Central Baltic 2014–2020 Programme

Ideas, partners, and results from the Central Baltic 2014–2020 Programme

by Ari Brozinski | ari.brozinski@centralbaltic.eu

Even if the new 2021-2027 programme has already started, our 2014-2020 programme is still going strong; the last 2014-2020 projects are implementing until end of 2022 and in total we have co-funded 137 cross-border projects. As the term hints, cross-border means that challenges are solved together and across borders within the programme region. The region includes Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Sweden and Åland.

The four main funding priorities of the programme consider economy, environment, logistics and the well-being of people. The main priorities are further divided into 11 Specific Objectives (SO). This means that you can find excellent projects e.g. aiming to increase the entrepreneurship of the youth, to develop sustainable tourism destinations, reduce the nutrient load into the Baltic Sea or to improve vocational education.

We have a great number of concrete activities and tangible results to show for the 2014-2020 programme. Thus, we encourage you to have a look in our project database. You can easily filter projects of interest using the funding Priority and Specific Objective filters.

Furthermore, when scrolling down, you can select those countries and a programme region that you have interest in. For example, if you want to find Swedish partners from projects that have aimed to reduce the nutrient load into the Baltic, you would select Priority 2 Sustainable use of common resources, then SO 2.4. Reduced nutrients… and finally apply a filter to show those projects with Swedish partners. Upon clicking a resulting project, you are not only able to view the partners but also read the summary and review planned or achieved results.

You can access the database here: http://database.centralbaltic.eu/

What is Central Baltic? The Central Baltic programme, belongs to the European Territorial Cooperation framework (ETC). The ECT, or Interreg, represents one of the two goals of cohesion policy and provides a framework for the implementation of joint actions and policy exchanges between national, regional and local actors from different Member States. The overarching objective of European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) is to promote a harmonious economic, social and territorial development of the Union as a whole.

SEABASED – Pilot Marl: The SEABASED Project (2018-2021) piloted and assessed measures that seek to improve the status of the marine area by reducing the internal load of the sea. One of the piloted measures was spreading activated limestone to anoxic seabeds. This project among other similar are available in the project database. Photo: Tara Jaakkola.