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Missing some know-how on how to create a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) in you city? The best way to learn more and to exchange hands-on experiences with your colleagues from fellow UBC cities is to join the Baltic Sea Region SUMP workshop that will be arranged on March 15, 2018 in Tampere, Finland.

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Training cities in climate change adaptation is crucial in the light of high risks posed by the climate change in the Baltic Sea Region.

The latest issue of the Sustainable Cities Bulletin has been published.

Water – Integrated Storm Water Management project (2015-2018) provides new approaches and tools for urban planning ─ for greener, safer, more sustainable and attractive cities. The iWater introduces toolbox that provides both basic and detailed knowledge about stormwater management.

Last week the new mobility project "cities.multimodal" was kicked-off in the Hanseatic city of Rostock.

Baltic Urban Lab project is awaiting for brownfield regeneration success stories that the project could disseminate further on their website and social media channels.  The project has recently published a call targeting all the cities in Baltic Sea Region who wish to get more visibility to their actions: 

Does your city or your organization have a building, neighborhood, policy initiative or similar that we should include in a story about Nordic sustainability?

Are you interested to learn what kind of sustainable mobility tools, projects and cooperation opportunities we have to offer to UBC member cities?

SUMPs-Up is a European cooperation project offering a series of learning activities that will equip city planning authorities and mobility practitioners with skills and knowledge that they need to develop and implement SUMPs (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan).

As every year in the autumn the CIVITAS community gathered for the annual CIVITAS Forum to exchange and learn about sustainable mobility and meet colleagues from all over Europe! This year, forum's almost 500 participants met in Torres Vedras, Portugal.

One of the crucial requirements for the successful development of the water sector is the continuous cooperation on the cross-national basis. Baltic Sea Region countries share many common challenges, and each country has own experience in finding solutions to those.