On the 1st of March the Gulbene Municipality and Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology organized a webinar “Does tourism play a role in causing surface water pollution?” Participants of the event were informed about the project “Lakes connect” and its goals, about the...
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Second online meeting of partners
This was the second project online meeting attended by all partners. At the beginning there was a reminder of the rules and deadlines for reporting the first period of the project. During the meeting, the participants presented and discussed the current research tasks...
Testing of methods for sampling microplastics from sand on the beach and water surface in Latvia
At the end of March research assistant Valentina Burdukovska from the Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology went to Kurzeme region in Latvia to test out microplastic sampling methods for beach sand and water surface, as well as to inform local inhabitants about the...
StratKIT+ fully supports Sustainable Food Procurement Manifesto
According to the Buy Better Food: the Sustainable Food Procurement manifesto calls for a minimum standard for public canteens across the EU as part of implementing the Farm to Fork strategy. It contains precise targets, procurement tender criteria, verification and...
Happy Easter!
HAPPY EASTER Dear Friends, we are really pleased that we have such an opportunity to work with such a great initiative titled BSI_4Women. In the upcoming period, we are going to work together within this project implementation. We truelly believe, that the obecjtives,...
Call for tender: External Project Management Support for Interreg Baltic Sea Region Project “BSR Cultural Pearls”
The Project Management Support entails the following tasks: Strategic project coordination support Operational project management support Monitoring and reporting support All information on the tasks and on proposals submission can be found in the Terms of...
BSR Cultural Pearls: Strengthening social resilience by tapping into the potential of culture
With the official kick-off of the BSR Cultural Pearls project that will take place on 29-30 March 2023 at the premises of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) in Stockholm, Sweden, the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) is set to become a vibrant hub for...
Educational activity within the project
On February 9, Ogre State Gymnasium students together with Erasmus+ program students from Spain visited Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology to get acquainted with the work of the Marine Monitoring Department. The microplastic laboratory was one of the four...
Project kickoff event was organised in Helsinki, 9-10 March 2023
The partner meeting on 9 March gathered in Helsinki all project partners and associated organisations. The key aim of the meeting was to get to know each other, learn about tools and programmes related to civil society participation and good practices on...
Krinova Food Hack
Hear more about this study trip and the workshops in the video below.