Smart cities and sustainable development

2024

SUMPs for BSR

The project will develop a model for cities to test and experiment with innovative mobility solutions focusing on active modes such as walking and cycling and change of public spaces.

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2023

Herit4Ages

The Horizon Europe Herit4Ages project is developing user-centric and data-driven retrofitting solutions for a resilient, energy efficient, and inclusive cultural heritage. The project is coordinated by the University College of Cork, and has 12 partners in 8 countries. The Institute of Baltic Studies (IBS) is representing Estonia. 

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2023

Green Transition: Implementing EU Reforms for Retail Investing

The project addresses challenges arising from the new Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) Delegated Act, mandating distributors of fund and insurance products to integrate sustainability preferences into their recommendations.

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2023

drOp

The core ambition of drOp, a Horizon Europe project, is to develop an integrated renovation methodology (IRM). The aim is to transform social housing districts into inclusive smart neighborhoods.

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2023

Smart Cities Marketplace

The Institute of Baltic Studies is involved in the support structure of the Smart Cities Marketplace, especially contributing into tasks related to matchmaking and 1-on-1 consultancy services as well as the thematic discussion and focus groups. IBS is also the local contact point of the Smart Cities Marketplace in Estonia. 

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2022

AADVAL-BIOTECH

The study aims to identify the development of the Estonian bioeconomy and its main value chains, and the opportunities for using bio-resources to increase the competitiveness of the Estonian bioeconomy.

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2016

SmartEnCity

We help to develop Tartu into sustainable, smart and resource-efficient urban environment – into a smart city.

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2015

Impact assessment of the Swiss NGO Fund (2011-2015)

The assessment focused on the 62 social service projects that were implemented with the Fund’s funding. The assessment involved interviews and consultations by the implementers of the Fund, relevant public sector representatives, project managers and partners, area experts and also NGO-s who had applied for but had not received funding.

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2014

Harmonized framework allowing a sustainable and robust identity for European Citizens

The major objective of the project is to protect EU citizens’ identities from all current threats but also to foresee what the future threats would be. The project will study in deep the identity theft phenomenon in Europe, revealing the flaws in the different “paper-based” procedures but also in the new dematerialized processes, assess the threat for the citizen and develop technological components, backward compatible with different existing Member State frameworks.

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2013

Analysis of the Smart City Lab Living Laboratory

The analysis aimed at describing the business processes and services of a living laboratory in detail, identifying opportunities for involving different user groups and segments in the living laboratory, planning for sustainable development.

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2012

Competitiveness of Estonian forest and wood cluster

The objective of study is to conduct an analysis of the competitiveness of the Estonian wood sector and identify success factors to lay the foundations at the national level to mitigate bottlenecks and strengths in the sector and provide quality information for decision making at the enterprise level.

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