Baltic Sea2Land Final Conference to be jointly organised as the 5th Baltic MSP Forum!

Join the 5^th Baltic MSP Forum “Navigate Planning Through Changes”

The 5^th Baltic MSP Forum “Navigate Planning Through Changes” will take place on 11–12 November 2025 in Riga, Latvia. This year, the Forum is organised in close connection with the Baltic Sea2Land project, serving as its final conference, and broadens the scope to strengthen linkages between maritime spatial planning (MSP) and coastal zone planning.

Under the slogan “Navigate Planning Through Changes”, the Forum’s agenda features a wide array of timely and pressing topics, including enhancing resilience and liveability of coastal communities, integrating ecosystem services into MSP, improving coastal accessibility, addressing climate change challenges in coastal municipalities, promoting blue-green infrastructure, and advancing multi-use and implementation of sustainable blue economy. Special focus will also be given to sea-basin/macro-regional and multi-level governance, ecosystem-based approach, effective use of space, security and safety in the Baltic Sea Region, and the Sea2Land Navigator - innovative planning tool developed within the Baltic Sea2Land project.

The Forum aims to bring together the maritime spatial planning and coastal planning and development community from the Baltic Sea Region and beyond. It provides a platform for experts, policy makers, academia and research institutions, NGO’s and practitioners from national, sub-national, and local authorities to share experiences, exchange ideas, and develop new approaches for sustainable management of marine and coastal areas and strengthening the multi-level governance.

The preliminary agenda is now published, and registration is open. The 5^th Baltic MSP Forum will take place fully on-site in VEF Culture Palace, Riga, Latvia. Find out more information and the registration form at: www.BalticMSPForum.eu.

The 5th Baltic MSP Forum is organised by the VASAB Secretariat together with the Ministry of Smart Administration and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia, as the Lead Partner of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region project Baltic Sea2Land, and in cooperation with the partners of the project’s consortium.

The Forum is to be organised by the Baltic Sea2Land  project partnership of the Interreg BSR Programme, where during the period of 2023 – 2025 work is done towards equipping public authorities with a new tool – the Sea2Land Navigator. This tool comprises various qualitative information on the best practice in coordinated management of land and sea, as well as spatial data. With the integration of multi-level governance principles, the tool will aid in harmonising land and marine planning and balancing initiatives that impact coastal development both across sectors and borders. More information: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/balticsea2land/