Past events

Cities across the Baltic Sea Region are increasingly looking for ways to make walking and cycling attractive, safe, and reliable throughout the year. Year-Round Active Mobility is a mindset change to ensure cycling and walking is taken into account as a means of transport throughout all four seasons, both by users and city planners. This interactive workshop invites cities to explore how year-round active mobility can be integrated into sustainable urban mobility planning in a practical and realistic way.

Cities have a leading role in reaching EU and global biodiversity goals and in raising awareness of the vital role biodiversity and nature plays in our daily lives. But how can cities move from awareness-raising to action and engage citizens and local communities in biodiversity work?

Webinar focused on procurement management framework self-sssessment tool

How Local Leaders Turn Climate Ambition into Action The Climate Budget Summit will bring together transformative trends from the city networks Union of the Baltic Cities and Eurocities, and local Mayors, decision-makers and practitioners driving the climate neutrality forward in their cities. With the moderation by HafenCity University Hamburg, we will link strategy, practice and research to examine how climate budgeting can support local climate ambitions!

This in-person workshop focuses on urban nodes and their new requirements. Two years into the revised TEN-T Regulation, the workshop brings together the POLIS Urban Nodes Taskforce and Access Working Group to take stock of where urban nodes stand in meeting their new obligations and what still needs to happen.

When all other hurdles on the path towards climate neutrality are solved, one common bottleneck often remains – urban mobility. How to decarbonise this sector? What measures and strategic decisions to take? And how to comprehensively calculate the impact of alternative approaches? The September webinar issue looks right into this matter.

This workshop aims to explore how Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) can evolve to address Functional Urban Areas (FUAs), improve mobility data collection and strengthen the implementation phase with clear guidance on the use of collected data. The discussion will build on the updated SUMP guidelines and indicators, including emerging mobility trends, the role of integrated public transport systems and a stronger focus on integration of urban logistics as a component and consideration in SUMPs.

The workshop is organised as part of EIT Urban Mobility North Summit 2026 and it is by invitation only. Modern cities do not only manage passenger transport. They must also manage the daily movement of goods, services, construction flows, waste, home deliveries and essential logistics that keep urban life functioning. Increasingly, this complexity is mediated through data that is collected, owned, shared and processed across public and private actors.

The focus of the Sustainable Cities Commission meeting 2026 is active mobility! We warmly welcome UBC members to the meeting, organised back-to-back with our large conference “Baltic Active Mobility 2026: Shaping Future Cities” on 7-9 September 2026 in Gdynia, Poland.

For every interested BSR city: best practices and hands-on application of the tool you can use to calculate your city's climate scenarios! Together with peers from across the Baltic Sea Region, you will exchange practical experiences in climate budgeting, explore real city use cases, and work directly with the open CADS (Climate Action Decision Support) Tool for climate scenario calculations. Together with peers from across the Baltic Sea Region, you will:

European security, economy, and democracy are undergoing major changes – and these are directly reflected in the people’s everyday lives, for example in energy prices, changes to working life, and the sense of security. These issues will be explored at the ninth Europe Forum in Turku on 26–28 August 2026. 

The interactive peer-learning session will take place online on 10 June at 10-12.30 EEST. Register to get the access link!