Das Projekt "Nachhaltige Nutzung Mariner Ressourcen (Submariner) - Interreg IVB BSR Project" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Instytut Morski w Gdansku durchgeführt. The Baltic Sea Region (BSR) faces enormous challenges including growing transport, new installations, fishery declines, severe marine pollution with excessive nutrient input and the effects of climate change. But the future is not all bleak: novel technologies and growing knowledge provide opportunities for new uses of marine ecosystems, which may in the future not only have commercial appeal but also contribute to solve environmental problems. Algae and mussel cultivation reduce nutrient inflow while providing a source for bioenergy; offshore wind farms can smartly be combined with mariculture or wave energy installations; blue biotechnology utilises substances from marine organisms for development of new products that can improve overall BSR health. All these uses and technologies have, however, not been tested sufficiently within the fragile conditions of the Baltic Sea and their cumulative impacts on the environment, economic feasibility and regional applicability are not yet fully understood. It is thus currently difficult for decision-makers to judge which uses are most desirable and what actions are necessary to create a framework beneficial to their development while discouraging potentially damaging uses. SUBMARINER builds the road for furthering those environmentally friendly as well as economically appealing innovative uses within the BSR, thus contributing toward its aim to become a model region for sustainable sea management.
Das Projekt "Northern seas wind index database (NORSEWIND)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von OLDBAUM Services Limited durchgeführt. NORSEWInD is a programme designed to provide a wind resource map covering the Baltic, Irish and North Sea areas. The project will acquire highly accurate, cost effective, physical data using a combination of traditional Meteorological masts, ground based remote sensing instruments (LiDAR & SoDAR) and Satellite acquired SAR winds. The vertical resolution of the ground based instruments will be used to calibrate the Satellite data to provide hub height, real world data. The resultant wind map will be the first stop for all potential developers in the regions being examined, and as such represents an important step forward in quantifying the quality of the wind resource available offshore. The techniques employed are fully transferrable, meaning that they can be repeated in any offshore environment. This will be showcased in the NORSEWInD validation task. Remote sensing has a hugely important role to play within the wind industry, and their use within the NORSEWInD programme to reduce the cost and increase the accuracy of offsore wind measurements will increase acceptance and showcase the ability and power of the techniques.
Das Projekt "Safe and Reliable Transport of Dangerous Goods in the Baltic Sea Region (DaGoB)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von TuTech Innovation GmbH durchgeführt.
Das Projekt "Capacity Building in Nordwest-Russland zum Management gefährlicher Stoffe" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Baltic Environmental Forum Group Latvia durchgeführt. Durch das Beratungshilfeprogramm des BMU werden Staaten Mittel- und Osteuropas, Südosteuropas, im Südkaukasus und in Zentralasien sowie die Russische Förderation bei der Verbesserung des Umweltschutzes, der Stärkung ihrer Umweltverwaltungen und beim Aufbau der Zivilgesellschaft unterstützt. Der im November 2007 Baltic Sea Action Plan legt fest, dass der Eintrag gefährlicher Stoffe in die Ostsee verringert werden muss. Gerade in Russland genügen die technischen Standards von Industrieanlagen, Kläranlagen und der Landwirtschaft oftmals nicht den europäischen Anforderungen und Abwässer aus Industrieanlagen oder Haushalten werden nicht ausreichend gereinigt in die Ostsee eingeleitet. Im Rahmen des Projekts informieren sich Vertreter/Innen relevanter russischer Verwaltungen über die Grundlagen der Klassifizierung und Bewertung gefährlicher Stoffe in der EU. Das Projekt leistet mit dieser Schulungsmaßnahme einen wichtigen Beitrag zur erfolgreichen Umsetzung des Baltic Sea Action Plan.
Das Projekt "SINCOS II: Sinking Coasts - Geosphere, Climate and Anthroposphere of the Holocene Southern Baltic Sea - Submarine Forschungen zur Erteböllekultur - Lebens- und Umweltverhältnisse zur Zeit der Neolithisierung in Schleswig-Holstein" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, Archäologisches Landesmuseum durchgeführt.
Das Projekt "Entwicklung der Wirbeltierfauna und die damit im Zusammenhang stehenden Umweltveränderungen im Holozän im südwstlichen Ostseegebiet mit besonderer Beobachtung der Mecklenburger Bucht" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, Archäologisches Landesmuseum durchgeführt. Ziel ist es, Kenntnisse über die Wirbeltierfauna und deren Wandel im Holozän insbesondere in der Mecklenburger Bucht zu erlangen. Ein Schwerpunkt dabei betrifft die Auswirkungen der Littorina-Transgression, in deren Verlauf - etwas zwischen 6700 und 6400 calBC - dieses Gebiet unter marinen Einfluss geriet. Die vor allen auf heute submarinen steinzeitlichen Siedlungsplätzen gefundenen Tierknochen bewerten nach Artenzusammensetzung und Artenhäufigkeit den klimatischen Wandel mit seinen Auswirkungen auf Vegetation und Landschaft.
Das Projekt "Intermodality and interoperability in the Baltic Sea Region (InterBaltic)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von TuTech Innovation GmbH durchgeführt.
