Questions to Jalotus circular economy center: What are the main challenges households in Kerava face when trying to adopt more reuse, repair, and refurbishment practices in their daily lives? We think that the main challenges for households in Kerava are a busy...
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📸 Project in Action: Field Data Collection and Plant Health Monitoring
It captures an important part of our daily activities – monitoring plant health directly in the field using mobile tools. In real time, we document plant diseases and pests, take photos of symptoms, and upload the data into our PlutoF system for further analysis. This...
Integrating the Environmental Component into the Baltic Sea MSP Puzzle
The Baltic Sea is a puzzle of ports and harbours, fishing vessels, shipping and transportation lanes, leisure boating, pipelines, an increasing number of wind farms and much more. Maritime spatial planning in the Baltic Sea is therefore best understood as trying...
Toolkit on climate-smart tourism was tested with tourism companies in seven BSR destinations
Climate-smart Tourism Business Toolkit CliNeDest project has created an AI-assisted Climate-smart Business online Toolkit that helps tourism companies transform their business towards low carbon. The project cooperates with more than 100 tourism...
NURSECOAST-II publishes practical guide for seasonal wastewater investment
The NURSECOAST-II Business Models Hub translates research on business barriers and incentives into a practical investment and replication guide for small and decentralised wastewater treatment solutions in seasonal tourist regions. The Hub is designed for...
Shared Learning, Stronger Impact: Advancing Sustainable Procurement Together
The ChemClimCircle-2 project is working with partners to develop and test tools and operational models that can be used to integrate environmental goals into practical procurement processes and criteria. Procurement pilots carried out in various municipalities enable...
What is the progress? Overview of Enercracy project activities in Pornainen, Finland
Background Pornainen, a municipality of about 5,000 residents in Uusimaa, Finland, needed support in drafting a climate and energy plan. The Enercracy project and Green Net Finland, a Finnish cleantech company, responded to this need. To ensure the energy and...
PestSpace at the MycoRiseUp! Youth in Mycology Conference 2026
During the conference, Asli Cimen (Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences) presented a poster prepared in collaboration with Maksymillian Nowak (University of Warsaw), entitled: "Botrytis spp. can be detected and identified from the leaves of faba...
Cēsis combines data, pilots and community insights to support mobility planning
As part of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region project SUMPs for BSR, the municipality of Cēsis has been testing practical ways to strengthen evidence-based mobility planning. Cēsis is participating in the project alongside with Turku, Gdynia, Gävle, Greifswald, and...
Vidzeme Planning Region coached the WMT! approach to Transition Arena method at the Baltic Catching-up Regions Forum on Smart Shrinking
The Baltic Catching-up Regions Forum “Smart Shrinking, Urban Renewal & Community Participation” took place in December 2026 in Võru, Estonia. Organised by the European Commission and the World Bank, the event brought together representatives from national and EU...












