Civil Safety Network

  • Implementation period: 1.1.2016–31.12.2018
  • Lead Partner: Regional Council of Lapland
  • Funding programme: The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
  • Budget: 617 850 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: The objective of the project ”Maaseudun arjen palveluverkosto” (Civil Safety Network) is to disseminate the Civil Safety Networking Model to 40 municipalities in Northern Finland, to help allocate local and regional resources to local needs. The model was piloted (2012–2014) in five municipalities in Northern Finland: Kemijärvi, Pelkosenniemi, Posio, Pudasjärvi and Tornio. The model received the first prize in the regional administrative category looking for solutions to defeat the European economic crisis (European Public Sector Award EPSA 2013).

 

International Civil Safety Network (Cooperation in Everyday Safety and Security project)

  • Implementation period: 1.3.2016–31.8.2017
  • Lead Partner: Lapland University of Applied Sciences
  • Funding programme: European Regional Development Fund
  • Budget: 118 786 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: The development objective of the project is for Everyday Safety and Security in Lapland to benefit from international cooperation. This means exchange of best practices, partnerships, enterprise cooperation and mutual projects. The direct objective is to create an international civil safety network together with the project Civil Safety Network and to connect enterprises with the civil safety network (cluster cooperation).

 

LUC turvallisuuden ennakoivan TKI-ohjelman rakentaminen
LUC creating a proactive safety and security RDI programme

  • Implementation period: 5/2015-9/2016
  • Lead Partner: Lapland University of Applied Sciences, Multidimensional Tourism Institute – MTI
  • Funding programme: European Regional Development Fund
  • Budget: 55 072 € (78 012 €)
  • Objectives/Outcomes/:

 

Tunturit ylittävä ensihoito
Emergency care across fells

  • Implementation period: 1.1.2014 – 30.6.2014
  • Lead Partner: Västerbottens läns landsting
  • Funding programme: Interreg IV  North
  • Budget: 9 982 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: The objective is to study the potential for disaster preparedness of the Sámi living in very sparsely populated Norwegian fell areas and to find possibilities to use the Swedish AXG system in Norway and thus disseminate the concept and knowhow in first aid and emergency care.

 

Sosial nettbasert trening for eldre

  • Implementation period: 1.5.2013–30.6.2014
  • Lead Partner: Norut Tromsö
  • Funding programme: Interreg IV A North
  • Budget:  309 449 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: To develop a tool for safe home rehabilitation together with other people. The objective of the project is to draw up a research project with senior citizens as a target group
  1. Sub-objective 1. To create a mutual understanding of the topic by organizing workshops where own work is presented and level of information and development is discussed about.
  2. To define a target group and try out web rehabilitation – both rehabilitation games and game technique
  3. To start research cooperation among stakeholders.

 

 Meet, Play and Learn

  • Implementation period: 15.6.2009–10.2.2010
  • Lead Partner: Rovaniemi Municipal Federation of Education
  • Funding programme: Interreg IV A North
  • Budget: 219 775 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: Find innovative and realistic ways to create a social gamebased learning tool for children with diabetes. Research on children with diabetes and learning environments of serious games may bring experiences in cross-disciplinary research in other countries of the region. Furthermore, knowledge will be generated on how research may help in finding solutions to children’s needs in northern sparsely populated areas.

 

Meet, play & learn 2

  • Implementation period: 1.10.2011 – 31.12.2012
  • Lead Partner: Northern research institute Tromsö
  • Funding programme: Interreg IV A North
  • Budget: 204 351 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: Strengthen the cooperation between researchers and game industry. Enterprises: to positively influence the game industry developing social tools. Research: to strengthen cooperation among research institutes in the region. A multiplayer learning tool that helps children in coping with their illness (diabetes) in everyday life.

