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Maritime sector has always been sensitive for economical changes. During the past years maritime clusters in the Central Baltic region have faced tightened competition, new requirements of environmental protection, structural changes and weakened competitiveness. Maritime clusters play an important role in different sectors of economy and thus its profitability has wide influences to other sectors ...
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Maritime transport constitutes a vitally important part of trade and services for the countries around the Baltic Sea and Europe. Baltic shipping is constantly growing and some of the busiest shipping routes in the world go through the Baltic Sea. Consequently, the sensitive environment of the Baltic Sea is threatened by increasing pollution from the shipping industry. Through international agreem ...
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n reduction of the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea today (PRESTO)

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

...ols and legislation needed to improve water quality in Baltic Sea Region;- promotion of good practices in nutrient removal and sustainable sludge handling in the Baltic Sea RegionProject consortium:Union of the Baltic Cities Commission on Environment (LP), John Nurminen Founadtion, Technical University of Berlin, Baranovichi Municipal Unitary Manufacturing Enterprise, Grodno Municipal Unitary Manu ...
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n Urban Reduction of Eutrophication (PURE)

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

...t-effective way. Project results and methods will be compiled into a book of good practices in chemical phosphorus removal and sustainable sludge handling at municipal WWTPs. Project partners include Union of the Baltic Cities Commission on Environment (UBC EnvCom) as lead partner, John Nurminen Foundation (JNF), HELCOM, Riga Water, Brest Vodokanal, Luebeck and several other central locations arou ...
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... Europeans are starting to experience the tangible impacts of global warming first hand, for example through heat waves, floods, storms and forest fires. The European Union currently has a target of limiting global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial global temperature. EU policy is based on the findings of the Intergovernmental Pan ...
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...ll be applied in a number of case studies. Based on the experience and knowledge of the project participants, applicable approaches will be offered to other interested parties with the support of the Union of the Baltic Cities. Achievements: The BaltCICA project has ide ...
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...s a training package and a set of policy and practice recommendations for regional and national level. The project consortium consists of 15 partners from 9 BSR countries. The project Lead Partner is Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC). The expertise organisation Nordic Centre for Spatial Development (Nordregio) will carry out the evaluation of the potentials and suggestions of pilot actions. The Cen ...
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MATRUSCHKA aimed at strengthening the capacity of local authorities and developing their city planning process. It contributed to the development of a solid foundation within local authorities upon which long-term planning decisions could be made to support sustainable development. Both EU and Russian cities either initiated or further elaborated their Integrated Management Systems around a chosen ...
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Baltic Urban Sustainable Transport Implementation and Planning (BUSTRIP)

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

The core objective of the project was to develop solutions for the decoupling of economic and transport growth in 12 Baltic Sea Region cities and their functional urban areas, and to make these solutions available to other cities in BSR and Europe through a transferable tool. The project has focused on strengthening the medium-sized and secondary cities, to enable the cities to become engines for ...
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The SUSTAINMENT project aims to meet the needs and challenges of local authorities in moving towards a more integrated sustainability process. The intention is to further develop the current sustainable development processes of the municipalities by creating models for Sustainability Management Centres (SMC), including cross-sectoral policy integration, increased stakeholder participation, and mon ...
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... Achievements: 1. Management. A BUUF steering committee consised of members from the Baltic University Programme, BUP; the Union of Baltic Cities, UBC; the Division of Urban Studies at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, and the city of Nacka.2. Conferences. 10 best practice conferences on the ten key theme ...
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Adriatic action plan 2020 (Aap2020)

Start date: Apr 30, 2003, End date: Apr 29, 2006,

How to reconcile development with sustainability and integrate sustainability policies into the political and management practices of public authorities is a major concern for regions and cities along the Adriatic coast. They are faced with conflicting trends: on the one hand, there is wide recognition of the importance of environmental action; and on the other hand, sustainability policies are of ...
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NEW HANSA OF SUSTAINABLE PORTS AND CITIES (NEW HANSA)

Start date: Mar 5, 2003, End date: Dec 14, 2005,

...int policy document - the Baltic Sea Memorandum of Understanding on Sustainable Ports (MoU). Wide commitment to this policy paper will be sought among cities, ports and other stakeholders through the Union of the Baltic Cities (102 members). In practice the project has 4 work packages. Work packages 1-3 analyze socio-economic, social, environmental, spatial impacts and information on national, Eur ...
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...evelopment. The BUUF project aims to develop strategies for sustainable development for cities and towns. 20 cities and towns, and 15 universities in 9 countries take part in the project. Through the Union of Baltic Cities the results will be available for an additional 100 cities.
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