Kiel Crowned “BSR Cultural Pearl 2024” for Culture and Resilience Action Plan
On 1 March, the German city of Kiel was honoured as the first of four “BSR Cultural Pearl 2024” awardees, in a ceremony that took place at the city’s Wissenschaftszentrum. This title is part of a CBSS-led project focusing on culture-driven social resilience....
Creating Light in the Dark experiences
An invited panel of destinations and entrepreneurs will ponder the challenges and possibilities of sustainably developing tourism that offers the most benefits to their communities. Speakers: • Pernille Kofod Lydolph – former Director of Destination Bornholm,...
Interactive Lectures with Children in Hamburg
The global production of plastics exceeded 400 million tonnes in 2022. It is estimated that approximately half of the produced plastics are designed for single-use purposes. With Europe being the 4th biggest plastic producer globally, accounting for a total of 58.7...
Mass fish death in the pilot lake call for urgent water treatment
“The lake is full of dead fish!” – such a disturbing message our project team received at the end of February from one of our local stakeholders. This local, who has lived near Lake Velnezers for decades, shared that he had never witnessed such a significant die-off...
MainPotRe supports events and gains recognition during Vidzeme Innovation Week 2024
The MainPotRe project’s leading partner AREI organized several events within Vidzeme Innovation Week 2024. They all were about collaboration, sharing, a shift in perspective, and seeing potential in such a humble resource as potatoes. On March 1st, in Cēsis the...
“Liveability” in Interreg B-Journal
The Interreg B-Journal is produced by the Interreg team of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR). It is published four times a year and provides information on current developments in the Interreg B programme and...
Diverse Potatoes – in Theory and Practice
The Vidzeme Planning Region, by organizing the Vidzeme Innovation Week 2024, drew attention to several sustainable development goals, including sharing, collaborating, and seeing opportunities; resource potential, and change of habits. The MainPotRe project’s...
State of play in Latvia’s alternative fuels infrastructure and decarbonization of transport sector
Aivars Starikovs, H2LV focused his presentation on findings from piloting the first hydrogen refuelling station in Riga (H2Nodes) and plans of Riga Airport (BSR HyAirport). Kaspars Liepiņš, H2Latvia presented insights from recent surveys on public attitudes and...