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This September, residents from across the Baltic Sea Region once again took part in Active Mobility Bingo – a fun but impactful campaign under the SUMPs for BSR project. Organised to celebrate both Interreg Cooperation Day 2025 and European Mobility Week (EMW), the...

  Perhaps it takes first‑hand experience with prolonged drought and water scarcity for our attention to turn to all the obvious sources for water recycling. When the grass on the car park in front of the public swimming-pool is already turning brown and the...

What does a public institution mean to people today? Not in theory, but in everyday life—when someone walks through the door, opens a website, or looks for a place where they feel welcome. These questions stayed with us as we watched expectations change and digital...

One of the most difficult things in ensuring the switch to sustainable mobility modes is engaging citizens and providing them with information that leads to behavioural change. To get to know the citizens better and to promote active travel, the City of Turku attended...

The PPI4cities project proudly participated in Kuntamarkkinat 2025, Finland’s leading municipal fair, held in Helsinki. The event brought together representatives from municipalities, cities, NGOs, and other public sector stakeholders to explore the future of local...

How do you tackle a problem as vast and complex as plastic pollution in the Baltic Sea Region? That question brought together young researchers, practitioners, and project partners for a three-day workshop hosted by the BALTIPLAST project. The event was not just about...

  Completed in late summer 2025, the rain garden in the middle of the indoor pool’s car park immediately catches the eye. With its naturally shaped topography of gently contoured basins, long, stone-lined depressions planted with perennials, it is not only...

  Watch the video👆 NonHazCity3 project (NHC3) was a part of planning a panel discussion at the Europe Forum in Turku, Finland on the 27th of August. Europe Forum is an annual event that promotes open, science-based discussions between policymakers and citizens. The...

We warmly invite you to join us in Riga! The Liveability Project is coming to an inspiring close! After three years of exploring what makes a city truly liveable, testing new approaches in six pilot and six twin cities, and developing innovative tools such as the...

In late September, partners of the Interreg-funded SusTool project gathered in Valmiera, Latvia, for a three-day meeting combining project discussions with company visits. The event focused on finalizing project activities and exchanging insights on how businesses put...