 

Gränslös omsorg
Care without borders

  • Implementation period: 1.8.2009–31.12.2011
  • Lead Partner: Inari municipality
  • Funding programme: Interreg IV A North
  • Budget: 187 600 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: The elderly people in border regions have a chance to live longer in their own homes in their own language and cultural circles thanks to the extensive professionalism of the staff and crossborder cooperation. Developing versatile services adapted to people’s needs, working protection networks for the elderly with the help of service strategies organized by municipalities.

Hoito ilman rajoja II
Care without borders II

  • Implementation period: 1.11.2009–31.7.2011
  • Lead Partner: Norrbotten Country Council, Sweden
  • Funding programme: Interreg IV A North
  • Budget: 1 013 872 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: To deepen care cooperation among care centres in Swedish and Finnish Torne Valley municipalities, to attain correct care quality and for patients freedom to choose care in the region. To increase inhabitants’ opportunities to mobility by guaranteeing good health care irrespective of work place or place of dwelling, to better utilize existing health care resources, to strengthen cooperation and knowledge exchange among the health care providers.

 

SensorBand II – SensorBand in Real Life Environment

  • Implementation period: 1.8.2008 – 30.6.2011
  • Lead Partner: the University of Oulu, Meri-Lappi Institute
  • Funding programme: Interreg IV A North
  • Budget: 1 030 000 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: The project conducted a literature review and a survey on the present status of safety and security in Finnish programme service companies. The literature review summarized results from 11 surveys from years 2000–2010. The survey (n=65, response rate 23) identified the level of safety and security, including emergency preparedness, in Finnish programme service companies.

 

CoSafe

  • Implementation period: 1.6.2008–31.5.2011
  • Lead Partner: Emergency and Disaster Medical Centre (AKMC), County Council of Västerbotten , Sweden
  • Funding programme: Northern Periphery
  • Budget:  1 427 950 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: Developed 36 products and services which focus on improving different aspects of disaster preparedness and management in sparsely populated areas. (Project aims are to improve the management of major accidents and disasters in rural areas with poor transportation infrastructure, limited telecommunications, and extreme weather conditions. The project focuses on the survival and well-being of victims/patients through effective on site pre-hospital care (Emergency Medical Care) -all the way from the scene of the accident to the hospital. Another major focus is guaranteeing the safety of all rescue personnel, offering them on-site guidance and support, allowing them to fully focus on an effective rescue effort.)

 

MyHealth@Age

  • Implementation period: 1.1.2008 – 31.12.2010
  • Lead Partner: Municipality of Boden, Sweden
  • Funding programme: Northern Periphery
  • Budget:  1 527 678 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: New modular product platform that makes it possible to provide safety, prescribed self-treatment and social network applications to elderly people based on each individuals specific needs and circumstances. The project has so far specified the requirements and developed a prototype in close co-operation between elderly people, healthcare and welfare staff, ICT companies and researchers.
    The products have been developed. Education/training has started as well as field trial usage. At the Swedish trial site, daily life usage has started with Prescribed Healthcare. The Mobile Safety Alarm functionality has been released and the end-users evaluate the product at the moment. Daily life usage will start mid-November. As soon as the end-users are comfortable with these products, the Social Network product will be introduced.
    The Norwegian field-trial site introduce the new products and services following the Swedish example with about one month delay.
    The Northern Ireland trial site begin instead with Social Network. When the end-users feel confident using that, the other products and services are released.

 

RemoDem

  • Implementation period: 1.10.2012–30.9.2014
  • Lead Partner: County Council of Norrbotten, Sweden
  • Funding programme: Northern Periphery
  • Objectives/Outcomes: The RemoDem will develop a service package that is a decision support tool for use in planning the provision of dementia-related services in remote rural areas. It provides access to technical data and to information on the available evidence on acceptability and efficacy of deployment of different technologies. Dementia-related services include the direct support of people with dementia; services for informal supporters; professional support services; and services aimed at communities and community members.

