Projects

Funded under the Cooperation Partnerships ERASMUS-SPORT-2024-SCP of the Erasmus+ programme, the project Nudging2Move supports the objective of Encouraging the participation in sport and physical activity by developing innovative tools based on the concept of nudges to promote active mobility and active living in urban environments. Tero is coordinating this 2-year project.


Funded under the European Urban Initiative programme, NatUR-W (Nature-based Urban Regeneration through Water: Integrating the water cycle in urban renaturalization) aims to address urban challenges brought by energy poverty and climate change, in particular extreme heat events and water scarcity. Through this project, the city of Lorca in Murcia is developing and implementing NatUR-W Plans to meet these challenges. Tero works on dissemination and communication activities, as a subcontractor of the Centre on Integrated and Multi-Disciplinary Water Resources Management (CIMWRM) of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.


Funded under the Interreg Europe programme, the project DEPART – Support the DEveloPment of a sustAinable spoRts Tourism in Europe aims at improving the implementation of regional policies in the field of Sustainable Sports Tourism, building on the competitive advantages of the involved regions. Tero works on dissemination and communication activities, as a subcontractor of the Department of Physical Education & Sport Science in the Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki.


Funded under the Interreg Europe programme, the project Green4HEAT – Accelerating the uptake of green heating and cooling solutions across EU territories aims to support the participating regions’ efforts towards sustainable district heating, by enabling them to improve territorial heat planning, streamline their policies to support the uptake of green technologies (such as heat pumps) and the deployment of state-of-the-art heat networks, and actively involve territorial stakeholders and citizens. Tero participates in the project by providing the methodology for mapping locations and intensifying territorial barriers regarding the development of heat networks in Green4HEAT territories, as a subcontractor of the National Agency for Regional Development in Lithuania.


Funded under the Small-scale partnerships ERASMUS-SPORT-2024-SSCP of the Erasmus+ programme, the project REBOUND supports the objective of promoting environmental awareness in sports and encouraging ecological sustainability. It focuses on the development and implementation of educational training for the staff and athletes of all ages in basketball clubs, emphasizing the application of circular economy methods in the operational procedures of the clubs.


Funded under the “KA220-SCH – Cooperation partnerships in school education” of the Erasmus+, DigiGap aims to empower students to become digital educators within their own families, fostering a unique role reversal where children teach their families essential digital skills. Through this innovative action plan, DigiGap aims to bridge the digital divide between students and their families, enabling them to navigate the modern world with confidence. Tero works closely with Moraitis school supporting the Greek case study research activities of the project. Tero is also leading the Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation activities of the project.


Funded under the Interreg Europe program, the project RAW4RES enhances the resilience and sustainability of the EU’s Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) supply chain. It tackles Europe’s dependence on imports, limited domestic mining, and weak recycling infrastructures. As part of the project, Tero, as a subcontractor of BSC, Business Support Centre, Ltd., has two key reports to develop related to the promotion of sustainable technologies and practices in raw material value chains.


Funded under the HORIZON-CL5-2023-D1-01-09 topic of Horizon Europe, the project PRO-CLIMATE: Proactive community adaptation to climate change through social transformation and behavioural change aims to enable system transformation across social systems to support societies cope with climate change. To achieve this, PRO-CLIMATE will identify social tipping points and policy actions, develop strategies and interventions that promote social transformation, and develop a robust framework for designing effective methodologies and tools to foster proactively adaptive behaviours that facilitate transformative changes. Tero is the coordinator of the project and also works on research, dissemination, communication and exploitation activities.


Funded under the Small-scale partnerships (ERASMUS-SPORT-2022-SSCP) call of the Erasmus+ programme, the project IPR-A addresses the objective of “encouraging Dual Careers of Athletes” by formulating and carrying out a training program for athletes during and after the end of their involvement in sports, focused on their training on a specific field of entrepreneurship skills, the Intellectual Property Rights Skills. Tero is coordinating the project and also works on dissemination and communication activities.


Funded under the Small-scale partnerships (ERASMUS-SPORT-2023-SSCP) call of the Erasmus+ programme, the project Basketball-KTN is delivering a hybrid knowledge transfer network model to be used for the exchange of experiences and for the promotion of basketball engagement and development in periods of crisis. Tero participates in project management and dissemination activities, as a subcontractor of Evnikos Sport Club.


