The Intelligent Community Energy project (ICE) aims to design and implement innovative smart energy solutions for isolated territories in the Channel area. Islands and isolated communities are facing specific energy issues in terms of efficiency, rel...

The Connected Communities initiative will address the societal challenge of a growing ageing population (over 65 in UK, 60 in France) with social action budgets that will not be able to keep pace with growth. Older people are also being supported for...

The aim of this project is to increase visitor numbers to cultural heritage (CH) sites in the FCE area. The region relies on tourism income, is rich in CH assets, but faces significant economic challenges. Our approach capitalises on the extensive CH...

Increase is an innovative 6 step training and support pathway for 4000 economically excluded people in Housing Association (HA) neighbourhoods. Through pilot work, collected data and our own baseline survey across FCE region; we’ve identified need fo...

The average annual cost of damage caused by floods in FR and UK combined is €870m, expected to increase by 25-80% by 2100. Projected sea level rise threaten100,000 buildings in FCE area from flooding. The BRIC project aims to transform flood risk man...

TIGER will drive the growth of Tidal Stream Energy (TSE) in FR & the UK & accelerate the deployment of TSE in the FCE region, with significant economic benefits for coastal communities. It addresses the need to reenergise the stalled TSE sector in FR...

As climate changes, average and peak temperatures have risen, annual average rainfall is greater and wettest days wetter. Mean UK sea level has risen 16 cm since 1900. These trends are set to continue with the sea level likely to rise by up to 70 cm ...

Food security and agricultural sustainability are two of the great global challenges of the 21st century. Soil is the largest carbon store on earth, yet industry is paying over to €3.5b p/a to dispose of waste soil from building sites across UK & Fra...

The FIREDRONE project will increase the safety, speed and accuracy of firefighters’ response to industrial fires and wildfires by developing a compact airborne robotic system for live monitoring dangerous emissions in smoke, designing its operational...

GO Trade will boost the FCE local economies by increasing the number of visitors to local markets by 327 650 and by helping 450 traders to grow sustainable businesses in markets. A high number of town centres/high streets have suffered declining foot...

Both climate change and increasing urbanisation of European cities is making the management of rainwater and runoff a major challenge. The percentage of impermeable surface in the natural setting is < 10%; in cities it i75%, only allowing an overall ...

The EU aims to reduce energy use by 20% by 2020 (2012/27/EU). A major obstacle is reducing the energy used by EU buildings’ construction and use, which currently consume 40% of generated energy (EU2010). To help meet this challenge, CobBauge 1 will d...

Globally, about 80% of plastic pollution comes from terrestrial sources (GESAMP, 2016) and approximately 4 million tonnes of plastic waste enter the sea via rivers every year (Schmidt et al 2017. Environ. Sci. Technol. 51, 12246-12253); yet we lack a...

The Biosphere Reserves from Brighton & North Devon in England, as well as Iroise Isles & Sea & Marais Audomarois in France share common issues. They are the only 4 protected areas of the FCE zone which are recognised by UNESCO Man & Biosphere (MAB) p...

C-Care is a ground-breaking partnership of 4 English & 3 French organisations along with a much wider network of stakeholders and previous Interreg projects from the FCE area who have developed a unique and ambitious package of targeted support in re...