 

SNAPS

  • Implementation period: 1.3.2011–1.3.2014
  • Lead Partner: Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO), Iceland
  • Funding programme: Northern Periphery
  • Budget:   1 124 192 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: The avalanche forecasting services will result in better risk assessment and improve accessibility of information for decisions on road closures or other actions of risk prevention. More informative decisions will increase the safety of travellers, but it should also reduce the periods of unnecessary closures of the roads.
    In most cases public road users do not get a warning ahead or information on the degree of avalanche risk, the road is simply either open or closed. In SNAPS the possibility of giving some further information on avalanche risk to the public will be assessed.
    Snow maps tailored for road management and planning will also reduce risk and increase efficiency of the transport infrastructure in the Northern Periphery. Near-real time snow cover maps (updated shortly after satellite data has been received) open to the public on official web pages will be of importance to people who depend on the snow cover for travelling.
    embers.

 

Competitive Health

  • Implementation period: 1.1.2008–30.3.2011
  • Lead Partner: Northern Ostrobothnia Hospital District, Finland
  • Funding programme: Northern Periphery
  • Budget:  1 606 333 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: The project has published the mapping outcomes from Work Package 2 as a report ”Portfolio of eHealth applications”. The report describes the context and development of e-Health innovations in the northern parts of Finland, Scotland, Sweden and Norway. The report aims at identifying some of the most important aspects of the health care sector infrastucture that influence the introduction of eHealth innovations. It also describes the most prominent eHealth services and initiatives which are currently being used in these countries. eHealth services were piloted: a portable bag which allows remote monitoring of biosignals and personal health data, remote monitoring of cardiac patients, a remote wound clinic and remote speech therapy. Creation of sustainable remote consultation services is underway.
    Teledialysis and remote speech therapy were piloted in Scotland. Teledialysis is now becoming normalised and part of routine service delivery.
    In Sweden, a mobile eye screening unit was piloted in two phases.
    In Norway, a service offering remote monitoring of biosignals was piloted.

 

Implementing Transnational Telemedicine Solutions 7.13

  • Implementation period: 1.9.2011–31.3.2014
  • Lead Partner: Centre for Rural Health, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
  • Funding programme: Northern Periphery
  • Budget:  321 754 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: Implement transnational telemedicine solutions, at scale, and in a sustainable manner, into everyday practice across the Northern Periphery. Ten demonstrator projects, on the themes of video-consultation, mobile self-management, and home-based health services will be implemented across six partner countries
    Expected Outcomes:
    projects will be implemented, utilising telemedicine solutions in specialties including:
    •    speech therapy
    •    renal services, psychiatry
    •    emergency services
    •    diabetes
    •    inflammatory bowel disease
    •    rehabilitation
    •    care of the elderly.

 

Järjestöt kylässä
Organizations in the village

  • Implementation period: 1.9.2011–31.3.2014
  • Lead Partner: Finnish Red Cross, Lapland district
  • Funding programme: European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)
  • Objectives/Outcomes: The project aims to improve people’s wellbeing, safety and security as well as self-management with volunteer support. It also aims to increase the sense of community in villages. The project develops models of voluntary activity aiming at working contract-based forms of cooperation with authorities and actors. To create operation models to support authorities on increase the preparedness of local inhabitants, reindeer herders, village associations and various organizations to help in various situations. To develop the alert system of volunteers to better utilize local skills..

 

Development of  Wellbeing and Civil Safety in Municipalities

  • Implementation period: 2012 – 2014
  • Lead Partner: The Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland
  • Funding programme: European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)
  • Budget: 643 800  €
  • Objectives/Outcomes:  The primary objective is developing an extensive operations model for municipalities to enhance wellbeing and safety cooperation. This increases civil safety and diversifies service production in sparsely populated rural areas. The model is built by actors from municipalities, organizations and economy. The  operations model which enhances wellbeing and safety services and simplifies planning is connected with the annual operations and budget planning in municipalities

 

Taatusti turvassa – huolehtiva kyläyhteisö
Guaranteed safe –  caring village community

