Biodiversity assessment in the Carpathian region
01.04.2012
- 31.03.2017
Surveys on forest and endangered bats, insects and birds in the Natura 2000 areas in the Northern Medium Mountains are carried out and provide the basis for effective measures to protect them. Integrated in forest management and Natura 2000 management plans after project closure, the conservation measures will be taken by stakeholders such as forestry or farmers.
Project completed
Kazincbarcika: Job creation / development
01.01.2012
- 31.05.2017
This programme supports the set up respectively the expension of businesses and improves the image of the Kazincbarcika micro-region that suffers from high unemployment. A new Business and Incubation Park attracts investors respectively newly set-up companies which can get supported out of an application fund. In this way, new jobs are created and maintained in the long term.
Project completed
Scholarship Fund for disadvantaged and marginalised youth
01.04.2011
- 30.09.2015
The Scholarship Fund enables disadvantaged and marginalized children to obtain a good formal education. For this purpose, the Fund finances, e.g., projects that help the children in learning and in homework, that motivate them to study further, or that offer them leisure time opportunities (such as sport, culture).
Project completed
NGO Block Grant Hungary
01.04.2011
- 31.10.2015
The Block Grant supports vulnerable persons and children, and works to preserve an in-habitable environment in the regions of North Hungary and the North Great Plain. The Fund therefore finances NGO projects e.g. in favour of children with special needs or of a more eco-friendly life-style.
Project completed
Flood Control Infosystem Upper-Tisza
01.01.2011
- 28.02.2013
Dike constructions in the catchment area of the Tisza river together with factors such as climate change or other human interventions (e.g. deforestation) lead to a deterioration of the flood fore-cast quality. The project elaborates the basis for an improved flood protection which helps reducing damages in the flood-prone area along the river.
Project completed
Updating flood defence plans for the upper reaches of the Tisza
01.01.2011
- 31.03.2013
The project’s goal is to protect the population of the upper Tisza river by taking appropriate measures against floods. To achieve this, topographical and biomass data is acquired by aerial scanning before being transformed into a relief model of the embankments of the Tisza river. This model serves as a basis for effective measures in case of floods.
Project completed
Research on pain sensation, HU Academy of Science
15.10.2010
- 30.04.2016
The Project investigates in detail the signalling of endocannabinoids in the spinal cord, with the aim of better understanding their roles in chronic pain and with the potential to find more specific phar-macological interventions with less side effects.
Project completed
Energy harvesting and photocatalysis, University of Szeged
15.10.2010
- 30.04.2016
The goal is to increase the yield of photochemical energy conversion by a multidisciplinary approach, assuring conditions for later product-oriented developments.
Project completed
Development of tools to help the visually impaired
15.10.2010
- 30.10.2015
The project developed portable cell-phone-based apps for visual recognition. This tool shall help blind people in every-day life. An additional project component explored the possibility how to restore eyesight through optogenetic technologies in combination with bionic vision enhancement. Cooperating with the Swiss Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, the research project gave opportunities for important scientific exchange.
Project completed
Screening and utilisation of liquid wastes
15.10.2010
- 31.12.2015
The project will develop new treatment methods for liquid waste from the pharmaceutical and fine chemistry industry, in order to contribute to the improvement of water quality and to better utilise the waste for, e.g. denitrification in biological wastewater treatment or for the production of bio-gas.
Project completed
Radioactive Waste Disposal
01.10.2010
- 30.03.2016
The objectives of the project are to make specific contributions to the safety assessment of the future radioactive waste repositories through an understanding of relevant retention/retardation mechanisms and processes, and to provide the necessary models and databases. Investigation of the geochemistry of radioactive waste disposal systems. The goal of the project is the demonstration of long-term isolation technology in underground repository.
Project completed
Twinning and Partnership Block Grant Hungary
01.09.2010
- 30.04.2017
The Twinning and Partnership Block Grant substantially increases mutual cooperation and part-nerships between Hungarian and Swiss-bodies. Approximately 40 projects realized in partnership between Hungarian and Swiss towns and municipalities, NGOs or social partners solve concrete problems in Hungary and improve the living conditions of the local population.