Das Projekt "Enhanced co-operation between EU member states and associated candidate states in maritime research on transport (ENCOMAR - TRANSPORT)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Center of Maritime Technologies e.V. durchgeführt. Objective: ENCOMAR-TRANSPORT aims to improve co-operation between the new member states, applicant countries as well as Russia, Ukraine and Turkey in the maritime fields. ENCOMAR-TRANSPORT has two general strategic objectives:- to support the integration of the new member states, applicant countries, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey into the European Maritime Research Area, thus supporting EU policies and the formation of ERA- to support the goals defined in the maritime part of the Sustainable Surface Priority of the 6 th Framework Programme. To support integration, ENCOMAR-TRANSPORT will help to jointly use R&D potentials and resources.ENCOMAR-TRANSPORT will promote a culture of innovation and fertilize participation of SMEs in European research. Technically, enhan ced exchange of information, technology transfer and research cooperation initiated by the project will help to meet demands of European transport policy and to the objectives of the sustainable surface transportpriority. Particular focus will be on:- S hipbuilding and -repair, including ship equipment manufacturers and maritime service providers,- Waterborne (long-haul, short sea and inland waters) transport in Europe.- Maritime Transport safety will especially focus on transport of dangerous goods to a void environmental- hazards in European waters, the Baltic and Mediterranean and Black Sea.- Efficient transport of marine natural resources is in the focus as well. The following activities will be undertaken:- Creation of a Network of Maritime R&D N ational Contact Points.- Inform about potentials and activities of European research in the new member states and neighbours of the EU by workshops in those countries. Inform research community and industry about the potential of countries not yet integra ted in European research.
Das Projekt "SINCOS: Sinking Coasts - Geosphere, Ecosphere and Anthroposphere of the Holocene Southern Baltic Sea - Part 1.4: Changing sea levels and (semi)terrestrial landscape development in the Baltic Sea coastral area, with special attention to the role of the Darss Sill" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Institut für Botanik und Landschaftsökologie, Lehrstuhl für Landschaftsökologie und Ökosystemdynamik durchgeführt. The research unit SINCOS, established by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, has been started in September 2002. The general target is the development of a model of the relation between geo-system, eco-system, climate and socio-economic system for sinking coasts of tideless seas to be developed as an example for the southern Baltic Sea since the Atlantikum. Geoscientists (geologists, geomorphologists, geodesists), biologists (palaeobotanists, palaezoologists), climate researchers and archaeologists will collaborate in order to investigate the cause and effect relation between driving forces (climatic and geological processes) and the response of the natural and social environment in the coastal areas of a transgressive sea. The reconstruction of the Litorina transgression west and east of the Darss sill structure plays the central role. Seven projects under the roof of SINCOS will deal with the acquisition and interpretation of proxy-data in order to reconstruct the history of the southwestern Baltic Sea since 8.000 calendar years BC. In the frame of two projects data will be integrated and models will be developed that mirror the processes of interrelation of different spheres to be investigated. Depending on the varying degree of quantification between measurable variables and qualitative observations models will differ between statistical data exploration and deterministic differential equations. A 4D GIS plays the central role in modelling and data integration. Results will be presented as time-dependent regionalizations of geo-, eco-, and socio-economical parameters. Simulations of future relative sea level change scenarios based on models developed are planned.
Das Projekt "BALTIC 21: Enhancement of Sustainable Management and Economic Development of the Small Scale Private Forest Sector in Estonia" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Hamburg, Arbeitsbereich für Weltforstwirtschaft und Institut für Weltforstwirtschaft des Friedrich-Löffler-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit durchgeführt. Background: In the framework of the Forest Sector Programme of BALTIC 21 the Institute for World Forestry of the Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products launched a project with the Estonian Private Forest Centre (PFC) in 2002. Main goals are the strengthening of the forest associations and the enhancement of sustainable forest management in the small scale forest sector in Estonia. The project consists of extension, training and forest technical components. Although the interest of forest owners in associations is increasing, only 2 percent of all private forest owners are organized in associations. The situation is characterized by reluctance and criticism against all types of cooperatives and a low general interest of new forest owners towards their new property. With this background a concept for transferability of know-how and experiences made in Germany was elaborated between the cooperating partners. Objectives: Key issues of the cooperation were: - Strengthening the existing forest owners associations in Estonia; - Improvement of the effectiveness of the existing extension service; - Enhancement of sustainable management practice through the establishment of demonstration plots; - Initiating a dialogue between forest owners and hunters on compensation issues for game damage; Creating awareness on forest related EU regulations concerning subsidisation. Results: The means of implementation mainly comprised mutual visits and information exchange on the relevant topics. In several workshops and conferences information was disseminated among Estonian forest advisors who act as multiplier for forest owners. On the practical level various long-term demonstration sites for thinning regimes and afforestation techniques were established. Advantages and shortcomings of forest owners associations, legal aspects in hunting and EU regulations on subsidisation and the NATURA 2000 process were analyzed and evaluated by several Estonian-German tandem teams of consultants.