  • Implementation period: 13.11.2009–31.3.2013
  • Lead Partner: Kolpene Service Centre
  • Funding programme: European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)
  • Budget: 515 099 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes:  Seven development areas were defined for the project, six of them aiming at a village action manual. The digital manual includes the steps to take by a village or an association from starting village action to business-type village action.  The village action manual has been the main objective of the project because it is the channel for launching the outcomes.
    The village Action Manual was renamed Citizen’s Manual because, firstly, not all manual users felt that they were village actors and, secondly, the manual includes many topics that concern not only village actors. The Citizen’s Manual is an electronic document on issues dealing with civil safety and wellbeing. The manual includes information that may help everyone in promoting one’s own wellbeing. The document contains links to the pages of other reliable players in order to offer up-to-date information.

 

Kylien palvelutuotanto arjen turvana
Village service production  increasing civil safety

  • Implementation period: 2010–2012
  • Lead Partner: City of Rovaniemi/ Yläkemijoki Municipal Board
  • Funding programme: European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)
  • Objectives/Outcomes:  The objective is to improve service availability, satisfaction with the living environment and normal civil safety among inhabitants in the Yläkemijoki region.
    • The measures support inhabitants in their everyday life and help them live in their own home for as long as possible.
    • New operations models are developed in cooperation with enterprises, organizations and inhabitants, such as neighbour help, home help services and development of family help activity.
    • Peer village activities with other village regions in Rovaniemi, such as arrangements of Village parliament.
    • Conduct village safety and security planning, which will be connected to the Yläkemijoki development plan.
    • Enhance networklike activities in developing and providing services.

 

Arjen turvaa kylissä
Development of wellbeing and civil safety in villages

  • Implementation period: 2009–2011
  • Lead Partner: Part of project and programme cooperation on internal security in Lapland, coordinated by Provincial Government of Lapland.
  • Objectives/Outcomes:  The research project studies the wishes connected with organizational activities as well as the possibilities and role of organizational activities in providing services in remote villages. The objectives are to study,
    • which services – provided by organizations  and  connected with civil safety and ease of everyday life – the inhabitants of the sparsely populated areas chosen for this research  wish to receive / are willing to use,
    • to what extent the volunteers in organizations feel they can commit to the increasing demands of voluntary work, and what contributes to or limits their commitment, and
    • how the organizations in the sparsely populated areas chosen for this research find their chances to meet the increasing demands to support or substitute public sector service production.

 

Safer Roads for Users

  • Implementation period:  26 months
  • Lead Partner: ADC Ltd. (OOO AvtoDor Consulting), Russia
  • Funding programme: ENPI
  • Budget:  1 463 803 € (EU Funding:  658 712 €)
  • Objectives/Outcomes: Border effect expressed with difference in road accident risks for road users in EU and RF sides of Barents Region is eliminated.  Principles and instruments to manage accident risk for users are harmonized.  The fluency of road transport flows is improved.
    1. Harmonized models and state-of-the-art methodologies in practical use to eliminate accident risks for users on certain road sections on roads and streets of Barents Region;
    2. Developed unified monitoring methodology introduced to Russian road authorities to monitor (together with research institutions) effectiveness of road safety improvements have been implemented.
    3. A pilot land use planning carried out along the cross-border road route to transfer know-how of creating safe road surrounding (from transport and environmental points of view).
    4. Road safety booklet accessible to Russian drivers in order to improve safety of their behaviour when using roads of the western part of Barents Region.
    5. Proposals to develop road side services/information/ emergency/mobile communications along the cross- border roads in order to eliminate risks of accidents and provide quicker first aid to road users in case of road accident.
    6. A guide accessible to Russian experts (of road authorities and design institutions) concerning effective means of road infrastructure to eliminate risks, caused with dangerous driving conditions. The road infrastructure means shift up the road performances to users (tolerance to non-experienced, elderly, tired drivers, etc.).
    7. Formalised procedures and formats of documents concerning joint Project management, Project risk management to be disseminated and accessible for other projects.

