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Within the framework of the project platform ‘Strengthening the Capacity of MSP Stakeholders and Decision Makers: Capacity4MSP’, analysis of on implementation and monitoring & evaluation mechanisms of maritime spatial plans (MSPs) was carried out. The results of the analysis are presented in the integrated report.

Within the framework of the project platform ‘Strengthening the Capacity of MSP Stakeholders and Decision Makers: Capacity4MSP’, analysis of key aspects of stakeholder involvement and engagement in maritime spatial planning (MSP) was carried out. The results of the analysis are presented in the integrated report.

4th Planners’ Forum within the project platform Capacity4MSP took place on 24 November 2021 online. Meeting exchanged the the most pressing issues from each Baltic Sea Region’s country regarding maritime spatial planning, continued with broader discussions on Russian MSP developments, updates from the EU MSP Assistance Mechanism and lessons learnt in the work of ecosystem-based […]

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.

Under the Interreg BSR programme project platform’s ‘Strengthening the capacity of MSP stakeholders and decision makers’ (Capacity4MSP) activity ‘Capitalisation of current maritime spatial planning (MSP) activities and projects’ a report has been developed synthesizing the experience from MSP projects in the Baltic Sea Region and the resultant policy messages.

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 […]

Registration for the 4th Baltic MSP Forum is open. The Forum will take place on 1-2 June 2021 online. The Forum is organised by two Interreg BSR projects Capacity4MSP and Land-Sea-Act and it serves as a final conference for both projects.

On 25 March 2021 a workshop dedicated to the BASEMAPS data portal were held during the 15th Baltic Sea Region Maritme Spatial Planning Data Expert Sub-group (BSR MSP Data ESG). A previous workshop on Basemaps was held on 16 September 2020. The participants highlighted the need to repeat the exercise, if possible before each Meeting […]

3rd Planners’ Forum within the project platform Capacity4MSP took place on 17 March 2021 online. As always meeting started with the exchange of the most pressing issues from each Baltic Sea Region’s country regarding maritime spatial planning (MSP) that was continued with broader discussions on the topics from agenda.

The 3rd Capacity4MSP project platform’s partner meeting was held online on 16 march 2021. This meeting was crucial for project partners to discuss draft project reports and collect feedback from partners for further developments. Main discussion topics are listed below.

The Roundtable “Maritime Spatial Planning” was held within the framework of the XXI International Forum “Baltic Sea Day” on March 23, 2021 in St. Petersburg and online. The roundtable was organized by the Scientific and Research Institute of Maritime Spatial Planning Ermak NorthWest (Russia), SC Mineral (Russia) and the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water […]

Within the framework of the project platform Capacity4MSP, Scientific and Research Institute of Maritime Spatial Planning Ermak NorthWest conducted a survey for Russian maritime spatial planning (MSP) stakeholders. The survey was based on the successful MSP experience in European countries, where throughout the planning process a broad public participation is provided.

2nd Planners’ Forum within the project platform Capacity4MSP took place on 11 November 2020 online. Already as a traditional activity during the meeting was the exchange of the most pressing issues from each Baltic Sea Region’s country that was continued with broader discussions on the topics from agenda.

The 2nd Capacity4MSP project platform’s partner meeting was held online on 10 November 2020. During the meeting project partners shared the status update of project activities, discussed current issues for further project implementation. Main discussion topics are listed in this article.

On 22 September 2020, the SUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth EEIG organised an online discussion workshop ‘Offshore Energy and Maritime Spatial Planning’, on behalf of the Capacity4MSP project, together with WindEurope, EUSBSR Priority Area Energy, Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan (BEMIP) Renewable Energy Working Group, Vattenfall, and German and Estonian offshore wind energy associations.

Back-to-back with the 14th meeting of the Baltic Sea Region MSP Data Expert Sub-group (BSR MSP Data ESG) a workshop dedicated to the BASEMAPS data portal was organised online on 16 September 2020. Workshop was organised within the activities of the project platform Capacity4MSP. 16 participants from 7 HELCOM Contracting Parties as well as from […]

Within the Capacity4MSP project platform the Scientific and Research Institute of Maritime Spatial Planning Ermak NothWest (ErmakNW) and the Russian State Hydrometeorological University is focusing on drafting the MSP Roadmap in order to stimulate the implementation of MSP in Russia. To promote this progress, on 23 September 2020, ErmakNW together with MIREA – the Russian […]

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.

Within the Capacity4MSP project, VASAB Secretariat has started the work towards developing an integrated report on MSP stakeholder involvement and engagement. The report will encompass and analyse experience and lessons learnt from MSP projects and national MSP processes that concern stakeholder involvement, their awareness raising and engagement into MSP at EU, BSR and national as […]

The 1st Planners’ Forum within the Capacity4MSP project took place on 31 March 2020, it continued an already established tradition of successful planners’ meetings. To follow the global health situation, meeting took place online and proved that this format also can ensure the collaboration among maritime spatial planning practitioners.

During these demanding and unpredictable times, the Capacity4MSP 1st project partner meeting was held online on 30th March 2020. As work in all project activities has already successfully begun, this meeting was crucial for all project partners to discuss current project progress and to update the work plan. Here is a short summary of main […]

After the project platform’s Capacity4MSP kick-off meeting in November 2019, project partners have defined the work plan to start off the tasks to support the MSP stakeholders and decision makers in their work.

On 21-22 November 2019 kick-off meeting of Project Platform “Capacity4MSP: Strengthening the capacity of MSP stakeholders and decision makers” took place in Riga back-to-back with Baltic 3rd MSP Forum.

Alongside with two other platform projects and 9 extension stage projects a Capacity4MSP project platform has been approved by Interreg BSR Monitoring Committee on 11th April 2019.