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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,

The Baltic Sea’s unique ecology is under a lot of pressure. Fishing, maritime pollution from ships and substantial additions of nutrition from e.g. sewage and farming all pose a threat to the inland sea where the water is estimated to take 30 years to renew. At all times there are some 2000 ships in movement, and each year we see 120-140 collisions and groundings in the Baltic Sea – both traffic a ...
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From theory and plans to eco-efficient and sustainable practices to improve the status of the Baltic Sea (WATERPRAXIS)

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

Eutrophication caused by nutrient load is the biggest environmental problem of the Baltic Sea. Practical measures to restrict it are included in River Basin Management Plans (RBMP), outputs of the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive. However, putting general-level RMBPs into practice, i.e. applying water pollution control methods and changing land-use practices, is hindered by many ...
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South-Western Baltic Sea TransRegional Area - Implementing New Geography (STRING II )

Start date: May 31, 2002, End date: Jun 29, 2004,

...people, infrastructure and transport, environment, nature and landscape, culture, knowledge exchange and learning society. The Development Concept will be implemented though STRING II (=South-Western Baltic Sea TransRegional Area – Implementing New Geography). The partners of the project are Schleswig-Holstein, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Danish regions of Storstrøm (lead partner) ...
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Spatial Planning in Coastal Zones (PlanCoast)

Start date: Mar 31, 2006, End date: Apr 29, 2008,

Coastal areas, especially those in the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Sea region, face a severe pressure for development. Within the next few years, tourism, transport, aquaculture and energy use will increase in these regions. Particularly in enclosed seas or coastal zones close to big urban agglomerations, conflicts with environmental protection occur as the environment is more vulnerable than on th ...
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Multi-level Governance in MSP (Maritime Spatial Planning) throughout the Baltic Sea Region (PartiSEApate)

Start date: Jun 12, 2012, End date: Sep 11, 2014,

... policy (IMP) approach throughout Europe with Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) being by now the widely acknowledged tool for co-ordinating spatial use and balancing of interests in the sea. Within the Baltic Sea Region MSP is highly promoted by VASAB and HELCOM, which have created a joint working group and act as Horizontal Action Leaders for MSP within the EUSBSR. On national level, many BSR count ...
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Natureship (Integrated planning and management in the Baltic Sea Region) (NATURESHIP )

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

...reen sector and gives recommendation for both novel coastal planning and city green planning. Project shall also aim that the concept shall be widely understood and accepted in the regional Central Baltic level. Project uses "ecosystem approach" to link work packages together and presents results in the Central Baltic Book Serie after careful peer cross-sector overviews and seminars. The WPs ar ...
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Household Participation in Waste Management (HPWM)

Start date: Apr 30, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The project focuses on the management of the Baltic Sea environment, prepares for and implements small-scale pilot projects of modern Waste Management (WM) and pays particular attention to environmental hotspots in coastal areas.The programme area (PA) exhibits a major and unsustainable imbalance when applying the WM “hierarchy” (see 2.1). For example in Poland some 95% of waste goes to landfill w ...
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Towards Joint Management of the Transboundary Gauja/Koiva River Basin District (Gauja/Koiva)

Start date: Jun 30, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

...onians – this is the goal for cooperation among Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, Latvian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Biology Institute of Latvian University, Baltic Environmental Forum in Estonia and Latvia, Tallinn Technological University and Estonian University of Life Sciences. ...
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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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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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art II: BERNET Integrated Management of Catchments (BERNET-CATCH II)

Start date: Dec 14, 2004, End date: Apr 13, 2006,

...nd on public participation and ownership among stakeholders. This should be achieved through the inter-regional exchange of experiences within the network of all Partner Regions from all parts of the Baltic Sea - including accession countries and possibly the Kaliningrad Region (Russia). During the work on Water District Plans for selected catchments in each Partner Region in compliance with the W ...
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BERNET Integrated Management of Catchments (BERNET-CATCH)

Start date: Dec 14, 2004, End date: Dec 13, 2004,

...nd on public participation and ownership among stakeholders. This should be achieved through the inter-regional exchange of experiences within the network of all Partner Regions from all parts of the Baltic Sea - including accession countries and possibly the Kaliningrad Region (Russia). During the work on Water District Plans for selected catchments in each Partner Region in compliance with the W ...
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Innovative approaches for marine biodiversity monitoring and assessment of conservation status of nature values in the Baltic Sea (MARMONI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

...fferent geographical scales, thereby providing a basis for informed decision making and adaptive management. However, a common understanding of indicators for assessing the biodiversity status of the Baltic Sea, according to existing European legislation and international agreements, does not yet exist. Quality objectives, as well as aspirational indicators, have been determined in the HELCOM Balt ...
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Maritime Safety - Transport and Environment in the South Baltic Sea Region (Baltic MaSTER)

