GREENLAND TRAINS YOU IN GREEN AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY!
THE PROJECT
The project GREENLAND (GREEN-skiLls for a sustAiNable Development) promotes
social inclusion and fight against poverty by providing NEETs (young people under 30
years old, not in education, training, and employment) and women ... Read More
News
18
Jan2023
19
Dec2022
GREENLAND in Greece will launch online training in Green and Circular skills
The GREENLAND project aims to strengthen the skills of NEETs (18-30 years old) and unemployed women (of any age) in the pilot areas of the project for Greece (Central Macedonia and Thrace). Trainees will initially be instructed online in ... Read More
10
Oct2022
Intebalkan Environment Center (I-BEC), participates in the European Project "E-SHAPE - EuroGEOSS Showcases: Applications Powered by Europe", HORIZON 2020. The project has duration 48 months, i-BEC's budget is 148,437.50€ and it receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.
For the implementation of the Project, i-BEC invites ... Read More
23
Sep2022
Smart agriculture monitoring solutions become commercially available upon closure of H2020 DIONE project
The DIONE consortium partners signed a Memorandum of Understanding in June 2022 with the intention to establish a DIONE Alliance joint venture, designed to serve as a leader in the commercialisation ... Read More
29
Jun2022
GREENLAND project develops new training opportunities in Green & Circular economy sectors in Greece
The Interbalkan Environment Center (i-BEC), a proud partner of the GREENLAND project in Greece, is devoted to fulfill the main objectives of the project through the provision of skills ... Read More
24
Jun2022
The interBalcan Environment Center participated in the two day plenary meeting of H2020 project EIFFEL that was held in Athens on June 23 and 24, 2022. EIFFEL is a game changer in the domain of climate change adaptation and mitigation by harvesting the benefits of the GEOSS data. ... Read More
24
May2022
The Midterm communication event of the GREENLAND project took place on 17-19 May 2022 in Amman, Jordan. The project "GREENLAND: GREEN-skiLls for a sustAiNable Development", is a part of the ENI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme. Its consortium includes 9 organizations from ... Read More
27
Apr2022
The Green Economy is associated with the coverage of goods and services produced in order to protect the environment and save resources. At the same time, the Circular Economy aims to maintain and use goods and resources at their highest value for ... Read More
31
Mar2022
Are you aware of the training and internship opportunities promoted by the GREENLAND project?
The labor market is changing and the GREENLAND project aims to provide new skills, which will be the means for the social integration of young people out of Education, ... Read More
25
Feb2022
The Interbalkan Environment Center (i-Bec), partner of European ENI CBC MED Project GREENLAND will conduct free training courses in the coming months, in the innovative sectors of Green and Circular Economy (GaCE).
If you are an unemployed woman of ... Read More
22
Nov2021
The Interbalkan Environment Center, i-BEC, and the European Regional Framework for Cooperation, ERFC, partners of GREENLAND project, have launched an online survey addressing NEETs and women interested in the Green & Circular Economy in Greece.
⇒ Do you ... Read More
15
Nov2021
Promoting the social inclusion of young people and women in the Mediterranean region by reducing poverty and creating new employment opportunities is at the heart of developing a more equal and cohesive society.
Our planet is experiencing an environmental crisis, ... Read More
24
Aug2021
ESTABLISHMENT OF STRATEGIC PLANNING ADVISORY COMMITTEE UNDER PROJECT GREENLAND: GREEN-SKILLS FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Interbalkan Environment Center (i-BEC) and European Regional Framework for Co-operation (ERFC), Greek partners of the project GREENLAND: GREEN-skiLls for a sustAiNable Development, are pleased to announce the establishment of ... Read More
13
May2021
Press Release
The Interbalkan Environment Center (i-BEC) is very pleased to announce the launching of the European project “GREENLAND - GREEN-skiLls for a sustAiNable Development” which has a 30-months duration.
