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ARPAV - Regional Agency for Environmental Protection and Prevention of Veneto INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE ARPAV is a public body founded in 1996. The goal of the Agency is to control and preserve the environment in order to help the identification and elimination of risks to humans and to the environment. Its principal activities are: Controlling of the environment including sources of pollution (e.g. industrial emissions, waste, radiation); Monitoring of the state of the environment, particularly the quality of air, water, and soil; Preventing risk factors and promoting an education aimed at favouring life styles, which respect the environment. ARPAV coordinates its activities closely with others Public Bodies and Private Organisations in order to complete its tasks for the interest of whole society, having developed a large and structured network. To this end, in order to develop also on international landscape those expertises, exchanging best practices as well as learning and giving international lessons, ARPAV is constantly partner and leader within several international projects, summarised here below. Nevertheless the following list of projects also contains some national or regional level experiences that is worth referring considered their scientific and economic value. ARPAV Institutional Profile 2014, September Project Life Project Title Budget Role n. Description Other Partners (referring program) (Amount) Held start End 1 CAIMANs The project focuses on the air quality 2014 2015 Overall Leader University of Genoa – Department of Physics (IT); impact and greenhouse gases € 711.000,00 Aristotle University oh Thessaloniki (GR) Cruise and assessment for cruise and passenger Air PACA (FR); passenger ship Air quality ships. Arpav Spanish Research Council – Institute of Environmental Impact Mitigation ActioNs Starting from an insight on the air quality € 197.000,00 Assessment and Water Research (ES) of five important port cities in the North Mediterranean Sea (Barcelona, Marseille, Genoa, Venice and Thessaloniki) and going on involving in a participative consultation some South Mediterranean port cities, the project aims at setting the basis to identify critical points and propose orientations for future projects and policies addressing cruise and passenger ship traffic air pollution mitigation. 2 SEDALP The project aims at the development 2012 2015 Overall Partner Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water and testing of strategic policies and € 2.591.350,00 Management (AT) Sediment management in tools for integrated management of Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Rip. Opere Idrauliche (IT) Alpine basins: integrating sediment in Alpine catchments with the Arpav Università di Padova – Dipartimento Te.S.A.F. (IT) sediment continuum, risk aim of effective risk reduction, € 115.500,00 CNR-IRPI di Padova (IT) mitigation and hydropower conservation of aquatic ecosystems and Regione Piemonte – Direzione Opere pubbliche, difesa del (ALPINE SPACE reducing the impact created suolo, economia montana e foreste (IT) Programme) from hydropower. Bavarian Environment Agency (DE) IRSTEA – Grenoble regional center, Snow avalanche engineering and torrent control research unit (FR) CNRS - National Center of Scientific Research (FR) University of Ljubljana (SI) Office of the Tyrolean Regional Government (AT) University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (AT) Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia (SI) Regional Government of Carinthia AT) ARPAV Institutional Profile 2014, September Project Life Project Title Budget Role n. Description Other Partners (referring program) (Amount) Held start End 3 GUARDEN (Guardians of The project focuses on developing and 2012 2014 Overall Partner Region of Peloponnese Regpel (EL) Environment) testing a coherent framework aimed to € 2.125.000,00 Thessalonica Agricultural And Industrial Institute (EL) support rational design and EC Business And Innovation Centre Of Attika (EL) Framework: An Integrated implementation of local strategies for Arpav Federation Of Industries Of Northern Greece (EL) Approach of Strategies for environmental risks, prevention € 100.000,00 Agricultural University – Plovdiv (BG) Prevention of Soil Pollution and management, specified for Bulgarian Chamber Of Commerce And Industry (BG) and Rehabilitation of territories threatened by soil or water Szent István University, Faculty Of Agriculture And Harmed Territories pollution. Environmental Sciences (HU) (SEE – South East Europe Camera di Commercio di Potenza (IT) Programme) Veneto Agricoltura (IT) Irecoop Veneto (IT) National Institute Of Research And Development For Food Bioresources – Iba Bucharest (RO) Chamber Of Agriculture And Forestry Of Slovenia (Sl) Zadar County