Funded under the of HORIZON-CL3-2022-SSRI-01-04 topic of Horizon Europe, the project CO-SECUR: Knowledge building and social innovation for a successful, more effective and CO-produce urban SECURity solutions, aims to build knowledge and a suite of tools, including a Societal Development Plan (SDP) to foster and accelerate the adoption of social innovations and responsible innovation principles that contribute to successful, more effective, and co-produced security solutions for public spaces (with special focus on massive events and crowded places), generating trust, acceptance, increasing security, security perception, and security behaviour. Tero leads the exploitation activities within the project and participates in the implementation of the Greek case studies.


Funded under the HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-01-09 topic of Horizon Europe, the project Pro-Coast: A PROactive approach for COmmunities to enAble Societal Transformation develops knowledge and tools to understand the role of transformative change for biodiversity policy making, address the indirect drivers of biodiversity loss, and initiate, accelerate and upscale biodiversity-relevant transformative changes in our society. The project’s ultimate goal is to encourage and empower communities of citizens (especially local people) to maintain and restore biodiversity and ecosystem services in their areas, and to involve them more actively in environmental governance. Tero participates in project management, dissemination, exploitation and research activities.


Funded under the Small-scale partnerships (ERASMUS-SPORT-2023-SSCP) call of the Erasmus+ programme, the project ASSIST addresses the objective of “promoting equality and European values in and through sport” by adopting the use of traditional games in training tactics for an easier and more enjoyable engagement of children with the sport of basketball. Tero participates in project management and dissemination activities, as a subcontractor of Evnikos Sport Club.


Funded under the Small-scale partnerships (ERASMUS-SPORT-2023-SSCP) call of the Erasmus+ programme, the project WalkingBus addresses the objective ‘Encouraging a healthy lifestyle for all’ with a specific focus on children by supporting walking adoption as a means of commuting to school and other after-school activities that can improve the physical condition of children. Tero is working on project evaluation and policy support.


Funded under the Interreg Europe programme, the project BIOWIND – Increasing social acceptance for wind energy in EU regions through environmental and community based planning set forward an integrated wind planning approach addressing all dimensions of the “Climate-Biodiversity-Public opinion” nexus, to enhance social acceptance and secure sustainable wind energy expansion. Tero works on the exchange of practices to improve the social acceptance of wind energy in line with biodiversity conservation requirements, as a subcontractor of FAEN – the Asturian Energy Foundation.


Funded under the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area Programme (PRIMA), the project NatMED Nature-based Solutions on Existing Infrastructures for Resilient Water Management in the Mediterranean” aims at developing, implementing and validating a set of Full Water-Cycle Nature-based Solutions, integrated into existing grey or natural water infrastructures and based on specific phases of the water cycle, for optimizing the provision of Ecosystem Services, empowering stakeholders and local communities and leading to resilient water management in the Mediterranean Region. Tero leads the dissemination activities and the establishment of the Mediterranean Community of Practice within the project and participates in the implementation of the Greek case study.


Funded under the Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems theme of Horizon Europe, the project “Inno-mob Unlocking the potential of the Mobility Innovation Ecosystems and Networks” focuses on the opportunities that initiatives and networks offer to innovative and dynamic businesses through an inclusive mobility innovation European ecosystem business support framework. Tero participates in project management, dissemination and exploitation activities as subcontractor of OK!Thess.


Funded under the Action “Investment Plans for Innovation” of the Operational Program of Region of Central Macedonia 2014-2020, the project “Development and operation of technological applications for the promotion of cycling tourism in Region of Central Macedonia – GoBike” proposes the development and operation of a technological system of a web platform and an application (app) for smart devices that will provide information services on cycling paths in Olympus mountain and the peripheral Seih Sou forest in Thessaloniki, evaluated according to the level of difficulty and accompanied by relevant touristic information. Tero coordinates the project.


Funded under challenge “Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials” of the Horizon 2020 programme, the project ‘SCORE-Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities’ aims to reduce the impacts of sea-level rise and extreme events due to climate change on European coastal cities and settlements by means of co-designed, co-developed, deployed, tested and demonstrated innovative Ecosystem-Based Approaches (EBA), smart technologies and hybrid Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs), while facilitating financial sustainability. Tero is participating in research and dissemination activities, focusing on the design of strategies to increase the financial resilience of coastal cities, on socio-economic assessments and on the development of actionable policy recommendations.


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