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Yorkshire and the Humber
IPENS
Improvement Programme for England's Natura 2000 Sites
York
Conservation
The aim of this strategic project is to prepare, on the basis of the approach of the Priority Action Frameworks (PAFs), concrete and operational measures for the Natura 2000 network. This project will develop a programmed approach for achieving target conservation status on all Natura 2000 sites in England. It will work with key stakeholders at national and regional levels, in the public, private and voluntary sectors, to help them adopt and implement this strategic approach. The programme structure will contain a detailed overview of the Natura 2000 network in England, including a review of its contribution to biodiversity in the EU.
Sports, Media, Arts in Recognised Training
Pontefract
Sport
The objective of the project was to use 'sport' to bring together the participants (from a variety of backgrounds and including participants with physical disabilities) to a 2-week period placement in companies, thereby putting into practice existing and new-sought knowledge within a work environment. This work placement sought to build upon competencies and scaffold new experiences and skills set aligned to participants' professional development. An equal importance was placed on the social and cultural development of individuals and participants were offered opportunities through informal and semi-structured activities.
European Communication Professionals Skills & Innovation Programme (ECOPSI)
Leeds
Education
The project aims to further develop the understanding of communication management practice across the European landscape in order to identify the future skills needs of practitioners and to enhance their on-going communication management skills development through lifelong learning.
CRESCENDO
Coordinated Research in Earth Systems and Climate: Experiments, kNowledge, Dissemination and Outreach
Leeds
Climate and environment
The CRESCENDO project, led by Colin Jones from the University of Leeds and UK Met Office, works to facilitate a coordinated European effort to provide the best possible future climate projections to governments and decision-makers. Its key objectives involve improving the representation of key biogeochemical and aerosol processes in European Earth System Models, diagnosing key Earth system feedbacks and their role in future system change, and ensuring this new data is made available to the international research community.
Earth System Models are mathematical descriptions of the real world aimed at better understanding how our planet works, considering in particular the links between the oceans, vegetation, ice and desert, gases in the atmosphere, and the carbon cycle. This scope and detail make Earth System Models the primary tools for calculating the effects of future greenhouse gases emissions.
http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/196812_en.html
SEEDS
Stimulating Enterprising Environments for Development and Sustainability
Sheffield
Redevelopment
Abandoned buildings and empty spaces make places look rundown and uncared for, threatening economic competiveness and communities' sense of worth and well-being. Based on transnational knowledge sharing and cooperation, the SEEDS project wanted to turn this around and show how abandoned places could become catalysts for change.
The innovative approach for SEEDS was the notion that vacant space could be used as a tool to address the challenges of a slow economy, social exclusion, lack of job readiness and restrictive and uncoordinated spatial planning policies that were no longer fit for purpose.
£ 767,548 of ERDF funding was allocated to project partners in the United Kingdom. In Sheffield and Rotherham, SEEDS re-used empty shops, making it possible for small business owners to rent a section of a shop and take turns running it. This gave artisans and craftsmen the time to continue manufacturing without the full burden of running retail premises, and provided an invaluable high street presence.
Furthermore, SEEDS used the windows of empty shops to teach how to create window displays and promote businesses, and via a second hand clothes shop in Sheffield taught all aspects of working in retail, increasing job readiness in the local area.
