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Baltic Sea Information on the Acoustic Soundscape (BIAS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Background The Baltic Sea is one of the world’s largest semi-enclosed bodies of brackish water. The special geographical, oceanographic and climatological characteristics of the Baltic ecosystem make it highly susceptible to the environmental impacts of human activities at sea and in its catchment area. As a result of this status, the International Mari ...
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Development and transfer of innovative and sustainable aquaculture technologies in the South Baltic area (InnoAquaTech)

Start date: Jun 30, 2015, End date: Oct 30, 2015,

Aquaculture – the farming of aquatic organisms, such as fish, mussels and algae – has been identified by the European Commission as one of the five Blue Growth sectors with the highest potential for sustainable jobs and growth. However, fish farming is also linked to a number of environmental challenges, including negative impact on water quality from fish effluent or the use of wild fish populati ...
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Better marina management, harbour network consolidation and water tourism marketing in the southern Baltic rim (MARRIAGE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2011, End date: Apr 29, 2015,

...astline. Fam trips for boating journalists took place in all participating regions in 2013-14 and induced a number of articles in boating journals. The "South Coast Baltic Boating Rally 2014" from Gdansk via Kaliningrad to Klaipeda attracted 12 boats and 50 participants. A website / smartphone app with boating & touristic information on the South Coast Baltic was launched in Nov 2014. - KNOWLEDGE ...
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Labour Market Dynamics and Attractive Business Environments in the South Baltic Region (SB Professionals)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Apr 29, 2015,

...k (17/07/2012) focusing on activity 3.2 involvement of LB, PP3 and PP6, 5) 3rd Core Group Meeting in Szczecin (22/11/21012) combined with a cross-border workshop (activity 3.2), 6) Working meeting in Gdansk between Polish partners concerning activity 4.1 and 4th partner meeting in Gdynia connected with the cross-border conference on labour demand activity 3.3 in Gdynia (11-12 June 2013), 5th partn ...
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Dredged Materials in Dike Construction - Implementation in the SBR using Geosynthetics and Soil Improvement (DredgDikes)

Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Jan 30, 2015,

Due to the expected sea level rise the authorities of the Baltic Sea region are intensively planning the improvement of coastal protection structures. In Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (M-V), a total of 220 km of coastal dikes and another 530 km of primary and secondary river dikes exist, protecting 53,500 ha of land. An investment of Euro 50 Mio is estimated for the improvement or reconstruction of c ...
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Application of ecosystem principles for the location and management of offshore dumping sites in SE Baltic Region (ECODUMP)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Project background: Currently, there are more than 20 offshore dumping sites in South-Eastern Baltic Sea, which are used for the depositing of dredged mainly from port areas and navigation channels. Development and maintenance of new ports will imply dredging of several million m3 of sediments in coming years, thus the need for new dumping sites should be also considered. Offshore dumping in the B ...
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Linking maritime education with the changing job market for a new generation of Baltic Sea experts (Generation BALT)

Start date: Jun 30, 2011, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

... was held in Kalmar in April 2013. Contact with companies for internships started. Between February and July 2013, 5 weekend courses/modules were held in Rostock, Kalmar, Klaipeda, Szczecin and Gdansk. The Summer Course was successfully accomplished in September 2013. Some of the participants have started their internships at a maritime company. The project was presented at different maritime even ...
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Economic Crises: Resilience of Regions (ECR2)

Start date: Jan 31, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

The economic crisis had a asymmetric impact on the different European regions. The fast and successful recovery of some particular regions and the stagnancy of others strikes the eye and raises the question of what is behind this success. The economic crisis and recovery are at the core of all recent policy initiatives that set the framework for territorial development and cohesion policy. The obj ...
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Strategic Age Management for SME in the Baltic Sea Region (BestAgersLighthouses)

Start date: Nov 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The extension stage project “Best Agers Lighthouses” focuses on implementation of age management interventions in selected small and medium-sized enterprises and public organisations in different Baltic Sea Region countries. The interventions will follow a jointly developed methodology which is based on the results of the “Best Agers” project, and they will be monitored and evaluated scientificall ...
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The implementation of the planned Lithuanian Longlife pilot project as a dormitory for Klaipeda University (Longlife Invest)

