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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...

The Estonian government will focus more on reducing obstacles hindering foreign investments and on increasing the investment-friendliness of different regions of the country, was decided at yesterday’s meeting of the Economic Development Committee of the government.* According to Prime Minister Jüri Ratas, all...

  AS Tallink Grupp has today released its passenger and cargo transport statistics for the first quarter of 2018. The Group reports transporting 1,930,449 passengers in the first quarter of 2018, which is 0.5% less than in the same period in 2017. At the same time, the number of cargo units transported by the Group...

In the international journal Limnology and Oceanography, the Rostock marine biologist Natalie Loick-Wilde reports about a study in the central Baltic Sea with which she and her colleagues from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde and the US-American Georgia Institute of Technology succeeded in...

Minister for Infrastructure Tomas Eneroth and Minister for the Environment Karolina Skog have announced how the new provisions on low emission zones would be designed. The Government will give municipalities the possibility of introducing three different kinds of low emission zones as of 1 January 2020. Air...

Politik: Überarbeitung des Ostsee-Aktionsplans: Der Ostsee-Aktionsplan soll bis spätestens 2021 überarbeitet werden, damit die Ostsee wieder in einen guten Zustand kommt. Auf diesen Fahrplan verständigten sich die Umweltministerinnen und Umweltminister der Ostsee-Anrainerstaaten auf der Konferenz des Helsinki...