On 26 June 2025, the FoodLoops Finland project team met with representatives of the Humus Campaign to explore how early childhood education can be a powerful pathway to foster sustainability in the Baltic Sea Region. This collaboration also ties directly to FoodLoop's...
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ClimaResponse Voices #1: Aron Larsson, Mid Sweden University
Aron Larsson is a professor at the Risk and Crisis Research Centre, Mid Sweden University. In the ClimaResponse project, Mid Sweden University leads the conceptualisation of a digital platform geared towards municipalities and local authorities to facilitate...
Building a Tox-Free Future: The NonHazCity 3 Project
The way we design and construct our homes, schools, and workplaces has a profound impact not only on the environment but also on human health. While obvious dangers like asbestos and arsenic have long been banned from construction materials, many other hazardous...
Winter Kingdom: A VR Fairy Tale That Brings Kids Closer to Nature
Smarter Step (Lithuania) is one of the project partners developing the VR fairy tale “Winter Kingdom”, created for Meta Quest. It invites children into a magical world built around the four elements — earth, air, water, and fire. While finding new ways to help...
VIDEO from TRUST ALUM: Restoring Lakes, Building Trust
The TRUST ALUM project brought together 9 dedicated partners from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Sweden with one shared mission – to reduce historical phosphorus pollution in Baltic lakes and build trust in sustainable restoration methods. The project video takes you...
Now Everyone Can Follow Up the Lake Velnezers Water Quality Improvements
As the TRUST ALUM project is almost finalised, we’re thrilled to introduce a dedicated page where everyone can now follow Lake Velnezers journey. We installed two informative signs at pilot Lake Velnezers as the final touch in our project and long-term reminder of...
New Handbook Highlights the Untapped Potential of Water Reuse
The Handbook is the result of extensive consultations with experts, practitioners, and policy actors. It highlights the importance of water reuse as both a solution to global water stress and a means of protecting the environment while managing resources more...
Crown Princess Visits TRUST ALUM Partner on Baltic Sea Day
Our project partner in TRUST ALUM, Vattenresurs AB, had the honor of welcoming HRH Crown Princess aboard their treatment boat on Riddarfjärden during the celebration of Baltic Sea Day. The Crown Princess even took the helm, highlighting the importance of innovative...
Spruce needles can keep the vegoburger fresh and tasty
Compounds extracted from spruce needles can preserve food without artificial chemicals, and even enhance the taste. In the forests of the Baltic Sea region, tonnes of spruce needles quietly pile up as forestry by-products. Traditionally, they’ve been treated as waste...
EMPEREST results presented to national authorities
Held in an interactive hybrid mode, this event highlighted the ongoing revision of the European environmental quality standards directive (EQSD) in relation to various organic micropollutants, and the national legislative demands set by the recast Urban Waste Water...












