Many support programmes focus on training. The BSR Go-abroad project showed that training is only one part of the journey. What really made the difference? Continuous coaching. Each participating company worked with a dedicated Business Coach who helped translate new...
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Design Plus X: Ten Years of Questioning What’s Next
The tenth edition of the International Creative Congress Design Plus took place on 18 June 2026 at Ogrody Śródmieście, Szczecin, Poland bringing together designers, game creators, and thinkers to mark a milestone anniversary with a fittingly open-ended theme: Design...
Circular Ports to Participate in Europe Forum 2026: Advancing Circular Economy in Baltic Sea Ports
Organised by Circular Ports partner Centrum Balticum Foundation, the session combines keynote presentations with a panel discussion, offering perspectives from the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) Policy Area Ship (PA Ship), the Port of Turku and...
Field Workshop in Lithuania: Smart Plant Protection and AI for Disease & Pest Monitoring
A total of 21 participants attended the workshop, including researchers from the Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry and the Agriculture Academy of Vytautas Magnus University. The programme introduced the ongoing field trials carried out within...
Baltic PlaNet: One Year of Progress Towards Climate-Resilient Coastal Planning
The first year of the Baltic PlaNet project has been dedicated to building a strong foundation for climate-resilient coastal spatial planning across the Baltic Sea Region. From enhancing the Sea2Land Navigator with climate change considerations to engaging coastal...
Is your company actually ready to go abroad?
One of the most practical tools developed during BSR Go-abroad is the Internationalisation Readiness Assessment. Instead of asking "Which country should I enter?", the tool starts with a different question: "Are we actually ready?" The assessment evaluates ten areas...
Interreg B Federal Conference in Berlin: PlanHeat highlights the local value of transnational cooperation
Representatives of the PlanHeat project attended the Federal Conference on Transnational Cooperation 2026, which took place on 29th and 30th June at the Umweltforum in Berlin, Germany. The conference was organised by the German Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban...
SmartAging Podcast #26 What makes a community room a true “Social Oasis”?
Anna from Interesting Times Gang shared the ideas behind the beautiful "Social Oasis" concept they designed for the community space at Albertinen Haus as part of the SmartAging Project. Thank you, Anna, for the inspiring insights. We can't wait to see our social oasis...
Recently approved EU legislation pushes the progress: New micropollutants identified as priority substances
After a lengthy political process, the European Union has adopted Directive (EU) 2026/805, updating key EU water pollution rules by amending the Water Framework Directive, the Groundwater Directive and the Environmental Quality Standards Directive. The directive...
It’s out in the world – APRIORA plugin officially released!
The official QGIS repository has formally welcomed a powerful new tool for regional and local authorities and sectoral agencies: the APRIORA plugin (Fig. 1). This open-source tool is divided into two main components: one predicts average and low river flows within a...











