On 5-6 February 2020 the Joint Programming Committee of Interreg Baltic Sea Region for the funding period 2021 to 2027 had its first meeting in Riga under the chairmanship of Latvia. Summary notes of the meeting are planned to be published on the Programme website in March.

You can now browse more than 40 outputs from Interreg projects that finished in 2019 in the project library of Interreg Baltic Sea Region. Get an overview of the challenges and opportunities which public and private players from different countries around the Baltic Sea tackle together and see how far they got. From blue growth to ecodesign, from renewable energy to social innovation – Interreg projects lead to a greener, low carbon and more social Europe. These project outputs give you insight into what has been achieved so far and what is yet to come.

SuMaNu is about sustainable manure and nutrient management and is directly connected with the ongoing development of a Nutrient Recycling Strategy for the Baltic Sea. Interreg Baltic Sea Region’s project platforms are designed to capitalise on the results of existing projects financed from different EU funding Programmes and to create synergies between them, e.g. by feeding into policy making. We interviewed three experts from the SuMaNu platform, which started in autumn 2018, to find out.

The Baltic Sea region has great potential to generate offshore wind energy, but offshore grid development poses a major obstacle. The Interreg project Baltic InteGrid looked into meshed electricity grids, i.e. interconnecting offshore wind farms in order to achieve cost advantages and make more efficient use of maritime space. Thilo Krupp from the German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation explains results and experiences from the project.