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The 8th Baltic Sea Tourism Forum was held in Gdańsk between 22-23rd September 2015. The event was organized by the Polish Ministry of Sport and Tourism and the Pomorskie Voivodeship in close cooperation with the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Tourist Board and the Ministry of Economics, Construction and Tourism; Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – in its role as the coordinator of […]

EU Commissioner Corina Cretu for Regional and Urban Policy launched a public consultation on overcoming obstacles in border regions. For the last 25 years, the European Union has been investing in cross-border cooperation through Interreg, a financing instrument for regional development across borders. Despite all the progress made, many obstacles persist, and many of these […]

On 23rd September 2015 the European Commission adopted the new Interreg South Baltic Programme 2014-2020  between the coastal regions of Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The programme is worth €102 million, with €83 million coming from the European Regional Development Fund. Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Crețu said: “Our Interreg programmes are tangible examples […]

The year 2015 marks the 25th anniversary of Interreg, the European Union a instrument to promote cross-border,transnational and interregional cooperation. Introduced in 1990 it was primarily tasked to compensate for the introduction of the Single Market and soften the blow for border regions, which, everyone thought, would suffer most from the abolition of economic borders. […]

The closing event of the 2nd Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue took place in Olsztyn on 8th September 2015. Organised by the Council of the Baltic Sea States and the Körber Foundation in cooperation with the Warmia Mazury Region and implemented by the Borussia Foundation the event continued the cooperation successfully started in Estonia and Russia […]

The Energy Agency for South East Sweden ( Energikontor Sydost AB) is currently conducting a partner search for relevant actors and organizations in Poland and Lithuania for a South Baltic Programme project tacking the issue of low carbon logistics. The project will focus on low carbon logistics and the idea is to improve last mile transportation […]

Polish cultural web portal Culture.pl, the Pomeranian Film Foundation in Gdynia and the Gdynia Film School are organising a short-film competition about the Baltic Sea countries – their cultural identity, their history, their society, their transformation.

The second meeting of the ERB Executive Board in 2015 took place in Brussels on 16th June.

During the  two days of the Interreg South Baltic Programme kick-off conference the stakeholders took the occasion to celebrate the official closure of the South Baltic Programme 2007-2013 and inauguration of the next Programme generation 2014-2020. Being simultaneously a closure and inaugural event, the conference gathered more than 160 participants in total.

Following an extensive consultation with Member States concerned and stakeholders in the Baltic Sea region, a revised Action Plan of the EUSBSR was agreed with Member States concerned and now is finalised. The revised Action Plan, which is more streamlined and focused, consists of 13 policy areas and 4 horizontal actions, in total 17 thematic […]