"There is a structure, and you need to understand it"...

Now I know how it feels – to sit down, take a sip of water, lace up my shoes and breathe out. Satisfied and exhausted at the same time. Thanks to the St Olav Waterway project, I myself tested pilgrimage walk and realized I can walk longer than I thought, says Ester Laurell, Contact Point Åland...

The WATERCHAIN project aim was to find methods to reduce emissions of nutrients and hazardous substances to the Baltic Sea.

"The right person is more important than the right idea" is a surprising statement. Aren't successful ideas what drives the world forward? Yes. But good ideas and masterful innovations are of no use if they remain in the drawer or on the hard disk. Sometimes you need someone...

The aim of the project is to find good methods to reduce the Baltic Sea's internal nutrient load and thereby improving the areas around the coast. The results of the various pilot measures are compiled by the John Nurminen Foundation guidelines and the goal is to find more good methods for...

In the project OnBoard-Med, care and maritime units were brought together in a new way by developing joint online courses.

The newly built wetland in Mariehamn became a popular destination for residential and visitors. The Coast4us project was about coastal planning, and the city implemented the planning and built the wetland.

Det är inte alltid man tänker på färjor när man hör ordet kollektivtrafik. Men färjorna utgör skärgårdens landsvägar och är livlinan för den som bor och verkar på en ö. För att öka säkerheten, hitta optimala rutter och sålunda minska bränsleförbrukningen gjorde man nya sjömätningar i Stockholms...

I saw an update on Central Baltic Facebook group some time ago – Ira Lahovuo shared a post about their ongoing project Archipelago Access. As I am living in the archipelago and realized this project is really dealing with an existing problem, I contacted her to get more information.

Some interesting articles in the archipelago magazine Skärgård, published by Åbo Akademi University, showed real capitalisation, how the project experiences gave Novia university of applied sciences new working methods and tools for development. ...

By educating professionals in Gastro Tourism on Central Baltic islands, we can increase the added value for visitors and inhabitants in the archipelago. ...

The small guest harbor on the island of Rödhamn has been improved thanks to MASAPO and SMART MARINA.

"Now it is important to communicate to potential visitors about the investments that have been done in the different guest harbors", says Annica Grönlund, communication manager for project Smart Marina with the task to improve the service level in and increase the amount of visitors to 34...

​To participate in any RIBS activity is an energy boost. You are surrounded by young people, talk, laughter, mobiles, cameras, commitment, mind maps, friendship, ideas, sharing. Rolling Images in Business Startups (RIBS) is about young entrepreneurship and media literacy. The young participants...

Itämeren alueella on nyt 19 piensatamaa, joissa on paremmat palvelut satamien käyttäjille. PortMate-hankkeen tuloksia esiteltiin 12. syyskuuta 2019 pidetyssä loppukonferenssissa Satakunnan ammattikorkeakoulussa (SAMK) Raumalla.

What are some of the obstacles and difficulties for a young creative person to enter the technology and startup world? What are the opportunities and possibilities to tackle these difficulties? Neveli Niit, a young entrepreneur, CEO of the start-up company Ridline, shares her experience.

In April, Diversity Day is celebrated in Estonia and elsewhere in the world. Its purpose is to recognize and value the importance and uniqueness of each person in companies and organizations as well as in society at large. Project Youth-Sport-Vol was launched in order to provide young people with...

Ferries are perhaps not the first you think of when you hear or read “public transportation”. But in the unique archipelago of Stockholm and Turku and on the Åland islands, the ferries are the lifeline, the “roads” at sea. There are challenges in offering a safe, time saving and fuel-efficient...

Joanna Mqr is a Spanish young woman who has been an INTERREG Volunteer Youth on the Åland islands within the RIBS project during spring 2018.

Att besöka någonting som RIBS arrangerar är en energikick. Du är omgiven av ungdomar, ivrigt prat, skratt, mobiltelefoner, kameror, engagemang, mindmaps, postit-lappar, idéer, vänskap och delaktighet. Allt handlar om entreprenörskap och idéskapande, utbyte, att våga ta sig för och att kunna använda...

​The urban gardening project Gardens (Gardens of Possibilities) combines rehabilitation, education and job training, and it is implemented in Valdemarsvik municipality and in Mariehamn by the NGO Emmaus.

One challenge and opportunity in the CB programme related to transport is the infrastructure of small ports as a precondition for tourism development.

The main goal of NATTOURS is to make people aware of the city nature and its existence, its value and its importance.

Syftet med projektet CB HealthAccess – Access to Distant Markets in Health and Wellness – är att underlätta för life-science- och medicinteknikföretag att komma in på exportmarknader i Sydkorea, USA, Indien och Uganda. Projektet startade i september 2015 och pågår t o m december 2018.

The project Smartlog, which started in September 2016, is aiming at optimizing logistics management and services along the EU transport corridors ScanMed and North Sea-Baltic. Their goal is improved solutions regarding transportation, warehousing, cross-docking, inventory management, packaging and...

Project FinEst Smart Mobility tries to find ways to smoother the travel between ports and also to reduce the disadvantages caused by the ever-growing flows of traffic in Helsinki and Tallinn with intelligent traffic solutions.

As the use of sea space is continuously increasing there is a greater need for closer cooperation and coordination between actors and activities at sea. Central Baltic -funded Plan4Blue project brings together scientists, stakeholders and maritime spatial planners from Finland and Estonia to study...