Report of the Joint HELCOM/VASAB, OSPAR and ICES Workshop on Multi-Disciplinary Case Studies of MSP

We are looking for ideas of young planners and regional developers (students and practitioners) on sustainable futures in the Baltic Sea Region. How should 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 […]

The 4 th Baltic Maritime Spatial Planning Forum took place on 1 – 2 June 2021, online and was broadcast from Latvia. The Forum was organised within two Interreg Baltic Sea Region projects – Capacity4MSP and Land-Sea-Act, and served as a final conference for both projects. We thank all participants who were part of the […]

VASAB jointly with HELCOM are Coordinators of the Horizontal Action ‘Spatial Planning’ of the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR). The overall goal of HA ‘Spatial Planning’ is to increase territorial cohesion in the Baltic Sea Region. In 2030, the Region shall be a better-integrated and more coherent macro-region, that has reduced […]

VASAB Secretariat as a lead partner oversaw the execution of the project platform Capacity4MSP from 1 August 2019 to 31 March 2022. The project aimed to increase the capability of marine spatial planning stakeholders, policymakers and decision-makers through increased discussion activities and the dissemination of information obtained in maritime spatial planning.

The 4th Capacity4MSP project platform’s partner meeting was held online on 23 November 2021. This meeting’s focus was to share the updates of the project activities, set the goals for the upcoming four project implementation months and discuss the project result dissemination. Main discussion topics are listed below.

The first workshop of the ESPON project BSR-TeMo took place on 21 June 2012 in Potsdam. VASAB has initiated the project and VASAB CSPD serves as a Steering Committee for the project.

BSR-TeMo promotes territorial development and cohesion in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) by developing an indicator based monitoring system. The monitoring system will measure the progress in achieving

The Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) consisting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of 11 Baltic Sea Region countries and a member of the European Union at the 16th Ministerial Session on 7 June 2011 in Oslo have noted with appreciation the work of VASAB and HELCOM on maritime spatial planning and the adoption of the Baltic Sea Broad-Scale Maritime Spatial Planning Principles.

See attached Declaration of the 16th CBSS Ministerial

How would a desired Baltic Sea Region look like in future? How different policies, having implications to our territories and the sea, will play out – will they effectively address the challenges we might expect in the future or are there places where additional joint actions and synergies may help?