News from keep.eu

2022-03-01

Interreg and the increasing carbon handprint

The objective of the EU Green Deal is for Europe to become the first climate neutral continent by 2050. While the objective is well-known by now, there is more to attaining it than merely reducing the carbon footprint (the negative climate impact of our activities).

Have you heard of the carbon handprint? Activities mitigating climate change are considered to leave a carbon handprint, and are hence a favourable course of action.

When searching keep.eu with the term “carbon footprint” we come up with nearly 100 projects and over 200 documents about decreasing negative environmental impacts. Many of these projects are tackling challenges towards the ambitious goal of the Green Deal, and – in fact – working to increase the carbon handprint (even if the term is not as widely used and a search with such phrase returns no projects). Below is a handful of impressive examples:

– Recycling the Future Automotive Interior, which worked out a new way to recycle fiber and raw material mixtures in textiles (like a sweater made of 70% cotton and 30% polyester) to produce yarn through new spinning methods
– BalkanROAD, helping agribusinesses to create local value chains and prove and communicate the environmental footprint of their products directly to consumers
– BEEP, working on enhanced energy efficiency of public buildings and H-CHP on that of households in remote areas, as well as
– OptiTrans and E-MOPOLI, working on greener public transport solutions and
– SMART-SPACE, addressing energy consumption of public spaces.

There is a lot to be proud of already. Let’s continue the good work to further reduce the carbon footprint and increase the handprint.

2021-12-21

Create your lists of project output documents from keep.eu

With over 15,000 project output documents, and 25,500 projects (and counting), keep.eu can be a great source of thematic information, knowledge and innovation. Document search results in keep.eu can now be saved as Excel files, with the list of all the relevant documents that users can refer to in keep.eu. Moreover, the links to those documents are part of this Excel export, making life even easier for those looking for thematic knowledge produced by Interreg. In order to get hold of the documents of your interest, and their list in Excel, make a search, switch to document view and export the results. It’s as simple as that!


2021-12-21

User trends in keep.eu in 2021

Looking back at 2021, the Representativeness section of keep.eu is our champion in terms of use growth. Being the only place in the world where one can find out how many Interreg, Interreg IPA CBC and ENI CBC projects, partners and programmes there are per programming period and per type of programme, the winning position is well deserved. Another part of keep.eu providing answers to the common questions of “how many” and “how much” is the Statistics section, coming in second in growth of visibility during 2021.

If we do not look at growth, but only at the number of users and sessions of keep.eu, the most sought after area of keep.eu in 2021 was Projects and documents, followed by Programmes, then by Partners, and by Countries and regions.

Encouraged by these insights and the continued growth of keep.eu use, we will continue our work to include much more information on projects, programmes and partners. Thank you for another insightful year on our joint path and see you in 2022!

2021-11-16

The year is approaching its last weeks and the 2021-2027 programming period is getting to good speed.

Starting in 2022, keep.eu will contain data from 2021-2027 partners, projects and programmes. At the same time, some new functionalities will be around for building partner networks. For instance, the Participant Identification Code (PIC) will be available to enhance the identification of partner organisations. Also, project partners will be able to work out their presentations in keep.eu, proposing specific services and expertise. And just like now, they will be able to contact other partners featured in keep.eu but with more powerful contacting features (currently under study).

How will the future look like? This and more will be discussed during two hours, at the meeting of the keep.eu 3.0 Group on 25 November. This meeting is open to everyone who want to learn or have a say on how information and search mechanisms covering the whole of Interreg can be better put to the service of partners and applicants. Find more information and register here.

2021-10-26

Project output library is growing by the day

You have hopefully heard that keep.eu is well on its way collecting project output documents to its database. At the time of writing this text, the number of project output documents in keep.eu was approaching 10,000. At that very same time, 20% of the projects in the database, that were closed for a minimum of six months ago, featured at least one document in keep.eu.

Keep.eu’s project output library represents an accrued guarantee that the knowledge and solutions developed by the projects will not disappear. It also provides a much easier access to the aggregated thematic expertise of Interreg, Interreg IPA cross-border and ENI CBC. The collection of these documents is made autonomously by Interact, in rounds. Users can quickly grasp how many projects per programme feature documents in keep.eu by referring to keep.eu’s Representativeness page and scrolling down to header ‘Documents’.


2021-10-26

Where does the keep.eu data come from?

This is a question we quite often receive, so let’s shed some light on the topic. The data on 2014-2020 programmes featured in keep.eu was collected by Interact and validated by each programme at the beginning of the programming period. On the other hand, data on projects and partners/partnerships is the responsibility of each programme, who can send the data to keep.eu through what is called an automatic process (described in further detail here), or through a manual process (described in further detail here). The former includes the automatic sending from the eMS. Users of keep.eu can find information on how well each programme and its projects are covered in the database either on the individual programme pages or, for a general overview, on the Representativeness page.


2021-10-26

Excel exports improved for better user experience

It is now easier to compare programmes, projects and even partners in keep.eu. Interact has worked to improve all of keep.eu’s Excel exports. Besides making results easier to compare, each exported file now features a summary page with the criteria leading to the exported results and the date and time of the export. From now on, the programmes are also able to add information to each of their projects on any links the project has to other projects financed by the programme or any other European programme. Yet another new field in projects is their relevant mentions and prizes. This will make it possible, in the future, to look for projects that received a specific mention or prize (for example, we will be able to look for Interreg projects that won the Regiostars award, among other possibilities).

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