Projects

The BlueActionBANOS (BAB) mission (September 2025 – August 2029) is firmly aligned with the EU’s "Restore Our Ocean and Waters by 2030" initiative and the European Green Deal and aims to deliver measurable contributions toward biodiversity conservation, pollution reduction, and the transition to a climate-neutral blue economy. It will provide practical and easily accessible support to a diverse set of established or emerging communities of actors to implement innovative and impactful actions and measures to restore our ocean, seas and waters.

EnTRA builds a resource hub with planning and management tools, training materials, self-audit guides, and a mentoring programme that anchors practical know-how to help public authorities and sectoral agencies scale up the energy transition in the region. EnTRA consolidates outcomes from 18 EU projects.

HAZGONE equips public authorities, NGOs, and businesses in the Baltic Sea region with knowledge, best practices, and training to tackle hazardous substances and micropollutants through the first holistic strategy, combining prevention at the source and advanced clean-up at the end of the pipe. HAZGONE consolidates outcomes from 14 EU projects.

The BSR Urban Mobility project platform connects cities, regional authorities, and policymakers in a peer learning network to support the implementation of sustainable urban mobility plans and deliver on EU goals for multimodal, zero-emission transport. BSR Urban Mobility consolidates outcomes from 17 EU projects.

ClimaResponse project (March 2025 – February 2028) supports municipalities and regions in the Baltic Sea Region in strengthening their climate resilience by providing practical solutions, evidence-based approaches, and innovative tools to address climate risks effectively.

ChemClimCircle-2 project (March 2025 – February 2028) aims to combine climate protection, circularity and chemicals reduction objectives in public procurement. The project will pilot, document and evaluate the ChemClimCircle approach in ca. 50 procurement use cases at 10 municipal and 3 regional authorities in the Baltic Sea Region both in terms of the innovative procurement process and the environmental impact.

The Achieving Zero PFAS project (Sep 2024 - Aug 2026) aims to take action against PFAS by facilitating cooperation and knowledge-sharing as well as coordination between stakeholders. The project focuses especially on the countries of Lithuania and Ukraine.

Urban Biodiversity Parks is developing and piloting the concept of urban biodiversity parks as a tool for urban ecological restoration and regeneration. The aim is to create a 20-hectare biodiversity park, providing a recreational area – while also serving as a platform for community engagement and experiential learning. This helps citizens, NGOs, private actors, educational institutions and others get involved in developing and testing ways to preserve and actively enhance biodiversity in urban environments.

Climate-4-CAST aims to assist local public authorities in their climate neutrality and integration of climate actions into urban governance processes. The project accelerates cities' climate actions and improves policy implementation for climate neutrality by equipping local public administrators with an open source decision support tool that helps visualize individual measures' emmissions impacts and cost-benefit analysis of the measures' performance against city goals.

SUMPs for BSR aims to support cities in sustainable urban mobility practices, focusing on healthy mobility modes for citizens whilst also reducing emmissions. The project will develop a framework for monitoring and evaluating urban mobility planning. This will provide crucial information for planning and decision making and also evaluate the performance of local mobility systems.

Change(K)now! is concerned with promoting a mind-set change in food delivery systems from single-use to multiple-use crockery and packaging at different use types. The project is focused on municipalities and municipal entities, food delivery businesses operating within, and, crucially, its residents. These players can drive the circularity of urban food delivery systems by adopting sustainable solutions and changing routines & behaviors.

The project's main objective is to identify, test and deploy concrete solutions to handle and reduce the flow of plastic waste to the Baltic Sea, under the lenses of a circular economy. It will do so with the consortium of key actors in the plastic waste value chain, namely local authorities, universities and research institutions, associations and NGOs, as well as SMEs and large enterprises in the participating countries, that operate in the waste management field.