 

Food and health security in the Norwegian, Finnish and Russian border region: linking local industries, communities and social-economic impacts

  • Implementation period:  2,5 years
  • Lead Partner: NILU (Norwegian Institute for Air Research)
  • Funding programme: ENPI
  • Objectives/Outcomes:
    1. Enhanced knowledge on contaminants in key species (food products) used for local consumption and of commercial value (i.e., reindeer and fish).
    2. Assess exposure trends of relevant contaminants in residents within the region from both historical and newly collected samples.
    3. Assess social, economic and human health consequences based on contaminant levels in commercially and dietary important species.
    4. Combining both existing and future human health studies to asses current food safety guidelines.
    5. Inform decision makers on how assess future human health and food security risks in the region.

 

CEEPRA – Collaboration Network on EuroArctic Environmental Radiation Protection and Research

  • Implementation period:
  • Lead Partner: Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority in Finland (STUK) – Finland
  • Funding programme: ENPI
  • Objectives/Outcomes:
    • Developed unified monitoring methodology introduced to Russian road authorities to monitor (together with research institutions) effectiveness of road safety improvements have been implemented.
    • A pilot land use planning carried out along the cross-border road route to transfer know-how of creating safe road surrounding (from transport and environmental points of view).
    • Road safety booklet accessible to Russian drivers in order to improve safety of their behaviour when using roads of the western part of Barents Region.
    • Proposals to develop road side services/information/ emergency/mobile communications along the cross-border roads in order to eliminate risks of accidents and provide quicker first aid to road users in case of road accident.
    • A guide accessible to Russian experts (of road authorities and design institutions) concerning effective means of road infrastructure to eliminate risks, caused with dangerous driving conditions. The road infrastructure means shift up the road performances to users (tolerance to non-experienced, elderly, tired drivers, etc.).

 

SATERISK

  • Implementation period: 1.9.2008–21.12.2011
  • Lead Partner: University of Lapland
  • Funding programme: Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation
  • Budget:  77 400 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: More and more companies and public administration organizations use satellite navigation and tracking technology to monitor and improve the efficiency of their services. The satellite navigation and tracking services can also be used to improve security and safety as well as prevent damages caused by criminal action. But does the satellite navigation and tracking involve risks? That is the question the Saterisk project seeks to answer.
    Saterisk is a joint project of Laurea University of Applied Sciences and the University of Lapland. The main provider of funds is Tekes. The project also involves several companies and HEIs and cooperation partners from abroad. The project was started in 2008 and it will continue till August 2011.
    The project analyses risks of satellite navigation from the following points of view

    • technical
    • legal
    • user

 

TRR – Turvallista ryhmää rakentamaan
TRR – Building a safe group

  • Implementation period: 1.3.2010–31.5.2013
  • Lead Partner: Youth Academy
  • Funding programme: European Social Fund, Ministry of Education and Culture
  • Budget: Actual public funding 617 207 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: The project created models for the training “Building a safe group”, training of adults responsible for tutoring activities, work community workshops, discussions  as well as a safety-themed survey. Also training material, digital Impulssi exercises and a tutoring guide were produced. The project developed material for building sense of community and safety-themed digital stories. At Omnia and Oulu Vocation College the safety aspect was integrated into the institutions’ action plans.

 

Lapin POSKI Vaihe 1 – Lapin pohjavesien suojelun ja kiviaineshuollon yhteensovittamishanke (POSKI) Vaihe 1
Lapin POSKI Phase 1 – Coordination project on ground water protection  in Lapland and rock material management

  • Implementation period: 1.3.2012–31.5.2015
  • Lead Partner: Regional Council of Lapland
  • Funding programme: European Regional Development Fund
  • Budget: 600 000 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: The outcome of the project is the coordination of rock material management and protection needs in the project municipalities in the long term. The POSKI project reports, for one, create prerequisites for outline planning and other land use planning coordinating rock material management and protection. The project outcomes may be utilized by municipalities, authorities and enterprises.

