Advancing VASAB Vision 2040, VASAB Ministerial Tallinn Declaration and Strengtening Planners’ Network The year 2025 has proven to be an intensive and productive period for VASAB Secretariat, marked by significant events and contributions across various initiatives. A highlight of the year was the successful 5th Baltic Maritime Spatial Planning Forum held in Riga, which provided […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Northern European Sea Basins project (NESBp) has successfully completed its initial phase – gap analysis and strategy development phase – and is now entering its next stage: implementation at the mapping phase. During the gap analysis phase, project partners worked across four thematic work packages to assess existing conditions, identify critical challenges, and lay the […]

On 13 October in Helsinki at the premises of the HELCOM Secretariat (Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, FI-00160, Helsinki) special joint session of MSP data experts from the North Sea and Baltic Sea regions will take place. This session is supported by the Northern European Sea Basins Project (NESBp) and Policy Area Spatial Planning of the EUSBSR, […]

On 29 June 2025, the Ministers responsible for spatial planning and development of Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, and Estonia adopted the VASAB Ministerial Tallinn Declaration on Spatial Resilience. The declaration was adopted through a written procedure during the Estonian Chairmanship of the VASAB Committee on Spatial Planning and Development of the Baltic Sea […]

From 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2026, Poland will hold the chairmanship of the VASAB Committee on Spatial Planning and Development of the Baltic Sea Region (VASAB CSPD/BSR). The Chairmanship will be led by Ms. Emilia Malak-Pętlicka Deputy Director of the  Strategy Department at the Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy of Poland.

What kind of cross-country cooperation can support spatial planners in the Baltic Sea Region? The Land-Based Planners’ Forum project is exploring it right now.

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