ongoing
BEPROACT – Building an Ecosystem to PROACTively develop data-driven asset management
Society depends on critical infrastructure assets e.g. highways/traffic management systems, built environment and water plants to perform their purpose, be secure and reliable, and to avoid significan
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ongoing
Hemp as a driver of circularity in the textile industry: from field to recycled fibre
Hemp4Circularity is an Interreg NWE project that aims to implement an innovative, local and biobased ecological fibre - the long fibre hemp - in the textile value chain of North-West Europe, from grow
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ongoing
Scaling Up the Energy Poverty Approach
Energy poverty has been deemed a major challenge by the European Commission and “lifting vulnerable citizens out of it is an urgent task for the EU”. EU-surveys in 2021 found that energy poverty appli
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ongoing