PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
Businesses respond to environmental problems and ecological demands in a variety of ways. Until now industries have simply installed "end of pipe" technologies; however, the trend is now moving towards a preventive approach. The project aims to work out and test methods to better realise production integrated environmental protection by using proven forms of communication that are completely new. The project¿s focus is to provide principles for preventive environmental protection according to the goals and objectives of the directive on "Integrated pollution prevention and control". The training and education modules seek to: - To provide concepts and methods for the integrated evaluation of environmental impacts of sites - To supply information and meta-information about clean technologies - To inform about new developments in the field of environmental law, particularly on appropriate practices - To improve complex administration procedures which have serious impacts on the environment by integrating citizens¿ needs in a more effective way. By the end of the project, methods and structures should be fully developed. Furthermore greater information exchange between official experts and representatives from authorities in the field of "integrated environmental protection" should also take place.