Our clean shipping project ECOPRODIGI is drawing to its end and now it is time to hear the results. Join the final event "Harnessing Digitalisation for the Benefit of Maritime Industry" on December 2 at 9.30-13.30 (CET) on a virtual platform.
17.09.2020 The Baltic Sea Region Forum will be held on 27 May 2021 at Turku School of Economics
Due to the coronavirus situation Centrum Balticum's 13th Baltic Sea Region Forum has been postponed to next year. The theme of the upcoming Baltic Sea Region Forum remains as “Turbulent World Order and the Baltic Sea Region”.
31.07.2020 EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region - Revised Action Plan available
The EUSBSR National Coordinators' Group has approved the revised version of the Action Plan in their meeting 29-30 June 2020 and in a silent procedure 30 June - 3 July, 2020. The revised version is sent to the European Commission for their internal procedure where it might be still somewhat modified.
24.06.2020 Work on maritime industry digitalisation and eco-efficiency to continue
ECOPRODIGI's extension project EXOPRODIGI is among the 17 extension stage projects selected for funding by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.
11.06.2020 Environmental ambitions are still in focus, despite the COVID-19 crisis
Transport plays a crucial role in the realization of the European Green Deal. The online seminar “Innovative Transport for a Greener Europe”, hosted by Interact on June 9th 2020, showcased how Interreg funded projects and initiatives can create solutions for greener transport across borders. The event, which was moderated by Ulf Wikström from Interact, gathered experts from the Interact network and the EC Directorates General DG MOVE, DG REGIO and DG MARE to discuss the current challenges of green transport.
18.05.2020 “The transition towards clean shipping should not be delayed”
The Clean Shipping Project Platform (CSHIPP), in which Centrum Balticum is a project partner, hosted its first ever online conference, “The Business of Clean Shipping”, on May 14th 2020. The conference was organized by The Maritime Development Center and Tallinn University of Technology, and was originally planned to be held at The Danish Maritime Fair. Due to the COVID-19 measures, however, the conference was changed into an online event, enabling the participation of an even more international public.
18.03.2020 Platform collaboration for the benefit of the Baltic Sea region
The concept of project platforms was introduced by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme to support cooperation among partners of projects funded by Interreg and other funding programmes in different thematic fields. The overarching objective of this kind of collaboration has been to improve the utilisation of the results from individual projects on a wider scale. The first platforms were kicked off in 2018 and are now in their final year of implementation.
The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) 11th Annual Forum “Our Region, Our Future – Towards a Decade of Innovation and Sustainability” will be organised in Turku, Finland for the second time on 16–17 June 2020. The themes of this year’s Forum are sustainability and innovations. Around 800 policymakers and political and economic experts are expected to attend the Forum held in Logomo, Finland's most prominent event and creative business centre.
12.12.2019 Law plays an important role in climate change solutions
The UN Climate Change Conference is currently taking place in Madrid. The meeting is taking place at the end of Finland's EU Presidency and Finland has a prominent role in leading the EU bloc in the negotiations. The decisions of the international climate conferences are important also for the Baltic Sea, as the effects of the climate change on it are already visible. However, sustainable solutions require changes in the way we operate and in the laws that govern us, so it is natural that the climate change is also studied from a legal perspective.
09.12.2019 Finland’s EU Council Presidency and EUSBSR Chairmanship: what's in for the Baltic Sea cooperation?
The end of the year 2019 is around the corner, which means that Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU is about to end and transfer to the next EU Member State – Croatia. Nevertheless, another Finnish leadership, Chairmanship of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea region (EUSBSR), continues until the end of July 2020. For over five months of 2019, Finland has been simultaneously leading these two agendas – how did it reflect on the Baltic Sea and Baltic Sea cooperation?
