Arctic Preparedness Platform for oil Spill and other Environmental Accidents

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

Description

Description (EN):

APP4SEA is a transnational competence project, which aims to strengthen the preparedness of environmental authorities and the awareness of general public in the coastal areas of the NPA region regarding oil spill response. Combating oil spills in harsh, northern conditions is challenging with current technologies. Oil spills do not recognize national borders, and inefficiencies are brought by different practices and methods, which are used by different countries, as well as the challenges due to different sea and environmental conditions, and the variety of oil types used and transported by ship across the NPA region. APP4SEA will unite coastal authorities, pool their competences and data on oil weathering, share best practices in oil spill response technologies and models. By learning from each other, the authorities can response faster and more efficiently in order to minimize environmental and social impacts of oil-in-water accidents. The project will produce an interactive smart map, which will be an open access platform showing search and rescue centres along the NPA coastline, their equipment and level of preparedness for oil spill accidents, weather conditions in accident zones, as well as information about important ecological areas and species that can be affected by oil spills. The smart application will also have a predictive function to advise in case of accident what equipment of deploy considering the place and scale of spill and environmental conditions. The project will also produce a gap analysis and improvement suggestions to improve OSR infra and preparedeness level in the NPA region. The end users of the project are local authorities responsible for oil spill response; social groups, educational institutions and the general public. APP4SEA will also involve local entrepreneurs, to support northern entrepreneurship and attract interest to environmental issues. In additon the general public will be provided access to illustrative educational tools.

Expected Results (EN): Preparedness of responsible authorities in remote, sparsely populated areas for environmental management in relation to climate change and impacts of new investments in exploitation of natural resources

Expected Outputs (EN):

The APP4SEA project work packages have been carefully formulated to deliver robust and viable outcomes, products and services that will find their end users: local authorities and the general public. The project will involve institutions in the Northern Periphery and Arctic region countries. In doing so, we will get access to practical knowledge and expertise of leaders in the field of oil spill response, and provide tangible results. Through delivery of its comprehensive suite of products and services, APP4SEA will bring about the following results: shared oil spill response model and oil weathering database; increased partnership of local oil spill response authorities; improved level of organizational awareness, operational performance and overall preparedness; improved capacity of local northern communities to execute sustainable environmental management in the NPA region to protect natural and cultural heritage; improved awareness of local communities about general relevant Arctic issues and attracted interest of the youth to solving current and upcoming problems in their home areas; transnational cooperation and networking achieved through organized project meetings and communication activities, following common final project goals. The results of literature and local Arctic authorities review have demonstrated that all products and services to be derived from the APP4SEA project are unique and have no examples of duplication in the region. Thus, the project will fill the existing sustainable environmental management niche. Another notable fact is that the services and products are generated based on transnational cooperation with leading experts in the field – which allows to find the best complementary parts and assemble them in the best possible outcome. All international regional competence results will be shared and beneficially used in the area by local communities.

Themes

Coastal management and maritime issues Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks

Specific Objective: Increased capacity of remote and sparsely populated communities for sustainable environmental management

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06c) Conserving, protecting, promoting and developing natural and cultural heritage

Partners

Lead Partner: University of Oulu

Department: Faculty of Technology, Energy and Environmental Engineering

Address: Pentti Kaiterankatu 1, 90570 Oulu, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.oulu.fi/english/

Total budget: EUR 418 760.10

ERDF budget: EUR 272 194.06

Suomen ympäristökeskus

Name: Suomen ympäristökeskus

Department: Freshwater Centre / Pollution Response Unit

Address: Mechelininkatu 34A, 251 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.syke.fi/en-US

Total budget: EUR 202 598.21

ERDF budget: EUR 131 688.84

North Highland College UHI

Name: North Highland College UHI

Department: Environment Research Institute (ERI)

Address: Castle Street, KW147JD Caithness, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.northhighland.uhi.ac.uk/

Total budget: EUR 324 315.16

ERDF budget: EUR 210 804.85

Háskóli Íslands

Name: Háskóli Íslands

Department: Institute for Sustainability Studies

Address: Saemundargata 6, 107 Reykjavík, Iceland

Legal status: public

Website: http://english.hi.is/

Total budget: EUR 200 000.00

Meteorologisk institutt

Name: Meteorologisk institutt

Department: Research and Development – Oceanography and Marine Meteorology

Address: Allegaten 70, 5007 Bergen, Norway

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://met.no/English/

Total budget: EUR 268 470.00

Summary

Project name (EN): Arctic Preparedness Platform for oil Spill and other Environmental Accidents

Project acronym: APP4SEA

Period: 2014-2020

Date of latest update: 2022-07-27

Website: http://www.interreg-npa.eu/

Project start date: 2017-05-01

Project end date: 2020-04-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 414 143.47

European Union funding: EUR 614 687.76

Co-financing sources: ERDF, Third-country contribution

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Finnish Environment Insitute

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North Highland College UHI

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University of Iceland

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Oulun Yliopisto

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

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2022-07-27

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

152 / 152 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

779 / 779 (100%)

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