About us

Pan Baltic Scope focuses on cross-border collaboration and has three interlinked work packages with 12 activities.

We establish a Planning Forum as the central platform for the collaboration on specific planning issues identified by the planning authorities and regional organisations.

We carry out concrete cross-border activities at different geographical levels to meet the needs of the national maritime spatial planning processes and to support the successful implementation of the EU MSP Directive.

We develop tools and approaches at pan-Baltic level, to contribute to coherent maritime spatial plans in the Baltic Sea Region, including:

Implementation of an ecosystem-based approach;
Cumulative impacts;
Green infrastructure;
Economic and social analyses;
Data sharing.

We develop methods to build better maritime spatial planning processes with land use planning processes to emphasize land-sea interactions.

We share best practices and build new knowledge.

The partners will secure the long term sustainability of the project and its results, having formal roles and mandates in MSP at national or at sea basin level.

Project Summary: Pan Baltic Scope – Bringing Better Plans

Short description

The Pan Baltic Scope project has been a successful cross-border cooperation in the Baltic Sea with the aim of bringing better maritime spatial plans.
Standing on a solid base of previous maritime spatial planning-related projects in the Baltic Sea region, most notably the Baltic SCOPE project, we cooperated on 12 activities in three thematic groups:

Cross-border collaboration to support national maritime spatial planning where planners and researchers cooperated in five activities.
Implementation of the Ecosystem-Based Approach and Data Sharing created methods and tools to support maritime spatial planning in the Baltic Sea.
Integration of Land-Sea interaction into maritime spatial planning connected to both themes and explored the concept of Land-Sea Interaction.

The tools and methods created in the Pan Baltic Scope project are presented in this brochure. Each activity presents their work, as well as their final products and where to find them.

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Project recommendations for bringing better maritime spatial plans in the Baltic Sea Region

Short description

These are the recommendations from the Pan Baltic Scope collaboration. We hope they will help in bringing even better maritime spatial plans in the Baltic Sea Region in the years to come. The recommendations can be useful to planners, authorities, policy-makers and others dealing with maritime spatial planning in the Baltic Sea, and possibly beyond.

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Project Period

From January 2018
Until December 2019

Total Estimated Budget

€ 3 315 113
Co-financed by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) –
€ 2 652 086

Planning Forum for cross-border cooperation (Activity leader)

It is a platform for collaboration on planning issues identified by the planning authorities and regional organisations.
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Ecosystem-Based Approach in Sub-basin SEA (Activity leader)

This activity is working on the development of as best as possible transboundary coherent SEA using a coherent approach and assumptions for the southern Baltic as test case for methodologies and guidance developed previously.
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Ecosystem-Based Toolbox (Activity leader)

The activity should contribute to a coherent implementation of ecosystem-based approach (EBA) in national MSP in the Baltic Sea Region.
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Finland-Åland-Sweden Case / FI-AX-SE

Case comprises the waters between Sweden and mainland Finland, including the autonomous region of Åland with its archipelago.
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Cumulative Impacts

The aim is to enhance shared Baltic-wide spatial data, and to develop knowledge capacity and tools for addressing cumulative environmental impacts in connection to maritime spatial planning.
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Green Infrastructure

The PanBaltic Scope project aims to clarify the concept of GI in the context of the maritime spatial planning as well as to test the methodological approaches and data availability for mapping of marine GI in the Baltic Sea.
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Data Sharing

The goal of activity is to facilitate data exchange and cooperation under MSP consultations. With the help of a Baltic MSP web-map, countries should be able to exchange MSP Output data needed for any kind of analysis in order to have maritime spatial plans coherent across borders.
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Integrating Land-Sea Interaction into MSP in the WP

The Land-Sea Interaction activity aims to identify important aspects and challenges when practically working with LSI in Baltic Sea marine planning and to test ways to address them by developing practice based on concrete needs of the BSR countries that are now developing their marine and coastal planning.
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Ecosystem-Based Approach in Sub-basin SEA (Activity leader)

Cumulative Impacts

Green Infrastructure

Data Sharing

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Data Sharing

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Ecosystem-Based Approach in Sub-basin SEA (Activity leader)

Monitoring and Evaluation for Selected National Processes

Poland and Latvia will plan evaluation of MSP and in close collaboration with the respective MSP authorities.
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Cumulative Impacts

Data Sharing

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Data Sharing (Activity leader)

Green Infrastructure (Activity leader)

Monitoring and Evaluation for Selected National Processes

Poland and Latvia will plan evaluation of MSP and in close collaboration with the respective MSP authorities.
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Integrating Land-Sea Interaction into MSP in the WP

Cumulative Impacts

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Cumulative Impacts

Data Sharing

Green Infrastructure

Integrating Land-Sea Interaction into MSP in the WP

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Follow-up of Common Regional Framework (Activity leader)

Within this activity application of the three documents in the Baltic sea countries will be evaluated to see how they work in practice, how successful the countries have been in implementing joint framework.
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Economic and Social Analyses (Activity leader)

The main objective of activity is to establish a shared basis for further work on inclusion of social and economic analyses in MSP. The inclusion of social and economic analyses in MSP advances the implementation of the ecosystem-based approach.
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Cumulative Impacts (Activity leader)

Data Sharing

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ACTIVITY

Monitoring and Evaluation for Selected National Processes (Activity leader)

Poland and Latvia will plan evaluation of MSP and in close collaboration with the respective MSP authorities.
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Integrating Land-Sea Interaction into MSP in the WP (Activity leader)

Lessons Learned (Activity leader)

Activity provides a platform for project partners to voice concerns and positive developments from their work within the project.
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ACTIVITIES

Finland-Åland-Sweden Case / FI-AX-SE

Case comprises the waters between Sweden and mainland Finland, including the autonomous region of Åland with its archipelago.
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Cumulative Impacts

Green Infrastructure

Integrating Land-Sea Interaction into MSP in the WP

PARTNER
ACTIVITIES

Finland-Åland-Sweden Case / FI-AX-SE (Activity leader)

Case comprises the waters between Sweden and mainland Finland, including the autonomous region of Åland with its archipelago.
Read more »

Integrating Land-Sea Interaction into MSP in the WP

Green Infrastructure

Similar Projects

The project is build on the results generated by former projects:

Baltic Scope | 2015 – 2017

BaltSpace | 2015 – 2017

PartiSEApate | 2012 – 2014

BaltSeaPlan | 2009 – 2012

Plan Bothnia | 2010 – 2012

Parallel projects:

SEANSE | 2018 – 2020

BalticLINes | 2016 – 2019

The project is contributing to an active exchange between MSP practitioners not only within the Baltic Sea Region but also beyond, and contributing to a process of knowledge brokering between research and MSP practice.

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