Maritime Spatial Planning Forum Global Meets Regional took place on 19 – 21 November in Riga. It gathered together 300 participants from 44 countries with different backgrounds and interests related to maritime spatial planning (MSP). Maritime Spatial Planning Forum, was organised together by VASAB, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, European Commission’s Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs andRead more

The 3rd Pan Baltic Scope project partner meeting took place on 27-28 May in Tallinn at the Estonian Ministry of Finance. The main aim of the meeting was to look back on the achievements and set the next steps for each project activity as well as to brainstorm the ideas about the project’s final productsRead more

This week, the Crown Princess Victoria visited The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, SwAM, the Lead partner of Pan Baltic Scope collaboration. Her agenda included information about SwAM’s work on maritime spatial planning, efforts to save the Baltic Sea, environmentally hydropower and fisheries control in marine protected areas. The Crown Princess is very familiarRead more

The project is almost its half way and it was a perfect time to look back on what we have achieved so far, and also to plan our next moves by gathering together at the Pan Baltic Scope partner meeting in Riga on 11 – 12 December 2018. At the beginning of the meeting, weRead more

The Pan Baltic Scope project has been labelled the Flagship status of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR). It shows that the project is leading the way in creating change across the Baltic Sea region. Being part of the Horizontal Action Spatial planning the project becomes one of the main contributors towards theRead more

Our Opening event took place on 20 June 2018 in Malmo, Sweden. We gathered nearly 100 participants to get to know the people and the project better as well as to continue the work we already started within several of our activities. Relevant files: AGENDA of the event Participants list Master presentation We started withRead more

Pan Baltic Scope project is built on the results of the previous collaboration within the Baltic Scope that was implemented between 2015 and 2017. During that project the digital tool presenting the status of the maritime spatial planning in each country around the Baltic Sea as well as the process and conclusions from the jointRead more

The project Pan Baltic Scope was presented at the European Maritime Day 2018 that took place on 31 May – 1 June in Burgas, Bulgaria. The workshop about the “Data Availability for MSP: from Jungle to Structure” was held there organised by VASAB Secretariat and led by Ingela Isaksson from Swedish Agency for Marine andRead more