Overgrown and degraded lakes have become a growing concern in Latvia, prompting a long-awaited step forward: the government now plans to simplify the permitting and coordination process for lake clean-up and restoration activities. Until now, carrying out even...
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Final Fish Survey in Lake Velnezers
This summer marked the final round of scientific fish survey in our pilot Lake Velnezers as part of the TRUST ALUM project. Following the 2023 preliminary survey - which revealed challenging conditions for fish populations - and a major stakeholder event that brought...
Key Lessons on Winter Maintenance from the BATS City Exchange
City exchanges focused on winter active mobility maintenance are crucial for ensuring safe, accessible, and enjoyable year-round use of walking and cycling, particularly in areas with significant seasonal climate variation such as the Baltic Sea Region. Effective...
Lithuanian Energy Institute presents PlanHeat in Lithuanian Parliament
At the national conference “Innovation Center of Green Municipalities: How Will Lithuania’s Municipalities Develop Innovations?”, held at the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania on 27th June 2025, Rimantas Bakas from the Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI), a project...
Strategic guide helps cities build tox-free, circular, and climate-friendly futures
This document presents the strategic solutions, piloted in various municipalities, structured around a three-step management process: Needs investigation Setting vision and ambitions Market analysis and dialogue This publication presents three tested and replicable...
TechTrack: Estonia’s First MusicTech Incubator Bridges Local Ideas with Global Expertise
Music Estonia launched its first-ever MusicTech incubator TechTrack, a programme designed to connect professionals from the music and technology sectors and develop new ideas for the music industry. As part of MI-RAP, TechTrack reflects the project’s ambition to...
SmartAging – Sixth podcast: Insights from Nordic Access
How can smart health solutions truly support older adults and why are so many promising innovations still stuck on the shelf? In this episode, Jukka Niiranen, CEO at Arnora shares key insights from Nordic Access project. According to Jukka, the real bottleneck...
Arts on Prescription: Bremen Adult Education Centre Inspires Nationwide Interest in Mental Health through Art
Since 2023, the Bremen Adult Education Centre (Bremen vhs) has played a pioneering role in the international Interreg project Arts on Prescription in the Baltic Sea Region. Known in German as Kultur auf Rezept, this innovative programme brings together art, culture,...
FoodLoops partners meeting in Vilnius: experiences, ideas and exploration of the local context
On May 21–22, 2025, a meeting of FoodLoops project partners took place in Vilnius, gathering representatives from Germany, Finland, Poland and Lithuania. The main goal of the meeting was to discuss the progress of the project, exchange ideas, and explore local...
Workshop on Food Sorting and Education in Schools
The FoodLoops project is aimed at empowering better separation of food waste at its source and valorising unavoidable waste into products of value, such as compost. As part of the FoodLoops project, the following activity was conducted: Date: 2025-02-28 Format:...