Start date: Nov 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

Longlife Invest will implement a sustainable, energy-efficient building with minimized operational cost as a new dormitory of two blocks for the Klaipeda University. The Klaipeda University is the investor and the owner of the new dormitory. The implementation of the planned Lithuanian Longlife pilot project as a dormitory for Klaipeda University would be a great opportunity for the Lithuanian par ...
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QUICK: Innovative SMEs by Gender and Age (Quick-IGA)

Start date: Sep 19, 2011, End date: Mar 27, 2014,

The following findings are the background of the project: a) The number of persons in employable age in the BSR countries decreases by up to 20 % until 2030.b) The increasing lack of skilled workers will limit innovation and growth of SMEs.c) While equal opportunities for women and elderly in the workplace are comparably high in Scandinavia, it must be improved considerably in countries south of t ...
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Baltic Forum for Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Manure Management (Baltic MANURE)

Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

The Baltic Sea Basin is an area of intensive, and intensifying agricultural production. There are about 36 million units of cattle, 67 million units of pigs, and 190 million units of poultry in the region. (Gren, I.-M. et al., 2008: Cost of nutrient reductions to the Baltic Sea - technical report). Intensifying and concentration of animal production has resulted in environmental problems caused by ...
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RECO Baltic 21 Tech (RB21T)

Start date: Sep 16, 2010, End date: Dec 15, 2013,

RECO Baltic 21 Tech (RB21T) has aimed to facilitate for local and regional decision makers to perform sustainable waste management investments. RB21T has developed a Joint BSR Strategy for Waste Management that makes use of 'best practices' from regional and national strategies. All together RB21T has contributed towards sustainable waste management and development by putting into practice a syste ...
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CLEAN BALTIC SEA SHIPPING (CleanShip)

Start date: Jun 9, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

BALTIC SEA CLEAN SHIPPING (CLEANSHIP), is part of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, and has by the EU Commission become selected as a strategic flagship project in its mission to make the Baltic Sea a model region for clean shipping. It promotes measures to reduce emissions from ships to the atmosphere and elaborates ways to promote infrastructure for bunkering of LNG and increased use of ...
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Sustainable Uses of Baltic Marine Resources (SUBMARINER)

Start date: Jun 10, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

The Baltic Sea faces significant challenges: fishery declines, severe marine pollution, the effects of climate change as well as an increasing competition for space. At the same time new scientific and technological developments provide opportunities for innovative uses of marine resources which do not only have the power to generate sustainable regional economic development but also proactively c ...
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South Baltic Offshore Wind Energy Regions (South Baltic OFFER)

Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: May 30, 2013,

...e Fascination OFFSHORE exhibition. On 7 Sept 2011 the 1st cross-border stakeholder event Offshore Wind Energy and Offshore Industry took place within the 16th International Exhibition BALTEXPO2011 in Gdansk & attracted 173 participants. Important presentations were given by representatives of the European Wind Energy Association, German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation, German Maritime and Hydrogra ...
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Wind energy in the BSR - the extension (WEBSR 2)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Jan 30, 2013,

...as possible to those they were ment to address - the feedback the project team got regarding the quality and usefulness of the results was a very positive one, e.g. on the final project conference in Gdansk in October 2012.
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Qualification, Innovation, Cooperation and Keybusiness for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR QUICK)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

SMEs represent 99% of all enterprises in BSR and provide up to 70% of all jobs, being an important economic but also socio-cultural factor. SMEs present the biggest potential for job creation also in future. QUICK aims at unleashing this potential to its full extent by addressing the following challenges undermining the competitiveness of the BSR SMEs:- limited benefit from innovation processes an ...
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Best Agers - Using the knowledge and experience of professionals in their primes to foster business and skills development in the Baltic Sea Region (Best Agers)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

With demographic change and the current economic crisis looming, the cities and regions of the Baltic Sea Region have to find creative ways of disclosing and utilizing unused opportunities. One of these hidden potentials are the people in the prime of their lives – the so called “Best Agers” (defined in the project as people aged 55 and older). As previous projects have shown, the BSR population w ...
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Sustainable Management of Contaminated Sediments in the Baltic Sea (SMOCS)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

The Baltic Sea has many hot-spots with highly contaminated sediments in ports, estuaries etc. Human activities often take place in coastal areas and are affected by these hot-spots. Activities e.g. maintainance dredging in ports and fairways due to more deep-draught ships and expanding ports will imply dredging of several million m3 incl. contaminated sediments in coming years. How to handle dredg ...
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Towards an integrated transport system in the Baltic Sea Region (TransBaltic)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Sep 8, 2012,

