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The State Digital Development Agency announces an open competition for the position of Project Manager at Secretariat of the “Vision and Strategies around the Baltic Sea” (VASAB)

VASAB Secretariat is looking for a Project Manager for Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme project platform “Baltic Climate-Resilient Coastal Planning Network – Baltic PlaNet” for a period from September 2025 until March 2028.

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12/08/2020

Capacity4MSP has been Granted Flagship Status

Capacity4MSP project platform has been granted Flagship status by the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) under the Horizontal Action Spatial Planning. The decision was made at the online meeting on 29-30 June by the National Coordinators of the EUSBSR.

21/07/2025

Mariparks in the Spotlight: First Multi-Use at sea design workshop sets bold course in Venice

NESB project news Under the Venetian sun, experts, innovators, and policymakers convened to explore the future of marine spatial planning through the lens of Mariparks — an emerging framework for offshore multi-use zones. The workshop on 2 July 2025 in Venice, Italy, organised by The Blue Cluster in partnership with ORG Permanent Modernity, marked the […]

30/10/2023

Join the Final Conference of the eMSP NBSR project!

Registration for the final conference of the eMSP NBSR project is now open, it will take place 31 January -1 February 2024 in Gdansk, Poland. Event “Enhancing MSP through Integration and Collaboration, and Connecting MSP across the North Sea, Baltic Sea and Beyond” will introduce and discuss all results and achievements after 2,5 years of joint work.

06/12/2021

Bridging the old with the new: co-creation process for the update of the VASAB Long-Term Perspective

How would a desired Baltic Sea Region look like by 2040? How do we envision its urban networks and settlement structure, its physical and digital connectivity, the management of its ‘commons’ that ensure a good quality of life, and how do we envision its maritime and spatial planning by 2040? What do we wish to […]

10/05/2019

40 young planners selected for the Summer Camp in Poland

In December last year VASAB launched an application for the Young Planners’ Contest “Liveable Places and Spaces of Tomorrow”. Contest’s aim is to bring together young professionals and give them a chance to create a network of next generation planners by expressing their expectations and perspective of the future of the Baltic Sea Area.

20/06/2024

On September 17, 2024, the Workshop “European Green Deal through the eyes of MSP in Baltic Sea Region” aims to present and discuss the carried-out MSP-GREEN project recommendations on how to strengthen the European Green Deal (EGD) ambition of the EU Maritime Spatial Plans (MSPs). Open call to participate: Registration to the Baltic Sea Workshop […]

04/10/2016

1st call for Interreg BSR Seed Money opened

The 1st call for Interreg Baltic Sea Region Seed Money applications is launched. Interested applicants are welcome to submit their applications until 28 October 2016.

Seed money is funding provided by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme to support the preparation of projects in line with the Action Plan of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR). With seed money s

11/07/2016

Interregional cooperation in Maritime Spatial Planning kick-started at a joint meeting in Copenhagen

Two new European projects will improve transnational coordination in Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) in the North and Baltic Sea. Because human activities and their impacts do not stop at national sea borders, there is a need for coordination among national Maritime Spatial Plans and planning processes.