How can cities make circularity part of everyday life? This was the central question at “Creative Cities, Circular Futures”, the final conference of the Creative Circular Cities (CCC) project, held in Kiel on 29–30 September. Bringing together project partners,...
🏆 Meet Pure Garden – winner of the international e-Bio Business Award 2026! In 2026, Pure Garden was selected as the winner of the e-Bio Business Award 2026, an international competition organised within the eRural Resilience project. 🎥 Pure Garden is a Finnish...
What makes an energy community financially sustainable? The answer is not only in numbers. At a StartSun conference panel discussion, Inka Leppänen from Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Johanna Liljenfeldt from Uppsala University, and Nele Ivask and Marten...
How can municipalities put sustainable public procurement into practice? What tools and approaches can help them reduce harmful substances, address climate impacts and promote circularity in their procurement decisions? To explore these questions, the ChemClimCircle-2...
Why Symbioter? Across the Baltic Sea region, municipalities and water utilities are already facing the effects of a changing climate: longer droughts, heavier storms, and growing pressure on freshwater supplies. The challenges are multiplying, but the good news...
Every day, large amounts of materials move through and are handled in ports. Bringing together different industries, actors and material streams, port environments offer many opportunities to rethink how resources are used, reused and recycled. Six...
BALTFLOODS lead partner, City of Lappeenranta presented pilot solutions and citizen engagement approaches, generating interest from municipalities seeking innovative tools for local decision-making and climate adaptation. On 1 October, representatives from...
The OpenRisk II Final conference on maritime risk management in the Baltic Sea Region was held as a hybrid event on 22 September 2026 in Kristiansand, Norway. The conference highlighted the project's achievements and explored future opportunities for advancing...
When the sea erodes a beach, it does not stop at the border between two municipalities. Planning for the coast in Estonia, however, is organised by administrative borders. So who is responsible for the coast as a whole? This was the question at the heart of a Baltic...
Different countries, different stages The panellists presented experiences from three countries at different stages of development. In Estonia, energy communities are still at an early stage. Awareness and interest have increased, and several communities have already...