TransBaltic was a strategic BSR-wide project carried out by regional authorities, transport and logistics-related research institutions, transport operators, logistics associations and pan-Baltic networks. The partnership of 20 organisations was backed up by further 31 entities, including several national transport ministries around the Baltic Sea.TransBaltic addressed two issues of common concern ...
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Valorisation of knowledge-intensive ideas in the South Baltic area (SB VALOR)

Start date: May 31, 2009, End date: Mar 30, 2012,

The proposal builds on the challenges facing public research on a European scale in regards to creating sustainable structures for transferring academic research into marketable innovations. Large sums of public money are invested in research, either directly or through different types of research programmes and as a consequence thereof, a significant amount of market relevant research projects an ...
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The Baltic Sea Region Bioenergy Promotion Project (Bioenergy Promotion)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

The project aimed to: Raise awareness that there is a significant potential of employment and business possibilities within bioenergy in the Baltic Sea Region, facilitate conditions for the reduction of emissions by sustainable use of bioenergy, develop regional management plans and tools for planning within bioenergy, exchange experiences through up-t-date conferences, seminars and workshops in b ...
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Introducing Maritime Spatial Planning in the Baltic Sea (BaltSeaPlan)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

...w open web tool was developed, which makes it easier to show the of different use priorities for the planning area. Last but not least activities for theWestern Gulf of Gdansk were devoted to assessing the consequences of the MSP prepared for this area on the environment.Furthermore BaltSeaPlan developed a series of reports& recommendations, which are an expression of the joint knowledge, experien ...
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Maritime safety - Transport and Environment in the Baltic Sea Region (Baltic Master II)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

...parliament, has successfully chaired the Baltic Master II Political Committee. A number of political seminars and meetings has taken place, e.g. in the Swedish Parliament, at EU Maritime Day in Gdansk and at the Estonian ministry of environment in Tallinn. The Political Committee’s work was crowned by the signing of the Baltic Master II Vision for the Baltic Sea December 1st 2011 in Brussels. The ...
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Sustainable, energy efficient and resource saving residential buildings with consideration of unified procedures and new and adapted technologies (Longlife)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

Longlife will develop practices, innovative technologies, unified procedures and guidelines for and subsequently the design of a prototype of a sustainable, energy efficient and resource saving residential building in the Baltic Sea Region. The above mentioned knowledge will be transferred, according to Gothenburg, between Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and Russia and can and should be applie ...
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Efficient, Safe and Sustainable Traffic at Sea (EfficienSea)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

...ments needed to implement e-Navigation in the Baltic Sea region. The entire Baltic Sea served as a test bed for e-Navigation with special focuson the sound between Sweden and Denmark, Bay of Gdansk and Gulf of Finland. EfficienSea has developed prototypes for e-Navigation services and while doing so, assessing the required infrastructure for the system. EfficienSea has furthermore identified commo ...
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Capacity Building Project (CBP)

Start date: Feb 28, 2010, End date: Nov 29, 2011,

The South Baltic Cross-border Cooperation Programme runs from 2007 to 2013 with a budget of about 57 MEUR. The analysis of the last two application rounds showed that, although there is a strong interest and demand for funding cross-border co-operation, there is a significant discrepancy between the number of applying institutions and the number of successfully applying institutions. As a result, ...
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Ozone clean in place in food industries (OZONECIP)

Start date: Dec 1, 2005, End date: Dec 1, 2008,

Background Clean-In-Place (CIP) systems are closed processes in which a recirculation cleaning solution is used to disinfect food-processing plants. Though these cleaning and disinfection methods are essential for maintaining hygienic conditions, they have significant environmental impacts, particularly high water consumption and production of highly-poll ...
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Regional Cooperation in Waste Management (RECO)

Start date: Jan 12, 2005, End date: Jan 11, 2008,

RECO is a waste management and spatial planning project in cooperation between partners from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Its Central Objective is to support the development of efficient Institutions for management of municipal waste in the BSR in order to minimize negative environmental effects, lower life cycle costs for waste managem ...
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Developing Policies & Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region (ASTRA)

