Good news from around Europe
The wild forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) is making a comeback in the EU. Once common in the snowy forests of north-eastern Europe and bordering Russia, the subspecies went extinct in Finland in the early 20th century. The project WildForestReindeerLIFE is now helping Finland recover its endemic species, placing this
A recent report by the LIFE-funded European Clothing Action Plan (ECAP) project says that the EU purchased over 6 million tonnes of clothing in 2015 alone. Most of those items will end up in landfills in less than five years, but their impact on the environment will last longer. Powered
Read our review of Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders, by Jaume Castan Pinos, in JBS http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08865655.2016.1222882 … pic.twitter.com/AhNLI3zCIo Powered by WPeMatico
Terror, Territory and Statehood from Al Qaeda to the Islamic State, by Jaume Castan Pinos, in African Border Disorders https://www.routledge.com/African-Border-Disorders-Addressing-Transnational-Extremist-Organizations/Walther-Miles/p/book/9781138054684 … pic.twitter.com/yN05DjZhDh Powered by WPeMatico
Dybbøl 2014: constructing Familiarity by Remembrance? by our colleague @klatt_mk in European Borderlands https://www.routledge.com/European-Borderlands-Living-with-Barriers-and-Bridges/Boesen-Schnuer/p/book/9781472477217 … pic.twitter.com/E0uteIPMOm Powered by WPeMatico
Παρουσία του Απ. Τζιτζικώστα η εναρκτήρια συνάντηση του διασυνοριακού έργου του Interreg Ελλάδα – Βουλγαρία 2014-2020, για το έργο της Αμφίπολης http://www.serrestv.gr/tv/article_read.php?a=21614 … pic.twitter.com/EWroT7XoYG Powered by WPeMatico
Το Interreg και η ασπίδα του Καστά που κρύβει μορφές (ΦΩΤΟ) http://dlvr.it/Q5r21g pic.twitter.com/aariybVZPf Powered by WPeMatico
Essential for manufacturing high-tech products, rare earth metals are in short supply. EU-funded research is investigating how to extract rare earth magnets from electric vehicle motors and recycle them, in a move that could also create jobs in Europe’s materials sector. Powered by WPeMatico
Clever chassis designs and dynamic controls that adapt to the terrain are the way forward for safer, greener, better-performing vehicles. But these innovations are complex and costly to develop. Inspired by intelligent systems integration, an EU-backed project is helping to take this emerging technology mainstream. Powered by WPeMatico
The Erasmus+: Education and Youth Policy Analysis – Unit A7, along with DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, has launched a new online platform, the Youth Wiki, which is Europe’s online encyclopaedia of national youth policies. This platform is a comprehensive database on national structures, policies and actions supporting young