International “Interactive Gardens” Project Concludes: New Solutions for Public Outdoor Spaces Created in the Baltic Sea Region
Strategically planned public gardens are not merely an aesthetic urban enhancement – they are a significant resource for residents’ daily well-being, health, and community cohesion. This is demonstrated by the results achieved within the Interreg Baltic...
World Mental Health Day 2026: A poem on listening and being heard
What does it mean to truly hear someone? Not only to listen, but to let what we hear change what we do next. Tomorrow, Saturday 10 October, is World Mental Health Day. This year’s theme, Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change, calls for people with...
The first draft of the energy and climate plan for the municipality of Pornainen is complete!
Pornainen, a small municipality of 5,000 residents in Uusimaa, Finland, is participating in the Enercracy project. Green Net Finland, the Finnish project partner, is developing the first energy and climate plan for Pornainen, which is based on a municipal renewable...
City Blues final event built mutual agreement on stormwater as a resource
The clearest message from the day was that one size does not fit all. Nature-based solutions must respond to each city’s climate, catchment, available space, existing infrastructure and local needs. However, retrofitting them in dense urban areas remains...
Conference in Kiel brings together six Baltic Sea Region cities to share lessons for a circular future
How can cities make circularity part of everyday life? This was the central question at “Creative Cities, Circular Futures”, the final conference of the Creative Circular Cities (CCC) project, held in Kiel on 29–30 September. Bringing together project partners,...
🏆 Meet Pure Garden – winner of the international e-Bio Business Award 2026 of eRural resilience project!
🏆 Meet Pure Garden – winner of the international e-Bio Business Award 2026! In 2026, Pure Garden was selected as the winner of the e-Bio Business Award 2026, an international competition organised within the eRural Resilience project. 🎥 Pure Garden is a Finnish...
A strong energy community starts with a real need and grows step by step
What makes an energy community financially sustainable? The answer is not only in numbers. At a StartSun conference panel discussion, Inka Leppänen from Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Johanna Liljenfeldt from Uppsala University, and Nele Ivask and Marten...
CCC-2 Launches Webinar Series on Green Public Procurement
How can municipalities put sustainable public procurement into practice? What tools and approaches can help them reduce harmful substances, address climate impacts and promote circularity in their procurement decisions? To explore these questions, the ChemClimCircle-2...