Start date: Jun 5, 2005, End date: Jan 4, 2008,

...onsequences of climate change effects.3. Development of pan-Baltic adaptation strategy and providing country specific national strategies.4. Climate Impact studies for each case study city or region (Gdansk, Riga, Espoo, Kokkola, Klaipeda, Pirkanmaa Region , Kokkola, Tallinn and Pärnu, Estonian archipelago, Curonian spit, Oder river basin, Salaca river basin).
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Baltic SeaBreeze (BSB)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The goal for the Baltic SeaBreeze (BSB) project was to increase awareness of the marine pollution situation in the target sectors of fishing, shipping, and leisure craft owners. Focus areas have been environmental issues in guest harbours and marinas, Blue Flag activities, courses for fishermen and seamen, and a media campaign. The ultimate goal of Baltic SeaBreeze was to change the attitudes and ...
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BALTIC SEA INFORMATION MOTORWAYS (BaSIM)

Start date: Aug 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Shipment of goods in the BSR increases and will grow in the future even faster. The concept of Baltic Sea Motorways along transnational transport corridors will be based on strong cooperations between players in the transportation field as well as on industry side. Improvement of productivity and competitiveness needs the development both physical and information infrastructure. The first being ad ...
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Baltic Culture and Tourism Route Fortresses (BalticFortRoute)

Start date: Jan 18, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

After the end of Cold War, military fortresses lost their function. Some of them have been designated as World Cultural Heritage sites.Fortresses have a significant economic and tourist potential for regional development. In transnational cooperation of 17 fortresses (“Fort-Pool”) and 8 scientific institutions (“Brain-Pool”) a high-quality tourist product is developed to be a model for a European ...
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AGORA -Network Sustainable Tourism Development in the Baltic Sea Region (AGORA)

Start date: Jun 30, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The BSR is characterised by large areas of unspoilt countryside. Because of strong economic problems just in these rural areas tourism seems to be a promising opportunity to support regional development. Sustainability considered as a guiding principle can ensure that such a development will lead to economical benefits without threaten the nature and the social structure. Consequently a lot of sus ...
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Exploiting Inland Waterways for Regional Development (InWater)

Start date: Jan 1, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The main aim of the project was to create fundamentals for development by exploiting inland waterways. As for many years the role of waterways was minimized therefore they suffered continuous degradation. Tourism was one of the sectors, which can speed up the regional development. Therefore it was important to create conditions and also increase tourist attractiveness for foreign tourists. Central ...
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Intermodality and Interoperability in the Baltic Sea Region - InterBatlic (InterBaltic)

Start date: Dec 27, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The InterBaltic project is initiated by the CPMR Baltic Sea Commission and seconded by the Baltic Development Forum, based on the assumption that there will be a considerable increase in transportation and logistics within, to and from, and through the Baltic Sea region. This situation will affect political decisions, business development and living conditions in general.The main objective of this ...
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Network of pioneering communities and regions working on innovative heat energy solutions (REGENERGY)

Start date: Mar 31, 2005, End date: Sep 29, 2007,

The availability of secure and efficient regional energy systems is an essential prerequisite for regional development, particularly for structurally weak regions. In its Green Paper on the Security of Energy Supply, the European Commission singled out heating as the largest energy sink that is mainly based on fossil and imported fuels. Municipalities play a key role, as they are suppliers of (dis ...
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ScanBalt Campus – a European model case for transnational and transectoral institution building in education, research and development. (ScanBalt Campus)

Start date: Mar 9, 2005, End date: Jun 8, 2007,

...ducational training should also encompass a broad view on societal activities.ScanBalt Campus: Knowledge formation•8 ScanBalt Campus Knowledge Networks, (SBC KN)-Molecular Diagnostics University of Gdansk/Medical University of Gdansk.-Regenerative Medicine University of Rostock and BioCon Valley, Germany-Environmental Biotechnology Centre for environment and sustainability, GMV, at Chalmers and Un ...
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Integrating Logistics Centre Networks in the Baltic Sea Region (InLoC)

Start date: Jul 31, 2004, End date: Mar 30, 2007,

As a follow up of the project NeLoC projecz InLoc aimed at further improvement of the networking between logistics centres, ports and other logistics operators in the Baltic Sea Region. The project also analysed spatial and environmental consequences of logistics centres and aimed at removing bottlenecks in port-hinterland connections. Furthermore, the project tried to improve the compatibility of ...
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