The GREENLAND promotes social inclusion and fight against the poverty by setting a ... Read More
19
Apr2021
Lagadas, 19-04-2021
Ref. No: 216
CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR WORK CONTRACTS IN INTERBALKAN ENVIRONMENT CENTER
Intebalkan Environment Center (I-BEC), participates in the European ... Read More
16
Feb2021
The Mediterranean area suffers from extremely high rates of youth and female unemployment. To face this challenge, GREENLAND promotes social inclusion and fight against poverty by providing unskilled and underprivileged young people with marketable skills in the Green and Circular Economy, with the potential to generate thousands of jobs.
The GREENLAND ... Read More
07
Nov2020
Intebalkan Environment Center (I-BEC), participates in the European Project "Soils4Africa – Soil Information System for Africa", HORIZON 2020. The project has duration 48 months, i-BEC's budget is 36.000,00€ and it receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.
For the implementation of the Project, i-BEC invites candidates ... Read More
19
Oct2020
The main objective of this project is carried out by three separate research areas, Irrigation Water Management, Codes of Good Agricultural Practices and Soil Erosion Risk Management. The above are implemented ... Read More
11
May2019
Launch of the new H2020 project e-shape for strengthening the benefits for Europe of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) - establishing 'EuroGEOSS'
e-shape (EuroGEOSS Showcases: Applications Powered by Europe), a new project coordinated by ARMINES and funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme was successfully ... Read More
05
Mar2018
In the framework of programm INTERREG MED and of the project GREENOMED (https://greenomed.interreg-med.eu/), Interbalkan Environment Center (i-BEC_ organizes a Conference in Thessaloniki.
The conference aims at raising awareness about green manufacturing and its opportunities and impacts on citizens’ lives through implementing green innovations in manufacturing industry. In particular, the first GREENOMED ... Read More
26
Feb2018
21
Jun2017
The 1st Round table aiming to develop an integrated programme and an interregional initiative to achieve the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in the Balkan Peninsula was carried out successfully in Vlasti Kozani, Greece on Saturday 17th of June, under the auspices of the Group on Earth Observation [... Read More
14
Jun2017
trategic Development of a Transnational and Interregional Initiative in the Balkan Region to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals by Integrating Earth Observation Activities in the Agri-Food Sector
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF GROUP ON EARTH OBSERVATION
Context and Motivation
The agreed international commitments in regard to sustainable development and adaptation to climate change, as well ... Read More
05
May2017
The evolving landscape of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) to engage with numerous UN activities, multi-stakeholder partnerships, emerging initiatives and voluntary commitments from all stakeholders devoted to support the SDG process. GEO is working closely with users and stakeholders such as: GEO ... Read More
16
Feb2017
10th General Assembly of i-BEC, Thessaloniki, 15th of February 2017
The 10th i-BEC General Assembly was held on Wednesday, 02.15.2017 at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, following the invitation of the i-BEC President Mr. Dionysis Panagiotopoulos, Secretary General of the Decentralized Administration of Peloponnese - Western Greece and the Ionian Sea, with ... Read More
07
Nov2016
Prof George Zalidis represented i-BEC is at Saint Petersburg for the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) thirteenth annual Plenary meeting (GEO-XIII)
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02
Nov2016
i-BEC and members of the si-cluster joined the The Network of Copernicus Relays which the European Commission created in order to promote the open data of Copernicus to intermediate and end users and to creating information structures for seamless and sustainable coverage of issues relating to Copernicus throughout Europe
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06
Oct2016
The national TV channel ΕΡΤ3 had a 10 minutes special at its ΑΓΡΟWeek new TV show for agriculture on i-BECs on Saturday 1st of October
You can see the whole show HERE
13
Jul2016
Novi Sad, 14 – 15 July 2016 A regional workshop “Accelerating EO-powered businesses and market take-up” took place on 14th – to 15th July in Novi Sad, Serbia. The event was held as a part of the project GEO-CRADLE, funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme. It was hosted ... Read More
31
May2016
GEO-CRADLE brings together key players representing the whole (Balkans, N. Africa and M. East) region with the overarching objective of establishing a multi-regional coordination network (the GEO-CRADLE network) that will support the effective integration of existing EO capacities, and contributes to the improved implementation of GEO, GEOSS, and ... Read More
01
Apr2016
Lagadas,01-04-2016
Ref. No.: 120
Call for tenders with the accelerated procedure for the provision of standard solutions, materials and consumables used in the laboratory and the field, for the implementation of Action 3.4 of the European project «WET_AID - Protection of human ... Read More
01
Mar2016
The Kick-Off (KO) Meeting of the GEO-CRADLE project took place at the IONIC CENTRE (Plaka, Athens) on February, 18 and 19, 2016.