Development Agency (HR) University Of Belgrade - Faculty Of Agriculture (SR) 4 3PCLIM The project focuses on a complete and 2011 2014 Overall Partner ZAMG – Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik uniform climatological study to satisfy € 1.286.355,00 Autonome Provinz Bozen, Abt. Brand- und Zivilschutz Past, Present and the current demands of the large area of Perspective Climate of North Tyrol-South Tyrol / Tyrol and Arpav Tirol, Südtirol-Alto Adige Veneto. € 187.925,00 and Veneto The new climatology will be available to (INTERREG IV ITALIA – agencies of the schools of public AUSTRIA Programme) institutions as a source of information for further use. For the first time are measured remote sensing data such as radar data. Part of the project is a comprehensive overview of the climatology of the glaciers that is essential in environmental education in schools in the energy industry and tourism. 5 KOSOVO TWINNING Improving the state of the environment 2011 2013 Overall Leader INFORMEST, French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable including water, waste and management € 1.800.000,00 Development, Transport and Infrastructure (MEDDTL), "Institutional support to of urban International Office for Water/ Office International de l’Eau theMinistry of Environment settlements in accordance with the EU Arpav (IOW/OIEAU) Geological and Mining ResearchBureau BRGM), and Spatial Planning environmental rules and with EU best € 87.797,50 Technical Workshop for Natural Spaces (ATEN) SMAT Spa di (MESP) of Kosovo" practice to provide Torino Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) Twinning Project KS 10 IB better health and living conditions for the EN 01 citizens of Kosovo (IPA Programme) ARPAV Institutional Profile 2014, September Project Life Project Title Budget Role n. Description Other Partners (referring program) (Amount) Held start End 6 MONTENEGRO TWINNING This project aims to assist the MPA in 2011 2013 Overall Partner Direzione Generale per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile, il Clima e the development and harmonization of € 975.102,00 l’Energia del Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio “Support to Environmental legislation to strengthen the capacity of (“MATTM”), (ISPRA) Studiare Sviluppo Srl Management” Twinning the Environmental Protection Agency Arpav Project MN/08/IB/EN/01 and to support Project Implementation € 61.650,00 (IPA Programme) Unit (PIU PROCON) in the management of environmental infrastructure investment projects 7 RE.S.M.I.A. Pilot project of industrial research aimed 2010 2013 Overall Partner CIVEN - Coordinamento Interuniversitario Veneto per le to enhance and integrate environmental € 1.100.000,00 Nanotecnologie (Italia) Innovative Networks and networks and monitoring stations Monitoring Stations for the available to ARPAV. Specific objectives : Arpav Environment protection of the environment; risk € 550.000,00 (POR ERDF – Objective prevention; minimization of “Regional Competitiveness environmental impact of monitoring and Employment”) stations. 8 MACEDONIA TWINNING The overall objective of twinning is to 2010 2012 Overall Partner Finnish Meteorological Institute) Partner Austria improve skills at the central € 999.230,90 Umweltbundesamt GmbH). Italy (Ministry for the Environment, Strenghtening The Central level(Ministry of Environment) and local Land and Sea) Arpa Lombardia (Italy) and Local Level Capacities (municipal and provincial) for the Arpav for Environmental management of air quality in Macedonia € 19.260,00 Management in the area of Air Quality Twinning Programme MK/2008/IB/ENV/01 9 CROATIA TWINNING This project aims to support the Ministry 2010 2012 Partner Minoprio Fondation Regione Lombardia Istituto Superiore di of Health and the Ministry of Overall Sanità “Chemical safety. Strengthening legal framework of “Chemical safety. Environment of Croatia to strengthen €799.989,90 istitutional infrastructure for protection from dangerous chemical Strengthening legal the environmental legislation, in KemI framework of istitutional particular in the following fields Arpav infrastructure for protection REACH e SEVESO II. € 21.000,00 from dangerous chemicals” Twinning Project HR2007/IB/EN/ ARPAV Institutional Profile 2014, September Project Life Project Title Budget Role n. Description Other Partners (referring program) (Amount) Held start End 10 APICE The project targets to develop a 2010 2012 Overall Leader Veneto Region Territorial Planning and Parks Department (IT); knowledge-based approach for air- € 2.281.420,00 Province of Genoa (IT); University of Genoa (IT); Marseille Port Common Mediterranean pollution mitigation and sustainable Authority (FR); University of Provence (FR) Region of central strategy and local practical development of port activities. Arpav Macedonia (GR); Aristotle University of Thessaloniki