Following the solitude that Covid pushed us into despite online collaboration, we have come to cherish spending “quality time” together as the very fabric of efficient collaboration. There is nothing as productive as trust among people working together, and trust...
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Making Climate Data Work Better for Spatial Planning
More than 30 participants from across the Baltic Sea Region actively engaged in interactive tasks, sharing ideas, identifying needs and voting to prioritise key themes for further exploration. Their questions and feedback provided valuable insights into how...
Energy Practitioner Training Session and Closing Conference in Vesthimmerland Municipality.
Vesthimmerlands Kommune has completed its final Energy Practitioner Training under the EASY ENERGY project, in a session that also served as its closing conference for the project. To make sure the project ended on a strong note, Vesthimmerlands designed its last...
HybReDe at eHealth: Exploring the Future of AI, Health Data, and Interoperability
The HybReDe project was proudly represented at the eHealth conference by Turku University of Applied Science personnel with the poster Understanding Regulatory Boundaries of Generative AI Virtual Assistants for Symptom Management in Multiple Sclerosis Care. We also...
Designing for mental health at every age: the platform at Poznań Design Festival 2026
Longevity is usually discussed as a question for medicine and health care. The exhibition “The Lighthouse of Longevity. Designing a World for Longer, Better Living” looks instead at the environments around us. It defines a good long life as more than added years. It...
Cities turning climate ambition into action: Climate Budget Summit in Brussels
How can cities turn climate ambitions into concrete investments and measurable action? This question brought around 50 city leaders, climate experts, researchers and local practitioners together at the Climate Budget Summit in Brussels on 14 October 2026, to exchange...
From different realities to a common approach
How can a common approach to regenerative tourism work across destinations with very different starting points? As REDIRECT moves from developing its Toolkit to testing it in practice, experiences from across the partnership are helping answer that question. REDIRECT...
Creating room for connection: two perspectives on SmartAging
Feeling welcome, making everyday choices and having someone to talk to are essential parts of living well as we grow older. SmartAging brings design, care, research and technology together to explore how living environments can better support these experiences. The...
What does City Blues leave behind for European cities?
Instead of looking for a single solution, the partner cities explored how nature-based stormwater solutions could be adapted to local conditions. Tampere, Aarhus, Malmö, Tartu and Stavanger each worked with a local pilot site, giving the cities an opportunity...
Takeaways from the #2 EnTRA Energy Transtion Talks: Practical paths to energy-efficient buildings
On 14 October 2026, the second EnTRA Energy Transition Talk explored practical ways to improve building energy efficiency. Experts from the Tartu Regional Energy Agency and the Renowave project in Võru shared insights into renovation measures, digital tools and...