The project Coordinating and integRating state-of-the-art Earth Observation Activities in the regions of North Africa, Middle East, and Balkans and Developing Links with GEO related initiatives towards GEOSS, GEO -CRADLE for ... Read More
20
Jan2016
Prof Zalidis i-BEC's Scientific Coordinator is an invited speaker together with Ms Barbara Ryan , Director of GEO Secretariat at the DGI2016 is the largest-scale annual meeting in Europe of military and civilian geospatial intelligence agency leaders to give a joint presentation on ''New Developments in Earth Observation for Earlier ... Read More
08
Dec2015
Prof G. Zalidis, Scientific Coordinator of i-BEC, took part in the Workshop “Establishment of the International Network of Soil Information Institutions” at FAO Headquarters from 8-10 December.
Strengthening of soil data and information is the goal of pillar 4 of the Global Soil Partnership. Since 2012, ... Read More
13
Nov2015
Israel Statement to GEO general assembly, GEO –XII meeting in Mexico City, November 12, 2015.
Israel wishes to put on the GEO’s table the importance of soil and soil security from EO perspective losartan hctz. This statement is supported by Greece, Italy, Finland and i-BEC and we hope that by ... Read More
12
Nov2015
The 12th Plenary Session of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO-XI), hosted by Mexico, takes place in Mexico City from 11 to 13 November 2015.
i-BEC, as a Participation Organization takes part in the GEO-XI Plenary and in several inmportant side events (European Network of ... Read More
03
Nov2015
Press release
The conference entitled "The role of Earth Observation in Agriculture: towards creating reliable data and new services for a competitive Agri-Sector; The case of AGRO_LESS ", concluded with great success on Friday, October 30, 2015 at the Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum, NOESIS in Thessaloniki.
The international ... Read More
03
Nov2015
The 9th General Assembly of Interbalkan Environment Centre (i-BEC) was successfully held at noon Thursday, 10.29.2015 at the Gerovassiliou Farm and Wine Museum in Epanomi Thessaloniki, following the invitation of the Vice President of i-BEC, Mr. Nicholas Tsotsolis, Head of the General Directorate for Development of the Region of Central ... Read More
16
Oct2015
The 3rd International Board meeting took place on the 15th of October in Jerusalem, following Mr Barok's invitation to host the meeting as a side event of the 66th IAC 2015, in Jerusalem, Israel.
The meeting successfully brought together existing and potential members to discuss strategic ways of creating ... Read More
01
Jul2015
Extensive increase of capacity for performance contracting planned on municipal level Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) is an essential instrument for the efficient use of energy in municipal buildings and provides a solution to the challenge municipalities are facing: how to retrofit buildings when budgets are too scarce. This efficient instrument ... Read More
13
May2015
Lagadas, 13-05-2015
Ref. No: 298
INVITATION FOR WORK CONTRACTS IN INTERBALKAN ENVIRONMENT CENTER,IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EUROPEAN PROJECT “AGROLESS” (B3.11.02)
EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL COOPERATION PROGRAMME «GREECE - BULGARIA 2007-2013»
Intebalkan Environment Center (I-BEC), participates (PP3) ... Read More
30
Apr2015
Lagadas, 30-04-2014
Ref. No.:251
Call
for tenders
with the accelerated procedure for the provision of consumables, for the implementation of Action 4.2 of the European project «AGROLESS - Joint reference strategies for rural activities of reduced inputs» (Β3.11.02), of the ... Read More
24
Apr2015
Round table discussion ”Balkan synergy for boosting Earth Observation capacities in the cross border area” Saturday 18th of April 2015
On Saturday 18 April 2015, InterBalkan Environment Center (i-BEC) hosted in Thessaloniki a roundtable discussion entitled “Balkan synergy for boosting Earth Observation capacities in the cross border area” with guest ... Read More
24
Mar2015
i-BEC took part at the European Soil Partnership workshop, at the FAO HQ in Rome, Italy, on the 17-18 March 2015, as a member of the Global Soil Partnership.
