Results of the Active Mobility Bingo campaign
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...
A Fresh Dive into Water Recycling
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...
Paving New Paths on the Challenging Journey of Transformation – A BALTIC UKH Project Story
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...
Turku disembarks to the small-scale experiment pilot area
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...
PPI4cities Showcases Innovative Procurement Platform at Kuntamarkkinat
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...
Young Researchers for a Plastic-Free Baltic Sea Region
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...
Rain garden for the greening of a public car park
In Braniewo, Poland, a “rain garden” was created in the car park of the local swimming pool. A part of the area has been unsealed and redesigned by planting vegetation and by creating a catch basin so that stormwater running off the asphalt and the roof of the indoor...
The Low-Hanging Fruit of a Rain Garden
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...