A specially designed job portal for the whole South Baltic Region tackles structural challenges of the area. Job seekers can now find in only one portal job offers from eight South Baltic Regions: Guldborgsund (DK), Klaipeda (LT), Kaliningrad (RU), Kalmar (SE), Rostock (DE), Tricity (PL), Vorpommern (DE) and West Pomerania (PL). Read more here or visit the portal.

South Baltic Professional Project implements cross-border activities to promote the South Baltic as an attractive region to live and work in and to prevent well-qualified people from leaving. The project now invites you to on-line courses aiming at raising your interest in the national and organisational cultures of the different regions in the South Baltic. You can take part and study online and/or use webinars to “virtually” meet colleagues from Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. The courses last 6 weeks and start on 16th February, 9th March, and 6th April 2014. Three different letters give basic information about the course tailor-made for three different target groups: students, Job Center/Employment Agency staff and HR Managers/Managing Directors of companies.

Euroregion Baltic was once more selected as an example of effective strategic cooperation platform, and a model that can be followed. On 3rd December Mr Yasutoshi Yoshida, who is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Academic Initiatives at Osaka University in Japan, visited Euroregion Baltic secretariat in Växjö, Sweden. On 4th December he also paid a visit to our partners in Klaipeda, Lithuania. 

On 14 November 2013 in Olsztyn Euroregion Baltic, Self-Government of Warminsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship and Regional Labour Office in Olsztyn organised together a conference "Support to youth on the labour market – experiences and future perspectives”. The conference gathered politicians, labour market experts and youth from Euroregion Baltic member regions.

Labour mobility in the Baltic Sea Region has increased remarkably during the past decade. Labour mobility has many benefits both for workers and enterprises, but it also poses challenges. Therefore, it is necessary to further improve cooperation between the Social Partners, governmental institutions and the Baltic Sea States regarding mobility of labour. Such cooperation is facilitated by the Baltic Sea Labour Forum - a flagship project within the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region - where Euroregion Baltic is an observer. 

Baltic Development Forum published a 2013 State of the Region Report.

In the first part Report provides a discussion of the recent trends in competitiveness across the Baltic Sea Region. The first part looks at the current economic climate in the Region, an important influence on the policy environment for long-term competitiveness upgrading.

On 21st September 2013 and surrounding days, the European citizens will celebrate cooperation over the borders. The kick-off event of the European Cooperation Day, held at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 10th September 2013 discussed achievements of European Territorial Cooperation (ETC). Members of the European Parliament and experts discussed how ETC has improved the lives of Europeans. EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, Johannes Hahn, sent a video message highlighting the added value of territorial cooperation (see here)

On 4th September 2013 in Kalmar, Sweden Euroregion Baltic held its 4th Annual Forum of Stakeholders. Themed ‘Connecting local actors’, this year’s Forum gathered representatives of local and regional authorities as well as experts and practitioners from the tourism sector and labour mobility networks from the cooperation area. The first part of the Forum allowed the participants to learn more about new cooperation possibilities of the South Baltic Cross-border Cooperation Programme and facilitated an exchange of project ideas between interested actors.