EUROPEAN GROUPING OF TERRITORIAL COOPERATION (EGTC) DUERO-DOURO Budapest, March 7th 2014

EUROPEAN GROUPING OF TERRITORIAL COOPERATION (EGTC) DUERO-DOURO

Budapest, March 7th 2014

European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Duero-Douro ( DUERO-DOURO EGTC) www.duero-douro.com

NUTS III:• Alto Trás-os-Montes• Douro• Beira Interior Norte• Zamora• Salamanca

Members of the DUERO-DOURO

More than 200 Portuguese and Spanish public

institutions

135 Spanish municipalities

9 Portuguese Municipal

Councils

74 Portuguese municipalities

Salamanca University

Bragança Polytechnic Institute

REFERENCE FRAMEWORK OF THE DUERO-DOURO EGTC


Data on Location, People and Surface Of The Duero-douro

• Surface: 8 910,27 Km2

• 356,19 km of Portuguese/Spanish border

• Population from Portugal: 73.328 Inhabitants

• Population from Spain: 46.815 Inhabitants

• Total population Duero-Douro EGTC: 120.000 Inhabitants

•Average size of each municipality belonging to the Duero-Douro:

•73% with less than 500 inhabitants•27% between 500 and 3.500 inhabitants

OPERATION OF THE Duero-Douro : GOVERNING BODIESGeneral Assembly

President of the General Assembly and of the EGTC

(three-year revolving term by a member of Spain and a member of Portugal)

Vice President of the General Assembly and of the EGTC (three-year revolving term by a member of

Spain and a member of Portugal)

Coordination Council

President of the Coordinating Council

Vice President of the Coordinating Council

6 Sectorial Councils

1 Territorial Coordinator

1 General Director

1 Secretariat

SPHERES OF ACTION: Equal Opportunities, Economic Development, Local Development, Public transportation, New Technology, Environment and Sustainable Development, Education, Training and Employment, Health, Social Services and Social Welfare, Tourism, Culture and Heritage, Sport, Leisure and Recreation; agriculture, Local Government, Transport and communications, Research, Innovation and Development.

European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Duero-Douro ( DUERO-DOURO EGTC)

www.duero-douro.com

Implementing Projects of EGTC DUERO-DOURO

. Knowing each other

. Artists from the Duero (School Theater)

. Writers without borders: Reading/writing

. Intereduca

. Self-Prevention: Self-organizing model for forest fire prevention .Sustainable recovery of the Border: NATURAL BORDER

. Energy Efficiency Project in Public Lighting.

. Microcredit program

. Territoria.net .

. Observatory for the promotion of culture in the Duero-Douro axis.

. Tourism of tales and legends.

. Duero-Douro Employement Agency


“Energy efficiency in public lighting of the duero-douro’s

Energy Consumer Center”


Street lighting in rural municipalities Problems or needs

.1 - Improving Public Service

. 2 - Energy Savings

. 3 - Meet Regulations

. 4 - Cost Savings

Current energy condition in the Duero-Douro

Currently 155 locations from Salamanca and Zamora, have joined this project.

With a total of 15,421 points of light and 258 cabinets.


BID AWARDED

PROPOSED TEHCNOLOGY : LED

AWARDEE : ELECNOR S.A.


BID AWARDED

•PROPOSED TEHCNOLOGY : LED•Awardee: ELECNOR S.A.• Contract signature: September 25, 2013•Renovation of lighting installation: 9 months from the start report.

Before the project

After the project

INSTALLED POWER 1.509.640,00W 436.510,50 W

HOURS ON 4.131 h.

CURRENT CONSUMPTION

6.236.323 kWh/año

1.086.547 kWh/año

EXPECTED SAVINGS (installed capacity)

71,09%

EXPECTED SAVINGS (energy) 82,58%REDUCING CO2 EMISSIONS 1.853.919,21

kg CO2/año


BID AWARDED

LIGHTING WITH LED TECHNOLOGY

30% Works already carried out:

TOTAL: 38 villages.

Self-Prevention: Self-organizing model for forest fire prevention

report made in 2013

SPAINTotal fires registered: 14,050 fires (47 fires over last

year); Forest area affected: 189 321 ha (3.5 times the area affected last year);

PORTUGAL •Number of forest fires: 20.501 (4.254 forest fires and 16.247 small fires)

•hectares burned: 104,125 hectares,

Total hectares burned in the territory Duero-Douro: 7,186

MORE THAN 60% OF THE FIRES IN 2012 HAVE AFFECTED PROTECTED AREAS

Self-Prevention: Self-organizing model for forest fire prevention

¿What is this project about?• Reintroduction of 150,000 goats for clearing forests and fields• Generation of economic wealth in the territory • Settlement of the population in rural areas by preventing fires


•Creating 663 jobs •Professionalism and profitability of livestock farming• Natural and effective fire prevention •Recovery of endangered breeds •Sustainable project and adapted to the territory

• As shareholdersProviding liquid capital.Providing Land.

• By participating in job opportunities

¿ How to participate in Self Prevention?


• 110 GOAT FARMS:•50 EXTENSIVE SYSTEM.•40 INTENSIVE SYSTEM.•20 SEMI-INTENSIVE SYSTEM.•11 DAIRY (CHEESE) AND 1 DAIRY (MILK)•2 SLAUGHTER WITH ASSOCIATED MEAT INDUSTRY.•6 SHOPS + 6 BAR-SHOPS•LOGISTOCS PLATFORM•FEED FACTORY

Self-prevention 2014-2017

• Reduction of forest fires.

•Making a plan of wildfire management

General Objectives:

www.duero-douro.com

Specific Objectives:

•Advantages of grazing goats. •Development of standards and guide practices. •Priority areas for grazing. •stakeholders •Training and awareness. •Monitoring plots. •Building a site about grazing management.

Self-prevention 2014-2017

http://www.duero-douro.com/

European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Duero-Douro

Trabanca – Salamanca (Spain)

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Tel.(+34) 923 141 504 | fax. (+34) 923 090 433 | www.duero-douro.com

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EUROPEAN GROUPING OF TERRITORIAL COOPERATION (EGTC) DUERO-DOURO Budapest, March 7th 2014