Prevention and utilization of Invasive Alien Species

Programme 2014 - 2020 South-East Finland - Russia ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2025-06-17

Description

Description (RU):

Цель проекта PURE – повысить осведомленность учащихся школ и колледжей об инвазивных чужеродных видах (ИВЧ) растений и о том, как предотвращать их распространение. В фокусе внимания проекта – разработка новых методов безопасного сбора, хранения и переработки борщевика.

Description (FI):

PURE hankkeen tavoitteena on lisätä oppilaiden ja opiskelijoiden tietoisuutta invasiivisten vieraslajien (IAS) turvallisesta ehkäisystä ja poistamisesta. Hanke keskittyy erityisesti jättiputkeen ja se kehittää uusia tapoja lajin niittämiseen, keräämiseen, lajitteluun ja varastointiin turvallisesti.

Description (EN): PURE project is about raising awareness among pupils and college students regarding safe prevention and elimination of invasive alien species (IAS). The project will focus especially for hogweed and it will develop new ways to mow down, collect, sort and store hogweed safely.

Achievements (EN):

The “Prevention and utilization of Invasive Alien Species – PURE” project was carried out from January 1st, 2021, to April 30th, 2023. The Overall objective of the project was to secure natural biodiversity, safe, pure, and clean environment by preventing the spreading of the Invasive Alien Species (IAS) in the programme area. This objective defined the aims and the tools to reach these aims. To fight Invasive Alien Species requires common effort from all of us, the local communities, property owners, local and government administration, and non-governmental organizations etc. The main question is how to recognize IAS and how to fight them in eco-friendly and effective ways. The “PURE” project tried to answer these questions by organizing awareness raising events in local communities and schools in the City of St. Petersburg, Leningrad Region, and South-Eastern Finland. In the awareness rising events organized during the project implementation the focus was to disseminate information about Invasive Alien Plant Species such as Himalayan Balsam, Lupin and Hogweed. With the representatives of local communities was also organized practical bees. The project managed to educate a notable number of people from the different age groups. The youngest participant of these various events was 3 years old and the oldest over 70 years. The project also studied possibilities to develop and pilot new ways to mow down, collect, sort and store hogweed safely and tried to find out methods and technologies for hogweed utilization and processing. Unfortunately, both the pandemic and the geopolitical situation affected the realization of these activities. The studies of possibilities to utilize and process Hogweed material in laboratory scale produced interesting results. The Hogweed material was studied as a source for useful oils and extracts and as a feedstock material for the biogas process. The project partners reached interesting results, which hopefully can be used in the future. It seems that hogweed contains chemical compounds which are widely used in cosmetics, in foodstuff etc. It seems also possible to produce energy from hogweed using biogas process. Fighting the Invasive Alien Species is essential for maintaining and supporting the biodiversity of the environment. The project carried out small but concrete part in this fight. The project will continue its work by the online course about Invasive Alien Species. Also, the project publication and Guide for Teachers will be further available.

Website: http://www.sefrcbc.fi

Delivered Outputs (EN):

target value: TI #of persons…awareness raising activities 740/400 PSI #of awareness events in RUS…3/4 PSI #of part. in awareness in RUS…500/60 PSI #of awareness events in FIN…5/3 PSI #of part. in awareness in FIN…29/3 PSI #of schools visited in RUS…3/6 PSI #of school visits in RUS…4/12 PSI #of part.in visits in RUS…169/240 PSI Self-evaluation…in RUS...4/3 PSI #of schools visited in FIN…2/3 PSI #of school visits in FIN…5/6 PSI #of part.in visits in FIN…126/120 PSI Self-evaluation…in FIN…4/3 PSI #of technologies for… 3/3 PSI #of tests of hogweed’s… 2/2 PSI #of usable chemical compounds…8

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Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management

Thematic Objective: Environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Kaakkois-Suomen ammattikorkeakoulu

Address: Patteristonkatu 3D, 50100 Mikkeli, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.xamk.fi

Total budget: EUR 163 951.00

Luonnonvarakeskus

Name: Luonnonvarakeskus

Address: Yliopistokatu 6b, 80100 Joensuu, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.luke.fi

Total budget: EUR 33 250.48

Institute of Agricultural Engineering andEnvironmental Problems of Agricultural Production

Name: Institute of Agricultural Engineering andEnvironmental Problems of Agricultural Production

Address: Filtrovskoje Shosse 3, 196625 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://sznii.ru

Total budget: EUR 70 696.00

Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University

Name: Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University

Address: Institutskii per 5 , 194021 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.spbftu.ru

Total budget: EUR 19 498.96

ITMO University

Name: ITMO University

Address: Kronverksky pr. 49, 197101 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ifmo.ru

Total budget: EUR 110 648.00

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Natural Resources Institute Finland

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South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences

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Institute of Agricultural Engineering andEnvironmental Problems of Agricultural Production

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Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University

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ITMO University

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Summary

Project name (EN): Prevention and utilization of Invasive Alien Species

Project acronym: PURE

Project start date: 2021-01-01

Project end date: 2022-11-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 216 700.44

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 160 289.15

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 48.00%

Co-financing sources:

Third-country contribution: Russia: EUR 75 723.00

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2014 - 2020 South-East Finland - Russia ENI CBC

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2024-01-29

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

71 / 71 (100%)

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

320 / 320 (100%)

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