Archive for: 2018

Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini’s speech at the Baltic Sea Region Forum 2018, Turku, 14 May 2018. Let me thank the organizers of this 11th Baltic Sea Region Forum for putting together this event, and for inviting me to address the Forum. Centrum Balticum has established itself as a highly respected platform for...

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“There is a huge, untapped potential for Polish-Danish cooperation in the area of high technologies,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Marek Magierowski in Copenhagen today. High on his visit’s agenda was participation in the Danish Maritime Days and talks at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The deputy head of the...

Even more than 70 years after the end of the Second World War, countless pieces of ammunition from this period still lie in the oceans of the world and are corroding. Once the shells are damaged, the explosives can release toxic substances into the sea water. A new survey study published by researchers at the GEOMAR...

HELCOM came closer to its goals of reducing pollution loads on the Baltic Sea, as acknowledged during a key event held in Berlin from 18 to 20 April 2018, the Eighth Meeting of the HELCOM Working Group on Reduction of Pressures from the Baltic Sea Catchment Area (PRESSURE 8-2018). The PRESSURE group is responsible...

The 9th Annual Forum of European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region will take place on 4–5 June in Tallinn Creative Hub (Kultuurikatel), which will host nearly 700 participants from Estonia and Europe. The main topic to be discussed is the Baltic Sea region after the year 2020. At the Forum the study “EU Strategy...

by Antonio Carlos Ruiz Soria Cultural Heritage, on its many shapes and forms (tangible, intangible, natural and digital heritage), plays an important role in building Europe’s future as the future of each citizen living in, and contributes to the fulfillment of Europe’s 2020 Strategy, generating sustainable and...

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The Rector of the University of Turku, Professor Kalervo Väänänen, and Professor Wolfgang Schareck, Rector of the University of Rostock, signed a declaration of intent on 13 April 2018 to intensify cooperation between the universities of Turku and Rostock. They thus renewed a cooperation agreement between the two...