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.

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 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.

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 EMPEREST project supports local authorities, service providers and policy-making community by strengthening the sustainable water management cycle. The holistic approach to the elimination of PFAS and other persistent organic pollutants incorporates regional strategies for monitoring and assessment, technological advances in wastewater treatment, risk management assessment for cities, and training materials for water experts.

The ZeroPFAS II project was about minimizing the spread of PFAS in the Baltic Sea. It focused on sharing and spreading information on these toxic substances among stakeholders in the region.

Bringing together knowledge and innovation potential on the transnational basis Image

Disseminating lifelong learning to the water sector in Belarus.

IWAMA project’s approach to improving resource efficiency in wastewater management in the Baltic Sea Region concentrated on capacity development of the WWT operators and implementation of the pilot investments which result in reduced nutrient inflows to the Baltic Sea. IWAMA application was a main outcome of the BSR IWAMA Seed project work, successfully submitted for funding from the Baltic Sea Region Interreg Programme 2014-2020.

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

Exchange of experiences and launching the development of Belarusian lifelong-learning concept for wastewater management sector and so support e.g. the capacity and competence building and sustainability of the investments on new technology.

Developing a main project concept that would address the main means of supporting municipal WWTPs in reaching lower nutrient loading in discharges: structured lifelong learning, more resource-efficient operation and improved municipal sludge management.