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‘The European spirit in action’ is the message of the latest Interreg BSR newsletter that addresses the success of Interreg projects. An article about the Baltic LINes project explains how transnational cooperation created a common understanding and aligned methods between countries around the Baltic Sea to jointly tackle maritime spatial planning challenges. 

With Baltic LINes project coming to an end in April 2019, Baltic LINes team invites to explore the project summary that addresses main activities and lessons learned  during the project. 

Baltic LINes project photo has been selected as a winner of the Interreg BSR programme’s photo competition in the category “Cooperation”.

The NorthSEE and Baltic LINes maritime spatial planning conference Connecting Seas took place on 13 – 14 February 2019 in Hamburg, Germany. For the first time more than 200 MSP experts and stakeholders from both the North and Baltic Sea Regions gathered to exchange knowledge and experience dealing with MSP and discuss topics related to […]

The 7th Baltic LINes project partner meeting took place on 13 – 14 November 2018 in Riga, Latvia. This was the last meeting before the final conference on 13 – 14 February 2019 in Hamburg, Germany.

Future shipping scenarios are important for all Baltic Sea countries, therefore transnational Baltic LINes project has been working on developing spatial shipping scenarios. The new project report “Quo Vadis – Exploring the future of shipping in the Baltic Sea” deals with the scenarios building activities done under the project. The goal of this report is […]

The Baltic Sea faces an increasing spatial demand for human activities. In particular offshore renewable energy is a quite new interest with a considerably high demand on sea space. In light of climate protection policy some countries have set national energy targets for offshore wind. For the implementation of these targets the offshore wind energy […]

New Baltic LINes report developed by the Latvian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development provides an insight into Latvia’s experience on the development of future scenarios for shipping and energy sectors up to 2050 and the identification of critical issues at national and BSR levels, as well as key findings and outcomes.

Designing a Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MDSI) Prototype for Maritime Spatial Planning Data in the Baltic Sea The Flagship “Baltic LINes” financed by Interreg Baltic Sea programme aims at increasing transnational coherence of shipping routes and energy corridors in Maritime Spatial Plans (MSP). This is essential to prevent cross-border mismatches, to secure transnational connectivity and […]

The project Baltic LINes on January 24 – 25, 2018 organised an international shipping sector stakeholder workshop “Shaping the Future of Shipping in the Baltic Sea” in Riga, Latvia. 18 shipping stakeholders from the Baltic Sea Region engaged with the simulation software “MSP Challenge 2050”.

Project “Baltic LINes” organises the international shipping sector stakeholder meeting and interactive simulation for the Baltic Sea “Shaping the Future of Shipping in the Baltic Sea”. The meeting will take place on January 24 – 25, 2018 in Riga, Latvia.

Two new reports from the project “Baltic LINes” are analysing data needs and availability as well as establishing guidelines to data exchange and dissemination towards building a prototype Baltic Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI), which will make it easy to access open standard datasets.

During the 8th Annual Forum of the EUSBSR on 13 – 14 June 2017 in Berlin, project partners of “Baltic LINes” organized seminar “What’s the future? Testing the possible scenarios for shipping and energy in the Baltic Sea and how to integrate them into maritime spatial planning”.

The report “Shipping in the Baltic Sea: Past, Present and Future Developments Relevant for Maritime Spatial Planing” represents a first synthesis of available literature on the topic of shipping in the Baltic Sea and related past, present and future developments relevant for MSP.

Baltic LINes along with its sister project North SEE has been presented in the Interreg B Journal 2016 which is published by Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development in Germany.

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.