The workshop inaugurated the European initiative of the Global Soil Partnership for a more coordinated regional effort in soil preservation.
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26
Oct2014
Prof. Zalidis took part in the 2nd South-Eastern European GEO Workshop on “Integrating Earth Observation Data and Services for monitoring the Environment, protecting the citizens and stimulating the regional economic growth” organized by the Greek GEO Office of the National Observatory of Athens , the ... Read More
30
Aug2014
The Scientific Coordinator of i-BEC, Professor. C. Zalidis met with delegates from of the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment on the 21st of Aug. to discuss environmental protection issues in the framework of the bilateral cooperation of i-BEC and various Bulgarian ministry bodies .
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30
Aug2014
The Scientific Coordinator of i-BEC, Professor G.Zalidis met with the Vice President of Bulgaria Ms Margarita Popova, on Wednesday 20th of Aug. where they discussed issues of bilateral cooperation between i-BEC and various ministry bodies .
08
Aug2014
The Regional Governor of the Sofia Region Mr. Ivanov and his mission visited the offices of i-BEC and had a meeting with Professor Zalidis about future collaborations on regional programmes.
25
Jul2014
Prof Zalidis attended, on behalf of i-BEC, the second GSP Plenary Assembly of Global Soil Partnership that took part on 22 to 24 July 2014 in FAO HQ. in Rome
The Plenary session agenta and details are here at the GSP website.
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08
Jul2014
A new paper has been published on the International Journal of Ecology & Development, Volume 29, Issue Number 3, 2014
A Study on Degradation of Coastal Wetlands using Examples from Greece and Canada
Costas Armenakis, Niru Nirupama, George Zalidis, Thomas Alexandridis
Abstract
This is a brief review of the present state ... Read More
26
May2014
Scientific Coordinator o i-BEC Prof. George Zalidis and the Chairman of i-BEC's International Board Prof. Thomas Crisman represented i-BEC in the final round table discussion" Facing Water Scarcity . Domestic and International Experience", on the challenges of water management and sustainability ... Read More
10
Apr2014
GEO announces the launch of the first Group on Earth Observations GEO Appathon 2014 - an exciting new worldwide data science competition runs until 31 August 2014.. See www.geoappathon.org
The GEO Appathon is a global applications (App) development competition that aims to develop new, exciting and ... Read More
15
Jan2014
on January 14th Interbalkan Environment Center has joined GEO as a Participating Organization after the Plenary session of the GEO-X Plenary & Geneva Ministerial Summit
29
Nov2013
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The Environmental Awards 2014 for best practices, procedures or initiatives to environmental protection and sustainability will be given in a special ceremony which will be ... Read More
29
Nov2013
The scientific co-ordinator of i-BEC, Prof. George Zalidis, visited last week the Italian Region of Piemonte to discuss particular thematic priorities in the framework of the establishment of an EGTC.
29
Aug2013
28-06-2013: Call for Tender for the European project “AUTONEST” (B1.11.05)
28-06-2013: Call for Tender for the European project “RIVERALERT” (B1.11.01)
27-5-2013: Announcement of Procedure for the assessment of the results of the European project “AUTONEST” (B1.11.05) (Action 6.3)
27-5-2013: Announcement of Procedure for the assessment of the results of the European project “RIVERALERT” ... Read More