Project News
Building Circular Communities in Tallinn – An interview with Kädi Eelmaa, from Tallinn Circular Economy Center
How can we make life in the city more circular? In the Circ@Home project, the Tallinn Circular Economy Center is helping figure that out. Based in Estonia’s capital, the organization works with local households, mapping out reuse and repair services, and showing how...
Building Circular Communities in Tallinn – An interview with Kädi Eelmaa from Tallinn Circular Economy Center
How can we make life in the city more circular? In the Circ@Home project, the Tallinn Circular Economy Center is helping figure that out. Based in Estonia’s capital, the organization works with local households, mapping out reuse and repair services, and showing how...
Insights from the Albertinen Haus
RoundGoby partners gather in Poland for third project partner meeting
On 24 June 2025, RoundGoby partners gathered in Władysławowo, a port city in the north of Poland, for the third project partner meeting. A particular focus was on gathering practical feedback from small fishers as new fishing material was tested. The meeting was...
Project story: Building a Cross-Border Living Labs Network for Innovation and Cooperation
One of the goals of the project was establishing a network of Living Labs that could serve as a real-world platform for experimentation, co-creation, and learning. “The vision was clear: to bring together universities, businesses, public authorities, and citizens to...
Empowering Neighbourhood Associations – Riga, Latvia
The Riga pilot focuses on finding solutions to improve collaboration and trust between the municipality and local neighbourhood communities. This includes two steps: 1) Developing a neighbourhood project co-design system. 2) Improving the system for financing local...
Meeting of the Hamburg Regional Stakeholder Group and exchange with representatives from Berlin, Graz and Basel
From 4 to 5 June 2025, ZEBAU, together with IBA Hamburg GmbH, organized an exchange meeting with representatives of the Hamburg Regional Stakeholder Group and guests from Basel, Berlin and Graz. The focus was on heat transformation as part of integrated urban...
Electric cranes soar at the Gdynia Container Terminal
Located in one of the most charming coastal cities of Poland, the Gdynia Container Terminal (GCT) is an integral part of the region’s maritime industry ecosystem. While it might not be the biggest terminal in Europe, or Poland for that matter, it certainly is one of...
Register for the first Climate Budget Summit on Oct. 1st in Malmö!
1 October 2025 | Malmö, Sweden Cities across Europe are facing the challenge of turning climate commitments into concrete action. To support local authorities in this critical transition, Climate-4-CAST is partnering with the UBC Sustainable Cities Commission to...
eRural resilience – Digitalisation and Bioeconomy as Rural Vitality Boosters
“Within the project, a step‑by‑step method has been developed to support businesses in assessing their readiness and developing new products. The method also acts as a bridge between SMEs and s organisations, enabling individualized assessments and assistance”, says...
5 questions to EcoDesign Circle: RegioStars finalist 2020
One of our Interreg Baltic Sea Region projects, EcoDesign Circle, reached the finals of the RegioStars Awards last year in the category of circular economy. What did the process look like? What did the project like most? And, most importantly, what was the gain for the project? Read the interview below.
BalticSatApps paved the way for Earth Observation-based innovations in the region
The Interreg project BalticSatApps successfully improved access to EU-based satellite data for entrepreneurs and helped drive new businesses in the Baltic Sea region. Thanks to EU funding, people with smart ideas received support that enables them to further shape our region into a better place to live and work in.
Encounters with passionate mobility managers
There’s a story behind every project: a story of people from countries around the Baltic Sea who team up to exchange good practices or find a new way to tackle a joint challenge – together. In Interreg Baltic Sea Region, there are 140 such stories. And for the Managing Authority/Joint Secretariat staff, it is very rewarding to assist project partners from the moment their project idea starts to sprout to harvesting the achievements. Like in the case of the project cities.multimodal.
Commercialising biomarkers faster to improve medical treatment
A project was set into motion in 2017 with the ambitious aim to facilitate and standardize the commercialization process of new biomarkers. Biomarkers are increasingly important in disease risk prediction, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment response. The BIC project concluded in September 2020 and brought about some tools that can help medical companies to bring new biomarkers to the market faster.