 

KORA – Kolpeneenharjun rakenneselvitys
KORA – Kolpeneenharju structural analysis

  • Implementation period: 2013–2015
  • Lead Partner: Geological Survey of Finland (GTK)
  • Funding programme: European Regional Development Fund
  • Budget: 133 362 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: The project studied the geological formation and flow of groundwater in Kolpeneenharju ridge, the most important water supply reserve for the city of Rovaniemi. Also risk factors in the groundwater catchment areas were surveyed. The project outcomes may be utilized in planning and potential emergencies (groundwater protection and guaranteeing freshwater supply in community).

 

Maantien 962 alikulkukäytävän ja kevyen liikenteen väylän rakentaminen, Pelkosenniemi
Construction of Road 962 pedestrian underpass, and pedestrian and bicycle way, Pelkosenniemi

  • Implementation period: 1.1.–31.12.2013
  • Lead partner: Rovaniemi Municipal Federation of Education, Department of Technology
  • Funding programme: European Regional Development Fund, Finnish Transport Agency
  • Budget: Actual public funding  654 463 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: A pedestrian and bicycle way as well as a pedestrian underpass under Road 962 in Pyhätunturi, Pelkoseniemi, were constructed during the project. The pedestrian underpass also serves snowmobile drivers. The project enhances the operating environment of tourism businesses as well as traffic safety.

 

Valtatien 4 parantaminen rakentamalla alikulkukäytävä moottorikelkkareitille Inarin Laanilassa
Improvement of National Road 4 by constructing an underpass for the snowmobile route in Laanila, Inari

  • Implementation period: 1.5.–31.12.2012
  • Funding programme: European Regional Development Fund, Finnish Transport Agency
  • Budget: Actual public funding 363 366 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: An underpass was constructed under National Road 4 in Laanila, Inari, for the users of the snowmobile route. As a result, traffic safety was improved by directing snowmobiles to use the underpass when crossing the national road.

 

Maanteiden 951 ja 9523 parantaminen rakentamalla alikulkukäytävät moottorikelkkareiteille
Improvement of Road 951 and Road 9523 by constructing underpasses for snowmobile routes

  • Implementation period: 31.5.2011–31.12.2011
  • Funding programme: European Regional Development Fund, Finnish Transport Agency
  • Budget: Actual public funding 862 450 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: During the project two underpasses were constructed at the crossings of the snowmobile route and Road 951 and Road 9523. As a result, traffic safety was improved by directing snowmobiles as well as reindeer and husky safaris to use the underpasses, and thus also the safety of road users was improved.

 

Maantien 9401 kevyen liikenteen väylän rakentaminen välillä Röhkömukka-Hiihtokeskuksen p-alue, Kolari
Construction of Road 9401 pedestrian and bicycle route between Röhkömukka- Ski resort parking area, Kolari

  • Implementation period: 16.6.2009–31.12.2010
  • Funding programme: European Regional Development Fund, Finnish Transport Agency
  • Budget: Actual public funding 536 702 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: The objective was to reduce the risk of traffic accidents to the skiing centre visitors. During the project a pedestrian and bicycle way as well as new bus stops were constructed along Road 9401 from Röhkömukka to the Ylläs Ski Resort. The pedestrian and bicycle way reduces the risk of traffic accidents significantly.

 

Alikulkusillan rakentaminen moottorikelkkareitin ja maantien risteämiskohtaan mt. 957 Siepinkurun kohdalle, Muonion kunnassa –
Construction of an underpass at the crossing of the snowmobile route and Road 957 in Siepinkuru, Municipality of Muonio

  • Implementation period: 1.10.2008–30.10.2009
  • Funding programme: European Regional Development Fund, Finnish Transport Agency
  • Budget: Actual public funding 229 246 €
  • Objectives/Outcomes: To increase traffic safety by directing snowmobile users and husky safaris to use the underpass.