Baltic Challenges and Chances for local and regional development generated by Climate Change (BalticClimate)

Description:

The Baltic Climate project targets mainly small and medium sized cities and rural areas in all Baltic Sea region countries to support their development. The project aims to identify how the climate change phenomenon will also present opportunities and chances and not only obstacles for the development of municipalities and regions when they are accounting for climate change information in their long term strategies and planning. The process of doing so will increase the competitiveness of small and medium sized cities and rural areas and their surrounding regions. Thus the following Main Objectives of BalticClimate can be identified:

* To enable Baltic Sea (BSR) municipalities, regions and local actors to deal with the climate change issue in a cooperative, integrated and sustainable way.
* To make the climate change phenomenon understood as challenge, as well as a chance for local and regional overall and sustainable development.
* To make BSR municipalities and regions more competitive for future challenges to maintain and enhance the common existing BSR identity of the region.

Project information

Lead

Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (DE) Ms Dr. Evelyn Gustedt

Partners

Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL)/ DE; Vides Projekti/ LV; Centre of Climate Science and Policy Research (CSPR)/ SE; Regional Council of Central Finland (RCCF); Stockholm Environmental Institute Tallinn Centre (SEIT)/EE; Development Company of Jyväskylä Region Jykes Ltd/ FI; Western Pomeranian Business School (WPBS)/ PL; Regional Planning Association of Western Mecklenburg/DE; Harju County Government /EE; Harju Public Transport Centre /EE; Saku Municipality/EE; Rapla County Government /EE; Kehtna Municipality/EE; Kohila Municipality/EE; Jyväskylä Regional Development Company Jykes Ltd/FI; Central Finland Environment Centre; DVI - Sustainable Development Initiatives/LT; Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania/LT; Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics/LT; Municipality of Ligatne/LV; Municipality of Pārgauja/LV; Region of Gävleborg/SE; County Administrative Board of Gävleborg/SE; Municipality of Söderhamn/SE; Municipality of Gävle/SE

Source of funding

Interreg IV B Baltic Sea Region