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

The aim of Baltic Master was to improve maritime safety by integrating and bringing forward local and regional perspectives. This included measures to improve the prevention and the preparedness for ship accidents as well as methods for managing the coastal zones.The issues concerning safe transportations, oil combatting and coastal management has a clear transnational link as they deal with the e ...
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To create a centre for knowledge and innovation in the field of maritime safety and security (Baltic Maritime Science Park)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...ter use of the results and recommendations of completed, ongoing and upcoming projects in the field, and thereby stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship, and to create new ideas and products in the Baltic Sea region. This will be done by facilitating long-term cooperation between different groups of stakeholders and projects in the field of maritime safety and security (Baltic Maritime Science P ...
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Baltic Green Belt

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

...on curtain. The Green Belt initiative started as a grassroots movement when the former military blocks collapsed. The aim was to save the natural assets that had grown alongside the iron curtain. The Baltic Green Belt project aims at closing the longest "missing link" in this network: The southern and eastern Baltic coast. Here, regional Green Belt activities are still relatively scarce, if at all ...
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South Baltic Center of Offshore Wind Energy (BALTECO)

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

From all European basins, Baltic Sea is the one with lowest offshore wind capacity installed (14,2% share), far away from achieving the capacities of the North Sea (63,3%) and Atlantic Ocean (22,5%). This situation is expected to change in the coming years with 16GW of Baltic projects in the pipeline. With this promising perspective, industry, academia and decision-makers of the South Baltic count ...
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Integrated Coastal Zone Development in the Baltic Sea Region / BALTCOAST (BALTCOAST )

Start date: Jun 30, 2002, End date: Sep 29, 2005,

The main objective was to solve concrete local ICZD problems and to generalise experience acquired in this process into pan-Baltic actions such as changes of national legislation, elaboration of best practices and recommendations. The goal of the project was to accompany the implementation process by different international experts in the field of ICZD and to develop a common strategy based on the ...
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Climate Change: Impacts, Costs and Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region (BaltCICA)

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

...matic Strategy on the Urban Environment or the recent Evaluation of ICZM on Europe by the Commission. BaltCICA is designed to focus on the most imminent problems that climate change will cause in the Baltic Sea Region. The concentration of large parts of the population and many larger cities in the coastal areas of the Baltic Sea Region make these areas especially sensitive to climate change. Chan ...
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AQUAFIMA – Integrating Aquaculture and Fisheries Management towards a sustainable regional development in the Baltic Sea Region (AQUAFIMA)

Start date: Jun 8, 2011, End date: Mar 7, 2013,

The fishery sector is an integral part of the Baltic Sea coastal regions and their economies. Not all fish stocks are fished within natural limits, and certain commercially important species (e.g. Baltic cod and Baltic white fish) are severely overfished and outside safe biological limits. Existing national and EU fisheries management policies are apparently not effective enough to maintain or eve ...
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Innovative practices and technologies for developing sustainable aquaculture in the Baltic Sea region (AQUABEST)

Start date: Jun 8, 2011, End date: Mar 7, 2013,

Aquaculture has been the fastest growing food production sector during the last two decades. In the Baltic Sea region, though, the industry has stagnated or even decreased. The goal for the Aquabest project is to change this trend. However, the future growth in aquaculture production has to be built on sustainable practices and technologies.Aquabest aims to: 1. Start a self-evaluation of the envir ...
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Livonian Green Coastal Region - 21 (LR-21)

Start date: Sep 3, 2001, End date: Sep 3, 2004,

Background The “Green Coastal Region–21” project area covers a stretch of 800 km² along the coast of the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Riga, in the North-Western part of Latvia. Several municipalities and other local stakeholders, with the support of the Institute for Environmental Studies and Management of the University of Latvia, decided to launch ...
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Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Woodlands by the Baltic Sea (Coastal Woodlands)

Start date: Jun 1, 2002, End date: Mar 31, 2007,

...forest is not always well understood. ICZM is about managing coastal resources and coastal space by joining up all the different policies which have an effect on coastal regions. In areas such as the Baltic Coast, where woodland is such an important coastal feature, forestry policies are extremely important to coastal management. The benefiting region of the project covers the coastal woodlands i ...
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Integrating the Seaways of the Southern Baltic Sea into the PanEuropean Transport System (BALTIC GATEWAY)

Start date: Mar 2, 2003, End date: Jun 10, 2006,

Transportation of passengers and goods increases dramatically in the South Baltic Sea area. However, existing infrastructure and transport solutions are not enough equipped to manage the growth in an efficient and sustainable way. The challenging development called upon joint actions among organisations in several countries and on various levels. In the Baltic Gateway project, regional and local a ...
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Seagull-DevERB (Seagull )

Start date: Aug 19, 2002, End date: Nov 18, 2005,

The structure and living conditions differ considerably between the member regions of Euroregion Baltic (ERB), which are Kronoberg, Kalmar and Blekinge Counties in Sweden, the Regional Municipality of Bornholm in Denmark, The Kurzeme Planning Region in Latvia, Klaipeda County in Lithuania, Kaliningrad Region of The Russian Federation, and the Pomeranian and Warmia-Masurian Regions in Poland.The cr ...
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