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 aims to deliver measurable contributions toward biodiversity conservation, pollution reduction, and transition to a climate-neutral blue economy. It provides 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.

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.

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.

The cooperation between UBC and CDP started in the beginning of 2017 with a Memorandum of Understanding signed in the autumn of 2016. Since 2017, the Baltic Sea Region cities have become the forerunners in environmental reporting and in 2020 became the largest participating area in CDP reporting.

The Climate Mainstreaming Locally in the Baltic Sea Region (CliMaLoc, June 2021 - March 2023) project aims to support local authorities in the BSR countries in mainstreaming climate change and establishing partnerships for cooperation in this field in the future.

CASCADE aimed to improve the capacity to understand, assess, and treat current and future climate change related risks on the local level, focusing on the particular in Baltic Sea Region (BSR) conditions.

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The initiative Urban Climate Change Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region was a one-year project providing opportunities for capacity building, training and applying the skills to existing situations in the adaptation to climate change in the cities of the region. The project focused on establishing connections between climate change and sustainable development of urban areas.

Improving urban planning by developing integrated and multifunctional storm water management in the Central Baltic cities.

Creation of the main exhibition of the Gulf of Finland year (2014) with virtual materials in Finnish, Estonian, Russian and English.