This gallery presents the images submitted by North Sea Region projects for the North Sea Photo Contest 2020 in the category “a more liveable North Sea Region”. We recommend you to read the captions to understand the story behind each image. Tips for viewing:
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CANAPE: Coring with the next generation – For communities that live around wetlands, it is important they have a way to understand and value them. This allows them to help protect them and gain from the natural resilience they provide to climate change. Soil coring gives an important insight into the hydrology and history of the site, which is key to conservation. Inviting the public and students to help provides more person-power, and gives them a hands on understanding of the importance of peat.
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CATCH: Enschede, the Netherlands – a public space serving in water collection, as playground, and for public awareness raising. In a playful way, children learn about water’s multiple functions and about climate impacts. CATCH accelerates the redesign of urban water management of midsize cities in the North Sea Region, helping them become climate resilient, liveable and profitable in the long term.
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DUAL Ports: At the coast by the Danish port of Hvide Sande, three wind turbines produce sustainable energy for local district heating providing heat for the citizens.
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DUAL Ports: At the coast by the Danish port o4f Hvide Sande, three wind turbines produce sustainable energy for local district heating providing heat for the citizens.
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In For Care: Local cooperation gardens – in 4 neighbourhoods, residents would like to have a common garden, a piece of land, where they can garden together and where they can meet each other.
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In For Care: Little local neighbourhood libraries are libraries in a neighbourhood or street, made and managed by local residents themselves, to promote informal connections. The reason people have to make this themselves is already starting because of the connection process.
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In For Care: Open Street day is like car-free street parties. Participating neighborhoods will be car-free that day, so there is a place to play and party on the street. Various neighborhoods organise a flea market in the morning. The City of Turnhout supports all participating neighborhoods with numerous activities to attract young and old and to stimulate intergenerational contacts.
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In For Care: Open Street day is like car-free street parties. Participating neighborhoods will be car-free that day, so there is a place to play and party on the street. Various neighborhoods organise a flea market in the morning. The City of Turnhout supports all participating neighborhoods with numerous activities to attract young and old and to stimulate intergenerational contacts.
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Local Neighbours’ Day: Individualism, withdrawal and loneliness are on the rise. Social bonds are growing loose. Every year in May, at Neighours Day, citizens all across Europe are invited to make a simple gesture: Invite your neighbours to share a nice time around a buffet or a luncheon, enhances social cohesion and creates new solidarities. This event gives citizens the opportunity to interact with each other and enables them to participate in an ever closer and more human European community.
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SURFLOGH: Powerful contrast (black and white) and physically powerful (heroic). Clearing our streets from C02. Business initiatives/start up pilots supported by SURFLOGH.
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SURFLOGH: Cargobike as alternative delivery mode. Business initiative/start-up pilots supported by SURFLOGH.
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SURLOGH: Heroes of our time…cargo bike delivery is a booming business during lockdown. All these are business initiatives/start up pilots supported by SURFLOGH.
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PARTRIDGE: Conservationist explaining, assisted by child: Project demo site manager Jochem Sloothaak is one of our best project communicators. Always full of energy and charisma, he works tirelessly to educate the public about how the PARTRIDGE project contributes to making his project region more wildlife-friendly and hence more enjoyable for everyone visiting the area, but especially the people living in the area. Photo: Ernst Jan van Haaften
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PARTRIDGE volunteer radio-tracking partridges. Volunteers play an important part in PARTRIDGE, especially at our Dutch project sites. Jan van Harten is one of our most active and engaged citizen scientists. Being pensioner, he spends many happy hours of his retirement helping with many aspects of our monitoring activities. Photo: Jochem Sloothaak
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PARTRIDGE: Proud project partner’s grandparents holding up article in Church magazine. Our Flemish project partner Yasmine Verzelen’s grand parents receive the local Church magazine through their post. When they found an article in a recent issue, explaining the PARTRIDGE project based on an interview with their granddaughter, they sent us this photo. Photo: Elsy_Colpaert
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TOPSOIL: In the context of transnational cooperation, it is necessary to explore the best means of governance and the best practices, in order to achieve new best standards. Photo: Leo_Devree
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TOPSOIL: Under the motto “involvement as the key to understanding” stakeholders have actively participated in project meetings and workshops, providing expert knowledge and contributing to discussions on the key challenges of our TOPSOIL project. Photo: Leo Devree
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SHARE-North: Shared Mobility Rocks is an unconventional symposium about shared mobility with a rocking atmosphere, which you can see reflected in this picture.
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SHARE-North: Shared Mobility Rocks is an unconventional symposium about shared mobility with a rocking atmosphere, which you can see reflected in this picture.
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SHARE-North: Celebration of the opening of the first mobil.punkt (shared mobility hub) in Bergen, Norway.
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SHARE-North: Mobil.punkte – shared mobility hubs – are a very important part of the rollout of sustainable mobility in Bremen.
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SHARE-North: Opening of a mobihub in May in Flanders, Belgium. It was made corona proof by placing the people at a distance while forming the mobihub logo.
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2IMPREZS places pupils at the heart of their schools’ energy savings initiatives through the joint 2IMPREZS Energy Challenges, which will reduce CO2 by 7320 tonnes. In this photo, the Belgian ‘Energizers’ show off their Energy Eaters. The Energy Eaters, invented by the Belgian pupils for the transnational Energy Challenges, are little creatures that mark energy-consuming devices to show where energy savings are possible. They represent a main goal of 2IMPREZS: making energy saving fun! Photo: CompagnieFotography/Province of Antwerp