Highlights

The 4th Baltic Maritime Spatial Planning Forum will take place on 1 – 2 June 2021, online and will be broadcasted from Latvia. The Forum is organised by two Interreg BSR projects Capacity4MSP, a flagship of the EUSBSR, and Land-Sea-Act. Forum serves as a final conference for both projects.

Have you ever wondered what the culture of the Baltic Sea Region is and how it is defined? Regional culture – the whole of the environment and the cultural activities carried out therein that is created and fostered by the residents of the region.

Clean Shipping Project Platform (CSHIPP) was established to improve cross-sectoral collaboration and the utilisation of results and findings from several individual projects and organisations on a wider scale. As CSHIPP collaboration is now coming to an end, it’s time to look back and reflect a little bit on what has been achieved.

EUSBSR Flagship Project BEST – Better Efficiency for Industrial Sewage Treatment – was completed at the end of September 2020. The flagship contributed to PA Nutri Action 2: Reduce nutrient emissions from urban areas and other point sources, and also implemented the horizontal aspect of cooperating with non-EU Member States by including water utility and industrial partners from Russia.

Project platform is a relatively new concept: the first platforms started in 2018. As the first platforms are about to finalise, it is a good time to look back and think about lessons learnt. Agnieszka Ilola from BSR Water platform shared her experiences.

Can we make an impact on urban regeneration with something as seemingly intangible as culture? The fourteen partners of EUSBSR Flagship UrbCulturalPlanning in nine partner countries certainly think so.